The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-24

BOSTON sTATEHoUsE, RECENTLY ENLARGED.
ton may be complimented, and that is the
cleanness of her streets. / am willing to
grant that their crookedness is apt to be
confusing, but they are certainly cleaner
than those Of most American cities. They
excel New York in this respect as much "a
New York's excel Chicago's. The only
really unpleasant thing have met in Bos-
ton has been the east wind. You may
start out in the morning on the sunny side
of the street under blue sky and with old
Soils rays beating upon you so fearfUEy
that YOU wonder why oVcrco2tS were ever
invented. Suddenly you come To "a bend
in the street or turn a corner into the next
one, and you are struck by Il cold, raw
blast fresh from the Atlantic that seems to
pierce your very vitaIs and instantly con
stricts your throat with the poison of ton
silitiS. Then you wonder that anybody
ever darCs go out in Boston at all without
an ovcrcoat. used to think that the Lake
Michigan winds in Chicago and those from
the Pacific in san Francisco were a. try
ing as could possibly be imagined, but
Boston's east wind is worse than the at
mosphcric plaques of both of the other two
cities combined. y
The day before the western man and
myself had visited the now statehouse or
Is "A handsome solid structure and = credit
10 the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the ewes of some observers it Is doubt
less too plain, but IL seems 10 me that
much better tastc has been shown than If
the new building had been so planned rs
10 it's exterior appearance and architectural
expression "a to be out of harmony with
the old statohoUSe. As il *, each is in
perfect keeping with the other, and in
4. IL g F..-l -,
has been. no sacrifice OF substantial dig.
nifty. In some states the old capitol would
have been torn down and u new and mag
nifiCent one of the most ambitious archi-
lecture, 1oridly covered with deliberately
carved stone decorations, would have been
erected in its stead. and thus a most valu-
able historical monument would have been
lost. ! was saying something like this
TO the western man as we were climbing
the stairs TO visit the senate chamber in
the new part Of the statehousc. He stop
ped me and pointed TO a small brass cuspi-
dor.
Even in Boston, " he said I'VE Amer
leans have to display our spittoons in pub
lie places, but the authorities of the COM
monwealth Of Massachusetts show little
better taste in this direction than those of
the state Of New York. "
Then I remembered having met this
same western man in Albany and having
visited the capitol there in his company.
On the senate side Of the building he had
pointed out 70 me what he said was the
most conspicuous Cu.piGOr ne had ever
seen. II would hold about "a buShel, and IL
was set in the very middle of a landing of
the magnificent senate staircase, where.
by reason of its situation and size, it was
far more in evidence than any Of the sur
passincly beautiful carvings OF the stair
ease Il would Ice absolutely impossible
for any C1c 10 ascend or descend this stair
case without seeing this remarkably promi-
nert cusp.Gor, and the worst Of il Is that
there i a duplicate OF this atrucious thing
On every landing Of the Albany senate
s+,ircasr l. u. MARSHALL