Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-08-28
BOSTON LETTER.
Our Cirr.s EXCELLENT showing.

Our City's Excellent Showing.
Boston has good reason 20 be proud
of the progress Sue is making IN ma
terial prosperity. In spite OF every
drawback that business depression has
been able to create she has made an
absolute gain in valuation in the
course Of the past twelve months Oi
81, GIL ,O22. These figures speak for
themselves as To the city's develop
meut along the lines that mean added
prosperity. With the impetus to
trade and commerce that the
uear future will assuredly give,
our New England metropolis
is certain to gain her full share Of the
boom that is coming to the nation. 1t
is fortunate, indeed, that extensive
plans for harbor Improvement are al
ready well under way, for with the re-
turn OF brisk times there will come
notable increase in commerce Alto
getner the showing of BOstOn's pres
ent resources ana the prospect for her
growth in wealth and resources during
the years to come are most eucourag-
ing to her citizens in all walks of life.
The New England summer schools,
like the summer hotels this year, have
had varying fortune. 1t was well
that the ethical school gave up its ses-
sion at Plymouth, and the new "school
of expression, which took its place,
did not have great success. The Green.
acie school or parliament hada varied
program, and on the whole, has held
its own. Nothing quite like the
Gre .uacre school has ever been seen
n New England, and of course, no.
where else in the world. 1t is the
Joint inheritor of the Concord school
Of philosophy which closed final
Iy III 1887, and of the Chicago
parliament of religions of 1898. 1t
owes its location to the fact that Miss
S. q. Farmer, its founder and con
/ tinuator, inherited an estate III Eliot,
the Maine township which lies across
the broad Plscataqua from Portsmouth
aud Newington in New Hampshire.
Near her house aud between it and the
river. is tue field Mt the foot of
which and inst above the river was
( built half IA dozen years ago, the Green
/ acre Inn, which now serves as the TO-
/ Gus and denomiuator OF the school.
Near that, to the west, Is "a great tent
/ in which mostof the lectures are given,
while still farther westward tents are
/ pitched in which some OF the summer
residents live. This year the attend
ance is SO large (always coming and
/ goingl that the inn and the tents have
overfiowed and the farm houses for a
mile or two away have their boarders
and the great tent is scarcely large
enough sometimes for the au-
dience. The lectures continue
from July TO September ,, clos
ing with a temperance day on which
those veteran reformers, Neal Dow
and the last of the Hutchinson family,
John W. Hutchinson, are to take part.
Nearly hundred lecturers, musicians
and speakers on great variety OF
topics make up the teaching force OF
the school, and though there is little
precise instruction and still less OF
close study, there is much communi-
cation and stimulation of thought,
especially in the way of conversation,
for which those peaceful fields, piut
woods, and noble rivers afford such
worthy opportunities The lecturer:
all give their services--only their ex,
pense, being paid by the-school which
is thus maintained, rs Miss Farmer
announces ''by the generous cooper.
alton of those in attendance.