The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-06-25
OUR BOSTON LETTER.
Queens Diamond Jubilee Given
Earnest Recognition.


pany Seized Opportunity to Repay
Courtesies Received AbrOad-Armed
Compared With Our New Warships'
Boston Interested In Navy Yard Boom
Brief Description of the Plant-Brad-
ford Manuscript Not Reprinted by tire
State Baseball and Theatrical.
There are weeks when Boston does
not love England, and when you cQuldn t
get a cheer for the British flag II you
naraded it for d half day, but this ism t
that kind of a week. The "tail-twisters'
are in the background and we all appear
, to be subjects to the queen, The city
started in to rejoice on Monday doing
the trick on a grand scale, and all
through the week we have had tastes of
the diamond jubilee. Never before in this
city, within my recollection at least has
there beea such a demonstration of good
will as that of Monday, when the Stars
and Stripes and the cross of st. George
were so freely blended, floating in har-
mony over a peop1e with single pur-
pose-that of doing honor to good, old
Victoria. 1t was a genuine peace jubi-
lee" so far as Boston was concerned,
-
Perhaps the thing that most tended
to the general warmth and cordfality
was the hearty reception given the An
cient and Honorable Artillery Company
during it's visit abroad one year ago.
AS then for the first time, an American
military body marched through the
streets of London, to receive an ovation
on all hands, so on Monday, for the first
time since the revolution, an English
military and naval force trod our Streets
and were made to feel they were among
friends. The foreign fighters Wee from
the cruiser Pallas, which was present
in the harbor, and they came after the
usual formalities had been concluded.
In other words, they had permission to
land. First Of all the approval OF the
President of the United States was me-
cessary, followed by che sanction of
Governor Wolcott for the ctSnfnon-
wealth and Mayor Quincy for yAe city.
Ii was a favorable 6y4'Ortunity FOR the
Ancients to show S&alr appreciation Of
the courtesiet Ehey received while
abroad, and t4ey met the occasion in the
most enthusiastic manner. They early
tendered their services to make Monday
a notable day, and their example was
,fesiOWed by other organizations, all join
Eng in making the celebration worthy OF
the city and the spirit of the jubilee.
The details of the affair cannot be re-
corded in this letter, but it would not be
just to omit a reference to the hearty
good will evidenced on all sides and the
gratifying success of the demonstration
from every point of view. There is a
great of love for Englands aged queen,
even in the hearts of Americans.
T. sg7s.a coming here of a British warship
so soon after we had been visited by three
of our own navy was instructive, since it
gave an opportunity for comparison.
The Pallas is said to be good boat, well
fitted and able, but she looks like an in
ferior article when judged by the stand
ard of the New York, and but plaything
when sized up with the sturdy, business
looking Massachusetts. A great many
pCOpIe I'D Z lIldue the mental comparison
during the past week, and there isn't an
American but feels better for it, We
shall soon get to be proud of our navy,
and with that pride will come determi-
nation to keep in the front rank. 1t is
hard to keep a Yankee back when once
he gets an idea to go ahead and beat the
world.
The old Bay state has peculiar inter
est in the navy department Just now by
reason ofthe fact that Ex-Governor Long
is at its head. 1t loves the bingham man
for what he has done and for what it is
hoped he is going to do. The one thing
that would please Boston more than
anything else would be a boom at the
Charlestown navy yard, and on that
point Secretary Long is on record The
old station, the largest in area and the
greatest in point of valuation of plant
and machinery of any Of Uncle Sans
naval stations, has now firm friends at
court, and bids fair after long years of
practical neglect and disuse to again
speedily resound with the sound of the
shipmakers' hammers, the crash of it's
mammoth machinery and the hum of
activity, as it did in the old days of yore,
when it was the wont of the navy depart
ment to construct at Charlestown ships
that became renowned.
An opening has been made in the matter
of ship repair work by the ordering of
he Yantic, which arrives early next week,
to this station for expensive repairs. But
Charlestown claims also that she should
have the construction of new vessels as
well as the repairing of old ones upon a
double ground. First, because there is .
every facility atlthe yard for such work,
and secondly, because she claims to be .
the birthplace7of the American navy, in .
1851, and during later years at Charles .
town was constructed, besides hundreds .
of others, almost every famous ship of
The service, noticeably the Hartford, the
Vermont, still in service, although just
half century old, the Merrimac, which,
rs reconstructed by the southerners, rev.
blutionized naval construction and archi-
lecture; the Cumberland, the first victim
of the ne wtype; the Vandalia, lost re-
Gently at Samoa, the last vessel launched
at the yard; the Constitution, "Old Iron
sides (rebuilD; the New Ironsides. and
in ironwork; among others the double
turreted monitor Monadnock, recently
reconstructed as a modern coast defense
vessel.