Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-11-12
NOTES FROM THE HUB.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. I

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
at the time of the famous fight Of the
Constitution was present at the recent
celebration of the anniversary of the
ships launching was blaZoned far and
wide and found none to doubt it. But il
has uanspired that no such powder boy
was there. The governor. the secretary.
all the ministers and all the newspapers
were among the sold and the old none
genarian was the hero of the day. Even
the governor. or the orator of the day,
were not I'm it, with him. But the joke
is all out. 1t is the most celebrated one
OF the season because il was celebrated
We shall love to nurse the memory of
old Major Garland, the powder boy of
the old frigate Constitution, as he looked
when he was lifted into the ancient DUST
coated. fiag-bedraped carriage at the
Old South door, and rode off in mirthful
glory amid reverential plaudits, 20 orna-
ment the line of naval brigades and
tumefy his aged breast at the sound of
military bands before and behind. Ac-
cording to Secretary Long, the last of the
powder boys of the old Constitution must
have been somebody with another name.
and his grave has been green for a long
time. He played 1t well, for man of his
alleged years. The bands did not play
better. There is room to apprehend,
however, that the Constitution has lasted
longer than his has. The fetching and
carrying of powder in his tender years
must have had a deleterious influence,
and somehow served to shorten his days.
II Secretary Long is right the turn for
the general guffaw has come. We may
as well laugh as cry over it, for 1t and the
public were neatly done. How bravely
did the old powder boy veteran face the
sidewalk adulations, and with what a
reverent complacency did he bear off the
bouquets of grateful tributes. And play
ing the trick at the age of 95
A correspondent finds that there are
three things in Boston that need reform
ing. One is the practice prevalent in ouf
city of staring, which, as one who has
lived elsewhere. the correspondent In
sists is most intolerable and not to be
endured. Why should Boston people
stare more than New Workers do? she
wishes to know. If Boston people do
stare more than New Workers do, 1t is
probably because they are more pro-
vincial than New Workers. The further
you go into the country the more the
people stare. New Workers are seldom
interested in any one but their individual
selves. The second point for attention
Is the anomaly presented by the fact
that Park street is at one end of the
Common and Park square at the other
"a circumstance which is said to be the
cause of much pedestrianism in outsid-
ers: and the third is like unto 1.-THE
difficulty of extricating Court street
from Scollay square and fremont row.
There are certainly many confusing
things in the street nomenclature of Bos-
ton, for which no satisfactory reason can
be given to a stranger. OF course, we all
know why a certain broad street should
he named fremont row on one side and
Court street on the other, but if We eX-
plain to a stranger, "Dnce there was
building between these two, and they
really Ner. TWO streets then and The
.rau.ar answers. Why. th~u having
au5 rid of the iureNaun- MuNamu
t.ut Enu proceed To- Give fa.... E.....
#lug. either une name or the otirI9'
We simply have nothing to say. except
that that was the way it was left But,
after all, we Bostonians rather like these
little historical anomalies.
The air is growing very cold in Boston
in the very early mornings of these early
November days The frosts are upon
us, and everybody is looking forward
to and making every preparation for the
winter. The morning and the evening
skies are of a more intense blue, and the
days are getting very short. 1t almost
seems as if all the life had about gone
out of the world, and that the corpse
were waiting in dreary state for the win
ter SHOWS to appear and bury it. But
whoever has the privilege of riding OF
strolling outside the city limits these
days is surprised at the green old age
of the hills and the valleys, and wonders
at the tenacity of Scores of kinds of the
forest trees that still cling to their bright
colored leaves. 1t is indeed sight to
behold to see the last flowers In many
old-fashioned gardens, still lifting up
their pretty heads to the chill airs of the
morning, and it is very inspiring to hear
the song of a bird that has delayed a
little, seemingly to welcome the stranger
from the wilderness, and to prove to him
that after all these are not melancholy
days. the saddest of the year" The
brooks still remain unbound, and know
nothing and care nothing of the reputed
change that withered leaf or two has
whispered to them has come upon nature
The grass remains quite green through
all the country side, and there are valley
ways here and there in the deep woods
that hold a warmth and a quiet just
now that make one half believe that the
summer has not really gone.
Thefact that the subway, as a matter
of newspaper notice, has now reached its
antiquity does not prevent the sense that
one has of not being underground at all,
while waiting for car at the Park street
station, from being quite a wonderful
thing. II is hard to realize that the street
is overhead, and that the light and air
that one enjoys is not the open air. Its
peculiar diffusion. and the feeling that
the lieht comes from all around one.
as u does out-Of- doors, is certainly a
triumph Of lighting or engineering, or
something. and It's fine uniformity sug-
gests wish that the air and light up on
fremont street could always be as good.
one almost envies the tlcket-takers,
starters and other imperturbable West
End functionaries who live down there.
The pleasing effect recalls Bulwer's un-
derground country In the Coming Race"
where the world without a sun was
bright and warm as an Italian landscape
at noon. but the air was less oppressive,