The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-08-13

End Street railway people acknowledge
that they are aiming; and progress made
during the last few days on fitting and
finishing the stairway coverings on the
common betokens a near approch to the
long-looked-for opening All of the t,cket
offices and turnsties at the foot of the
station stairways are practically COM
pleted, and down in the subway proper
the work is being pushed to completion.
Parties have already been formed to take
ride through the gr. at undo rgl ound
passdgeg and if The Work is completed
as now Indicated subway 'pertfes are
likely'to be a fad this fall
Poverty is often said to be no crime, but
1t takes people before the courts at times
and aids in bringing to the public eye
some peculiarly sad scenes. There was
pathetic incident in the city court on
Monday, when Mrs. Mary kthough, an
old woman, so years of age, was charged
with being vagrant Mrs. Kehough is
nearly blind and she seemed not to I'M
derstand why she should be arraigned
in court. When the Jerk told her she was
charged with being a vagrant, she eX-
claimed, II am not vagrant, God knows
l am not" Mrs. Kehough has no per-
manent horne, and moves about from
place to place where she can get a chance
to stay. Her husband is an inmate of the
soldiers home in Chelsea, and she has a
| son in the marine corps. She draws a
pension Of'HS9" month, and that is her
only means of support. Saturday night
| she WIS arrested on the charge of va
| grancy. Judge Cotton sentenced Mrs.
| kehough to six months in the house of
correction as the only means Of giving her
a home. Poverty is no crime, but it gives
that poor old woman a home with crimi-
nails.
A study of the city auditors exhibit
for the half-year ending ON July 81 shows
thatin the lat six months he municipal
ity and county have added So, Sol 50 to the
gross debt, and that the figures are
$6,0-3,206 higher than last year. The
grand total now is SIS, 5O4 100 But what
is of equal interest is the showing of the
present condition of the funds, as it indi-
Gates that we have got to go right on
running in debt, and that, too, to pay the
ordinary expenses of the government
The mayors appropriation for office ex-
pGilSGS vas bOJ,UUU, anu 9ZJ, 40. ~ mas Deen
spent 1.-The mayor now has 1888 left for
the next six months, and the August
draft6Was S6002. The aldermen had a
contingent fund of $500. They have spent
1912, and have $1767 left. The city ccun-
eli had $4,000 for the year and have $465
left. OF the total credit and appropriation
of $S8, 051 to carry on the work of the year |
in the printing department, $3423 remain
tc carry on the department for the next
six months. 1t costs something to govern
in true Boston style.
If you are lover of art both wonder |
full and unique, you may soon be af- |
forded unusual pleasure by an exhibition
in this city. Neatly classified and stored 7
on shelves in one of the largest cabinets
of the print department in Mr.. Kohlers |
office, in the basement of the Boston, Mu-
scum of Fine Arts, is the wonderful and .
unique Hpollection of engravngs on the .
subject of Death belonging to Miss S.
NIinns of Boston. For some years past
this collection has been growing, from
modest beg innings, until it has attained
proportions undreamed of at first by its
owner, who was in the early stages OF
her enterprise only concerned with the
medieval representations of The Dance
of Death" by Holbein and others, but
who, like other collectors, was led for
ward, from one point to another, by The
spirit lUf collectorship, and has now
formed oan iconography of death which
probably has no equal in the world.
AT some future day a special exhibition
HIrin hp a I'D n ppH in the T0rint- n
stairs, but it will contain only a part
of the collection which has become i'm
mense,, and continues to grow at such a
rate that there is no possibility of find
ing room to exhibit all of it at once. This
peculiar speciality in pictorial art has this
in common with almost similar special
ties, that it develops remarkably in ex-
tent and interest as it is studied, and
without somewhat familiar acquain-
tancewith the subject it is impossible to
realize the almost boundless scope vari-
ETY. and fascination of it. Nothing more
weird and uncanny was ever shown than
the collection of Miss MINIS, and moth
ing better illustrates the passion for
painting death scenes and the growth
Of the movement, which began in 1880,
when the Dance of Death" became a
subject for the painters skill.
"Courted Into Court" the McNally {
that will open the Hollis Sept.
G, has never been seen in Boston. Mr.
finished this play last fall and
It enjoyed a run of the entire season at i
the BijOu, New York, proving itself to
pc the authors best play. 1t is unusual !
that one of MIR. McNally's plays should
not be seen here until it's second season. 7
out nothing has been lost by this delay,
As the comedy is intensely amusing.
The great auditorium of the Boston l.
heater, which for weeks past has been
a complete and thorough
will present a delightfully."- b
,osy, fresh and inviting appearance next
Sa turday evening, when the doors will +
1e thrown open for the opening perform n
tnce of 'Uncle Toms Cabin Harkins
md Barbour's new version of the old !,
,lay, which is the opening bill of the
ocular dramatic season.
The Cherry Pickers," which comes -
o the Boston theater in September for
limited engagement scored a tremen-
Ious success in New York last season =,
It the Fourteenth Street theater. 1t is Ii