Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-07-16
NOTES FROM THE HUB.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

mensurate with the number of the Cnor-
nous crowds that we've present and the
records of attendance surpassed any
thing known in very recent years at the
South End grounds When upon an ordi-
nary workday a crowd of l5.OOO people
collect tu see a baseball game, it does
not require any extended logic to prove
that the public interest in the contest and
in the players must be eager and wide
spread. 1t is also worth notice that as 4
general thing he crowds at the Boston
games will compare favorably with the
baseball crowds in other cities not only
as regards numbers, hut also as con-
Germs general appearance and behavior.
The people who attend the games in Bos-
ton 60 because they like to see good, clean
sport, and not merely because the Bos-
tons have been fortunate recently in their
games with opposing mines. Most of the
spectators appreciate good sport, and
some of the heartiest applause which has
been heard on the South End grounds
has been bestowed upon the players of
the visiting mines for some specially
good piece of work. 1t is a pity that not
all of the crowds at the Boston bah games
manifest this spirit of true sportsman
snip and fairness. On some occasions
a certain element among the spectators
has been known to find fault with the de-
ciSions of the umpire, because those de-
{ sons were not constantly in BOstOn's
favor; to yell and to hoot at the visiting
players not because they had done any
thing disCreditable, but simply because
they were apparently winning the game;
or to raise an almost riOtOus disturbance
in order to rattle or un-nerve the
pitcher or other players Of the visiting
team. 1t is no excuse to say that this un-
fair conduct is seen to even a greater eX
tent in other cities where league games
are played. The Boston baseball crowds
must be judged for what they do, not for
what other crowds in other cities may do.
If the Bostous cannot win the champion
ship fairly and squarely on their merits.
on clean, sharp fielding, on strong, safe,
wen punched hits and by their general
superiority as a baseball nine, it would
he better for Boston To lose a champion
ship than to gain it by discreditable
methods.
George f.. Lothrop, tn" proprietor of
the Howard Atheneum and Lothrop's
New Grand theater has bought thGlease
of the BowdOin Suuarcthc The terms
of the sale are not made uubIic. lint il is
said the purchaser paid 100000 to bind
the bargain when the napers were
passed, and will pay a total of about
SI50GOO. Mr. Lothrop said that he had
not decided upon a policy for the Bow
doin SQUARE. I'm addition to the three
boston houses. MIR. Lothr0p now con-
trolls I.othrop's Opera House in proVi-
dCnce and Luthrop's New theatre in
PaWtuckct. He sold his lease of the
BroCkton theatre a year or two ago
and his lease of Lothrop's theatre in
Worcester about the same time. Last
year he also gave up the Portland the
atre, which is the only theatre in that
city. and which hr conducted for sew
eral years. He Contemplates the sale of
his two out t-of-town houses, and will
confinc his theatrical holdings to thea
tres in Boston and other large cities of
There ought to he some way of plaC-
ing Edward Everett Halo's magnificent
Fourth of July Grafton in the hands of
the people in form convenient for more
than casual reading and for permanent
preservation Doubtless in the course
OF time Mondays Grafton will find a
place in some volume Of Dr Halc's Sc
lcctcd addresses delivered on great oc-
casionS. If that time is to come only, as
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of instances, when the living voice has
ceased to be heard among living men,
NAV the day be long postponed. Mean
while. and at once the nuhlest Fourth of
July Grafton which has been lizard in
Boston for a quarter of a century ought
to be nut on sale at all the railway news
stands. as well as in the book stores, the
periodical stores. and wherever the fresh
est output Of the printing press is to be
found. A neat addition in good type,
we'll loaded, ON excellent paper bound
in pamphlet form, should not cost more
than IN cents n COpV and ought to sell
80 the extent Of many thousands.
The semi-centennial anniversary OF the
inauguration of the system of the gram
rar school organization which now pre-
walls, but on an advanced plane, has just
been observed in the quincy grammar
schColhousc on Tyler street. its birth
1,Iacc 1t was the Boston system which
cave new life to educational work among
tho masses. and on which the prevailing
organization throughout the country was
fashioned II was the beginning, anC
tho cxnerimpnt of a single head instcaC
nf tho douhlc. Prior to The establishment
nf the Quincy school. in 1S47. the gram
,-,or scbooIs we're managed by two mas
tors irdenendentlv acting. 1t was pro
rounrod .'cumbersome," and was con
eidorod "an evil" Inv nearly every com
,,,ittoo of tbe school hoard while the chic
t,stico of the commonwealth regarded II
&C. "a nuisance to he instantly abated.
rho n,nils had to convey their books
fror, ono room +o another and even il
~ syston, of hooks thore was ncithc
! uniformity NOR comnIetoncss.
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