Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-04-02
BOSTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL coRREsPoSDENcE. [

'N'i'N i"I Soou many years. lie was
like the late John Stetson an all
around athlete in his younger davs.
Could put up his dukes" with the
best and stood in the front rank of
wreStlerS. Like Stetson. too, he was
hrSt-rate business man. and not
over ScrupulouS how the money came.
Nnd like StetSOn, whose lifelong
friend he was. his word was as good
as his bond. He was Vermont bov.
one of the best of horse Jockeys. and
came To Boston while young. He ran
sporting house, tnat is, liquor
saloon and gambling resort. on Mer-
rlmac street for good many years,
and for good many more years ran
the same kind of Il place i'm Bowdoin
Hall, at the corner of Green and Char
don streets. Pools of all kinds were
sold and games of all kinds played.
II was in this place that the late
Carlos Moan-known to few by that
name. but to good many thousands
by his assumed name of Harry
BloodgOod - the famous minstrel.
blew in fortune of about 100000
which he had Inherited \ good deal
VI NV ii'iNN Niltll bOllli Olt"1Nbn Ddlu
in salaries 25 years ago went into
Ham" Brooks place in poker, faro,
pools and booze" After the laws
against gambling were more stringent
things did not come Brooks way so
fast that he had any difficulty in dodg-
ing them, and he went back to Ner-
mont training and driving horses.
The hall was later used by the Rev.
W. W. DOwneS of unSavory nOtoriety,
as place for preaching, after he had
got fired out" of the Bowdoin Square
Church for being too passionately
fond of not only the souls but the
bodies of the fair sisters. Brock set
tied down in st. Johnsbury, VT, and
married a school teacher, a lady of eX-
cellent family, who with 12-year-old
daughter survives him. When John
StetSon bought the Globe Theatre
Brock started a place in Hayward
place and was burnt out in the Globe
Theatre fire. Then he went back TO
Vermont for good. He was one of the
best of drivers and trainers and won
big money. He retained the respect
of good many good people notwith-
of making a living. He was always
straight and above board. And here,
of course, comes in the ethical ques-
tiOn of which is the better: The man
who will beat you at "brace" game,
but pay what he agrees to pay. will
share his gains generously and whose
word is to be depended upon, or the
man whom you have to watch. who
juggles and squirms out of II bargain,
and whose word is worthless without
some one elSe's bond, but who is an
ostentatious church man and moves in
good society. y man said to the
writer the other day in discussing II
like case that he thought at the final
judgment people would average up
a good deal closer than some of them
would like to admit. Let him that is
without sin cast the first stone!"
= i = :; X
just when the troubles at the Park
Street Church are calming down, a
fight, and a red-hOt one, has broken
out in the Ebenezer Baptist Church
(colored) of this city. The church is
the largest in membership and congre-
SutiOll vi any tOIbItA ClluICtl llllS SluC
of New York, and the trouble, briefly
stated arose out of the fact that dur
ing the middle of last month Rev. j.
Allan Kirk, the pastor, took a vaca-
tion and went to North Carolina with
out asking leave of the deacons. a
meeting was called to ask for his res
ignation, but the pastors friends were
much in evidence and wouldn't have
it" The pastor tore back from the
South and rendered his resignation,
but his following was so large in the
church that it was overwhelmingly
voted not to accept it. The deacons
said if the pastor didn't get out they
would. The pastor didn't get out, but,
on the contrary, called Il meeting to
elect new board of deacons. On the
night the meeting was to be held the
deacons got into the church first and
locked the doors. Isaac b. Allen, the
unsavory member of the Governor $
Council, is one of the pastor S
strongest supporters. He got INTO the
church and the deacons wouldn't let
him out. About 300 members OF the
church gathered in the street and
were going to storm the edltice, but
Pastor Kirk mounted the steps and
begged them to desist. They didn't
do so and the deacons held the fort.
But only the second round of the fight
has been pulled off" so far, and there
are others to come.
X !;
That the Museum of Fine Arts con-
tinues to be an institution of material
help in interesting and elevating the
community, is to be seen when one no.
tices the number of people who visit
it, In 1896 there were 1896 visitors,
or an average of 531 a day, including
Sundays and holidays in the calcula-
ton. OF this large number OF persons
who profited by inspecting the rich
collections of the Museum, only 17,7Sl
paid an admission fee, the others be-
ing subscribers, students and those
who came on free days. The receipts
from this source, consequently, were
but about one-tenth of the cost OF
management for the year, which was
SAL ,491. The expense of the lnstltu'
ton, consequently, must be met by
annual subscription fees and dona'
tions. Too many people give the ways
and means of this Museum not the
slightest thought. They recognize Its
value as a centre of education ana en-
JOY its treasures, but grow to think OF
it as a self-supporting estapllshmeht
This is common error. Inc museum
should not be handicapped by INSULT
cent revenue. An annual subscrip'
ton to this institution is practical
and inexpensive step in the other di'
rection.
Regarding the movement to sepa.
rate the public institutions depart.
ment from the rest of the city govern.
ment. ex-Mayor Edwin U. Curtis says
L1-.L Ia l,nlinrns in q sinnln Iheal He