The colored American., 1899-12-02

Boston, Mass. Special. Il left Alba
NJ lsst Wednesday morning for Boston
on the 9 10 flyer and reached the cam
ter of culture, and the habitat OF the
bean, about pm., and found myself
reaching for beans IN a local hashery
few moments after left the new Bos'
ton ''carl'seum," which is used as a
depot and car shed for incoming and
outgoing trains. It is small (?) in
significant looking affair, built of gran.
ite. and probably cost nine or ten hun
dTed dollars. There are twenty-eight
tracks within the inclosure, and st
night the interior is lighted by cleo
tricity. l don't believe there is anoth'
eT building like it in the United States.
But Boston people were always differ
ent from other people. especially peo
pie who are unlike them. They cook
Their beans more brown, eat more cod
fish and fresh mackerel and chew more
Blown bread than people in other
states, so one need not be surprised If
they build their car sheds on different
plan from other peoples car sheds.
They expect strangers to go into costa
sies over il on frat sight, to swOon,
come to, and swOOn again over this
ma!chless pile of granite. l say match
less because have never seen anything
like 1t in books, Dor 10 my travels. It's
cross between state arm 1ry and q
convention hall. At frat sight 1t looks
ike a reproduction In miniature OF the
famous coliseum at Rome, only this Is
Kind o'iunnel shaped, and when viewed
ffom the top Of big building looks
Ike an immense wedge. But 1t Is
substantial structure and promises to
be here when the next Revolutionary
War is "fit."
1t is fifteen years this month sincesI
was In Boston and except the rebuild
Ing Of the new ''daypO," the subway,
the erection of the Attucks and Shaw
monuments (of which more snon) and
The addition to the State House-Bos
ton looks to me just as natural as it
uld then. The colOred brethren and
slSteren coRgregate on Cambridge street
IN dtoves and argify and argify on diff.
istent pints just as they did fifteen
years ago. They are just Is hard look
ing and just as noisy with their mouths
IS 'hey We're fifteen years ago. The
same kind OF coiOred dudes and bellies,
ufsped In loud gar ments, with their
mar done up in Ok Marrow or Ounce
JUICE and their faces piastered with |
Pu'ferlzed corn starch, psrade Cam.
|Iuge street and Washington street |
JUST as their predecessors did fifteen
'eafs ago. | looked In vain for some
''siple sign of improvement in the
'ne'hOds, of his living habits and GUS
'Oul' OF the Negroes in the 9Th, 10th
aou llth wards of Boston, but thew
uA'en improved on the patent. The
'eeuom which Boston offers the Negro
VINO Is unable to see further than the
tIu OF his nose Will some day prove a
..COherang. ~ He has got both hands
WI VI OF freedom and he is just rolling in
.''lal and civil rights. When tbe
aea'her permits, the ladies of the raca
ope opeuu IL their spare moments hanging
~, - u the windows and gossIping with
H lei heighbors across streets or back.
Gus aus let there are some mighty nice
dnUi' eu people In Boston, but they
III III | i've in this part of Boston. These
~ ,lSe eolored people suffer by eomnsri
scrib.S. "tn the class 1 have briefly de.
evjda0a'. : class which is constantly In
H'e on the principal business