Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-09-21
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
When the people of Boston began to
realize the nations bereavement. they
went to work with Il will and began
tn give visible expression to the sol-
row that they felt. Early in the morn
ing flags were thrown out to the
breeze at half staff at nearly all OF the
business houses down town. State
street was mass of red. white ami
blue. as were nearly all the streets in
the vicinity. All the foreign consul
ates early had their national flags out
at half staff and all the principal
buildings were decorated in prOfusion
before noontime. But is was later
that the genuine feeling and loyalty
of the people began to- manifest itself.
Business houses called in all the ar
tistc help that could be found, and
bunting of all kinds was being put in
place all through Saturday in the
principal stores of the business dis
trict. Nearly all of the theatres closed
their doors. and there was consider
able of scene in front of the Boston
theatre up to $50 in the evening. a
thousand or more people stood in limo
in front of this theatre and were paid
back money for tickets which had been
purchased in advance. This sort of
thing was also in evidence at some OF
the other theatres. Portraits of the
dead president were placed in nearly
# In ,Irin
draped in black and white and sur
rounded with flowers. Boston will be
beautifully decorated within the next
few days.
The rabid utteranceS of two Boston
anarchists have gained for them anun
enviable and dangerous notoriety. The
houses of both Nathan Fingold, tail
or on Compton street, and Louis Cor
don. a South Boston junk dealer, both
Hebrews have been drecked by angry
mobs. who but for the interference
of the police would crtainly have
lynched the men. AS it was both
We're several times hung in effigy. 1t
was at Fingo'1s home, 60 Compton
lists was held on Sunday following
the shooting of the president and the
assassin lauded as hero. Chief In
spector Watts had Fingold brought
to headquarters and he was threatened
with arrest if he participated in any
more such meetings. The police told
him that they would give him protec-
h,,t ia
saying: II am willing to trust the
people" The Anarchists have since
changed their tune, and owe their lives
10 the protection they refused.
The schools of the city were opened
Wednesday. and for the first time in
years there was no overcrowding. A
number of schools in the tnickly pop
ulatcd tenement sections were
crampcd for room, but this embarrass-
ment will shortly be overcome. The
smallpox scare in RoXbury has caused
such fright in certain parts of that
district tat the superintendent or
schools acted on his own initiative
against the orders of the board OF
health. and issued instructions that
the Hyde and Shcrwin grammar
schools and the primaries attached to
tEem should not be opened Supcrin-
''hdeht Soaver is of the opinion that
the protests of the 2G5 Roxbury par
'ntS should be seriously considered.
tie does not share their apprehensions.
""' SIMPLY desired To take precaution
AIRY measures and thus reassure the
k'Nhury people that their children
would ne protected.
Something like 5000 employees of the
Boston Elevated railway are getting
H'rr ON that corporation. or rather a
MS rNprnSe for an order has been is
sued that every employe of the com
plu\ having occasion to come in con-
'i.t with the public must be vaccin
a''d, "l. IN lieu of that. show satsfaC-
tory evidence of having been inocu
"''n within few years. The vaccin-
W'n Is being done at the expense of
''' company, but it is a treat which
''N not impress the men as greatly
might with the hospitality of the |
'' t"r tro days a corps of surgeons
"P''ri by the company We're on
'.''f at the Sullivan square terminal, L
'''" '> last as the men were rounded
'' 'b'y were harpooned in the arm.
I'Jmcr Judge Dunbar. auditor in the
way explosion cases. has filed his
..'"'lS IN the Office of clerk of the SUI
I'INr court in which he finds the Bos-
IT," NaS Light company and the Edi-
son Electric Illuminating company
each guilty of negligence. and both
'i'allN liable for the explosion at the