The National tribune., 1904-08-25
Boston. Mass, Aug. 13. 1904.

DOStOU, the STauie Ol
Boston, the Hot-bed and Forcing g-house
of IDEAS.
Boston, the Hub Of the Universe!
The first impression Of Boston is that of
| exceeding soldity, formality, thorough
hess and steadily accumulated wealth.
The great buildings occupy every inch
of the ground purchased for them; they
| join together for whole of n solid block.
without an alley, passageway-not even
the width of knife-blade between any
two of them. Their walls are solid granite
| blocks, or hard-burned brick, laid, close
and firm, as solid as granite itsef-even
| more resistant to fire and storm, as Boston
experience has shown.
| Nowhere is there anything cheap. fimsy
or gimcracky. The ornamentation to the
buildings and there is enough for archi-
| tectnral grace, is all carved out of stone,
to endure for ages. No galvanized iron, no
umns, pilasters and fnals-everything la
boriously chiseled out of enduring granite
| by patient, well-paid days work.
In front of the buildings may be mea-
ger little grassplot between the strong
walls and the heavy curb. 1t is all that
can be spared for ornamentation of the
| high-priced ground The 'closeIy-shaven
of it. Cultivation, fertilizers and water
have made it just as symmetrically com.
plete as the walls and the entrances. 1t is
| typical Of everything else in Boston, which
| must do all and be all intended.
| We pass immense buildings with strong
| ly buttressed walls, standing in open
grass plots, in the outskirts of the city.
Around the grass-plots run heavy curbs of
lewed granite: the grass is as carefully
tended, as thickly-growing. as closely
shaven as that in the parks, and i'm front
of the business buildings and residences
The walls of firmly-knit brick, look as en-
during as the pyramids; the iron barred
windows and massive portals are those of
| a medieval castle which would
Laugh siege to scorn."
We naturally expect them to be arsenals,
| armOries, magazines. citadels, until we
read, chiseled over the arches,
Fire Proof Storage Warehouses"
Thus the best efforts of architectural
science are no longer devoted to sheltering
| some robber baron from the assault of the
despoiled people of the country, but to
battling the fire demons appetite for our
valuables.
EVERYWHERE THE SAME.
Everywhere are manifestations of the
| same thorough, practical, dothe-very- ry-best-
pOssible-w e-without-regard-tO- expense spirit.
On the. banks of the Charles River, in the
| very heart of the city, is one of the nl-
| merous Fairgrounds for children. Ground
is taken--and enough Of it-that for COM
merrial purposes must be worth what
| would cover it with one-dollar bills. On it
are swings, hobby-horses, sand-piles, cro-
quet, tennis and ball grounds all fitted up
| i'll the best possible manner; a substantial
handsome building to which the children
| can run for shelter when it rains, and in
the river q public bath house, and boating
| and sailing courses. Everything is the very
| best that can be secured, and cost no end
of money. Yet the taxpayers think the
money we'll spent, as it is, if it helps make
healthy, hearty. large minded American
| citizens out of the children of the Jewish
| families, who are packed like chickens in
crate in the old houses along the narrow,
crooked streets Of the Colonial portion OF
the city. which adjoins this playground
| Boston has received more than her share
I'of the wretched, expatriated Jews. The
| children swarm out of the narrow door
ways like ants from hill, and there are
big, hooked noses, and large, liquid eyes
| enough to make one think he has struck
into a section Of Jerusalem.
But people think that America is al
ready making it's influence felt on these
unhappy people. The children look as il
| they had enough to eat, and are far better
clothed and cleaner than the miserable
| urchins one sees in the Jewish quarter oi
New York.
| The shops are dngy and mean, but there
| is an absence of Jewish names on the
signs. The explanation given is that the
Jews are generally sloughing off their Rus
| Sian names with the other ideas of that
unhappy, far-off barbarism, and adopting
| American names.
| What q difference those prosecuted sons
of Israel must find between the brutalities
Of the Russian Pale, the massacres of
Kishinef, and the well-appointed play.
ground for their children on the banks OF
the Charles River.
THE ITALIAN ELEMENT.
One sees everywhere low-statured men
with thick. black hair, growing down al
most to their eyes, heavy, black mustaches
and a furtiye, evasive look in their black
eyes. They are usually in little groups
seemingly keeping apart from others, and
| they jabber together necessarily, shrug.
ging their shoulders and gesticulating Law.
shly to complete their sentences, and EN-.
| phasiZe their meaning. Boston has also
received more than her share of Italians
brought hither by the steamship com.
panies at $3.50 head.
'"Thim Dagoes," answered a gentleman
| sitting on seat by me, to remark OF
mine, '"Thim Dagoes are coming in here
at great rate, and crowding us Ameri
cans out, SO they are. This city'll soon be
| no place for whoite mon. They're nc
good. They live on nothing, at all, at all
and pay no taxes to support the Govern
ment. They are not citizens, an got no
| business here. Soon's they get together
5000 or $500 they go back home, an be-
come lords. They hadn't ought to be al
| lowed to land, at all, wild their stilettos an
| back-stabbin' an stink of garlic, an their
haythen practices generally"
| The gentleman had not been in this
| country long enough to get rid of the ac-
cents of his boyhood, but he was an Amer
| lean in everything else.
'FAIR HARVARD"
"There is Harvard University" he said.
''There is the place you're going to. Bet
ter get off at the next place the car stops.
You'll be right at the main entrance, an
near the little old frame house where the
Presidents of Harvard lived for nearly 100
| years: It's n sight worth seeing, sure it
is. All the Presidents-heads of the great
est institution Of learning in the world.
lived in that plain old house, just like COM
mon. people. It's the American way. If
| you'll come on little further with me, I'll
show you the Washington Elm. where Gen.
| Washington took command of our army
to fight the British for independence No?
Well get right off here, an you can go
straight in. Everything is open."
Somehow tho oolohrotoI ,,,nob