The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-23
Salt Lake Woman Discusses
Boston and BoStonians
BY Mrs. John E. Hamilton.

Boston, Mass, Oct. 7.-One of the
Soul-stirring traditions of this grand
city is that long before the revolution
self-seeking pig walked into his own
er's house and tipped over a pailful Of
milk, which piece of impertinenee so
anSered and surprised the mistress thd.
she chased the pig until her breath
gave out. and for her righteous conduct
the Village governors caused several
streets 10 be laid out on the n.eander-
ing lines by which her pig evaded her
This legend may be true: the devious
ways Of Boston town point either to
such an origin or 10 a snapshot on a
streak Of lightning as The history of
the original plat.
But however difficult it may De 10 ind
out ones bearings at the Hub. it must
be confessed that at every spoke in the
wheel (for the ground plan is more
nearly wheel than a rectangle). enc
encounters the most soothing
helps. No sort of courtesy is TOO mucn
trouble for these high proof Yankees
If thereby the tramps are made 10
Know ell that is interesting and de-
Iightful. punctuating every corner
within their borders
No city i'm the United States nor in
all the Americas is so replete with rel
les of the pregnant past az Boston The
bronze eagle of Beacon hill perchng
on the summit OF a lofty column broods
forever over the story Of Lexington and
Concord Naturally. With such events
10 care for. he seems just ready to fly
into the heavens for has not the face
of the sun been changed for us all by
what he seems TO see from his airy
pivot?
Commerce and the rush of twentieth
century life have surged all around t.;,
gates of Kings Chapel. and the Pax
Street and Old South churches. all
three standing with their colonial foun-
dations and commemorative tablets
within and without. amid the whirlpool
which at their portals. ceases. for there
the soil is crowded with the founders
OF the great republic. Josiah Frank
lin. but for whom Benjamin would n,.t
have been, and Morse remained lir-
sung; John Winthrop. Samuel ADAMS.
Endicott, Josiah Quincy. for these and
the host that bear them immortal COM
pany Boston has reverently said n
stone aud storied marble. Lest We fcr-
get What would Chicago have done
with these tangible themes of loyal
recollection? Wen, i'm spite Of the nc
cessity of steel sky-scrapers. one is in
OAAAANu " AOpG Silt- lOD- " Culu nave pre-
served them. for they have become TIE
hand Of destiny pointing TO our present
grandeur as a nation. and our resDon-
sibility for the greater future.
Now, as ever. something in particu-
lar is taking place. Boston adores a
cause or a big function, or two or more
at time. The peace congress of the
nations has once more spread her fame
abroad. and in passing has begun its
process of capitalization in her mem
ory
She has acted as American hostess in
graceful welcome TO q notable company
of representative men and women from
Europe, India, Africa, as well as our
own country, The venerable Edward
Everett Hale was, OF course. a leading
personality in all the deliberations of
this most significant congress. Age has
not abated the powers of his mind nor
the fire of his eloquence, and ii goes
without saying that both qualities had
right of way under full action, with
such foils as Ferris of the English club.
who charges a stiH unspeakabIe slavery
upon old Russia. Alexander of interna-
tlonal law fame and Cremar, the
founder OF the interparliamentary
union From such court the Baroness
Won Suttner of Austria and Booker T.
should not be left out rep
resenting as they do the antipodes of
social and political thrust. BY the law
Of contrarieties Booker T. is about the