The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-04-12
BOSTON TALKS BACK.
Warns Folks Not 70 Sheer at II Lest.
Like Poe. They Die in a Hospital.

Like Poe. They Die in Hospital.
Quite naturally. Boston people were
rather piQued when II. c. Wells. on
his recent visit to this country, de.
clared-though In other words--that
Boston seemed to be rs calm and
slumbrous rs the Sleeping Beauty.
The answers 70 MIR. Wells are now
being pronounced. Edwin ID. Mead
made some remarks TO the Bostonisn
Society the other day, in which he
quoted the Autocrat of the Breakfast
table to the effect that no man could
come to good who attempted to sneer
at Boston
After a man begius 70 attack the
state House, when he gets bitter
about the Frog Pond. YOU may be sure
there Is not much left OF him." said
Mr.. Mead. Poor Edgar Poe died in
the hospital soon after he got into
this way OF talking; and SO sure as
you tiud an unfortunate fellow reduced
10 this pass, YOU had better begin
praying for him, and stop lending him
money, for he is on his last legs.
Remember poor Edgar! He is
dead and gone; bat the State House
has its cupola fresh gilded and the
Frog Pond has got fountain that
squirts a hundred feet,
Boston respects hustle. aud We
have the largest railroad terminal in
the world. and fourscorc more trains
arriving and departing daily from all
our stations than even Chicago.
which claims TO be the greatest rail.
road centre in the world
Boston respects money. aud Bos.
ton. sir. carries the Chicago, Burling.
ton and Quincy Railroad and the At.
Gibson. Topeka and Santa Fe ia It's
trousers pocket
Boston respects iron and steel "a
contemporary documents; and the
reason why our Institute OF Tech
nology arranged for entrance examIn.
atiOus In London was that Englishmen
who wanted TO send their sons hers
said London had none so good.
One OF the last visiting English
men wrote home 20 praise our park
system and our public library rs In.
comparable. | think he was righ..
Tie Boston Public Library Is without
peer among public Libraries and up
on its front Is grayed the proudeSt
fact: Built by the People
Had the visitor pushed nm hour
westward he would have found just
finished the greatest reservoir ever
created by a metropolis for the wa
ter supply OF its people, and had he
called at evening on the chief com.
missioners he would probably have
found him reading history
THE great body OF advanced schools
OF which Harvard is the ceutre-Bos.
ton University. the Institute Of Tech.
nology, Tufts College. and the rest
make Boston the greatest seat OF
higher education 'in America Our
musical pre-cminence Is. believe.
conceded; and the superior popularity
Of Sousa 10 Nuck I'm Boston indicates
plainly enough our vitality
1T was the great English jurist.
Dicey, who pronounced the Harvard
Law School stronger than any in Eng
land-'the most wonderful thing / saw
in America'-and the eminent English
physician, Sir Thomas Barlow. present
at the recent dedication OF the new
buildings OF the Harvard Medical
School. who declared that he and his
colleagues had never dreamed OF such
a vision of beauty and OF adaptation
to the needs for which such buildings
are erected
1--WE should blush 20 say such things
ourselyes--but We are greateful."-
New York Sun.