Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-03-28
BOSTON TALKS BACK.
Warns Folks Not to Sheer at Il Lest,
Like Poe, They Die in a Hospital.

Like Toe, IHSy ZIG III T7osPsa"
Quite naturally, Boston people were
rather piqued when H. G. Wells, on
his recent visit to this country, de.
clared-though In other words-that
Boston seemed to be as calm and
slumbrous as the Sleeping Beauty.
The answers to Mr.. Wells are now
being pronounced. Edwin D. Mead
made some remarks to the Bostonian
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 man begins to 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 find an unfortunate fellow reduced
to 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; but the State House
has its cupola fresh gilded and the
Frog Pond has got fountain that
squirts hundred feet.
Boston respects hustle; and we
have the largest railroad terminal in
the world, and fourscore 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, and Bos-
ton, sir, carries the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad and the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe In its
trousers pocket.
Boston respects iron and steel as
contemporary documents; and the
reason why our Institute Of Tech
nology arranged for entrance examin-
ations In London was that Englishmen
who wanted to send their sons here
said London had none so good.
"One of the last visiting English.
men wrote home to praise our park
system and our public library as in
comparable. think he was right.
The Boston Public Library Is without
a peer among public libraries and up
on it's front is graved the proudest
fact: Built by the People
Had the visitor pushed an hour
westward he would have found just
finished the greatest reservoir ever
created by a metropolis for the wa
ter supply Of It's people, and had he
called at evening on the chief com.
missioners he would probably have
found him reading history.
1.-THE great body Of advanced schools
of which Harvard is the centre-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-eminence Is, l believe,
conceded; and the superior popularity
of Sousa to Muck In 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 l 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
10 the needs for which such buildings
are erected
1--WE should blush to say such things
ourselves-but we are greatefui.
New York Sun.