Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06

Navy Department. who acted as Boswell
to Mr.. Folks Johnson
The party went from New York to New
Haven by steamer. and were received
, with great enthusiasm by the city officials
and the authorities of Yale College, and
in the chapel college listened to the ma
tional hymn and chorus sung by the stu
dents.
1t was a great day for the college boys,
and they made the most of it. The Pres
ident had been there in the year 1884. to
place four young men from Tennessee in
the institution, and therefore was no
stranger
Polk Liked Hartford.
The afternoon was spent in Hartford,
| which President Polk considered lone of
| the most delightful places in the Union
1T has everywhere an appearance Of
Yankee thrift he said, land nothing can
exceed the elegant comfort of its dwell
ings or the beauty of it's numerous trees.
We found its citizens, also, full of kind
ness, and although we were obliged to
leave the dinner which had been prepared
for US untasted, or rather unfinished, yet
we saw enough of 1t to satisfy us of its
value
While making the tour of the city in a
carriage. according to the narrative, the
President stopped at 1.-THE pretty cottage
of Mrs. Signourney, the poetess, at whose
gate the procession halted while she her
self appeared on the balcony to greet the
President as he passed.
'She improved the opportunity to send
us all a glass of cool water, which, after
long and dusty ride. we found as re-
freshing as a spring in the desert to
thirsty traveller.
I'VE regretted to learn afterward that
this pause was taken advantage of for
very different purpose. thief employed
accomplished lady of a gold watch and
several articles Of jewelry. which he re-
moved from table In ner boudoir.''
Springfield was visited later in the day,
where another cordial reception closed
fatiguing days work. for we had break
tasted in New York. dined in Connecticut
and supped In Massachusetts,
By Train to Boston.
The party went from Springfield to Bos-
ton by train, with the rain falling in tor
rents. Nevertheless. the President was
cheereef at every succeeding settlement,
and was INTRODUCED at the end of the car
to enormous crowds At Boston he was
taken to the Revere House. where the
governor received him with lon and
eloquent speech.
1.-The President replied in an appro-
pirate manner. and among other things
said:
our alluSlon 10 the Union meets my
hearty response. There is an altar at
which we all may worship. However
much we may differ about local or tenn
porary questions of policy. on the ques-
ton of the Union We are all united.
I'VE recognize the Union in every one
Of our public acts: we recognize il now
and here. In the imposing welcome which
you have now extended to me | see but
the one fact that the whole Union Is re-
ceiving honor through its representatives
from one of the states which forms the
Union.
Then the mayor. Josiah Quincy. had his
turn at speechmaking. and the President
responded to him also. Then he was al
lowed to retire to his room and take some
rest before a banquet, which took place
the same evening ''in the spacious hall of
the Revere House. which was decorated
for the occasion, but there was no wine.
The temperance question had recently
been agitated in the city council, and the
mayor had declined presiding at the tables
in the presence Of wine. 1t was deter
mined, therefore, to Danish wine and re-
tain the mayor. Each of US. however.
was provided with u plentiful supply of
liquors in our private apartments.
Il know not which was in worse taste
the frigid temperance of the dining hall
or the barroom supply of the sleeping
chambers. Both, doubtless. We're we'll
meant, but in one case, 1t seems to me.
there was needless sacrifice to bigotry.
and in the other an equally needless OFFER
ing to hypocrisy"
Party Liked Boston. =
The impressions of President Polk and
his party of the city and the people of
Boston are more interesting because of the
| section of the country from which they
came. and the Hub of the Universe would
have been fiattered II the following COM
ments had been published at the time:
Boston is excessive in its admiration of
itself, but it really has much in it which
is worthy OF admiration. 1t is greedy
after wealth. but then 1t spends it like a
prince 1t is the little Puritan in it's no.
Mons but Puritanism Is better than its
reverse, and after all. wine may be had
in Boston if it is drunk in secret.
1t clamors against war. but 1t supplies
good soldiers. 1t has sometimes given
birth to moral treason. but 1t has always
contained a pure leaven OF uncorruptible
patriotism.
TT was the birthplace of Franklin. 1t
was the home of Hancock. 1t contains
the cradle of American liberty. Its his
tory goes back to the clearest fountains of
our country's origin.
Its religious institutions may be under
stood when IL is considered that ii has
eighty churches which cost about three
! millions and a half ard can accommodate
about ninety thousand persons. For edu-
cation it expends S206.Oo0. exclusive of
the cost OF private instruction. every year.
! Its charities are its noblest feature. In
this respect there is no city in America
to be compared with 1t.
Let us remember. then. its greatness
and we shall almost forget it's meanness.
Many faults may be pardoned in a city
of so many virtues.
I'm this way she surely adorns the Con
federacy while in spite of her abolition
mania size promotes the union of states
by the ente prise and wealth with which
she helps TO bind them together by rail-
roads and canals
Sightseeing in the Hub.
President Polk visited all the places Of
interest in Boston, and at Bunker Hill ad-
dressed five thousand spectators. in reply
| to a long address by the mayor of
Charlestown. He took for his text the
battle of Bunker Hill. and his speech
was glowing with patriotism and graft
| tude to the revolutionary fathers
The next town visited was Lowell from
there he went to Manchester, and then to
Concord. n. Fl. He visited several fac
| tories the way. and while he was
| gratified at the prosperous condition of
| the people, he was unfavorably impressed
| with the combination of mahines. both
dumb and human, and wondered . little
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