Sacrilege

In Pittsfield, Mass., it is proposed to buy a house built many years ago by Thomas Gold, whose granddaughter married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived and wrote there during several summers, and an adjoining house, built in 1820, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher and Fanny Kemble were frequent guests. The town not only proposes to buy the houses but to raze them and erect a modern high school. One thousand members of indignant front families protested last week against the design, and the Rev. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham, noted Unitarian divine, ejaculated: "I am horrified by the sacrilege of such a suggestion."