Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-04-24

ing, the Hon. Adam Winthrop, Edward
Hutchinson, Ezekiel Lewis and Samuel
Waldo, Esqrs., Thomas Hutchinson, Esq.
the selectmen and representatives Of the
town Of Boston, the Hon. Jacob Wendell,
James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, Esq,
Capt. Nath'l Cunningham, Peter Char
don, Esq, and Mr.. Charles Apthorp, to
wait upon Peter Faneuil, Esq, and in the
name of the town, 10 tender him their
most hearty thanks for SO bountiful gift,
with their prayers, that this and other
expressions Of his bounty aud charity may
be abundantly recompensed with the d.
vine blessing"
In addition to this vote, the citizens
passed another, that the hall should be
called Faneuil Hall, forever, and that the
portrait Of Faneuil should be painted, at
full length, and placed therein. On the
l4th of March, l744, a vote was passed,
"to purchase the Faneuil arms, carved
and gilt, by Moses Deshon, TO be fixed in
the hail."
Pemberton say.-"Previous to the re-
volution, the portraits Of Mr.. Faneuil,
Gen. Conway, and Col. Barre were pro-
cured by the town, and hung up in the
hall. 1t is supposed they were carried
off by the British" ....
The portrait of Faneuii, at present in
the hall, was painted by Henry Sergeant,
from the portrait presented to the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society, by Miss
Jones, grand child Of Peters sister,
Mary Ann.
The original building was but half the
width of the present, and but two stories
high. The hall could contain but one
thousand persons. In the memorable fire
of Tuesday, January 18th, l76l, Faneuil
Hall was destroyed, and nothing left
standing but the walls. On the 23d oi
the following March, the town voted to
rebuild, and the State authorized lottery
to meet the expense. There were seve-
raj classes. A ticket Of the seventh class
lies before me, bearing date March, l767
with the spacious autograph of John Han
, cock at the bottom.
!, The building retained its primitive pro.
portions, till 1906, when the occasions oi
the public requiring its enlargement, its
, width was increased from forty 10 eighty
feet, and third story added.
n very simple rule may be furnished
. for those who would compare the size o.
, the present building, with that of the gen,
uine Peter Faueuil Hall. Take north
cas-, view OF the Hall - there are sever
| windows before you, in each story-rur
perpendicular line from the ground
t through the centre Of the middle window
, 10 the top of the belt, at the bottom Of The
: third story carry a straight line frou
that point nearly to the top Of the secont
. window on the right, in the third story
That point is the apex of the old pedi
ment. From that point draw the CORES
: ponding roof line down to the belt al tli,
corner, and you have profile Of the an
. cient structure all which 10 well exhi
{ bited by DR.. Snow, on the plan, in hi
history of Boston.
: Small as the original structure may ap
: pear. when compared with the present, i
was a magnificent donation for the times
: 1t may we'll be considered muniticen
0 gift, from a single individual, in TAP
: when we consider ,ha. its repairs in l76l
: were accomplished by the aid Of the Com
. monweal;h, and the creation Of lottery
which continued to curse the communit,
i. for several years.
}. Peter Faneuil was then in all his glo
+. ry. How readily, by the power Of ina
/ gination, raise him from the dead, Dol
: upright, with his over portly form, ant
# features full Of bon homie, and speaking
J volumes about those five pipes Of ambe
: colored Madeira, such as his friend De
!. lancey had and that best book Of all sort
of cookery Of large character for tn
J. maids reading. There he is, at the doc
!, Of his English chariot, handsome, bu
!, nothing gaudy," with his arms thereon
: and his English coachman and his Englis
d horses, and that "strait negro lad' perch
i ed behind. l see him now, helping i
# Miss Mary Anne, his youngest made
sister, and, as he ascends the steps, wrap
n ping hi. cloak around him, trimmed wit
: that identical scarlet cloth Of the very bes
i qualify"
!. The vanity of mans anticipations, tn
o occasional suddenness Of his summons a
!. way-seldom find more graphic illus
Il tration than in the case Of this noble heart
i ed, and most ospitable gentleman.
h When he received the grateful saluta
d tons of the magnates of the town, VIII
!. came to thank him for his munifcence
e what could have been so little in hi
d thoughts, or in theirs, a, the idea that h
!. was so soon to die
n In about five years-five, short luxu
rious years after the death Of Andre,
J. Faneuil, Peter, his favorite nephew, wa
o committed to the ground, March 10, l742
old style. The event, from its suddenes:
: and from the amiable and benevolent char
, acter of the individual, produced dee
II sensation, in the village, for Boston wa
ID nothing but sea shore village then.
,e 1928, some fourteen years before, W
e learn from Douglass, I, 531, that ther
,e were but 5000 rateable polls, ,on the penir
to sula. This event was unexpected, by th
,e living and had been equally unexpecte'
by the dead. Death came to Peter, like
in thief in the Silly night. He had no. look
v ed for this UNIV elcome visitor. He ha
made no will Rv this event, Benia,ni