The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-08-13
Terms of SuhscriptiOn.
All THE HUB.
Sights Seen i'm the City Of Baked
Beans.

BosToN Mass, July 90, 1899.
Correspondence of the FLoRIDIAN:
Your correspondent left Tallahassee on the
morning of the 10th inst, via Monticello, Thorn
asville and Savannah Ga, and took the steamer
(Clty OF Macon) for Boston on Thursday morn
ing, the 18th. l am sorry | cannot commend
the route l took to Savannah There are too
many changes, and as through ticket cannot
De purchased in Tallahassee to Savannah by this
route the trip hence is quite perplexing espec
Tally SO II you have much baggage to look after
Savannah needs a railroad to Thomasyille. direct
ard needs it bad
The road from Monticello to brownsville seems
to be doing good business in hauling off the pear
anu melon crop, and judging from the immense
quantllleS OF each we saw tor shipment, at every
station, that portion OF Florida has got a corner
on fine fruit.
After many delays and vexation of spirit. we
arrived at brownsville in time to take sQuint
at the town by daylight 1t certainly is hotel
town, and must be popular resort, reckoning
from the immense proportions and style Of most
Of The hOstelreS
It Tallahassee will hurry up with her railroads,
ii VIII be but a few years when she Will be the
most popular winter resort in the South She
has got the climate, the location and the
Wa'cT-and what has kept her down bat for
inc want nf better travelling aclii1c- tOset people
down Oh The finest spot in Florida in every par
ticU'ai:
The Zip from Thomasvli, to S.vannaA
was made IN the might time, 5,o1 VIZ
an ail night run, the dis nee being over 200
miice. The road is riagniticcfitly equipped viih
Inc coaches which gilGc over the rails with ,l;rl
= SCI ease thar one hardly REGRETS having mud,
the nip even il the night.
Arriving ia Savannah, our fluctuations aud
N4.' are renewed. i is a mile or 50 from the
, F. x VS. ,iepot 70 the steamers wharf, and
the h ,iiSti1rl,u
HoilGm. But We got there ali the aamc ant
gently giitrG ont from Savannah al 10 H. NJ
Thursday tjuly Is h, bound for "Bostnr' Their
was Jovla passenger party, mostly ladies, and
"a 1t i about % miles down Tie river before Yea
az. on 'dc mighty deep, all responded ehvcrtlilly
t. thc dinner bed BY supper time We were t:r
on .oi sight o! band, and there was no olive
branch OF peacc with the rebolliou- stornacls Of
mos OF The passengers. One bv one the victims
tCli. and the supper table los kcd H.ighty for!orn
The sra was quite rough for Two days after
leaving Savannah, and some OF thc passengers
never recovered from their rclchiug until they
got into Boston larbor
We alrivci in Boston at o'clock Sunday
evening, and the new made acquaintance, hlcd
Themselves in many different lircc'ion~ pr0ha
bly, never to meet again until they all cross the
river StyX. We visited several place, ct hstor,
Cal note, and viii relate and describe very briefly
some OF The many sights Of Boston we Witnessed
SCENES OF INTEREST.
T"ncu} Hall, "Thc Cradle Of Libcr;v," was
buill and given to the town O.. Boston III 1140
by Peter Fanenl. II Witnessed the most stir
lng scenes in The days preceding the Revolu-
ton.
The Old Stale Hous" is on Washington street
Il was built in 1748. It's history deeply inter
esling and varied is recorded on tablets.
The Hancock House, the oldest in Boston, is
near Faneuil Hall Talleyrand and Louis
PhIIllunp dwell there Z ba
OF Terror
beacon Hill, one of the three ancient hills of
boston, was once crowned by beacon, which
was hred to give notice to the country OF
danger.
The most noted historical places are Frank
IN birthplace, Milk street. now occupied by
Boston Post; Websers home, 1873 Summer
street; Christ Church. Kings Chapel, Boston
Common, Granary burial ground, Old Corner
Bookstore, Bunker Hill Monument, etc
Tea Farty.-In 1878, December 10th, 1000
Boslonlans met to demand that the ships in port
which had brought taxed tea should be
sent away with their cargoes We are all fi-
millar with the longagO transaction OF 342
chests OF tea being emptied into Boston HarbOr
This scene took place at what is known now as
Grliiins wharf, at the foot OF Pearl street.
The post Office is on Devonshire street, post
office square, between Milk and Water streets
1t cost about $4,000 900.
The Custom House is at the corner of State
ana India streets 1t is a massive fire proof
granite building, in the doric Style 1t was
erected IN 1887 and cost 81 ,OoO, 900
Fort independence, on Castle Island, off S.
Boston, is the Oldest fortress in the world. De-
lenses were raised here in 1884
The U. 5. Navy Yard is on Water street,
Charlestown. 1t covers ST. acres, and is sur
rounded by a high granite wall There is a
hammered-granite dry dock $40 feet long Thir-
ty ships OF war have been.but here.
The State House, erected in 1896, stands on
the summit of Beacon Hill at the head of the
common. In Done Hall, the visitor sees the
marble statues of Washington and Gov. An
Lincoln, Vice-President Henry Wilson and
Senator Charles Sumner. On the second floor
are the chambers of the Senate and the House
of Representatives. From the cupola, superb
panorama of the city, harbor and suburbs,