The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-07
AN HOUR IN BOSTON.

our local amateur photographers, as
already announced in these columns and
DIS now advertised, will exhibit in the
naii Oh the Y. NJ. G. A. on S turday even
ing next the hundred odd scenes which
Illustrate the very interesting lecture on
Boston, now on Its way to enlighten the
people OF the Antipodes, the Indies and
Inc Orient. A couple OF years ago the
BOSTON Camera Club conceived and acted
upon the ldea OF preparing an historical
aIo descriptive lecture of their city,
"nlcn should be fully illustrated by
magic lantern views. Their plan, in the
hands OF those possessing high literary
anility and Photographic skill, has re.
suited In most interesting scheme of at
once entertaining and instructing an
audience: The lecture is read from the
stage while the views wifi h illustrate
the text are thrown upon a screen in
front OF the assemblage. One of the OBJ
Jects sought IN the inception of this plan
was to secure an interchange of such lee
lures among the amateur Photographic
Giuos OF the Union and of foreign lands
That object is being constantly attained,
~ WV iiiCSi OSllO1 vi AL concerned. ana
now many OF the large American cities
and other localities, such as Yosemite,
the White mountains, the St. Lawrence,
etc, are travelling Ion screens" through
out the Union and abroad.
The lecture, ILLUSTRATED Boston, ="
which will be presented here next Satur-
day evening, is different from anything
our community has seen in that line
M L.. Al
Boston" crossed the Atlantic soon
after its birth, and for some
months delighted and educated
our English cousins. Then it was
returned to its home, the lecture re-
written and improved, and many scenes
OF interest and beauty added to the list.
after which it was sent to the Pacific
Coast, whence, after repeated and sue
cessful exhibitions there, it was started
on the Observation-Disclosures ORR
entail route, and is now in Honolulu.
On May 9th it was exhibited by the
California Camera Club in San Fran
cisco, and the Call and Chronicle of the
following day rave illustrated reports
thereof. From the report in the Call
We Gull the following: "The California
Camera Club scored signal success at
Metropolitan Hall last night. when it
transported about 600 intelligent citizens
across the Continent, and showed them
Boston-the modern Athens-exactly as
its narrow streets and historic monu-
ments appear in the broad glare of noon
day. \ The first slides exhibited
were maps of Boston in 1922 and 1888
The lecturer dwelt tenderly
and periodically on Faneuil Hall, the
cradle of liberty" Next came
the scene of the Boston massacre; the
old State House, from which were an
nounced at different times, two momen-
tous events-the death of George II. and
the Declaration of Independence. Then
came Washington street, show
ing the portion rebuilt in 1872, after the
great fire, and number of churches
and literary and scientific institutions.
The patriotic sentiment of the
audience dubbed up when the lecturer
invited inspection of the Washington
elm-the venerable tree under which the
General stood when he assumed COM
mand of the Revolutionary Army.
Scarcely less applause greeted the ap-
pearance on the screen of the plain old
fashioned homestead in which John
Adams and John Quincy Adams were
born, but when the Concord Bridge
came the patriots broke out again."
Our club hope, ere many months, to
have similarly illustrated lecture OF
Hawaii " on the road"