The Newtown bee., 1894-08-31
OUR SUMMER OUTING.
IN HISTORIC BOSTON.

Can we spend day satisfactorily in a city so familiar, so often visited as Bos- ton? we asked each other. Our party serenely took the bus for the Vendome and resigned ourselves to our fate. Our hotel is beautifully situated on Common wealth avenue, in Back Bay. It is
 fire proof structure, eight stories high,
 built of white Tuckahoe and Italian
 marble. We are informed that it is en-
 titled to respect for the presidents for
 years have stopped here, and it is recog-
 nized headquarters of the foreign nobility
 when visiting the city.
 Just before entering our room we ob =
 served a squared glass box inscribed in
 gold letters, ''In case of fire break glass
 and turn crank.' Remembering the
 epidemic of fires that atflicU Boston we
 resolve that we will certainly rush from
 our room and do it at the first alarm.
 The night was as still and uneventful as if in the heart of the desert. We lost
 our opportunity to be the heroine of an occasion.
 When early in the morning the 'Vic- torias" stood ready to give us 20 miles drive, we felt quite ready to see Bos- ton once more. Our drivers were given a paper indicating the places to which they were to take us, and the general line of information they were to lmparG. They waxed eloquent over Post Office Square. The building is of granite, highly ornate in style and said to be the finest building in New England. The upper stories are used by the United States Sub Treasury. Why that is as l fine as any public building abroad" said an enthusiastic traveller at our side. who was not expecting much from the United l States. Our driver stopped in front of the Old South church that we might read l the inscription and recall the fact that it was built in l729 and used as a meeting place by the heroes of '76. The public spirit of Boston has saved this historic l spot and converted it into museum l wherein are collected relics of Colonial l days. Again we stop at Fanuiel hall. l After Independence Hall, Philadelphia, this is the most interesting building in the United States. This sscradle of libertv'' was erected in 1742 and present l ed to the town Cor Boston was not in l corporated as city until 1S22) by Peter I Fanuiel, d Huguenot merchant. 1t was I once burned as nearly everything in Bos- l ton has been, but it has had it's present l form since 1895. Above the market is l the public hall adorned with full length I paintin of the founder and portraits of I Washington, the Adams, Webster, Ever cit, Lincoln, Sumner, and others.
 T. ne NdNY Yhiu III SldlICSbSd i0 eAA e J s imposing. It comprises almost 100 acres T surrounded by massive stone walls and l guarded by soldiers, cannons are placed l in marshalled rows, stacks of cannon balls I are arranged in neat, artistic ways or 4 the lawns. Giant anchors are laid as il I no enclosed space could contain them There are clusters of great stone build sl ings where che iron work is " ought Here is the longest rope walk in tht Icountry. In the dry dock we saw 3 T dynamite Vesuvius undergoing repairs The training school ship seemed ample .l in size to accommodate all the marines
 who will apply from New England. The
 American flag waves proudly over all I We feel that the honor of our country l. here vigilantly protected.
 As we approach Bunker Till we unan sl inously concluded to make the ascen Of the monument. 1t is q noble success
 snr of the old redoubt on Breeds hill
 This massive obeliek ls cf fine Qulncs