The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-21
dirty when their religion cornpels them TO
wash their bodies at least once a week
It's Departed Glory.

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Its Departed Glory.
! Looking upon the scenes now enactilg
! in the north end. it seems strange 70
| think that at one time our sober Puritan
/ forefathers dwelt in these streets. Some
/ OF their very houses are still standing.
! Prince street. which crosses Salem, run
I ming from North square TO Commercial
street, is said 10 be more as il was CEN
fury ago than any other street of its length
/ in Boston. One very old brick house at
l30 Prince is pointed out as the one which
sheltered Major Pitcairn when nortally
wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill.
F The lower story has become a bakery,
OF noisy Italians.
A portion of a very old building still
stands at the corner of Prince and Marga-
ret streets, recalling the fact that in 1850
it was the hclse of John Tilsston, who
was called the father of good writing in
Boston, He was for so years uninter-
ruptedly, except for the siege Of Boston,
connected with the North Bennett writing
school. His pupils called him Johnny
Crump, as his fingers had been drawn up
by an accident in childhood. a most
. interesting place 10 visit is old North
square. In shape il is not square, but a
triangle, surrounded by rather neglected
but picturesque buildings. the interest
centers in a low structure built on the old
Dutch plan, with oyerhanging roof and
doorposts This was the home of Paul
Revere and though built somewhere about
the year 1676it still stands firm and looks
likely TO last another half century. 1t
looked odd to sea the sign ITO Lett IN It's
windows.
Salutation street, running from Com
mercial to Hanover street, is one of the
quaintest, tiniest streets in Boston, go
narrow people can sit at opposite windows
and talk to each other as if in the same
house; so ancient that the houses seem Wis
IDLY tottering to their fall. Time was when
this was one of the most respectable streets
in Boston. 1t was always narrow, but in
former times il looked far wider, as the
houses stood 20 or so feet from the street
in the midst of gardens and were never
more than 21I stories high.
Where Patriots Dwelt.
Leaving Salutation street, we take our
way back to Salem street and seek out the
Old North church Towering far above
surrounding buildings, the old gray edi-
fee, with its green mantle of ivy, still
of the neighborhood, disguised as Indians,
fastening under cover of night TO the
wharves where lay the British ships laden
with tea.
''On the 10Th of April, in 1875, F" il looked
upon brave men, true Americans, hasten
ing TO the battle of Bunker Hill. Now
restless, noisy foreign population surges
ever about it, The neighboring houses,
SoIN Of Io
have become dwellings for the offscour-
ings of foreign nations. The street, in
former times so clean, is Uttered with rags
and paper Still the old chimes ring out
as sweetly as of yore, and still on Sundays
the high backed pews are filled with wor-
shippers There, sitting in the high, mar
row gallery, with the notes of the ancient
organ in ones ears and ones eyes upon
the gilded cherubim who have been blow
ing their noiseless trumpets l4S long years,
scenes of the present vanish. Near us is
James Wells, who was commissioned to
''set in the galierys and keep the boys in
order, that no disturbance be in time Of
divine service" Below, in the body of
the church, are men in small clothes and
powdered wigs. The face of Paul Revere
is seen among them. Robert Newman and
Isaac Harris are there, with score of 9TH
ers who have helped not only TO make the
north end historic, but the United States
free
As the service closes the illusion vanish
es and the faces fade away "a the figures
in mirage. Still the old church remains,
and leaving It behind there seems an add
ed dignity in the weather beaten, totter-
ing buildings of the quarter.
Passing up Hull street, the Old North
still in sight, we reach COpp's Hill burial
ground. \ tablet on its entrance gate tells
Us that Increase and Cotton Mather are
buried here, and that on this ground were
planted the British batteries which de-
stroyed Charlestown during the battle Of
Bunker Hill.
The City of the Dead.
Copp's hill is the lowest OF the three hills
of Boston. Still il is far higher than the
roofs of houses on the eastern side, so at
foris good view of the harbcr.
On the left are the graystOne buildings
of the navy yard, to the right a long line