Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-10

iZation to the people of Boston, but to
apply it to the entire Massachusetts, bay
colony. The growth of San Francisco
was remarkable, but the capital of the
world sought investment there. No capt.
tai sought investment in Boston. The
people created their own capital.
The fisheries were the basis of their
wealth. A hardy race Of fishermen grew
up, the like of which the world has never
seen. They carried their catch east and
west, trading for the cereals that they
could not raise at home. The Dutch and
the Indians did their farming for them.
In time they carried their fish to Eng
land! France and the Mediterranean,
and brought back the rich stuffs, the
wines and other Injuries for which col
onial Boston was famous.
The next step was shipbuilding, and so
rapidly did this industry grow, that the
numerous shipyards of Boston and its
vicinity not only supplied neighboring
colonies, but even England, France and
Spain with ships the best in the world.
Many of the British men-o'-war OF the
time of our revolution were American
built, and scarcely a British ship afioat
but got it's masts and spars from New
England forests. Even within recent
times the pines of Maine have borne the
royal broad arrow with which they
were HldThGQ ny lilS survey VI tAAS
crown, in token of their selection for the
vessels of "the kings navee." The huts
of mud and logs were replaced by hand
some houses as fine as amy in England.
There was no more elegant building In
London of that era than the old Pro-
vince House.
On this occasion DR.. Hale had on exhi-
bition the maps that were stormbound
at the previous lecture, and the location
of points of interest in early Boston
were indicated with reference to the
present geography of the place. The
landing place of the early settlers who
came over in the Lion with Winthrop,
the site of the first meeting house, the
bounds of Blackstone's farm house and
cow pasture the line dividing the town
into it's northern and southern halves,
the sites of some of the earlier houses
all these things and more were pointed
out and made Of especial interest
because Of the lecturers running com
ments and annotationS.
Another instructive feature was the
explanation of some Of the names that
have been handed down to the present
day. TIimount or fremont derived not
from Cops Hill, Fort Hill and Beacon
Hill, but from the three former crests
of Beacon Hill itself The mill pond in
the Charles river, which was finally
filled UP with earth taken from Beacon
Hill when that eninence was leveled.
Causeway street, a name derived from
the dixie or causeWay over which it ran
and which was in fact the mill pond
dam. Canal street, marking the line Of
the old canal which connected the mill
pond with the harbor Dock square, near
which was tine free town dock before
the land was filled in to the east Castle
street and Castle square, from which
there was once an unobstructed view of
Castle Island. Fort Independence, now
a park, the first harbor fort built after
the fortifcations on old Fort Hill were
abandoned. There was much else of in
terest, but these must suffice for ex-
amples.
In his next lecture Mr. Hale will tell
of the growth of the independence spirit
and illustrate freely with maps and Ian
tern slides. He gave indication of the
Independent spirit of the Massachusetts
people in the dropping of the kings
name from public documents, in the
coinage of their own money and in the
conduct Of the war against King Philip,
whom they fought without assistance
from England, though the Indians had
many more men than the colonists at
their command.