Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-10-09
IN QUAINT OLD BOSTON.
Some "reminiscences Of ye Editors Re-
cent Visit to this Historic City.

chartered In 1888, ana still greatly nom
ored and respected.
The OLD South Meeting House was
erected on part of the garden of Gov.
Winthrop, in the seventeenth century,
and the present building erected in
1870. Whitefield, the celebrated di-
vine, often preached here, and Otis,
Warren, Hancock and other patriots
addressed the people here. In 1775 it
was used for riding school for the
British dragons. The building and
site were purchased by committee of
twenty-five women who raised and
paid s430, 900 for it, and is now used as
a museum.
Old North Church Christ church) is
the oldest in Boston, from the tower of
which lanterns were hung to warn
Paul Revere and the patriots that the
British troops were to march TO LeXing-
ton and Concord. Under the church
was buried Mayor Pitcairn who was
wounded at Bunker Hill, and died
soon afterward.
Copps Hill Burying Ground is also
historic place and was opened in 1860.
1t is noted for being the sight of the
British Batteries in June 1875, from
which position Charlestown was bonn
barded. The site commanded Bunker
Hill, and the marks of the bullets can
still be discerned on the ancient tomb
stone. Robert Newman, who hung
out the lantern at Christ church to
warn Paul Revere, was barred here
with many other revolutionary pa
triots.
Bunker Hill Monument is familiar
lame in all parts of the world. This
handsome granite obelisk is 22l feet
-high, was dedicated by Dapiel Webster
in 1913, and cost Slb0,000. 1t was
erected on the battle field of Bunker
Hill, in commemoration of the memoir
able fight of June II, 1775.
We passed through the italian
quarters of the city, past many
houses over 200 years old, and out into
Cambridge, the seat of the famous
Harvard University founded in 1886.
1t has over Sl2 500, 600 worth of proper
ty, % buildings and 1000 students, and
is the oldest and most noted university
i'm America.
On Cambridge Common are several
cannons captured from the British; the
old elm under which Washington took
command ofthe American army, July
3, 1775, the home once occupied by
General and Lady Washington, the
homes of Henry w. Longfellow and
James Russell Lowell. All these were
particularly interesting as well as Long
fellow Park, purchased by the school
children of Cambridge by penny con-
tributions; Mt. Auburn cemetery,
claimed to be the finest in the United
States, with the tombs of Longfellow,
Lowell, Edwin Booth, and other noted
men. We then visited Watertown,
where the United States Arsenal is To-
Gated. Brooklyn, the richest incorpor-
ated city in the world, where the
wealthy people of Boston live in pala-
tial residences is beautiful beyond de-
scription, and the drive through this
suburb was especially enjoyed. We
then drove through Franklin Park,
one of the finest in the country. Ic
had an area of five hundred and
twenty-seven acres, and has been left
in its natural typographical state. The
park enterprise was started from fund
left for that purpose by Benjamin
franklin.
After a lengthy drive through a part
of Boston's system of continuous park
ways, which is fifty miles long, and
passing through Commo wealth
Avenue, the wealthy residence street,
we were driven to our hotel, after one
of the most pleasant afternoons we
have ever spent.
The next morning we visited the
Old State House, one of the most
historic structures in the United
States. Here was situated the colonial
market house prior to 1857, when a
Town House and Provincial Capital
was built. 1t burned in I'LL, and two
years later the present building was
erected. Here the royal governors of
the province presided, and later John
Adams, James Otis, Quincy, Warren,
Cushing, Hancock and other patriots
made the first opposition to the royal
authority. In l76S British regiment
was quartered i'm the building, and in
1770 the famous Boston massacre took
place in front Of this building. From
the balcony Washington reviewed the
entry of the American army after the
siege of Boston. July Is, 1776 the
Declaration of Independence was read