The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-25

or demoIish landmark is bitterly op- posed and usually deteated in Boston | For the past ten or twelve years a real | estate syndicate has been trying vain | ly to get possession of Park Street 1 Church, popuiarly known as "Brim- stone Corner and noted as the head quarters of the Orthodox faction in the Unitarian controversy of three-quar- ] ters of century ago-the church, too in which the first Sunday School was organized in America and in which the national hymn America" was sung for the first time. Although this site 1 which Is opposite the entrances of Park Street Station. the most fre- quented of the subway stations of the Boston Elevated Company's system. is naturally of immense value. every at- l tempt to acquire 1t for commercial pur- poses has been stoutly resisted. Ef- St. Pauls. Daniel Webster's old church. stands. have also failed re-
 peatedly.
 From various circumstances the
 marked attractiveness to outsiders of
 the historical shrines ought by this
 time to be pretty apparent to Boston
 iaDs. It certainly is so to everybody
 else. About this time of the year be-
 gins the great annual influx of tourists, many OI them OH lHGlE way lO Inb
 mountain or shore resorts of New Eng
 land. eager to see in passing what may
 fairly be called the greatest American municipal museum of history. The
 part played by the street cars In all this
 sightseeing astohishes most visitors.
 It has often been remarked that in Bos-
 ton the cars go everywhere. Even be- fore the elevated and the subway Iwere in operation they penetrated every
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 the winding streets. The story is told
 that d parsimonious doctor from New Hampshire, calling on Dr. Oliver Wen dell Holmes, remarked that sightsee- ing was interesting for those who could afford it. Well, retorted the witty poet, If you have five cents in your pocket, you will see part part of American history by taking car over at the corner"
 Today. such is the perfection of the rapid transit facilities. it Is possible to see much more in less time. In hardly more than half an hour, by using the "L," the visitor gets something like a bird'seye view of the whole historical city Starting from one of the stations in the subway the tourist, travelling southward. reaches at the Dover Street 'L" station the point to which the British lines extended during the siege of 1775. Along upper Washington Street the T." road runs on the land known a century ago as The Neck the narrow strand that then joined Bos- ton to Roxbury. The Northampton Street Stauon stands almost on the site of the tavern which was half way between the British and American lines, and which on certain days-this was before the Washingtonian temperance movement swept the country-was crowded first with the officers of the King and then with the -embattling farmers from Roxbury.
 As the train swings around to the west to make the loop at the Dudley Street terminal the passengers see the old burying ground of the Dudleys and other notables of earliest times, and as the loop is almost completed a look up the hill to the west reveals the yellow form of the ancient meeting house oc- cupying the site of the chapel built by John Eliot, the apostle of the Indians, Thence by taking a South Station train the tourist Is carried back past Dover Street and around to the eastern water