The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-20

very few which found by the pioneer settlers
Shawmut, planted generation by generation
the colony prospered and in numbers. writer
of 1854 says Of the site of Boston: J., = -"
'Ther greatest wants be woods and mellow ground
which in that place. being constrained to
bring their building timber and rewood from the Hands
in boates and their hay in loyters; It being Necke
and bare of wood they not troubled with three great
annoyances of woolves rattlesnakes and musketoes'
Adino Paddock 8 elms took root and fourished amaz
ingly, forming beautifully shaded avenue, which
called Paddock Mall and at time fashionable
promenade. In time, the town grew into city, Pad
docks Mall became fremont street, the old Paddock
gave way the march of progress and only few
old and the old Granary burying ground oppo
site, left reminders of those pre-revoutionary
days.
The famous old Latin SCHOOL, first established
in the American eoonesstood not far from the newly
planted Paddocks Mall, and John Lowell, the school
master prompt steps to protect the trees from in
jury by of his mschievous boys After dwelling upon
the necessity for trees the trouble and expense of i'm
porting these ems from England, and the improve
they would be to the city Streets he told them that
if of the injured in any way he would whip
whole SCHOOL, As whippngs in those days
thing be remembered the Paddock elms let Sc
verely aloneby these students at the Latin school at
least. .s---n. E.. -. -.
city under Tory rule and when Boston invested
by the British and other cut down by wholesale,
these Paddock ems unmolested because Of their
Tory associations But when Boston evacuated and
the Contnenta into possession they ragged at the
havoc that had been done in ways the landmarks
that had been wantony destroyed and trees and build
ings associated with them altered wiped entirely out
of existence Naturally, the Tory elms Of Paddock's
Mall suffered more less at their hands in revenge
Nevertheless good many Of them survived the
days of the Revolution and the city grew solidy
up the old Granary buryng ground and the great ems
opposite odd noticeable oasis green in the
heart of the throbbing city. .--.@.-r~
In 1874, however, the site of the old Paddock house
selected the location for business block and the
builders not think that trees tho they
nfcent specimens of their kind suitable 'front.'
door decoratons,-and down the old Paddock elms
The destruction of the famous old brought sor
row to than person living in and around Bos
ton and Longfeow the poet recorded his regret in his
diary, under date Of March 8, 1874 follows:
t'Heres a gloomy (newspaper) paragraph for you
See what barbarsm may exist in the midst Of culture
civilization! The last of the Paddock elms fell at
quarter past nine this morning, and there no
signs left of the old trees the smoothly cut sumps
which are on a level with the sidewalks'' J.
The roots of these Paddock ems spread over an
amazing distance under the ground the fine fbrou
extending the street and into the Granary
buryng ground This strange story told in connection
with these strayng roots by Colonel Joseph May, well