The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22


 haps. Hardly u street in the old town which has not it's ancient landmark; hardly one in the crelet of suburbs that has not it's individual distinction and at traction for the sightseer. And the ac- possibility of all the points of interest even those some distance away from the convention center. is the special advan- tage Boston offers to visitors who must combine with their sightseeing more se- rious duties.
 The headquarters of the General Fed eral of Womens clubs are to be in the Hotel Vendome on Commonwealth ave- nue, one of the famous streets of the world. The principal meetings are to be held in Symphony hall, with overflow gatherings in the neighboring smaller halls which form a remarkable group of public gathering places. Thus, delegates while they are attending business ses- sions will find themselves in the newer part of the city, the Back Bay region that part of Boston that represents the city's modern development, where are fine residences and most of its semi-pub- lie institutions. such as the Institute of Technology, Simmins college, where housewifery is taught as a scientific pro- fession and business courses are made matters of higher education;p the New England Conservatory of Music, unique in America in many ways; the big medi- cal schools, the Public Library. first of its kind in this country; the Museum of Fine Arts, and Mrs. Gardner's Italian Palace" officially titled the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, Limited.
 But in Boston all roads lead to the Common. and from the Common there is of course. a road to everywhere. The Commons fame comes from its being the oldest public park in the United States, having been purchased by Gov ernor Winthrop and other worthies to be set aside as a common grazing place for the cows of the Puritan village. Back of it lies Beacon Hill crowned with the State House where hangs the sacred codfish; to the west, with only street between, is the Public Garden, equally famous with the Common, If in a diff ferent way. And on the east and south are two of the most striking thorough fares in any opolis-business streets with the charm of an old continental city added to their wholesome American ism. Fremont and Boylston streets, be- heath which runs the first street car sub-
 way built on this continent, have no eounterparts anywhere. visitors from all parts of the worlds sallow.
 Within a square mile here are all the theatres and all but one or two of the hotels. It Is probably the most diversi- lied metropolitan square mile on the green earth, for Boston has curlousy brought within it all its most serious business and its gaiety and much of it's social life A block through from Fremont street Is i Washington street, and on these thor oughfares and between them for the space for half mile is the retail shop ping district, where, it is natural to ex- pect, the womens clubites will spend a part of their time observing" When er- rands are done and souvenirs are bought. and the State House with its historical collections and paintings has been vistt- ed and there is at last time for sight seeing it is but moments walk to the subway, where, at Park street, the whole transportation system of greater Boston centers
 The Park street subway station is the second largest railway station of any kind in the world, measured by the num- Der of passengers who use 1t in a day At one side of it's platforms pass the rapid 1 transit trains which. running underground 1 in the heart of the city. emerge to an l elevated structure with terminals in the ! northern and southern suburbs. At the i other side may be taken the trolley cars | of the surface lines which run to the 1 westward. And connections may be made l ioi lllt lunHel u0ueF I0e ndfDOT-tne nrSt ! under harbor street car tunnel in the
 world-through which the suburbs to the l east are reached.
 1 It used to be thought--and it used to l be true-that Boston was the hardest l city in the United States for a stranger | to go about in without getting lost. | Nowadays, however, one can take a l street car anywhere in a radius of IS to
 20 miles of the gilded dome of the State { House with the comforting knowledge
 that one way or another 1t will land at l Park street. whence it is easy to find the
 way home. wherever honS may be- This
 is particularly an advantage to women
 of course, opening to them innumerable ] trips and excursions, and, with direct cal i lines to every part of the metropolitan
 district. interconnecting It's twenty-odd i towns and cities into one big community
 with q universal five-cent car fare and the freest kind of q free transfer sys- ! tenn. Boston has become the great trol ! ley riding city of Christendom.
 1 If the women's olubites stay In towr week or two after their convention labors are ended, as most convention
 delegates do. they will find more thaf
 enough to fill their time in montl