The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-09-08
Number 12.)

planned he was not able to see the
town because there were so many
houses. He would find the same diff
Guilty today, although Boston has never
acquired the sky-scraper habit. In the
business section the architecture is
solid and severe, the average height
will not exceed six stories.
The banks, the corporations, the
lawyers, the insurance and the com
mission men are grouped in sections.
You will find one narrow crooked
street given up to boots and shoes and
another to paper and stationery, an
other to cotton goods, and other lines
flock together. Unlike Chicago and
New York, the business section does
not seem to be very much congested.
Washington street, which got its
name because the Father of His Coun-
try entered Boston by that highway
on the 18th of March, 1776 when
General Howe and his English troops
evacuated, is the principal shopping
street. 1t has also been called the
longest, narrowest, crookedest, rough
est, busiest" street in the country. The
so-called department store" originat-
ed on Washington street, Boston, and
several very large retail stores are to
be found there. The residence dis
trict does not compare in architecture
with even smaller cities in the east,
or any of the large western cities. In
this respect it resembles New York
Apartment houses are not numerous; =;
although there are several residential
hotels of high class, there are no fash
ionable restaurants such as you find
in other cities.
The Parker House, noted for it's
kitchen, particularly its rolls, was re-
garded as the ideal hotel in our grand
fathers time, and is still a favorite,
but largely patronized by commercial
men on account of it's location. The
Tausaine, a fashionable and expensive
hotel, appeals to intellectual and
aesthetic, providing elaborate pro
grammes of classical music and rich
ly appointed library, off from the office
of 5000 volumes. There is no bar in
the hotel.
Boston, in the way it is laid out, its
irregular and narrow streets, and other
wise, has the reputation of being more
'slike London than any other town in
the United States, which is true, and
besides many affect the rising infec
ton, and every one, in stating the dis
tance, use the English method of sc
many minutes walk" instead of Sc
, many blocks.
Probably the most conspicuous
/ building in Boston is the Christian
/ Science Temple, and it is usually men
/ toned as the largest house of worship
y in the United States, with a seating
capacity of 5000, although the Cathed
raj of St. John, of New York, whel
completed. will be much larger ant
4 will cost several times as much. Thi
temple is called the Parent Churcl
y and the headquarters of the denomina
ton. 1t is after the style of all Chris
tian Science churches, only very mucl
4 larger, it's interior resembling a larg
public hall We attended service
there. 1t was crowded with fine look
( ing audience, the acoustics were good
the services easily understood not
withstanding the lady leader had
: poor voice Mrs. Eddy's grave is III
marked, although it is said move
ment is on foot to procure subscriI
1 tions for a suitable monument.
Trinity church, ivy covered, in
! beautiful setting with avenues on al
I sides, has been accepted as the pei
N fection of church architecture in tn
Il United States. Schools use it as
II model, so we were told, and had n
u reason to doubt 1t cost $S00,000 an
- in the form of a Latin cross. Th
lantern at the top of the massive towe
4 21O feet high, is copied after an al
n cient cathedral somewhere in Spain
striking figure of Phillip Brooks
II the eminent divine, who was pastor {
4 Trinity for many years, stands upo
II a grass plot outside.
f There is no cathedral in Boston, an
81 although the Roman Catholic popul
M tion in this Puritan city is larger tina
~ the protestant, it's churches are i
81 significant 1t is remarkable fac
~ illustrating the sociological change
q that the majority of the present pop
A4lation of Boston is of foreign birth {
8 foreign parentage. The mayor is u
Elually Irish, the majority of the vote
Hpbelong to the democratic party al
q Jadhere to the Roman Catholic faith.
81 The Boston public library, the lar
14est in the country until the complete
Hflof the library of congress, and tn