Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-07-07

k~ II little to obliterate it's picturesque Df@W SJ poets, for which antiquarians duly A#EN thankful. One of them, Edward M.
 Bacon, has written book about it. INN I He calls it "Rambles Around Old Bos- Il N ton" The publishers Little,
 Brown & Co
 We three-a visiting Englishmen the Artist, and Antiquary, says MT. Bacon. The Artist and Anttquary were the gossiping guides; the Engshment the guided. The Englishman would do Old Boston exclusively. He had done" the blend of the Old and New and now would hark back to the Old and review it in leisurely stros among its landmarks. He had asked the Artist and Antiquary to pilot him companionably and they would meet his wishes, and gladly for the personal conducting of stranger so saturated with Old Boston lore as he appeared to be could not be other than agreeable
 Beyond the few measured historic memorials, the landmarks he especially would seek were many of them long ago annihilated in those re peated marches of progress or of improvement common to all growing cities, or effaced in the manifold markings over of the topography of the Old Town than which none other in Christendom has undergone more. Still if not the identical
 fngs, the sites of a select number of them could
 identified for him, and their story or legend 34ehearsed while the Artists pencil would repro duee yet remaining bits of the Old jumbled with the New
 Properly initial ramble was within the mar TOW bounds of the beginnings of the Puritan cap ital, the metropolis of the wilderness hanging the harbors edge of the little "pearshaped" behiled peninsula, for which the founders those "welledueated polite persons of good estate" took Old Boston in England for it's and London for it's model. The Lincolnshire borough on the Fitham was to be it's prototype only in name. The founders would have their capital town be to New England in it's humble way what London to Old England. So Boston was builded, likeness In miniature to London.
 This London look and Old England aspect remarked remained to and through the Revolu- tion; and in a shadowy way remains today, guest would It indeed natural family likeness, for, as the record shows, Boston from the beginning the central point of the most thoroughly English community in the New World There no infusion of foreign element of consequence until the end of the colony period and the close Of the seventeenth century. Then the French Huguenots had begun to appear and mingle with the native Puritans. But while early in the province period this element became suff cient in numbers to set up church of it's own and to bring about softening of the old austerities of the Puritan town life, it did not impair the English stamp. These French Hugue- nots easily assimilated in the community, which welcomed them, and in time these competent artisans and merchants, the Bowdoins the Faneuils, Chardons, Sgourneys, Reyeres, MOli- neuxes Greenleafs, became almost English, or American English, the rest. Nor was the stamp impaired by the infusion of Scotch and Irish into the colony in increasing numbers dur ing the latter half of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries; nor by the floating population of various nationaties naturally drawn to a port of consequence, as Boston was, the chief in the colonies from the outset. These 1oaters coming and going merely lent variety and picturesqueness-or brought temporary trou- s'a-to the sober streets. Up to the Revolution the population remained homogeneous, with the dominating influences distnctively of English lineage. When with the Revolution the English yoke was thrown off and the "Bostoneers' tore down every emblem of royalty and every sign of Tory and burned them in huge bonfire in front of the old statehouse and afterward re- named King street State" and Queen street Court" they could not blot out it's English mark. And we'll into the nineteenth century, when in 1922 Boston emerged from a town to city, the population still 'singularly homogeneous; it came to cityhood slowly and somewhat re Iuctantly after repeated attempts, the first early in the colony period. Edmund Quincy in his fascinating life of his distinguished father Josiah Quincy writing of the municipality in 1925 dur ing Josiah Quincys first administration as mayor he was the ctys second mayor-observes: The great Irish and German emigration had not then set in The city eminently English in it's character and appearance and probably no town of it's size in England had population of such unmixed English descent as the Boston of that day It was Anglis ipsis Anglior-more English than the English themselves The inhabitants of New England at that time were descended with scarcely any admxture of foreign blood from the Puritan emigration of the seventeenth century.
 AS the founders and settlers brought with them all their beloved old home characteristics and would transplant them, was possible in their new home so we find their earliest crooked little streets" with old London So the earlier social life grim though it was with it's Purtanical tinge, is seen to have been old English in smaller and narrower way.