The Raymer enterprise., 1915-07-08

X w ton" The publishers are Little.
Brown Co.
We were three-a visiting Engllshmen, the
Artist. and Antiquary says Mr.. Bacon The Artist
and Antiquary were the gossiping guides; the
Engllshment the guided The Englishman would
do Old Boston exclusively. He had done" the
blend OF the Old and New. and now would bark
back to the Old and review 1t In eIsurely strolls
among its landmarks. He had asked the Artist
and Antiquary to pilot him companlonably. 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 annhated 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
oid Town, than which none other In Christendom
mas undergone more. STILL II not the Identical
.hihgs, the sites OF select number OF them could
be identified for him. and their story or legend
rehearsed while the Artists pencil would repro.
duee yet remaining bits OF the Old jumbled with
the New
Properly our initial ramble was within the mar.
row bounds of the beginnings of the Puritan can.
ital the metropolis OF the Wilderness hanging
on the harbor's edge OF the little "pearshaned
behilled peninsula, for which the founders those
weiieducated. polite persons of good estate
TOOK Old Boston in England for Its name and
London for Its model The Lincolnshire borough
on the Fltham was TO be its prototype only in
name. The founders would have their can,taI
town be to New England in its humble way what
London was to Old England So Boston was
builded. likeness in miniature to London.
This London look and Old England aspect we
remarked, remained to and through the Reyolu.
ton; and In shadowy way remains today as our
guest would see. II was indeed natural family
likeness, for. as the record shows, Boston from
the beginning was the central point OF the most
thoroughly English community In the New World
There was 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 Purtans, But while early
In the province period this element became suti
cient In numbers to set up church of its own
and to bring about some softenng of the old
austerites of the Puritan town life, il did not
impair the English stamp. These French Hugue-
nots easily assmllated in the community which
welcomed them. and in time these competent
artisans and merchants. the Bowdons. the
Faneuils, Chardons. Sgourneys, Reveres, Moli-
neuxes Greeneafs became almost as English, or
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; by the floating
population OF various natonalities naturally
drawn to port of consequence. as Boston was,
the chief In the colonies from the outset. These
foaters coming ard going merely lent variety
and picturesqucnn.a- brought temporary trou-
ble-to the sober streets Up to the Revolution
the population remained homogeneous, with the
dominating influences distinctvely of English
lineage When with the Revolution the English
yoke was thrown of and the "Bnstoneers" tore
down every emblem Of royalty and every sign of
a Tory and burned them in a huge bonfire in
front OF the old statehouse and afterward re-
named King street State" and Queen street
Court" they could not blot out its English mark.
And we'll into the nineteenth century. when In
1922 Boston emerged from town to a city. the
population was still "singularly homogeneous.
II came to cityhood slowly and somewhat re
luctantly 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 1928 dur.
ing Josiah Quncys first administration as mayor
he was the eitys second mayor-obseryes: The
great Irish and German emigration had not then
set In. The city was eminently English in Its
character and appearance and probablY 20 toWh
OF its size In England had a population OF such
unmlxed English descent as the Boston OF that
day It was Anglis psis Anglior-more English
than the English themselves. The inhabitants of
New England at that time were descended. with
scarcely any admixture 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, as was possible in their
new home. SO we find their earliest crooked
little streets" with old London names. So the
earlier social life grim though 1t was with its
puritanical tinge is seen to have been old English
l.. a ssnaiiar ard narrower way