Marble Hill press., 1921-10-20

sketches rather than beautiful "a
! the actual view. AZ low tide lofty mud banks
are disclosed Along either side % these are
tail timber piles aud staginEs In every elrcum'
stance ~ age ot newDess With lofty wharves aud
warehouses OF antique - modern appearance.
The best residential suburb 10 B"siun l. shir'
beck which indeed claims to be older than Boston
Itself for Will. "a. town II not mentioned In
nomesday Book. Shlrbeck nnds q place In ii'
pages
Always a seaport and thriving trade with
Russia. with sweden and Norway aud the baltic.
as well as on its fisheries. Iostoa has Ia most of
it, streets and queer oidWorid lanes n tang of
the ga Yet the Visitor will nothing Of the
ocran In Bo~ton town unless he cares 20 asccnd
the lofty tower % the parish church whose ian.
tern stage was built foe the purpus~ not only %
q landmark when fuads scarce existed aud when
the fens largely ovsrsprend the land. but also
as bacon for mariners out AZ ssa md ascending
the winding river channel. II has hesn stated
that Bosion steeple cau he seen ~ miles out NJ
40 and cvr'alnly u Is easily visible ~ miles
away on the land. Roads leading frcn the town
60 s.ashorr are few. and the shore Itself when
rvsehsd u not attractive
WY u IA, Foreign Air.
Tie eurously tOr,gn air % Boston. Ike that
~ kng's Lynn l. derived FROM IT, trade with
fos,ign parts and frum ~. merchants u other
% IT, great cinmsreial prosperity for h'~ton
was AZ time s-vuud only 20 Lnaiou ~ port
That vas In the oi~uing yvars q the ThlF'"cnih
century. white ioud"u and other ports have de-
yclnpe,i. nstoa has simply s,o,i siu
Thsrs was however. a p-riod vh"n -drrayrd-
might we'll have h.sn applied here. Il vas curl.
ously enough exactly AZ the time vhrn the III
grim Fath~rs .oush, 90 leave these shores for In
lar the corporation tetitianed that their borough
fnf- -. ssFs hT Hgs-uNrH Ihe
obic,t Was 10 cscap- paying subsidies hut the
decay Sas there. The cause ~ decline VAS the
gradual choking up By mud Of the winding river
ehAhasi Modern docks, cut about lss2 below
ShIrhe-k have together with railways brought
hurk prosperity and there s~rms no reason 10
doubt but that In the futurv there will he eon'
siderable eNpansiuo
Sea borne trade has heen shifted below the town
sNcvpt for quite small vessels IL Is a pity 10
observe many os ,hos. old warehouses empty.
and sooa no doubt &C. b- disnantlrd. for they
have an architectural distlnc'ioa which the mod
ern ones wholly lack. Locking at them. We sce
another rcason apart frum their situation. why
they are no logger desirable. They arr buildings
Nth the small windows that make dArk ipteriors
The nc6e<n ws-~hoas~s have little wall space
ana much window Secular architecture has, In
fact follow r,i on exactly the same lines as eccle
.ia.ticaI Tor Ronsucsque developed into Gothic
rrua few and tiny Norman windows into the vas,
aud ushtsnme trns,iration % the sixteenth cvn
trry
We and this ~eII exetupllnrd In the case of the
great church of Bo>toh. that of 81 RotolphS
who's. 'ie,lcaiion gave the town its name The
existing church is largely % the decorated and
perpendicular periods of the Fourteenth and M
te~nth CENTURIES, when windows had alrraiy at
,alned a great sirs.
Bester Church ard the Stump
the lofty stcrple d"cs the surrounding country
I, is ,a,d 10 I've the "larges, parish church In Eng
land There several claimants 70 this dtg.
nifty So Mchael'S Coventry. Is however, the
lArTes; but &C. Botnph's Interior certainly con.
vryx the impression ot greRtcr sisc. IL is an
amazingly ample and diEnia"d Interior There
ar. sarient memorial brasses. wonderful series
OF scuipturrd ~mserere" seats a beautiful ia.
eob-en pulpit Of i6.0 far more restrained In style
than c,.Isnouly To- be met with OF that period.
ard On en,gy Of the lady Dame Margaret Tilney,
tower. sxraVRtsd In lSa,
THIS tower II Boston church. So noble so re
markable. known In endsaring fashion to all LIN
cauShlrr fo,k as "RcNion stump" from It's sngu-
larry bunca outline rises 90 n height cf 2sS feet.
II seeinx astounding that the builder should have
had the conhGence 10 raise so lofty and heavy q
building upon the banks Of muddy river chan
net cHly ~ feet from It's shorr; but the
foundations were carried down S0 feet, 10 u stone
hca five test below the level Of the river bottom.
For IN years the work of building the tower was
STAYED, and then recommended, being huIShed
without the tormost octmgonal stage. which was
added nj a later period especially TO exhibit
light for sailors making the haven.
THE south chapel used In the Eighteenth cen
,ury and untu comparatively recent years as
Hrr engine house was restored by citizens of Ros
ton in America IN honor ot Rev. John Cotton
who resigned his post as vicar In i6S3 and, accom-
rnpIed nv many Of noston's most prominent men,
sailed in the Griffin for the newer Boston 1t Is
pow known as Cotton chapel
Selling Their Antaultiea
Boston has never been a good warden OF her
historic buildings and picturesque corners, and
very much has been destroyed. The Guildhall Is
n long. low building of two floors Built In red
brick IN the Fifteenth century, It was evidently
originally " religious character, from the great
church Ike window stu containing some stained
glass oucc representing the twelve apostles. The
two narrow cells arr surNiyals ot several made
IN Is52 hy order Of the town council They are
but seven feet long and high and about i've feet
arrnss A staircase onCe led TO the courtroom,
bu, when the new sesSionshouse was built. In
,Saa ,hasa calls wero disusei aud the staircase