Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29

PooC AV,OOO years.
We keep going, not so much
for money or fame, but in the
hope that our kids can say
with pride, That's my father"
bridge-one of the ugliest buildings In
the world!-James Russell Lowell de-
clared that the Old South had no ar
tistic or esthetic interest in any way
comparable to the beautiful structure
they were now meeting in but should
be saved for its connection with
Massachusetts, history!
Structure Kept Intact.
And saved 1T was. In spite of the
terrible architectural taste OF the '70s
and '80s, not brick was removed from
the fine old Colonial structure, and
now there is secondhand book store
in the basement and a public forum
in the auditorium, and the Meeting
House OF 1929 stands just as it has
stood for 200 years, with The steel
framed city piled up beside and behind
it. That's Boston.
An even more interesting relic is the
old State House, which stands at the
head Of State street, with it's second
story east-end balcony still looking down
on the scene of the Boston massacre,
and beyond, to the Stock Exchange. It
is terribly in the way. Part OF the
basement has been made subway en-
trance, and sidewalk has been cut
through under one end. Trafic would
be greatly facilitated in movement if it
were remoI | entirely. But there she
stands! 1t was built in 1748 and re-
constructed carefully In 1902. From its
balcony the royal proclamations used
to be read, and from it was read the
Declaration of Independence. After that
ceremony on July 10, IT'S, the excited
populace ripped down the lion and uni
corn which adorned the top of the east
facade and burned them up. But in
1882 they were recarved in wood,
painted and gilded and set in their
original places. But by 1882 a consid-
cradle part Of the population of Boston
was not Anglo-SaXon. 1t hailed from
an emerald isle never noted for its
Anglomania-and there was a rumrNs.
Indeed, dire vengeance was threatened
both on the sculptor and the lion and
unicorn. But there they stand! A
compromise, however, was effected by
installing gilt eagle on top OF the
west facade.
What would happen in New York If
1t were proposed to restore the lead
statue Of George III in Bowling Green
Probably nothing. Nobody would know
the proposition had been made
The interior Of the old State House,
with its heavy early Georgian trim, is
another one Of those museums of New
England antiquities you are always COM
Ing upon in the Bay Colony. 1t is many
years since the writer has been inside
but he has recollection of toby Jugs
which in his boyhood used to fill him
with delight.
1t is only a step from the old State
House to Faneuil Hall, which visitors
pronounce Fan-u-el and Bostonians pro-
nounce any way from Fan-u-il to Fun
mel. This famous cradle of liberty
was originally designed by an English
portrait painter. Smibert, who came to
America with Dean Berkeley, and, OF
course, 1t was the scene of all the early
Boston town meetings" those charac-
teristic manifestations of Puritan de-
mocracy. After the Revolution it was
enlarged and remodeled by Charles Bull
finch. who had the tact to preserve
however, the essential design.
In Delightful Setting.
Quite apart from its sentimental in
tereSt, Faneuil Hall is an interesting
structure, and its setting is delightful
The streets of this ancient portion of
the town radiate from 1t like the spokes
OF a drunken wheel, lined with markets
and seed houses. These streets are full
OF trucks unloading produce. The side
walks are blocked with wheel hoes. Gull
tlVators, boxes Of pansies and celery
nlQnfg Qnd rQQphnrrioc aiy 4,
pungent with a thousand pleasant
smells.
Just east Of Faneuil Hall is a Doric
temple devoted to meat-the Quincy
Market, built by Josiah Quincy of
Quincy granite naturally, and In Gil
bert Stuart's portrait of Josiah, in the
Art Museum. you see the old aistocrrat
sitting with his market in the back
ground. Over both buildings looms the
tan tower OF the customs house, and up
from the nearby water front. when the
wind Is east, come sea fog and the smell
OF brine. When the Quincy Market was
built, however, in the 1S20'S, the docks
were Immediately at its east end
The top floor of Faneuil Hall has
long been the 'armory' of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company,
which used to entertain and be enter
tanned on alternate years by the Old
OudTO OF new YORK, to their mutual
enjoyment and the enjoyment of all
readers of the New York Sun. The
Sun put its best reporter q. e., its most
humorous) on the job for these occa-
slons and Frank O'Malley's story of
the trip of the Ancient and Honorables
down the Hudson in the battleship
was a classic of the ,past generation
Alas! Those happy days are no more
Inc lord-brethren of America have rob-
bed both the Ancient and Honorables
and the Old Guard of their ammuni-
ton.
Suppose now you set out from F&neuil
Hall to find the Old North Church and
the House of Paul Revere and the Lord
help you. Nobody else can--least of all
Bostonian, except the little rag
muf1ns who throng the streets of the
North End (Boston'S East Side), can
spot SightSeer a mile away and cling
around you offering to guide you for q
dime, or to recite Paul Revere's Ride"
for nickel To give you a TASTE of
their ability. they begin in high gear
undrednseventy- fivehard-
lyamanisnowalive" If you ever
expect to find Revere's house, a real
seventeenth century building, you'd bet
ter cling to one of these urchins like q
brother. Otherwise your friends will
have to send out a searching party for
you. While In the North End, 20 to
the old Cops Hill Burying Ground. It
crowns what was once one Of the tri-
mounts Of Boston and over its ancient
tomhs you look to the harbor and across