The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-09-12
Highlights of An Auto Tour
Continued from page u
A Wonderful Collection.

A Wonderful Collection.
First we visited Harvard university
at Cambridge, across the Charles river
from Boston although really an integral
part of the city. We found Harvard to
be much as one would suppose, 2
mammoth institution of numerous
large and beautiful buildings set on 9
campus of green lawn and amid beau
tiful and shady trees. We entered
some of the buildings and in one found
a marvellous exhibit of glass flowers
said to be the finest and largest collec-
ton of its kind in the world We were
told the man who had made the flowers
! died with the secret undisclosed and
hence there will never be another col
lection similar to this one.
The glass flowers are exact repro
auctions of vast number of flowers
and plants, many of them cross sections
Of flowers and fruit 1t is such col
lection as botanist would gather but
these are in glass, exact reproductions
of originals ihcolor and formation. We
spent a most interesting half hour
there
Our next stop was at an interesting
little park, Here we were told that
Colonel Prescott gathered his brave
colonial soldiers one night and marched
from that spot to the battle of Bunker
hill and to undying fame. Here also in
this little park General George Wash
ington took command Of the colonial
army that was to wage such long and
bitter struggle that America might be
free from old-country domination An
oak used to mark the spot where h
took command but it died from age
and tablet now tells the story to in
terested patriots.
Our travels that morning soon took
US into the old section Of the city, for
there is where much of the early and
stirring history took place. There we
ran into maze of crooked streets
running hither and yon without any
apparent plan or purpose. An old story
says that these streets followed COW
paths that meandered through what
was in those days mere village in
new land. One can easily believe The
story after attempting TO find ones way
through that section of this now great
city.
But to that section we were deter
mined to go for there we could lind
old Faneuil Hall. the CRADLE Of
American Liberty Through narrow
and crowded streets we picked our
way, through streets we picked our
public market and smelly with The
stencil of fish, vegetables, onions, gar
lie, meat, mixed with the rich aroma
of horseflesh and what have you I
Gingerly stepping along in this city Of /
culture, we finally reached the famous
old hall It's first floor, as in the days
when 1t was built, is given over To a
public market and on the walks around
it are crates Of this and that, typical
market Entering through diney
doorway, one mounts clean and at
tractive stairway to the hall proper on
the second floor. This is as one would
expect such a shrine to be- 1t is i
rather large hall, with spotless white
paint There is fine interior gallery
resting on Doric column. Hanging on
the walls are numerous fine portraits
in oil of famous historical characters.
1t was here that Otis, Sam Edwards
and other fiery Revolutionary leaders
addressed the citizens of Boston in the
days of the Boston Tea Party and
hose that followed and that ended in
war 1t was because Of those stirring
that the hall gained the name
IF the Cradle of American Liberty
Later such orators as Webster. Sumner.
Wendell Phillips, Choate and Everett
spoke from its old-fashioned rostrum.
t is of interest to know that the orig
nal hall was given to the city by
Peter Faneuil, merchant who made
! fortune smuggling Jamaica rum. This
1all was burned and new one erected
~ the city in 1928.
The Shame of Boston.
And here we wish to pause long
enough to refer to the shame Of Bos- ,
on, that city that has prided itself ,
n the past on its blue blooded culture. j.
The present setting Of this Cradle Of
American Liberty is disgrace to any ,
,lty. Here is building in which !
history Of the greatest Importance and !
interest was made Here patriots dared
q stand against wrong and oppression (
md were ready to die for their rights !
md their convictions. Here is build
ne that Americans have been taught !,
o hold in reverent thought Around ,
t their heartfelt interest has chung ,
'ince childhood. To them it is shrine /,
And where does such true son or
laughter Of this glorious land find this ,
acred shrine? In the midst of dirt ;
md squalor, in the midst Of the smells ,
md stencil of not too clean or sani-
airy public market. To reach it one
fas to pick ones way through crowded ,
itreets, around trucks and horses. !.
through crates of rsh and vegetables. ,
What setting for great shrine! The
east that could be expected would be
or the. city to clean out the streets
the building, get rid Of the
public market there, and make the APP