Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . eCommon, is the least interesting of the ancient cemeteries of thetown. It was laid out in 1756, but the oldest stone, with the excep-tion of one which was removed from some other ground, is dated1761. Stuart, the portrait-painter, was buried here, and MonsieurJulien, the inventor of the famous soup that bears his name. Julienspublic house was for some years on the corner of Milk and Congressstreets. He died in 1805, but his soup is still flourishing. It is supposed that several of the British soldiers who died from woundsreceived a
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . eCommon, is the least interesting of the ancient cemeteries of thetown. It was laid out in 1756, but the oldest stone, with the excep-tion of one which was removed from some other ground, is dated1761. Stuart, the portrait-painter, was buried here, and MonsieurJulien, the inventor of the famous soup that bears his name. Julienspublic house was for some years on the corner of Milk and Congressstreets. He died in 1805, but his soup is still flourishing. It is supposed that several of the British soldiers who died from woundsreceived at Bunker Hill, or from disease in the barracks during theSiege, were buried here; but there is nothing to prove this, and thestatement is questioned. Drake says that they were buried in acommon trench, and that many of the remains were exhumed whenchanges in the northwest corner of the yard were made. This bury-ing ground formerly extended to Boylston Street, and it was con-tracted to its present dimensions when the Boylston Street mall waslaid out in HORTICULTURAL HALL— Corner Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues. V. THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSE-MENTS. Boston is known to the theatrical world as one of the best showtowns in the country. This is the more remarkable, as it was manyyears after the play-house was flourishing in other cities before thePuritan City consented to its establishment in her midst. In 1750an act was passed to prevent stage plays and other theatrical enter-tainments, imposing heavy fines on the owner of the premises inwhich such entertainments should be given in defiance of the law,and upon the spectators and actors as well. Several unsuccessfulattempts were made to secure the repeal of this act, during the yearssucceeding, before it finally disappeared from the statute books. During the past few years, theaters have multiplied with marvel-ous rapidity. Twenty years ago, the Boston, the Globe, the Museum,the Howard, and a few cheap variety houses, were
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