Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . hites of their eyes/ The SoldiersandSailors Monument, in Winthrop Square, a shortwalk from Breeds Hill, was placed on June 17, 1 Winthrops oration. BOSTON OF TO-DAY. 117 1872, the oration on that occasion delivered byRichard Frothingham, the historian of stands on the old training-ground of colonialdays. This is another of Martin Milmores works,and presents a group of three figures on a highpedestal — the tlenius of America holding
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . hites of their eyes/ The SoldiersandSailors Monument, in Winthrop Square, a shortwalk from Breeds Hill, was placed on June 17, 1 Winthrops oration. BOSTON OF TO-DAY. 117 1872, the oration on that occasion delivered byRichard Frothingham, the historian of stands on the old training-ground of colonialdays. This is another of Martin Milmores works,and presents a group of three figures on a highpedestal — the tlenius of America holdinglaurel wreaths above the soldier and sailcjr stand-ing on each side. The part of Charlestown occupied by the first house erected after the burning of 1775, anda remnant of it still stands on Main street. BunkerHill is now crowned by a Catholic church, and atthe Neck beyond, which was raked by the hot fireof the British vessels in the river during the battleon Breeds Hill and the American retreat, is now apleasant park. Charlestovvn added to Boston whenannexed only 586 acres of territory, but it broughttaxable property valued at $35,289, WORKS OF THE LOW ART TILE COMPANY. settlers is the sijuare and Town Hill, which risesbehind the old City Hall, which itself stands on thesite of the Great House of the governor, inwhich the Court of Assistants named Boston. Onthe slope of the hill behind it was the First is distinguished as having been thebirthplace of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor ofthe electric telegraph, whose father, Rev. JedediahMorse, was minister of the First Church in thetown, from 1789 to 1820. The son was bornApril 27, 1791, in the mansion-house of ThomasEdes, whose hospitality Parson Morses family hadaccepted while the new parsonage on Town Hillwas building. The Edes mansion was the first The Brighton district, until 1805, was a part ofCambridge. Then it was a place of farms, with amodest cattle-trade. Subsequently it developed intothe gre
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