. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ry early inthe afternoon of June 25, 1914, after a long dry rapidly did the flames spread through the buildingthat the men and women employed there barely escapedwith their fives. Other buildings caught on fire, and help was summonedfrom a score of neigh-boring places. Buildingswere dynamited to stopthe flames, but the windspread the embers, andwhen the fire was gottenunder control late in theday, it had swept over twohundred and fifty-threeacres, destroyed nearlyfourteen hundred build-ings, and left twentythousand people home-less.
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ry early inthe afternoon of June 25, 1914, after a long dry rapidly did the flames spread through the buildingthat the men and women employed there barely escapedwith their fives. Other buildings caught on fire, and help was summonedfrom a score of neigh-boring places. Buildingswere dynamited to stopthe flames, but the windspread the embers, andwhen the fire was gottenunder control late in theday, it had swept over twohundred and fifty-threeacres, destroyed nearlyfourteen hundred build-ings, and left twentythousand people home-less. Sixty persons wereinjured, several were burned to death, and others diedfrom excitement. Only a few miles from Salem is Marblehead, on abold headland that reaches out into the sea. It hasan excellent harbor, and its inhabitants were fishermenfor many generations. Life on the sea produces ahardy race and a peculiar one, and the old-time Marble-header was recognized by his manner, gait, and speech,far beyond his home neighborhood. The houses closest. Nathaniel Hawthorne On the Massachusetts Coast 97 to the sea were severely plain and weather-beaten,and were jumbled together along lane-like houses were built on or against the rocky ridgeswhich extend through the thickly settled parts of thetown. Some of these would run up the face of a rocktwo or three stories and have an extra story on top ofthe ledge, or would start with the front at a ledge-topand descend several stories down at the back. Oftenlong flights of steps up a succession of terraces led to the
Size: 1361px × 1835px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorjohnsonclifton1865194, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
