Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . O Ph OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 389 that tliere are very real possibilities of romancein business. The book is a small leather covered volumefilled with lined paper upon wJiicli, in a closethough fairly plain hand, one may follow allthe ups and downs of what then appeared to bea Quixotic enterprise. For it should be borne inmind that it was belief in the good which thecommon use of ice would do those who live inwarm countries quite as much as the hope oflarge gains which nerved Frederic Tudor forhis great fight
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . O Ph OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 389 that tliere are very real possibilities of romancein business. The book is a small leather covered volumefilled with lined paper upon wJiicli, in a closethough fairly plain hand, one may follow allthe ups and downs of what then appeared to bea Quixotic enterprise. For it should be borne inmind that it was belief in the good which thecommon use of ice would do those who live inwarm countries quite as much as the hope oflarge gains which nerved Frederic Tudor forhis great fight against weather conditions andthe corroding scorn of sceptics. The Tudor family is one of the first in NewEngland, and it was scarcely less distinguishedone hundred years ago than it is to-day. Theice-pioneers father was Colonel William , who served on Washingtons staff, andhis mother was the lady constantly referred toas Mrs. Tudor in the writings of the Marquisde Chastellux, — a woman of such intelligenceand literary gifts that she was once personallycomplimented by
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