The Pine-tree coast . fortunes were made fromships that ploughed the main, instead of from the smoky manufactories orrailways in which Portlands money is so largely invested to-day. John Neallived here in this street, and so did Senator Fessenden, — Than whom a better senator neer heldThe helm. . .Whether to settle peace or to unfoldThe drift of hollow states, hard to be spelled. In the short intervals of respite from political or professional activity, favorite amusement was gardening, which Lord Bacon, in one ofhis Essays, calls the purest of human pleasures. Eessendens garden
The Pine-tree coast . fortunes were made fromships that ploughed the main, instead of from the smoky manufactories orrailways in which Portlands money is so largely invested to-day. John Neallived here in this street, and so did Senator Fessenden, — Than whom a better senator neer heldThe helm. . .Whether to settle peace or to unfoldThe drift of hollow states, hard to be spelled. In the short intervals of respite from political or professional activity, favorite amusement was gardening, which Lord Bacon, in one ofhis Essays, calls the purest of human pleasures. Eessendens garden forms thetheme for some verses from the pen of Elizabeth Akers Allen. Congress Street is, however, Portlands principal It is laidout along the crest of the ridge throughout its whole length. At either end aretin homes of the citizens, while the central portion is devoted to businessexclusively. As a large part of what belongs to the daily life of Portland ??•- I ? J>J ? vol! V J ? Pi. A DAY IN PORTLAND. L61 is transacted mi tins Btreet, a walk through it Is no bad epitome of that life,? a if we can only give a passing glance at what wr may buildings constantly attract our attention od one or the other nothing so nmeli as those occasional glimpses of the beautiful blue framed in between the diminishing walls of brick or stone that pen to theright or left as we pass by. Among the more recent structures is that littlearchitectural gem, the new public library,* the gift of .Mr. .1. I*. Baxter to the city. On arriving near the depression which we have called the saddle, Congistreet throws off three branches, which now penetrate the oldest portion <d thecity, as the Mississippi dues its delta. The point of junction, or divergence,is called Market Square,8 notwithstanding its triangular shape, and is perhapsthe busiest single spot of ground the city can show, surrounded as it is byshops and hotels, gathering in as it does all the travel flowi
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