Boston illustrated; . for advanced pupils. Thenumber of regular pupils is very large. Eben Tourjee is the director. Washington Street, after winding through the busiest part of the city, be-tween Haymarket Square and Boylston Street, passes on to the southwest,along the line of the narrow isthmus which formerly united Boston with themainland. This strip of land was formerly known as the Neck, and still re-tains the name, although the water has long since been pushed back out of chief town-guard was formerly at the line of the present Dover Street,where a fortified wall was raised, de
Boston illustrated; . for advanced pupils. Thenumber of regular pupils is very large. Eben Tourjee is the director. Washington Street, after winding through the busiest part of the city, be-tween Haymarket Square and Boylston Street, passes on to the southwest,along the line of the narrow isthmus which formerly united Boston with themainland. This strip of land was formerly known as the Neck, and still re-tains the name, although the water has long since been pushed back out of chief town-guard was formerly at the line of the present Dover Street,where a fortified wall was raised, defended by artillery, and provided with aponderous fortress-gate. From these batteries and others adjacent the Britishgarrison, during the siege of 1775, cannonaded the American lines at Roxburj^,and sliattered liouses there. The front view from Dover Street now includesthe great stone Catholic Cathedral, which rises far above all the adjacenthouses. Washington Street is largely devoted, through the South End, to petty. New England Conservatory of Music. BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 113 trading, and the chief buildings visible are the large hotels and apartment-houses. Opposite the handsome marble front of the Hotel Comfort, near theformer Roxbury line, is an ancient and neglected gra\eyard which should besacred to every New-Englander, since it enshrines the remains of John Eliot,the Apostle to the Indians. The growth and change of tliis part of the cityappears when we remember that in ancient times wharves were built along theseaward side of Washington Street, from Beach Street to Dover Street, andthe bowsprits of the vessels often obstructed the highway; and that in the year1800 there were but two houses between the site of the new Cathedral andRoxbury. The Cathedral of the Holy Cross, above alluded to, is on Washington andMaiden streets, and is the largest church in New England. It begunin 1867, and completed in five years. P. C. Keeleywas the architect. The material is variegate
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