Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . -five feet high, formed of seven blocks of Quincygranite, each weighing about six tons; and the name of Frankhn can be easily read from the street. Thestranger often stops to gaze at the flowers blooming among. tiiose gra} old tombstones, or to i-ead the time-worn inscrip-tions of the mourned ones virtues — virtues perhaps notvisible during life, but known and read of all men whenthey have passed away. Nearly across the street from here is The Nkav Music Hall. — Until within the last fewyears, although a musical peojde, the city Avas sad
Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . -five feet high, formed of seven blocks of Quincygranite, each weighing about six tons; and the name of Frankhn can be easily read from the street. Thestranger often stops to gaze at the flowers blooming among. tiiose gra} old tombstones, or to i-ead the time-worn inscrip-tions of the mourned ones virtues — virtues perhaps notvisible during life, but known and read of all men whenthey have passed away. Nearly across the street from here is The Nkav Music Hall. — Until within the last fewyears, although a musical peojde, the city Avas sadly in 56 ;*TON ANU VKJINITY. want of a littinpj place tor concerts, &e. ^o\v, howevei,we have a ]Music Hall of the first class, which we canrefer to Avith a.^ an ornament to oni metropolis, andan index of the laste and liberality of Boston. There has been no atteni])t at display on the exteriorof the building, it being deemeil important to reserve, asiar as practicable, for the interior ihe means contributediur the enterprise. The hall is one hundred and thirty feet long, seventy-eight feet wide, and sixty-five feet high, the proportion oflength to width being ; five to three, and of length toheight as two to one. Two balconies extend
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