Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs . e of business blocks than those to be scon here. Dock Square, on thesite of the old Town Dook, which was spanned by a swing bridge at the foot of Merchants Row, is now abusy centre, and standing in the middle of it is a statue of Samuel Adams erected in 1880. From here isseen the front of Faneuil Hall, and off Washington Street, at this point, Cornhill and Brattle Street swing roundto 8collay Square. The famous hostelry, Quincy House, stands on the corner of Brattle Street and BrattleSquare;
Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs . e of business blocks than those to be scon here. Dock Square, on thesite of the old Town Dook, which was spanned by a swing bridge at the foot of Merchants Row, is now abusy centre, and standing in the middle of it is a statue of Samuel Adams erected in 1880. From here isseen the front of Faneuil Hall, and off Washington Street, at this point, Cornhill and Brattle Street swing roundto 8collay Square. The famous hostelry, Quincy House, stands on the corner of Brattle Street and BrattleSquare; and in this square stood formerly a church which the British turned into a barrack during tbe siegeof Boston. Cornhill, renowned for its old bookstores and up which we must now pass once more to ScollaySquare, was so named in 1828. having previously been called Market Street, because it lead to tbe market, theoriginal Cornhill being at the foot of Washington Street before its extension. Having returned to ScollaySquare, we must now prepare for a journey, through the principal sections of the great. FINANCIAL AND WHOLESALE BUSINESS CENTRES THE METROPOLIS OF NEW ENGLAND. C9 of the city. These centres are confined between tho harbor on the one hand, and the streets of Essex, Wash-ington, nnd Hanover on the other, and lie chiefly south of Blackstone Street. A large portion of this area isfrequently spoken of as the Burnt District, laid waste by the Great Fire in 1872. At onNovember 9th in that year a fire broke out in a building on the corner of Summer and Kingston Streets, andspread with terrible speed, in spite of all the efforts that could be brought from far and near to suppress it,and, before the conflagration was quenched, it had spread over sixty-five acres, and destroyed about eightymillion dollars Worth of property and many lives, leaving the entire district bounded by Summer, Washington,Milk, and Broad Streets a smoking chaos of ruins. This was a terrible blow t
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