Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . the scat-tered groups of open-mouthed listeners offermany a study in interest-ing human nature. TheCommon contains theGardner Brewer Foun-tain and several otherdrinking fountains, someof which are suppliedwith ice during the sum-mer. Of the monuments,the more noteworthy arethe Soldiers and SailorsMonument, erected 1871-1877 from Alartin j\iil-mores design. It is onthe summit of FlagstaffHill. The inscription,written by PresidentEliot, of Harvard, reads: To the Men of Boston WhoDied for Their Country onLand and Sea in the WarWhich Kept the Unio
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around . the scat-tered groups of open-mouthed listeners offermany a study in interest-ing human nature. TheCommon contains theGardner Brewer Foun-tain and several otherdrinking fountains, someof which are suppliedwith ice during the sum-mer. Of the monuments,the more noteworthy arethe Soldiers and SailorsMonument, erected 1871-1877 from Alartin j\iil-mores design. It is onthe summit of FlagstaffHill. The inscription,written by PresidentEliot, of Harvard, reads: To the Men of Boston WhoDied for Their Country onLand and Sea in the WarWhich Kept the UnionWhole, Destroyed Slavery,and Maintained the Consti-tution, the Grateful City HasBuilt This Monument thatTheir Example May Speakto Coming monument by Robert Kraus, which commemorates theBoston Massacre of 1770, stands near the Tremont Streetj\Iall, between the West Street gate and Boylston Street. On thefront of the granite shaft is a figure typifying Revolution Break-ing the Chains, The bas-relief on the base represents the scene. EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, IN PUBLIC GARDEN. By Thomas Ball. PARKS AND PLEASURE (.ROUNDS FOR THE PEOrLE. 51 of the massacre as it was presented in an old plate published inLondon, with a Short Narrative. On one corner of the relief are these words: ,. ? , t- • -From that Moment We May Date the Severance of the Lntish Empire. - Daniel Webster. On the ^haft are the names of the victims of the massacre. The Shaw Memorial, facing the State House at the Beacon and Park streets corner of the Common, is the work of ^Ir. Augustus St Gaudens, of New York. It is a monument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the first Massachusetts regmient of colored men serving in the Civil War, and his regiment, the Fitty-fnurth Regiment of Infantry of Massachusetts. The bronze enclosed by the stone canopy is a life-size representation of Shaw mounted and riding into action with a column of his colored troops. Cdonel
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