Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . to give it to tlie town on condition that the peopleshould legally authorize it and maintain it underproper regulations, the Dock-square Market-housewhich had stood on its site had been demolishedby a mob disguised as clergymen. Thequestion over which the people quarrelled waswhether they should be ser\ed at fixed localities or at their homes, as before the establishment of thetown markets ; and such was the divisions of publicopinion that Faneuil
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . to give it to tlie town on condition that the peopleshould legally authorize it and maintain it underproper regulations, the Dock-square Market-housewhich had stood on its site had been demolishedby a mob disguised as clergymen. Thequestion over which the people quarrelled waswhether they should be ser\ed at fixed localities or at their homes, as before the establishment of thetown markets ; and such was the divisions of publicopinion that Faneuils offer was accepted by amajority of only seven out of the whole numbervotmg. The first house was a small affair, twostories high, the hall in the second story, lOO feetby 40; and it was designed by John Simibert, the BOSTON OF TO-DAY. 31 painter. Faneuil died on the jd of March, ,and it so happened that the first pubHc gatheringin the new hall was on the occasion of the deliveryof a eulogy of him, pronounced by Master Lovell,of the Latin School. On the 13th of January,I 761, this first building was burned, the walls onlyremaining, and t
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