Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . ing look, stands the Old State House,at the head of State Street, having one front on Washing-ton Street. It retains to the present day many of thearchitectural peculiarities of the period when it was built,especially that part looking towards the harbor. On itssummit are signal staffs, where are displayed the flags ofdifferent merchants when their ships are approaching thecity, and a modern clock decorates State Street lower story is now converted into stores and lawyersand editors offices; and where the General Court of thePr
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . ing look, stands the Old State House,at the head of State Street, having one front on Washing-ton Street. It retains to the present day many of thearchitectural peculiarities of the period when it was built,especially that part looking towards the harbor. On itssummit are signal staffs, where are displayed the flags ofdifferent merchants when their ships are approaching thecity, and a modern clock decorates State Street lower story is now converted into stores and lawyersand editors offices; and where the General Court of theProvince of Massachusetts used to be holden, gentlemenare suited with legal measures, or are measured for panta- 20 BOSTON SIGHTS. loons — lawyers and tailors pursuing their several voca-tions beneath the Old State House roof. Fanning the old house with their continuous fluttering,(but still depending on it for support,) float the beauteousflags of different daily papers ; and as they curl lazily up,seem plainly to say, We show the condition of the world. abroad and at home. Not a steamer arrives but we heraldthe news. And then, as the folds roll out with an indig-nant flap, they seem to flirt out that the last news fromKansas or Washington was not to their liking; then theystop, and leave us to search in the papers they severally THE OLD STATE HOUSE. 21 represent for particulars ; and it is no easy job to make aselection, for there is the Journal, Atlas, Bee, Ledger, andChronicle close at hand, and the Traveller, Transcript,Advertiser, Post, Herald, and I know not how manyothers, whose shadows do not fall on the hundred-year-oldwindows of the Old State House.
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