The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . hundredth anniversary of the battles ofLexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. The enthusiasm ofthe people had for weeks previous grown to a state of expec-tation that is difficult to describe. All the patriotism that hadbeen inherited from the heroic fathers of those battles waspoured out into the greatest demonstration that was everwitnessed in this country. All the resources of state and city,reinforced by public citizens, w
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . hundredth anniversary of the battles ofLexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. The enthusiasm ofthe people had for weeks previous grown to a state of expec-tation that is difficult to describe. All the patriotism that hadbeen inherited from the heroic fathers of those battles waspoured out into the greatest demonstration that was everwitnessed in this country. All the resources of state and city,reinforced by public citizens, was utilized to make these eventsa grand success. Vast crowds of visitors from all over thenation poured in on every train, filling the streets with patrioticthrongs, every building displaying the flag, and when theprocession of the day started there were in line the entiremilitia force of the state, regiments from New York, Baltimore,Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Providence, and companies fromRhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine,and South Carolina; hundreds of governors, generals, anddistinguished men from all sections of the country, civic, trade 9. and other associations, nearly five hundred vehicles and fifteenhundreds horses. The procession was four hours in passingthe reviewing stand. The year 1878 is memorable as the date of the introduc-tion of the electric light into the city; it was not at firstreceived with much favor, but in 1881 it began to be morecommonly used. On September 17th, 1880, the citizens of Boston enthusi-astically celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversaryof the settlement of Boston. Great preparations for this occa-sion had been making for many months. A statue ofGovernor John Winthrop, the founder, was unveiled. Therewere exercises and orations in various parts of the city, and animposing procession, civic, military, and trades, with an illum-inated procession consisting of tableaux in the evening. Thesucceeding quarter of a c
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