Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . 2 o O COJ GO p: H •- t-. IN OLD BOSTON 367 a young prince, and not the crowd, which wasresponsible for this; one newspaper observesthat the excitement that agitated the mindsof the young ladies as they prepared to enterwas very great and betrayed itself in flushedfaces, bewildered looks and disarranged Samuel A. Green, mayor of Boston in 1882,and for more than fifty years a prominent mem-ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society,has said that the ball came near precipitatinga crisis
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . 2 o O COJ GO p: H •- t-. IN OLD BOSTON 367 a young prince, and not the crowd, which wasresponsible for this; one newspaper observesthat the excitement that agitated the mindsof the young ladies as they prepared to enterwas very great and betrayed itself in flushedfaces, bewildered looks and disarranged Samuel A. Green, mayor of Boston in 1882,and for more than fifty years a prominent mem-ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society,has said that the ball came near precipitatinga crisis in governmental affairs, which, in itsseriousness, was not unlike the etiquette differ-ences between President Washington and Gov-ernor Hancock, in 1789. The question of thehour as regards the ball, was, Who shoulddance in the first set with the prince. Thisstrictly social discussion centered around thewife of the governor of the State and theequallyworthy helpmeet of the mayor of the lady should have the honor of being theprinces first partner.^ Finally, it was amicably decided that to thewife of the mayor
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