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How to see Boston : a trustworthy guidebook...

Macullar, Parker Company, 1895. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

Author

Macullar, Parker Company

Publisher

Boston : Moses King

Published, as stated

1895

Language

en

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A- TRUSTWORTHY- GUIDE BOOfc 250-IbliUSTRATiONS-MAPS-AND-PliANS EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY mtimm 'jffiftftHS&sfi Drvitf^ COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY MOSES KING. KZ> BOSTON — THE MAIN PORTION, OR BOSTON PROPER. KING'S "HOW TO SEE BOSTON. A Practical Guide and an Artistic Souvenir. >» Copyright, 1883, 1888, 1890 and 1895, by Moses King. There are Boston and Concord and Lexington and "" Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever ." ^>OC JL l —Daniel Webster. THIS LITTLE BOOK presents a miniature vignette of the Puritan City, at once handy, trusty, compact, practical, and picturesque. There are more learned and compendious books about this interesting metropolis, but there is none so recent, none so useful, and none so popular in price. This edition is entirely a new book, with every line re-written, and a very extensive enlargement all around. The street maps and plans are also all new, and record the latest changes. The 250 illustrations are from original photographs, every illustration used in this book having been made especially for it in the most artistic manner ; and will form an admirable memento. The plan contemplates a dozen or more easy half-day routes, usually on foot or by street-cars, because the book is prepared for the masses of the people. However, persons of wealth who roll along in carriages will find it not less useful. By the help of this itinerary, visitors may gain a good idea of the Massachusetts metropolis, and there are myriads of Bostonians who could greatly enlarge their love of and interest in their dear home-city by taking this little companion along on their rambles. The text was written chiefly by M. F. Sweetser, a lover of Boston, and a guide-writer of twenty-five years' experience. The Index at the back of the book points out frequent double references to objects or places, when they are repeated on different routes. SUGGESTIONS TO VISITORS. T HE VISITOR who neglects the great retail and wholesale establishments, the extensive industries, the financial and other institutions, because they are places of business, misses the most edifying and interesting sights of a metropolis. In these may be seen so much of what makes up the world of to-day that they present an equal claim for observation with public institutions, parks, statues, landmarks, and other histor- ical and descriptive matters. To make clear this point, no visitor should fail to see Macullar, Parker & Company's establishment, where more than six hundred people are employed in workshops which are models for all the world ; the enormous plant of the Waltham Watch Company, which contains an infinite variety of the most ingenious machinery, producing the most infinitesimally per- fect particles of mechanism ; the great storehouse of Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, which is a veritable museum of the fine arts of many countries ; the huge manufactory of Chickering & Sons, the oldest and most famous of American piano-makers, whose instruments are found in palaces and homes through- out the wide world ; the immense slaughtering and packing- houses of John P. Squire & Company, where in a single day six thousand hogs, cattle, and other animals can be humanely purified, divided, and put forth in many appetizing forms for human sustenance ; and other noteworthy concerns. With this in mind, many establishments have been men- tioned and illustrated, but care has been taken to

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