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Title: King’s handbook of Boston harbor
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897 King, Moses, 1853-1909 Copeland, Charles, 1858-1929, ill
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, publisher
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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hropic society in Boston, demonstrating that ten thousand poorchildren could be transported to Nantasket Beach, and bathed, clam-baked,and lemonaded three times during the summer, at a cost so small that itwas a saving to spend the money. KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 6/ At the arrival of the late afternoon boats the long pier is covered with allmanner of barges, wagons, and carriages, which presently dash away overthe adjacent roads, bearing to their summer homes groups of happy citizens.When .Ripley first suggested that the steamboats should come directly tothe beach, by ascending the narrow and crooked channels of Weir River,he was saluted with guffaws of laughter. But he persevered, and in 1868the first steamer crept cautiously up the devious stream, and tied up at thenew pier. Now seven boats each way daily are hardly enough for the sum-mer visitors. Their straggling and many-colored columns move from thepier or railway-station to the edge of the beach, and there melt away in
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New Pacific Hotel squads ; some drifting down to the edge of the surf; others seeking the kindlyshelter of adjacent restaurants, whose broad roofs and open sides insure shadeand free air; and others settling on the sands, with the venerable familyumbrella and the crammed family lunch-basket to comfort them. The vastbeach seems unchanged by their presence; for it has room for millions, andhere are but a few thousands, here and there a few black dots on the glis-tening gray plain. Yet each, in his own way, is drinking in new life, andfeeling the joy of an unwonted experience. He will return homeward atevening, reddened by sun and wind, tired in every muscle, perhaps a trifleconfused in digestion ; but a sound sleep awaits him, and an awakening to anew day of vigor. 68 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. We are assured by Homer that Hercules delighted in banquets (he wan-dered far on the Mediterranean beaches); and so the Bostonian turns withconfidence to the feasts in the adjacent shore-ho
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