Only Line Sunning/ Moccursions direct to the 'most popular and fash- ionable Seashore Mesorts of Boston Harbor. LANDING PATRONS WITHOUT CHANGE AT Betel Baulmket* B&nt&sket Beuek* Betel Pembert&n, Built Sea Fgam Meuse* Strawberry Bilk REMEMBER TO TAKE STEAMERS Nantasket, Twilight, Rose Standish, Wm. Harrison, WHICH IE ATE FROM Rov/e’s Wharf, 340 Atlantic Avenue, BOSTON, Hearly every hour of the Day and Evening • 250. -*FARE EACH WAYfo~ I25c. Metropolitan Horse Cars and Darges from all Depots connect directly with Howe’s IVharf. Special arrangements for the transportation of Exeter- tion and Picnic Parties can be made upon application to either J. W. HOBART , E. F. SEARS Gen’l Pass • cigent, Superintendent . A PLEASURE BU1BE TO Nantasket Beach, AND IOSTO]Wi|flRBOR. GIVING A Complete Description OF THE OF Boston Harbor, AND THE Attractions of Nantasket Beach. BY CHAS. H. FROTHINGHAM. . 4 JSSUED AND POPYRIGHTED BY THE BogtQU 4? Hingham Steamboat Qq. 1884 . Ilhistrated and Containing a Correct Map of the Harbor . BOSTON: DELAND & BARTA, Printers, i 884. “ The Great Journalistic Success of the Day.” THE Circulation increasing every tv eel. . Read it on the Boat. Read it in the Cars. O’NBLUrOTW it at Home. fiOSTQN COLLEGE DESCRIPTI©^^^i% OF BOSTON HARBOR & NANTASKET ■ ® F the many attractions of Boston, those peculiar to the har- bor are pre-eminent in the summer season. The greatest of these is undoubtedly Nantasket Beach, to which, it is sup- posed the reader of these pages is tending. If for the first time, what a revelation of beauty, and if for a repeated visit with what joyous anticipations of pleasure ! Fortunate, indeed, is it that communication between the city and this renowned resort is so frequent and rapid that the tired citizen can obtain in a few hours such an amount of recreation and enjoyment. The Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company have ample fa- cilities for the transportation of thousands of passengers daily to and from this famous watering place, owning four safe, com- modious, and swift steamers, viz : — The “TWILIGHT,” commanded by Capt. Wm. H. Sampson. „ “NANTASKET,” „ „ . v . Capt. Wm. Beal. ,, “ ROSE STANDISH,” ,, ,, Capt. O. R. Ingraham. „ “ WM. HARRISON,” „ „ Capt. L. G. Sirovich. The point of departure of this fine fleet of excursion steamers is ROWE’S WHARF, (340 Atlantic Avenue), directly opposite the junction of High and Broad Streets. The offices of the company are located at No. 7 Rowe’s Wharf, and the officers are Thomas Leavitt, President ; E. F. Sears, Superintendent ; and J. W. Hobart, General Passenger Agent and Treasurer . A feeling of perfect security can be indulged in by those travelling on the steamers of this line, as the safety of passengers has ever been the first consideration of the management, and during the fifty-three 4 Hand-Book of the Boston Hoke Journal. A Weekly Chronicle of Fashionable Society. CONTAINS, AISO, Club News. Timely Literature. Dramatic News. Musical Notes. Dramatic Critiques. Musical Critiques. AND Full Particulars of Society at Fashionable Resorts. The Boston Home Journal is the best Society and Family Ha per in .New England . It is at once newsy and elevated in tone , and no gossip of an unpleasant or malicious nature is everpei'milled in its columns. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT Marlboro Building, 403 & 405 Washington St. W. WALLACE WAUGH, Manager. FOR SALE AT ALL NEWS STANDS. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 5 years in which the boats of the company have been patronized by the public, no accident resulting in the loss of life has ever occurred. The strictest order is also maintained, so that ladies can make excursions unaccompanied with escorts, and pleasur- able recreation is placed within the means and at the disposal of all. THE DOWNWARD TRIP, Scarcely has the steamer left Rowe’s Wharf before points of interest begin to be noticed, and here it may be first mentioned that John Rowe, from whom the wharf was named, originally suggested making a tea-pot of Boston harbor. It was at the meeting of citizens, held December 16, 1773, in the Old South Church, to take action to prevent the landing of the tea sent over by the East India Company, that Rowe ,said, “ Who knows how tea will mingle with salt water ? ” This idea was received with shouts of laughter, and after negotiations had failed, some sixty men disguised as Indians appeared at the church door, and uttering a war-whoop, led the crowd down Milk Street to the ships, when the contents of three hundred and forty-two chests of tea were thrown overboard. It was right here, therefore, that this early rebellious act took place, I which caused the British King and Parliament to send troops in ; large numbers to awe and subdue the spirit of Boston. To avoid the confusion of calling attention to both sides of the steamer during the same trip, the principal points will be described in the order in which they present themselves on the right side of the boat going to Nantasket, and on the right side returning, so that every point may be consecutively brought into notice. The course of the steamer is fully shown on the map. About the first object to attract attention is Nickerson’s Wharf, South Boston, from which start the steamers of the Bos- ton & Savannah Line, and also the boats for Prince Edward’s Island. Next are seen the great freight-houses of the New York & New England Railroad, on Piers 1 and 2, and the grain elevator. At these magnificent docks, with sufficient depth of water at low tide for the largest steamships, there are facilities for a great extension of Boston’s foreign trade. The State of Massachusetts is wisely expending hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in transforming useless mud flats to broad 6 Hand-Book of the TO HARBOR EXCURSIONISTS. KING’S HANDBOOK OF BY M. F. SWEETSER. Thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged; 300 pages of text ; 200 original illustrations. Graphic descriptions of all points of interest in and about Boston Harbor. i2mo. Cloth, $1.00. “ There is not an island, headland, beach or cove in Boston Harbor but has its traditions and associations, some of them of the most romantic character, and these Mr. Sweetser has collected from innumerable sources and skilfully woven them into his descriptions of the various localities which come within the scope of the volume. No one who visits any of the resorts in the harbor can afford to m*ike a trip without taking the handbook with him.” —Boston Transcript . DE WOLFE FISKE & CO., Publishers, Boston. For Sale at News Stands, 7 Rowe’s Wharf, Hotel Pemberton, and at all Book Stores. BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING. All the New and Popular Works AT XnOWMt Priam, A FULL LINE OF Lovell, Franklin Square, Seaside, and Other Libraries. We make a Specialty of CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULAE WOEKS, On our cheap counters, from 10 cents to $1.00 per vol., we have a large as- sortment of good cloth-bound books, sometimes second-hand or slightly soiled, but just as good for reading, at a great reduction from usual prices. CALL AND EXAMINE. ARCHWAY BOOK STORE, 365 Washington St. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 7 avenues for commerce, and the patient dredging machines are constantly to be seen at work in the vicinity. The high lands of South Boston next attract attention. These were once known as Dorchester Heights, where, on the night of March 4, 1776, Washington threw up earth-works which commanded the town, and caused the British to march forth and evacuate Boston on the 17th of March, 1776, he en- tering the town over the Neck on the same day. The large white building on the summit of the hill at South Boston is the Perkins Institution for the Blind, a noble charity, and near the water are situated the City Correctional Institu- tions. Near by, several gray old hulks are moored, containing reserve stocks of powder and other explosives. South Boston ends in City Point, where the house of the Boston Yacht Club is situated, and a fleet of forty or fifty yachts may generally be seen. Just by the Point, a charming bit of scenery :omes into view, Dorchester Bay, including the wooded promontory of Savin Hill, once also fortified, and far off in the distance, the Blue Hills of Milton. Thompson’s island next appears. This is one of the best cultivated and most fruitful islands in the harbor, and was occupied by David Thompson, before the settlement of Boston. Here he estab- lished a trading post with the Massachusetts Indians, whose principal village was on Neponset River, a short distance from the Island. The Farm School, established by private individ- uals to give poor but deserving boys a good, common-school education and a knowledge of farming, is also situated here ; but this fertile and peaceful island is quickly shut out of view by the frowning walls of FORT INDEPENDENCE. on Castle Island. This handsome granite fortress almost cov- ers the land. Castle Island was the first one fortified in the harbor, a mud fort being erected in 1633, which stood several years. This was replaced by one of trees and earth, and a small brick castle that cost four thousand pounds, and which was described in 1654 as “of very good use to awe any inso- lent persons that, putting confidence in their ships and sails, shall offer any injury to the people, or contemn their govern- ment.” 8 Hand-Book of the THE Hall Type Writer Was f warded the JVIedal of Superiority over all competitors at the Semi-Centennial Fair of the fmerican Institute of flew York. Summary of Good Points in the Hall Type Writer. It is Small and portable, weighing but six pounds. It Costs only less than Half the price of others. It is Simple to use, having but one key. It has but Few Parts, and is not liable to g et out of order. It is Most Complete in number of characters and capacity for variety of work. It requires no Ink Ribbon. It Prints from Face of the Fype, always neat and perfect. It Prints Cards, Envelopes, or paper of any size or kind without adjustment. Yhe Printing lies before the Operator like writing. Yhe Type Forms, representing all Styles of Type, are interchangeable, and cost but one dollar each. Hall Type Writer Company, 31 Milk Street, Boston. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 9 A new fort was built in 1674, which remained till 1701, when a substantial brick fort, called Castle William, was erected, over the entrance of which this inscription was placed : “ In the thirteenth year of the reign of William the Third, most in- vincible King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, this fortification was undertaken, and was finished in the second year of the reign of the most serene Ann, Queen of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, in the year of our Lord, 1703.”' Castle William was destroyed when the British evacuated Boston, but the provincial forces took possession and repaired it. The name was changed to Fort Independence in 1797, President John Adams being present on the occasion. Castle Island was noted for years as a duelling ground. On the glacis of the fort is now standing a memorial of one of these unfortu- nate affairs, on which is the following inscription : — NEAR THIS SPOT ON THE 25TH OF Dec., 1817, FELL Lieu. ROBERT F. MASSIE Aged 21 Years. Fort Independence passed, Thompson’s Island again comes into view. Thus peace and war follow each other in rapid succession ! The steamer next enters President’s (formerly King’s) Roads, 10 Hand-Book of the WADSWORTH, HOWLAND l CO. IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Paints, Painters’ Supplies, AND ARTISTS’ MATERIALS , 84 Washington St., Boston, Mass. MANUFACTURERS OF THE Celebrated BAY STATE PAINTS in 60 Different Shades, For Exteriors of Houses. PROPRIETORS OF THE EMERALD GREEN. MANUFACTURERS OF VARNISHES, JAPANS and STAINS, also BRONZES, BRO- CADES and FLITTERS, and LEAF of All Kinds for Interior and Exterior Decoration. (ITFITS FOR SKETCHING IN OIL, WATER COLOR, AND CHARCOAL including Colors of American, English, French and German Manufacture. EASELS, SKETCH BOXES, SKETCHING SEATS, AND UMBRELLAS. Q29 WASHINGTON STREET, BQ&WONf MASS., Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 1 1 where vessels of every description of marine architecture, and with flags of various nations, are sometimes seen anchored, waiting for favorable winds to set sail. Spunky little tug-boats fasten themselves to other vessels, many times their own size, and make nothing of running down the channel with them, as if the task were mere pastime, their shrill whistles at the same time shrieking with delight at the fun. There have been great changes made in the rigging of vessels for the carrying trade, as we can perhaps overhear some retired sea-captain telling his interested grandchildren. Three-masted and four- masted schooners have supplanted the old-time brigs and barques, as they have fewer and simpler sails with the same quantify of canvas, and require lesser crews. After studying the different styles of ships which we can see perhaps it may be well to look about us, and note the ad- vantages of steam navigation which we enjoy, to observe the regard for cleanliness and comfort on board our own steamer, and perhaps read a little bit of steamboat history in these very waters. As a striking contrast to the present graceful steamers of this company is given a cut of the first steamboat which ever made the trip between Boston and Hingham, the “ Eagle,” Capt. Clark. In 1819 she made daily passages on the line, and was com- manded by Capt. Barnabas Lincoln. She ran on the route for three years, and then for eight years packets were the only boats plying between Boston and Hingham. Opposition was lively among packet-men, who were jealous of steamboats ; so fares were low on the packets, and in the year 1822 the packet-men triumphed, for not a single notice of a steamer in Boston harbor appeared in the papers. 12 Hand-Book of the Importers, Jobbers, and Retailers of Staple and A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OE JFOlt $20 $50 'Retail Orders Relivere d Free at any Statioii within fifty miles of R os ton. Retail Orders delivered Free at a?iy Station i?i Few Fngla7id . COBB, BATES & YERXA, 680, 682, 681, 686, 688, 630 & 692 Washington St. 3 Bowdoin Sq,, 6 & 8 Faneuil Hall Sq, ALSO IN CHELSEA, FALL RIVER and TAUNTON. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 13 The “ Lafayette ” was the next boat. She began running in 1829. She was much smaller even than the “Eagle ” and was nof very highly esteemed. She was first commanded by Capt. George Thaxter, and afterwards by Capt. George Beal of Co- hasset. Before she was purchased by the Hingham people she was called the “Hamilton,” which name always remained on her stern. The “ Gen. Lincoln ” followed the “ Lafayette.” She was also commanded by Capt. George Beal, and made her first trip June 16, 1832. She was built expressly for the Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company, which was then incorporated. The “ Gen. Lincoln ” had two boilers, two walking beams, burnt wood, and was run under about 20 lbs. of steam, Her side-wheels were 14 feet in diameter. She measured 96 feet in length, with 22 feet breadth of beam. The next steamer that was built for the company illustrates well the progress made in size and construction of steamers by comparison with the previous figures, for the “ Mayflower ” 14 Hand-Book of the YE ANCIENT STYLE. Clinton Fire Ins. Co., N. Y. Guardian Fire Ins. Co., N. Y. * Merrimack Mutual Ins. Co., Andover. Mferson Ins, Co., N. Y. M ontauk Ins. Co., N. Y. American Exchange Ins. Co., N. Y. BRANCH OFFICES, No. 20 Exchange Place, Boston, Mass. J. J. ROTHERY, Manager. Seashore property insured at reasonable rates . THE MODERN STYLE. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company . 15 was 133 feet in length, with 42 feet beam. Her wheels were 22 feet diameter, and she ran under 30 lbs. of steam. She accom- modated eight hundred passengers. She was put upon the line in 1845, an d was s0 ^ to ^ Tew York parties in 1856. The fifth boat, the “ Nantasket,’ , commanded by Capt. A. L. Rowell, was still larger. She was built in New York in 1857 and began running in 1858. Her proportions were : length, 146 feet 6 inches ; breadth, 25 feet 4 inches ; depth, 8 feet 2 inches; and wheels, 24 feet diameter. She was considered the fastest boat in the harbor at that time. In 1862 she was in govern- ment employ in southern waters. In 1863 she underwent nu- merous alterations, and her name was changed to the “ Erne- line.” She was subsequently sold to parties in Newburg, N. Y. The “ Rose Standish,” now running, was built in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1863, and thoroughly rebuilt in 1877, at great ex- pense. She is 392 93-100 tons measurement. Her present commander is Captain O. R. Ingraham, an experienced officer. The “ Wm. Harrison ” was built in Keysport, N. Y., and was bought by this company in 1881. She is 377 tons meas- urement. During the present year she has been largely rebuilt, and improved throughout, and is commanded by Capt. L. G. Sirovich, a most successful navigator. The elegant Steamer “Nantasket” was launched May 15, 1878, from the yard of Messrs. Pierce & Montgomery, Chelsea. i6 Hand-Book of the Boston jkndaij Tige^. Brightest , Breeziest, and Best of New England Papers. COMPLETE AND RELIABLE Special Telegraphic News FROM ALL QUARTERS. FULL REPORTS OF ALL LOCAL EVENTS. BREEZY LETTERS From summer resorts. Base -Ball and Sporting News , Financial Mat- ters , Political News , Club News and Hotel Gossip, Karl Towns’ s “ Twixt Us” Talk, Paris Letters, Fantasies of Fashion, Society Scintillations. Everything Bright, Brief, and Entertaining., For Sale Every Sunday Morning at all News Stands. PRICE, 5 CENTS. ■ .r ra tm im.l — g gwygis Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company . i y i8 Hand-Book of the Special Announcement. We desire to cal! attention to our immense stock of light Beverages, care- fully bottled during the past winter, and which we now offer to the trade in the best possible condition. 8000 doz. “BOSTON GINGER ALE." A popular, delicious, and healthful beverage, which we claim to be equal to any produced; while the great New York Wholesale Grocers, Messrs E. C. Hazard & Co., un- questionable authority, say in their monthly Trade Journal and Price List “ superior to all others .” 5000 doz. GOLDEN RUSSET CIDER. In quarts, pints, and half-pint bottles, stored in cool, dry, dark cellar, and is particularly choice. 2000 doz. CHAMPAGNE CIDER. In quarts, pints, and half pint bottles. 10,000 doz. BASS’S ALE. In quarts and pints. Bottlers by appointment of Messrs. Bass & Co.’s Agent, Mr. Henry T. Nichols. 5000 doz. GUINNESS’S STOUT. In quarts and pints. SOLE BOTTLERS Isaac Cook Sc Co.’s Stock Ale. Robert Smith’s Philadelphia India Pale Ale, Mount Olive Mineral Spring Water. Also, Manufacturers of and Dealers in LEMON AND SARSAPARILLA MINERAL WATERS. SODA WATERS In Bottles, Siphons and Fountains. SYRUPS-AIjIi flavors. BEEB, Ginger, Birch, Lemon, Pineapple, Raspberry. Lager Beer, Boston, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati, Philadelphia Porter, German Seltzer, Lime Fruit Juice. VINCENT, HATHAWAY & CO., 103 Si 105 Broad St. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 19 She is 173 feet long by 29 feet breadth of beam, and 9 feet in depth. She is commanded by Capt. Wm. Beal, who has been connected with the company for twenty years, and is as popular as he is experienced. The latest acquisition of the company is the “ Twi- light/’ commanded by Capt. Wm. H. Sampson. She was built in Connecticut, in 1873, an d was purchased by the company in 1882, since which time she has been refurnished and refitted. She is the largest of the steamers owned by the company, her licensed carrying capacity being 1,500 passengers. But we are now approaching SPECTACLE ISLAND, so called from its shape, which resembles that of a pair of spectacles, being formed by two peninsulas connected together by a short bar, which at low tide is visible. Looking through the spectacles, or over this low bar, Moon Island and Squan- tum, part of the old town of Quincy, can be seen. Spectacle Islaidpaid in 1634 only a yearly rental of one shilling. It was sold in 1857 for $15,000. Who will say real estate does not rise? It is now the private property of Nahum Ward, who occupies it for useful and sanitary purposes. He turns to value what were waste beside, And renders use of e’en the horses’ hide. May “imperial Caesar, dead, and turned to clay,” Now stop that hole, and keep the wind away. LONG ISLAND is the next one reached. It is the largest in the harbor, being a mile and three quarters in length, and one quarter of a mile in breadth. The large, white hotel, “ The Long Island House,” in the centre of the island on the west side, firsts attracts our attention. This was erected in 1847, when a land company was formed, a wharf built, and a speedy settlement of the island was predicted. This anticipation, however, was not realized, for very few houses were buijt. On the northerly end of the island, which we are now approaching, is a bluff 80 ft. high, upon which is an iron lighthouse, 22 ft. high, and a comfortable stone dwell- ing for. the keeper. Long Island Light is one of the most im- portant in the harbor. It can be seen for fifteen miles at sea 20 Hand-Book of the J. ELLIOT BOJSFD, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in STRAW Sc COCOA MATTING, paper 1 jlangingp, Window ^hadep ^ j&Peeng, Flo oh Oil Cloths? M~at tings, Fnameled Oil Cloths, Marbles, Scotch and American Hollands, JHtc. Window Shades in any Style and Color, made to o?'de?' at short notice. 173 Washington Street, Boston. ' The Beacon, /—AN—' irllusttilU'll iitM'aru.SntidTl’JcElilg, CONTAINS LETTERS FROM Nantasket, Newport, Saratoga, Old Orchard, White Mountains, New York, and all Fashionable Resorts. I^fEgT SOCIETY j\EW£ M D 60ggIP. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT 295 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Single Copies 5 cts. $2.50 per annum. SOLD BY ALL NEWSDEALERS. 21 Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. and is distinguished by its steady white light. Redoubts were thrown up by Washington on this bluff and also at Hull to drive the British fleet from the lower harbor after the evacua- tion of Boston. These batteries opened fire simultaneously, and after a brisk cannonading on both sides, the squadron set sail. In place of this old redoubt on Long Island the Government has recently erected a formidable fort of improved construction with walls of great thickness, bombproofs, and other defences. With heavy guns mounted here, a plunging fire could be di- rected on the ship channel and command the approaches through Broad Sound. The low green mounds on the top of the cliff, which are all that can be seen of this fortification, give little idea of its strength. Around the head of the island is a handsome sea-wall, built at an expense to the Government of $150,000. Long Island was much used during the war of the Rebellion, and many regiments went into camp there. As the steamer takes her course past the head of the island, a view is obtained also of the eastern side, which is pleasantly diversified. An object, however, of greater interest now presents itself. 22 Hand-Book of the THE HELIOTYPE PRINTING CO. Is prepared to furnish every description of Hotel and Summer Resort Printing, SUCH AS ¥ JEWS OF BUILBMG& OB 80BREBY, By Lithography or Heliotype, from Photograph or Drawing in any required size. BUM of Fare,, Letter heads, Billheads, Envelopes^ Qireulmrs, Fgiders, Ete*, Furnished at short notice. Send photographs for estimates when possible. As we make a specialty of this class of work, and have at our command a large corps of artists, we can safely guarantee first-class results in the shortest possible time. THE HELIOTYPE nif CO.. Oil taut Street, Iota Heliotype Emrarap for Slimier Cottaies. Very choice reproductions of over 400 different pictures, fine steel en- gravings, photogravures, and actual copies from famous paintings. 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More than 400 pages ; prices and locations of all hotels and boarding- houses, and routes; six maps and six panoramas, $1.50. Revised in 1884. “With such an aid, the mountains become doubly attractive.” — Cincin- nati Times. JAMES E. OSGOOD & 00., Boston. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 2 3 nix’s mate. There are some fictions which ’t is well to keep. Saint Nick is one, who comes when children sleep, And Nix’s Mate’s another, while not true, ’T is better told than not as we pass through, Between Long Island and this isle no more, But barren shoal on an uncertain shore. Black, drear, ominous, and mysterious enough to give cred- ence to any story is the pyramid erected on Nix's Mate to warn pilots of the rocks and shoal where once was an island of twelve acres. It is a massive piece of copper-riveted masonry, forty feet square, and twelve feet high, (with stairs on one side) upon whose top stands a black wooden pyramid, twenty feet high. It is close to the ship channel, and in sight of every vessel entering or leaving the harbor. “ What ’s that ? ” is the involuntary question which every stranger asks. “ Nix ’s Mate,” is the answer ; but always something more is desired, so the common tradition is here repeated. This black spot was once an island as green as any in the harbor. It was the place selected for the execution of pirates, and those convicted of other capital crimes committed on the ocean, because all sail- ors could see the bodies of such sea robbers, dangling in chains from the gibbets, and take warning from the grim sight. There was in the early days of the colony a ship-master named Nix. He was mysteriously murdered, and his body was buried on this island, more than two hundred years ago. His mate was accused of the murder, and was sentenced to be hanged, but stoutly protested his innocence. When the time for execution came, he said, — “ I am not guilty of the crime with which I am charged. Before God I did not the deed. 24 Hand-Book of the Telephone No. 1991. C. KOSTKR § SOX. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in |}rBuisions ami Orrorciico, Fruits & Produce of Al! Kinds. Yacht and Family Supplies ' A Specialty, 336 & 338 ATLANTIC AVE., BOSTON. Head of Rowe’s Wharf. Hoods delivered daily to all parts South Hnd, West Had, a?id Highlands. ORDERS SENT BY TELEPHONE PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. CHRISTOPHER FOSTER. HENRY W. FOSTER. Boston a?id Hingham Steamboat Company. 2 5 God bear witness of my innocence ! That the people may ! know that I am a guiltless man, may this island wholly disap- : pear ! ” He was executed, and soon the sailors began to | say, — “ The island is withering. Nix’s mate was an innocent i man.” Time passed, and the people said, — “ The green earth ! has been washed away, and only the rocks remain. Nix’s mate was surely an innocent man.” More than a century passed, and the hard rocks themselves seemed slowly shrinking away under the action of the sea, and the legend was repeated that the island was disappearing as a witness to the innocence ; of whom ? We know not his own name, but he was Nix’s j Mate. This is the popular story, but the dry-as*dust historian will spoil it all by proving that the land was known as Nix’s Island long before the date of the execution spoken of, and that it had probably, even before then, began wasting, for the record made in 1636 read as follows : — “ There is twelve acres of land granted to John Gallop upon Nixes Island, to enjoy to him and his heirs forever, if the land be so much.” Certain it is, however, that Bird Island, at the mouth of the Charles River, which shared in some measure the unenviable notoriety of being a place of execution, has similarly disappeared, but stout sea-walls would undoubtedly have preserved both. A bell buoy, giving a deep, ominous sound, is placed near Nix’s Mate, to warn vessels at night of this dangerous shoal. When the tide favors, the steamer leaves the ship channel just before reaching this point, and steers straight for Hull, passing gallop’s island on the left ; at other times it continues in the channel, and enters the Narrows between Gallop’s and Lovell’s Island, the former of which will now, therefore, be described. Capt. John Gallop, from whom it was named, was a noted Boston pilot, and in addition to his house in Boston, had quite a farm on Long Island and sheep pasture on Nix’s Mate, while the rich land of Gallop’s Island he also cultivated. In olden times the farmers here supplied the ships in Nan- tasket Roads with vegetables, milk, and pure spring water. Gallop’s Island is now owned by the city of Boston and used as a quarantine hospital. 26 Hand-Book of the Mann’s Remedy. CURE GUARANTEED. 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MANN’S REMEDY is registered in Patent Office at Washington, and all infringements on our rights will be pros- ecuted to the full extent of the law. Price, $1. ------ 6 Bottles for $5. Orders by Mail or Express promptly attended to. FOR SALE BY 3 Beacon St., five doors from Tremont St., BOSTON. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 27 RAINSFORD ISLAND, which we now approach, is also now owned by the city of Bos- ton, and the city almshouse is situated there. The better class of paupers, including many old men, find a pleasant home on the island, which, with its substantial buildings, trees, and shrubbery, presents one of the most attractive features of the harbor. peddock’s island, nearly a mile in length, next becomes the most conspicuous ob- ject in our view, and forms quite a picturesque and peaceful scene, but it was once the location of a terrible tragedy. Be- fore the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, a French ship came here to trade with the Indians for beaver-skins, and an- chored off Peddock’s Island, named in memory of Leonard Peddock, who had previously landed there. The Frenchmen gave offence to the natives, who set upon them ; and being taken by surprise, their vessel was captured and burned, and all but five of the sailors were massacred. These were badly treated, and only one lived sufficiently long to tell the tale. In 1634 Peddock’s Island was. granted to Charlestown for twenty-one years, at the annual rental of twenty shillings, but in 1635 the rent was reduced to twelve pence. The island af- fords fine pasturage, and there is a large orchard upon it owned by the Cleverlys, who for more than fifty years have lived there, acting as pilots to Quincy and Weymouth. At the southern end rises a bold bluff, called Prince’s Head, against the banks of which iron targets are erected for practice in firing projectiles from NUT ISLAND, about 1650 yards distant. This sequestered spot has been long chosen as the testing ground for heavy ordnance cast at Alger’s Foundry, South Boston, which is the chief manufac- tory of American fortress guns. Heavy firing can therefore sometimes be heard* in this direction, and it was very frequent during the secession war, when 1500 guns were here first tried, among them being those of the Monitor, which crippled the ironclad Merrimack in the most important naval duel of that war. From one of these rifled guns a projectile weighing over 28 Hand-Book of the II Manufacturers, Importers, and Wholesale Dealers. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. BOOTS, SHOES and ARCTICS, Clothing, Setting) Packing and Hose) ComhS) HallS) Toys) Enamelled Carriage Drill) Taylor's Gas-Tight Tubing) Crack Proof Rubber Boots , Etc. OFFICE 160 & 162 CONGRESS, Cor. FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON. BROADWAY, Cor. BROOME STREET, JVB7AT TORN. F. M. SHEPARD, Pres. J. A. M/NOTT, Sec’y. h FRANCIS HAYWARD, Manager at Boston. EASTERN AGENT® FOE TEE NATIONAL RUBBER CO., Factory, Bristol, R. I. UNION INDIA RUBBER CO., „ 4th Ave. 131st and 132d St., N. Y. G-OODYEAR RUBBER CO., „ Middletown, Conn. LAMBERTVILLE RUBBER CO., Factory, Lambertville, N. J. UNION TUBING- CO., „ New York. RUBBER FOOTWEAR CO., „ Boston, Mass. GOODYEAR RUBBER CO., „ New York. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company . 29 five hundred popnds was fired through twelve inches of wrought iron plates, erected on Prince’s Head. Three small islands, called respectively Sheep, Grape, and Slate Island, lie southeast of Peddock’s in the order named. They are quite bare of habitations, but form pleas- ing objects in the panorama seen from the steamer’s deck. From nature unadorned, however, our attention is quickly taken to where it is adorned the most with fanciful architect- ural conceits in the way of summer residences, for, passing through the narrow, rushing strait of Hull Gut, YE ANCIENT TOWNE OF HULL lies right before us, where houses really dating back to Queen Anne’s time can be seen, with modern temples erected to her memory, and painted in all the colors of the rainbow. The English castles were centuries building, their various wings and gables being added only as necessity required. Ours spring up in a night, or in a single season, sometimes in antici- pation of demand, as witness Hotel Pemberton. Its many towers, sharp gables, balconies, and piazzas, painted in dark reds and browns, relieved by yellow, Oriental colors, harmonize well with the scene, and form a pleasant object on which to rest the eye. HOTEL PEMBERTON, which is first-class in all its appointments, is situated on Wind- mill Point, where it gets every breath of air when there is any. The rooms are spacious and richly furnished, and the table the best the market affords. George W. Palfrey is the man- ager. Steamers land passengers regularly at Pemberton Pier, Hull, where cars of the Nantasket Beach Railroad can be taken, for a ride along the Beach to Hingham, or stopping at intermediate stations, if desired. The closely clustered cottages on the hill at Hull show how valuable land is considered there, and display much archi- tectural beauty. Again color is forced upon our notice, and we cannot help remarking how completely the old fashion of painting plain, square, A-roofed houses a glaring white, with emerald-green blinds, has passed away. Occasionally now, however, a bit of green so vivid as to kill the color even of Hand-Book of the POTTERY and GLASSWARE. Jones, McDsffee Si Moo OFFER THEIR IMPORTATIONS, Which are Constantly Coming Forward Direct from Japan* China* Germany* France f England* Comprising a Stock of useful and ornamental Pottery, Glass, and Lamps to choose from not excelled, we dare say, on this continent, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED, JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON, (Late Otis Norcross & Co.) 51 to 59 Federal, & 120 Franklin St,, BOSTON. (Near the General Post-Office.) N. B. — The marked-down tables, having remnants of China and Glass, for the purpose of closing out lots to make room for new importations, offer advantages to our patrons. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company . 3 l June grass, or vermilion bright enough to pale a geranium, or strawberry, a color which deserves to be crushed, is injudici- ously used; but generally, good taste prevails, and olive greens Vandyke browns, and Pompeiian reds predominate. Hull Basin is a favorite resort of yachtsmen, and the Hull Yacht Club is one of the largest in the United States. Its handsome and commodious club house on the pier was erectedi two years ago, and the numerous yachts, as graceful as swans, can be seen floating on the tranquil waters of this inner har- bor. Hull has a history, and the handful of inhabitants of this ancient hamlet have lived much in the public eye. Especially intelligent must they have been, and active in keeping abreast with popular sentiment, for politicians have waited for Hull’s - prophetic vote, even when it numbered only seven, and the saying became traditional, “ As goes Hull, so goes the hull o£ the State.” Volumes have been written, and many more might be written r on the settlers of this little peninsula, which, notwithstanding its antiquity, remains the smallest town in the New England States. It is claimed by historians that it was visited by Norsemen in their galleys during the early part of the eleventh century, and that Point Allerton is the identical “ Krossaness ” where the Viking Thorwald was slain and buried, in the year 1004. He had coursed, so runs the story, from Iceland to Greenland, and down the coast of Labrador, passing New- foundland, to Cape Cod, and then turning toward the main- land, discovered this wooded prompntory, where he decided to fix his abode. Being fatally wounded by an arrow in a skir- mish with the aborigines, he requested that he might be buried there, and two crosses be erected to mark the spot, which was accordingly done. In 1621 Capt. Miles Standish, from Ply- mouth, landed there, and found lobsters of superior quality, gathered by the Indians, which he bought for a few beads, and lobster-fishing has always been a principal occupation of its inhabitants. Some of the founders of the best New England families made their homes here, as will be seen from the names of Prince, Pemberton, Veazie, Haswell, Gould, Binney, and Loring occurring in the early records. Many and various have been the purposes of the settlers, as Sweetser concisely states 32 Hand-Book of the C. A. CAMPBELL, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all kinds of 0ORL Mindlmg W@@(H B towe& # Split Tq Ol der , Wharfs and Elevators, CHELSEA. 10 Winnisimmet Street, Chelsea. (near the ferry.) 3/ Third Street, Chelsea. 141 Washington Avenue, Chelsea. 75 State Street, Boston. Broadway, Revere. Broadway, Everett. CONNECTED BY TELEPHONE. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 33 in King’s Handbook* of Boston Harbor : “ Within a quarter of a millennium, this obscure Massachusetts peninsula has suc- cessively been a desolation, a feeble Episcopal plantation, a Puri- tan fishing port, a Continental fortress, a French camp, a wreck- ers’ colony, a semi-Dalmatian maritime hamlet, a Yankee village, and an opulent American summer resort.” The large hotel in the village, the Oregon House, was built in 1848, and has always been popular. Z. T. Harrington is the present proprietor. Telegraph Hill has the signal station on its summit, which before the use of the electric telegraph, was employed to signal the approach of vessels to Boston, the merchants of which, had a set of one hundred and twelve private signals, each one a different flag. When a ship arrived, the owner’s color was run up at Hull, repeated on an island in the harbor, again shown on Central Wharf, and finally at the old State House. This cumbrous system has been superseded, but where, alas ! is the once proud merchant marine of Boston? Telegraph Hill was fortified by Washington, and, as we have seen, its battery helped to drive the British fleet away after the evacuation of Boston. On the 17th of July, 1776, the news reached the town, of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, July 4, and a salute of thirteen guns, one for each of the States, was fired from this very hill. Subsequently^ the works were greatly strengthened by the French, and some of the old intrenchments still remain. A beacon and a watch- house were also established here to give alarm up the Bay on approach of an enemy. Telegraph Hill is owned by Miss Sallie Jones, an elderly lady of Hingham, who tenaciously refuses to sell it, or it would be quickly covered by cottages, the view from the summit being magnificent. The most of Peddock’s Island is alsp owned by the same lady. STRAWBERRY HILL, The ijext important elevation of Hull is Strawberry Hill, at the base of which is the pier where the steamers of the Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company make regular landings for pas- sengers. The old barn on the summit is a well-known land- mark for pilots off the coast. On this site a barn containing eighty tons of hay was burned in 1775, “to grieve the British 34 Hand-Book of the Established 1824:. jSustuu Courier, The Leading Literary a.nd Family 'Weekly of JVew England, in ClRCULA TION & INFL URNCE. Literature, Jlrt, JVtasie, (Drama , Fashions , Society JSTew's, The AManly Sports, Original Tales, Fssays, and. Special Aibichs. Subscription, $S. 5 O per yecur. OFFICE, JVo. 299 'Washington Street, BOSTON, 31 ASS. JOSEPH F. T PAPERS, Publisher. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 35 garrison of Boston,” and the harbor was splendidly illuminated by these patriotic fires. From Strawberry Hill, the official surveys and triangulations of the harbor have been made, and the stand-pipe of the Hing- ham Water Company of fifty feet is erected there, ninety-seven feet above high water, giving one hundred and forty-seven feet pressure. Previous to the building of these works, there was complaint in regard to water by the cottagers at Strawberry Hill, Hull, and Nantasket; but now a great abundance of ex- cellent water is secured from Accord Pond, Hingham. The plains at the foot of the hill running to the beach, and the land along the ocean from Stony Beach to the Ocean House, are now owned by the Nantasket Company, and have been laid out in streets and avenues. Thousands of shade trees have been set out, and some forty Swiss cottages have been built, which are let at from $200 to $400 each for the season. Sanguinary battles must have been fought in this vicinity, for at Skull Head, great quantities of human bones have been found, with arrow-heads, tomahawks, and other weapons of war. Fifteen hundred feet from the sea stands the spacious Sea Foam House, with its three tiers of piazzas, which was built in 1870. It will be conducted this year by S. G. Fish, formerly of the Oakland Beach Hotel, on Warwick Neck, Rhode Island. It possesses the advantage of short distance from Boston, and is kept in a first-class manner. Many desirable lots of land for cottages are offered by the Nantasket Company at such prices as will prove a good invest- ment, the land being sure to appreciate in value. The collec- tion of cottages on the Hull Bay side, is called Hobart- ville. The Oceanic Cafe is situated on the beach, and there genuine Rhode Island Clam Bakes can be found in perfection. This is an excellent point for picnic and excursion parties to stop , as there is a large bath-house there and every facility for surf bathing. W. B. Chipman is the proprietor. He was formerly at Rocky Point, and precisely the same kind of clam-bakes which have made Rocky Point and Silver Spring on Narragan- sett Bay so popular will be here found. Continuing our voyage from Strawberry Hill, we pass 3 ^ Hand-Book ef t/fe The New Method of Painting in Water Colors — copyrighted 1883 — I surpasses in delicacy of Coloring and Artistic Finish every other method. 1 So simple that novices, without any previous knowledge of drawing or paint- 1 ing, can learn the art in one lesson. The colors are transparent and indelible, rendering the picture abso- | lutely impenetrable, preventing old pictures from decay, and the most 3 delicate photograph from fading or spotting. It is applicable to Photographs, Lithographs, Heliotypes, Engravings, 1 &c ,&c.. For Landscape Painting it is especially beautiful; also used for Flowers on Glass, Plaques, Satin or China. Instruction given, And ROMAN ART PAINTS FOR SALE at the Studio. Printed Instructions and Colors sent by mail or express to any part of tlie World ! An Outfit Containing Colors sufficient to Paint 500 Pictures, $1. 00. Persons desirous to see a Specimen of tlie Work before ordering Outfits, can send us any Cabinet Photograph and we will return it hand- somely painted, with Printed Instructions how to paint Photographs, Litho- graphs, &c., &c., for $1.00 and 2 CENT STAMP, sent us by Registered Letter or Postal Note. The picture will be equal in every respect to those we charge $2.50 for at the Studio. Address, MRS. HEATH’S ART SCHOOL, 143 Tremout Street, Boston. Teachers and Agents wanted for the Summer Resorts. Strike now. Parties in our business are making from $5 to §20 per day with only a small investment. Circulars for stamp. Studio open all Summer. Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company . 37 BUMKIN ISLAND, a single, beautiful green hill of fifty acres, owned by Harvard College, having been bequeathed to the University by Samuel Ward, in 1682. His will designated the purpose in these words : — “ The rent of itt to be for the easmentt of the charges of the Diatte of the students that are in commonse.”- [. Illustrated History of Boston Harbor , by James H. Stark .] We next pass between the shores of White Head on the left, and World’s End on the right, and enter the winding Wier River. World’s End is delightfully situated, and elabor- ate plans have been made for its improvement by its owner, Mr. John R. Brewer. Notwithstanding the intricate passage, requiring guides at short distances, the steamer, as if sharing the impatience of the passengers to reach the beach, swiftly accomplishes its many turns, and passes, almost too quickly, alternately grand and picturesque views of shores of seamed and weather-beaten rocks, and hills barely supporting a few stunted pines, and then again of far-reaching, fertile fields, as the boat nears the pier. NANTASKET BEACH. And here we are with a world of attractions spread before us. The pier of the Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company is one hundred feet in breadth, and there is ample room for the accommodation of its thousands of patrons. There is a little excitement and considerable bustle, but no confusion, as the barges are taken for more distant points, or the streams of passengers disperse among the hotels and resorts near by. Private carriages can be seen arranged on the left, and public conveyances can be found on the right of the pier. It may be well to say here where the latter go. The Sea Gem Coach Line, consisting of a number of fine barges, is run by A. J. Randall, of the Gun Rock stables, to the private residences on Green Hill, and leaves passengers at the New Pacific, Gun Rock, Straight’s Pond, Clarendon, and Elberon Houses. Mr. Randall has run this line for fourteen years, and he is an encyclopaedia of beach intelligence that can be readily consulted. The fare for the drive to Green Hill is only ten cents, and Hand-Book of the K G Z H < * (0 § 3 B . CO 50 R S o ^ tb cq O N 0 o o cb o o cb H Z < m < W J Ph h < W 2 -i* J O O o Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 39 many charming views can be obtained from one of these barges. The more extensive drive over the famous Jerusalem Road can be taken in C. F. B. Tilden’s line of four two-horse coaches to Cohasset. One of the drivers, C. S. Stoddard, has been on this road twenty-five years, and has a mine of interest- ing information. This road is well-watered throughout, so there is no annoyance from dust, while at each turn of the road, open new vistas of beauty. The Waverley House has its own barge, connecting with every steamer, and barges can also be found for other hotels and resorts. A station of the Nantasket Beach Railroad is situated here, and cars can be taken for a ride along the beach or to Hingham. The first building which we see at the right, in passing up the pier, is the Roller Skating Rink, erected at great expense last year, and now much improved, the entire floor of 1 5,000 square feet having been relaid with the best birch matched boards, pre- senting a polished surface for the little rollers which has no superior in New England. Mr. S. Moxon is manager of the rink, and the admirers of the graceful and fascinating sport and gentle and healthful exercise of roller skating will find no better facilities for this popular enjoyment anywhere. Compe- tent intructors and assistants will be in attendance, and first- class music will be furnished. Parties owning skates can bring them, if they prefer, or skates will be provided. Spectators have here ample accommodations to witness exhibitions of skating and listen to the music. THE HOTELS. The Rockland House was established in 1854 by Col. Nehemiah Ripley, who successfully conducted it for thirty years, while it increased from forty rooms to nearly two hun- dred, and from sixty to two hundred and seventy-five feet in length. It is situated upon a gentle eminence, about five hun- dred yards from the beach, and presents an imposing fa5ade. It has been this year repainted inside and out, and largely re- furnished. A new billiard-room has been arranged, and there have been other improvements. The patrons of the Rockland have been there usually for successive seasons, and have come to regard the house as a second home. 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It has made rapid strides in popular favor, and its circulation is steadily enlarging. — Boston Traveller. The Boston Budget is one of the very best of its kind in the country, bright, newsy, vivacious, and varied, with its eight beautifully printed pages crammed with reading matter that is as interesting in Jacksonville or New Orleans as in Boston.— Flor- ida Times Union. THE PRESS. The Boston Budget is making rapid progress. In addition to the news and lively editorials, it has numerous departments of a popular and entertaining nature. — Boston Globe. The Boston Budget is one of the most widely read and most influen- tial of Boston’s Sunday journals, and it circulates in the households of our leading families. — Boston Star. The Budget is a very enterpris- ing Boston newspaper. — Florida Mirror. The Boston Budget is a clean, bright, and able journal, and the hotel department is a well edited and important portion of the field occupied by the Budget. — San Francisco Hotel Gazette. There is no newsier, breezier, readable paper published anywhere that we know of, than the Boston Budget, and its weekly perusal gives us heaps of pleasure, and we don’t care who knows it. Every one of its eight seven-column pages is chock full of interesting reading, and much of it of a character that makes it just as good all the week as on the day of its issue. — Marlboro T ivies. The Boston Budget is a marvel- lous success in journalism. — Wash- ington Daily H otel News. The Boston Budget is a chatty and popular Sunday paper. — Boston Transcript . Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company . 4i every Wednesday and Saturday night. An excellent stable is attached to the Rockland House, where vehicles of all kinds can be engaged. Russell & Sturgis, who were managers of the house last year, have leased the Rockland, the Hotel Nan- tasket, and the Rockland Cafe for five years, and are now, therefore, proprietors. They will conduct both hotels on the American plan. Hotel Nantasket is a beautiful new house of one hundred and seventy-five rooms. It is situated right upon the beach, land the rooms are generally kept for transient guests, although there are some permanent boarders. This year the upper balcony has been enlarged, and reserved seats will be provided there for the guests of the house and of the Rockland. Reeves’ American Band, of Providence, D. W. Reeves, Leader, will give grand concerts from the band-stand on the beach, every afternoon from three to five, and every evening from seven to nine o’clock. Mr. Reeves has, during the last twenty-five years, won a wide reputation second to no one in this country, as a band organizer and director. The band comprises many brilliant soloists, and its repertoire is most ex- tensive. Mr. Reeves’ arrangements of operatic selections are especially popular, while his adaptations to wind instruments of the highest class of mirtic written for orchestras are mar- vellous. Daily programmes of the concerts are published, and distributed on the boats and landings of the Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company. In the evening there are ELECTRICAL ILLUMINATIONS, and frequently MAGNIFICENT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS are given. The spacious and elegant promenades and piazzas of Hotel Nantasket, connected by broad, covered passages with those of the Rockland Cafe, furnish comfortable accommodations for large audiences at these entertainments. At the rockland cafe dinners are served on the European plan, a la carte , and 42 Hand-Book of the Ocean House, PPftSKET FSKHCfL THIS OLD-TIME AND Favorite Seashore Hotel has been renovated and improved by its present proprietress, and it is one of the most delightful seaside resorts on the coast. Every facility for bathing, sailing, riding, etc. Exhilarating breezes, even temperature, good drainage, / large and airy rooms, telephone in hotel, electric bells, new billiard hall. Substantial board and every attention given to guests. ©E1TOINB RHODE ISLAND CLAM BAKES. The Ocean House Bi?ii ng -rooms will accommodate J ,000 People at one sitting . Barges meet every Boat, and the Naniaskel Bailroad stops directly at the house . ME IS i U‘j MEAEEY, Proprietress, Boston and Hingham Steamboat Company. 43 can be as simple or as elaborate as one chooses. A prominent sign bears the legend STEAMED CLAMS. They might have added esteemed clams, and warmly es- teemed clams, not cold clammy clams, but hot clams ; for these esculent bivalves are truly both highly and warmly esteemed, and in bakes, chowders, or simply “steamed,” thousands of bushels are used on Nantasket Beach. It may be well to read here John G. Saxe’s Sonnet TO A CLAM. DUM TACENT CLAMANT. Inglorious friend ! most confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease ; Albeit, men mock thee with their smiles, And prate of being “ happy as a clam ! ** What though thy shell protects thy fragile head From the sharp bailiffs of the briny sea ? Thy valves are, sure, no safety-valves to thee While rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, as foemen take their spoil, Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced like a Hessian from thy native home, To meet destruction in a foreign broil! Though thou art tender, yet thy humble bard Declares, O clam, thy case is shocking hard. A New York newspaper remarks that “ Bostonians are justly proud of Nantasket Beach, where one can get cultured clams, intellectual chowder, refined lager, and very scientific pork and beans. It is far superior to our monotonous sand beach in its picturesqueness of natural beauty, in the American character of the visitors, and in the reasonableness of hotel charges, as well as the excellence of the service.” The Atlantic House, upon the hill of that name, has a magnificent location, and there we must go to get a com- prehensive view of the beach. L. Damon & Sons are the proprietors, the sons being G. A., J. L., and K. H. Damon. The most extensive additions have been made to this hotel this year. Two wings have been built, nearly doubling its former 44 Hand-Book of the iWtOti fjiiilu^iluctlbf leading f>u$ii)e$£ iPapef of ]Sfew T