34 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



Roast Meat Hill, Mill Hill, North and South fields, 

 Wymaii's Mills, Batchelder's Point, Leggs Hill, Dun- 

 geons, Throgmorton's Cove, Castle Hill, Baptist Hill, 

 Hacker's, Chapman's and Dutch's corners, Cape Driver, 

 Carltonville, Harmony Grove, Gallows or Witch Hill, 

 Paradise, Peirce & Waite's Wharf, Blubber Hollow, 

 Orne's Point, Kernwood, Liberty Hill and Cold Spring. 

 Fish, Water, Neptune and County streets, Bath Street 

 and Gutter Lane, Old Jail, Witchcraft Jail, Court and 

 Marlborough Streets, Short Street, Sun Tavern, Essex 

 Place, Dark Lane, Cow])oy's Beach, etc. This paper 

 was followed by a discussion participated in by the 

 chairman, Hon. R. S. Rantoul, A. C. Goodell, Jr., W. 

 L. Welch, John Robinson, Frank Cousins and others, and 

 many interesting facts were brought out. 



Monday, April 22, 1895.— Rev. J. M. Pullman, D.D. 

 of Lynn, lectured in Plummer Hall on the "Adminis- 

 tration of Public Charity." He spoke of the various ways 

 in which charity is distributed and of the experience of 

 many persons in alms-giving. He quoted several high 

 authorities in the deprecation of public out-door relief, 

 the evil being that it tends to degeneracy, and the relief 

 only goes to the unworthy. 



Monday, April 29, 1895. — Miss Lucia T. Ames, of 

 Boston, lectured this evening in Plummer Hall, on "A 

 more beautiful City Life," with lantern illustrations. 

 Miss Ames spoke of the disfigui-ement of some of our 

 American cities by the erection of high buildings — such, 

 for instance, as one which is to be built on the site of the 

 Tremont House in Boston, 135 feet high in a comparatively 

 narrow street. These buildings shut out the light and 

 sun, and make business for the oculist and physician, 

 although they arc considered works of enterprise. She 



