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moved away and to be occupied as a tenement 

 house. 



" I wish," said the late Harvey D. Parker, 

 the proprietor of the hotel in Boston that bears 

 his name, *' they'd pull down that old ICing's 

 Chapel opposite. Such kind of buildings ain't 

 no use in these times." And then he turned 

 around and viewed complacently the composite 

 architecture of his feeding and lodging es- 

 tablishment. No one knows how long the 

 venerable structure will be spared. Even in 

 aesthetic Boston its continued existence is but 

 a question of short time. Brattle Street 

 church fell at the demand of fashion, and al- 

 though the Old South was rescued by private 

 subscription from the destruction to which its 

 walls had been doomed by greed and religious 

 ambition aided by legal chicanery, it has been 

 robbed of its sacred character and has become 

 a museum of curiosities, while its former oc- 

 cupants have taken the many times thirty 

 pieces of silver for which it was sold, and 

 which it had gained by more than two cen- 

 turies of freedom from taxation, and built 

 what they call "a fnagnificent church edifice," 

 where it will be of benefit to the real estate 



