Identifier: kingshandbookofb1882swee (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Tafts Hotel, or the Point Shirley House, k —d close to the strait which separates Deer Island from the Point, has been conductedby the famous caterer Taft for more than a quarter of a century, and isthe most celebrated resort for gourmets in all New England, if not inAmerica. Through all these passing decades, thousands of the most prom-inent men of Eastern Massachusetts, with their guests, and bon-vivants ,.,: .....-..-■..^■■•,;/:;.>-,.: :;;^,--.- .- ■,.:.,. ;,J.^y^>.;-^.,, ■..,: ?.;■/;
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^xJ9,. %;§k*L&. 128 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. from all parts of the Union, have enjoyed the delights of this wonderful andinexhaustible larder. Oftentimes as many as threescore distinct species offish and game are kept here in stock at once, the birds being numbered bythousands. It is au regie for the Boston gentleman to drive, with his visitorfrom the South or West, over the short and pleasant road to Point Shirley,and there, with great pride, to test the bewildering variety of dainty disheswhich Taft has on his menu, from the rich turbot and Spanish mackerel, themullet and Mexican bonetta, to the paper-shell clams, grass frogs, and soft-shell crabs — from Illinois grouse and Erie ducks to Delaware rail and reed-birds, Jersey willets, a great variety of snipe and plover, and humming-birdsserved in nut-shells. Many cosmopolitan and globe-trotting gentlemen havestated their conviction, that, while Delmonicos may justly claim the palm ofexcellence in other r

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