Street Names

-East Boston nrides itsclf on the nomenclatura of its streets whlch ure named in groups as follows Four for American stateamen, Webster, Everett, Sumnerand Hayne; eleven foi fordgn eities, Liverpool, London, llavre, Paris, Bremen, Orleans, Hamburg, Frankport, Lubec, Geneva and Venice; four for Hevolutionary héroes, Putiiani, l'resrott, Brooks and Marión; two for naval héroes, Porter and Uocatur; seven for famous battles, Monmoutli, Eutaw, Trenton, Lexington, Frinoeton, Saratoga and Bsuüngton; three for iiinls ol pivv oi historie ships of war. just as one chooses, Condor, Falcan and Kagle; eleven for poets, Pope, Chaucer, Addison, Wortbworth, liyron, lloore, Milton, Honmr, ('ouju-r, Colericlge and Swift; linally, six lor graat painters, Reynolds, Trumbull, Kneller, Ilogartli. Van Jyke and West. Xotliing short of lio.ston culture COUld have dignilied corner lamp-posts wlth so muoh of, biOgrapby, geogra))hy, lii.stoiy. ] i e'ry and irt. New York ñames half ils Mtreets it haphazard, and the remainder by ïumbers, a prosaic bilt certainly convenient plan, which the newer portiOBS if ncai'ly all large cities in tliis country re adoptiug. J5ut New York's big suburb, Bi-ooklyn. claims the most snoroua streel name in the union, and (BUI point tO a catiildjruciir iiotwl luimes L history not surpasMd by Kast Boson's remárkable collection.