Show I NEARBY AND YONDER Off tl the te Beaten Path to Unusual Unusual Unusual Un Un- usual Places and Things t By 0 T T. T T. MAXEY V U A City Hall Extraordinary I Is a bl big ell city Ol Tl a big city c hall hail was wai needed to care re for Its affairs Accordingly work w was begin bojan In the early at lit the roods roads roads of rond and Market streets on a 8 monstrous non mon structure which hn has hall proved to lo lobe tobe tobe be the most outstanding civic buildIng In all Built Hullt of Massachusetts marble on In a II granite bRill It Is rich In exterior dl des In 10 the tho form of ot a n greet grent hollow Y It has hn a very IRr largo o central court Including this court It occupies about aix and unO one one- i halt half acres of ground I The he design la h ouch while It lip up- lM pears urs to be ho but four tour In height bl the Interior Is Ia lidded divided Into Inlo eight I ht floors composing sonio fourteen and one halt acres of floor space pace which Is s cut up Into Inlo more than live flee hundred rooms room Its nun foot ety foet walls ai are ue surmounted sur suri mounted by hY entrance a aare which are by corner pavilions A great central tower rises out of the court This tower Is ninety feet square nt at the IR base and nud Is la crowned by n too thirty statue of the the founder der of ot the tho city the maximum mn height some SI say about live fire hundred mid and forty eight ht feet Four tr giant clock Ile dials having mi minute min n. n ute ute t fin nit eleven Ie t feet t long g i and lInd tc 1 lh Int In t upwards m P of two hundred pounds m each oh li tell the to passers passers-by The time Is kept by a master clock said ald to be both vi vibration bra lion and temperature proof located ono hundred and Rud tort fort forty feet helo below the dIn dials Is leans hat Is surrounded by a row ot of lights which Us claimed chimed ore ore visible thirty miles awa away on dark nl nights |