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Show OLD SOUTH CHURCH NO LONGER DRAB Boston. March 18 If those British Brit-ish dragoons who sailed away lrom Boston 137 years ago could return to the BCenes of their riding exploit tbc would probably recognize the Old South meeting house as it has , in rged todaj Iron beneath the drab paint of nearly a century. The historic edifice was built In 172'; of red brick, but for some reason, rea-son, which does not appear on its records, the outside walls were painted paint-ed in the spring of 1815. The meeting house narrowly escaped escap-ed destruction in the big fire of 1872 as well as a few years later when an association was hurriedly formed to Bars Its being supplanted by a business busi-ness block. Tb, in , . a which attended tho efforts ef-forts of tho state in bringing out the ancient features of the old state house farther down Washington street b washing ff tho paint prompted the Old South association to follow, and yesterday the last trace of paint sras removed. |