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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2093, 20 January 1870, Page 2

A Wonderful Engineering Operation. — lu the work of straightening and widening some of the very crooked streets of Boston it became necessary to move a huge building known as “Hotel Pelham.” This building is of freestone, 9o feet high, .and weighs 10,000 tons. It was moved fourteen feet iu three clays, by means of rollers and screws, a portion of the side walk being also moved with it. So carefully and well was the work done that not a crack was made in the building, and nothing in it was at all disturbed. Large crowds of people watched the process, and the fastest time accomplished was two inches in four minutes. A large bank building adjoining the hotel was used to brace the screws against. A great number of these screws, 21 inches long, were employed. 825,000 dollars were paid the contractor for moving the hotel. He’s only a Printer.-—“ He’s pn|y a printer ” was the sneering remark of a leader in society. He is only a printer ! Well, what is the Earl of Stanhope? Ho was only a printer. What is Prince Frederick William, who married the Princess Koval of England? He, too, is only a printer. Who wa? William Caxton, one of the fathers of literature? He was only a printer. What was Semuel Phelps, George D. Prentice, M. Thiers, Douglas Jerrokj, Bayard Taylor, N. P. Willis, J. Gale-.q, O. Richardson, Xing, and Artemns Ward? They, too, vere all printers. What was Benjamin Franklyn? Only a printer. What is the hon. Joseph Howe? He, too, is a printer.