Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . OF TO-DAY. 109 It was opened in 1828 as a free bridge. Four yearsafter, the old bridge was sold to the city for §3,500,and made free. It had originally cost its projectors$56,000, and had earned no dividends. In 1825,when the city began locating its reformatory institu-tions here, the population of the district was but1,986. The opening of the second bridge, however,gave the place a new impulse, and in 1830 its popu-lation had increased to 2,860.
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . OF TO-DAY. 109 It was opened in 1828 as a free bridge. Four yearsafter, the old bridge was sold to the city for §3,500,and made free. It had originally cost its projectors$56,000, and had earned no dividends. In 1825,when the city began locating its reformatory institu-tions here, the population of the district was but1,986. The opening of the second bridge, however,gave the place a new impulse, and in 1830 its popu-lation had increased to 2,860. Ten years later ithad reached 5,590. During this period many fine influences of wealth. With the introduction ofthe horse-railway system in 1856, population in-creased rapidly, new industries were established,and building became brisk; but the prediction re-specting the court end was never fulfilled. Fash-ion had set strongly in the direction of the SouthEnd, and was already interested in the plans thendeveloping for the finer Boston on the NewLands yet to be created. The pleasantest resi-dence-quarters are now on the hills and their slopes. WOODS MACHINE COMF lUvellings were built and parks and streets embel-lished. In 1837 the great Mount WashingtonHouse (now occupied by the School for the Blind),with its broad entrance from a high flight of stepsand its generous piazzas affording a superb harbor-view, was opened. The prediction that the districtwould ultimately be the court end of Boston wasconfidently made and long clung to. In the BostonAlmanac for 1853, Dr. J. V. C. Smith, afterwardsMayor Smith (1854-56), in urging the filling of theflats, expressed his belief that it was destined to be-come the magnificent portion of the city in respectto costly residences, fashionable society, and the and towards the Point, the most easterly part of thedistrict. On the Point the water-front esplanade is oneof the most interesting parts of the new parksystem of the city now developing,
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