. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. nwages per month, a total annual wage of $l!20,000being lost to that city. Is it a function of the com-mercial organization to take up civic matters withsuch an experience? The other ilhistration came from oneof the largest, if not the largest, realestate operators in the United States,and the statement is more significant,from the fact that it is made at the end of a quarter of a centurys says: At one time, a few years since, my associatesand I were serio
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. nwages per month, a total annual wage of $l!20,000being lost to that city. Is it a function of the com-mercial organization to take up civic matters withsuch an experience? The other ilhistration came from oneof the largest, if not the largest, realestate operators in the United States,and the statement is more significant,from the fact that it is made at the end of a quarter of a centurys says: At one time, a few years since, my associatesand I were seriously engaged in a consideration ofan ideal charity; in other words, in attemptingto find a form of charitable or public service inwhich a given sum of money could be utilized withthe least possible waste, the greatest possible goodand which would leave a perpetual monument tothe giver. We took up the various forms of philan-thropic activity—educational, religious, care ofchildren, care of the aged, and all others we couldthink of, and finally, somewhat to our surprise,arrived at the conclusion that vacant land was the. STATE STREET, MADISON, AS IT IS 10 NEW BOSTON only gift free from the decay which assails materialconstruction and of the misiiiaiia>;cinciit whichmenaces capital dedicated to cluirilahlc conception regarding vacant land shaped itselfinto the form of dedicated ])!aygrounds or parks,close to big cities, wliicli could forever be therecreation places for the neighboring that time no other than the charitable aspectof the case suggested itself to us. It did not seempossible that such an immediate sacrifice to ourfuture expectations would work any importantbenefit to our treasury balance. In this we weremistaken. PVom a lack of courage we began re-luctantly and niggardly to carry out this policy;therefore, our education has been slow, but we areat last convinced that upon every considerationof public and ])rivate policy inte
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