. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. of time varying from three to ten hours, and an averageof fifty thousand visitors, according toconservative estimates, are in the cityevery day of the year. Were it not forhotels, office buildings and departmentstores, where visitors are, in a real sense,looked upon as trespassers and un-welcomely tolerated, there would beabsolutely no conveniences found, ex-cept in saloons. Discomfort arising, espe-cially to aged persons, unconsciously les-sens the disposition to trave
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. of time varying from three to ten hours, and an averageof fifty thousand visitors, according toconservative estimates, are in the cityevery day of the year. Were it not forhotels, office buildings and departmentstores, where visitors are, in a real sense,looked upon as trespassers and un-welcomely tolerated, there would beabsolutely no conveniences found, ex-cept in saloons. Discomfort arising, espe-cially to aged persons, unconsciously les-sens the disposition to travel for business,social or recreational purposes. Thelarge department stores provide toiletconveniences to a small extent. How-ever, taking the retail business in general,the disinclination among thousands ofshoppers to be inconvenienced in theslightest must be estimated to result,to some extent, in a loss of Guide, 1905 edition, says:Public conveniences are not usuallyprovided in American cities. Such asdo exist in New York and other largecities are disgracefully inadequate innumber, size and Courtesy MelropoHlan Fark CommUslun CONVENIENCE STATION IN BLUE HILLS RESERVATION JJUbiUNb NEED FOR PUBLIC CONVENIENCE STATIONS 09
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