. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. agnificence ofthose beautiful residences fronting theCommon on the south. But far stranger ANCIENT AND MODERN BOSTON 171 changes have been brought about in lessthan five and twenty years in Milk andPearl Streets. In speaking of Tremont Street as des-tined to assume entirely new features inthe progress of events, if it could be wid-ened from the bottom of the Common toCastle Street, before the properties oneither side become too valuable for thesuccess of such an operati
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. agnificence ofthose beautiful residences fronting theCommon on the south. But far stranger ANCIENT AND MODERN BOSTON 171 changes have been brought about in lessthan five and twenty years in Milk andPearl Streets. In speaking of Tremont Street as des-tined to assume entirely new features inthe progress of events, if it could be wid-ened from the bottom of the Common toCastle Street, before the properties oneither side become too valuable for thesuccess of such an operation, it wouldimmensely facilitate the progress of tradeand transit convenience. Never was a more ridiculous bhmdcr made thanwhen the street was oj)eiied betweenHollis and Pleasant, which is l)()th repn--hensibly narrow and shockingly the tendency of things on theTremont road, mechanical works andmanufacturing establishments will gradu-ally monopolize both sides, all the wayto Roxbury line. After keeping posses-sion about twenty-five years, they willbegin to give way to the erection of loftyblocks of TREMONT AND BOYLSTON STREETS BEFORE TREMONT STREET WAS WIDENED If Tremont Street could be widened from tlie bottom of tlie Common to Castle Mreetbefore the properties on either side become to valuable it would immenselyfacilitate the progress of trade and traffic convenience CITY PLANNING, A FORECASTTHE CITY TO BE* OF FREDERICK LAW OLISISTED LIKE any live, productive organism,every city that is not moribundis in a constant state of changeand growth. Numerical increase ofpopulation, in the current ])liase of humanhistory, is so regular a feature of liveand productive cities that it is generallyaccepted as the chief index of their is so obvious that this increase ofpopulation necessitates additions to thephysical equipment of the city (such asmore houses, more stores, more streets,sewers, water pipes, telephone lines, etc.),and we are so accustomed to th
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