. The Street railway journal . ally a city exceeding 1,000,000 inhabitants, but morethan half this number live, not in Boston proper, but in will be seen how little the old city has grown, and howstationary is its present population; and how rapidly thesuburbs have grown, especially since the beginning ofstreet railway building, about 1850. The curve of metro-politan Boston has taken a sharp upward turn, ever since1885, and especially since 1890, when electric tractioncame to Boston in force, and the census of 1900 is quitesure to show a continuance of this upward movement. The maximum populat
. The Street railway journal . ally a city exceeding 1,000,000 inhabitants, but morethan half this number live, not in Boston proper, but in will be seen how little the old city has grown, and howstationary is its present population; and how rapidly thesuburbs have grown, especially since the beginning ofstreet railway building, about 1850. The curve of metro-politan Boston has taken a sharp upward turn, ever since1885, and especially since 1890, when electric tractioncame to Boston in force, and the census of 1900 is quitesure to show a continuance of this upward movement. The maximum population density of this area is 63,800per sip mile, and is found in the district within a half mile 17- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIV. No 9. of the State Llouse. From this figure it rapidly falls off, sothat from three to four miles away it is but 6000 per , and from nine to ten miles but 1300. In the wholearea about 45 per cent of the entire population are livingwithin a quarter mile from steam railroad suburban lines,. THE FIELD OF INVESTIGATION the service on which is wonderfully good, and the fareslow, averaging, for commutation tickets, considerably lessthan one cent a mile. These suburbs of Boston are not composed, as with thenewer cities of America, of strag-gling lines or groups of houses, in-terspersed with large areas of geo-metrically arranged city hits,weed overgrown and generalhpainfully new. Rich and pooralike live in Boston suburban cities,the former in beautifully and care-fully kept up country houses, withfine old trees and all the con-veniences of city life, and the latterin tastefully built individual homes,each with its garden plot and lawn,and with strong neighborhood as-sociations and local prides. Allthrough this area are the moderncomforts of gas, electric lights,water supply, sewerage and streetrailways. A magnificent metro-politan park system has been es-tablished, and reservations of wood-lands and picnic grounds, the lay-ing out of boulev
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