Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . latter was the shortest of the initial roads, butearly in its career made connection with Nashua,, and then with the New Hampshire and Ver-mont systems to the Canadian line. The Boston &Maine leased the Boston & Lowell and its systemsin 1887, thus securing the control by lease of theBoston, Concord, & Montreal, the Nashua & Lowell,the Keene branch, the Northern New Hampshire,and several minor connecting roads, and the CentralMassachusett
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . latter was the shortest of the initial roads, butearly in its career made connection with Nashua,, and then with the New Hampshire and Ver-mont systems to the Canadian line. The Boston &Maine leased the Boston & Lowell and its systemsin 1887, thus securing the control by lease of theBoston, Concord, & Montreal, the Nashua & Lowell,the Keene branch, the Northern New Hampshire,and several minor connecting roads, and the CentralMassachusetts. Connection was thus made withNew York via the Worcester & Nashua (includedin another lease), and with Philadelphia, Baltimore,& Washington via the Central Massachusetts andthe Poughkeepsie bridge. Three years before, inDecember, 1884, the Boston & Maine had effected alease of the Eastern (chartered in 1836, the originalline from East Boston to the New Hampshire line,opened in 1840), which then controlled the trafificto the northern shores of Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, as well as the bulk of the White Moun-. STATION OF BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD — EASTERN DIVISION. H BOSTON OF TO-DAY. tain travel. Thus consolidated the Boston & Maine templated. Until his sudden death in January,reaches a much larger area directly by its own lines 1892, James T. Furber was the general manager ofthan any other system in New England. The total this great system ; he had long been the superin-
Size: 1740px × 1436px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidbostonoftoda, bookyear1892
