Days and ways in old Boston . advancing thesepresent-day projects are descendants of the old-time merchants who owned the clipper ships of thefifties, or financed the western railways, and so agenerous share of the capital and the profits of theBoston of the earlier periods is still at work todayaiding at many distant points the national de-velopment. True to the traditional policy of Boston, thesechains of widely scattered enterprises have notbeen mere promotions or schemes of corporateconsolidation, but have created public utilities ofincalculable importance. A century and a third have now e
Days and ways in old Boston . advancing thesepresent-day projects are descendants of the old-time merchants who owned the clipper ships of thefifties, or financed the western railways, and so agenerous share of the capital and the profits of theBoston of the earlier periods is still at work todayaiding at many distant points the national de-velopment. True to the traditional policy of Boston, thesechains of widely scattered enterprises have notbeen mere promotions or schemes of corporateconsolidation, but have created public utilities ofincalculable importance. A century and a third have now elapsed sincethe beginning of the republic. Upon every pageof national development appears the evidenceof the courage and aid of the three cities withwhich the United States began her career as anation. Of these three, Boston, in proportionto population, can claim fairly to have surpassedthe others in the great achievement of nationbuilding. 144. ^ DAYS AND WAYSIN OLD BOSTON EDITED BT WILLIAM S. ROSSITER / Drawings by Malcolm Fraser andJacques Reich* of the Art Staff ofthe Century Magazine, New York BOSTON R. H. STEARNS AND COMPANY 1915 CTopn ^ Copyrightns an1914 R. H. Stearns and Company THK RDMFORD PRESSCONCORD, N. H. 25 1914 ^ • ^ PREFACE Impressed with the interesting changes thathad taken place in Boston and its business methodswithin the last two generations, we began sometime since the preparation of a brief pamphletcalling attention to some of these changes whichhad occurred during the business life of Mr. R. , who founded this business in 1847 and diedin 1909. It was our intention to distribute gratui-tously this pamphlet (partly advertising andpartly historical) among our customers. As thework progressed, however, we found so much ofinterest which had occurred in the year 47 andso much of Boston history which was connectedwith our present location, that the original planof a small booklet was aba
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