Boston illustrated; . agreat deal of the success of the experiment is to be credited to liis pecidiar fit-ness for the position, and to his devotion to its interests. His son-in-law, Anagnos, is at present at the head of the institution as main building is situated on high ground on Mount Washington. Of lateyears the plan of the institution has been changed. The sexes are entirely sep-arated, the women occupying dwelling-houses built for the purpose. The in-mates, of both sexes, are divided into families, each of which keeps a separateaccount of its expenses. The
Boston illustrated; . agreat deal of the success of the experiment is to be credited to liis pecidiar fit-ness for the position, and to his devotion to its interests. His son-in-law, Anagnos, is at present at the head of the institution as main building is situated on high ground on Mount Washington. Of lateyears the plan of the institution has been changed. The sexes are entirely sep-arated, the women occupying dwelling-houses built for the purpose. The in-mates, of both sexes, are divided into families, each of which keeps a separateaccount of its expenses. The Asylum is partly self-supporting, such of the pupilsas are able to pay maintainmg themselves as at a boarding-school, and all thepupils being taught some useful trade. Several States, particidarly the NewEngland States, pay for the support of a large number of beneficiaries. In East Boston are the extensive terminal improvements of the Boston andAlbany railroad made since the purchase by the company of the Grand June-. BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 131 tion railroad and wharf. The railroad forms a connpction between the main line of the Boston and Al-bany, and the Fitchburg,Lowell, Eastern, and Bos-ton and Maine railroads,and gives the Albany roada deep - water - trains from the •West are here emptied oftheir contents by macliin-ery directly into an eleva-tor wliich has a capacity ofa million bushels, fromwhich in turn vessels maybe rapidly loaded. Amplefacilities are afforded forloading and unloading theCunard and other lines ofsteamships; while the facil-ities for the reception anddispatch o f immigrantshere are unequalled bythose of any other city onthe continent. Immigrantswho are to continue theirjourney by land into otherStates are provided wthevery comfort, and arecompletely secluded fromsharpers, who are alwayson the look-out for an op-portunity to swindle, untilthey are sent a w a y intrains over the Grand Junc-tion and the Boston andAlbany roads without be-i
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