. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. milar to the oneabove was sent to the consuls inLondon, Paris, Berlin, Vienna,Glasgow and St. Petersburg,and brought forth the followingfacts in relation to each: According to our consul atParis that city is behind theother European cities in thematter of convenience stations,having only two undergroundstations and a number of un-sightly urinals. Vienna has 178 urinals, with798 compartments and a num-ber of conveniences, and otherAustrian cities follow Germanyin this re
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. milar to the oneabove was sent to the consuls inLondon, Paris, Berlin, Vienna,Glasgow and St. Petersburg,and brought forth the followingfacts in relation to each: According to our consul atParis that city is behind theother European cities in thematter of convenience stations,having only two undergroundstations and a number of un-sightly urinals. Vienna has 178 urinals, with798 compartments and a num-ber of conveniences, and otherAustrian cities follow Germanyin this respect. Berlin has 146 Show urinals and 785 compartments; Dresden ^Opublic conveniences for men, one of wiiichcan be used as a lavatory for and Munich have a number ofpublic urinals and conveniences for menand women. Milan, Rome and Naplesprovide public comfort stations, in addi-tion to numerous pnblic urinals. RioJaneiro, Brazil, has thirty public lava-tories at suitable intervals in fifteensmall public market places. St. Ieters-burg has a few convenience stations, un-systematically arranged and improperly. BATTKRV PARK, NKW VDliKing provision for the public and the office district 28 NEW BOSTON 1 . CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY maintained. London and Glasgow arereferred to in most of the consular re-plies as representing the greatest progressin this line of public conveniences. Quoting in part from the letter re-ceived from London, describing the con-ditions in the city of Westminster, a partof greater London, the consul writes: The accommodation is of two kinds, viz.: (a) Underground public conveniencesfor men and women, of which there areseventeen in Westminster, the majoritysituated in busy streets, and, (b) Above ground urinals for men, ofwhich there are forty. The undergroundconveniences are mostly constructed un-der the streets or under public parks ad-jacent to, and with means of access di-rect from, the streets. They containurinals, water-closets and lavatory a
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