. The Street railway journal . $150,000, and supp^fOlhe largest .granite statue in theworld. Brockton is a busy man^^ujg^^city, over $6,500,000being invested in the boot and shoe industry. Its populationin 1900 was 40,063, and although it is a separate city fromBoston it may fairly be said to fall within the suburbanlimit, as its industries are closely tied to the New Englandmetropolis by powerful business interests. Practically allthe leather employed in its shoe manufacture comes fromBoston, and the recent transportation strike in that citythreatened a paralysis in the shoe industry of Brock
. The Street railway journal . $150,000, and supp^fOlhe largest .granite statue in theworld. Brockton is a busy man^^ujg^^city, over $6,500,000being invested in the boot and shoe industry. Its populationin 1900 was 40,063, and although it is a separate city fromBoston it may fairly be said to fall within the suburbanlimit, as its industries are closely tied to the New Englandmetropolis by powerful business interests. Practically allthe leather employed in its shoe manufacture comes fromBoston, and the recent transportation strike in that citythreatened a paralysis in the shoe industry of Brockton inthe few days of its life. Furniture, carriages, boxes andcandy are also produced in large amounts. The Brockton & Plymouth road was chartered in 1899to build an extension of the Plymouth & Kingston Street. INTERIOR OF ENGINE ROOM, BROCKTON & PLYMOUTH STREET RAILWAY fairly be considered part of the main body of Massachu-setts. One of the pioneer lines of this section of the State con-nects the city of Brockton, 20 miles south of Boston, withthe town of Plymouth, situated on Massachusetts Bay, 37miles southeast of Boston. Plymouth is doubtless the most famous town historicallyin Massachusetts. As the scene of the landing of the Pil-grim Fathers in 1620, the oldest community in New Eng-land and the ground where the cornerstone of Americanliberty was carved in heroism and privation, the old townwith its Plymouth Rock, Provide Hill, monument andmuseums, stands to-day one of the most cherished spots inthe United States. Its population in 1900 was 9592. It hasnine churches, five banks, a public library, two weeklypapers and manufactures hardware, cordage, shoes andwire. The Forefathers Monument is 81 ft. high, cost Railway from its terminus at Kingston, via Whitman, toBrockton. In 1900 the
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