. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. , thesaloons have taken advantage of thefinancial benefits derived from free fact, toilets have become one of thegreatest money-makers in the saloon busi-ness. According to the report of theHousing Committee of the Civic Leagueof St. Louis, the saloon keepers estimatethat one-third of their gross proceedscome from men who feel under obligationsto spend some money in return for theirtoilet privileges. The Public Health (\)nnnit(ee of theUnited Improvement Asso
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. , thesaloons have taken advantage of thefinancial benefits derived from free fact, toilets have become one of thegreatest money-makers in the saloon busi-ness. According to the report of theHousing Committee of the Civic Leagueof St. Louis, the saloon keepers estimatethat one-third of their gross proceedscome from men who feel under obligationsto spend some money in return for theirtoilet privileges. The Public Health (\)nnnit(ee of theUnited Improvement Association madea thorough study of the subject of i)ublictoilets which was printed in NEW BOSTONfor May. In March, the NeighborhoodConference of collected con-siderable data on the subject and latera joint committee from the Neighbor-hood, Youth, Civic and EducationConferences recommended the followinglocations for the construction of con-venience stations: Washington and DoverStreets, South End; Bowdoin Scpiare,West End; North S((nare, North End;near Vine Street Church, Roxbury; andAdams Square. 66 NEW BOSTON. COMFORT STATION COMBINED WITH PUBLIC BUILDING IN VILLAGE SQUARE, BROOKLINE Convenience Station Entrances in foreground Five hundred saloons in Boston providefree toilets. The city of Boston maintainstwelve public convenience stations, havingforty-six toilets for men and thirty-sixtoilets for women, with a total of eighty-two fixtures. This makes an average ofover 8,000, resident population, for eachtoilet fixture. An average of 500 menan hour, during rush hours, use the under-ground station in the Common. Thedemand for toilet conveniences is in-creased by thousands from the varioussuburbs. x average of 65,000 to 75,000pass through North Station each dayof the year. The highest number ofpassengers on all trains, at this station,on one day, was 209,000. During April,1911, 5,685,145 passengers entered theelevated, tunnel and subway stations ofthe Boston Elevated R
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