. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. a high tower or keep, the upperstory and roof only being visible from the fort is now considered too near the city to beof value and is no longer garrisoned. BeyondFort Winthrop may be seen the many cottages ofthe town of Winthrop, which looks southward uponthe harbor and eastward upon the ocean. Directly ahead of the steamer is Spectacle Islandand at the left end of its shore are two sets of rangelights, one of each set on the top of the cliff and theother a
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. a high tower or keep, the upperstory and roof only being visible from the fort is now considered too near the city to beof value and is no longer garrisoned. BeyondFort Winthrop may be seen the many cottages ofthe town of Winthrop, which looks southward uponthe harbor and eastward upon the ocean. Directly ahead of the steamer is Spectacle Islandand at the left end of its shore are two sets of rangelights, one of each set on the top of the cliff and theother at the base. One of these lights is muchnearer than the other and sailing masters passingin or out of Boston, by keeping the lights one overthe other, hold the center of the channel. Theuse of the island is now divided between a citygarbage incinerator and a private corporation. To the right of Spectacle Island is ThompsonsIsland, which may be recognized by its growthof trees and institution building, the Farm andTrades School, a private institution for the islands of Boston Harbor were onee wooded 54 NEW BOSTON. GLOUCESTER and in colonial days Boston received from themits chief supply of firewood. They have sincebeen denuded of forest and these trees at the FarmSchool have been more recently set out. To the right of the Farm School is DorchesterBay and the estuary of the Neponset River andto the right of this, at the end of the low marsh,may be seen in the distance the large granite build-ing of the pumping station of one of the citysintercepting sewers. None of the sewage of the city is allowed to flowinto the harbor near the docks, but great inter-cepting sewers drain the city proper and suburbs,and there are three outlets in the lower harborwhere the sewage is allowed to discharge only withthe ebb tide. The pumping station now seenforces the sewage through an inverted siphonwhich rises again to the surface at Moon Head, thehigh bluff beyond Thompsons Island. Here is
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