. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ful suburban boule-vards in the scheme wasfinancially very suc-cessful. Mr. Whitneywas next instrumen-tal in building therailway connectingBoston and Brook-line, which was calledthe West End StreetRailway. His nextgreat achievementwas the consolidatingof this system withall the street railwayscentering in Boston,forming a splendidsystem, of which heis the efficient study of the elec-tric systems for streetcars, and the adop-tion of the
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ful suburban boule-vards in the scheme wasfinancially very suc-cessful. Mr. Whitneywas next instrumen-tal in building therailway connectingBoston and Brook-line, which was calledthe West End StreetRailway. His nextgreat achievementwas the consolidatingof this system withall the street railwayscentering in Boston,forming a splendidsystem, of which heis the efficient study of the elec-tric systems for streetcars, and the adop-tion of the trolleysystem in B-oston,with the result of theappreciation of sub-urban property onehundred per cent,are matters of record. Mr. Whitney is also president ofthe Neverslip Horse Shoe and Hancock Inspirator com-panies, trustee of the West End Land Company, andchairman of the Board of Park Commissioners of Brook-line. Mr. \Vhitney owns a magnificent place on Jerusa-lem Road, Cohasset, but makes Brookline his this town he met Miss Margaret Foster Green, whomhe married in 1878. This union was blessed with a sonand four 246 MASSACHUSETTS OF TO-DAY. THE colossal express business of the United Stateshad its birthplace in Massachusetts, and was de-veloped by the genius of Alvin Adams. Mr. Adamswas born in Andover, Vt., June 16, 1804, where he liveduntil his parents died, when he was eight years of was then cared for by an elder brother, a farmer,until sixteen years old, when he obtained permission toseek his own living. He went to Woodstock, at thattime a gre_at centre of travel by stages, where he re-mained about fouryears, and then cameto Boston. He en-gaged in businessventures with varyingsuccess until, in 1840,he started the expressbusiness that hassince borne his was anotherin the field, andfriends advised theventuresome Adamsthat he would surelyfail in his scheme,for there could notbe sufficient businessbetween Boston andNew York for twolines;
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