. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. f NewEngland. That chapter will beof absorbing interest tothe people of the twenty-hrst century. They, inthose days, will knowNew England as theleader of the wholenation in the art ofworking and in the artof living, and turningto their history theywill read how she wasthe American birthplace of these twogreat arts, how she for a time forgot herprestige, then suddenly bestirred herselfand came again into her own. Readingthis chapter, they will find that thisrejuvenation
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. f NewEngland. That chapter will beof absorbing interest tothe people of the twenty-hrst century. They, inthose days, will knowNew England as theleader of the wholenation in the art ofworking and in the artof living, and turningto their history theywill read how she wasthe American birthplace of these twogreat arts, how she for a time forgot herprestige, then suddenly bestirred herselfand came again into her own. Readingthis chapter, they will find that thisrejuvenation was accomplished by whatwill seem to them, in that wiser age,the obvious method, a method which weof today are only just beginning to ap-preciate—the cooperation of all thecommunity. They will learn that inNew England there were many mani-festations of this cooperative effort, andthat almost the earliest and certainlythe most striking of these was the forma-tion and growth of the Boston Chamberof Commerce. Today, it is still too soon to obtain aperspective upon the work of the BostonChamber of Commerce. It is only two. .?rii;ht Boston Photo News BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE years old. But it hasprogressed far enoughto warrant us in takingnote of it as one ofthe most significantmovements in llicUnited States, and infinding out what il isand does. The Boston Chamberof Commerce with its4,.500 members is thehirgest organization ofits kind in the is a democratic body,because all its membersare individuals, noneof them firms, becauseall of them ])ay duesat the same rate, andIxcause each has ane(|ual voice in themonthly m e e t i n g swhich arc a feature ofthe work of the organi-zation. To promote thecommerce, i n d u s t r yand public interests ofBoston and New England—that is theway the purpose of the Chani))er isstated in its charter, and toward thatend it has steadily set its course. Itworks for a section, not a city. Itrecognizes tiiat the prosperity of Bostonand the p
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