. The Street railway journal . A large amountof money has been spent by the Metropolitan ParkCommission in improving Revere Beach, and this isnow one of the finest coast resorts on MassachusettsBay, while south of Boston, Nantasket Beach is apopular pleasuring ground. Regularly twice a day a great majority of Bos-tons business men pass between home and officeover electric or steam railroad tracks. Several timesa week their wives and children go in town forshopping, visit friends in other suburbs, or, in thesummer months, take a pleasure ride on the trolleycars, either with or without an object
. The Street railway journal . A large amountof money has been spent by the Metropolitan ParkCommission in improving Revere Beach, and this isnow one of the finest coast resorts on MassachusettsBay, while south of Boston, Nantasket Beach is apopular pleasuring ground. Regularly twice a day a great majority of Bos-tons business men pass between home and officeover electric or steam railroad tracks. Several timesa week their wives and children go in town forshopping, visit friends in other suburbs, or, in thesummer months, take a pleasure ride on the trolleycars, either with or without an object. The three orfour thousand students and professors of Harvardand Tufts Colleges in Cambridge and Medford nearby have much to do with Boston proper, both dayand night. The great manufacturing city of Lynnand the charming residential cities along the North Shorefurnish an immense amount of business to the railroadsand street railways serving them, and in all directions arefound comfort and prosperity on large or small scale and. BEACON STREET AND BOSTON COMMON comparatively little of grinding poverty or tenement houseliving. How valuable, from a transportation standpoint, is the September, 1898.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL area under investigation, may be judged from the factthat 231,000,000 passengers per annum, in round numbers,were carried on its street railways alone in their last finan-cial year—an equivalent of 633,000 passengers, or one-halfthe entire population, per diem. In [885 the number ofstreet railway passengers in this same area was but 91,000,-000! The difference is due partly to the great increase inmileage, partly to the electrical equipment of all lines,partly to consolidations, with their attendant advantagesto the people, and partly to the natural increase of popula- ,000 1,000,000000,000SOU ,000700,000000,000500,000100,000300,000300,000 100,000 7 Diagram showing the population of BostonProper, of Boston with anneyations, and ofthe cities and towns l
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