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The building of the Mt. Washington School-house was delayed until 1877, when an appropriation of $5000 was made at a town-imeeting held March 8, 1877. The original lot of land, consisting of 12,779 square feet, was purchased of the Boston Five Cents Saving Bank for $1277.90 (ten cents per foot). The plan was drawn by G. F. Wallis, and the building erected by J. H. Kibby & Son, of Chelsea, costing, with the upper story unfinished, about $6000. Schools were opened in the lower story in the spring of 1878. The upper story was finished in 1880, and the building was reconstructed and enlarged, as it now is, in 1887. the architects being Brigham: & Spofford, and the con- tractor, J. A. Corkum. The lot has also been enlarged by the purchase of 19,000 feet of additional land, and the whole cost of building and land as they now stand has been upwards of $16,500.
During the period of hard times, from 1875 to 1881, the educational interests of the town suffered se- verely. The population of the centre of the town outgrew the accommodations furnished in the old Centre School-house, and in 1876 Badger's Hall, since remodeled into dwelling-houses, was engaged, and a primary school opened in the same. This sufficed for two years, when the necessity of further enlarge- ment compelled the hiring of a room over the present store of 1. T. Winchester, where a school, first of the intermediate, but afterwards of the primary grade, was located. At a town-meeting held .July 15, 1878, a motion to appoint a committee to consider the matter of purchasing a lot of land and erecting another Centre School-house there, was defeated by a vote of 143 to 29. On May 27, 1879, another similar effort was defeated by a vote of 93 to 60.
In the spring of 1881 a committee of nine, ap- pointed in November, 1880, to consider the subject of school accommodations in concurrence with the School Committee, reported in favor of additional accommodations, both for the Centre and the Mystic Village Districts. An appropriation of $6000 was
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made for the latter, with little opposition in addition to the proceeds realized. from the sale of the old Thorndike Street School-house, making an available fund of $6600, with which the present Thorndike Street School-house was erected in the same year, three schools being opened in the building in the following autumn. The architect of the building was Tristram Griffin, and the contractor, Joel Snow.
The proposal for an additional Centre School-house encountered a bitter opposition, extending until late in the night at several successive town-meetings ; but, notwithstanding all the opposition, an appropriation of $12,000.00 was secured, and a building committee selected. The lot of land on Church Street, contain- ing 19,088 feet, was purchased of H. G. Turner, for $2278.40, on the 10th of May ; the filling and grading of the lot cost $470.70. Mr. Tristram Griffin was the architect. Ground was broken for the building Janu- ary 21, 1881 ; the foundation was constructed by Mr. W. M. Dodge for $940.00. The contract for the building above the foundation was awarded to Richardson & Young, of Boston. The cost of the building, aside from the furnishings and blackboards, was $7384.70. The furnaces and other appliances brought the total up to the appropriation of $12,000. The building was dedicated on January 2, 1882, with appropriate ceremonies, in which the Hon. John D. Long, then Governor, and Hon. J. W. Dickinson, secretary of the Board of Education, participated. It was not the building in itself which elicited this marked demonstration, but the fact that it marked a turning-point in the educational history of Everett, which has been steadily onward from that day to the present time. The building was first occupied for school purposes Monday, January 9, 1882. The lot was further enlarged later in the year, by the pur- chase of additional land between the original lot and Liberty Street, at a cost of $1000.00, giving a total area of 26,495 square feet. In 1886 the building was enlarged by adding two rooms for the lower grades, and one room of double size for the High School, with suitable recitation rooms. The enlargement was de- signed by Mr. Tristram Griffin, the former architect, and the 'additions were constructed by the former contractors, Richardson & Young, of Boston, the foundation being the work of Patrick Lineban, of Malden. The total cost of the addition was $7000.00. In it are the High School, and six schools of the primary and intermediate grades.
In 1885 the Glendale School-house, after being in service for thirty-one years, could no longer ac- commodate the increased school population of that district, and at a town-meeting, held March 10, 1885, an appropriation of $6500, with the proceeds realized from the sale of the old building, was made for the erection of a four-room school-house on the old site. The architect employed by the building committee was John Lyman Faxon, and the contract- ors were Mead, Mason & Company. The building
contains four rooms, and the total cost of the edifice, with eleven thousand five hundred and seven feet of additional land purchased in the rear and heating apparatus, was about $8300, of which the contractors received $6625. Four schools, much better graded than before, were opened in the new building in November, 1885.
Within two years after the enlargement of the Church Street School-house in 1886, so rapid was the increase of population that the Centre schools began to be again over-crowded, and complaints were made as to the sanitary condition of the old Centre School- house, which at the incorporation of the town was far the best of our school-houses. A committee of nine was appointed to consider the subject, and this committee reported unanimously in favor of selling, or otherwise disposing of, the old Centre School-house, and of appropriating thesum of $25,000 for the purpose of erecting a brick school-house in the central part of the town sufficient to contain eight rooms, each 28 by 36 feet. The appropriation recommended was unani- mously passed, and the matter of erecting the building was committed to the same committee, and this com- mittee purchased twenty-two thousand square feet of land at the junction of Broadway and Broadway Court, at eighteen cents per square foot, making the total cost of the land $3960. The committee eni- ployed Wesley L. Minor as architect. The founda- tions were constructed by Patrick Linehan, of Malden, at an expense of $988.25, and the building contract, above the foundations, was awarded to Mcad, Mason & Company, at the price of $18,722, to which extras amounting to upwards of $2000 must be added. Various other items have brought the cost to date up to $27,941.86, and there is still an unsettled claim on account of the contractors. On the 23d of September, 1889, three schools were opened in the Broadway School-house, and on the 14th of October the last of the remaining schools in the old Centre School-house was removed to the new building. The old building was thus finally abandoned, after a continuous service for school purposes by the towns of Malden and Ever- ett of forty-two years.
The erection of the Broadway School-house com- pleted the entire reconstruction of the school accom- modations of the town of Everett. There remained no longer a solitary school-house inherited from the town of Malden. Everett has now six large, com- modious and fairly well ventilated school-houses con- taining thirty-nine school-rooms, with a seating capacity of two thousand and twenty-nine, and two recitation rooms-all costing $103,275. The town employs thirty-eight teachers. Within the past two years these school-houses have been provided with electric one-session signals.
The subject of an evening school had been agitated for some years, but never took shape until 1889. On the 19th day of March, pursuant to the recommenda- tion of the School Committee, an appropriation of
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$500 was made, and on the 15th day of October fol- lowing, after the legal notices had been given, an evening school was opened in the Broadway School- house, the sessions being maintained Monday, Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 7.30 to 9.30. The number of different scholars attending during the first term was 115, the largest number at any one session was 81, and the average number present for the whole term, ending Friday, Dec. 20th, was 29. The oldest scholar attending was 41 years of age, the youngest 13, and the average age was 15 2-15 years. This institution affords a means of education to any who have previously enjoyed very limited opportuni- ties in this direction, and bids fair to achieve perma- nent usefulness.
For five years after its incorporation, Everett was an integral part of the representative district, consisting of Malden, Somerville and Everett, represented in the Legislature by three members. The first effort to se- eure a representation from Everett was in the autumn of 1872, when Alonzo H. Evans received the nomi- nation at a Republican caucus and was elected. As Everett was a small part of the district, it did not secure representation again until 1875, when Mr. Evans was again nominated and elected, having this served in the Legislatures of 1873 and 1876, both years on the Committee on Banks and Banking.
In 1876 the re-arrangement of the districts as- sociated Everett with Malden as a district having two representatives, of which, by agreement with Mal- den, Everett was to have six representatives in ten years. The first representative in the new district was George S. Marshall, who was nomi- nated after an animated contest in the largest cancus ever held in Everett up to that time, by a vote of 150 to 140 for Robert M. Barnard, and was elected in November, 1877, serving in the Legis- lature of 1878 on the Committee on Banks and Bank- ing. lle was re-elected in 1879, serving in the Legis- Jature of 1880 on the Committee on Education.
William Johnson was elected as his successor in 1880, serving in the Legislature in 1881 on the Com- miittee on'Woman's Suffrage. He was succeeded in 1882 by George E. Smith, Esq., who was elected, after a spirited contest at the polls, over our late esteemed fellow-citizen, John S. Nichols. Mr. Smith was rc- elected in 1883, thus serving in the Legislatures of 1883 and 1884, on the Committee on Education in 1883, in 1884 on the Committee on Taxation ; also as House chairman of the Committee on Roads and Bridges.
He was succeeded in 1885 by Dudley P. Bailey, who was the last representative from Everett in the old district. In 1886 Everett became a district by it- self, entitled to one representative, and Mr. Bailey was re-elected as the first representative in the new district, serving in the Legislatures of 1886 and '87 as House chairman of the Committee on Taxation in both years, and on the Committee on Probate and In-
,solvency in 1887. He was succeeded by Joseph 11. Cannell, who was elected in 1887, and re-elected in 1888, serving in the Legislatures of 1888 and 1889 on the Committee on Street Railways. In the cancus of 1889 the candidates were Adams B. Cook, Thomas Leavitt and John S. Cate, the latter being nominated and elected, serving in the Legislature of 1890 on the Committee on Street Railways.
All of the foregoing representatives elected have been Republicans. The Democratic nominees from Everett who have contested the elections have been as follows: 1871, Joseph E. Nichols; 1872, Columbus Corey ; 1873, E. A. Alger, Jr., and C. Corey ; 1874, C. Corey ; 1875, J. E. Nichols; 1876, J. E. Nichols ; 1877, Daniel Emmons ; 1878, Daniel Emmons, (Demo- cratic) and Alfred Tufts (Greenback) ; 1879, Wear T. Melvin, (Butler Dem.) and George F. Foster (Reg. Dem.); 1880, Charles F. Atwood; 1881, Charles F. Atwood; 1882, John S. Nichols, Sr .; 1883, Charles F. Atwood; 1885, Otis W. Greene; 1886, Woodbury A. Ham; 1887, Charles C. Nichols; 1888, William Bassett.1
Everett has never been represented in the Senate until two years ago. In 1874, Alonzo H. Evans, the first representative, was nominated, but in the great political avalanche of that year he was defeated.
From this time, owing to local jealousies, no candi- date from Everett succeeded in securing the nom- ination of the Senatorial District Convention until 1888, when Mr. Evans was nominated and elected, being re-elected in the autumn of 1889, and serving in the Senate in 1889 and 1890. Ju both years he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Banks and Banking, and served also on the Committee on Taxa- tion.
It would be interesting to write our political history more in detail, but it would be a very delieate sub- jeet to treat, and it is perhaps better that many of the local contests of the past should not go into history.
As a part of our local municipal history the follow- ing names of the different citizens who have filled the more important town offices since the incorpora- tion of the town are presented :
Selectmen : W. IT. Lounsbury, 1870-72; H. W. Van Voorhis, 1870-72 ; George W. Pierce, 1870-71 ; E. B. Loring, 1870-75 ; P. Richmond Pratt, 1870-71 ; Joseph E. Nichole, 1871-73 ; Columbus Corey, 1871-76 ; Clarke Thompson, 1872-76 ; Lewis P. True, 1872-74, 1886-87 ; Sammel J. Cox, 1873-75, 1877-80 ; Philip Ham, 1874-76, 1880-83; Charles F. Atwood, 1876-79; Adame B. Cook, 1876-79, 1880-81 ; Woodbury A. Ham, 1879- 80, 1881-83 ; Gulian HI. Van Voorhis, 1879-80, 1887-90 ; Nathaniel J. Mead, 1880-81 ; leane T. Winchester, 1881-83, 1884-SG ; Geo. F. Foster, 1883-84 ; Fred. Johnson, 1883-84 ; llarden Palmer, 1883-86 ; Nathaniel B. Plummer, 1884-86 ; Frank P. Bennett, 1886-87 : Francis E. Dyer, 1886-90 ; John S. Cote, 1887-89 ; Charlee 11. Spencer, 1889-00.
Clerk : Joseph II. Cannell, 1870-90.
Treasurer: Daniel Emmons, 1870 to Jan . 1, 1880 ; Wm. Johnson, 1880- 86; Joseph E. Nichols, 1886-90; Nathan Nichole, 1890. Mr. Johnson died in office in 1886, his fellow-citizens testifying their regard for him
1 In 1889 there was no Democratic candidate for representative, and the opposition concentrated on Thomas Leavitt, Independent Republi- can.
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by ra-electing him while ou his dying bed. Appropriate resolutione were passed in honor of him in town-meeting, April 27, 1886.
Assessors : Wm. Johnson, 1870-80; Jas. G. Foster, 1870-74 ; Otis Mar- riam, 1870-73 ; Robert M. Barnard, 1872-75; Joseph E. Nichols, 1876- 78, 1880-87 ; Henry W. Van Voorhis, 1875-78, 1880-86 ; Columbus Corey, 1877-87, 1890; Francia E. Dyer, 1878-80; Albert W. Lewis, 1886-90; Anos Roberts, 1887-89 ; Geo. G. Ladd, 1887-90; Daniel O. Dearborn, 1889-90.
School Committee : Jas. G. Foster, 1870-71 ; H. M. Currier, 1870-73 ; Geo. S. Marshall, 1870-73, 1876-79; Chas. F. Atwood, 1870-76 ; Dr. J. F. Wakefield, 1870-71, 1881-84 ; J. H. Whitman, 1870-73 ; G. C. Hickok, 1871-82, 1886-87 ; Andrew J. Bennett, 1872-74 ; E. A. Alger, Jr., 1873- 74; Dudley P. Bailey, 1873-74, 1876-80, 1882-90 ; Albert W. Lewis, 1874-78, 1879-90; John H. Burt, 1874-76 ; Isaac E.Coburn, 1874-77; Frau- cis E. Dyer, 1874-78 ; Ilarden Palmer, 1877-83; James B. Everett, 1878-81 ; Henry A. Tenny, 1878-81, 1883-85 ; Stephen F. Hoogs, 1880- 85, 1886-89, 1890 ; Nathan Nichols, 1886-90 ; John C. Spofford, 1886-90 ; Gao. M. Buttrick, 1887-90; Roscoe E. Brown, 1889-90; Geo. N. P. Mead, 1889-90 ; Mary O. Bullfinch, 1889-90 ; Sarah J. Clough, 1889-90i Darius Hadley, 1890.
Auditors : Columbus Corey, 1870-71; J. II. Cennell, 1870-76 ; Thos. Leavitt, 1871-74, 1875-76; George F. Foster, 1872-73, 1874-75, 1878-79 ; A. F. Ferguson, 1874-75, 1876-80 ; S. A. Stimson, 1876-77, 1888-89; H. A. Tenney, 1877-79 ; Charles E. Jennings, 1879-83 ; Frank P. Bennett, 1879-81; Geo. H. Burr, 1881-86, 1889-90; Henry K. Veazie, 1883-90 ; Chas. C. Nichols, 1886-88; Henry E. Taylor, 1890.
The first Water Committee consisted of five persons, to be elected an- nually, pursuant to chapter 205, of the acts of 1871. The persons chosen ou this committee were Charlee Woodberry, Wm. 11. Lounsbury, H. W. Van Voorhis, Otis Merriam, A. H. Evans, and they served for two years, when they were succeeded by the Water Board elected pur- suant to chapter 68 of the acts of 1873, who have been as follows : W. H. Louosbury, 1873-76 ; Irving A. Evans, 1873-74; Geo. F. Foster, 1873-74 ; Thos. Leavitt, 1874-80, 1882-90 ; Chas. D. Stesrus, 1874-77 ; Chas. W. Merrill, 1876-78 ; Stephen A. Stimson, 1877-81 ; Nathao Nich- ols, 1879-82 ; Nathan B. Smith, 1880-82 ; Geo. Taylor, 1882-85 ; Daniel Russell, Jr., 1882-86, 1890 ; Robert II. Jenkins, 1885-90 ; Isaac T. Win- chester, 1886-90.
A sinking fund was established in 1876. The fol- lowing citizens have served as sinking fund commis- sioners :
Amos Roberta, 1876-89 ; Josiah A. Kingman, 1876-89; Chas. Wood- berry, 1876-77 ; Joseph II. Cannell, 1876-90; Jas. P. Stewart, 1889-90; Jas. E. Larkin, 1889-90.
The selectmen acted as overseers of the poor for the years 1870-80. The overseers of the poor since that time have been as follows :
Robert B. Rogers, Sr., 1880-82; Adams B. Cook, 1880-85, 1888-90; Stephen C. Currier, 1880-81, 1882-83 ; N. F. Shippee, 1881-84 ; Samuel P. Cannell, 1883-90 ; Geo. S. Marshall, 1884-90 ; D. P. Murphy, 1886-88.
The selectmen also acted as Board of Health dur- ing the ten years 1870-80. The members of the board since that time have been as follows :
Geo. F. Foster, 1880-81; Adams B. Cook, 1880-81 ; Alfred Tufts, 1880-81 ; Francis E. Dyer, 1881-82 ; Isaac T. Winchester, 1881-84 ; Dr. W. G. Hanson, 1882-86; Dr. J. F. Wakefield, 1883-86; Joseph M. Bas- Bett, 1884-86; John Reed, 1886-87; Wm. Goodhne, 1886-90 ; Dr. Ab- bott Sauford, 1886-88; D. W. Fitzgerald, 1887-88, 1889-90 ; Dr. E. W. Ilil, 1888-89; Dr. W. K. Knowles, 1888-90 ; Dr. E. C. Newton, 1890.
Trustees of the Public Library : James B. Everett, 1880-90; Henry A. Tenney, 1880-90 ; Geo. E Kimball, 1880-90 ; Dudley P. Bailey, 1880- 90 ; F. B. Wallis, 1880-84, 1889-90 ; C. F. Atwood, 1880-81 ; Geo. S. Mar- shall, 1880-81 ; Wm. G. Colesworthy, 1880-82 ; Edward R. Thorndike, 1880-81; Rev. R. P. Bush, 1881-90; W. G. Beaver, 1881-83; Geo. H. Burr, 1881-90 ; Geo. E. Smith, 1882-90 ; Albert N. Dary, 1883-84; Gil- man C. Hickok, 1884-90 ; Martin J. Cahill, 1884-89.
The selectmen have acted as surveyors of highway for the years 1870-72, 1874-75, 1879-80, 1885-87. The following gentlemen have been elected as survey- ors of highways :
Daniel Eames, 1872-74 ; Gao. W. Pains, 1876-77 ; Benj. F. Nichols, 1880-85, 1887-89.
The Highway Department has been managed by the following gentlemen as road commissioners for the terms named :
Louis P. Trus, Caleb Richardson and Geo. W. Paine, 1875-76; Robert M. Barnard, 1877-78, 1889-90 ; Samuel J. Sewall, 1877-79; Geo. W. Pierce, 1877-78 ; Leonard Emerton, Sr., 1878-79; Benj. F. Nichols, 1878-79 ; Solomon Shuts, 1889-90 ; Thos. Leavitt, 1889-90 ; Amos Stone, 1890.
Until the year 1881 the financial year of the town ended on the last day of February and the town- meetings were held on the fourth Tuesday in March. By an amendment of the by-laws made in 1881 the financial year was made to correspond with the cal- endar year, the accounts being made up for ten months ending December 31, 1881. In 1882 and subsequent years the annual town-meeting has been held on the first Tuesday in March. The by-laws were further amended April 28, 1887, by adopting certain building regulations, and these, not having been found sufficiently stringent, were amended and strengthened in December, 1889, and with these and certain other amendments the by-laws of 1881 con- stitute the regulations governing town affairs.
The expenditures of the town of Everett for the first two decades of its history, 1870-89 inclusive, have been as follows :
Total.
School, current expenses .
1870-80. . $110,979.66
1880-89. $174,983.35
$285,963.01
" special .
23,073.00
83,000.661
106,073.72
l'ublic Library
10,924.60
10,924.60
Highway, current expenses .
60,847.06
77,098,89
137,945.95
construction
60,833.14
15,673.36
76,506,50
gravel lots
5,916.25
8,000.00
13,916,25
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Malden Bridge
4,600,00
12,386.45
12,386.45
Lo
street lights
8,114.67
26,176.38
34,291.05
Shade-trees
274.00
1,189.96
1,463.96
Stone crusher
13,765.15
25,738.23
39,523.38
Fire Department, general . = special
5,536.48
1,648,95
7,185.43
Poor Department .
18,128.36
38,065.88
56,194.24
Police2 .
2,600.50
26,867.24
29,467.74
Interest on town debt .
40,082.64
42,935.55
83,018,19
Interest ou water debt
43,020.00
60,000.00
103,020.00
Sinking Fund
12,025.00
39,488.65
51,513.65
Water-works
107,607.48
60,610.021
168,217.50
llydrants
2,829.37
2,829.37
State military aid
6,608.25
6,680.50
13,2%$.75
Salaries
24,370.42
32,817.71
57,188.13
Defalcation
23,297.53
...
23,297.53
Miscellaneous
29,749.08
39,833.54
69,5×2.62
Taxes abated and refunded
7,717.23
15,671.98
23,389.21
Tax titles
671.72
431.89
1,103.61
Total for towa purposes
$609,837.68
$x12,005.60 $1,421,843.28
State tax
$28,468.80
$48,190,00
$TG,658.80
County tax
16,403.35
27,211.64
43,614.99
State and couuty taxes paid $44,872.15
$75,401.64
$120,273.79
Total
$654,709.83
$887,407.24 81,542,117.07
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1 Unsettled claims in course of liquidation to be added.
2 Included io miscellaneous until 1877. No specific appropriation.
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2,833.63
2,833.63
street watering
6,118,81
6,118.81
4,600.00
sidewalks
1870-89.
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Of these expenditures $1,205,122.38 were raised by taxation-$463,294.21 in the years 1870-80 and $741,828.17 in the ten years 1880-89 inclusive. Water bonds were issued to the amount of $100,000, and $77,000 borrowed for other town purposes, be- sides the portion of the Malden debt assumed and loans paid off, and there have been received from var- ious sources other than taxation and loans (chiefly the bank, corporation and dog taxes, sale of town property and water rates), $214,164.96, making the total taxation, loans (net) and other receipts, $1,596,287.34. The total principal of the water debt, January I, 1890, was $100,000, and of the town debt, $117,500, of which $38,500 were inherited from Mal- den. Against this was held a sinking fund of $69,675.21, of which $32,725 has been derived from taxation, $22,359.55 from interest on investments, and the balance from various sources.
Down to 1878 the Fire Department had continued very much in the condition in which it was in 1847, except that in 1875 a hook-and-ladder company was formed, apparatus purchased, and a house erected for the same. At a town-meeting held May 9, 1878, the town voted to purchase a steam fire-engine and equipments, an appropriation of $3400 being made. After the new steamer, the " Joseph Swan," had been purchased, the Fire Department was reorganized and made more efficient. On March 19, 1885, an appro- priation of $1600 was made to provide an electric fire alarm, aud the remodeling of the old Centre School-house for an engine-house, at a cost of $6700, will afford facilities which promise to increase still more the efficiency of the department.
At the time the town was incorporated the street- car accommodations were very poor, the rails being mostly of wood, surmounted by iron straps. The running time was very slow, and the fares high. On the Eastern Railroad and the Saugus Branch were located two unsightly structures, built in 1854 for stations, utterly inadequate to the wants of the pub- lic. The fares were eight cents for single trip and six and one-half cents for commutation tickets. This was reduced in May, 1879, to six cents for single fare, and five cents for commutation tickets. Iu the fall of 1879, after a united effort, a new station was sccured between Broadway and Main Street, the lot being purchased by private subscription and the town laying ont Railroad Street in the rear. In 1880 a station was established at East Everett, the expense being mainly defrayed by private subscription, and trains began stopping there on Mouday, December 20, 1880. In 1881 a freight track was located at the foot of Carter Street on the Saugus Branch. In 1882 a new station was built on the Saugus Branch, about one thousand feet north from the site of the old station, at the foot of Waters Street. The open- ing of the new station was celebrated by a banquet and entertainment, at which about 250 persons were present. Though the removal of the station aroused
much bitter feeling at the time among those who were discommoded, it has proved beneficial in the end, as it resulted in establishing still another station on the Saugus Branch at West Street, which was opened about the Ist of March, 1890, although trains had stopped there for passengers since June, 1888.
The horse-car accommodations continued to be very unsatisfactory until within the last three years, the running time being frequently chauged, besides being very slow, and the management unprogressive, not to say stupid. There was, however, some im- provement, as the track had, in the course of years, been relaid with iron rails, and in some places paved, and fares somewhat reduced. The route to Everett Springs had been opened Sept. 14, 1882, as a branch line.
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