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Bates, Joshua, benefactions, 877.
Bay Company, officials of the, 39. "Bay State," 767.
Beginning of the Provincial Period, 96; of higher education, 854. Beleaguered Town, the, 68-69.
Benefactions of merchant princes, 201.
Benevolent and charitable organizations of Boston, 978.
"Be seated, gentlemen," the man who first said, 673.
Bigelow, Mayor John Prescott, 230. Bigelows in medical annals of the city, 303. Bird & Son, Inc., 647.
Blackstone, William, pioneer benefactor, 970. Board of State Charities, 965. Boston Academy of Music, 868. Boston Airport, 1091. Boston and Albany Railroad, 1074.
Boston and Lowell charters, 1062.
Boston and Maine Railroad in relation to New England, 1073.
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"Boston Artillery," 784.
Boston against the King, 53; and the Opera, 870 ; and the World War, 778; a royalist town, 59; a brief political history of, 709-747; a cultural center, 867; a club city, 983; as capital of a province, 181 ; attitude toward slavery, 137; becomes wholesale center, 693; founded by mer- chants, 680; home of Stillson wrench, 638; basin, geological past of the, 8; churches and nationalities, 902; clergy, 206; College, 855; deeded to the Puritans by the Indians, III; Dispensary, 317; Elevated Railway, 1084; formative period in, 148; free from Indian invasions, 114; Harbor explored by Myles Standish, 4, 7; history, landmarks of, 147; in 1760, 57; Juvenile Court, 278; leaders in King Philip's War, 119; Lying-in Hospital, 320; "Massacre," 130; medical events, important, 306; Medical Library, 308, 883; organized as a town, 35; patriots, other, 193; plant of the General Hospital, 319; primitive, 156; primacy of, 157; receives its name, 43; "Regiment" in World War, 783; religion the foundation of, 162, 916; rural, becomes urban, 184; school buildings, two nationally known, 848; sentiment against the Revolution, 135; society in 1740, 183; statesmen, 203; summary of the growth of, 25; Teachers' College, 855; the capital of a province, 55; the "Occasion of all wars," 136; the originator of novel religions, 934; the unique, 145; town government of, 46; University Law School, 267, 268; Uni- versity School of Medicine, and the Homeopathic Hospital, 323; University, 856; weather record, 28; what it was to Winthrop, 163.
Boston's contribution to religion, 899; early importance, 47 ; descent from the heights, 194; first benefactor, 149; first public buildings, 59; first shop-keeper, 687; growth by annexation, 23; newest indus- trial center, 624; reaction to the Stamp Act, 64; site as the Puritans saw it, 5. Boylston, Dr. Zabdiel, 296
Boys' Club, 986.
Bram Case, 274.
Branch libraries, 881.
Brick-making, two and a half centuries of, 635.
Bridges in and about Boston, 73
Brimmer, Mayor Martin, 229.
Brooks, Phillips, and Trinity Church, 926.
Building America's greatest organs, 626.
Building ships that traverse the seven seas, 610.
Burying grounds, 1108.
Business Administration, B. U. School of, 857. Business depression of War of 1812, 74.
Butler, Benjamin F. and creation of Su- preme Court, 256. Butler's statute about charging juries, 258.
"Cambridge Compact," signers of the, 151. Capital town, 47.
Captain-merchant, rise of the, 682.
Carnegie, Andrew, beneficence of, 971.
Carney, Andrew, hospital endowment, 974.
Carter's Ink Company, 649.
Case of Goody Glover, 179.
Casual visitor in The Hub, 110I.
Cathedral, Franklin Street, 940.
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 912.
Catholic Church, 109; in Boston, 939; first Catholic society, 940, 944.
Catholic organizations, 942, 1015.
Chamber of Commerce Library, 892.
Change of policy, signs of a, 48.
Changing faiths, 902.
Chapman, Mayor Jonathan, 229.
Character of the higher schools, 854.
Charitable and philanthropic activity, 959, et seq.
Charles H. Tenney and Company Library, 896.
Charlestown, first church at, 93.
Charm of New England, IIII.
Charter, first city, 711; new, 713.
Charter revoked, 51; of 1909, 217; amended, 217.
Chateau-Thierry Sector, 792.
Children's Hospital, 325.
Christian Science Church, 110, 938.
Chronology of the Spanish-American War, 754.
Church and State, union of, 80.
Church at Dorchester, 92.
Church movement to Back Bay, 905.
Churches in Boston in 1692, 95.
Churches, the historic, 904.
City charter, acceptance of the, 215; weak- ness of the first, 216.
City : dimensions, 26; government, the first, 216; the present, 217; hospital, 321; officers, tabular list, 222-223 ; personality of the, 146; rebirth of the, 196.
City Hospital funds, 969.
City's soldiers in World War, 781.
Civilians in World War, 775. Civil War, 726.
Civil War and the famous Sixth, 139; Bos- ton prepares for the, 140; Boston soldiery in the, 140; Second Regiment in the, 143. Clergy, high place of the, 900.
Clerical and Church List, 945-958.
Clipper ship and iron steamboat, 1051.
Close of the Nineteenth Century, 73. Clubs, 1030, 1031, 1032; list of, 1039-1042. Cobb, Mayor Samuel Crocker, 232.
Codfish, getting the best out of, 628.
Coffee and tea industry, trail blazers of, 533.
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Cogan, John, store, 688. College of Liberal Arts, 856.
Collins, Mayor Patrick Andrew, 237.
Colonies; union of, 49. Colony and the "mercantile system," 682. Colored troops in Civil War, 143. "Comforts" of life, 158.
Coming of Winthrop and other notables, 42. Commerce, English attempts at the repres- sion of, 683.
Commercial aviation and Boston, 1089.
Commercial competition takes a hand, 62.
Commercial motive of settlement, 31-32. Commercial Travelers of America, 1027. Commonwealth takes control, 22. Compact retail district of the city, 689. Conditions preceding World War, 770. Congregational history, 913.
Conservatory of Music, 886, 975.
Consolidated Gas Company library, 892.
Consolidation of railroads, period of, 1071. Constitution of the Puritan Church, 81.
Constitutional Convention, first, 71 ; of 1780 and 1788, 248-252; of 1853, 254; of 1917, 281, 284.
Constitutional law, foundations of Ameri- can, 245.
Continental Army, first surgeon-general of the, 300.
Continental Congress, delegates to the, 189. Continuation schools, 852.
Convention City, 1099.
Copley Square, 909.
Cotton, John, and Anne Hutchinson, 168. Council of Social Agencies, 988.
Court, the arbiter of religion, 82; practice, early condition of, 252; organization, 288-289.
Courts in Colonial period, 244; in Provin- cial period, 245; in Metropolitan Boston, 243-289.
"Cradle of Liberty," 970. Cram and Ferguson library, 893.
Crown against colony, 52. Cuba, off to, 761. Cuba, Spanish oppression of, 750.
Cuba, the war in, 755.
Cumbersome officialdom of the town, 214. Curley, Mayor James Michael, 239-240. Curtis, Benjamin R., lawyer, 269-270. Curtis, Mayor Edwin Upton, 236.
Data for principal manufacturing indus- tries, 1924, 594. Dates, some important, 197. Davenport, A. H., and Company Library, 893.
Davis, Mayor Thomas Aspinwall, 229. Day schools for immigrants, 852. Deer Island House of Industry, 963. Delegates to the Continental Congress, 189. Denominations, rise and fall of, 901.
Depression caused by the Declaratory Act, 65.
Dewey at Manila, 752.
Difficulties of neutrality, in World War, 771.
Dimensions of the city, 26.
Dining Clubs, 1032.
Disadvantages of the town meeting, 213.
Dispensary, Boston, 317.
District attorney cases, 275.
Dorchester added to Boston, 24.
Dorchester Heights seized, 133.
Dramatic test of inoculation, 287.
Dorchester Medical Institutions, 328.
Dorchester, the church at, 92.
Douglass, Dr. William, 296.
Early colonization, outlines of, 33; bay set- tlements, 37; military history, review of, III-144; early importance of Boston, 47; early literature, 155; physician, strange lack of prominence given to, 291 ; pre- scriptions, 292.
Early societies, 995.
Eastern Star, 1005.
Edison Electric Illuminating Company li- brary, 893.
Education in the new settlement, 153, 843, et seq.
Education, School of, Boston University, 857.
Educational period in railways, indiffer- ence to, 1061.
Edwards, General Clarence E., 788.
Effect upon the churches of a changing population, 904.
Efforts to change the town government, 214.
Eight original railroads, 1068.
Eighteenth century, merchant princes of the, 684.
Eighth Regiment, 764.
El Caney, 758.
Elevated and the subway, 1081.
Elevated Railway Library, 893.
Eliot, Mayor Samuel Atkins, 228.
Eliot's disciples moved to Deer Island, 119.
Elks, B. P. O., 1018.
Emerson College of Oratory, 859.
Engineers, Boston Society of, 881. Engineers in World War, 782.
English attempts at the repression of com- merce, 683.
Episcopal churches, 102; rise of in Amer- ica, 104; tractarian movement, 925, 927 ; new epoch, 928.
Era of reaction, 94.
Establishment of trade districts, 693.
Ether, first operation under, 305. Evans, Mrs. Robert D., benefactor, 976.
Evening high, elementary, and industrial training schools, 851.
Evolution of school management, 845.
Ex-mayors and their careers, 225.
Expansion, period of railroad, 1066. Exports, early, 1047.
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Expulsion of Roger Williams, 83. Eye and Ear Infirmary, 320.
Faneuil, Peter, 970.
Faiths, changing, 902.
Fall of Louisburg, 126.
Family Welfare Society, 981.
Federal courts in the first circuit, 259-260.
Filene's, William, Sons library, 893.
Financing in World War, 776.
Fine arts, 871.
Firman and Morley, early surgeons, 294. First Baptist Church, 85.
First Boston-built ship, 1047.
"First Church in Boston," 906.
First Church of Charlestown, 93.
First Church of Boston organized, 80.
First Constitutional Convention held, 71.
First Heavy Artillery, 762.
First meeting-house, 81; banking law in Massachusetts, 337; city government, 216; New Englanders, homogeneity of, 41; foreign activities of the YD, 789; libraries, 875; mayor, 715; city charter, 711; operation under ether, 305; settle- ments, plagues which troubled the, 294; trade center in Massachusetts, 688.
Fitzgerald, Mayor James Francis, 238.
Fitzpatrich, James Barnard, 94I.
Food administration in World War, 812.
Forced rise of Liberalism, 173.
Foreign commerce proves valuable, 681 ; the peak of, 686.
Foresters, M. C. Order, 1022.
Foresters of America, 1019.
Formation of Yankee Division from Na- tional Guard, 785.
Formative period of Boston, 148.
Forsyth Dental Infirmary, 326; for chil- dren, 973.
Fortunate failure of the canal to the Hud- son, 1058.
"Forty Immortals," 203.
Foundations of American Constitutional Law, 245.
Four victims of the Witchcraft persecu- tions, 178-180.
Franklin, Benjamin, bequest, 968.
Franklin Street Cathedral, 940.
Franklin Union, 859.
Fraternal orders, societies, clubs, 993, et seq.
French and Indian Wars, 123.
French wars, last phase of, 127.
Fuel administration in World War, 815.
Fuller, Governor, address, 800.
Funds and their donors, 978.
Gardner, Mrs. John L., and her Italian Palace, 976.
Gaston, Mayor William, 233.
General Electric Company, 653.
General Palfrey, concerning the troops sent from Boston in Civil War, 142.
Geological past of the Boston basin, 8; con- ditions, recent, 14, 15. Germany issues her challenge to America, 772.
Giant of the woolen and worsted com- panies, 620.
Gibson School fund, 967.
Givers of funds, 974.
Glaciers, retreat of the, 13.
Golden Cross, United Order of, 1030.
Gold Star list, 818, et seq.
Goody Glover, the case of, 179.
Governmental organization of the Colony, 39.
Governor Shirley's War, 125.
Graduate School of Boston University, 858.
Granite Railroad first in America, 1059. "Greater Boston," 26.
"Great fire of 1872," 696; where it started, 697; described, 697-699; indirect results of the destruction, 699.
Greater Boston retail district, 700.
Green Dragon Tavern, 996.
Green, Mayor Samuel Abbott, 234.
Growth of the urbanities of life, 185.
Hancock, John, 191.
Harbor of Boston, 7; statistics, 29.
Hart, Mayor Thomas Newton, 235.
Harvard Baker library, 896.
Harvard College becomes secularized, 98; academic influence of, 198.
Harvard Law School, 262-265.
Harvard Medical School, 315.
Harvard Musical Association, 887.
Harvard University and its departments, 869. Havoc wrought by the Revolution, 70, 132.
Hebrew places of worship, 937.
Heywood-Wakefield Company, 673.
Hibbard, Mayor George Albee, 238.
Higginson, Henry Lee, munificence, 974.
Higher education, beginnings of, 854.
Hills of the peninsula, 16-17.
Historic, appeal to the, 1097.
Historic buildings, 1106.
Historic churches, 904.
Historic personages and social landmarks, 145, et seq.
History of music in the city, 867.
Hollis French and Allen Hubbard Library, 893.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell remembered only as author, 293.
Homeopathic Hospital and Boston Uni- versity School of Medicine, 323.
Homeopathic Medical Society, 413.
Homes for the poor and unfortunate, 964, 985.
Homogeneity of the first New Englanders, 41. Home trade a disappointment, 681.
Horse railroad, first into Boston, 1079. Hospital, Children's, 325.
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Hospital endowment, 972.
Hospital for Women, New England, 325.
Hospital, Peter Bent Brigham, 324. Hospital, Robert Breck Brigham, 325. Hospital treatment, introduction of, 298.
Hospitals, Jamaica Plain, 327; other South End, 423. Household science and arts, 851.
House of Industry at Deer Island, 963.
Immortals, the Forty, 203.
Indian ideas of land ownership, 112; Bos- ton free from invasions of, 114; menace productive of martial spirit, 115.
Indians deed Boston to the Puritans, III. Industrial accident board, 281; center, Boston's newest, 624.
Industrial Boston, 1103.
Industrial situation at Revolutionary period, 74. Industrial schools partly maintained by State, 851.
Industries of Metropolitan Boston, 587, et seq.
Industries, rise of, 160. Infantry, IOIst, 782.
Inoculation, dramatic test of, 297.
Institution, smuggling becomes an, 683.
Insurance Library Association, 893.
Interference by the Commonwealth in mu- nicipal affairs, 220.
Introduction of ethereal anaesthesia, 304; hospital treatment, 298.
Irish Presbyterians organize, 101.
Jackson College, 861. Jackson library, 894.
Jackson, Dr. James, "Beloved physician of Boston," 303.
Jamaica Plain hospitals, 327.
Jordan, Eben, builder of Conservatory of Music, 975. Journal unique, 581. Judge Thacher, and beginnings of proba- tion system, 253.
Judicature Commission of 1918-20, 285.
Judicial independence of John Davis and Joseph Story, 261. Judicial tenure of office, 246, 247. Juvenile court in Boston, 278.
King Philip's War, 117. King intervenes for the Quakers, 87.
King's Chapel, 89. Knights of Columbus, 1020.
Knights of Malta, 1021.
Knights of Pythias, 1010-1015.
Lack of physicians in the colonies, 293. Lamson Company library, 894. Land Court, creation of, 276. Land ownership, Indian ideas of, 112. Land tenure, white man's ideas of, 113.
Langdell, appointment of, 264-266. Last campaigns in Philip's War, 120. Latin schools, 844
Law practice and procedure, 287.
Law, School of, Boston University, 856.
Law schools, other, 269.
Lawyers, function of, in the history of government, 243.
Leavitt Alley, trial of, 273.
Liberalism, forced rise of, 173.
Libraries, 874, et seq.
Library of Massachusetts Forestry De- partment, 888.
Lincoln, Mayor Frederick Walker, Jr., 231. List of Boston medical institutions, 328-330. List of important merchants and firms, 702. Little, Library, Arthur D., Inc., 894.
Loans and gifts in World War, 780.
Lockwood, Greene & Company library, 894.
Losses from disease in Spanish-American War, 758.
Louisburg, the fall of, 126.
Lowell Railroad, building of the, 1063.
Lowney, Walter M., Company library, 894.
Lowell Institute and its founders, 977.
Loyalist notables, 194.
Lyman, Mayor Theodore, Jr., 228.
McLean Hospital for the insane, 319. "Maine," sinking of the, 751.
"Manifesto" Church, rise of the, 99. Mann, Horace, educator, 853.
Manual training rooms and prevocational shops, 851.
Manufacturing interests at time of 1812 War, 76.
Manufacturing quality shoes, 646.
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Manufacturing the power resources greater Boston, 621.
Market House, 970.
Martin, Mayor Augustus P., 234.
Masonic Lodge, the first, 997; St. John's and St. Andrew's lodges, 997; Masonry in New England, 998; Masonic Temples, 998; Masonic bodies of Boston, 999-1004. Massachusetts Bay Company, 37.
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 888.
Massachusetts Colony an autocracy, 40.
Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, 803.
Massachusetts General Hospital, 318.
Massachusetts Historical Society Library, 885.
Massachusetts in Spanish-American War, military record, 768.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 862. Massachusetts Medical Society, 306; founders of, 308; "sections" under which it now functions, 309; in World War, 309; publications of the society, 310; officers, 310-314. Massachusetts Normal Art School, 864.
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Massachusetts plants of the United States Rubber Company, 620.
Massachusetts Public Service Commission, 889.
Massachusetts sends her troops, 753.
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association, 766.
Massachusetts War Memorial, 817.
Matanzas, 765.
Mather, Cotton, 175; versus William Doug- lass, 295.
Mather dynasty, 174.
Mathers, an appreciation of the, 177.
Matthews, Mayor Nathan, Jr., 235.
Maturity of the metropolis, 149.
Mayhew, Jonathan and the West Church, 917.
Mayor, first, 715; power of the, 218; an important official, 224.
Mayors of Boston, 225; successive, 716; since Civil War, 722-730.
Mechanics, Junior Order United American, 1029.
Medford brickyard furnishes the germ from which the steam pump grew, 636. Medical annals of the city, Bigelows in the, 303; events, important, 306; institutions of the city, 317; other West End, 321 ; list of Boston, 328-330; inspectors and nurses, 850.
Medical history, American, and the Revo- lution, 299.
Medical Library, Boston, 883.
Medical organizations of the Revolution, 300.
Medical profession, 291-330.
Medical schools, other, 316.
Meetinghouse, first, 81.
Meetinghouses, six earliest, 90.
Mellen's Food library, 894.
Men selected for Public Safety committee, 805. Mercantile Interests, 679, et seq.
"Mercantile system" the Colony and the, 682.
Merchandising, post-Revolution, 685.
Merchant, high place of the, 679; modern type of, 686.
Merchant princes, benefactions of, 201; of the eighteenth century, 684.
Merchants of today, progressiveness of the, 701.
Metcalf and Eddy Library, 895.
Methodist Church, 930; Jesse Lee, 930; Early M. E. churches, 931 ; institutions, 933.
Methodists, The, in Boston, 107. Metropolis, altitudes in the, 27.
Metropolitan Boston, courts and lawyers in, 243-289; industries of, 587, et seq. Metropolitan Boston's natural setting, 3-29. Metropolitan district, 714, 1098.
Metropolitan district's commissions, 26.
Middlesex Canal, 1056; other projected canals, 1057.
Miles, under. General, 761.
Military committees, 808.
Military organizations, early Boston, 115.
Military record, 749, et seq.
Modern Boston, 1102.
Modern school buildings, 846.
Modern type of merchant, 686.
Modern Washington Street, 695.
Moose, L. O. O., 1022.
Morgan Memorial, 982, et seq.
Morton, W. T. G., Dentist, 305.
Motives back of the Spanish-American War, 749.
Motor traffic problems, 1089.
Municipal affairs, interference of the Commonwealth in, 220.
Municipal Air Board, 1090.
Municipal Court of city of Boston, 277.
Mural Memorial, unveiling of the, 800.
Museum of Fine Arts, 872.
Musical societies, 1033.
Music festivals, 869.
Music, history of, in the city, 867.
Myles Standish explored the harbor, 4-5.
Naming of Boston, 43.
Natural enemy, Spain a, 750.
Natural History, Boston Society of, 885.
Navy in the World War, 775.
Negro fugitives, aid given to, 138.
Neighborhood organizations, 991-992.
New England Conservatory of Music, 886.
New England forms of government, 34.
New England Hardware Dealers' Associa- tion library, 895.
New England Hospital for Women, 325.
New England, motives back of the settle- ment of, 31.
New England playground, III0.
New England Tel. and Tel. Company li- brary, 895.
New Haven system, 1076.
"New North" and "New South" churches built, IOI.
Newspaper libraries, 890.
Nichols, Mayor Malcolm E., 240.
Nineteenth Century, close of the, 73.
Ninth Massachusetts, 757.
Norcross, Mayor Otis, 232.
Norsemen first comers, 3.
Northeastern University, 863.
Notable trials, 273.
Notables, arrival of new, 164.
Objections made to filling of the Back Bay, 22.
O'Brien, Mayor Hugh, 235.
O'Connell, Cardinal, 942. Odd Fellowship, 1004-1010.
Officials of the Bay Company, 39.
Older churches, 1107.
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Older musical societies, 869. Old South Church, 90. "Old Ironsides," 137.
Opera, Boston and the, 870.
Orange, Loyal Institution, 1022.
Oratory, Emerson College of, 859.
Organization of First Church of Boston, 80; of Irish Presbyterians, 101.
Organizations in business and industry, 703, et seq.
Organizing for the World War, 776. Organs, building America's greatest, 626.
Original commanding officers of the 26th, 787.
Otis, James, 187.
Otis, Mayor Harrison Gray, 227.
Outlines of early colonization, 33.
Overlapping functions of State and city, 219.
Overseers of public welfare, homes and buildings, 966.
Palmer, Mayor Albert, 234. Paris, the peace of, 128.
Parkinson, George F., bequest, 967.
Parks, 740.
Passaga, General, comes to Boston, 802. Pauper problem in early times, 961. Peak of foreign commerce, 686.
Peninsula, hills of the, 16-17.
Pequot War, 116.
Period of provincial government, results of, 56.
Persecution of the Quakers, 171.
Personality of the city, 146.
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 324.
Peters, Mayor Andrew James, 239.
Phillips, Jonathan, fund, 969.
Phillips, Mayor John, 225.
Phipps, Sir William, attacks Quebec, 124. Physical education, 850.
Physician, early, strange lack of promi- nence given to, 291.
Physicians, lack of in colonies, 283.
Pierce, Mayor Henry Lillie, 233.
Pilgrim Publicity Association library, 895.
Pilgrim settlement, 36.
Plagues which troubled the first settle- ments, 294.
Plans for the conversion of the aborigines, II3.
Playgrounds, 741. Police strike, 734. Political animosities, 720.
Political history of Boston, a brief, 709- 747.
Political history, review of the early, 31, changes, 77.
Political influences, 731. Poor, early provision for, 959, et seq. Port Bill, The, 66.
Portia Law School, 866.
Port of the Puritans, 3.
Met. Bos .- 71
Porto Rico, 758.
Post-Revolution merchandising, 685. Power of the mayor, 218. Power resources of Greater Boston, manu- facturing the, 621.
Practical Arts and Letters, School of, 857. Preparations of the YD for embarkation. 796.
Pre-Revolutionary period, 186.
Prescriptions, early, 292.
Present Boston Public Library, 879.
Present city government, 221.
Press, the, 445, et seq .; early censorship, 446; first newspaper attempted, 448-458; postmasters and editors, 459-462; Sam- uel Adams' knack for journalism, 462, et seq. ; equipment of early publishers, 475; post-Revolutionary influences, 476-484 ; the "Centinel" group, 484-492 ; multiplic- · ity and variety of newspapers, 493-502; assumption of modern characteristics, 503-505; carrier pigeons, 506; advertis- ing, 507-524; distribution, 525-532; the "Pennies," 532-540; evening editions, 541-552; a remarkable episode, 553-561 ; Sunday papers, 561-566; sensationalism, 566-570; two interesting episodes, 571.
Primacy of Boston, 157.
Primary schools, 844. Primitive Boston, 156.
Prince, Mayor Frederick Octavius, 234.
Probation system, beginnings of, 253.
Professional men, the first, 161.
Protection, New England Order of, 1025.
Progressiveness of the merchants of today, 701.
Providing school buildings, difficulty of, 846.
Provincial Governors, 56; period, beginning of the, 96; years in Boston, 58; utilities, present vestiges of, 69, 70.
Provision for the unfortunate, 963.
Public buildings, Boston's first, 59.
Public health, 741.
Public Safety, Massachusetts Committee of, 803.
Public school teachers' retirement fund, 968.
Publicity movement, IIII.
Puritan : Church, constitution of, 81 ; Com- monwealth, 44; luxuries, 159; Sabbath, 162; theocracy loses control, 87.
Puritan family as a source of fraternal orders, 993.
Puritans' impression of Boston's site, 5.
Quaker executions, 172. Quakers, the early, 86; persecution of, 171. Quebec attacked by Sir William Phipps, 124. Quincy, Mayor Josiah, 225. Quincy, Mayor Josiah, Jr., 230, 237.
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Race between United States and the sub- marine, 774.
Radcliffe College, 864.
Railroad party, rise of the, 1060.
Railroads, 1059, et seq.
Railroads, indifference to, 1061.
Randidge, George L. fund, 969.
Rapid transit systems, city financing of, 1083.
Reasons for the growth of Unitarianism, 107.
Rebirth of the city, 196.
Recent geological conditions, 14-15.
Reclamation of Back Bay, 20-21.
Red Men, Improved Order. 1020.
Reform movements, 202.
Regimental officers of the Yankee Division. 789.
Regimental statistics in Civil War. 14I.
Registration, first, in World War, 780.
Rehabilitation of The Hub, 71.
Religion and education, 843.
Religion the foundation of Boston, 162; the court the arbiter of, 82.
Religious aspect, 899, et seq.
Religion, Boston's contribution to, 899.
Religious Education, School of, Boston University, 857.
Religious and social changes, 182; history, review of early, 78-110; freedom, desire for, 79; motive of settlement, 32; situ- ation at the end of the eighteenth cen- tury, 108.
Repression of opponents, 83.
Repressive measures leading to revolt, 63.
Results of the period of provincial govern- ment, 56.
Retail district of the city, compact, 689; of Greater Boston, 700.
Retreat of the glaciers, 13.
Revere, Paul, 192.
Review of early military history, III-144; of the early political history, 31, et seq .; of early religious history, 78-110.
Revocation of charter, 51 ; threatened, 121. Revolution, havoc wrought by the, 70; prelude to the, 128; and American Med- ical history, 299; and religion, 103. Riots, 733.
Rise and fall of denominations, 901.
Rise: of industries, 160; the "Manifesto" Church, 99; the "Town system," 45.
Rise of the captain-merchant, 682.
Rise of Unitarianism, 916; present status, 919; organizations, 921.
Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, 325.
Rocks of Boston vicinity, II-12. Roger Williams, expulsion of, 83. Romance of transportation, 200.
Roxbury and John Eliot, 93. Royal Arcanum, 1028.
Royalist Boston, 59. Rubber unit founded in 1908, 619. Rural Boston becomes urban, 184.
Sabbath, Puritan, 162. "Sacred Cod," 1048. Sampson and Murdock library, 895.
San Juan Hill, 755.
Santiago, before and after, 763.
School buildings, difficulty of providing, 846. "School Committee," the, 846. School funds, 968.
School management, evolution of, 845.
School of Law, Boston University, 856.
School of Medicine, Boston University, 856. Schools, evening, high, elementary and in- dustrial, 738, 851.
Schoolhouses, uses of, for social and civic purposes, 852.
Scots Charitable Society, 979.
Scottish Clans, Order of, 1026.
Seaver, Mayor Benjamin, 230.
Second and Third Episcopal churches, 102- 103. Second failure to take Quebec, 125.
Second greatest port, Boston's opportunity, 1052. Second Regiment in Civil War, 143, 702.
Secondary schools, 844.
Secularization of Harvard College, 98.
Seicheprey, 791.
Settlements, Pilgrim, 36; early Bay, 37.
Shafter at Santiago, 753.
Shaler, Professor, on the geology of Bos- ton and its environs, 9.
Shawmut, why Winthrop chose it, 6.
Shays' Rebellion, 72.
Shifting centers of trade, 694.
"Shining Light," a, 166.
Shipping in the eighteenth century, 1050; situation in 1925, 1053.
Shipyards and shipping, early, 1049.
Shoes, their economical production and dis- tribution, 644.
Shop-Keeper, Boston's first, 687.
Shops, prevocational, and manual training rooms, 851.
Shrines and interesting places, 1109.
Shurtleff, Mayor Nathaniel Bradstreet, 232. Siege of Boston, 67, 131.
Signers of the "Cambridge Compact," 151.
Signs of a change of policy, 48.
Simmons College, 865.
Singing clubs, 870. Sinking of the "Maine," 751.
Six earliest meetinghouses, 90.
Sixth Regiment, 759.
Slavery, Boston's attitude towards, 137.
Smith, Mayor Jerome Van Crowninshield, 231.
Smuggling becomes an institution, 683. Social clubs, 1036.
Social landmarks and historic personages, 145, et seq. Social Law Library, 889. Social Service library, 886.
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Solving first transportation problems, 1044. Solving the problem of the economical pro- duction and distribution of shoes, 644. Sources of information about World War, 760.
South End churches, 912.
Spain a natural enemy, 750.
Spain proves incapable, 752.
Spanish-American War, motives back of the, 749; results of, 756; Massachusetts military record in, 768.
Spanish oppression of Cuba, 750.
Special libraries, 883.
Sports clubs, 1035.
Springfield rifles and black powder, 763.
St. George, Sons of, 1029.
St. Mihiel Salient, 793.
Stamp Act, Boston's reaction to, 64.
Stamp and other repressive measures mul- tiplied, 129.
State and city, overlapping functions of the, 219.
State control of Boston railways, 1084.
State Department of Public Charities, 965. "State of war" declared, 775. Stations, why Boston had so many, 1069. Statistics of modern mercantile interests, 700. Statistics of the school committee, 848. Stillson wrench, Boston the home of the, 638.
Stone and Webster library, 896. Store of John Cogan, 688. Story of the Yankee Division, 784. Street railways, 1078.
Streets, 742; narrow streets of Boston, 1046.
Student group in Boston, IIOI.
Submarine, race between United States and the, 774. Subways, building of the, 1082.
Successive mayors, 716. Suffolk Law School, 866. Summary of growth of Boston, 25. Summer review schools, 852. Superior Court, creation of, 256, 257.
Surgeon-general, first, of the Continental Army, 300.
Survivors of Spanish-American War, re- turn of the, 759. Swift, Gustavus A., 676. Symphony Orchestra, 974.
Tabular list of city officials, 222-223. Taverns and the social organizations, 994. Tea Party, the, 66.
"The Neck," 17-18.
The present in Boston, 213, et seq. Thorndike, George L., endowment, 974. Tourist and vacation center, 1095-III2. Town, cumbersome officialdom of the, 214. Town government, efforts to change the, 214.
Town meeting revived, 70; disadvantages of the, 213.
Town Room Library, 886.
"Town system," rise of the, 45; govern- ment of Boston, 46; becomes a city, 77. Toul and Apremont, 791.
Trade districts established, 693.
Trade, shifting centers of, 694.
Trail blazers of tea and coffee industry, 633
"Transition Period," 197.
Transportation and shipping, 1043, et seq. Transportation, the romance of, 200.
Trial of Leavitt Alley, 273.
Trials, notable, 273.
Trinitarian Congregational churches, 914. Trolley car, introduction of, 1080. Tucker case, 275.
Two and a half centuries of brick-making, 635.
Two nationally known Boston school build- ings, 848.
Union of the Colonies, 49. Union of Church and State, 80.
Unitarianism, reasons for the growth of, 106; rise of, 916.
United American Men, Order of, 1029.
United Drug Company, an international industrial giant, 607; library, 896.
United States unprepared for war in 1898, 751.
Units of the 26th, 786.
Universalist Church, 936. Unveiling of the mural memorial, 800.
Urbanities of life, growth of the, 185. Uses of school houses for social and civic purposes, 852.
University Extension Work, 866.
Vaccination, 302. Variolous inoculation, 295. Vattemare and the Boston Library, 876. Vision of a well-known Cape Codder --- Gustavus A. Swift, 676.
Visitors, the first, 3-4.
Voluntary cooperation of the people in the World War, 814. Volunteer Aid Association, Massachusetts, 766.
War of 1812, business depression, 74; events leading to, 134.
War, United States unprepared for, 751. Warren, John, medical leader in the Revo- lution, 301.
Warren, Joseph, Revolutionary physician and surgeon, 301.
Washington at Cambridge, 132.
Washington Street, the "Main Street" of the town, 690; becomes commercial, 691. Waterhouse, Dr. Benjamin, and vaccina- tion, 302.
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Weakness of first charter, 216. Wellesley College, 865. Wells, Mayor Charles, 227. Wells Memorial Workingmen's Club and Library, 887. Wentworth Institute, 865. Western Railroad to Albany, 1064. What others think of Boston, 1097. White, George Robert, bequest, 967. Whitefield and Methodism, 107.
White man's ideas of land tenure, II3. Wholesale center, Boston becomes a, 693. Why Winthrop chose Shawmut, 6. Wightman, Mayor Joseph Milner, 232. Williams, John Joseph, 941.
Williams, Roger, banished, 170. Winthrop and other notables, coming of, 42. Winthrop, John, 152.
Witchcraft delusion, 97; persecutions, the four victims of the, 178-179.
Woevre and Verdun, 793.
Woman's Educational and Industrial Union Library, 887.
Women's activities in World War, 812. Women's clubs, 1038. Workmen, A. O. U., 1017.
World War, 769, et seq.
Yacht and boat clubs, 1035. Y. M. C. A., 986, et seq.
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