The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1955, Part 3

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Publication date: 1789
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Boston is also first in sale of leather and shoe findings, is the first northern cotton market, has one of the largest sales volumes in coal and coke and is well to the fore in volume of meats and provisions, hides, skins, raw furs, women's and children's clothing, yarns, cotton piece goods. men's and boy's clothing, and in numerous other lines.

In many of the characteristics that make great markets, Boston is outstanding in proportion to its population. It has the largest volume of bank deposits, has one of the largest per capita family incomes, and enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the nation. Not alone is this true of the highly concentrated area in or near Boston. The small towns and rural areas of Massachusetts also have, according to a survey conducted by the authoritative Sales Management magazine, the highest per capita effective buy- ing income of similar groups in any state. Possession of this high purchasing power is also true of the small towns and rural areas of New England as a whole.

The excellent buying power of Boston families is shown by favorable comparison of the statistics published in Sales Management for the 10 leading cities of the United States. Taking the figures for the counties which embrace these cities, it is found that Boston has a per family effective buying income of $5,609, and that family income in the other nine leading cities is: New York, $5,993; Chicago, $6,949; Philadelphia, $5,779; Detroit, $6,627; Los Angeles, $5,538; Cleveland, $6,788; Baltimore, $5,482; St. Louis, $5,842 and Pittsburgh, $5,887.

The unsurpassed buying capacity of New England in- vites careful study on the part of manufacturers and dis- tributors who are seeking highly absorptive and readily accessible market areas.

First In Retail Buying Power

The Boston district is one of America's foremost retail distributing centers-second in per capita sales at retail, close to the top in family buying power, a leader in total sales volume, and one of the first style centers of the nation.

Total retail sales in Boston amount to an estimated $1,321,727,000 a year, and in the five counties represented in Metropolitan Boston the total sales volume is over $3,000 million. This nearby five-county area has approxi- mately one-fourth of the total retail business of Massachu- setts.

The City of Boston has the largest volume of sales at retail in the nation in proportion to its size, according to the latest available United States census statistics. This is currently confirmed in a separate analysis of retail busi- ness made by Sales Management magazine, which shows that the Boston district has the second highest per capita sales at retail among all the largest places in the country.

Statue of Paul Revere

This study places Boston's annual sales at $1,644 per capita-and the corresponding figures for the other larger communities as follows: New York City, $1,221; Chicago, $1,503; Philadelphia, $1,274; Los Angeles, $1,572; Detroit, $1,526; Pittsburgh, $1,729; Cleveland, $1,712; St. Louis, $1,459, and Baltimore, $1,351.

As compared with Boston's per capita sales of $1,644, the corresponding figure for the United States is $1,075 and it is $1,143 for New England.

Similarly, this national study shows that the per fam- ily income or purchasing ability in the Boston area is $6000 -higher than that of virtually all other large communities in the country.

The records likewise show that the effective purchasing power of the smaller communities near Boston and else- where in Massachusetts is higher than that of similar places in any other state.

Due to the attractions of this city as a shopping center for most of New England, Boston has more high-grade de- partment and specialty stores than any other American city except New York. Only five other cities-all much larger in population - have greater department store sales.

Department store sales have been increased by the establishment of beautiful ultra modern branch shops in strategically selected suburban areas, easily accessible to residential shoppers and lavishly equipped with spacious parking areas.

In other respects also, the retail business of Boston and surrounding area is notable. Boston is one of the great food centers. Its restaurant business is greater than that of any city of comparable size. It ranks near the top in sales of furs, jewelry, apparel, drug store and general mer- chandise.

Many of the other cities in the Metropolitan district do a large volume of retail business despite their proximity to downtown Boston. Cambridge has a retail volume esti- mated at over $161,070,000 annually; and the retail business of the other larger cities is estimated as follows: Lynn, $119,373,000; Quincy, $114,721,000; Brockton, $84,714,000; Somerville, $85,114,000; Brookline, $67,957,000; Newton, $69,237,000; Malden, $70,031,000; Waltham, $66,703,000 and Salem, $66,264,000.

Old South Church-Washington and Milk Sts.

BOSTON'S FISHING INDUSTRY

Boston Fish Pier

Surrounded by one of the most widely diversified manufacturing areas in the coun- try, Boston continues to be the most im- portant center in the Western Hemisphere of the oldest industry-fishing.

Possessing the world's largest fish freez- ing plant, located in the world's largest fish pier devoted exclusively to this commodity, Boston long has demonstrated true Yankee ingenuity in making the most of New Eng- land's principal natural resource.

When earlier Boston schooner fishermen turned from hook and line fishing to launch- ing dories overside in order to increase the number of available hooks, the industry be- gan to find new frontiers for marketing the product through salting. And when, about 40 years ago, the trawlers began to use huge cordage nets that scooped up thousands of fish without the use of bait, still more mar- kets were opened up, and modern transporta- tion made is possible to extend the market- ing frontiers.

Then Came Filleting

Filleting, a process that originated here, made possible even more widespread distribution of fresh fish. Filleting, now known the country over, consists of cutting or stripping the meaty sides, or fillets, of haddock, cod, pollock and other varieties after the fish has been cleaned and scaled. Origin- ally, these fillets were wrapped in especially prepared vege- table parchment paper and packed in tin boxes, which in turn were packed in ice in a second container. This excellent development greatly extended the market for fresh fish, but other methods to serve new possibilities were sought. Lab- oratory experiments showed that certain species of fish could be frozen alive and later thawed to swim away, apparently unharmed, thus proving that freezing protein foods, if prop- erly done, need not result in deterioration. From this begin- ning was developed a new frozen food industry that has spread to other commodities.

The flavor, food value and general excellence of fish taken from the cold waters of the Atlantic have long been recognized. With quick freezing of fillets, and even whole fish, the Boston fish market frontier was extended to in- land cities where fish fresh from the sea had been a scarce luxury.

But getting their fish to market was only half the battle for Boston's fishermen. They faced also the problem of cultivating the nation's taste to enjoy more than just a limited variety of deep sea food. The "sacred cod" that

Fishing Boats Alongside Boston Fish Pier

hangs in the Massachusetts State House in Boston is a sym- bol of the great fishing industry that once was confined to marketing cod and herring. Other fish were either thrown overside or cut up for cod bait. For vears, redfish or rosefish, was used merely as dressing in fish market windows be- cause of its unusual color, and no one ever dreamed of eating it. Filleting, however, demonstrated that redfish was another tasty dish to grace the country's tables, and in less than 10 years the annual landings of this product jumped from a mere 3.000,000 to 160.000,000 pounds. Boston fish marketmen continued their efforts to develop new tastes in fish, until haddock, pollock and other varieties also attained a place with the leaders.

Boston Takes the Lead

Following the development of new products and better methods, the United States fishing industry grew from fifth rank among the nations before the first World War to third place at the beginning of the next great conflict. And it was Boston's progressiveness, in a large measure. that made that advancement possible. Almost half the nation's fish ordinarily held in storage is packed in the huge Boston plants. Not even the war made much of a dent in the Boston fishing industry. even though many of its best trawlers were taken over by the Navy and Coast Guard as auxiliary and patrol craft. The remaining vessels continued to sail out in- to submarine infested waters and bring home the catch. De- signs were drawn and plans were laid in the midst of the conflict for laving new keels as soon as the shipyards could spare the space and time from building warships.

The annual total of fresh fish landed here continued to exceed 300,000,000 pounds, with almost as much being brought into other important New England fishing ports such as Gloucester, New Bedford, Providence and Port- land. New England was and still is producing more than one-fourth of the nation's fish supply, some 1,700,000,000 pounds per year. Economically, this represents more than $100,000,000 worth of annual business.

Still Greater Possibilities

Yet Boston and New England probably have by no means fully developed the possibilities of the industry, as witness the discovery of an abundance of shrimp in nearby grounds. when that delicacy supposedly was the almost ex- clusive product of Gulf and South Atlantic regions.

And as the meat packing industry learned to develop uses for waste material, so, too, have the fishermen opened by a by-product industry of such items as cod and halibut liver oil and fish meal. This latter by-product has demon- strated its value as a source of vitamins, animal proteins. iodine and other elements necessary to a balanced ration for poultry and livestock. Thousands of tons of fish meal are now available to farmers and livestock growers to aid them in their important industry.

And so New England and Boston continues to value fish as a great natural resource and plan for still greater de- velopment of the fishing industry, which means so much to this region and to the nation.

Museum of Fine Arts

BOSTON . . . A Cultural Center

side by side with the forward march of commerce and Industry in the Boston area has developed a rich variety of cultural pursuits in many of which this community holds first rank.

In music, drama and the fine arts, in education, religion, literature, science and statesmanship, Boston has contribu- ted much to the development of America's unique civiliza- tion.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has had for nearly 70 years one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of art works, both modern and ancient. It possesses, for exam- ple, the finest collection of Oriental art outside of the Orient ; the foremost Indian collection outside of India; and its collection of Egyptian pieces surpasses in quality any to be found outside of Cairo itself. Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, modelled after a Venetian palace, contains some outstanding sculpture and medieval stained glass, as well as superb painting ranging from the Italian Renaissance masters to the French Impressionists. Several of the mu- seums at Harvard hold highest rank, such as the Fogg Art Museum and the Agassiz Museum which houses probaly the foremost collection of glass flowers in the world.

In both traditional and modern art expression, Doston holds a leading place. Many art clubs flourish in this area. Art magazines commonly list a larger number of exhibitions of paintings in Boston, virtually all without admission charge, than any city outside of New York. Boston's year- round art schools and the summer art colonies along the North Shore, Cape Cod and at many inland and mountain points are famous throughout the world.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, reputed to be the finest musical organization of its kind in the world is a successor to America's first Philharmonic Orchestra which was found- ed in Boston in 1810. The Boston Symphony's offspring, the famous Boston Pops Concerts, and the more recently estab lished Esplanade Summer Concerts, rank with the finest musical presentations. The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston is one of the leading singing groups and the nation's oldest oratorio association.

No community has provided so rich and fertile an environment for spiritual growth. Here the Christian Sci- ence Church was born, the headquarters of the Unitarian and Universalist Churches and of the World Christian En- deavor were established, the first American Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations were founded and the widespread missionary activities of the Congrega- tional Church were organized. Boston has given to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States its pre- siding Bishop; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is the second largest in the country.

Boston has always been one of the leading supporters of the drama. Today this city has more first-class theatres, and presents more first performances of important theatrical offerings than any other city outside of New York. The little theatre movement and summer theatrical presenta- tions throughout the Massachusetts countryside are not ex- celled anywhere.

In literature, the contribution of Massachusetts authors to the development of American culture are known to every reader.

One of the foremost schools of architecture in the coun- try, that of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others in and around Boston, are notable examples of archi- tectural beauty. Boston is also famed among American cities for the exceptional number and character of its monu- ments and sculptures.

Truly, a community richly endowed with opportunities for cultural expression and activity.

Education

Metropolitan Boston, where American education began. is today one of the world's foremost cultural and educational centers.

This section is the home of the oldest American univer- sity. Here too, started the American public school system, and here was adopted the first legislation covering public education.

Public instruction in America began in Boston in 1635, 15 years after the advent of the Pilgrims. In that year the Boston Latin School, the first free public school, came into existence. This school antedates the foundation of Harvard, oldest American university, by one year. In 1644 the first school built and wholly supported by public taxation was established in Dedham, a suburb of Boston.

In 1642 the first school law was adopted, providing for education in the homes of Boston; and in 1647 was enacted the first general school law, the "mother of all school laws", and the foundation of many present school systems. Simi- larly, the first training school for teachers was established here.

It is a far step from these humble beginnings of organ- ized educational effort to the vast system of American

BOSTON

Through the veins of Boston's transportation system flows a steady stream of traffic to meet the great and diversi- fied requirements of New England and the important centers of the world.

Boston has every modern facility for the expeditious handling of transportation by air, land and sea. It is one of the great domestic and international airports in the United States, its seaport is equal, or superior to any port on the eastern seaboard and its railroad service has been rated among the country's best. Three large railway systems, 107 foreign steamship services, 3 intercoastal steamship lines, 9 domestic airlines, 5 Transatlantic airlines and hundreds of highway transportation operators constitute the important and flexible transportation system of the Boston region.

education in operation now. Today there are more than 700,000 students in the public schools of Massachusetts alone. In addition, 175,000 pupils are enrolled in private and parochial schools of pre-college grade, and in this re- spect, too, Massachusetts is one of the leaders.

Yet, despite this enormous growth, Boston and Massa- chusetts have maintained the spirit of the pioneer in educa- tion, and today with no superiors in educational standing, are as alert to opportunities for sound educational progress as they were at the beginning.

In 1100 public schools of Metropolitan Boston, approxi- mately 400,000 pupils are receiving instruction from about 14,000 teachers. The annual public school expenses are in excess of $41,000,000. Every modern facility is provided for the proper training of youth, and educational methods are of a high standard of excellence. In keeping with the needs of a great industrial community, the public school systems of the Metropolitan district are equipped for train- ing in vocational, trade, technical, commercial and mechani- cal activities; and fullest opportunities are available as well for development in cultural pursuits.

But it is not alone in free public instruction that this section excels. Here also are some of the world's foremost institutions of higher learning, including many of America's leading professional, technical, business, music and art schools.

Massachusetts has 75 institutions authorized to confer degrees, a larger number than any other state. More than half of these are in Metropolitan Boston. Harvard, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Boston University, Brandeis University, Boston College, Jackson, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Northeastern, Simmons, Emmanuel, Regis, Emer- son, Calvin Coolidge and Suffolk are among the institutions located in Metropolitan Boston; in addition there are liter- ally hundreds of specialized schools such as the New Eng- land Conservatory of Music, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Massachusetts School of Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Forsythe Dental Clinic, Babson Insti- tute, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and a long list of other professional and training schools, making the city a notable leader in education.

Of outstanding interest is the world-famous Boston Public Library, the oldest free public library in the United States. With 2,000,000 books and a 5,000,000 annual circula- tion, 33 branch libraries plus a bookmobile and a special addition at the Boston City Hospital, the library holds an unsurpassed position culturally. The main building, opened in 1898, was designed by McKim, Mead and White, and is an excellent example of Italian Renaissance architecture. In October, 1953, the library celebrated its Centennial.

Boston has played a leading role in the nation's cultural growth. Referred to in another era as "the Athens of America" it certainly held undisputed claim to this title for many years. Here - and in neighboring Cambridge and Concord - lived and worked a colony of writers which gave to American letters a distinctive place in literature. Names like Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, the Alcotts, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Aldrich, Lowell, Howells, James, Parkman and an imposing roster of others form a rich and substantial background for all American writing that has come after them.

Transportation

Boston's Logan International Airport, located as it is within fifteen minutes distance from the center of the busi- ness district, is one of the truly great skyports of the world. This great asset of accessibility and its unique opportunity for expansion to meet any future needs makes Boston's air- port a leader in the nation.

In operation are four paved runways, the longest over 10,000 feet. These runways are so designed that each may be extended later if it proves desirable. Furthermore, each runway can be duplicated later by a parallel runway 1500 feet removed. Sponsored originally in 1922 by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the airport has been built on filled land on the edge of Boston Harbor. After 20 years of operation as a municipal airport by the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts took over its operation in 1941.

Central Boston-Public Garden

The extensive enlargement operations recently com- pleted at the airport cover an area of more than 2000 acres. The long paved runways are now available to handle the large transatlantic planes arriving and departing at Bos- ton. Two of Boston's famous historic landmarks-Governors Island and Apple Island-have been leveled in this enlarge- ment operation thus bowing to civic progress. Nine sched- uled airlines, American, Eastern, Flying Tiger, Northeast, Slick, Trans-Canada, Trans-World, United and Mohawk are currently making well over 100 outbound domestic flights daily. Five transatlantic airlines, Air France, British Over- seas, Pan American and Trans-World Airways, Italian Air- lines L A I, provide more than 30 transatlantic outbound flights at Logan each week. About 60 flights are made daily to New York, and for many years the Boston-New York route has been termed the heaviest traveled air route in the United States. In addition to the flights to Europe, Asia. Africa and South America, there is service to virtually all of the major cities in the United States and some Canadian cities. Boston's aviation network provides service, through convenient connections, to all of the major markets in the world.

SEAPORT

Boston, with the finest natural harbor on the Atlantic Coast, equipped with modern piers, docks and warehouses, ranks high among the major ports of the world. It is practically land-locked and from the open sea to the inner harbor the distance is only 6} miles. As a shipping point to commercial centers, Boston has a marked advantage over other American seaports. It lies 200 miles nearer Europe than New York, 1000 miles nearer Panama and the west coast of South America than San Francisco, is nearer Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires than any other North Atlantic port. As compared with any other major Atlantic seaport, from 150 to 300 miles is saved by sailing from Boston to the ports of the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and the Near East. Passengers to or from Europe may save a day or more by embarking or debarking at Boston. Direct steamship service is maintained to and from the more im- portant coastal cities along the Gulf and Pacific coasts and, generally speaking, through transportation applies via these

lines with various connecting rail and truck lines serving the port cities.

The Port of Boston has several excellent waterfront ter- minal facilities. In South Boston there is Castle Island Terminal, with 4200 feet of berthing space, and only one hour steaming time from the open sea; the huge Boston Army Base with its fully enclosed pier shed nearly one mile long; Commonwealth Pier, thirty-four years old and still described as the best passenger pier on the Atlantic Coast. Charlestown has the brand new Mystic Pier No 1, with 246,000 square feet of shed space and berthing space for three large vessels; the Boston and Maine piers Nos. 48, 49 and 50, which yearly handle thousands of tons of wood pulp and general cargo; and the new Hoosac Pier and grain elevator, with, among other features, the ability to load thirty thousand bushels of grain per hour into waiting ves- sels. In East Boston the Boston & Albany Railroad operates two efficient finger-type piers; and the Port of Boston Au- thority is now constructing two other obsolete piers into a modern terminal facility, such as was constructed at Mystic Pier No. 1, in Charlestown. A modernized grain elevator capable of delivering 30,000 bushels per hour is in service. To go along with all this the Port Authority is studying and solving the problems of pier congestion and traffic control around the piers, which result from the tremendous increase in port business the past four years.

RAILROADS

Boston's railroad facilities provided by the New York, New Haven & Hartford, the Boston & Albany and the Boston & Maine Railroads, include numerous large piers on the waterfront, many freight houses strategically located with sidetrack facilities to handle thousands of cars at one time, team tracks for bulk freight deliveries permitting the place- ment of 3000 cars at a time for loading and unloading and large storage yards with capacity up to 13,000 cars to meet the demands of modern commerce and industry. Delivery yards are equipped with overhead electric cranes and special platforms to facilitate the loading and unloading of large units such as automobiles, trucks, machinery and other heavy freight.

Boston has many electric railways and buses. The Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Eastern Massa- chusetts Street Railway Company connect virtually every part of Metropolitan Boston. Boston's underground system, comprising about 12 miles of subway, was the first munici- pal subway to be built in the United States, and the second in the world.

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The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1955, Part 3

Author: Publication date: 1789 Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company Number of Pages: 1480

Author:
Publication date: 1789
Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company
Number of Pages: 1480