The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1959, Part 2

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USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Roxbury > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > South Boston > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury 1959 > Part 2
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USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Dorchester > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > East Boston > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
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USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Jamaica Plain > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Readville > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Roslindale > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > Roxbury > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > South Boston > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2
USA > Massachusetts > Suffolk County > West Roxbury > The Boston directory : including . . . Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Readville, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, 1959 > Part 2

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1912

Insurance .

Savings Bank right top side lines and

*** Hyde Park Savings Bank 1871

Newspaper Publishers outside cover and 111

Goodbody & Co

Bank outside cover, left top lines, 6 and

*Driscoll Pearce Inc ** Druker John & Son *East Boston Savings Bank

1930

1910

Real Estate Z and

Bank .right top corner cards and

116

Plumbing Supplies left bottom side lines and

lines and

Automobiles

Stock Brokers

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* Each Asterisk indicates 25 years in business.

Name

Est.

Business

For Further information See-

Page

** Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co 1907

*Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Co 1926

*Massachusetts Indemnity and Life Insurance Co 1927

Massachusetts Port Authority. 1959

Port Authority

right top corner cards and

116

** Massachusetts Protective Assn Inc. 1895

Insurance .

100

Savings Bank

left top lines and

Mc Laurin Jas W. . 1955

Real Estate right top side lines and

128

Mc Lauthlin Geo T Co 1847

Elevator Manufacturers . left top side lines and

*McNeilly S J Inc 1930

Automobiles right bottom side lines and 5

Insurance. left top side lines and

Merchants Co-operative Bank 1881

Bank right top lines and

Merchants National Bank of Boston The 1831

Bank . right top lines and

Merchants Reporting Service 1940

Credit Reporting left top side lines and

*Meredith & Grew Inc . . 1875

Real Estate backbone, right top lines and

121

Metropolitan Transit Authority 1947

Transportation . Y, right top lines and

** Middlesex County National Bank 1864

Bank .

** Minot, De Blois & Maddison 1900

1900

Opticians

left side lines and

113

** Montgomery-Frost-Lloyd's Co Inc Morgan F P Company

1945

Real Estate .right top lines and

128

*Morton's Inc .

1923

Department Store left bottom side lines and

** Mt Washington Co-operative Bank 1893

** Murray P E Funeral Service Inc .1910

*Museum of Fine Arts 1870

Museum

110

*Namasky Adolph J 1930

Insurance

100

*National Service System Inc 1933

*New England Electric System 1926

*New England Historic Geneological Society 1845

Museum

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New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.

1835

Life Insurance . . . outside cover, right side lines . and 94

108

*Newton Savings Bank 1829

Bank

** Newton-Waltham Bank & Trust Co 1894

Bank . left bottom side lines and

*Niles Inc .

1932

Real Estate right bottom side lines and

128

Nisson Paper Products Co Inc 1951

Paper . right bottom side lines

. right top lines and

125

** O'Brien Wm Pease Inc 1910

Real Estate. right top side lines and

128

*O' Brion Russell & Co 1872

Insurance . . left top lines and

Old Colony Realty Management 1938

Real Estate. right bottom side lines and

129

*** Paige John C & Company . 1876

*Paine Furniture Company . 1895

Furniture

Investment Bankers . right bottom side lines

Auto Spring Mfrs .B, right bottom side lines

129

*Paul Revere Life Insurance Co 1895

Insurance

101

*Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co 1847 Pennsylvania Insurance Co of

Insurance

101

Philadelphia Pa The . .

Insurance .

Peoples Employment Service 1947

Employment Agency left bottom side lines and

** Perrin, Seamans & Co Inc . 1887

Contractors' Supplies

*Peters Employment Service Inc 1926

Petitte C Realty Co 1959

*Pheeny Harold A 1925

Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co 1950

Insurance . left bottom side lines and

** Pierce S S Co 1831

Grocers-Importers

*Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Inc 1850

Detective Agency left bottom side lines and 65

*Provident Institution for Savings in The Town of Boston The 1816

Public Finance Company 1938

Loans right top lines and

105

** Puro-Filter Corp of America 1895

Water Coolers right bottom side lines and

140

*Putnam F L & Company Inc 1926

Stock Brokers .left top side lines and

*Quincy Savings Bank 1845

Bank

*Rand Avery-Gordon Taylor Inc 1842 *Read & White 1914

*Rockland-Atlas National Bank of

Boston

1833

Bank

Insurance

right bottom side lines and

129

Rushwick Insurance Agency 1950

Insurance 93

Insurance left top side lines and 100

Insurance left top side lines and

100

*** Massachusetts Savings Bank . 1870

** Meade & Gale Inc . 1902

Bank . left bottom side lines

Funeral Director left bottom side lines and

Detective Agency

Electric Companies

*Newton Memorial Art Co 1920

*Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis 1879

*Palmer Joseph Spring Company . 1849

Palmer Russell Co . 1942 *Patterson, Wylde & Windeler Inc 1911

Insurance

101

Employment Agency. . ribbon book mark, right top corner cards, 72 and

Real Estate right top side lines and

125

Real Estate right top corner cards and

129

Pray John H & Sons Co 1817

Home Furnishings

Bank left top lines and 20

Printers right top corner cards and

117

Clothing . . left top side lines and 65

Monuments left bottom side lines and

*Nordblom CQ 1925

Real Estate.

Insurance. . top and bottom stencils, left top lines, 88 and

89 79

Real Estate . left bottom side lines and

122

Real Estate .left top lines and

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Name

Est. Business

For Further information See-

Page

Ryan Daniel C, General Agent John

Hancock Mutual Life Ins Co 1959

Insurance

.right top side lines

** Schrafft W F & Sons Corporation .1886

Confectionery Manufacturers left bottom side

. lines and 58

*Sears Thomas E Inc 1918

Insurance

Uniforms left bottom side lines and

139

** Sheltered Workshop, Boston Tuberculosis Association The 1903

Furniture left bottom side lines and 80

Sheraton Corp of America

Hotels.

left top side lines and

*Sherrard G J Co (Parker House) 1856

Hotels.

*Short & Williamson Inc 1905

Funeral Directors

*Shreve, Crump & Low Co 1800

Jewelers

right top corner cards and

104

*South Boston Savings Bank

1863

Bank

. left top side lines and 31

*South Shore National Bank 1836

Bank

right top side lines and

State Street Bank and Trust Company . 1955

Bank right top lines and

*Stearns R H Company 1847

Department Store . left top lines and

*Stern Can Company Inc

1901

Cans & Metal Containers right top lines and

*Street and Co Inc.

1920

Real Estate left bottom side lines and

130

*Suffolk Franklin Savings Bank. 1833

Bank . left top lines and

Sullivan James J . 1950

Insurance right top corner cards and

102

Taintor-Coveney Ford Sales Inc 1957

Automobiles . left bottom side lines and

Tileston & Hollingsworth Co 1801

Paper Manufacturers outside cover and

114

*Townsend, Dabney & Tyson 1887

Stock Brokers outside cover, right top

.corner cards and

Triumph Distributor of New England Inc .1959

Automobiles . right bottom side lines and

* Union Central Life Insurance Co 1867

Insurance

right top corner cards and

** Union Savings Bank of Boston . 1865

Bank .

** United Fruit Co.

1899

Steamship Lines

138

** United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co .

1896

Insurance

left top corner cards and 102

** United States Trust Co

1895

Bank

University Press of Camb-

ridge Inc . 1639

Printers . right top lines and

117

** Van Iderstine Harry and Son

Insurance Agency Inc . 1902

Insurance right bottom side lines and

102

*Volpe John A Construction Company . . 1933

Contractors left top lines and

** Volunteer Co-operative Bank 1888

Bank. right top corner cards and

*Vose Galleries of Boston Inc 1841

Art Galleries right top corner cards and

*Wainwright H C & Co 1868

Brokers

Ward Schools of Business . 1937

Schools

backbone and

133

Warren Institution for Savings The . .1829

Bank .

outside cover and

Waterman J S & Sons Inc

1832

Funeral Directors

*Watertown Bindery Inc

1922

Bookbinders

right top lines and

*Westinghouse Electric Supply Co

1931

Electrical Supplies . 67 and

*White Fuel Corporation

1921

Fuel .left bottom side lines

123

*** Wildey Savings Bank

1892

Bank

*Winship W W Inc

1776

Leather

. right top lines and

104

*Winthrow W E . 1927

Movers

left bottom side lines and

109

*Wolf Secret Service Bureau 1920

Detective Agency

Woodlawn Cemetery The 1851

Cemetery The .

** Whittier C W & Bro

1900

Real Estate

outside cover and

102

Service Uniform Company Inc 1954

Here's Greater Boston at Your Fingertips

A quick summary of the growing economy of one of the country's largest metropolitan areas prepared by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Boston area is rich in history, but it is even richer in potential. Throughout its 300 years of development, Boston has displayed marked qualities of resourcefulness in meeting problems and capitalizing on opportunities.

Greater Boston is the home of the first shipbuilding industry, the first iron works, the first American news- paper, the first medical society, the first savings bank, and the first telephone, among many other firsts.

Growth has marked the long history of Greater Boston. From household industry to factories, to secondary and tertiary industries, to research and development for a new age. Here are some economic factors which equip Boston unusually well for the future.

FINANCIAL

*These figures will give a quick idea of how big Boston really is:

-Commercial Banks . $4.2 billion assets - Life Insurance Companies $6.0 billion assets -Savings Institutions . $2.7 billion assets $2.5 billion assets

-Investment Companies

*The assets of Greater Boston financial institutions are estimated to be over 5.2 0% of the national total, while this area has only 2 % of the country's population.

*Boston is the home of the Investment Trust. Nearly 35 % of investment trust assets are in Boston com- panies.

*Boston provides a special service to new industry with its privately financed and operated Massachusetts Business Development Corp. Medium and long-term funds are available to worthy concerns to stimulate indus- trial growth.

*Boston banks boasts the second largest foreign trade service in the country.

LOCATIONS FOR NEW INDUSTRY

*Industrial districts are the new mode in industry location thinking. The Greater Boston Area boasts some of the country's newest ideas as developed through the cooperation of the engineering, marketing, city planning and economic research that has been going on in the area for the past few years.

*Twenty-nine areas are already in operation, with several others inplanning stages. Each of these is geared to industry's needs, with zoning, grading, roads, railroad siding, sewers, utilities, already taken care of.

*There are five large shopping center developments in operation, with some new ones in the development stage.

*In the City of Boston itself there are 149 acres of land in 6 parcels, zoned and ready for industry and near the new expressways, utilities and city services. An additional 133 acres in several parcels that can be developed are near water or rail facilities in addition to street transportation.

*In the recent re-zoning study of the City of Boston, nearly 300 acres were added to industrial zones. Some of this acreage is currently vacant; some requires demolition prior to development.

*Greater Boston boasts some extra services. In several of the industrial centers, engineering and planning services for clients are readily available.

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY

*Greater Boston's flourishing electrical machinery industry (257 firms with 42,701 employees) has an an- nual payroll of $205,534,000 according to the preliminary figures of the 1958 U. S. Census of Manufacturers.

*Greater Boston has for many years been known for its hundreds of small manufacturing plants, its skilled workers and its industrial services.

*Since 1939 the number of manufacturing plants in the area has increased over 23 %. This is quite signifi- cant for an area which has been in the "manufacturing business" for over 200 years.

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A VIEW OF BOSTON FROM THE HARBOR SHOWING THE MAJOR BUSINESS BUILDINGS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. THE SPIRE IN THE CENTER IS THAT OF HISTORIC PARK STREET CHURCH ON BOSTON COMMON. THE EXCURSION BOAT IS HEADING FOR ONE OF THE MANY SPLENDID BEACHES WHICH SURROUND BOSTON.

*In the same periods, value added by manufacture increased 3 times.

*Within the past 4 years more than 100 industrial plants have located in the area. Modern factory and busi - ness establishments are finding the new 80-mile Route 128 "Magic Semi-circle" a practicable and profitable location.

*The electrical machinery industry, by recent study, spent nearly 38 % more per employee in this area than in the nation as a whole. What better evidence that industries here are providing their workers with mod- ern tools and equipment for the kind of high-value product produced here.

SALES MARKET

*3,000,000 people within a 30-mile radius of Boston-25 % of the population of all New England and 55 % of the Massachusetts population.

*Per capita income is among the highest in the nation.

*Although Boston itself plays a significant role in trade habits, there are; 13 major trading areas in the greater market; 29 distinct shopping centers for 138 communities.

*To approach this big market there are 153 daily, weekly and Sunday media with all the news services and the best on-the-spot advertising advice.

*This is a 4.2 billion-dollar annual retail sales market covered by over 1 1/4 million television users.

*The 18 commercial radio stations, and 3 commercial and educational television stations provide a major service to both industry and trade.

*Boston is the home of the world-famous Conference on Distribution, an annual affair which attracts busi- ness men from all over the world.

*For the industrialist, rail and truck service in the Greater Boston area enables delivery to 18 major cities in eastern United States and Canada within 3 days. Carload lots are delivered to 11 major cities within 2 days.

RAIL TRANSPORTATION

*All of the United States is serviced by rail from Boston through the various Hudson River and Canadian gateways.

*The three Boston terminals are connected to facilitate interline movements.

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*Ship side rail service is available to all principal Boston piers.

*Boston's railroads are industrial development minded. All three systems have large active industrial de- partments to serve new industry location.

*"'Piggy back" door-to-door service for truck trailers is available in Boston to many of the larger cities east of the Mississippi River.

*Services of various freight forwarders are available to principal large cities throughout the United States.

*Passenger services, commuter-intrastate and inter-state, are frequent and fast.

*The new Route 128 station on Boston's circumferential highway gives suburbanites quick access to pass- enger service equaled by few other cities in the country.

*For the industrialist, service of the Greater Boston railroads enables delivery to many major cities in eastern United States and Canada within 3 days. Car lots are delivered to 11 major cities within 2 days.

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION

*Boston's constantly-growing new highway system enables fast truck service to all parts of New England and every part of the United States.

*The new turnpikes now under construction are intended to further accelerate movement of raw materials and finished products of industry.

*Boston is the major terminal for several fleets of common and contract carriers who offer every conceiv- able trucking service.

*The Boston Chamber of Commerce maintains a transportation advisory staff for direct assistance to all business and industry.

*The New England Motor Rate Bureau located in Boston offers many transportation information services for all shippers in the area.

*The state is noted for its excellent safety record, a fact of major significance in view of the traffic densi- ty of the area.

*Many of Boston's truck lines are specialists in specific types of cargo, all of which are designed for speed and cost savings to the shipper.

*All major cities east of the Mississippi in the United States and Canada can be reached by truck shipments within 3 days. For example, by the second morning, truck freight is delivered to Pittsburgh, Chicago, Buffalo, Quebec; 3 days to New Orleans, Birmingham, Detroit, Miami.

AIR TRANSPORTATION

*Boston has built for the present and the future. The facilities of Boston's Logan International Airport are extensive and ourstanding. Its unequalled strategic location on Boston's waterfront is only a few minutes away from the business districts of Greater Boston by rapid transit, limousine, or taxi.

*The area is serviced by 15 commercial air lines, which offer frequent domestic and international service.

*Air freight service is provided by all commercial air lines and 3 all-cargo air carriers. Service is avail- able to and from all principal points in the United States and abroad.

*Boston is one of the few airports already equipped to handle jet overseas flights.

*Boston has a modern port designed for all-weather services and the finest of on-the-ground facilities.

*For the company and private plane, Bedford, Logan, Norwood and Revere airports are available at mod- erate landing fees.

TAXES

*Here are some of the salient facts on taxes in the Greater Boston Area which are applicable to business and industry. They are presented in condensed form for the simple reason that particular situations cannot be prejudged and that comparisons among several areas must be made for specific business operations.

*There are certain general facts that can be stated about Massachusetts taxes.

-Corporation net income from business in Massachusetts is taxed at an effective rate of 6.765 %.

-Capital employed in Massachusetts by corporations is subject to corporate excess tax of an effective rate of $6.15 per $1,000. In computing capital, property taxed locally is excluded as follows: Manufacturing corporations-real estate and motor vehicles.

Non-manufacturing corporations-real estate, machinery and motor vehicles.

-Individuals are taxed at 3.07 0% on business income and 7.38 % on interest, dividends and gains from sales of intangible property.

-Partnerships are taxed at the same rates as individuals.

-Real and personal property, including property used in business, except machinery used in manufac- turing and inventories of corporations, are taxed locally in varying amounts depending on valuations and tax rates in each community.

-Excise taxes are imposed on sales of miscellaneous items, such as gasoline, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes.

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*There is no general sales tax.

*In all cases taxes should be weighed against governmental services received. Too often it is misleading to rest a decision about location on a rule-of-thumb approach to tax burdens. Other factors such as manpower supply, markets, schools and transportation costs should be considered carefully before reaching a conclusion.

BOSTON .. . Historical

STATE HOUSE, BEACON STREET.

Boston, the oldest large city in the United States, was founded in 1630 by a chartered company of English colonists under the governorship of John Winthrop. Named Shawmut by its Indian inhabitants and Trimontaine by the early colonists, it received its present name on Sept. 17, 1630, after the town in Lincolnshire, England, from which many of the company had come. Two years later it was established as the capital of the Massachu- setts Bay Colony and is today the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Although religious freedom was one of the principles on which the early English colonies were founded, the "Puritan" population of Boston soon became intolerant of divergent religious views. Some of the offenders were exiled, Anne Hutchinson among them, and others, like Roger Williams who founded Rhode Island, emigrated vol- untarily. Between 1648 and 1688 four women were executed as witches and four Quakers, who returned in de- fiance of their exile, were hanged.

For many years Boston was the largest town in the colonies and it has always occupied a position of lead- ership. It was the scene of the first American printing office, and the first regular newspaper, the BOSTON NEWS LETTER, was published in Boston in 1704. America's first public school, which is still in existence, the Public Latin School, was started in 1635. Harvard College, located across the Charles River in Cambridge, the country's oldest institution of higher learning, was founded in the following year.

Boston, as the natural center of the colonies that later came to be known as New England, was continuously in the forefront in the long dispute with the mother country that culminated in the American Revolution. Because of the lack of resources in New England-the soil and the climate were not suitable for the raising of the colonial staples, tobacco or cotton or sugar-this section of the New World soon became England's step-child and came to learn that it had to fend for itself. The various trade and tax laws, imposed by Britain, worked a particular hardship on New England's seaport towns. Therefore, these could subsist only through their shipping among the other colonies and between the old and new worlds. As a result Boston earned the name of hotbed of the Revo- lution, with the Stamp Act and Revenue Act riots, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Port Bill, outward evidence of the city's right to the title. America still respects the names of the many rugged patriots who refused to accept England's punitive measures in silence-such men as Samuel Adams, John Han- cock, Paul Revere, William Dawes and James Otis, among a long list.

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New England capitalized on the opportunities offered by the industrial revolution around 1800. Textile mills sprang into being in towns all over New England where water power was available, and not long after, the shoe industry followed suit. Boston became the natural center for these industries both as a market for their finished products and as the port of entry for their raw materials, cotton, wool, silk and leather.

Boston-well called "The Birthplace of the American Nation" -possesses a wealth of historic places and traditions which are the heritage of all America.

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FANEUIL HALL SOMETIMES CALLED THE "CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY" IS FANEUIL HALL IN BOSTON WHERE AMERICAN PATRIOTS MADE FIERY SPEECHES AND ORGANIZED COMMITTEES AGAINST THE BRITISH WHICH LED TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THE SECOND FLOOR CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL HALL PRESERVED IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND ON THE GROUND FLOOR VISI- TORS STILL FIND THE MARKET STALLS AS THEY WERE NEARLY 200 YEARS AGO.

A partial list of historic places to see in and around Boston includes: Samuel Adams House, "Ye Old Blake House," Boston Common-the site of the "Boston Tea Party," Bunker Hill Monument, U. S. Frigate "Consti- tution," Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Faneuil Hall, First Church in Boston, Franklin's Birthplace, Granary Burying Ground, King's Chapel, Liberty Tree, Old North Church (Christ Church), Old State House, Wendell Phillips House, First Post Office in American Colonies, Province House, Paul Revere House, Old South Meeting House, Old West Church, Spring Lane, the Adams Houses, Arnold's Tavern, Lowell's House, Longfellow's Home, Old Powder House, Plymouth, Minute Man Statue, Revolutionary Monument, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and Long- fellow's Wayside Inn.

BOSTON'S WATER SUPPLY

Boston is blessed with one of the purest and most plentiful water supplies in the world. Even during a dry year 90 % of Boston's stored water is still unused in the late fall of the year.

Within Metropolitan Boston, 24 communities and Boston receive their water from the Metropolitan District Commission Water District. Three other communities are partially supplied.

The Metropolitan District Commission is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts providing park sewerage and water service with its own police force to 45 cities and towns in Metropolitan Boston-not all com- munities have all 3 services. The Water District contains 14 distribution reservoirs with capacities varying from 0.33 to 1,791.7 million gallons; and 3 storage reservoirs with 477 billion gallons capacity impounding the run-off from 268.69 square miles of watershed.

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Quabbin Reservoir, the largest, completed in 1946, was constructed on the sites of 4 townships requiring relocation of 36 miles of state highways, discontinuance of 16 miles of railroad and removal of all homes and buildings.

Other statistics: Water surface-36.6 square miles. Total land and water area inside the real estate taking line-117 square miles. Length of reservoir-18 miles. Shore line-118 miles. Shore line including 110 islands-177 miles.

The water is extremely soft and can be used for any home or industrial purpose without further treatment. Purity of the water is evident from the fact that only 6.3 pounds of chlorine and 1.1 pounds of ammonia per mil- lion gallons is added and only .15 parts per million gallons of residual chlorine gas are found in the mains and this is almost completely dissipated on reaching the consumer.

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COURTESY CONVENTION BUREAU, BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

AERIAL VIEW OF BOSTON, SHOWING MAJOR DOWNTOWN BUILDINGS, WITH LOGAN AIRPORT IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER. MYSTIC RIVER BRIDGE IS IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER, AND THE CHARLES RIVER BASIN AND THE HATCH MEMORIAL SHELL ARE SEEN AT THE LEFT IN THE PICTURE. THE FAMOUS BOSTON COMMON AND PUBLIC GARDENS ARE IN THE CENTER.

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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 1959, Part 2

Author: Publication date: 1789 Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company Number of Pages: 2048

Author:
Publication date: 1789
Publisher: Boston : Sampson & Murdock company
Number of Pages: 2048