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Title: Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Herndon, Richard, comp Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916, ed
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel Boston (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Boston, Post Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hinery, produce, food prep-arations, and printing and publishing—it stillleads and is likely to maintain its position. Thenumber of manufacturing and mechanical establish-ments in the city, shown by the latest State census,that of 1885, was 5,199, the total amount of capitalinvested in them, $73,346,258, and the value of thegoods made and work done, $144,376,206 ; sincethat time the growth and expansion has been steady,and the figures of to-day must show a very markedincrease. The combined cost of the new buildingserected in 1891 was $10,568,800, which has beenexceeded but twice, in 1873 and 1874, the yearsimmediately following the Great Fire. The total value of imports at the port of Boston in1891 was about $70,000,000, and of exports, $81,-400,000. The ocean steamship lines now runningregularly are the Cunard, the Leyland, and the^^arren, to Liverpool; the Anchor and the Furness,to London ; the Anchor and the Allan, to Glasgow ;the Wilson, to Hull; and the White Star, to Antwerjj.
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BOSTON OF TO-DAY. III. TRADE CENTRES. RETAIL, WHOLESALE, AND EINAXCLAL QUAKIERS, PASTAXD PRESENT. ONE result of the Great Fire of 1S72, and ofthe growth of the various branches of tradeduring the prosperous period succeeding the busi-ness depression of 1873-7, was a shifting of busi-ness centres. A generation ago the dry-goodsmerchants, both wholesale and retail, were mostlyestablished in the lower part of Washington street,Tremont row, Court and Hanover streets. Bostonwas at one time the chief dry-goods market of thecountry, and as the mills grew in number moreterritory was required, and the wholesale trademoved into large granite stores on Milk, Kilby,and Atkinson (that part of the present Congressstreet south of Milk) streets, and Liberty square.Subsequently Pearl street was occupied until itwas crowded out by the leather trade; andthen its present quarters on Devonshire, Summer,and Franklin streets, Winthrop square, Chauncy,Kingston, and Bedford streets, were established. The reta

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