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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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mancares, or can afford tospend. This means, withallowance for a shortwalk at each end of theroute, barely a quarter ofan hour in the cars. Few,even of those who keeprelatively easy hours, aresatisfied to spend morethan forty-five minutes intransit from home to business,and while the more pros-perous, with whom railroad fare within a half hours rideis of little account, can gain the open country in thattime, by far the greater number are practically limitedto the region that lies within thirty minutes, as trolleygoes. Recur now to our fifteen minute line. It includesessentially old Boston (except a small part of the SouthEnd), a morsel of South Boston just across the draw-bridges, a narrow, dingy strip of Cambridgeport, thesouthernmost corner of Charlestown and, across theNorth Ferry at two cents extra fare, a liberal slice ofEast Boston. It comprises an area of 3.1 square miles, ofwhich nearly one-third is taken up by business blocks,the Common and Public Garden and the Back Bay dis-
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Strtet Railway Journal January, 1.896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. II trict, these being excluded from the effective residencedistrict so far as those who work long hours are con-cerned. The greatest distance of any part of this areafrom the center of the city is two miles, and the least dis-tance barely over one mile. The shape of the area tells an interesting story. Go-ing south along Washington Street, the fifteen minuteline is reached just beyond the one mile circle, telling asplainly as possible the story of tedious blockades in thegreat shopping district, where many car lines were con-centrated in three narrow streets. Westward, however,the area expands almost to the two mile limit, in the re-gion of wide avenues and the residence streets of theBack Bay. Just across the Charles, the extreme limit isreached, thanks to the long Cambridge Bridge, farenough up stream to keep the draw from being trouble-some. The northern Cambridge Bridge, however, is avery different matter, for its inn

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