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Identifier: blightonbostonho00albr (find matches)
Title: A blight on Boston : how shall it be removed?
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Albree, John, 1859-
Subjects: Park Square Station (Boston, Mass.) New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Land use, Urban -- Massachusetts Boston Railroads -- Massachusetts Boston
Publisher: Boston : Berkley Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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abandoned seven yearsago. Why is it? Can In()uiry be Made?But what right has an individual, or any number of individuals, or eventhe general public, to raise a question as to the handling of land which, it *Report R. R. Com. Jan. 1S93, p. 5S0. has already been stated, the Boston and Providence Railroad bought andpaid for, and which it sold to the New Haven Railroad in settlement of adebt? Is it not an unwarrantal)le interference in a railroads jjrivate busi-ness? By no means, for it is not unwarranted and it is not an inter-ference at all. It is a right and a duty that every thinking man in the com-munity owes to himself and the community where his interests are, to assertand insist that the conduct of a railroad in its smallest detail is a matter ofpublic interest, of public concern. A railroad has no private business. An eminent railroad lawyer hasstated, The foundation of all the railroad law I know is this, a railroad is apublic highway. Has a public highway any private business?
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The Abandoned Land as seen looking West from the Tenney Building, 40 Columbus Avenue. No part of the area, 723,000 square feet, shown in these two views,can be reached the 1,250,000 people living witliin a radius of 15 milesconditions? And yet the land lias been idle seven years. over 500 feet from trolley lines by whichWhat possibilities are susgested l^y such Again, a president of a New England railroad is quoted recently as hav-ing said that a railroad lives by a tax on the community. There is noneed to raise a question as to whether or not he made this statement, for itis recognized that, with the grant of a charter of a railroad, goes also thepower to fix the charges which that community must pay for the transporta-tion of its people and its freight, and herein is the tax on the community. This is not Turkey or China, where taxes are laid without the voice orthe consent of the taxed. The tea was thrown into our Boston Harbor insupport of the doctrine that the taxed shall have the

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