The Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis

Although the story of the evolution of all the greater American cities is wonderful and worth the telling yet certain developments in Boston within the period covered by this work are of particular moment, especially Since it was the parent city of the telephone and of the electric subway; and since it was also the first American seaboard citv to take advance steps in regard to the systematic development as a port.

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