The Social, Commercial, and Manufacturing Statistics of the City of Boston, From the United States Census Returns for 1880, and From Original Sources

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Excerpt from The Social, Commercial, and Manufacturing Statistics of the City of Boston, From the United States Census Returns for 1880, and From Original Sources: An Account of the Railroad and Shipping Facilities of the City The City Government has at various periods ordered compilations of statistics from census returns, for the information of the people. Last March an order was offered in the Board of Aldermen providing "that the Committee on Printing be authorized to issue as a city document such statistics compiled from the tenth United States Census relating to the City of Boston as may be of public interest." This order passed the Board of Aldermen March 13, 1882, was concurred in by the Council March 23, and approved by His Honor, Mayor Green, March 25, 1882. The Committee on Printing voted, April 4, "That Mr. Carroll D. Wright be engaged to supply the compilation of the census statistics." Mr. Wright entered at once upon the work intrusted to him. The Committee expected to show from the investigation of the Census Bureau at Washington, under its special agency on Railroads, Transportation, etc., full details relative to the facilities of Boston for receiving and forwarding freight, and especially its shipping interests, but it seems such facts were not called for by the census schedules, in order, therefore, to meet one of the chief purposes of the projected work, all the facts relating to railroad and shipping facilities have been gathered from original sources, and the statements concerning all railroad, dock, elevator, wharf, and shipping companies or firms have been approved by the proper officer in each case. We have thus been able to present a very complete and accurate exhibit of our freight and shipping facilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.