Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-11-13

In l0AU tn0 8V0tUxO BR3Ouut ~ FAokcAy l
ovnsd hy each inhabiSant of Boston was less
than nine hundred doliars, but In 1870 It had
increased 70 an average OF more than twenty
three hundred dollars, and the value Of oil the
property in Boston is more than seven times as
great - it Was thihy-ave ysass ago.
Tia streets 1vhich were formerly 50 narrow
and crooked as to give point to the joke that they
were laid out upoa the paths made BY the cows IN
going to pasture hsve been wadsnsd 'ers.s6senea
ines Of briek and stone have been raised with
tie structs,res upon then. lnsny feet. The city
has extended its authority o7er the island Known
as Noodles Island, now East Boston, which was
almost uninhabitsd and unimproved until its pur- |
chase ON speculation in 1880; over South Boston, |
oncs Dorchester Neck. annexed to Boston in 1904;
and finally. by legislative acts and the consent 0!
the citizens over the ancient municipalities OF
Roxbury and Dorchester. The original limits OF
| Boston comprised but GOO acres BY filling In
Asts $50 acres have been added. BY the absorp-
ltion Of South and East Boston. and by filling the
fats surrounding these districts seventeen nun
drod acres more were acquired. and hoxb0ry con-
tributed twenty-one hundred acres and Doiches-
chester forty. eight hundred. The entire present
area Of the city is, therefore, ten thousand one
hundred and seventy acres-neariy tween times
| a great as the original area Meanwhile the nu.
; merous railroads radiating from Boston. and
| reaching TO almost every village WITHIN tnifty
miles, have rendered il possible for business men
to make their homes far away from their counting
3 rooms. By this means scores of suburban towns
roundiag any other great city OF the country
have been bull. up. and the value OF property III
all the eastern part OF Massachusetts, has been very
largely enhanced. These towns are most init.
9 | mstsly connected with Boston in business and
social relations, and in sense, form part OF int
Q city.
n UNUSUAL VALUE or rHE BUILDINGS DESTROYED
: The buildings thus swept out Of existence in
day were the grandest Of their kind in the Unitet
. States In Chicago there were acres OF wretshet
wooden structures destroyed. whose removal wat
in one sense benefit to the citv but here tn
loss has fallen upon the most substantial part o
. Bostou. With the exception OF the region owe
toward the water, Of which have already spoken
,s there were no poor quarters in the blackene
70 waste The dry goods houses, wool houses an
to leather houses were all here. For years past IN
10, pride Of Boston business men has been tn
b erection Of commercial palaces in this distrsc
III and. except for the terrible fault Of the col
~ struction-the use of bad material and the pr
he vailing disorder Of Hansard roo,sthe result ~
~ been magnificent. There were Winthrop.squar
81 With Bosbs's splendid building and 9th!
ne structures of the same class. There was Franz
lrs lin street. with ih famous architscture The
an were numerous imposing blocks along WashingtI
10 street, OF lats years the dry goods jobbiu
ne housss have been gradually moving towa
An Chslsa, and many OF them consequently escap6'
this disaster. But the heavy commission hous
10 which ssll entirely BY the pscIsge. all 'Ism.ane
mr. two exceptions. Pearl street was the chi
ate leather mart of New England, and that. too,
Daf swept. The most Of the Wholesale clothing
too tahiishmepts were here and those that have 20
Dr. employed NO fewer than 10000 girls. Ihe grs
WOOL houses were all In the burnt district. .
Nj, hsld enormous qusntitiss OF wool, no less th
=. million pounds, for trade had been dull.