, 1873-04-15
BOSTON.
The Progress of Reconstruct
ton.


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sptcia, corr.snpnaeucs or rho catca1o~ Tribune.
BOSTON, April 10, 1878.
To Chicago readors, details Of tho reconHtruc-
ton Of burnt city can hardly have any great
novelty. Tho labor tie confusion, tho crowd
ing the dirt and tho discomfort Of all kinds aro
thinns nf which the 0hicaponn neol not bo
to,a. 1,;a o,s,, 1,ro,,leaaa co1, surcv lin wholo
mi i fn,tov nnoro tna,, .,.r nm % nv, aot dawn
Eut as community OF experience makes COM
munity Of intorost, yonr readors may caro- to !
boar IN ooneral wov. what Ia dining amour ug
in tho way OF reconstruction.
During tho wintcr, Of course, fow buildings |
hayo boon erectod: vet much real pro-
,rouu h,a boor r,,ao ,o+zv;+1,ston6inf,. |
64.no nas oo." 'Ao s 1..,l
oel!ara nave oeon cioareu' los1naallo1'
laid, and tho plans Of architects carefully pro-
pared SO that, sinco tho ysarmor weather begun,
tho WORK hss gone 1Gl"a1d fspu my Hnua +a nru
now rising on o7ory nana. nlany o. LUG now
atoros aro vol advanced toward completion anu
few weeks will SEQ them roady for occupancy.
,,,,,,,,roa ~ ne,ard;nr ~ of1ic,.1 roturna 776.
nuinposeo: @eeo,u4ns ~ onio.aI Aos1' a, ~
Owing to tho widening OF s'toess anu LUZ on.
largomont Of estates, tho numbor OF structures
which will cover the sa1no territory when it iH
rohrila will bo ,nntorially reduced. Thus far
.osa ,,.',o hon, rra1,tod about I'm ,,ernIa tn
.no.a VI, u0'e uo1A ei"no" D"s ~
ou1a! ano ths nu'npee WI sosef ~, ~ 4,"s' ,".
fourth part OF the Apaco available. Iho ltss or
permits will in tho noxt TOW wcoks, DO greatly
5000 Nav, 1,,,,13or. 1,ova five for hoon
e1tenaoa' many ouliao.s u%so , .nue =, ~! .. ooen
hold back from applying by tne oelay IN TUG uc"
termination Of tho new strcet-lines, and alao by
tho embarrassing defects OF the existing
Du11p1Su-ACr,
Tho act. raaaod during the short sossion, Was
alcnnato in Aotno Of itB provisions, and posi-
tiyoy n1;achieyoug in othcrs Il was, in fact, go
inroniously contriyod as virtually to p,,t pre-
dofooto nro romodioti i,y arnona1nerlta proposed
| in tho Senate a fow days ago; and, whom i hns
undergone little more tinkeyi,g, we may hopo
TINT, though not wlat 1t should DO, atI11, aa Nor
| quito said Of his wound, SIT will sorvo."
| THE STREETS
| have in many instances, been widencd; but
| they have not boon straightonod,- "a fact which
your correspondent, for ono, cen hardly
tiroBo1ne reotaugularity, w1lich-though it iB
nm aware. one Of tho boasts OF mower cities
i Ihnyo never boon nblo to admire When Dclt~
a6st rs ya 9aeay hS 5 ss SO
would willingly havo WALKED many miloa tor the
n,ero sight of a crooked street; and think all
lovers Of tho picturesque will readily sympathlzo
say. Boston il already tic most picturesque
sorvc. do not saw The most boa1,tiful-city in
tic Union. and gho il to lose nothing in this re-
spoct by tic ire.
THE NEW uUup1Nus
ara n,rnost uniformly finor and moro substantial
than those Which they roplaco. Tho plea OF
Hhard timoa " or n TIGHT money market has
not opetatel to produce uiggarl1noas il
thIa lfrootion. Indeed, owners OF land
i,ayc soomol to hol1 TINT thoy could
not nfYoril INV iuforiority in theso now Btruc.
turog which arc orcctod to laat, Or course, So
cn,ty nrninnt flro in ono Of tho chief esii1orata
and and many lri improved methods Of construction
. looking to this ond will bo tried. In ono fine