Identifier: illustratedbosto00unse (find matches)
Title: Illustrated Boston : the metropolis of New England containing also reviews of its principal environs
Year: 1889 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : American Publishing and Engraving Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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he latter place, of lower port charges for the vessels which come here. Bos-ton may perhaps never hope to compete with New York as the great centre of the export and import trade ofthis country; but, as this trade is constantly increasing, there is no reason why it should not maintain its rela-tive position; and there are some reasons for thinking that it may in the next few years have a larger propor-tionate share of this business than it has enjoyed In the past As an indication of the extent of the foreign 98 ILLUSTRATED BOSTON. shipping trade now done, it may be l.erc stated that the receipts for duties at tbe Custom-house amounted in1888 to $21,166,212.31. Boston is the great centre, too, for internal traffic, especially in food products, shoes, leather, machinery,rubber, dry goods, etc.; and in all these grunt commodities there is an increase year by year, the record for lastyear being largely in excess of that of previous years. Tbe city has ita Shoe and Leather Exchange, Boston
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BOTTOM pMuTO0«*vu1lt CO Faneuil Hall Square, showing Faneuil Hall and Quinoy Market*. Commercial Exchange, Produce Exchange, Chamber of Commerce, New. England Furniture Exchange, FishBureau, Board of Trade, Firemens Exchange, Boston Board of Marine Underwriters, Boston Board of Trade,Boston Fire Underwriters Union, Boston Grocers Association, Boston Merchants Association, Master Build-ers Association. National Association Wool Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers Association,New England Retail Grocers Association, New England Saddlery Hardware Association, Mechanics Exchange,Merchants Exchange and Reading-room, etc Financial facilities arc afforded by sixty national and several private banks, seven tnist companies, andthirteen savings banks; and numerous home and foreign insurance companies afford protection against lossesby fire to buildings, merchandise, and other property. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES Boston has always occupied a prominent position among the American cities in

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