Text Appearing Before Image: lyBible, indeed, for the great so-called mid-dle classes throughout the State: If the West-End enterprise ever proves to be ofany value to Bostons development and conve-niences of travel, it will not be because of any cod-dling by the Boston public. You can get up a pe-tition against it, signed by everybody far and near,at two hours notice. It matters little what maybe the subject of complaint. — Transcript. Bostonians have a peculiar way of antagonizingBoston. A limited number of very worthy thoughsomewhat narrow-minded citizens are always tobe found in opposition to every great public im-provement. The introduction of pure water wasopposed most strenuously, and the widening ofevery street and avenue has not been carried tocompletion without opposition. Bostonians pos-sess a fatal facility for limiting communications,and they are also adepts at holding front-parlormeetings, where a handful of men organize an op-position to every advance which interferes with 94 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE Text Appearing After Image: Henry M. Whitney, who planned and executed the consolidation of local transportation in Greater Boston, resulting in the building of the subway by the city of Boston. Born at Conway, Mass., 1839 their personal comfort. With this class Bostonhas no future. To live in undisturbed possessionof their homesteads, to resist every encroachmentupon their mistaken idea that they own the streets,and to pour cold water upon any innovationwhich threatens their supposed invested rights ap-pears to be the aim and object of their existence.But Boston has spread out in spite of these ob-structionists, and will continue to do so; for thepresent generation of active, enterprising men have an idea that capital can find profitable in-vestment in Boston, and they propose to try theexperiment of home expansion, even if they haveto fight for it. And after all, what are these tem-porary inconveniences compared with the generalprosperity of the whole city? It is disagreeable tohave the streets dug up for the
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