Excerpt from The Most Beautiful City in America: Essay and Plan the Improvement City of Boston The importance to a city of sufficient room in its streets to transport all the freight and merchandise which comes by cars or vessels, cannot be over-estimated. Boston is using every effort to enlarge her business, although, even now, a balky horse or an overturned coal - cart, in one of her nar row streets, can arrest the business of the city until the obstruction is removed; and by that delay cause men to break important engagements, travellers to lose the cars or steamboats, and create general inconvenience for the whole business community. Last summer, it is said that fifteen miles of freight cars were waiting at one time to be un loaded, and this winter our railroads have been obliged to refuse or hold back western freight because of our inability to handle and store it. These facts cannot be ignored; and if the city is too small or inconvenient for the present busi ness, what will she do with the increase that must follow new railroads and canals, anfl. New investments of energy and capital? 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.