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Page 35
But perhaps it is hardly fair to take the year 1863 as an average year . Compare 1860 or 1861 , when both ferries were running , with 精 1871 , and you find that the expense has trebled SECOND EIEARING . 35.
But perhaps it is hardly fair to take the year 1863 as an average year . Compare 1860 or 1861 , when both ferries were running , with 精 1871 , and you find that the expense has trebled SECOND EIEARING . 35.
Page 92
Q. Three times the average tolls for the whole day ? A. Three times for the whole day , and we only took from six to six . Q. Have you any other means of judging of the increase of travel ? A. Well , I can judge something by the amount ...
Q. Three times the average tolls for the whole day ? A. Three times for the whole day , and we only took from six to six . Q. Have you any other means of judging of the increase of travel ? A. Well , I can judge something by the amount ...
Page 102
Q. What proportion would your East Boston business bear to your whole business , on the average ? A. Well , some weeks , it would be two - thirds , and then perhaps the next week we would not have anything to speak of . Q. One half ?
Q. What proportion would your East Boston business bear to your whole business , on the average ? A. Well , some weeks , it would be two - thirds , and then perhaps the next week we would not have anything to speak of . Q. One half ?
Page 241
A. I suppose I average two or three times a day . Q And during the last year , you have been one of the directors of the ferries ? A. There was a committee of three appointed for the management of the men and running of the ferries ...
A. I suppose I average two or three times a day . Q And during the last year , you have been one of the directors of the ferries ? A. There was a committee of three appointed for the management of the men and running of the ferries ...
Page 243
We cross upon the average , according to a count taken by our gatemen , about seventeen hundred vehicles a day , of every description , upon both ferries ; including the horse cars of the Metropolitan Railroad , it makes about 1,800 a ...
We cross upon the average , according to a count taken by our gatemen , about seventeen hundred vehicles a day , of every description , upon both ferries ; including the horse cars of the Metropolitan Railroad , it makes about 1,800 a ...
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| Title | Documents of the City of Boston, Volume 2 |
| Author | Boston (Mass.). City Council |
| Published | 1872 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Oct 2011 |
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