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 The Somerville Number of a Series devoted to the illustration of 
 certain of the cities and towns adjacent to the City of Boston 
 and the presentation, in brief accompanying text, of some 
 suggestive facts concerning their advantages and development. 
 
 PUBLISHED IN BOSTON IN THE FALL OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINE BY 
 
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 t^OR many years after the settle- 
 ment of these parts the ter- 
 ritory now occupied by the City of 
 Somerville was a part of Charles- 
 town regarded as a comparatively 
 unimportant outlying district of the 
 older town. When in 1656 rights 
 of pasturage hereabouts were granted 
 to then residents of Charlestown the 
 gift of prophecy was as rare as ever 
 and none could foresee that on these 
 meadows and wooded hills was the 
 site of a future city destined to se- 
 cure such remarkable residential and 
 industrial development. It was not 
 until 1842, and after considerable 
 opposition, that the growing com- 
 
 munity obtained its separate ex- 
 istence and control of its own 
 neighborhood affairs. There had 
 been, however, happenings in the 
 locality of importance to the colonies 
 and the nation. On the present 
 Washington Street corner of Dane 
 has been placed a tablet which states 
 that "John Woolrich, Indian trader, 
 built near this place in 1630 — the 
 first white settler on Somerville soil." 
 In that year Ten Hills Farm, a tract 
 of six hundred acres, was granted to 
 Governor John Winthrop and here 
 in 1 63 1 was launched on the Mystic 
 the bark, "The Blessing of the 
 Bay" the first ship built in the 
 
 The City Hall and the PubHc Library. 
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The English and the Latin High School. 
 
 colony. To interject here a little 
 of the present it may be stated that 
 near the site of this farm a munici- 
 pal bath house was erected recently 
 on the bank of the Mystic River, 
 for the benefit of the youth and of 
 the citv generally. This immedi- 
 ately secured approval and popular 
 use. 
 
 There is preserved, surrounded 
 by Nathan Tufts park, later pre- 
 sented to the city, a picturesque old 
 stone structure which was erected 
 probably as a mill, but which became 
 a powder magazine in i 747 and so 
 remained throughout the Revolution. 
 In the beautiful Central Hill Park, 
 in part crowned by impressive edu- 
 cational and civic buildings, a bat- 
 tery stands and on the inner wall of 
 the rampart is a tablet duly record- 
 ing that, "This Battery was erected 
 by the city in 1885, and is within 
 
 the lines of the 'French Redoubt' 
 which was thrown up by the Ameri- 
 can Troops under General Israel 
 Putnam immediately after the Battle 
 of Bunker Hill and later became a 
 part of the besieging lines of Boston 
 in 1775-6. The guns were donated 
 by Congress and were in service 
 during the late Civil War." In this 
 park also stands the Soldiers' Monu- 
 ment commemorating the no less 
 patriotic and important sacrifices ot 
 men of a later generation. This is 
 a notable group of statuary in bron/.e 
 representing a modern and striking 
 conception of Victory surmounting 
 a soldier of the time. On the 
 granite pedestal is the admirably re- 
 strained but thrillingly suggesti\'e in- 
 scription, "To the Men of Somer- 
 ville who Served the Union on Land 
 and Sea." On the summit of Pros- 
 pect Hill a tower of roughly hewn 
 
The Tower on Prospect Hill Marking the Scene of Important Historical Events. 
 
 A Little of the Hospital Buildings, Somerville. 
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Church of the F'irst Congregational (Unitarian) Society, Somerville. 
 
 granite has been raised to mark 
 fittingly a place of such historical 
 interest. On the retaining wall a 
 bronze tablet of rive panels has been 
 placed with inscriptions prepared by 
 the Somerville Historical Society 
 and recording the facts in simple, 
 eloquent words. In one of the 
 panels it is stated that '•'• Ihe Ameri- 
 can Army under (general Putnam on 
 [une 17, 1 77 5, withdrew from Bun- 
 ker Hill to this Height and here 
 erected the Citadel, the strongest 
 work in the Besieging Line of l)OS- 
 ton and which for nine months 
 withstood the British Bombardment 
 June 17, 1775, to iVlarch 17, 
 177b." In another panel is recited 
 that "Here on |uly iH, 1775, was 
 raised amid great rejoicing the F lag 
 presented to (General Israel Putnam 
 and his Heroic Soldiers bearing the 
 Motto of Connecticut '•()ui I'rans- 
 
 tulit Sustinet' and of Massachusetts, 
 'An Appeal to Heaven.' " On the 
 third panel appears '•'■From this Emi- 
 nence on lanuary ist, 1776, the 
 Flag of the Ihiited Colonies bearing 
 Thirteen Stripes and the Crosses of 
 Saint Cieorge and Saint Andrew, Hrst 
 waved Defiance to a Foe." The 
 fact that certain of Burgoyne's 
 British soldiers surrendered at Sara- 
 toga were quartered here is stated in 
 another panel while on the fifth may 
 be read '•'■On this historic hill answer- 
 ing their Countr\\ call in 1S62 
 encamped the Soldiers of Somerville 
 whose record of Patriotism and For- 
 titude in the Ci\ il War is worthv of 
 highest Honor and Commemoration." 
 (3ther duly erected and inscribed 
 tablets mark a part of the road 
 traversed by Paul Re\ere on his ride 
 to Concord and other points of 
 historic interest while among the 
 
Highland Road and Some of the Residences. 
 
 One of Several Modern Apartment Houses, Somerville. 
 
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic L'hurch, Sonierville. 
 
 The Armory on Highland Ave., Quarters of Companies K and M, 8th Regiment, M.V. M. 
 
Revolutionary 
 landmarks pre- 
 served is the old 
 Tufts House now 
 suitably marked 
 which served as 
 headquarters for 
 General Charles 
 Lee as well as for 
 "Brigadier General 
 Nathanael Green, 
 in command of the 
 Rhode Island 
 troops during the 
 Siege of Boston, 
 1775-6." 
 
 These various 
 tributes to men 
 and events of ear- 
 lier days and to 
 later acts of patri- 
 otism, these tablets 
 and structures, ex- 
 hibit due reverence 
 for an interesting 
 past of conse- 
 quence; but Som- 
 erville has not 
 rested content 
 
 upon its share of the past, however 
 important that has been. It is a 
 thriving and advancing city of to- 
 day. Its civic pride while partially 
 based, quite properly, upon its his- 
 toric associations is also based upon 
 material achievement and continued 
 industrial progress and this has fur- 
 ther warrant in the homes of the 
 city so evidently the homes of a 
 prosperous and contented people, in 
 the opportunities now presented in 
 the city for the establishment of 
 others and' as well opportunities 
 no less notable for the profitable 
 employment of capital and of energy. 
 
 Somerville, when it was separated 
 from Charlestown in 1842, had a 
 
 The Old Powder House, Preserved in Nathan Tufts Park. 
 
 population of a little over a thousand. 
 By 1 85 1, when the first directory 
 was issued, the number of its inhabi- 
 tants had increased three fold. In 
 1868 the population had grown to 
 over twelve thousand, the number 
 requisite to qualify the town in this 
 respect to become a citv. It was 
 not, however, until 1871 when the 
 community had become too large 
 and its interests too diverse for its 
 afi^airs to be administered best in 
 open town meeting that it was made 
 a city of the Commonwealth. On 
 the first of January, 1872, the City 
 Government was first organized and 
 the management of the city delegated 
 to its elected officers. The popula- 
 
tion then was approximately sixteen 
 thousand. From that date on, how- 
 ever, the increase in the number of 
 residents was very very rapid and as 
 ascertained by the State census of 
 1905, the population in that year 
 was 69,272 with legal voters num- 
 bering 15,90b. The growth in 
 population in the ten year period 
 ending in 1905 amounted to nearly 
 thirty-three per cent. Competent 
 authorities conservatively estimate 
 the inhabitants in 1909 to number 
 75,000. [he prosperit\' of the City 
 is obvious; hut this is attested by the 
 assessed valuation amounting, as for 
 1909, to $63,658,953.00, on real 
 estate, $57,295,600.00 and on per- 
 
 Building of the \'oung Men's Christian Association. 
 
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 sonal property, $6,363,353.00. 
 Within the area of four and two- 
 tenths square miles occupied by the 
 city there are something over twelve 
 thousand dwellings. 
 
 Through Somerville pass the 
 Eastern, Western, Southern and 
 Fitchburg Divisions of the Boston 
 and Maine Railroad. On one or 
 another ot these four divisions there 
 are nine stations within the city — 
 at Prospect Hill, Winter Hill, Som- 
 erville Junction, Somerville High- 
 lands, West Somerville, North Som- 
 erville, L'nion Square, Somerville 
 and East Somerville. To the Winter 
 Hill station, three miles from Boston 
 on the Southern Division there are 
 thirty-eight trains 
 (jut from Boston 
 daily and thirty- 
 seven in; on Sun- 
 days, fifteen and 
 twelve respect- 
 ively. The fare 
 is five cents and 
 the average run- 
 ning time ten min- 
 utes. Between 
 each of the other 
 stations in Somer- 
 ville and Boston 
 there are frequent 
 trains in each di- 
 rection daily and 
 Sunday while the 
 rates of fare and 
 the average run- 
 ning times vary as 
 the distances vary 
 slightly. 
 
 The first street 
 railway to or 
 through Somerville 
 was opened to traf- 
 fic in 1H54 and 
 doubtless, the fur- 
 
The Fire Station at Teele Square. 
 
 A Side View of the House of the Central Club. 
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The Emanuel Episcopal Church. 
 
 ther extension of kindred systems 
 has been at once an effect and a par- 
 tial cause of the rapid development 
 of the citv. Now within the limits 
 of Somerville there are nearly thirty- 
 two miles of electric railway and 
 they not only connect one part of 
 the city with another but Somerville 
 with Boston by seven different 
 routes; with Cambridge; with Charles- 
 town; with Arlington, J^exington 
 and so with Lowell and points be- 
 tween; with Medford; with Win- 
 chester, Woburn and vStoneham. 
 The newly opened electric railway 
 line through the Middlesex Fells 
 Parkway to Spot Pond runs through 
 Somerville until it crosses the Mvstic 
 
 River and enables the 
 residents of the city to 
 reach easily so much 
 more of the beautiful 
 surrounding country. 
 The close proximity 
 of Boston and the 
 quick and easy com- 
 munication afforded by 
 the steam or electric 
 railways permit those 
 living in Somerville to 
 command as they please 
 the facilities of the 
 larger city and to par- 
 take in its varied in- 
 terests; but in its own 
 right Somerville is rich 
 in possession of the 
 conveniences essential 
 to comfortable living 
 and of well managed 
 public utilities. 
 
 A practically inex- 
 haustible supply of ex- 
 cellent water is secured 
 from the Metropolitan 
 System of Water Sup- 
 ply while the city's 
 own water works and its nearly 
 ninety-three miles of main and dis- 
 tributing pipes make the water avail- 
 able everywhere throughout the city, 
 while adequate pressure is attained 
 by gravity. The sufficiency of water 
 and the nearly eleven hundred fire 
 hydrants help the efficient fire de- 
 partment to render the proper pro- 
 tection in any emergency. There 
 are eight fire stations, suitably lo- 
 cated to enable the force to reach 
 any threatened point in the quickest 
 possible time. The apparatus con- 
 sists of five fire engines, three com- 
 bination chemical engines and hose 
 wagons, one combination chemical 
 engine, hose and ladder truck, five 
 
Looking North in Union Square, Somerville. 
 
 Building of the Somerville National Bank and other Business Buildings. 
 
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Homes along Westwood Road, Somerville. 
 
 Stcjres with Apartments above, on Highland Avenue. 
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hose wagons and 
 one ladder truck. 
 The well directed 
 police department 
 with its headquar- 
 ters at the Station 
 on Bow Street, is 
 well able to cope 
 with the problems 
 presented in such 
 an orderly com- 
 munity of diverse 
 interests and the 
 u n i fo r med men 
 preserxe peace and 
 good order and 
 duly protect per- 
 son and property. 
 The city is as well 
 protected by sew- 
 ers as it is in other 
 ways. There are 
 nearly sixty-eight 
 miles of sewers in 
 the combined sys- 
 tem and over 
 twenty-four miles 
 in the separate sys- 
 tem together with 
 storm drains, catch basins and house 
 connections. 
 
 There are four post offices — at 
 Somerville with six sub-stations; at 
 West Somerville with three sub-sta- 
 tions and at Winter Hill with three 
 
 The First Methodist Episcopal Church on Bow Street. 
 
 Edison Electric Illuminating Com- 
 pany. This Company also fur- 
 nishes electricity for the illumination 
 of residential or commercial struc- 
 tures, as well as for power, at its 
 standard rates as established through- 
 sub-stations. Frequent collections out the thirty-three cities and towns 
 are made from the numerous street it supplies with the electric current, 
 mail boxes and there is a full and The service of the Company is con- 
 satisfactory carrier delivery service. tinuous during every hour of every 
 Illuminating gas was introduced into day in the year. 
 
 Somerville in 1853 ^"^ "°^ §^^ ^^^ Banking facilities of local import- 
 
 illumination and cooking is furnished ance are afforded by the Somerville 
 both by the Charlestown Gas and National Bank, the Somerville Trust 
 Electric Company and the Cam- Company, the Somerville Savings 
 bridge Gas Light Company. Bank, the Somerville Co-operative 
 
 The streets of Somerville are Bank, the West Somerville Co-oper- 
 lighted all of every night by The ative Bank and the Winter Hill Co- 
 
The Prospect Hill Congregational Church, Somerville. 
 
 Residences on Highland Avenue, Somerville. 
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Along Broadway, near Sycamore Street, Somerville. 
 
 The Winter Hill Congregational Church, Somerville. 
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The Winter Hill IJniversalist Church, Somerville. 
 
 The Odd Fellows Building, on Broadway. 
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The Recently Dedicated St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 operative Bank. At various points 
 where wide streets intersect are open 
 places or squares and facing these 
 are many important business build- 
 ings. Here, also, and on many 
 other of the streets are stores nu- 
 merous enough and so well stocked 
 and equipped for active business 
 that required purchases may be 
 made by the residents with conveni- 
 ence and without necessity for any 
 journey. Two weekly newspapers, 
 the Somerville Reporter, and the 
 widely-known Somerville Journal 
 report the local happenings as well as 
 give other news and reading matter. 
 The two hundred and forty-two 
 public schools including two high 
 schools as reported by the State 
 Board of Education, present unus- 
 ual and appreciated educational op- 
 portunities. There are twenty- 
 seven public school buildings and 
 
 while the English and Eatin high 
 schools occupy notable and beauti- 
 ful structures on the northerly part 
 of Central Hill Park many of the 
 other school buildings are imposing 
 in appearance and modern in plan 
 and equipment. Indeed, these im- 
 portant buildings must represent 
 a large percentage of the over five 
 million dollars reported as the value 
 of the public property. A high 
 educational standard is maintained 
 in the \arious grades while the man- 
 ner of construction of the buildings 
 permits successful exercises of due 
 care for the physical well-being of 
 the nearly thirteen thousand pupils 
 which is among the aims of the 
 School Committee, the Superintend- 
 ent and the three hundred and forty- 
 five teachers. There are moreover, 
 two parochial schools attracting a 
 large attendance. 
 
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The Central Fire Station, Somerville 
 
 The Public Library was opened 
 in the City Hall on May i, 1873, 
 with less than twenty-four hundred 
 volumes. The beautiful building now 
 occupied by the library stands also in 
 Central Hill Park and next to the 
 City Hall. The library building 
 was erected in 1884-5 ^'""^ ^^^ col- 
 lection of books has grown to in- 
 clude nearly eighty-three thousand 
 books. While the wide use of the ref- 
 erence books and reading rooms is 
 gratifying, the circulation approaching 
 half a million volumes annually, is 
 the largest known per capita of any 
 library. The branch library at West 
 Somerville occupies an attractive 
 structure the funds for which were 
 
 contributed by 
 Andrew Carnegie 
 and here the cir- 
 culation is rela- 
 tively as great. 
 
 The Somerville 
 Hospital was 
 founded nearly 
 twenty years ago 
 when Miss Martha 
 R, Hunt gave a 
 sum of money for 
 the purpose. Her 
 gift was supple- 
 mented by others 
 and the buildings 
 dedicated in May 
 of 1893. This 
 hospital is enabled 
 to carry on its 
 beneficent work 
 partly by private 
 subscription and 
 partly by an allow- 
 ance from the city 
 go\'ernment. There 
 are three other 
 hospitals while the 
 Board of Health 
 actively enforces measures to pro- 
 tect the general health of the city. 
 A Home for Aged Couples, a Home 
 for Aged Poor and the Somerville 
 Day Nursery are other important 
 and very useful institutions. 
 
 There are thirty-three churches 
 in Somerville and while some are 
 beautiful or imposing as edifices all 
 are well adapted in plan and loca- 
 tion, as well as in the varied services 
 to meet the requirements of the 
 residents. Among these places of 
 worship are seven Baptist Churches, 
 six Congregational, the First Con- 
 gregation (Unitarian) and another 
 l^nitarian Church, three Cath- 
 olic Churches, three Episcopal, 
 
Some of the Homes on Powder House Boulevard. 
 
 The Police Station, on Bow Street. 
 
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The Perkins Street Baptist Church, Somerville. 
 
 Business Buildings at Davis Square, West Somerville. 
 
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The West Somerville Baptist Church. 
 
 four Methodist Episcopal, one Pres- 
 byterian, three Universalist and a 
 Reorganized Church of Latter Day 
 Saints, one Second Advent, the First 
 Church of the Evangelical Associa- 
 tion and a Pentacostal Church. 
 
 All the important PVaternal Or- 
 ganizations are duly represented in 
 Somerx ille by local Lodges, Chap- 
 ters or Divisions. There are many 
 Associations with special objects, as 
 well as the encouragement of friend- 
 liness among their aims. The Cen- 
 tral Club Association of Somerville 
 is the title of the leading men's so- 
 cial club. The VVebcowit Club is 
 another social organization of con- 
 sequence while the Winter Hill 
 Club has its pleasant club rooms. 
 The Somerville Historical Society 
 has important place in the social 
 and intellectual life of the city. In 
 the Armory on Highland Avenue 
 
 Companies K and M of the Eighth 
 Regiment, M. V. M., have their 
 quarters. The Somerville Boys' 
 Club carries on work of great value 
 and with its amusements and classes 
 provides proper outlets for the ac- 
 tivities of the youthful. The large 
 membership of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association hnds due 
 benefit in the business or summer 
 classes conducted in the handsome 
 and adequate building, in the various 
 entertainment courses, in the gvm- 
 nasium and the swimming tank or 
 in pleasant and profitable association. 
 Within Somerville, but under the 
 charge of the Metropolitan Park 
 Commission are nearly nine acres of 
 the Mystic River Reservation, nearly 
 fourteen acres of the Middlesex 
 Fells Parkway and over eleven of 
 the Alewife Brook Parkway while 
 the Powder House Boulevard was 
 
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built and is maintained by the city. 
 These Parkways, with their ex- 
 cellent surfaces and surroundings 
 make pleasant driveways and so, in- 
 deed, do many of the nearly one 
 hundred miles of streets of the city. 
 The streets in the business sections 
 are paved: but there are about sixty- 
 seven and one-half miles macadam- 
 ized. In addition to Central Hill, 
 Prospect Hill and Nathan Tufts 
 Parks already mentioned the city 
 maintains the attractive I^roadway 
 Park and J^incoln Park, the latter 
 having a running track and appa- 
 ratus for outdoor gymnastics. The 
 Broadway Athletic Field at West 
 Somerville has suitable fields for 
 baseball, football and other sports, 
 with large stands for spectators. 
 With these and another play ground 
 on Alewife Brook, improved for 
 athletic sports and the new bath 
 
 house on the Mystic with its beach 
 and pleasant surroundings, abundant 
 opportunity is presented for outdoor 
 recreation. While all the residents 
 find full opportunity for social inter- 
 changes and due entertainment, the 
 youth of Somerville need not lack 
 profitable and enjoyable employment 
 of its leisure. 
 
 Somerville is a city set on many 
 hills. The crests of the higher 
 elevations, surmounted in so many 
 instances by structures of historic or 
 immediate civic interest, afi^brd ex- 
 tended views of varied charm. For- 
 tunately, in the development of the 
 city the natural grades have been 
 maintained in large measure and 
 thus a pleasant diversity is added to 
 the residence streets otherwise so 
 attractive. These streets owe their 
 further attraction in part to the good 
 roadways, in other part to the well 
 
 The William H. Hodgkins School, one of Several Modern School Buildings in Somerville. 
 
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The West Somerville Branch of the Public Library 
 
 The Hotel Woodbridge at West Somerville. 
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Knights of Malta and Masonic Building, Gilman Square, at Winter Hill. 
 
 Building of the Columbia Associates, on Broadway, Sonierville. 
 
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The Railroad Station at Winter Hill. 
 
 maintained sidewalks comprising 
 nearly one hundred and twenty miles 
 in length and to the many stately 
 or beautiful shade trees. In as large 
 part or perhaps, indeed, to an even 
 greater extent the streets owe their 
 attraction to the dwellings ranged 
 along them, so obviously forming 
 comfortable homes as well as being 
 tasteful structures quite worthy ot 
 their surroundings. 
 
 There are several apartment 
 houses, representing an important 
 phase of modern urban development, 
 well adapted to meet the require- 
 ments of families seeking the utmost 
 of convenience; but, quite properly 
 in a city where land values have not 
 yet risen to prohibitive figures, most 
 of the homes in Somerville are in 
 detached houses surrounded with 
 grounds, large or small as may be, 
 and having an abundance of light 
 
 and air. Happily, in the pleasant 
 streets of Somerville, some newly 
 opened or constructed, there are 
 many locations for the establishment 
 of other homes similar, in which 
 convenience may be commanded 
 as readily, and as promising of 
 content. There are available, sites 
 for dwellings of any desired size 
 or cost as conveniently situated 
 as those already here while a wide 
 choice as to immediate neighborhood 
 or character of environment is pre- 
 sented. 
 
 The development of Somerville 
 as an industrial center of conse- 
 quence has been also rapid and not- 
 able. In the latest published State 
 Report on the Statistics of Labor it 
 is stated that the capital devoted to 
 production in the city in 1906 was 
 $6,840,457.00; in the same year 
 $1,899,488.00 were paid in wages 
 
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:vvelrv Works of The M. W. C'arr Company, West Somerville. 
 
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 Factory of the Sprague & Hathaway Company, West Somerville. 
 
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to an average number of 3567 em- 
 ployed wage earners while the value of 
 the goods made was $21,025,984.00, 
 the latter impressive figures repre- 
 senting an increase of over twelve 
 per cent, in one year. Among the 
 more important industrial establish- 
 ments carrying on their varied un- 
 dertakings in Somerville are The 
 American Tube Works; S. Arm- 
 strong Company, cooperage; C. W. 
 Babcock, paper boxes; Birch Broth- 
 ers, machinery; Boston Burial Case 
 Company; Brown, Durrell & Com- 
 pany, shirt waists and wrappers; 
 The M. W. Carr Company, jewelry; 
 L. M. Carr & Son, confectionery; 
 Davenport-Brown Company, mould- 
 ings; Derby Desk Company; The 
 Floyd- Horsman Company, jewelry; 
 O. S. iVI. Haskell, confectioner\ ; 
 Hayward, Johnson & Piper, buckles 
 and novelties; H. M. Hillson Com- 
 
 pany, tinware; Hinckley Rendering 
 Company, oils and tallows; The 
 Horton & Hubbard Manufacturing 
 Company, trunks, bags and suit 
 cases; J. A. Kiley, vehicles; Middle- 
 sex Bleaching and Dye Works; C. 
 W. H. Moulton & Company, lad- 
 ders; New England Dressed Meat 
 and Wool Company; The North 
 Packing and Provision Company; 
 George W. Norton, soaps; Slayter 
 Paper Company, gummed papers; 
 Sprague &^ Hathaway Company, 
 picture frames and photographic 
 goods; John P. Squire Company, 
 provisions; The Sturtevant & Haley 
 Beef and Supply Company; Union 
 Glass Company; Wickstead & Com- 
 pany, dresses and wrappers. The 
 Boston and Maine Railroad is con- 
 structing important repair shops 
 and these shops together with other 
 enterprises contemplating establish- 
 
 Ladder Works and Yard of C. W. H. Moulton & Company. 
 
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 jewelry Factory of [ohnson, Havward & Piper. 
 
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 Plant ot the Boston Burial L ase Lompany, Somerville. 
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Works of the Derby Desk Company, from across the Railroad Tracks. 
 
 merit here will increase materially 
 the opportunities presented in Som- 
 erville for remunerative employ- 
 ment. 
 
 The freight facilities afforded by 
 the various lines of railway are 
 admirable and thoroughly adequate. 
 There are available in Somerville 
 many good sites for factory plants or 
 commercial buildings to be acquired 
 by purchase or lease at prices lower 
 than those necessarily prevailing in 
 older cities or more congested cen- 
 ters of population or of trade. 
 Freight stations or the wharves of 
 important steamship lines are within 
 convenient distance while some of 
 these sites are so near the railroad 
 that connection with the extended 
 tracks by sidings may be made 
 readily. Boston is the billing point. 
 The services of many work people, 
 trained or untrained, and residing 
 
 within the city or its immediate 
 neighborhood are always obtainable. 
 Furthermore, other operatives newly 
 coming to Somerville will be en- 
 abled to make for themselves homes 
 or to live in such a manner as will 
 tend to promote their own content 
 or increase their usefulness to their 
 employers. The Mystic River 
 bordering so much of the territory 
 of the city aflords a waterway 
 to the sea and this is utilized 
 by manufacturers at present here 
 for the bringing in of coal or 
 supplies economically in boats of 
 considerable size or for the ship- 
 ment of finished product. This 
 is an advantage of present con- 
 sequence, but it will be of greater 
 importance when the river shall have 
 been deepened to permit the passage 
 of larger craft and when the water 
 front, much of it yet unoccupied. 
 
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NOV ly iivt'V 
 
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 In Broadway Park, Somerville. 
 
 shall be lined with the coming docks 
 and busy wharves. Manufacturers 
 seeking new locations will find, 
 together with the important ad\an- 
 tages indicated, that the city authori- 
 ties are disposed to make as liberal 
 arrangements as they may. The 
 officers and members of the West 
 Somer\ ille Board of Trade and the 
 Somer\ ille Hoard of Trade, organ- 
 ized to supplement the efforts of the 
 
 city officials to foster and advance 
 the material interests of the city, 
 are ready to lend any desired and 
 possible co-operation. To the Sec- 
 retar\' of either of these boards, 
 or of the Winter Hill Improve- 
 ment Association may be ad- 
 dressed inquiries as to available 
 locations for dwellings or conveni- 
 ent and desirable sites for factories 
 or business buildings. 
 
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