He
hopes when Boston really is
The finest city in the land,
The
streets will be much wider than
The ones she’s now at her command.
And
here’s the reason – hoping twon’t
Your finer Boston feelings jar:
He
wants wide trolleys so that he
Can sit cross-legged in the car.
April
10, ‘09
“Once, the future was the year 1915—and a peek at it cost just 25 cents. A little more than a century ago, in November 1909, Bostonians, anxious about the seemingly out-of-control forces that had transformed their city into a chaotic hodgepodge of a metropolis, lined up for admission to the Old Art Museum in Copley Square, where a special exhibition offered a glimpse at ‘Boston-1915...the city that is to be.’”
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