Word: horsecars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conductor be expected to do so? A few minutes one way or the other does not, perhaps, make much difference, but when the number of times a man goes to Boston during his four years at college is taken into consideration, any extension, however small, of the agony of horsecar travel should be prevented if possible...
...horse-car accommodations poorer than elsewhere, and the injury to real estate less than over any other route yet talked of. Of course the most politic plan is to run the elevated road up to Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good as now, it will be difficult to inaugurate the elevated railway scheme within the city proper. Public sentiment here is undoubtedly against it, and the only place where there is an immediate demand for an elevated road is between Cambridge and Boston...
Harvard students will agree with the Advertiser in saying that what Cambridge needs more than competing horsecar lines is a steam-railway to run from Harvard square to Boston...