Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE [*City and Regional Planning Brookline, Mass. 1884-94*] V 1/2 Brookline Goddard Boston Feby 1. 1884 Fred L Olmstead Esq Dear Sir - Will you please examine the plans of the Bery Goddard Estate in Brookline, and give a sketch of what you think the best way to lay out the Estate of all 27 acres, with a view to realizing the most money for it, at the same time adapting it to a respectable class of residences. I understand Mr George Goddard will make a similar request of you in regard to the "Clifton Hill" adjoining & he think it might be for the advantage ofboth Estates, that your sketch should consider the two as one for the purpose of planning, tho they have different owners. I understand your charges to be $5 per acre, which I will pay on presentation of your bill Yrs Truly Wm. S. Eaton Boston, Feby 1st, 1884 Fred L. Olmstead esqre. Dear Sir, As Mr. Eaton has suggested, I should be glad to have you do the same planning for Clifton Hill, as for the Benj. Goddard estate, treating them as one. And I will pay on the same terms, as I am interested in both. Truly yours George A. Goddard.[*V*] [*from Miss Bullard*] Office of the Selectmen. Brookline, Mass., Feb 20 1885 At a meeting of the Selectmen this day, it was voted, That the plan of the district included between Washington St, Brookline Ave, the line of the Riverdale Road, Longwood Ave. St. Paul Street, Aspenwall Ave, and Harvard St. submitted to the Selectmen by Mr. K H French, be submitted for Mr. F.L. Olmstead for his ideas of the streets or town ways adapted to the convenience and necessity of the public in said district. Attest C D Lincoln clerkDiscussion of Beacon St. (Brookline) plan, 1886. VOct. 28th 1886 The above preliminary plan for a broad avenue over the line of Beacon St. from the Boston and Albany R.R. to Chestnut Hill Reservoir and the [West End work end] western termination of Massachusetts Avenue, is designed to serve all the ordinary purposes of a street together with others which could not be as well served in an avenue of less width. [The large district through which Beacon Street now runs extending from West Chester Park to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, a district which, from its position in relation to [the] [that of the] that of the Back Bay which containing the [most] fashionable quarter of the city and its natural advantages, is destined to be more valuable than any other suburb of Boston, [is] now very inadequately provided with convenient and economical means of passenger transportation to the city and in consequence is [very comparitively] but sparsely built upon. The only means of passenger transportation] [now in ordinary use which is sufficiently convenient, economical to answer the purposes, is some form of surface street surface railway. But] A street railway [running through] in Beacon Street — [which] [is] the only street running toward the city continuously through the district in question [would] and at present only 50 feet wide [from] in Brookline would be unendurably inconvenient to [ordinary] [stree] those using the street for driving [purposes] and a serious disadvantage to the property immediately fronting [facing] upon it. [it if used for the better class of resident.] The former inconvenience could be sufficiently remedied by [wi] doubling the width of the street, but the latter disadvantage would still be so great that very few of the abutting landowners would find [it this] such a widening sufficiently to their advantage to induce them to give the[ir] necessary land [for the widening] and the cost of widening would therefore be enormous. the proposed widening [to] of Beacon Street to an avenue [of] 200 feet in width however, the disadvantages of a street railway [in the centre] are reduced to a minimum.Such [as a wide] an avenue, besides serving the purpose of an ordinary street [by] affording access to the houses built upon it and a passage way for those who have no other object than to get somewhere, serves, by its [special provisions for comfortable and luxurious locomotion] subdivision into parts especially adapted to the different methods of locomotion, and its grateful shade and the pleasure afforded the eye by its turf and trees, to attract those who travel wholly or in part for pleasure. The large district through which Beacon Street now runs, extending from West Chester Park to Chestnut Hill Reservoir, judging from its natural advantages and its [situation] position in relation to the Back Bay residence quarter, should, before now, have been far more thickly built up with the best class of suburban residences. That it has not been more built upon and risen more rapidly in value, is clearly due principally to its being very inadequately provided with the convenient and economical means of passenger transportation afforded by some form of street surface railway, [the only method in practical use that would serve the purpose in this case adapted to the requirements of the case is some form of street railway running on the surface] but it is also partly due to the [?] [the] comparatively mean, commonplace [streets which have been laid out in the]character of the principal streets which have been laid out in the district, none of which are broad enough to permit the laying of car tracks in them without practically destroying their value for pleasure driving and for fine residences. According to the design, the tracks will [would] be laid along the centre line of the avenue, [the outside rail being distant 93 feet distant at a distance of 93 feet from the side of the avenue, and] If the houses are set back 20 feet as at present on Commonwealth Avenue, they [would] will be 113 feet from the nearest track and screened from [it] the cars by two rows of trees. As the [tracks] [rai] tracks will be seperated from the ordinary street traffic by trees and turf and as the crossings of the tracks for ordinary vehicles would [on an average], for many years to come, be on an average over 1000 feet apart, a much higher rate of speed could be maintained than would be safe for a street railway in an ordinarily [kind] street. On each side of the car tracks it is designed to place probably for the first time in the history of road building, cycleways for bicycles and tricycles. In this position, seperated as they will be by rows of trees from the bridleways and roadways, thecyclers will cause the least possible annoyance to [the] those who use nervous horses [as the] The bridleways are designed to be seperated from the cycleways [and from] by turf and rows of trees, and from the roadways by paved gutters, [designed to be] They will be 15 feet wide and made of soft, screened gravel. [and] They will, [afford, with] like that in the Back Bay and Riverdale Parkways, already provided for, afford [a means for] those who [wish to enjoy a ride] take their relaxation from business on horseback, a means of getting out into the country on a properly prepared surface, under the shade of tree, and almost free from interruption by vehicles. The roadways [are of] will be 35 feet in width and [are] will be shaded by trees in [a] the [five foot] planting spaces 5 ft. wide dividing them from the sidewalks. The sidewalks are [planned] designed to have a width of 15 feet, more than would be needed for ordinary uses [passing to and fro] because they [would] will be in time largely used as a promenade [by those who merely stroll by those] Notes on the Plan This plan is designed to supply certain advantages the lack of which hinders the suitable development of a larger district [extending three miles outward] on both sides of Beacon Street extending outward by a distance of three miles from the Back Bay residence district of Boston. It assumes that what is most [my?] so the otherwise [suitable] natural, suitable and profitable occupation of this district [in circumstance] as an outgrowth of the Back Bay district, is first a spacious,Notes on the Plan This plan direct trunk line thoroughfare, especially adapted to pleasure driving, riding and walking, and second a means of direct communication with the city that shall be always ready, convenient, economical and speedy. Taking the latter requirement first into consideration it [is to be said] will be plain that an ordinary horse railway laid in any existing street would leave it of no value as a [pleasure drive, and that]pleasure drive and would prevent the adjoining property from being sought by those wishing to build a superior class of suburban residences. [if it were doubled in width would prevent adjoining property from being sought for those wishing to build first class residences.] In the plan here offered a cable railway with all the improvements that experience has proved well desirable in the extension systems of San Francisco and Chicago, is proposed to be laid in the midst of an Avenue of more than three times the present breadth ofBeacon Street; it is well screened [by] on each side by two rows of trees growing in well prepared borders, and the building line for houses is to [lie a] lie set back from the center line of the Avenue as it is in Commonwealth Avenue. At the distance this secured and with the interposition of the trees, the ordinary objection to a suburban residence upon a [horse] street through which a horse railway passes will not be felt. It is to be further considered that the line of railway, as planned, will be crossed by common roads only at [considerable intervals & that its course will be nearly straight] considerable intervals, that the crossing places will be spacious and the view of them open from a distance on the crossing lines and that the crowding [ding of other vehicles] from the sides of other vehicles upon the line of the railway will be impracticable [guarded against]. For thesereasons, a much higher rate of speed of the cars can be sustained and this with much less disturbance and noise than is usual [?? the] in ordinary street railways. With reference to pleasure travel otherwise made by railway, the [proposed] designed arrangement [railway areas?] [described] of the [cable?] road and of the trees bordering it Experience in the development of suburban districts elsewhere, both in the old world and in the new [will be found to] fully justifies the conclusion that ready accessibility by cross roads to an avenue having the advantages that transform explained, will make a broad distance on either side of it far more attractive as a place of residence than it is likely to become through any other means not vastly more costly.Many prefer to live a little retired from the animation of such an avenue, yet highly value it as a resort and as a mode of travel to and from their places of business. F. L. & J. C. Olmsted Landscape Architects[*24th Nov. 1886.*] The proposed arrangement of the railway and the trees bordering it, makes it necessary that there should be a driveway on each side of it in order that the houses facing upon the avenue may be directly accessible by carriages. One of these two [roads] driveways is planned to be wider than the other in order that those [driving upon] using it may have greater enjoyment of the sociability of a promenade. A soft gravel [way] course is provided for equestrians, and this, for the same reason, is placed adjoining the broader of the two carriageways. The normal plan [as thus explained] is modified where the line of the avenue crosses the steep slope of Corey Hill, because if maintained, the difference of elevation between the driveways and sidewalks and the adjoining properties would be inconvenient, and also because the cost of construction would be excessive. It accordingly will be seen by the cross section on the left of the plan that the two drives are here designed to be at different elevations, one of the planting spaces at the side of the railway being widened and sloped for this purpose. The southernmost of the two driveways is here made the wider, because its grades will better adapt it to pleasure driving, and the bridleway is carried with it. The different methods of locomotion and the beauty and shade of the several lines of trees provided for in the plan are expected to make the avenue attractive, not only because of the unusual convenience thus secured, but also because of the sylvan beauty [to] that will be enjoyed in passing over it. As those to be [thus] drawn to use it on this account will form in themselvesand by the elegance of their equipages and attire, a pleasing spectacle as they pass by in daily processing, another [valuable] feature will be gained, tending to make the adjoining land [desirable] valuable for residences. [To further the intention of making the avenue a pleasure resort, its lines have been designed with a regard for grace that will be much more evident when they are seen in perspective, on the ground, than as they appear on the plan. Ready accessibility by crossways to an avenue having these advantages will make the entire district far more attractive as a place of residence than it is at present or than it is likely to become through any other means not greatly more costly. Experience in the development of suburban districts elsewhere both in the old world and in the new will be found to] V Brookline see also See V 1/2 Brookline 1888 Sand Sub letter to Mr. Chandler on subdivision of Lyman, Crafts St properties near Chestnut HillChronicle [?] of Local Events, with ”Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Times.“ [?], MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1889. THE Rev. Dr. Thomas delivered the second lecture in the course in the Bethany building on Thursday evening, before a goodly audience. He read a vagabond‘s description covering a long life which showed the many methods resorted to, to deceive a trusting and benevolent public. His illustrations of vagabondism were very apt, interspersed with sayings which caused much merriment on the part of the audience. He encouraged the idea of thrift very strongly and complimented many working men in Brookline for owning their own homesteads. He touched upon the evil of intemperance and cited a case in a city where were 330 drink houses within a radius of a mile. He said the republic must put down organized drink-traffic or the organized drink traffic will put down the republic. He strongly impressed upon his hearers the necessity of refusing all sentimental appeals from tramps, door beggars, subscription solicitors and the like; and of aiding true charity by helping with words, thought, time and money, those who wish to help themselves. Dr. Thomas will lecture on ”The advantages of having a bad temper,” next Thursday evening. ___________ THE Methodist Church will hold its services to-morrow in the lower Town Hall. There will be preaching at 10.30 a. m. by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Twombly, and at 7 p. m. a church temperance meeting, with special reference to constitutional prohibition. Usual Sunday school session at 12 o'clock. ____________ A MUSICALE was given in the chapel the Baptist Church last Wednesday ning. The programme consisted of MR. AND MRS. H. E. ABBOTT are in Washington, and will witness the inauguration of President Harrison. ____________ MRS. F. P. ADDICKS of Sumner road, is on a two weeks' visit to Philadelphia. ___________ MRS. C. S. SARGENT is passing a few weeks at Washington, D. C. ___________ MR. ALFRED WINSOR of Walnut street is registered at Hotel Albermarle, New York, this week. ___________ MISS MABEL BATES gave a party at her home on Longwood Avenue last Saturday evening. ___________ MISS SARAH L. CUTLER of Chestnut street has gone to California on the Raymond excursion. ____________ MR. J. C. KITTREDGE is going to erect an elegant new residence on Gardner Road. ____________ MR. H. H. LEE has taken possession of the house on Cypress street formerly occupied by E. M. Boles. ____________ On Feb. 28th a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Dudley of Dedham, late of Brookline. ___________ MR. WILLIAM KIRKE COREY has resumed his former connection with the Pope Manufacturing Company, and will be pleased to talk "whee!" to intending purchasers, at his office, 79 Franklin street, Boston. ____________ MR. CHARLES DUFFY, son of the late Philip Duffy, who has been in business in the West for the past nine years, has returned to his former home in this town. ____________ HENRY MURRAY, a member of Hose Company No. 1, seriously sprained his piano selections by Mr. Albert F. Conant, of violin solos by Mr. Van Raalte, and vocal selections by Miss Griswold. There was a good attendance, and the occasion was very enjoyable. ____________ A fair-sized audience present at the concert and entertainment given in Union Hall on Thursday evening in aid of the Brookline Union. Mr. George Geier, an extremely clever young violinist, was called upon to repeat his solos "Sarabande" and "Menuett." The "Spring Song," by Miss L. S. Cummings was well rendered, and Miss S. McKenna contributed a piano solo in a very finished manner. The reading, "Miss Jarvis' new Bunnit, " by Mrs. H. E. Greene, was well received. One of the best efforts of the evening was the violin solo by Miss Hinkley. ____________ THE Comedy Club presented "The blotch-maker" to a large and fashionable audience in Union Hall last evening. The performance will be repeated tonight. ___________ AMONG the many parties of the season held in the Town Hall was one held for the children last evening. Mrs. Jerome Jones and Mrs. Charles W. Lewis were the matrons, the dancing being under the direction of Mr. Sanford B. Sargent. ___________ THE concert to be given in the upper Town Hall next Monday evening by the Harvard Glee and Banjo Clubs will afford the first opportunity to test the acoustic properties of the hall under favorable circumstances. At the conclusion of the concert there will be dancing, to the music of Cheney's orchestra. During the ball a supper will be served in the lower hall by Caterer Vogel,at 25 cents. As this will be in some measure an "inauguration ball," of course every good Republican will make it a point to be present. It goes without saying that under the civil service rules no Democrat of Independent can be excluded. Get your tickets early at Currier's. __________ THERE is every reason to believe that the seating capacity of the upper Town Hall will be tested to its fullest extent on next Thursday evening, March 7, when the grand concert under the auspices of the Brookline Police Mutual Aid Association takes place. ankle while in attendance at the fire at W. E. Page's greenhouse last Monday evening. _________ ON last Thursday evening Mr. J. J. Ray Mulcahy entertained the members of the Melpo Club at his handsome residence on Sheridan avenue, Jamaica Plain. A very pleasant evening was passed. ________ ST. LAWRENCE Court, No. 61, Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, will hold its annual ball in the upper Town Hall on Monday evening, April 22. Hobbs' full orchestra will furnish music. _________ THE assembly in Harvard Hall last Tuesday evening was the most largely attended one of the series thus far. The eighth assembly will be held next Friday evening. __________ THE Grattan Club will give a sociable in Good Fellow Hall next Monday evening. __________ BROOKLINE Branch of the Irish National League held a very enthusiastic meeting last Wednesday evening. Mr. J. B. Hand presided, and congratulatory speeches were made on the success of Mr. Parnell in his lawsuit with the London Times. It was decided to hold a public meeting in Lyceum Hall, Saturday evening (to-night), to take action in regard to raising funds for the Parnell Defence Fund. All parties interested in the cause are cordially invited to be present. ___________ MISS NORA VERONICA HAYES, daughter of Mr. Jeremiah Hayes, died at her home on White place, Thursday morning, after an illness lasting but ten days. Miss Hayes at the time of her death was barely 18 years of age. She was of a kind and amiable disposition and had a large circle of personal friends with whom she was a great favorite. The funeral services will take place from St. Mary's Church at 9 o'clock this morning. __________ MRS COBURN, who was murdered by her husband at 253 Highland street, Roxbury, last Thursday evening, was well known in Brookline under the name of Lizzie Turner. Until about a year ago she live with her parents on Tremont street, just below the "line."[*V Brookline Mar 2 1889 PK] THE CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, M THE BROOKLINE CLUB. ______________ Members and Ladies Entertained with a Paper by Frederick Law Olmsted. In the series of winter entertainments by the Brookline Club, none has been more interesting and profitable than that of last Monday evening, when Frederick Law Olmsted read a historical paper upon the development of roads and parkways. The handsomely-appointed parlor of the club house was well filled with members, ladies and invited guests. Mr. Olmsted was happily introduced by the president, Dana Estes. He opened his paper with a description of the character of the streets in the primitive towns of Northern Europe. There, he said, the roads were incidental to the growth of the settlements, and their convenience to the general public was purely a matter of luck. Following on, the essayist referred to the streets of Paris and of Rome, those of the former city having been originally laid out for military convenience and common defence. Of the streets in London, he said the system there was just as bad as the people could put up with. Extended reference was made to the efforts to check the growth of that city, and fragments of London's history were given, covering a thousand years. He had visited London four times within forty years, and had observed that the phenomenal improvement of the condition of all cities with their growth was as marked there as elsewhere. There was a policy in London to secure to the people many of the old open tracts of land for park purposes, and people had been growing more and more to seek suburban residences. Indeed, the average attendance at London theatres was less now than fifty years ago, because many of those who lived in the suburbs preferred to find some local entertainment. The fashion in vogue in this country of building detached houses with open spaces about them he commended, making special reference to the restrictions placed upon the lands of the Brookline and Aspinwall Land companies against the placing of buildings within twenty-five feet of the roadway. The long lines of little homesteads in western towns were cited as examples of the thrift of western laboring men and milestones in the march of our civilization. The condition in which the city of San Francisco is laid out is such as should be avoided. Many of the streets of Boston were laid out without any regard to the future and to accommodate private interests almost exclusively. They are the outgrowth of barbarism and are not suited to our wants. It is easier to keep house now four miles from the city than two miles from it twenty years ago, and distance to the centre of a town will not be considered so much in the future as it is now. Mr. Olmstead referred interestingly to some of the incidents which led him to make Brookline his home. His attention was first directed to this town by its generosity during the war. At that time he was in Washington, and learned of the car-load of supplies forwarded to the soldiers by the late Ginery Twichell. With Brookline it seems to be "Deeds, not words." Later, while engaged in laying out Central Park in New York, he frequently had occasion to visit Boston, and used to drive out here. On one of these visits, he was particularly impressed in witnessing the removal of snow from the sidewalks by the town laborers one Sunday morning, the work superintended by one of the selectmen on horseback, and he made up his mind that there was a higher order of civilization here than anywhere else in the world. His satisfaction with the town increased with every year. There is no reasonable probability that its territory will ever be wanted for commercial interests, and this is the chief element of its popularity. How to preserve the topographical condition of the town is the most critical question of the time. No house should be built within a reasonable distance of the street, and other restrictions might well be fixed. To exempt from taxation all roadside land might be a desirable thing, and land unavailable for building purposes might also be exempted. The question had been asked whether the town ought not to acquire something for a park, but he thought it ought not. It might be profitable, he said, to secure small tracts in various parts of the town, for example a lot on Pond avenue, and a half acre on the summit of Corey Hill; and triangles, like that near St. Paul's Church, might be enlarged to advantage. In considering the development of the town, Mr. Olmsted laid particular stress to the importance of laying out streets with an eye to the future and in advance of present needs. At the conclusion of Mr. Olmsted's paper, President Estes expressed the opinion that an informal discussion might add to the interest of the occasion, and he called upon the Hon. Wm. Aspinwall to make a few remarks. In responding, Mr. Aspinwall said that he had been for many years interested in Brookline roads. Fifty years ago, when Brookline has less than 1,000 inhabitants, there were only three or four principal streets in the town, and these were very little travelled. Brookline was then a popular summer residence, and many of its leading families kept boarders. The old house on Aspinwall avenue was then full of boarders, and the townspeople were just as attentive to business in summer as in winter. Most of the laboring men came from New Hampshire and Vermont, and he recollected well when the first Irishman came here, John Dillon, whose son is now a resident of the town. They first began to build new roads in Brookline in 1844, but the streets were very narrow, of which Linden place is an example. A width of two rods was considered very wide indeed. He was very glad that the public were being aroused to the necesssity of wide roads and parks, and he thanked Mr. Olmsted for what he had done to this end throughout the country. Mr. Desmond FitzGerald was next called upon. He said he knew something about the imperfection of country roads and the perfection of Brookline roads, yet we ought to draw some practical results from the paper just read. He referred briefly to his efforts to beautify the grounds at the Chestnut Hill reservoir. He thought we should have some definite plan for streets in advance of the public needs, and that they should be laid out as thoroughly and systematically as those on Aspinwall hill. Mr. Albert L. Lincoln, Jr., was also called upon. He complimented Mr. Olmstead, and expressed himself a struck with the importance of laying ou streets in advance of present needs, and thought it might be well to seek special legislation with reference to exempting from taxation a definite area of lands fronting upon the streets when kept open for public use. Following the discussion a collation was served by August Vogel, the Harvard street caterer. _____________________________ Civil Service Reform. The annual meeting of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Association was held at the Town Hall on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock. In the absence of the president, Mr. B. F. Baker presided. After the reports of the secretary and treasurer had been read and approved, Mr. Chas. C. Soule spoke as follows: "The Civil Service Reform Association of Brookline includes in its membership citizens of every shade of public opinion, but the officers have happened to be, thus far, mainly Independents and Democrats. This was well enough so long as the national appointing power was Democratic; but since the last election, as our town has become again Republican, as we elected a Republican Congressman from this district, and as the state and national offices are all to be in the hands of the Republicans, it seems right and wise to ask those of our members who belong to that party, to take a more prominent and active part in the future. They are firm believers in the cause, and should be even more faithful workers than we have been. They can zealously sustain the appointing power in state and nation, so long as it upholds the law; --they can criticise and protest without suspicion of hostile bias or prejudice, if it should falter or fail. On behalf, therefor, of those officers and members who voted on the unsuccessful side in the late election, I offer this resolution: "Resolved, That a majority of the officers of this association for next year, be chosen from the friends of the incoming national administration." The resolution was adopted and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Jerome Jones, Jas. M. Codman, Jr., and Frank L. Creesy, was appointed by the chair to report a list of officers and prepare resolutions. The committee reported the following officers who were elected for the ensuing year: President, William H. Lincoln; Vice-Presidents, Charles H. Drew, Clement K. Fay, Edward I. Thomas, William Whitman, Moses Williams; Secretary, William H. White; Treasureer, E. Clarence Hovey; Executive Committee, Charles C. Soule, George N. Carpenter, Jacob P. Bates, Horace W. Fuller, D. Blakely Hoar, Frank L. Creesy, George H. Francis. The committee also reported the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted: Resolved. That we reaffirm the principle in which the "plain people" of this country firmly believe,--that public offices should never be bestowed as rewards for party service; that no party distinctions should be made in appointments to the vast majority of the offices; and that all applicants for appointment or promotion should have equal chances on their merits, under such a system of examinations as will shut out the possibility of political influence or "office brokerage." Resolved, That we congratulate General Harrison on the civil service resolution in the platform on which he was nominated and elected, and offer him without distinction of party, our cordial support in carrying it into effect. On motion of Mr. Hinkley it was voted that the president and secretary of the association be directed to send a copy of the resolutions to General Harrison. The meeting was well attended and much interest was manifested by those present. ________________________________ SELECTMEN'S MEETING. ________________________________ Matters Acted Upon by the Board on Monday, February 25th. The use of the lower Town Hall was granted to the Methodist Society for the purpose of holding their usual Sunday services until the repairs on their chapel are completed. In regard to allowing the High School Battalion to use the upper hall for drilling purposes, it was voted, that in the opinion of the board the upper Town Hall should not be used as a drill hall for the school boys. ________________________________ The good old Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam. Best known cure for Coughs, COLDS & CONSUMPTION. Genuine: Cutler Bros. & Co., Boston. [*V Brookline PR Tie.*] [*OLMSTED, OLMSTED & REC'D Dec 23 1894 ACK'D...BY... ANS'D...BY... READ BY...C.E.*] REPORT OF OLMSTED, OLMSTED & ELIOT, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS. BROOKLINE, MASS., SEPT. 8, 1894. TO MESSRS. GARDINER, HAMLEN, HARLOW, LITTLE, SARGENT, SCHLESINGER, WHITMAN, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY CLUB: GENTLEMEN, - Six months ago we received a letter from A. D. Chandler, Esq., who, in your behalf, requested us to submit for your consideration a report of such suggestions as we might be able to make concerning ultimately desirable "main roads and public reservations in that part of Brookline bounded by Boylston Street, Chestnut Street, Goddard Avenue, and Clyde Street." In obedience to this request we have given the subject careful consideration and we respectfully present the following statement, a copy of which we send to each of you. The two illustrative sketch plans, to be referred to herein, we shall retain for the present in our office, unless we are otherwise instructed by you. That part of Upper Brookline, which is bounded as above described, is at present one of the most beautiful sections of the suburbs of Boston. Much the larger part of the territory in question has long been occupied by country seats. Out of a total of about one square mile, or six hundred and sixty acres, two hundred and forty acres are contained within the bounds of estates which separately exceed twenty acres in area. The Brookline Reservoir of the Boston Water Board covers about thirty acres on the northern edge of the district. Jamaica Park, with its hundred acres of public land and water, lies adjacent to the eastern border. The surface of the region is charmingly diversified, - bold ledges of conglomerate rocks breaking out here and there from the crests or sides of hills which frame winding valleys. Large trees abound and woods cover much of the total acreage. Omitting the streets which bound the defined district, only a mile and a half of public road exists within this region to-day. Of the existing roads Warren Street is the chief; and this ancient way winds around a hill in such a manner that its length is nearly twice that of a straight line joining its ends. Cottage Street, the eastern branch of Warren Street, is also crooked; and it descends into a narrow valley by clinging to the side of a ledge and then climbs out again with grades which are the reverse of easy. Dudley Street is a more modern way and is comparatively straight and level. The two old roads vary in width between their crooked bounding stone walls, but generally they are between thirty and forty feet wide. Except for narrow plank walks built in recent years there are not sidewalks; and grass and scattered trees, with occasional rocks and bushes, narrow the travelled roadbed to an average width of perhaps eighteen feet. Thus these winding and well shaded roads are among the most charming which can be found in this or any other country. None can more regret the thought of coming change than we who live and work beside one of these roads and in the midst of this scenery. That great changes are impending cannot, however, be doubted, and the question is: Shall foresight and co-operation permanently preserve something of the valuable beauty of this region, or shall the too common short-sightedness and selfishness of landowners lead slowly but surely to that doom of beauty, attractiveness, and even pecuniary value which so many of the once delightful suburbs of Boston illustrate?* The Country Club, on the outer edge of the district, is only five miles in a straight line from the State House; that is, it is no farther away than many of the densely populated suburbs, such as Malden, Medford, Brighton, Aberdeen, Forest Hills, and Ashmont. The town-ward edge of the district is only four miles from the State House, and electric cars and crowded buildings are ____________ *Note particularly the case of Boston Highlands or Upper Roxbury, once a charming region of bold rocks and half rural cottages, now abandoned to apartment and tenement houses.already to be seen there. If things are left to drift along as they customarily do, will not the usual results soon follow? One by one, it may be years hence but surely some day, the landowners gradually subdivide and sell their several properties. In doing this each owner opens a new street or two, and these streets are necessarily placed on lines adapted to serve immediate and private gain, rather than the general advantage and a postponed, though greater, private profit. With the coming of new inhabitants and the growth of adjacent populations the existing roads are invariably found inadequate, and they are then subjected to those disfiguring operations with which we are so familiar. Upon the usual refusal of the abutting owners to part with any of their land for use as sidewalks, the rocks, trees, and bushes which adorn the roadside are necessarily removed to make room for walks. During some years a few banks of grass and trees are commonly retained here and there between the travelled way and the walk, but as population thickens and room is needed these have to be removed. Thus the ultimate result is a driveway and two curbed sidewalks, all three too narrow and destined eventually to be torn away and widened at great expense. Apparently sidewalks are never arranged for until the adjacent lands are so valuable that walks cannot be had in rear of the trees which line the old walls, with the result that the trees have to be felled; while the inevitable eventual widening is seldom, if ever, accomplished before the days when buildings have to be torn down or moved back to effect it. Walnut Street, Brookline, has, during the last twenty years, gone through the first series of operations; its roadside trees and shrubberies have been cleared away and a straight jacket of curbing has been substituted. Washington Street, Brookline, is now going through the last-named stage; buildings are being moved to effect a necessary widening. The present Walnut Street preserves most of the curves of the old road, but otherwise it possesses hardly more than a trace of its former beauty. A winding road of this character formalized in curb-stones and asphalt is almost a monstrosity, but such will be Warren Street before many years if the enlightened self interest and the public spirit of the adjacent landowners do not induce them to take steps to thwart this familiar tendency. How, then, can such a tendency be checked? Surely not by doing nothing while simply enjoying the present time and taking no thought for the morrow. To counteract the steady drift towards the inconvenience, the commonplaceness, and the positive ugliness of the ordinary suburb, it is necessary that the landowners concerned should present a united front. Moreover, this union, if it would be successful, must be a union for offensive as well as defensive purposes. This is just one of those cases in which it is not safe to stand still. To defeat the forces of the commonplace it is necessary that those who desire the defeat thereof should be ready with a well considered scheme of their own, subscribed to by all concerned, and devised as wisely as possible to the end that Upper Brookline, when it shall prove necessary to subdivide the land, may become as permanently healthful, convenient, and beautiful a dwelling place as it is possible for a suburb to be. Leaving to your legal advisers the question how to organize or frame such a union of owners, or such other mode of action as the circumstances call for, it remains with us to present, in obedience to your request, the outlines of a plan towards the eventual realization of which the suggested union or agreement should, in your opinion, be directed. Coming to the study of the district from an outside point of view, it is evident forthwith that the general advantage of the future landowners will be enhanced if some one or two main streams of travel can be made to flow into or through the district, -- streams which shall easily connect themselves with the streams of the adjacent regions and the main currents of the great city. It must be noted that much the larger part of the district lies remote from any railroad, so that when population thickens a street railway, as well as ample common roadways, will certainly be called for. At what point will the main road and the main railway of the district best find entrance, and what course may they most naturally take? Already the Boston and Brookline Parkway is open to Jamaica Pond, and on the Brookline edge of this parkway space has been reserved for a street railway. By branching from the parkway at the pond, and following up the course of Sargent's Brook, it is fortunately found that the very heart of the district may be reached by drives and rails on easy lines and with grades which, when compared with those of Walnut Street, will be hardly perceptible. It is true that the Boston Park Commission has not acquired along Perkins Street sufficient land to accommodate the desirable separate pleasure drive and the electric car reservation which the Brookline Board has provided along the line of Pond Avenue. The Boston Board may, however, yet think it best to make this improvement in its plans; and, if not, the new main way to Upper Brookline may well leave the parkway at the present end of Pond Avenue, and, passing through a valley which lies west of the Perkins and Shaw houses, may join Sargent's Brook on the bounds of the Sargent estate. This latter route is shown as an alternative line on the accompanying sketch plans. After reaching the brook the new main road may most naturally follow the stream past the pond, across Cottage Street, and on up the valley to the source of the brooklet on the Thayer estate near Warren Street. From this point it is but a few hundred feet to the corner of Warren and Dudley streets and the place where Hamlen's Brook crosses Warren Street. So many advantages are to be derived from causing the main travelled ways to follow the brooks that we suggest that a branch line start from this point to follow the course of Hamlen's Brook to Newton Street at the junction of Goddard Avenue, or else to the Country Club and beyond into the next square mile of now uninhabited country locally called Putterham. By following the streams, not only are good grades obtained for the roads, but by including the streams in strips of common lying between two roads, the healthful surface drainage of the region is insured for all time, and the many difficulties, nuisances, dangers, and expenses inevitably arising from the private control of waterways are wholly avoided. In addition to these several sanitary, practical, and financial reasons for the public ownership of water-courses and their banks, -- reasons which municipal engineers deem of weight and importance, * -- there are, in this Brookline case, additional reasons for the reservation of the natural valleys of the brooks founded in the remarkable beauty thereof and the attractiveness which that beauty will lend to the proposed main roads, the adjacent private lands, and the neighboring region generally. In short, we are prepared to affirm that the desired highest development of Upper Brookline in healthfulness, beauty, and value will not be reached unless the eventual accomplishment of two things is in some way soon assured: first, the reservation of the narrow brook valleys as commons in the midst of the main highways; and second, the adjustment of these brookside highways to service as through routes of travel, leading, as the saying is, either "towards town" or "across town." Of the two sketch plans intended to illustrate this paper, No. 1 shows how brookside roads may advantageously follow the courses of Sargent's Brook and Hamlen's Brook, while No. 2 shows how ways thus arranged would most pleasantly connect all Upper Brookline and regions beyond with Boston in the one direction, Jamaica Park in another, and Chestnut Hill Reservoir in yet a third. Sketch Plan No. 1 suggests to the imagination how the brooks would continue to flow through their meadows or defiles; how the banks on each side would rise here smooth and grassy and there rocky or even cliff-like; how the bounding roads would wind and climb and descend as commanded by topography and the need of fitting themselves closely to the adjacent private frontages; how existing roadways would here and there be used to form parts of the new main way; and how, eventually, an electric car line might find place within a strip set apart for its separate use. The sketch also suggests the points at which subsidiary or branch roads would most naturally part from the main line, were this line to be agreed to. Such branch roads we would desire to make as interesting as possible by including within the strips between the sidewalks and the travelled ways whatever rocks or trees might be encountered; but as the terms of Mr. Chandler's letter do not require us to give attention to lesser roads at the present time, we defer our suggestions concerning them. Sketch No. 2 shows the relation of the district in question and its proposed main roads to Boston, the other southwestern suburbs and the other existing or proposed main lines of pleasure travel such as Beacon Street, the Muddy River Parkway, and the newly-secured West Roxbury Parkway. The connecting of Chestnut Hill Reservoir with Jamaica Pond -- Beacon Street with the parkway -- would certainly prove useful. The more distant connections with remoter and merely projected brookside highways are suggestive of what may be looked for in the future. The public reservation of water-courses already illustrated in various ways by the Muddy River Parkway, the West Roxbury Parkway, and the Cheesecake Brook Parkway, is an idea, that, rooted as it is in scientific, sanitary, economical, and aesthetic principles, is bound to spread and become popular and effective. It is our hope that the landowners of Upper Brookline may both make this idea their own and take whatever steps are necessary to insure action in accordance therewith at whatever time such action may be called for. Respectfully submitted, OLMSTED, OLMSTED & ELIOT, Landscape Architects. * See especially the report of A. F. Noyes, city engineer of Newton, addressed to the City Government of Newton in December, 1892.TABLE No. 1 LIST OF THE LANDOWNERS AND ESTATES CONTRIBUTING TO THE REPORT AND PLANS OF OLMSTED, OLMSTED, & ELIOT. OWNERS Acres. Square Feet. Assessed Value Assessed of the Land, Value per May 1, 1894. Square Foot 1. The Country Club.....................105 9/20 4,593,402 891,000 .019 2. Charles P. Gardiner................ 66 1/5 2,883,672 55,000 .019 3. Nathaniel P. Hamlen, Trustee 21 889,340 57,000 .064 4. James L. Little .......................... 18 1/2 799,100 35,600 .044 5. Charles S. Sargent, Trustee ... 106 3/4 4,648,872 426,700 .091 6. Barthold Schlesinger .............. 28 1/2 1,241,460 68,000 .055 7. William F. Weld, 2d, estate of 55 3/4 2,432,876 134,500 .055 8. William Whitman .................... 22 3/4 990,990 26,000 .026 _________ __________ __________ 424 9/10 1 8,479,712 $893,800 TABLE No. 2. LIST OF SOME OF THE OTHER LANDOWNERS AND ESTATES IN THE UPPER PART OF BROOKLINE, AS ASSESSED MAY 1, 1894. OWNERS Acres. Square Feet. Assessed Value Assessed Value of the Land, per Square May 1, 1894. Foot. 1. Daniel T. Babson (Suburban Club)...11 89,375 $5,500 .0615 2. Harriet N. Baker .................................12 522,720 14,500 .0277 " " " ................................ 30 1,306,800 16,500 .0126 " " " ................................ 757,700 11,000 .0145 3. John W. Bemis ................................... 84,560 2,500 .03 4. William I. Bowditch (Trustee under will of George Griggs) ... .................................................................. 63 7/8 2,782,395 8,000 .0029 5. George F. Bouvé ............................. 179 1/4 7,808,130 45,000 .0057 6. Atherton T. Brown ......................... 54 1/4 2,363,130 24,600 .0104 7. Henry W. Burgett ........................... 5 94/100 258,746 3,000 .0116 8. G. F. Burkhardt ................................ 46 1/4 2,014,650 6,000 .0029 9. Amy H. Cabot .................................. 16 7./8 735,075 70,000 .095 " " " ....................................... 19 1/2 849,420 34,000 .04 " " " ....................................... 592,416 18,000 .03 10. Walter C. Cabot ............................ 26 6/10 1,158,696 76,000 .065 11. Francis H. Cabot ..... 189,000 31,500 .166 12. Walter Channing ............................. 205,785 55,000 .266 " " ...................................... 88,000 22,000 .25 13. Anna K. Channing .................................... 15,075 5,000 .33 14. Susan B. R. and Sarah B. Clark ... 14 609,840 1,400 .0023 15. Julia Coolidge ............................................ 1,110,180 90,000 .081 16. Josephine N. Cox ............................ 34 1/2 1,495,560 45,000 .03 17. William A. Crafts ........................... 10 435,600 1,000 .0023 18. Charles F. Curtis ................................. 16 696,960 2,000 .003 19. George S. Curtis ................................ 8 1/2 370,260 1,000 .0028 20. Robert S. Davis heirs of ..................... 4 174,240 600 .0034 21. Jane M. Dodge, estate of (Louis A. Wyman, Trustee) 44 35/100 1,931,886 14,000 .0072 22. Ada R. Doliber ................ 4 174,240 10,000 .057 23. J. W. Edgerly, estate of (Baxter E. Perry, Trustee) 16 1/4 707,850 1,600 .0022 " " " " " " " ........ 8 348,280 1,200 .0034 24. Mary C. Eichorn .............................. 2 87,120 1,600 .018 " " " ........................... 3 3/4 163,350 1,000 .0061 25. Marcus M. Estabrook ......................... 16 3/4 729,630 3,300 .0045 26. Elizabeth Freeman ......................... 167,386 9,500 .057 27. Thomas Gaffield ......................... 144 1/3 6,287,160 55,100 .0087 28. John L. Gardner ............................ 28 1,219,680 122,000 .10 " " " ................................ 2 87,120 400 .005 " " " ......................... 9 392,040 28,900 .073 29. Abijah W. Goddard ........................... 15 653,400 16,500 .025 30. George W. Goodnough ........... 58 2,536,480 15,000 .006 31. Xanthus Goodnough ................... 34 1,481,040 15,000 .01 32. John F. Hart, heirs of (Geo. A. Nickerson, Guardian) 7 66/100 333,669 7,700 .023 33. Fannie G. Heald ..................... 25,087 1,000 .04 34. Charles Heath, estate of ........... 10 1/2 457,380 57,600 .126 " " " ........................ 4 1/4 185,130 29,100 .157 35. Alice M. Hirt .................................. 224,336 3,000 .0134 36. Adeline L. Hook .................................. 18 784,080 15,500 .02 37. Grace Howes ................................. 6 1/2 283,140 6,300 .021 38. Osborne Howes ..................................... 9 1/5 400,752 8,000 .02 39. William J. Hyde .................................... 60 3/4 2,646,270 45,000 .017 40. Elizabeth P. Lee .............................. 962,750 66,000 .069 41. Henry Lee (Boylston Street) .................. 344,550 70,000 .203 " " (Chestnut Hill) ............................. 213,840 20,000 .09 " " " " ......................... 7,174 900 .12 42. Henry Lee, heirs of (Boylston St 5 217,800 43,000 .20 43. Augustus Lowell (Warren Street) . 10 435,600 50,000 .115 " " (Heath Street) ...........12 1/2 544,500 2,500 .0046 44. John Lowell ................................. 5 217,800 7,500 .034 " " ............................... 4 1/2 196,020 10,000 .051 " " ........................................ 2 1/2 108,900 1,000 .0091 45. Theodore Lyman ............................ 2,613,300 125,000 .048 " " ............................ 4 174,240 4,300 .025 46. Frederic E. Palmer ....................... 73,424 3,000 .04 47. Thomas Parsons, heirs of ....................... 160,000 14,000 .087 48. Jacob W. Pierce .................................. 543,835 121,500 .223 49. Jacob W. Pierce, heirs of ............ 53 83/100 2,344,834 363,800 .155 50. Elizabeth Quimby ......................... 12 522,720 5,500 .0105 51. Frederic B. Rice ............................... 852,357 128,000 .15 52. Arthur Rotch, estate of ................... 1,509,000 241,500 .16 53. Leverett Saltonstall ......................... 2 31/100 100,623 6,200 .06 54. Mary B. Sprague ................................ 2,181,427 32,000 .015 " " " .............................. 462,768 7,500 .016 55. George Thompson ........................ 28,673 5,000 .18 " " .......................... 147,015 13,000 .09 56. J. Sullivan Warren, heirs of .......... 63 1/2 2,766,060 52,000 .019 " " " ......... 3 130,680 6,000 .046 " " " ...... 10 1/5 444,312 1,000 .0022 57. Aaron D. Weld, heirs of ................ 102 1/2 4,464,900 32,000 .00716 58. William G. Weld ......................... 118,834 11,700 .10 59. Andrew C. Wheelwright ........................ 592,416 48,000 .081 60. Francis A. White .............................. 232,600 21,000 .09 61. Joseph H. White ............................. 594,800 148,700 .25 62. Robert C. Winthrop, estate of (Wm. Minot et al., Trustees) ..... 66 2,874,960 132,000 .046 63. Mary E. and E. F. Wright ............... 345,714 12,000 .0347 64. Mary E. Wright and others (A. A. Ranney, Trustee) 164,915 11,000 .07 65. John H. Wright, heirs of (George White, Trustee) 265,739 11,100 .041 66. George W. Wright and others (Charles G. White, Trustee)718,048 27,000 .037 67. Mary E. Wright and others (A. A. Ranney, Trustee) . 493,718 15,000 .03 78,191,665 $2,927,100TABLE No. 3. LIST OF LANDOWNERS AND LOTS IN THE McCORMACK SETTLEMENT ON CLYDE STREET, BROOKLINE, AS ASSESSED MAY 1, 1894 OWNER. Lot. Street. Square Feet. Assessed Value Assessed per of the Land, Square Foot. May 1, 1894. 1. Barrett, A. F........................ 22 Clyde St. 5,991 $300 00 .05 2. Boyle, P. H.......................... { 117 } { 118 } Dale St. 9,500 400 00 .04 3. Carey, Owen...................... 43 Whitney St. 5,625 200 00 .03 4. Casey, Ellen........................ 48 Lee St. 5,000 200 00 .04 5. Clark, B. R........................... O Dale St. 4,554 100 00 .02 6. Collins, T. W....................... 96 Forest St. 4,160 100 00 .02 7. Connelly, J. J....................... { 69 } Garadus and { 70 } Goddard Aves. 8,706 400 00 .04 8. Curry, Mary A.................... 20 Clyde St. 4,665 300 00 .07 9. Delehanty, M. A................ { 77 } Garardus Ave. 10,000 400 00 .04 {78 } 10. Donahoe, M. T.................. 29 Lincoln St. 3,254 150 00 .05 11. Donahue, K. A................... 27 Dale St. 4,750 150 00 .03 12. Donaldson, J...................... 6 Lincoln St. 4,990 150 00 .03 13. Ellis, Thomas..................... 79 Garardus Ave. 5,000 200 00 .04 14. Fahy, M. J........................... 49 Clyde & Whitney Sts. 4,591 300 00 .06 15. Fallon, J. L.......................... 103 Forest St. 4,750 100 00 .02 16. Fecit, John J....................... { 80 } Garardus Ave. {81 } 15,000 600 00 .04 {82 } 17. Gallagher, T....................... 53 Whitney St. 4,984 200 00 .04 18. Gilhooly, M. M................... 28 Lincoln and Dale Sts. 4,750 200 00 .04 19. Graham, John T................. { 32 } Lee St. { 33 } Garardus Ave. 12,851 600 00 .05 { 34 } 20. Guilfoyle, K........................ 37 Lee and Clyde Sts. 6,335 300 00 .04 21. Harrington, C.................... 84 Garardus Ave. 5,000 200 00 .04 22. Healy, M............................ { 40 } Whitney St. 10,351 500 00 .05 {39 } 23. Hennessy, Thomas.......... 51 Whitney St. 4,997 200 00 .04 24. Horan, P. J......................... 88 Forest St. 4,562 150 00 .03 25. Horgan, Jno. J.................... { 41 } Whitney St. 10,000 400 00 .04 { 42 } 26. Horgan, M. H.................... { 46 } Lee St. 9,514 400 00 .04 { 47 } 27. Keane, Jno. M.................... 2 Clyde St. 7,635 400 00 .05 28. Kelly, J................................. 38 Clyde St. 5,856 300 00 .05 29. Kelly, John.......................... 99 Garardus Ave. 4,750 200 00 .04 30. Lally, J.................................. { 36 } Clyde St. 9,851 500 00 .05 { 35 } Lee St. 31. Leonard, C. R.................... N Dale St. 10,600 200 00 .02 32. Logue, William................. Dale and Clyde Sts. 1,787 100 00 .06 " " 101/102 Forest St. 9,500 200 00 .02 " " 104/116 Forest Lincoln, & Dale Sts. 61,750 1,400 00 .02 " " E Dale and Lincoln Sts. 2,000 100 00 .05 " " 9/11 Lincoln St. 15,000 600 00 .04 " " F Dale St. 5,200 200 00 .04 " " P, R, & S " " 12,745 400 00 .03 " " { 92, 93 } Forest St. 15,553 400 00 .02 " " { 95, 97 } " " A " " 61,868 800 00 .01 33. Lynch, J. E. & O. A........... G to M Dale St. 24,933 500 00 .02 " " " " 44 Whitney St. & Garardus Ave. 7,496 300 00 .04 34. Lynch, Mary A................. 5 Lincoln St. 5,160 200 00 .04 35. Manley, F. M................... 16 Lincoln and Clyde Sts. 4,750 300 00 .06 36. Mullen, E. L..................... T Dale and Lincoln Sts. 4,000 100 00 .02 37. Murray, P. J..................... 18 Clyde St. 4,907 300 00 .06 38. Murphy, J. II.................... 17 " " 4,750 300 00 .06 39. McCarthy, Mary F.......... 85 Forest St. 4,937 200 00 .04 40. McCarthy, William......... 90 " " 4,312 100 00 .02 41. McCormack, Aug........... 45 Garardus Ave. 5,646 200 00 .03 42. McCormack, John J........ { 98 } Forest St. { U } 11,890 250 00 .02 { 15 } " " ...... { 12 } Forest St. { 13 } Forest and Dale Sts. 18,340 350 00 .02 { 14 & Q } 43. McCormack, M. T........... 91 Forest St. 4,187 100 00 .02 44. McGee, Thomas............. 52 Whitney St. 4,991 200 00 .04 " " ............. { 75 } Garardus Ave. 10,000 400 00 .04 { 76 } 45. McKeenan, J. F............... { 25 } Dale St. 9,329 300 00 .03 { 26 } 46. Nelson, M. L................... 89 Forest St. 4,437 100 00 .02 47. Noonan, J. E................... 100 Garardus Ave. 4,750 200 00 .04 48. O'Keefe, M. A................ 24 Dale St. 4,665 150 00 .03 49. O'Neil, Patrick J............. 87 Forest St. 4,687 150 00 .03 50. Palmer, F. E................... D Garardus Ave. & Newton St. 73,424 3,000 00 .04 51. Reed, L. J....................... 71 " " 5,000 200 00 .04 52. Ross, Elizabeth B......... 19 Clyde St. 4,422 300 00 .07 53. Ross, H. A...................... { 73 } Garardus Ave. 10,000 400 00 .04 { 74 } 54. Ruisseau, Walter P...... 86 Forest St. 4,812 150 00 .03 55. Rodden, Eleanor......... { 30 } Clyde St. 11,484 500 00 .04 { 31 } 56. Sheehan, Thomas....... 1 " " 7,228 400 00 .05 57. Shorey, F...................... { 54 } Whitney St. 8,696 400 00 .04 { 55 } 58. Sullivan, Mortimer ..... { 21 } Clyde St. 9,044 500 00 .05 and Penelope { 23 } 59. Tarrant, J...................... 72 Garardus Ave. 5,000 200 00 .04 60. Tracy, J. W.................... 83 " " 5,000 200 00 .04 61. Turley, Ann A.............. 50 Clyde St. 4,277 300 00 .07 62. Welch, J........................ 94 Forest St. 4,060 100 00 .02 63. Williams, John J........... { 3 } Lincoln and Clyde Sts. 18,973 800 00 .04 { 4 } ________ ________ ________ ___ ____ _____ 717,562 $25,250 00 .03 1/2Brookline Streets '94