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e total valuation $9,312,481, and the city debt $22,000. In 1846, the municipal debt amounted to .0023 of the wealth of the city; in 1895, the debt amounted to .0277 of the city's wealth.
It was not intended that this chapter should be a compilation of figures, nor even a mere directory of municipal improvements.
It seems necessary, however, that these comparative statistics which have been recorded should be set down in order that the main purpose of the chapter may be carried out. Mr. James Bryce, in his elaborate review of the workings of American municipal government, says: Two tests of practical efficiency may be applied to the government of a city: What does it provide for the people, and What does it cost the people?
The facts which have burdened this chapter will answer to a considerable extent, so far as Cambridge is concerned, these two practical questions.
Considered historically, the fifty years of Cambridge charter life—the working lifetime of a man—has shown a mo
le Cambridge), 9, 16, 236; annexed to Boston, 9.
See Third Parish.
Broad Canal, 30, 31, 109, 110, 127.
Broadway (Clark Road), 37.
Broadway Common, 121, 138.
Brooks, Phillips, 163, 255.
Browne and Nichols school for boys, 212-214.
Bryce, James, on American municipal government.
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Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, 219.
Buckley, Daniel A., founder of the Cambridge News, 222.
Bunker Hill, the march to, 49.
Burial-places, 5, 16; without the common pales, 133; discontinuance, 1; the sectional idea, 55, 56; its condition in 1846, 56, 57; police department organized, 56; end of volunteer fire companies, 56; a sewer system established, 57; early expenses, 57; expenses in 1895, 58, 59; its finances in 1895, 59; answer to Mr. Bryce's tests, 59; development of the spirit of municipal unity, 60; bad roads kept the villages apart, 60; isolation considered necessary by the Old Villagers, 60; one great academic grove, 60; obliteration of sectional lines, 60, 61; water-supply s