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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
d ran a line of three-seated stages to Boston, passing through Main Street and over the West Boston Bridge. In 1826 Captain Ebenezer Kimball, the then landlord of a tavern on Pearl Street, Cambridgeport, started the hourly. Later, a man named Tarbox ran a two-horse stage line between Cambridge and Boston. Afterwards, Thomas Stearns, Tarbox, Dexter Pratt, and a man named Sargent put on a four-horse omnibus line. Stearns bought out his partners, and carried the business on for a long time. Tarbox, Dexter Pratt, and a man named Sargent put on a four-horse omnibus line. Stearns bought out his partners, and carried the business on for a long time. Mr. Stearns, who is now living on Farwell Place, Old Cambridge, says his tolls amounted to one thousand dollars per month. Abel Willard and Mark Bills also had stage lines, but they were afterwards consolidated with those of Stearns & Kimball, and ran until they sold out to the horse railroad. Before the consolidation of the rival stage lines, competition was so great that cabs were put on for the purpose of calling at private residences for passengers upon proper notice being given. The