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[p. 48] elements so long is due both to the quality of material and construction.
Many of those erected in this and other cities within the last ten years, under the same conditions of neglect and exposure, would succumb to the destructive forces of nature in less time, and that, too, despite the improvements of which we boast.
Medford, MA. 1912.
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