Excerpt from A Compendium of Reports and Studies Relating to the Commerce and Industry of BostonNaturally these results, being human, have not been achieved without strenuous effort and spirited controversy. Some of the most desirable improvements were slow in coming to fruition and others that have been urged for decades are not yet accomplished. Reviewing the record, one is impressed by the deliberate and even cautious manner in which the state and the city have approached their commercial problems. Some of the more extreme examples of delay may be cited to illustrate this tendency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.