Boston Omnibus Business

Boston Omnibus Business

The Baltimore Sun

1852-10-09

This article segment gives statistics and information about omnibuses in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid 19th century. It speaks about how significant they are as a way of transportation daily to thousands of Boston citizens.

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"The Baltimore Sun." Editorial. Boston Omnibus Business 09 Oct. 1852: n. pag. Web.

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English

There are now running in Boston 173 omnibuses, making 1,274 trips in a day, and traveling 6,800 miles daily, or 2,140, 500 in a year. These coaches convey in a day nineteen thousand nine hundred passengers, and in a year six millions two hundred and thirty thousand persons, or more than forty times the whole population of Boston. To run these omnibuses, twelve hundred and forty horses are employed, the business furnishing employment to three hundred and forty-five men.

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