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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
5
The South Boston Citizens Association voted to launch a crusade to remove derelict buildings in the lower South Boston area from E Street to the Fort Point channel.
James Manning led a South Boston Citizens Association meeting proposing cooperative banks to fund working class blocks and manufacturing in the area. Dr Keating described overcrowded cheap-rent houses while smoke from New Haven Road locomotives polluted the lower South Boston district. A cleanup committee including Dr Keating Edward Hopkins M J O Leary Rev W H Grant and James P Manning was elected to press for better housing and a cleaner district.
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