THE MARLBOROUGH SEASON.

We desire to present to your attention, in the following pages, an outline of the many advantages of Marlborough as a residential town. For years Marlborough has been the home of many people whose business interests are in Boston or Worcester, but owing to the inadequacy of the car service, and the almost prohibitive fares, it has not grown as rapidly as its geographical location, natural beauty and its many advantages warrant. The present trolley service is a thing of the past. Modern facilities and equipment have been installed.

The Bay State Street Railway Company has purchased the local lines and equipment and it has expended a very large amount of money in new equipment and new and expensive construction. The service has been quadrupled, fares have been cut to nearly one-third of the old rates, and the trip from Marlborough to Boston, a distance of thirty miles, is made in from fifty-five to sixty-five minutes. There are also trains, and from twenty to twenty-five trains leave Marlborough for Boston and Worcester daily. The service is excellent in every particular and the rates are exceptionally reasonable.

Marlborough has an excellent system of schools, including a High School building, which cost, with its equipment, over one hundred thousand dollars; four grade school buildings, two brick and two wooden. All are equipped with modern heating, ventilating and sanitary arrangements. The school is under the supervision of a superintendent of schools and a corps of competent and well-trained teachers. The schools are in session during thirty-seven weeks of the year. There are two Public Libraries, a splendid Opera House, a Y. M. C. A. building, one of the finest in the State, a Public Hospital and a number of large and flourishing churches.

A first-class hotel, the "Marlborough", in the centre of the business section of the city, has been entirely renovated, refitted and refurnished during the past year, and it is unsurpassed by any other hotel in a city of its size. There are five banks, one National and four Savings Banks; a first-class Post Office, with six carriers on the regular routes and three clerks on duty at the office. The street lighting is unsurpassed, as the city has recently installed an incandescent system which puts it in advance of any other city in the State.

The population of Marlborough is nearly fifteen thousand. The city has a fully equipped Fire Department, with two steam fire engines, a hook and ladder truck and two chemical engines, with two horse hose carriages. The Police Department has a chief, a sergeant, and eight regular patrolmen, with three special officers, besides the special officers at the time of the State Muster. The city has paved streets and an excellent system of sewerage. The water supply is the best in the State.

JOHN A. WENTWORTH. 017887