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Chapter  IV

FIRST  BOSTON  OBJECT  LESSON
WINTER  STREET  AND  THE  SINGLE  TAX*
%
SHOULD  THERE  BE  A  NORMAL  RATIO  BETWEEN  THE
VALUE  OF  LAND  AND  THE  VALUE  OF  BUILDINGS?

HE  following  text,  diagram,tpictures,  and  tables

A  are  designed  to  illustrate  the  absurd  ratio
existing  between  the  values  of  land  and  buildings,
and  the  possible  application  of  the  single  tax  principle

MAP  OF  WINTER  STREET  SHOWING  ESTATES  NUMBERED
^°tal  area  of  lots  83,522  square  feet,  or  one  and  eight-tenths  acres.  Total
length  of  street  485  J  feet.  The  numbers  in  small  figures  on  this  plan  are

the  street  numbers;  the  numbers  in  large  figures  are  the  square  feet  of
area  in  each  lot.

*  The  statements  contained  in  this  chapter  are  adapted  from  an  address  at

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®  anquet  given  by  the  Massachusetts  Single  Tax  League  in  the  Hotel  Vendome,

5,1899, t0  Representative  Business  Men  of  Boston.  This  was  the  tenth

to  VI,  contained  in  original  Chapters  IV,  V  and  VI,  are