The new South Union Station of the Boston Terminal Company, which has been building during the last two years for the use of all the railroads entering Boston from the south, was opened for the service of the Old Colony and New England Companies on the first day of this year, after having been ''dedicated" the previous Friday by Mayor Quincy and President C. P. Clark, of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. The scheme was first set on foot in February 1896, and the Boston Terminal Company, consisting of representatives of the different railroads who will use the station, was incorporated for the purpose of carrying it out by an Act of the General Court, passed on the 9th of June 1896. The Railroad Commissioners approved the plans on the 4th of January 1897, and the contract for the main structures was let on the 7th of April 1897.
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