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The Rainbow Tank Is Sweet Sixteen-Hollywood's Calling! Thousands of Commuters Saw It for Footage and Interviews Published for the employees and retirees of Boston Gas 1987/Vol. 57, No. 9 Gas Lines November 1987 The Rainbow Tank is sweet sixteen-Hollywood's calling! Thousands of commuters saw it for footage and interviews. And, bright, promising future for Bos­ much has been said about the being repainted every day, all the word came from Hollywood ton Gas and its employees. rainbow. As with any work of summer long. Dozens of phone that a movie would be made. Boston Gas has the unique op­ art, the pros and cons are a matter calls were received from an Tinseltown was finally ready for portunity to renew and regenerate of personal opinion. No one can interested public. National and our "Rainbow." our promise for the future every deny, however, that it took for­ local news media inquired on a Why all the interest? There's five years, when we brighten the ward-thinking and progressive regular basis. Television crews nothing new about the rainbow. Boston skyline by refurbishing leadership on the part of our and reporters scrambled to the top Surely, they were not interested in and repainting the rainbow tank. company officials to make the the 20 workers hanging from Much has been written and (continued on page 2.) scaffolding 140 feet in the air, the 2,000 gallons of paint used, the First Class fantastically bright colors, or that Bostongas U. S. Postage it is the largest copyrighted work One Beacon Street PAID of art in the world. Boston, MA 02108 Boston, MA Certainly, there is a passing Permit No. 71 interest in all of these factors, but the real interest is in what the artist i# felt when the design was con­ ceived—hope. To the late Corita Kent, her rainbow was a symbol of hope for a bright future for the City. Her rainbow over Boston began a new era in the City which is still evident all around us. Boston has grown into a vital, modern, ever-growing metropolis emulated by cities across the Two stars-Eva Marie Saint and country. In 1971, as today, our rainbow tank. Corita's rainbow represented a BOSTON GAS HISTORY 1822 - 1972 \ '.-TV '"Y r H/ y\ .1822-1972. M^I &;«. >. 4a^l.-..,J Beginning with this issue of Gas Lines, in commemoration of the 150th did resemble the "smoke" Sir Walter y Anniversary of the founding of Boston Gas, a series of articles will outlineJ Scott ridiculed. In addition, some of the history of the gas industry in Boston and the history of the Boston Gas the promoters made such extravagant Company. This information is based on historical documents, old newspaper statements that they added to public articles and writings of historical significance found in the company archives. distrust of the product. The first installment deals with the use of gas in European cities during the For example, Frederick A. Winsor, early 1800's, prior to its introduction to Boston. a noted pioneer in the field, exhibited such optimism that he unhesitatingly In the year 1822 Boston, finally been greeted so favorably in the cities promised gas could be used for "tan­ abandoning its town meeting, was char­ of Europe. In 1803, Sir Walter Scott, ning skins" and "smoking bacons and tered as a city and, in July of that the novelist and poet, wrote a friend, hams." As to using gas for illumina­ year, gas lights first glowed within the "There is a madman proposing to light tion, Winsor exclaimed, "gas illumina­ precincts of the newborn municipality. London with smoke!" Phillipe Lebon, tions may be carried on to the utmost The history of Boston's life and growth the first French inventor to enter the extent of beauty, a flame which will as a city parallels the story of gas and field, went bankrupt from the free show play in all forms, submit to instant its remarkable success in Boston, mak­ he gave Parisians in 1801 when he lit changes, ascend in columns to the ing 1972 the sesquicentennial celebra­ the apartments and gardens of a hotel clouds, descend in showers from the tion year of both the City of Boston with gas. Napoleon himself called the trees and arise from the water." When and Boston Gas Company. whole affair "une grande folic." Nine­ all London was afraid of being poi­ When Bostonians caught their first teen years passed before gas gained a soned by the poorly purified gas, Win­ glimpse of "inflammable air," as gas firm footing in the French capital. sor contended that a day would come was then called, they had no notion Many of the troubles encountered by when people would cut small holes whatsoever of the influence the new early promoters of gas were due largely in their gas pipes, "for the express •-Uluminant was destined to have on the to the poor quality of the first gas pro­ purpose of having the advantage of in­ ^ture. But history suggests that the duced. There was such a lack of tech­ haling continually the gas, which is the first appearance of gas met at once nology in the pioneer years—particu­ favorable thing imaginable for the with an admiring gaze and a "good larly in the process of purification— health." public" in Boston. This reception was that some of the gas used in London Bostonians had to wait another gen­ significant because gas had not always eration before they could see the grandeur of gaslight. The work done RAINBOW CONTEST by William Murdock, the father of gas­ light in England, • and the steady im- ..... provement in the quality of the gas When It Rains Rainbows, It pours -- produced, were forces that could not How many songs are there with "rainbow" in the title? fail to win recognition of the utility and When Gas Lines asked this question in the August issue, it was with the value of gas. In 1810, the London assumption that employees, by racking their brains, could come up with at police urged Parliament to install gas least ten or fifteen song titles. Boston Gas employees, however, are always lighting to preserve public safety in the full of surprises. streets of the city at night. In 1813, The winning entry, submitted by Dorea McConaghy, legal services, con­ ' Westminster Bridge was illuminated tained the titles of 141 songs. Dorca's prize will be dinner for two at Pier 4. with gas lamps, and, by 1816, gas had Runner-up Bob Lovely, engineering, listed 120 songs. Paul Bergeron, become commonplace in London. customer relations, 72 songs; Gcraldine DiNapoli, legal collection, 46 songs; Inevitably, reports of these achieve­ Barbara Lemieux, general accounting, 43 songs. ments were conveyed to Boston. As In all, seventeen employees an I their families responded to.our question.* early as 1806, David Melville who is Kathi MacGillivray, daughter of Bill MacGillivray, sales prospector, and credited as being the first pioneer in Thomas Kelly, customer relations, gave their entries an added touch with the gas field in America, had installed art work representing their conception of a rainbow. • "* gas lights in his home in Newport, Other entries were submitted by Mary Flynn, cashiers; Anna Mannion, Rhode Island. In 1816, the first gas I general accounting; Allen Badger, pressure group; Jacqueline Wcnz, con- .company in the United States was char­ ,J^ sumer information; Jim Coughlin, customer relations; Valorie Donohue, tered in Baltimore, and in 1822, Boston ^y meter control; Frank O'Hara, engineering, Jane Kearney, advertising;-Robert newspapers such as the Boston Messen­ Kamb, engineering; and Sylvia D;on, merchandise accounts. ger and Daily Advertiser began print­ All song titles were authenticated by Boston Music Company. * * ing favorablcoomments concerning the ' .arrival of gas in the United States. Next month: "Boston Sees the Li&ht" dT\ r--'1 -''' ^^'^LOOKSNG 15© YEAMS / . /J> y I '•-~™fWi/...'-TTrn y v TOSTON §EIE§ TMIE LSGMT (Second in a series of articles outlining the history of Boston Gas Company) After gas was successfully intro­ attention. We understand that pre­ under the sidewalks. In granting ap­ duced in England and the first gas parations are making for introducing proval to lay pipes, the aldermen also company in the United States was it into extensive use." provided the city's first "public utility" chartered in Baltimore in 1816, it was The Mr. Bacon on Court Street in law. They stated that in laying the only natural to assume a favorable 1822 was the proprietor of an apothe­ pipes, all pavement and bricks must public opinion should be awaiting the cary, making the first gasworks in* the be taken up under the supervision of inauguration of a gas company in Bos­ city of Boston a drugstore. On August the commissioners of the highways and ton. 19, 1822, a group of men, referred to at the expense of the association. Thus If there was favorable public opin­ as "the association" and as "the City the city's first Board of Aldermen set ion then it must be inferred from the Gas Company", "prayed permission" the field of law and regulation of public absence of hostility to gas, rather than from the newly established mayor and utility corporations. declared from any direct, affirmative aldermen to lay pipes for the purpose The newly organized association im­ evidence. The newspapers of the time of supplying gas to customers in Bos­ mediately began planning a site for were busy reporting news of the Peru­ ton. their gasworks from where they would vian Indians' victorious war .of inde­ This petition, referred to a special supply gas made from the distillation pendence from Spain and, in the committee for consideration, declared of oil.
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