74 :'■' V? LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. ■ 1 . . . < I NITED STATES OF AMERICA. »SANFORD!i^DAV15 = .•3**' ■pont Qt vfrtRTliRI' FINB READY-MADE M CUSTOM CLOTHllNrG;^. Being so closely connected with the Boston House of MACULLAR, PARKER & CO., And their reputation for dealing only in WEWl^ O- Oj O X>: p IP' Being so well known, WE CAN DISPLAY AT ALL SEASONS, THE CHOICEST STOCK OF OVERCOATS, SUITS, AND SINGLE GARMENTS Shown in Worcester. As we are the Sole Agents of the above Firm here, these Goods cannot be purchased Elsewhere. Low Prices are Guaranteed. OUR ASSORTMENF OF Youttis', Bojg' and Gtiildren's Glottiing Is Second to None. We select special Patterns, an 1 have the GARMENTS MADE FOR US, and can therefore Guarantee NOBBY and EXCLUSIVE STYLES in OVERCOATS, DRESS SUITS, SCHOOL SUITS. PRICES LOW. Is in Charge of this Department. OUR ASSORTMENT OF WDDlens far Barments ta Measure Is Large and Extensive, consisting of all ihe Novelties of the Sra><()n. We Guarantee the Fit, Make, and Trimmings to be of THE BEST. MACULLAR & SON, 372 P?^ 374 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. L THE CITY OF WORCESTER MASSACHUSETTS ITS 1/ \ -\ NNTNiii^ PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND ITS BUSINESS 1586 A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF POINTS OF INTEREST AND VIEWS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS PUhLISIIKV i^y SANKORD ik nAVl« .9^ ?mm STREET- 38 J^'ront Street, Gominewial, Book and Job Printing. Copyright, 1886, by SANFORD & DAVIS Blank Bopk8 Made to Order by SANKOKL) Sz DAVliS. 38 Front Street. PREFATORY. Our Advertising 3r*atrons- The mere list of our advertisers contributes a valuable historic feature to this issue. Ihe greater industries of Worcester are represented in these pages by the Washburn ooks and Stationary, Sanford & Co., and Putnam, Davis & Co., are representative Worcester establishments, W. E. Sawtelle, makes a specialty of Stationery. Our Drug Stores are represented by Geo. E. Fairbanks, the estate of J L. Burbank and the G. G. Burbank Drug Store. In Jewelry by A. L. Burbank, and A. F. Burbank. In Optical goods,' Stockwcll & Pratt. In Toys, Iv A. Merrill. In Coal W. II. Jourdan Wesby, J. S. & Sons, 60 Business Classifled. Apothecary, 15, 54, 50 Bookbinders, 00 Banks 18, 34 Bankers and Brokers, 32 Barber 56 Booksellers, see insets 11 Coal 32 Clothing Store see cover, 40 Dry Goods, 48 Fancy Goods, 20 Furniture, 40, 52 Fire Insurance 44, 52, 00 Fire Arcs, 50, 51 Gents Furnishing Goods, 20 Gymnasium, see cover Harnesses see inset Jewelry, 25 Life Assurance, 67 Looms, 58, 59 Music Store, 20, 36 Opticians, 56 Pianos and Organs, etc 20, 36 Private Schools, 22, 54 Real Estate see inset Silver Ware, etc., 25 Sportsman's Goods, 25 Safe Deposits, 18 Savings Banks, 8, 61 Stable 38 Stationers see inserts li and 40 Toilet Articles, 56 Toys, etc., 20 Theatre, 42 Upholstery, 36, 56, 60 Watches, Jewelry, etc, .* 25 Wire, 68, 59 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. ' .^>>^ HE story of a city like Worcester is like the unfolding of a web whose length never finished holds patterns ever new, and ever changing. It has its phases year by year ; and the facts of each year are not only a record in themselves but must find interpretation in, and furnish their own interpre- tation of records gone before. This gives the place and the special value of publica- tions like those of the present venture. In one sense ephemeral, because attached to a particular date or event, they 'are nevertheless permanent, as permanent as any other page of city history, if only a fidelity to a genuine purpose characterizes the undertaking. One important feature belongs to works of this class if they are worthy to attract the attention they invite. They become, each in their own way, and in tlieir own contacts the educators of their time in a knowledge not easily over estimated, pertaining to the city, where as in this instance, Worces- ter is tlie theme. It is of direct and appreciable value to this city that its essential character, its response ro growth, should be well known, first of all to its own citizens, and through these and by their intelligence on this subject to a continually widening circle of those outside and abroad,'u})on whom the city presents its various claims of business, of social and political affairs. To make this view of the City of Worcester, its public liuildings, and its business at the close of the year 1886, worthy of the place and office suggested a brief resume of the past history of Worcester will be in order. This city, as is widely known from the illustrious nature of the occasion, celebrated in October, 1884, its Two Ilundrctb anniversary. It was not easy to fix upon a date, though the year was unquestionably established as that in which the infant settlonient recovering from the shock and waste of Indian war, the closing struggle of King Pbilip, entered upon the era of permanent 2 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. occupation. It does not fully appear from the early chronicles how fully the first settlement, known as Quinsigamond, was wiped out. The first coming hither, took place in 1673. The Indian title was extinguished and honorably paid for and the work of occupation began with some vigor. King Phillips' war broke out in 1675. Tlie settlers were dispersed among the older towns, but there is reason to believe that to a greater or less extent the deserted planta- tions here were watched and visited from time to time by their proprietors. The town was again deserted in the invasion of the frontier settlements by hostile Albany or Western Indians in 1702, (eighteen years after the year observed in our recent anniversary celebration), and it was in that year thai Digory Sargent and his wife were slain in their cabin here, refusing to be driven away with their more cautious neighbors. All these facts of early history were considered in connection with the recent anniversary and while it left the matter in some doubt as to what partic- ular initial event should be chosen, the conclusion at last reached received uni- versal approval. Ihis date fixed upon was that of the official act of the General Court, naming the town WORCESTER, Oct. 15, 1684. The name itself is significant. Its selection came from stout friends of Cromwell, whose victory at Worcester, was so signal an event in the history of the mother country. The origin of the name is easy to trace. All English names ending in cester or caster, are clearly derivable from the Roman castra, or camp, and it may be readily conceived that a camp was in many instances the very natural germ of a town. In the case of English Worcester, the prefix is manifestly found in the old name of the province Wiccia. Worcester must obviously mean the Camp of the men of Wiccia. And in the language of Mr. Hoar in his noble anniversary oration : " The Puritan spirit and faith which founded Worcester two hundred years ago, have in the main controlled the currents of her history." Settled earliest as Quinsigamond, in 1673, first permanently founded and named Worcester in 1684, and nevertheless, only safely and securely be- gun in 1713, perhaps the future may allow the City of Worcester of one hundred and fifty thousand population, to seek out and with due pomp observe a new two hundreth anniversary lil the good year 191 i, only two years more than a quarter of a century hence, unless indeed the date be chosen thirty-six years from this present, the final and full incorporation, of the town of Worcester in June 14, 1722. The Worcester of to-day stands a marvel and mystery. How came a great manufacturing city here, remote from the sea board ? There is no water way by nature, and the Blackstone canal for the first time supplied the lack, in the brief canal period that preceded the railroad era. There are no natural re- sources or special facilities whatever, guiding to the results that have been accomplished. There was indeed some suggestion and hope of a Worcester coal mine, but it faded. There is absolutely nothing in the early days of THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 3 Worcester that pronounced such future for the city, except the spirit and quality of the citizens of Worcester, and its continuance in those who have come after them. Yet we find one important reason why Worcester became a large manu- facturing centre. She has crystalized from the growth of her neighborhood of Worcester County itself; among the few counties in the United States leading the list in extent and variety of manufactures. The first settlers found this region full of available mill streams and made the heart of Massachusetts a hive of the industries of the early period, before the great factory system began. Saw mills, grist mills, fulling mills, forges, scythe shops, and nail shops have left their traces in deserted and crumbling flumes everywhere in our valleys. This manufacturing, Immble and restricted as were its lines, has been the fertile soil and stimulating force of invention that has from the first honored Worcester County through her sons; and Blanchard, Howe, Whitney and Bigelow lead a long list of the skillful men of genius widely known for their achievements. Worcester after the perils of nfancy had passed, became very early, from beauty of location, a favorite home for the prosperous, and a good theatre of action and enterprise wherein to invite prosperity. It is to be put foremost among the reasons for the beautiful and harmonious growth of Worcester, that from the outset, as a general rule, those who have won fortune's favors here by their skill and industry, have remained here to enjoy such fruits. It may well be stated once for all, an assertion to be well borne out in every stage of our liistory, that Worcester enterprises of every class have almost without exception been owned by Worcester citizens, and that Worcester's wealth, to a very large extent, indeed, almost entirely, has been earned here, in a city not only favor- able for wealth accumulation, but attractive for homes of every class. At the close of the last century. President Dwight in his New England tour, found Worcester a large and handsome village. He was particularly struck with tlie ample and handsome home living of her citizens in their broad mansions, surrounded by pleasant estates. " Such gardens," sighs one early writer, " as Worcester will never see again." The industrial life of that period was that of the village craftsman, who plied hand labor, a life of industry passed to their successors by the long and patient apprenticeship that left the lad at seven years end, the master of liis calling. But it is to be noted as historic- ally true that there was in that period, even in Worcester, an excessively strained aristocratic feeling, whose existence in this day is almost forgotten, whose existence in our day would be impossible. An incident told as happening within the lifetime of the narrator from whom the account is derived, is of this nature, and fully illustrates the caste distinctions of long ago. When chaises and covered vehicles were a luxury in this county, one of these chaises was owned in Worcester by a worthy man whose house near the north end of Main Street, stands among the few remain- 4 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. ing landmarks of the early day. He kept a couple of vehicles for hire. It was his custom on a Sunday morning, to take his chaise and convey a venerable relative to morning worship at Rev. Dr. Bancroft's Summer Street Church. One Sunday he had just driven in front of the sanctuary to deposit his passen- ger, when a prominent citizen of the upper class of that period, thus accosted him with a vehemence of protest that made his shirt ruffles quiver. " Fine times we are coming to, fine times Mr E , when mechanics ride to meeting in chaises." Worcester has come to learn and believe that a success- ful Worcester mechanic can compass and enjoy pretty much all there is of the good things of this life. There was a prominence to Worcester merchandising in the early era. It was a good long haul saved from Boston and from Rhode Island seaports, and the Salisburys, and others of that time, the Salisburys principally, indeed, had a very widely extended area of traffic which went throughout New Hamp- shire and Vermont, well nigh to the Canada line. Our Lincoln Square in the early day was at times a most busy scene of teaming. Great wagon loads of merchandise hauled up from Boston, vast puncheons of rum casks of wine and spirits, the indispensables of the era before total abstinence began, bales of fabrics, bundles and crates of hardware and crockery, such as made up the " English and West India goods " assortment of the early merchant. And the Worcester store-keepers worked early and late to get off their country orders, that came from far and wide. The Blackstone Canal came into this first epoch of Worcester business as a needed venture to sustain the business interests of Worcester. It opened with cheap freighting the Rhode Island seaports of that time, when Newport was something different from the home of the fashionable butterfly. The canal was opened in 1828. It was a great event. At points along the Black- stone River where the Canal retains somewhat of its outline, it is easy for older citizens to summon back to view the actual presentment of the slow mov- ing barges that made this artery of trade famous and useful in its time. Then came the Boston and Worcester Railroad, pushed as a compulsory undertaking to save the trade of Boston. There had been indeed some talk of a canal connection between Boston and inland points, even as far as Albany, which should take in Worcester, and state surveys were made and are of record, to such end designed. Worcester was to receive from the north a channel through the river and pond system, with slack water and lockage that was amplified and described as one may see in the State reports of 1827. The railroad era changed all that, and the Boston and Worcester railroad opened in 1835, rang down the cur- tain on canal undertaking in this region. The railroad era had begun. Our railroad facilities solely have since builded up and maintained the great industry of Worcester. Of these industries as a whole, labor forms a principal part. A brief review of these industries will be in order. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 5 What Worcester is to-day in her industries can be compactly told for the ligures are Ijefore us. A few words as to the beginning of her manufacturing era. We take a page from the records collected at the Bi-Centennial celebration. One of the earliest considerable nianul'acturing enterprises in Worcester was doubtless the association formea in 1780 for the purpose of spinning and weaving cotton. The first piece of corduroy was taken from the loom in April of tliat year. The factory stood on Mill Brook, near where now is the inter- section of School and Union Streets, where in 1790, Sanniel Hrazer was still making corduroy and " federal rib.'' At what is now Quinsigamond, Isaiah Thomas, in 1794, erected a paper- mill, later owned by Gardner Bur])ank, and which as late as 1834 was the Quinsigamond Paper Company, near what is now the Quinsigamond Wire Mills of the Washburn &Moen Manufacturing Company. In 1804 Peter and Eben- ezer Stowell were weaving carpets and plaids here, and at one time had six looms of their own invention and manufacture in operation. Abel Stowell was celebrated as a maker of clocks at the close of the last and opening of the present century. The town clock of the Old South Church, which did duty until a few years ago, was made by him in ISOO. There arc in this vicinity, several house clocks made by him still in use in families tliat greatly treasure them as heirlooms. There was in 1812 a small paper manufactory on the site of what was later the old Court Mills, on Lincoln Square. In the same year there was a factory for spinning cotton yarn and a fulling mill, by one Hale ; and Moses Clement set up a trip-hammer near where Coe's shop now is. All these last named were in what was known as Trowbridgeville, until in the year 1812, there was a joyous gathering which assembled at a flag raising and formally named the precinct New Worcester, and '• made a night of it " at Stearns' Tavern. At this time there was a grist mill at the Old Ked Mill, near where stands Crompton's Loom Works. From this time, until 1828, there was no particular growth to Worcester industries. The especial impetus of 1828 came iu the opening of the Blackstone Canal already referred to, maki)ig Worcester more than ever before a central point of trade, bringing heavy freights from the seaboard cheaply into the heart of the State, and opening an outlet never before offered for lumber, wooden ware and farm products. Stores and warehouses sprung up about the new canal basin in Worcester. In 18.36 there were in Worcester two mills for the manufacture of broad- cloths, six of satinets, one for cotton sheeting and shirting, two for satinet warps, one for pelisse wadding, two paper-mills, seven machinery works, a wire mill, and iron foundry, several manufactories of sashes and blinds, one lead pipe works, paper hangings, cabinet furniture, chairs, brushes, trunks and harnesses, ploughs, hats, shoes, watches, umbrellas, cutlery, piano-fortes, and wagons. Of this l)risk growth of 1836 it is recorded, that three hundred buildings were erected in this town within two years. There were ninety stores and THE CITY OF WORCESTER. warehouses, twenty cotton, woolen and paper mills, employing over 1500 workmen. It was in this year that William Lincoln brought out his History of Worcester From this period the industries of Worcester took their remarkable growth. No other city of the United States has so great a variety as Worcester of manufactureres of an important character, in proportion to its population, and again let us say, these are owned and managed here. The fact was referred to by ex-Governor Boutwell many years ago in a Cattle Show address in this city, as " a variety of employment which prevents any entire overthrow of business in years of depression." We give a compact list of Our Worcester Industries : Agricultural Machinery, Artists Plates, 2 1 Art Publishing, . . . . Awls, .... 2 3 Brass and Bronze, 3 Band Instruments, 1 Bale Ties, 1 Barb Wire Fencing, . Boots and Shoes, 1 U Breweries, .... 2 Bronzing Machines, Brushes, .... 1 2 Building Contracts. 4 Cabinet Work, 5 Carders Tools, . 2 Card Clothing, Carpets, Carriages, .... Carriage Wood Works, Car Wheels, 4 2 2 2 1 Chemicals, . . . 1 Clothes Dyers, Coates Clippers, . Coffee Machinery, Confectionery, Copper Wire, Copying Presses, Corsets, .... 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 Cotton Thread, . 2 Cutting Dies, Drain Tiles, 2 3 Emery Wheels, Elevators, 1 2 Envelopes, .... 3 Files, ' . . . 3 Finger Nail Cutters, . 1 Fire Arms, 4 Folding Chairs, ♦ THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Indestructible Soles, Iron Manufactures, Iron Foundries, Iron Sash, Lasts, Leather Blacking, Leather Belting, Leather Machinery, Looms, Machine Knives, Machine Screws, Machine Tools, . Malleable Iron, Marble Works, . Metal Punching, Nickel Plating, . Organs, Organ Reeds, Paper Machinery, Perforated Metals, Presses, Railway Cars, Razors, Refrigerators, Reed and Harness, R. R. Frogs and switches, Satinets, Skates, Slippers, Soaps, . Steam Boilers, Steam Engines, . Steel, Tacke and Staples, Tapes and Elastics, Turbine Wheels, Twisting Machinery, . Type Writers, Wood Working Machinery, Watch Springs,. Water Meters, Wind Engine. Wire, Wire Goods, Wire Rope, . Wire Springs, Wood Turning, Woolen Goods, . Worsted Goods, Worsted Spinning, Wrenches, 1 1 5 2 2 1 3 1 2 3 3 15 1 2 2 3 5 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 5 2 2 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 o •> 1 2 4 2 2 3 2 8 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. THE WORCESTER MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, 311 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. i3^ooxe.:poi^^^TEiD i^j^ir is, lasi. OFFICERS FOR 1886: PRESIDENT. KR^NOIS H. DEWEY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. r. W. HAMMOND, EMORY BANISTER, J. EDWIN SMITH, A. B. R SPRAGUE. TRUSTEES. GEORGE E. MERRILL, BENJAMIN ZAEDER, STEPHEN J. WILCOX, SAMUEL E. HILDRETH, W. H. HACKETT, JOHN D. LOVELL, A. M. HOWE, EDWARD WHITNEY, JOHN H. COES, CHAS. F. WASHBURN, LEWIS G. WHITE. Treasurer: HENRY WOODWARD. Clerk: F. H. DEWEY, Jr. AUDITORS. G. E. MERRILL, S. J. WILCOX. FINANCE COMMITTEE. F. H. DEWEY, EMORY BANISTER, T. W. HAMMOND, J. EDWIN SMITH, JOHN H. COES. FRANK W. CUTTING, Teller JOHN E. MORSE, Book-keeper. Deposits received daily, and placed upon interest on the Fifteenth day of 'January, April, July and October. Dividends payable on or after the 16th of January and July. Dividends not withdrawn are placed upon interest on the Fifteenth day of the next quarter day after they are declared. All taxes on deposits are paid by this Bank. Bank Open, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, Close at 1 P. M. OriK VaULTP SkCURKP BY CHHONOMKTKR LoCKR, THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 9 The leading facts of this very striking list may be stated of follows : Wire employs nearly 5000 hands, with an annual product of $8,000,000. Boots and shoes 1")00 workmen, annual product 516,000,000. Woolen interests, 800 hands, annual product $3,000,000. Looms, 800 men, annual product $2,000,000. Machinery and Tools, 1500 men, annual product $8,250,000. Musical wares, 1000 operatives, annual product $1,500,000. Envelopes, 3,000,000 made daily, annual product $1,000,000. Fire arms, corsets, belting and skates, employ nearly 1200 men with an annual aggregate product of over $2,500,000. Worcester mercantile business has always been well represented in hand- somely maintained lines of trade, with an honorable past that carries not only the names of eniment merchants that have passed away, but of those whi have carried their enterprises to other cities, fl. B. Claflinthe late merchant ])rincc of New York, was formerly for years in business on Main Street. Worcester has seven national banks with an aggregate capital of $2,250,- 000 ; Safe Deposit and Trust Company with $200,000, and four savings banks telling a good story for Worcester, thrift in their aggregate of over $19,000,000 accumulated savings. There are also two co-opeiative banks, each with $1,000,000 capital. The equipment of our prosperous city in the matter of the mental, moral and religious training of its people' could but be of the best character. 10 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. THE CHURCHES. The religious bodies of the city comprise fourteen denominations ; the Congregational Unitarian leading the list with eleven churches. The next numerous in order are the eight Methodists, seven Roman Catholic, seven Baptist, three Protestant Episcopal, two Unitarian, two Universalist, the Free Baptist, Jewish, Christadelphian, Second Advent, Friends, Diciples, Lutheran, one each. The illustrations we give show the worthy character of Worcester Church architecture. First Univei'salist Church. This Society was organized in January, 1841, and during the first two years of its existence worshipped in Brimley Hall. Their first house of wor- ship was erected in 1843, at the corner of Main and Poster Streets, where it stills stands, having been for many years occupied for business purposes, and now, recently, as Continental Hall. Since 1871, the year of its completion, the place of worship has been in their handsome and commodious brick struc- ture on the corner of Pleasant Street and Church Place. The cost of the land and buildings was nearly 165,000. This church has one of the finest organs in the city, built by Steere & Turner, of Westfield, at a cost of $5,000. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 11 E3 i.'ABLISHED 1835. Booksellers, Stationers, Blank Book Manufacturers, AND MERCANTILE PRINTERS, Stantrartr anta MtnttUantonu iJootts* JUVENILE BOOKS. TEACHERS' BIBLES, (Oxford Editions), PRAYER BOOKS AND HYMNALS. atatljrr (Kootrs* POCKET BOOKS. LETTER AND CARD CASES. PORTFOLIOS, WRITING TABLETS PHOTOGRAPH ALBUlVtS Back:ga.mmon Boards. ]Dom.inoes. Chec leers. .iFasljConatilc Note iUptv eintr ^ni^tloptn. Gold Pens. Gold Pencils. Ivibrary InKstands. manU Mttonnt Uootti!); For Banks, Railroads, Insurance Connpanies, Manufacturers, and Merchants, Made to Order of the Best Materials, FINE MERCANTILE PRIXTIXG AND IJI'I fOGRAPH.ING. COUNTING-ROOM SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Send fnit E-stimHtes. 12 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Ail «aints Cliurcli. The leading parish of All Saints is a continuation of the first denomina- tional work of the Protestant Episcopal order first established in this city in THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 13 1835. Regul r services commenced here on Christmas day in 1842. The first All Saints structure, a handsome edifice after plans by Richard Upjohn of New York, was erected on Pearl Street, a little east of the present site of Plymouth Church. It was destroyed by fire on Easter night in 1875. Thus two of the days prominent on the church calandar are the marked events of their founding and their first catastrophe. The present elegant and striking edifice was erected on the corner of Pleasant and Irving Streets and dedicated in 1877. The lot has a frontage of 140 on Irving by 150 feet on Pleasant and its ample area and fine exposure has been occupied by one of the finest church struc- tures in New England, the material being Longmeadow brownstone. The fine cut we give releases us from the necessity of describing. The Church and its adjoining chai)el contain two fine organs. The interior is finely conceived and finished. Messrs. ^Earle & Fuller of this city were the architects. Tlic Union Cliiii'ch. The Union Cliurcli stands third, in date of organization, as a peacealile olf-shoot from parent stock — the Old South — drawing also a part of its mem- 14 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. bers from the Calvinist, now the Central Church. Their first brick structure was built in 1836, on its present site, and was replaced in 1879 by the present more modern and commodious edifice. The solid encroachments of business improvements, in its vicinity, render it likely that its prominent and strong membership will, at no distant day, deem some other site more desirable. St. Paul's Church. This fine granite structure which yet awaits the completion of its tower, occupies a very commanding site on the corner of Chathatn and High Streets. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. GEO. E. FAIRBANKS, Wholesale and Retail Druggist. PROPRIETOR AND MANUFACTURER OF Fairbanks' Wine of Calisaya Bark and Iron, Fairbanks' Demulcent Skin Lotion, Fairbanks, Stomach and Liver Pills, Martin's Balm of Life, The Bay State Pills for Sick Headache, Hysteria, etc., Fairbanks' Vegetable Croup Syrup, King's Blood Syrup, King's Diarrhoea Mixture, Fairbanks' Corn Cure, Fairbanks' Excelsior Hair Dye, Fairbanks' Anodyne Toothache Drops, The Children's Comfort, Dr. Amos Goodwin's Remedy for Asthma, Dr. A. B. Norman's Cure for Itching Piles. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, CRUTCHES, TRUSSES, RATTERIES, SUR- GEONS' AND PHYSICIANS' SUPPLIES. Particular personal attention given to the fitting and adjustment of Trusses and Supporters Having had more than 26 years' experience, I feel •warranted in guaranteeing satisfaction. Driigs^ Afedtcines, Vhem'icals, ToiUt and Fancy Articles, and in fact everything obtainable in a 7tieil-stocked Metropolitan Drug Store. VOITR RATRONAQE SOLICITKO. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully Compounded from the Purest Materials. Pure Wines and Spirits, Porter, Ale, Mineral Waters, &.C., for medicinal use (under sixth-class License.) Urdrrs hji Mnil, TrI rplioiic (,r otlicririsr, in'onipthf unswered, (tiid (ioodx (Idiverf'd fo nini jkivI of the Clhi free. GKO. K. FAIRBANKS, No. 10 Front St., Worcester, Mass. 16 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Work'was begun in 1868, and the main portion of the church was finished and dedicated July .4, 1876. It is of Gothic architecture after plans by Messrs. E. Boyden & Sons of this city. It has a magnificient auditorium. The grand organ by Johnson & Co., of Westfield, cost $7,000. Leading representatives of the Roman Catholic faith have added notable adornments, among these the superb windows on the east and west, and a marble statute of St. Paul, over the main entrance, the gift of Mrs. George Crompton. The Ceniiiil Chin'cli. This church organization an off-shoot from the Old South was originally known as the Calvinist Churcli. The late Daniel Waldo buift and gave to the PUTNAM, DAVIS & CO. '-^DEALERS IN-<<— Kine Leatl^er Goods;. Pocket Books, Purses, Letter Cases, Card Cases, Portfolios, Writing Tablets, Visiting Cards, Penwipers. We have the above in all kinds of leather, including the leading leather for this j^.u- THE ROYAL RED MOROCCO. !1M;KET BOOKS, CARL '. LETTER GASES AND PUT ' WITH STERLING SILVER CORNERS. 389 MAIN STREET, . . WORCESTER. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 17 Society its first structure which was dedicated in 1823. It still forms a part of the old church building which has only recently been sold by this society. The new and beautiful structure occupies a fine site on Salisbury Street, a little north of Lincoln Square, on the corner of the Jo Bill road. It was built in 188 1-5, and stands completed throughout as one of the best and most admirable of the church edifices of this state. The material is a fine brownstone. The tower carries the bell removed from the former structure. JPiyinoutli Oliui'cili. The fine granite Plymouth Congregational Church edifice occupies a fine outlook on the corner of Pearl and Chestnut Streets. This church was organ- ized in 1869 by off-shoots from other churches, and for several of the first years of its existence, worship was held in Mechanics Hall, where its strength grew until 1872 when a movement for a permanent church home was undertaken, resulting in the present fine structure. For a year or two the chapel of the new church was occupied for religious services. The completed structure, which has a seating capacity of 1500, was dedicated in the spring of 1875. The cost of the land and building was about $200,000. From the first origin TFTE CITY OF WORCESTER, 1 Uu li D Office Hours : G j^. ivr TO — 4= IP. n^vdi. Office Hours, SATURDAY, 9 J^. ISA., — TO — 1 -^ . IMI. 488 MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE CITY HALL, WORCESTER, MASS. O^F»ITA.L, - - S200,000. CHARTERED BY THE STATE. Deposits received subject to check at sight, and two per cent, interest allowed on daily balances averaging $ioo aad upwards. Special deposits for si.\ months or longer, three per cent. Parties doing business with the Company, deposit and check in the same manner as with National Banks, and receive interest for the HULL Ti.ME the money is on deposit. c- i i n All classes of Government Securities and miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds bought and sold on commission. Collections made on all points in the United States and Canada. Small safes enclosed in Burglar-proof Cases, to which tte Renter alone has access, are offered to the public for rent, at prices varying from $15 to $75 each per annum. _ -,,,., It is a Place of Security against Fike or Burglars for depositing valuables of all kinds. Bonds Mortgages, Wills, Deeds, Jewelry, Silver Plate, &c., received at very low rates, for which receipts aee GIVEN. EDWARD F. BISCO, Secretary. GEO. M. RICE, Assistant Secretary, SAMUEL H. CLARY. President. DIRECTORS. Geoge M. Rice, of Worcester. George S. Bahton, " SuMMEK Pkatt, " Ben J. Walker, " Warken Williams, of Worcester, Adin Thayer, " John H. Goes, " HiKAM Fobes, ' THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 19 of t)ic church, until the present year, this church has known hut a single pas- torate. Tliere are, as we have stated, eleven Orthodox Congregational Churches in Worcester, some of which we illustrate. One of the handsomest of these, both externally and throughout, is the fine edifice of the Piedniont.huilt and ded- icated in mil. This church, in the period of its origin, was the twin of Ply- mouth, and by its location accommodates a large number of dwellers in the rapidly developing southern jmrtion of the city. .'\V\ , , , .' ,'—- , . 'S--,,mi ■ liiiiity M. li.- (Jliurch. The legal name of this organization is historic. The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Worcester, and it is the pioneer of its denomination in this city. The first edifice was built in 1836 at the corner of Union and Colum- bia Streets. In 1846 they built the Park Street Church, now occupied by the French Catholic Society, but it becoming too small for them a better location was secured on the corner of Main and Chandler Streets, and their present handsome structure was build in 1870. It has a seating ca))acity of 1500. It has a larger number of communicants than any other church of its denomina- tion in this State. The Old South Church. Sec Frontispiece. Let all towns and cities credit our [)ious, church-loving, church-founding Puritan ancestry with this fact that, in the majority of instances, the liberal first provision for the "Meeting-house Lot" and its appendages secured to their posterity all that we have of the public common. This was the fact in the instance before us. In 1719 a plain wooden edifice without a stee{)le was built on the present site of the Old South Church. The structure of to-day was built in 1763 at an expense of £ 1542 sterling, though it has been extensively modern- 20 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. E. B. C. EDWARD B. CLAPP, Fashionable Hats, Fine Furnishings. Sole Agent "Youman's" Celebrated Hats. j^THI^ETIC Q-OODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. CONSTANTLY RECEIVING NOVELTIES. INSPECTION SOLICITED, 365 MA.I]Sr ST., - - - WORCESTER. ▲• HBBBlIilit RETAIL DEALER IN Fii€Y mms, Toia iii €me PiRE SEED km OTHER SUPPLIES CONSTAMTLY OS HAND. 29Q MMM ST. bm ^rkm. WORCESTEB. C. LGORHAM 8d CO, REPRESENTING STEINWAY & SONS, KRANICH & BACH PIANOS. General Dealers In Musical Merchandise. 454 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 21 ized. There was on the Main street front, in the olden time, a porcn from the roofof wliich tlie Declaration of Independence was read the first time in New England by Isaiah Thomas. The property interest of the Old South in its present site, has long been coveted by the city, and measures are in train for its purchase, so that the venerable church cannot much longer be retained on what is to become public ground V. M. C. A. BL'ILLING 22 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN. AT 25 HARVARD STREET. The next term ot Miss Kilham's Kindergarten, will begin Jan. 3, '87. Miss Kilham has made a study of Froebel's Sy^tein^of Educ ition, and has had. practical experience in teaching it. CHILDREN ARE ADMITTED FROM THREE TO SEVEN YEARS OF AGE. CHILDREN PREPARED FOR MISS HALSTEAD'S SCHOOL IF DESIRED. Froebel's Method of Education, includes a careful training of the puysicai. and SPKITUAL Natures, as well as the mental. The children are kept active and happy by progressive occupations, adapted to the development of all the faculiies. MISS HALSTEAD'S Private Scliool for Cliilclren, NO 9 JOHN STREET, (Two Doors from Harvard Street J Children received between the A^es of 5 and 12 Toe (-'ourse of Study is intended to fit pupiN for liie lii^lier ijr.ides of ilie Public Scliools also for the first year of Mrs. Throop's School. Singing is taught by Mus. Su.m.mer, of tiie Worcester Cimnty Mn>*ic School, Drawing b/ Miss Uele.v F. Marsh, of the Stale Normal School, (ierman is also taught. APPLICATION MAY B3 MADE TO MISS EMILIE M. MALSTEAD, At the School-roooTL between Q aod 12, —AND A I- 64 WILLIAM STREET. WORCESTiiR, MASS . Nov. l\ ISSii. FOR You:Na LAI3It:S. Careful Instruction in all English branches, and in French, German. and Latin. STUDEJfTS PREPARED FOR COLLEGE E X AMI J^ AXIOMS. Number of Pupils IliniteU. Two Boardlii? Pupils will be rtcelved. FOR CIRCULARS OR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS MRS. E. S. THROOP, WORCESTER, MASS. REFERENCES: Rev. A. p. PEABODT. D- D-, CamhrLdge. Mrs. Br GAGE, Worcester. Rev. E. E. HALE, D- D-, Boston- Mrs. Dr. MEARS, Worcester THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 23 Yonnp: Men's Christian Association, The first Young Men's Christian Association organization was established in Montreal in 1851. The first Association in the United States was formed in Boston during tl e same year. There are now nearly eleven hundred (10(36) of these Associations in the United States. They have extended to all parts of the world, and Young Men's Christian Associations are to-day to be found in North and South America, in Europe, Asia and Africa, and the islands of the sea. They are in operation in Turkey, Syria, India, Ceylon, China, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Sandwich Islands. The whole number of these Associations in the world is 3,372. They carry everywhere the same essential and foundation feature, the purpose to bring to young men, everywhere, the spiritual and social benefits of the Christian relig- ion in its influence on liome life, business, and pleasure. The Young Men's Christian Association, of Worcester, was organized in 1864. It has, from the first, been hampered for accommodations ample and adequate for its associated purposes, though, for the most part, its various departments have been well cared for. It was ready to share the the spirit of tlie new era of its class of undertakings which began some years ago to mani- fest itself in the direction of creating p(>rmauent Association homes. To such an extent has this latter movement been carried that there are now ninety Young Men's Cliristian Associations wOiich have permanent buildings of their own expressly adapted to their u.ses. Some of these are very costly and beau- tiful metiopolitan structures. Tiie Worcester Young Men's Christian Associa- tion building project readied a most happy conclusion in March, 1883, when it was made a fixed fact by the purchase of a fine lot on Pearl running through to Elm Street. On this is now being erected the noble building we illustrate^ the free gift of the Worcester friends of tiie Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, at a cost, for the building alone, of ill 0,000. Yovinji: Women's Christian Association. No better f)Iacc thnn right here, for a topic, literally a sister topic to the last in discussion. The emi)loymont of women and girls in various business capacities in our cities has, within the past few years, pressed strongly the de- mand for a vei-y similar movement to the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, ex|)ressly in behalf of young women. It can be easily seen how great and i)ressing the ajipcal, and genuine the value of such an enterprise. It is not a charity. It coiner to those who are not beneficiaries of the humblest class; but it does aim to supply to the youn^- woman thrown upon her own resources the encouragement, and shelter, iind helpfulness that have worked such excellent results in the instance of their hrotheis of Y. M. C. A. The certificate of organizatimi was procured October 26, 18H5, and the first annual meeting was held in riymouth Ciinpel May 26, 1886. They occupy three rooms at 352 Main Street, very jjlcasant and home-like, and every way auitable for the purposes of the Association. 24 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. THE WOKCESTER SCHOOLS. Like fortresses at conspicuous points, posted against the advance of a public foe, five of the hill tops that enclose the Worcester valley are surmount- ed by prominent seats of learning. These are The Massachusetts State Normal School. The Worcester Academy. College of the Holy Cross. Worcester Free Institute of Industrial Science. Highland Military Academy. All of these have, by a long CvStablished career, won a high place among institutions of their class. In the more central portion of the city, the Worcester High School is conspicuous on its elevated site. Our public schools are of a very high order. It deserves to be kept per- manently on record that the plan and principle of the free grammar school was first made known and brought out in Worcester. By the census of 1885, it is shown that 13,000 of our population are of school age. from live to fifteen years, and the number of |)upils enrolled in the day schools is nearly equal to the school census This is a good showing for a total populaMon of from 69,000 to 70,000. Including the evening drawing schools and the drawing classes almost one-fifth of our population are enrolled in the schools of Worcester. The total co.st of this department of city ex- penditure for the past year has been f 207,990.6."), with an outlay of $6-5,467.72 for new building-;, a-id it is estimated thit the demands of our growing popu- lation w'll call for not less than S!50,000 annually for this purpose. The corps of Worcester teachers numbers 267, of which it deserves to be stated, 184 are graduates of some Normal School. As a department at the head of our local school system the Worcester High School dcsei'ves especial mention. "Worcester High School. The present edifice dates from January, 1872, when it was opened for the reception of pupils. For years it was supposed to be entirely beyond any pos- sible need of the city in point of size, but for two years its seating capacity has been sorely tried, there being now more than 700 pupils enrolled. Worcester High School dates from January, 1845, when Elbridge Smith, a graduate of Brown University, took charge of the old Boy's Latin School whicli with the Girl's High School, formally occupied, in that year, the new building erected on the site of the present structure. This old High School building was, in its day, deemed the most elegant school house in the State- Stationers, Printers, Blank Book Makers. OFFICE STATIONERY OF ALL KINDS. "pjLANK "pooKS, ^Regular (^^atterns in Q,tock Special St^^les maide to Order. Mote 'Resids. Bill ilcadSj CheckSj and Blanks of all Forms. Printed or Lithographed. 3SQ MAIN STRKET, "Worcester, - - Mass. ->^^ ,£J- THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 25 A. L BDRBANK, Wholesale and Retail Dealer iu JEWELRY, French and Aiiiericaii Clocks, Gold and Silver Headed Canes, Gold and Silver Headed Silk Um- brellas, Optical Goods, Opera Glasses, Field Glasses. Bertier /^^ \)arabo^J>^o-4he ^ j^y Best ^-^m THE World TRY THEM 8> SEE AGAIN AS IN rOUTH. SoleAcenct At 301 MAIN ST, Cor. Exchange. ALSO A mmim depot With a Full Line of Guns, Pistols, Ammunition and Fishing Tackle, Dog Collars, Leaders, Chains, Whips, Whistles, and Food. ALSO AGENT FOB THE ORIENTAL POWDER MILLS, Blasting and Sporting Powder, A. P. BURBANK, DEALER IN — Diamonds, GOLD « SILVER WATCHES, A Large Stock of Ladies' Gold Watches. A LARGE "STOCK OF DiAiiois \i mi im% — ALSO — Set in Rings, Studs, Ear-Rings | Bar Pins. I have 'in Solid/Silver and\Plated Ware, as large a Stock as can be found in New England. REED & BARTON, Who make the Best In the United States. I make a Specialty of their Goods, and still keep nearly all the Styles of Goods made by the ROGERS MANUFACTORY, OF CONNECTICUT. I keep Tea Sets, Cake Baskets, Casters, Berry Dishes, Flat Ware, Spoons, Forks, &c., also Steel Plated Knives. Pearl Knives in Plush Cases, or without. SILVER V^ARE III. :F*l-a.sl5. Cases for I'resexits. All the above Goods will be sold at the LOWEST CASH.PRICE8 a* 301 MAIN STREET, "Worcester, , - Mass« 26 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Since 1871, it has been the Walnut Street Grammar School House, having been moved across to make room for the new building. This building in- cluding land, cost the city nearly a quarter of a million of dollars, and in ap- pointments and convenience has few superiors in the country. There arc fourteen rooms for pupils, besides a large hall capable of seating 800 people ; lecture room, apparatus room and laboratory, drawing room and library. Its apparatus is quite complete and is worth more than -13000. It has a reference library for the use of the pupils, numbering over 2000 volumes. In its hall and corridors may be found the pictures or busts of more than forty dis- tinguished individuals. Upon the walls in the first corridor are marble tablets bearing the names of the High School boys who lost their lives in (he War of the Rebellion. These are the gift of E. A. Goodnow and were erected in 1883. In front of the north tablet is a marble bust of General Grant, given by Mr. Goodnow, while before the south tablet is the figure of J. William Grout, also in marble, from his comrades in arms. Grout was the fust High School boy to lose his life in the army during the Rebellion. Mr. Andrew O'Connor, of this city, was the sculptor of both figures, while they and both of the tablets were executed through Evans 'iA^' -:p --' ■*/ /f M/" ^v^;. 28 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. The life size painting of Wendell Phillips in the main hall is from H. H. Bigelow, -and is the work of E. H. Billings of Boston, as are also the por- traits of John Adams and Daniel Webster, suspended in the same room. One of these came from public spirited citizens in 1881, and the other, Webster's, from the Eucleia Debating Society in 1882. There are now in the scliool eighteen teachers besides the teacher of drawing and his assistant and the teacher of vocal music. In the second half of each year book-keeping is taught by an expert. Thus there are twenty-two teachers, in all, in the school. Its standard of preparation for college are the Harvard requirements, but its pupils go wherever they like. Amherst perhaps, drawing quite as many as any other institution. For several years past more pupils have gone to the Worcester Free Institute than elsewhere, and, just at present, the school may be considered the chief feeder of the "Tech." But college preparation is not the only business of the school. Its aim is to give every boy and girl a help along life's way, prompting them to remain as long as possible and to get, in the way of information, all they can ; thereby to be- come better citizens and better calculated to appreciate and enjoy the intel- lectual life. The Normal Scliool. The first Massachusetts State Normal School was established in the days oi Horace Mann at Lexington, and the present writer remembers it with a pang, for it gathered in a goddess of his youthful worship, leaving in his small heart a great vacancy, for she was twice his age, and three times his weight, and the Normal Schools have been picking up choice girls ever since. Our Worcester institution was established in 1871, and first opened to pupils in 1874. The site occupied has a fine bold eminence at the gateway to Worces- ter on the eastern approach. The grounds cover five acres. It is a thoroughly noble and well appointed institution. Worcester Free Institute. This is an admirable outgrowth of the mechanical and inventive facts and tendencies of Central Massachusetts. The Free Institute was opened in 1868. It has been twice endowed l)y the State with a gift of '$oO,000 to further its purposes of giving a technical education, and the State receives free training for twenty pupils. To all eligible candidates, from Worcester County, the instruction is free. Its total funds amount to something over 1700,000. It has a full corps of competent teachers and is well equipped for its work. The Worcester Academy. " Academy Days," who does not remember them ? among the men and women whose hair is getting silvery about the temples, or is losing its " back numbers ? " Then came the era of the graded schools which, for pur- poses of convenience, chose to consider children all alike to be turned out at educational factories by the gross like clothes-pins. The academy is coming THE CITY OP WORCESTER. 29 M IIP l^) l^) l"^) ITJ^I V -r3»: tr-i, 1.^) s:i W^' IJ^**- iim so THE CITY OF WORCESTER steadily back to a very large class of those who desire an elective training carefully adapted to each scholar. The Worcester Academy stands to day among the first institutions of its class, in the land, for thoroughness of train- ing and for completeness of appointments as a boarding school. Miscellaneous Schools. Oua notices of the various educational facilities of Worcester would not be complete without adequate though brief reference to Miss Halstead's Private School for Children, 9 John Street. The Private Kindergarten, 25 Harvard Street. Mrs. Throop's School for Young Ladies. Mrs. Morgan's Private School for Children. These deserve enumeration to show that with our admirable public schools, and the high schools, there is, with tliese, a choice for parents and guardians among the select schools that have still their strong place and their excellent utility. The City Hall. See Frontispiece. Worcester has no great pride in the modest Municipal building but as one thrifty citizen reraai^ked, " It looks a heap better than a pile of city bonds." It was built as a Towr. ETall in 1824, and received an addition of fifty feet in 1841. It became in due time the City Hall in 1848. For many yeai-s its entire upper stoi-y was occupied by what was the largest public hall in this region, the scene of many stirring events. It was the birth place of the old Free Soil Party, and its walls have echoed to the voices of Webster, Sumner, Wilson, Lincoln, and others. It was a gi-eat scene in the old days of the " Cattle Show," as the place of exhibition of marvellous quiUs, miraculous pumpkins, and other wondei's of their time. From time to time, changes and improvements have taken place, chiefly in th'fe interior arrangements. It would be hard to find a City Hall really more cosy and comfortable, though it is not architecturally magnificent. Court Hill. IjET us give you the secret of Main Sti'cet. In the early days it was forced closely in upon the foot of the hill whose crest is Harvai'd Street, by the fact that the whole ai'ca between what is now Main and .'~'unimer Streets was a morass covered with I'ceds, and in the winter a wide skating field, as octo- genarians I'emeraber. Thei'e was no thought that it could or would become di'y and habitable. First comers found a beaver dam and shot beavers at the south of Front Street. Main Street to be dry, had to be high, and this left its west side struc- tures pushed sharply into the hill-side. Thei'e were two places whei'c, to save a steep and impracticable cut, the carriage-way was made to divide at different grades, with a bank wall and railing on the main thoroughfare. One of these TTTEI CITY OF WOECFSTE^. 31 was what used to be occupied as " Nobility Row," cut down and abolished in the erection of the Jonas G. Clark block and 'the Knowles building. The other of these is Court Hill as it exists to-day. Bere, in the early days, was the handsome residence of Isaiah Thomas, and his printing office. The Thomas house is still standing, removed to the rear of the Court House The hrst Court House was built iii 1783, a humble affair near the present brick Court House. A second and larger for the same uses was built in 1751, and about 1800 gave place to the present brick building completed in 1801. It has been enlarged and improved IVom time to time. In 1845 the present stone Court House, the wonder of its time, was built of Quincy granite. Meclianics Hall. When we used to traverse the streets of Worcester, very much brass- buttoned as to our apparel, and with a cloth cap greatly bedizened with braid and tassels, we used to look up with awe at a tall white house, the home of Daniel Waldo. All that we had ever read of David's palace, or the Alhambra paled into insignificance when we imagined the inside splendors of a house so big. Go round on to Waldo Street and you shall see the same great white house now l)Ccomc a modest hotel, yet it looked very large as a jirivate resi- doncc on Main Street. But in 185.'), about thirty years ago, the Waldo palace had to give way before the march of events, and the stately Mechanics Hall took its place, built l)y the Worcester Mechanics Association at a cost of $75,000. It is Justly the pride of Worcester. It is the home of the useful and honorable Worcester County Mechanics Association. Its walls are hung with fine portraits of Washington, Lincoln, Garfield, and Henry Wilson, with the portraits of Washburn, Wheeler, and other eminent citizens of Worcester, and S^ THE CITY OF WORCESTER. W. H. JOURDAN. W. G. STRONG. VV. S. JOURDAN. W. H. JOURDAN & CO.. ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS COAL, Wholesale and Retail. FIRE SAND, CLAY AND BRICK. Offices : 366 Main St., *"^ ^' Yard, Green St. WORCESTER, MASS. JHE SHOWALTER JVIGRTGAGE "QO. SEVEN PER CENT. KANSAS FARM MORTGAGES. Frijicipctl cuxd Trzterest GvLOjrcLTLtead. The Showalter mortgages are perfectly safe. They net the investor 7 per cent. They are guaranteed by a responsible corporation. They cause the purchaser no trouble whatever. They are paid, principal and interest in Boston. They are placed in what is conceded to be the finest agricultural section in the Union. The officers of the Company are familiar with every township in which we place mortgages. In a period of thirteen years, no investor has ever lost one dollar of principal and interest. For particulars inquire of CH AS. B. A^^HITING & CO. OFFICE: 415 MAIN ST., WORCESTER. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 33 I they are continually saying to the good little boys of the heart of the Common- wealth, "Here's your place if you are truly good, and truly great ; here's a reward of merit worth having ; a portrait in our Worcester Valhalla." The main auditorium is one of the finest and largest in the State. Woi-cester Fi-ee Public Librai-y. It is to the loss of every resident of Worcester, whether youth or adult, possessed of the average degree of capacity, if such fail to appreciate and know the great public blessing this city possesses in its Free Public Library. It may seem strange, the expression of a fear lest some such there are, yet be fore now, some citizen has even been advanced to a place of public trust in city affairs, or some office in the gift of the voters of Worcester, and still has not been ashamed to own by act as well as assertion, that he has no appreciation of this great free treasure house of instruction and information The Free Pub- lic Library owes its originating gift and impulse to the late Dr. John Green, of this city, who, in 1859 gave his valuable library, of about 7,000 volumes, in trust to the city ; the collection to be known as the Green Library and used only within the building. The conditions of the gift were tliat the city should erect and maintain suitable quarters for library j^urposcs. Dr. Green's gift, which was valued at -110,000, was followed soon after by a gift of the whole library to the city by the Worcester Library and Lyceum Association. The library building, a snitable structure, as our illustration shows, was built by the city, and finished in 1861, at a cost of •f!ol,000. In 1865 a Free Reading Room was established by a fund of •'i'10,000, the contribution of public spirited citizens. The Green, or Reference Library, the Circulating Library, and the Reading Rooms constitute the Free Public Library of Worcester, at least its 34 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. THE CITY NATIONAL BANK OF WORCESTER, Corner Main and Pearl Streets. Incorporated as a State Bank, 1854. Organized as a National Bank, 1864. Re-organized, June, 1884 CAPITAL, S^ooooo SURPLUS, ^lOO.OOO. President, CALVIN FOSTER. Cashier, HATHANIEL PAIHE. huh DIRECTORS. CALVIN FOSTER, LKWIS BAR\AI{I), L()i;l\(i COKS, WILLIA.M W. UICE, THOMAS M. ROGEIUS, WIIJJAM K. Rlf'E. Til EODOREC. BATES, t^/Lltl|^l^'5l^^-:^W^ AKTHURM. STONE, THOMAS H. GAGE. Asst. Cashier, CHARLES A. WILLIAMS. Book-keeper, FRANK RICHARDSON. DISCOUNT DAY, MONDAY. INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL DEPOSITS. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 35 material outfit. But, as in too many other cases, this equipment would be a locked treasury only for the skill and care with which the LilM-arian and his assistants help the pur[)Oses of such a Library. Tiie mctliods pursued make the collection valuable to all seekers, from the children of our public schools to the wisest and ripest scholar. The city has been wisely lit)eral in its annual appropriations. The total number of volumes is nearly 60,000, with nearly three hundred periodicals in the reading room. The Worcester Free Public Library has a wide reputation both for its excellent collection and for its hand- ling by the Lil)rarian and his assistants. The Countj' Jail For the simjtler days of the early settlement, use was made of some den, cage or strong apartment in some one's private premises. One of these early cages was connected with the rear of Judge Jennison's house, near the present Court House. There was another in the rear of the liin of Deacon Daniel Heywood on the present site of the Bay State [louse. The first public Jail was built on the West side Mf Lincoln Street, near Lincoln Square, in 1733, the northerly part being built to accommodate the jailer and liis family. The building subsequently became the Hancock Arms Inn. In 1753 a new and more pretentious jail structure was l>uilt on Lincoln Square, on the present site of the Dean Block of Mr. Salisbury. This was succeeded in 17S8 by a massive granite structure, quite the pride of the county and one of the won- ders of the Commonwealth in its time. In 1819 a House of Correction, or 36 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. JAMES G. WHITE, 398 IVIain St., Cor. Pearl, Practical Dpholsterer and Draper, Manufacturer of FINE UPHOLSTERED Furniture. :i98 MAIi^J STREET, COR. PEARL HAIR MATTRESSES Made to Order and Made Over. Furniture Repairing In all its Branches. (Up one Alight.) S. R, LELAND & SON, MUSIC DKALKRS, 446 MA^IN STKEKT. CHIOKERING & SONS' WM. KNABE & CO. HALLETT, DAVIS & 00. J. & 0. riSOHER. BEHR BROS. PIANOS. WORCESTER ORGAN CO NEWMAN. ORGANS. REPRESENTATIVES OF ,^9HED /i^ Seven-Octave Pianos from $100 upwards >p Six-Octave Pianos from $25 to Organs from $40 upwards. Melodeons from $15 to $25. We sell on easy Monthly Payments. CHARLE5 MISSENHARTER. X, T 1 1 f CI <'T> T )> \.%J^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ r^ Pianos and Organs rented at low prices. R. Leland & Son, Eclipse," ^fQ d Q ESTE R, and "Ideal." *•., L MASS. Everything in the Musical Line. BAND INSTRUMENTS. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 87 " County House," was built on the site of the handsome structure shown in our illustration. In 1832 it was extended and remodeled after the approve '. system of prison cells, and in 1 800 the Lincoln Square structure was dem( ' ished. A j)ortion of its massive i>ianitc can he seen in the walls of an unj)rc- tenning liusiness l)loclv on tlie North side of Front Street near the viaduct. In 1873 the present jail, up to that time not very striking in proportions, was I'econstructed at an expense of -f 200,000. Union Raili'oad Station. Thk Boston and^Vorccster Railroad was opened to Woicester in 183;"), and found its terminus in the very clioicest heart of the town of Worcester, in Alfred Dwight Foster's garden, where the Worcester Bank Block now stands. This was near Main Street, on the opposite side of which was the noble man- sion of Governor Lincoln. Mr. Foster opened a street and converted his large brick residence into a hotel, perhaps most widely known as the American Temperance House, while Governor Ijincoln also res|)onded to the new era, and made over liis homestead to the march of improvement, and it was best known throughout its earlier years as the Worcester House, now the Lincoln House. The original Worcester Station of the Boston and Worcester accom- 88 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. F. A. HARRINGTON. D. A. HARRINGTON HARRINGTON & BRO., Metropolitan Stables and Shops, St, 33 AND 35 CENTRAL STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. CARRIAGE. T- ACT DRY ! ,! |' U^METROPOUTAN ST A 3 L tTS . , , ii, , jSM-.-.'.a 'B{ ■ Mffl 1 11 -. , -. A- 2^)=-^- ,- o r ^' '!'' IIYERY, HACK, AND BOARDING STABIES. GOOD TJEAMS AT FAIR F RICES. The best of care given to Boarding Horses. Any one wanting Hacks for Parties or Funerals sliould get our prices before engaging elsewhere. OUR OFFKT (^ON.XECTED WITH THE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE. CARRIAGE SHOPS. Repairing of aU kinds at reasonable rates and in a thorongh manner. . We lieep Firsl-Class Workmen, therefore are sure to give satisfaction. PAINTING h. VARNISHING, Also, HORSE SHOEING. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 39 modated also the Norwich and Worcester, which found entrance by the well remembered track across the Common, and also the Providence and Worcester, the latter for a limited period until the completion of the Providence Depot at Green Street. The Foster Street Station was also used by the Nashua road, and was thusfor a time avery genuine "Union Station" in advance of the adop tion of the plan in other towns and cities. In primitive days a bell on a tree, at the corner of Main and Foster Streets, gave warning of the departure of trains. But there was this inconvenience, from the outset, attached to the Foster Street Station. It was strictly terminal, and brought all trains to a final halt, with no other than a reversed movement for exit. Wlicn the Western Railroad was opened from Worcester to Springfield and Albany, it was necessary that the passenger station should be on its line, and this was the beginning of the depot feature of Washington Square, where many re- member the old wooden passenger house. The Union Passenger Station is now one of the most elegant structures of the kind in this country. The building is 250 feet wide and 450 feet long ; its essential cliaractcr being well shown by the illustration we give, wliich shows the West front from which depart trains for the West, also for Norwich and for Providence. The North side of the station, as shown gives tlie place of exit from the building for the trains of the Fitchl)urg and the Boston and Maine. The Union Station was built by the Railway Com()anies in combina- tion, and was formally opened in 1875. 1 1 i "ij III "III lit hfii ^fii A 1 1 1 1 < I u ; 11 • 1 a 1 1 I I ; » 1 1 . The " past at least is secure," is the motto of the American Antiquariah Society. It is fortunate that the past lias had for the period since 1812, such faithful and excellent representatives of collection and conservation as the 40 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. PINKHAM & WILLIS, DEALERS IN Kiiriiiture ^nd Carpets. OFFKR A L^RGE LINE OF o/ telle, :iOO JIA1\ SIHEET. Blani{ Bogies and S^pationei^y. gold pens, stylographic pens, fountaim pens. FOUND AT LAST THE THE BEST FOEi^TAIN PEN MADE. Sure to write every time. For CHRLSMAS GOODS, doift fail to examine the large ASSORTMENT of New and Attractive Goods at 390 MATTSr STRKET. GAZETTE BUILDING. Between Elm and Peail Sts. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 41 Society affords. It is liased on the munificent gifts and far-seeing wisdom of Isaiah Thomas, wlio in the act of incorporation was associated with twenty-five otlier licntlcnien. a hoard wha liave named their own successors. The library now numbers over 10,000 vohimes, and is continually being enriched by valu- able additions. There is also a large collection of antiquities and curiosities, though the literary and bookish feature has been kept piedominant. The view shown gives the front on Main Street, on the corner of Highland, the North access to the public structures is on Couit Hill. ■<-'pm-\ vl'* ir r ^■^w^ __^^^^ _^ ^ 111. _d^^ i jl^X'^''?''J!^W''if ^"«i"*^^ - War-- w^' ^ 91 The City Ho>spital. Ouu illustration of the City Hospital represents an institution of which Worcester may well be proud The buildings, with their appointments, cost nearly $80,000, and are widely known and recognized, in comparison with those other institutions of a like class, as representing the best advanced fruits of hospital service. Tbe hospital was established by city ordinance, passed June 26, 1871, when an api)roi)riation of -"JIO.OOO was made by the municipal government, and the first temporary accommodations were provided in the Bigelow mansion on Front Street. The present permanent (juarters are lo- cated on the munificent Jacques gift of three acres of land on the south side of Prince Street. Mr. Jacques made the gift, for this express purpose, in March, 1872, on conditions with whicli the city has strictly complied. He died in August of the same year, leaving a very large share of his property to the city for hospital purposes. The view shown is the Prince Street front. The medi- cal staff comprises three consulting and twelve visiting physicians. The sec- ond stories are used for paying patients, all others being accommodated iu the public wards. 42 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. WORCESTER, MASS. The Only Theatre in the City, Centrally Located on Exchange St., Adjoining ttie Bay State House. PERFECT IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS CHARLES WILKINSON, SOLE MANAGER AND PROPRIETOR. PllE.SEXTS NONE BUT TICKETS FOR WHICH ARE ALWAYS SOLD AT THE BOX OFFICE Three Days in Advance. Saturday Matinees a Feature. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 43 The Soldiers' Monument. The visitor to Worcester Common will 1)C intcrOstcd to know that this open tract was from the first settlement set apart for meeting-house purposes. At the eastern end the old original huryinLT-trround remains a place of hnrial still, the surface being levelled, and the slabs laid down upon the graves they respectively mark. On the level and smooth turf above these " forefathers of the hamlet," the children play, and the tides of our busiest life el)b and flow through the adjoining streets, while undisturl^ed is the dreamless sleep of those who quietly rest beneath nature's green sod. 44 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. FIRST NATIONAL FIRE mSURAMCE COMPANY. PRESIDENT, ^^'-'^'^'-r ^' ^ mWWE'&M CHAS, B.PRATT, B^^a "^ first V. PRES. & TREAS. R.JAMES TATMAN SECRETARY, GEO. A. PARK. -MA^*^^- ~^>-^> BUILDING NATIONAL BANK 405 MAIN STREET, P^ORCBSTBll. » = « MASS 36 FRONT STREET. CHINA & CROCKERY DEPARTiMENT. Onr Stock Complete! Assortment Large and Attractive. Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Silver Sets, Milk Sets, Plate Sets, Cups and Saucers, Dessert Plates, Toilet Sets, in all the N west Decoratioi s and Shapes. In Vases and Bric-a Brae we have a very large Assortment, worthy the inspection of all. SILVERWARE. Casters, Cake Baskets, Card Baskets, Pickle Knives, Forks, Spoons; many of tlieni in Cases, making Nice Presents. BRASSWARE. Umbrella Stands, Candle-sticks, Smoking Sets, Tea Trays, Crumb Pans, Match Safes, &c., &c. LAMP DEPARTMENT. Our Stock as Large as any in the City; we will except No One. Library Lamps, 50 Styles; Parlor Lamps, 50 Styles; Hall Lamps, Kitchen, Shop, Factory and Store Lamps of all kinds, Lanterns, &c. HOWE'S 36 Front St. TEE CITY OF WORCESTER. 45 No more appropriate place could have been louiid for the Soldier's Monu- ment, erected l)y the city of Worcester in honor of her soldier dead, slain in battle during the Great Rebellion, or victims of the exposures of the war, the prison, the hospital, from privation, wounds or disease. The monnment is a noble and worthy work, executed from the design of Randolpli Rogers of Rome, and the statuary was cast at Municli. The bronze memorial plates carry the names of 397 fallen soldiei's representing Worcester homes. To the South and East of the Soldier's Monument stands tlie white marble monument erected by a descendant of the hero, to the memory of Col. Timothy Bigelow of Revo- lutionary fame, a patriot of his time, notable and noble. This monument though we do not illustrate it, deserves to be coupled in mention with the former as worthy to stand lieside it. For the |)rescnt. tbc Worcester Post OITice occupies a private Itluck, but the accommodations are excellent and pul)lic service well cared for. The pros- pect of an even more centrally located pul)lic buihling, at no distant day. to accommodate the Post Otlice, is very promising. 46 THE CITY OP WORCESTER. -^ 5^ •^ .P=5 ^ f^ !g s-^ OQ ^ ^ 03 ^ ;f=^ P-. <50 o CO CO 03 c5 O o (J X I- z> O UJ QQ O I- Co 2 B- CO J •* DC C/D M i LU Z HH »—• < 4d CD P5 tr; X CN 03 pq 'a u \- '=:!■ 1=1 "13 w z -0 03 OQ EH _l 00 • & LlI I— CO LlI O q: O THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 47 • Shobt Quotations fbom Nathaniel Paint's Random Recollections OP Worcester. Nathaniel Paine contributes to the collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity some account of people and buildings in Worcester forty or more years ago, and by the United States Census of 1840, it appears that Worcester was then a town with a population of only 7497. Many will recall 1840 as a year of great political excitement, occasioned by the presidential campaign of Harrison and Tyler, or as it was called, "Tip- pecanoe and Tyler too," — the days of log cabins and hard cider. The excitement in Worcester, between the two political parties, was in- tense ; and on the 17th of June, Ihe anniversary of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, one of the largest and most exciting political conventions ever held in tlie State took place here. It was called by the Whigs for the purpose of nomina- ting a candidate for Governor, and the choice of presidential electors, " Honest John Davis," of Worcester being nominated by acclamation as the candidate for Governor A log cabin, one hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and a flag-staff, the top of which was about one hundred feet from the ground, were erected on Grove Street, near the Wire Works, about the present location of the Wash- burn & Moen Manufacturing Company's offices, perhaps a little farther South. Cannon were fired and bells of the churches rung in the morning l)efore the opening of the convention. A procession was formed on the Common and streets in the vicinity, and marcliing under a handsome arch erected by the Whigs of the town, passed down Main Street to the log caliin, the buildings along the line of march being decorated with flag.s and l)unting, and the win- dows crowded with spectators. Col. John W. Lincoln was the chief marshal, and headed the procession, which is said to have been over a mile in length, and included delegations from all parts of the State. Log cal)ins drawn l)y horses, and liarrels of cider, were prominent in the procession ; and there were five barouches, each drawn by four horses, for the soldiers of the Revolution. Many of the devices on the banners carried by the various delegations would, perhaps, be of interest to you l)ut I will mention only a few. The Worcester County banner had as a device the arms of the County in ll^A : a deer, with the inotto " Not Slow." Part of the Barrc delegation were on horseback, and were dressed in black coats and white pants, with a log cabin button on their hats as a cockade. Their band was in a stage-coach, with a l)arrel of hard cider on the rack liehind, marked "Oil Korrect." The Sterling and Southbridge delegations had three log cabins, each drawn by six or eight horses. 48 THE CITY OP WORCESTER. Huiiounrcmrnt. Barnard, Sumner & Company, 327 & 329 MAIN STREET. WORCESTER, MASS. WORCESTER Dry Goods and Carpets "ALL THE YEAR ROUND. Depaj'tments Full, Fresh, and Attractive, Popular Low Prices Maintained on all Goods. ,yo Store Undersells its in this City or Boston. Jfo Store Shows a Finer Selection. <§iH[ss Paliin^, tflaali llahintj and IlilliiierD, In Charge of Artists of High Repute. Ladies' Waiting Parlor and Toilet on Second Floor, near the Elevator. Samples Sent with Prices, and Parcels Forwarded hi/ Mail at Trifling Cost MADAME DEMOREST'S PATTERNS. Our Store is greatly improved, by Xeiv Departments, Better Boom and Light, and more Popular and Quick Selling Bargains every Season- To facilitate afternoon shopping our Store is lighted with Electric Lights. BARNARD, SUMNER & CO. THE CITY OF WORCESTEK. 49 Forty-four years ago, there stood a few feet to tlie south of the Worcester Bank Building, the first depot of the Boston and Worcester raih-oad. It was a long wooden Iniilding, very plain externally, and almost equally so in the interior, with an entrance for passengers at the west end, the trains leavino- from the east end. My recollection is, that at first there was no ticket office but that the fare was collected on the train. As late, however, as 1839-40 a ticket office was probably established in the building. What we remember as the Foster street depot was completed in the spring of 1840, the old one being then removed to the south side of the new building, to be used by the Norwich and Worcester railroad. The usual way for foot passengers to go to the depot from Main street, was by a passage way between the building at the corner of Foster street and that occupied by Levi Clapp as a hat store, about where the cigar store of 0. P. Shattuck now is. In the crotch of an elm tree west of the depot and near the Clapp store, was suspended a bell, to be rung befoi-e the departure of trains. This practice of calling attention to the time trains were to start by ringing a bell was kept up for many years after the second depot was erected. BUSINESS OF MAIN STREET, BETWEEN FOSTER AND MECHANIC STREETS IN 1840. No. 207. f Blanchard & Lesure 18.39 ( Emory Washburn 1840 I Lesure & Wygant 1840 No. 202. ] Charles W. Hartshorn 1840 205. { F. VV. Eaton & Co 1841 ( I- M. Barton . I J. P Southgate & Co 18.38 ^ j. p, ^ettell * Co 1835 203. I W.D.Lewis 1839 1 J B.' Tyler & Co. .:: i: :: i." :: ! :i841 201. Lakin&Bemis 1840 " ' 1 J. H. Hickett 1841 , „ I M. B. Green fH.Sabin&Co 18.38 )„ Trni k i ,c,« 199. Leonard* Tyler 1839 H. II. Chamberhn 839 1 J B Tvler & Co 1840 ' •^- F'^t^her 1?40 (J. ti. lyiercv. co i»4U ^^^^ j j^ Uartwell 1840 1Q., 5 E. F. Dixie* Co 1840 I ^- ^^- Mann* Co ^^'•1 Caleb Newcomb I J- II- Everett (JamesH. Wall 1840 ^^«- William Lincoln 1836 195. ? William Coe 104 I Francis Blake 1836 (John Warden 1841 " ' ( Bufman * Burt 1842 1^3 ^ ^ n !>i 00 ^B, o C •-a ^1 ■u> c8 a r a ■ « •"" " II ^ .,-■ u 1 -:2 ^ be 1/ , ,t^ CO m *r^ « ■4~> 1^ (I ^ P5 ^ r. o Eii -t-> CO ^ J? C © .1— < H<^> 'T2 ■4-3 0) o m as S > H CD o <4i •2 u a o < s c 3 o a O a o a; 3 w i 'O o ai ^ ^ ■^ p^ o •1-3 1-G > r^ ^^ ce £!( ns c .bjo J-l r^ te-l u o CO '3 ^ c3 'S & a CO ce & aJ •"■ 'TS a" Oi ti r^ O © P;, ^ 3 ■ri 1-^ . ^ cS ^ -«— • OJ H a 'S a -4^ W 05 W m U3 v('r to ncid niiidi snid idiout tlicni. tliev are acknowledged l»y all dealers and sportsmen to he the liest gmi of the kind in the market. Our new Antomatic Shell- I'jecting Double-Action Revolver is the most complete arm of its kind in the market Its sym- metery, excellence of workmanship, and ease of manipulation, are a marvel of success. Send for Price-Lists and ('ircnlni-s. Address, FOREHAND & WADSWORTH. \V(ji{(;es'1'ku, ma.s.s. 52 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. FDRNITDRE! BEDDING! CARPETS! Have resumed Business in the New and Elegant PARLORS, CHASE BUILDING, 44 FRONT ST., \ Doors west of liiion Churcli, Mnd over the BAY STATE CLOTHING CO., W'liere they will be [)repared to serve all their old patrons and lots of new ones and make low prices for any goods wanted to furnish any room in the house or office. Having a landlord who demands NO BENT THIS WINTER, we shall give our patrons the benefit of the very low prices we can afford to make in consequence. OUR OLD STOCK, after the fire on our premises, being so badly damaged as to be luifit for the trade, was disposed of at auction, and wc resume business with an entire new stook. LIBRARIES, DINING-ROOMS, KITCHENS, CHAMBERS, OFFICES, FURNISHED AT VERY LOW PRICES, FOR CASH, OR EASY TERMS OF PAYMENT. N. A. HARKIJSraTON, Fire Insurance Agency. Policies written in the best Stock and Mutual Companies, AT THE LOWKST POSSIBLK RATES, ALL LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. ROOM 15 CLARK'S BLOCK. 492 MAIN ST., WORCESTER, MASS. TAKE THE ELEVATOR. THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 53 years ago. A Mr. Stratton also had a clock store in the basement, with an entrance from Foster Street. On the Main Street front was a double portico, giving the house quite an imposing appearance. LIST OF TAVERNS IN WORCESTER IN 1837, WITH THE NAMES OF THEIR LANDLORDS. Lincoln Square Hotel, J. Fessenden. 1839, Nathaniel Stearns. Summer Street House, Samuel Banister. Exchange Coffee House, Samuel B. Thomas. Eagle Hotel, David Bonney. 1840, George Hobbs. Central Hotel, Zorrester Bonney. American Temperance House, Eleazer Porter. 1840, R. W. Adams. Worcester House, Lysander C. Clark. 1840, Henry Gould. United States Hotel, William C. Clark. Washington Square Hotel, William R. Wesson. As we came from Foster Street to Main Street, we should see as now on our right, and nearly opposite the Temperance House, the block erected by Benjamin Butman, known as Brinley Block. In the third story was a hall to which the same name as that of the block was applied ; this for many years was the most desirable and popular place in town for lectures, concerts, exhi- bitions and dances. Here were held the famous cattle show balls, for many years considered as an important auxiliary to the show, which were attended by the elite of the town and prominent visitors who came to take part in the agricultural exhibi- tion of the day. The hall was, to my mind, much handsomer than it is at pres] ent. Then the large wooden pillars on each side of the room gave it a very imposing appearance ; the floor, too, was laid on springs, thus making it especially desirable for dancing. In 1840 the Spy advertised as on exhibition at Brinley Hall, a grand mov- ing diorama of " Washington Crossing the Delaware;" "The Garden of Eden before the Fall, in which Adam and Eve were discovered before the Tree ol Knowledge," (fee. " Fowls of the air, aquatic birds and beasts, pass and repass, all giving life and helping to adorn this scene of domestic happiness." The " Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown " was also exhibi- ted here with realistic etTects. This, I remember, was highly ajjpreciatcd by the more youthful meml)ers of the audience. It was, probal)ly, this exhibition that Mr. John B Gough refers to in his interesting autobiography; from which it seems he was an important auxiliary in producing tlie dioramic elTccts. He says: "One part of my business was to turn the crank in bringing on the troops in the Battle of Bunker Hill;" another part " was to lie on my back duringthc bombardment of Charlestown, and while one man worked the figures at the guns, I was, at a signal, to aj)ply a match to some powder I held on a piece of tin, for the flash, when another man struck the big drum for the report; often the report came before the flash, and sometimes no flash at all." 54 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. MRS, E. K. MORGAIST'S PRIVATE SCHOOL, 25 ELM STREET. P^or Children from -4 to 14 years old. BEST METHODS, THOROUGH TEACHING. s iyn-)r)a slics Id raw r)C| rorr) (fJoiccls. and I lair) Ocwv*! ijCClS. UNDER COMPETENT INSTRUCTORS. SCHOOL OPEN TO VISITORS ON WEDNESDAYS. n^' REFERENCES MRS. WM. H. MORSE. MRS. G. HENRY WHITCOMB. KEV. C. M. LAMSON. MR. CHAS. A. CHASE. MRS. NEWELL TURNhR. MRS. H. M WITTER. DR. A. P. MARBLE. MR. ELLIS PETERSON, of BostOIl. ESTABLISHED 1815. ^• ^ M ' % PUBE DRUGS AND MEDICIMES. FINE TOILET ABTICIES 223,000 prescriptions, Now on File. m #" « ^ " o^^^%> ^e.^' ^\€,^ ^-^^V"^'" SvnC ,oe^ ,o<^^° PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINE. CHOICE PERFUMERY. PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. ©reac^ (#n^tlfufe ^or ^oung "bailie):^. Established in 1848 JOHN ALDEN THAYER, . Principal. School opens, Sept. i6. First Tenn ends, Dec 2 C A.IL.'BIISTID A.~R 1886 87. Second Term begins, Jan. 6. Third I'erms begins, -April 7 " ends, M. arch 30. Commencement, June 8. For Boarding-Pupils, including board, use of furnished room, light, heat, washing (12 plain pieces of clothing, 4 toilet napkins and 4 towels, 2 pillow-cases, and i sheet,) and tuition in all studies of course (modem' languages alone accepted) together with church sitting, use of reading-room, library and lectures, for school year, $350. Tuition for Day Scholars, per year, $75. Tuition for Day Scholars, per year, college preparatorj', $100. French, per year, $30.00. German, per year, $30.00. Music, Vocal, (one lesson a week) $60.00. Music, Instrumental, (one lesson a week,) $60 00. Painting, (per lesson,). $1.00. 1^^ Bills payable in advance at the beginning of each term. Al tffcitr.l (.cijs EfNin tcEclers employed. Building heated by steam, and well furnished. Improved sanitary arrange- n Ills li.At Ittn ii lucLttd. A quiet, chttrfvil and beautiful heme. Easy of accesi from all parts of the city or country. TBE CITY OF WORCESTER. 55 Turning to the south on Main Street, at our right was the Worcester House, with a circular driveway loading to the portico witli its large wooden pillars, ami a yai'd in liont filled with horse chestnuts and othei' sliade trees. On the south side were beautiful large elms, the last of which was rcnuivcd a few years ago by Mr. James II. Wall, then the owner and landlord of the Wor- cester House. Many years later the late Oovernor Levi Ijincoln came into possession of the property and erected a brick dwelling house, occupying it for several years until he built the Ijiucolu mansion on Elm Street, now owned by Ids grandson, Mr. Waldo Lincoln. In 1>i-4 the Maripiis dc Lafayette was the guest of. Judge Lincoln in this house, as were afterwards many other distinguished men, who undoubtedly ap|»reciatcd the generous hos))itality for which their host was no- ted. Tln' house and srrounds immediately surrounding it came into ihe bands of David T. iirigham about the year 183o, who converted it into a hotel, and he was lor a time its landlord. He added winiis on each side of the house, as shown in the large lithogiaph of the Worcester House |iublishe^OPTIGIANS^ A.dapt GMasses after an Examination of the Eye* DIFFICULT EYES A SPECIALTY. Satisfaction guaranteed. Artificial Human Eyes inserted and made to order. RBMB.MBRR THE PL..4CE. 33Q l>^^liOL St., T77"orcester, ^vCo^ss. I. H. STOCKWELL W T. PRATT. 338 USE PROPER GLASSES. 338 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 57 STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. t= '.^ 9' 1 l!^ 5 M A-t^ fT-: ..iil.l H It^Wf'i ) COMPANY'S BUILDING, 240 MAIN STREET. ORGANIZED (845. The policy holders constitute the Company, own its assets, and, by officers of its own election, manage its affairs. All its polices are Protected from forfeiture by a statute of the State. Its accumulated funds exceed by more than a million and a half dollars the combined capital stock of all the seven National l>anks in Worcester. All policies issued by this Comj^any participate in the annual dividends of surplus. Life Rate endowment policies are issued at all insurable ages. Cash Surrender and Paid Up Values fixed by the Laws of Massachusetts. A. G. BULLOCK, President. H. M. WITTER, Secretary. 68 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. Wasburn & Moen Manufacturing Company. For over fifty years the manufacture of wire has been one of the industries of Worcester. The story has often been told of the founder of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, the late Tchabod Washburn, wliose attempt to help realize what was then itself only a half developed industry, the manufacture of wood screws, led him forward into equal steps of advance in the ])roduction of iron wire. Up to that time wire had been drawn by a slow and expensive process, which prevented the extensive use of the article. These Worcester improvements and inventions brought machine drawing to perfec- tion. To show the perfection even of the early process, it may be said that Mr. Washburn and Mr. Chickering worked together for the production in Worcester of the piano wire that made the first fame of the Chickering piano. The demand for wire for electric purposes waa met l)y Worcester wire, and for the whole period since tlie introduction of the telegraph in this country Wash- burn & Moen wire has held foremost place. For another extensive employ- ment in a wire utility, the use of wire for fencing purposes deserves to be mentioned. There are now in the United States nearly a million miles of barb wire fence, about one-fifth of the whole amount of field fence in use, and for this also this company's product, and the patents held by them, has secured to them one of their large specialties. Beyond these two principal classes of product there are upwards of one hundred varieties of wire contributing to other manufactures. A few years ago a marked impetus was given to the wire business by the adaptation of Bessemer, or a low steel , to a multitude of the uses for which iron had been employed, and steel wire of all varieties has become a very large product in these works. For many years the wire employed in the telegraph service was. as for a very large share of the equipment it still remains, a very carefully manufactured article of iron, the best known to the trade as E. B. B. But with the adoption of higher speed and multiplied systems of transmission, and especially for the telephone, the demand has grown up for hard drawn copper wire, or wire that is not annealed after drawing. This is seemingly a return to first principles, indeed, for Morse's first telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore was built of copper wire. But in its earlier employment the copper wire of the time proved too weak for the strain to which it was subjected. By modern processes copper wire has become indispensable in a very large part of electric service, and is exclusively used in the electric light. The Washburn ^, Hrnyer l^oolc^^ nn(l H \'i i 1 1 itil^^. 389 MAIN STREET. , . WORCESTER, SpeciiiKMi Pages from WIDE AWAKE. VOL. 2 2. MAY, 1886. NO. 6. THE CENTURY PLANT, To a Child. IN my garden grows a plant Very stiff and very stately, And its curving leaves I grant That my eyes admire greatly. But though 1 may watch and wait All the years that God shall send me, Watch it early, tend it late, Not a bloom that jDlant shall lend me. Once within a hundred years Doth it burst to blossom only, And forgotten will be tears, And no more shall 1 be lonely, All delight in earthly bloom Will be less than nothing to me, When those splendid flowers perfume All the walks and haunts that knew me. /qU'Vv/I^jL So I tind my love is more For the rose that blossoms yearly, Than for all the hidden store That this stately plant holds dearly. Better is it, child, to show Daily love and tender sweetness, Than to hide in deeps below All that gives your life completeness. Better far to fill the air With a common, fragrant pleasure, Than to stand aloof and rare With an unseen glowing treasuri . Bloom to-day, and if the frost Shall to-morrow nip your beauty, Then \ ou will not, dear, ha\c lost All that lies in active duly. Yet, if God commands you, wait With a splendor in you growing. Stand with meekness in your state Till the bud is ripe for blowing. BRAVE LITTLE AHi\i> LITTLE AH MOW'S FIGHT WIIH THE WOLVES LITTLE AH MOW was an Eskimo l)oy about ten years old, who lived with his parents on the bleak shores of northern Hudson's Bay. The Eskimo call themselves Innuits in their own language, and the particular tribe to which Ahmow belonged were Iwillik Innuits, so called from i-wick, the Eskimo for walrus, because they lived almost altogether upon walrus. During eight or nine months of the year, when the ice is along their shores, they hunt and kill the walrus on the outer edge of the ice-floe which is the great wide strip of ice frozen fast to the shores and heldby the islands and reefs here and there — or on the ice-pack, which is the floating cakes of ice that have broken off from the floe during storms. During: the short Arctic summer of two or three months, when the ice is all gone, they hunt them on the islands that lie thickly off the mainland and in the waters near them ; for the walrus is a huge animal that loves the water and lives in it nearly altogether, leaving it only to bask in the sun on a small island or near the edge of a cake of ice. When a walrus is secured by the Eskimo, its meat is sewed up in its own hide, to prevent the dogs from eating it up ; and it is a good protection, for to bite through the thick skin is like trying to bite through a piece of rubber belting. The walrus oil saved — about a barrelful for each animal — was formerly sewed up in sealskin bags and covered with large stones to protect it from the dogs, wolves. 212 LITTLE ALLMOW'S 1'' I G IL T U'lTLf T LI L: JVOLVES. and foxes ; but as wlialemen have conic among them, and ships have been wrecked on their ice- bound coasts, they have saved the large casks, hold- ing four and five barrels, and now fill these with oil. Although this oil is got in the summer, as I have said, it is only needed in the winter when they are living in houses of snow and burn ilic oil in their lamps to warm them. So the casks generally remain on the islands until the ice forms to them, and over this they ride merrily on their sledges to get it from time to time. It was in winter when little Ahmow's father hitched up his sledge-team of six or eight fine dogs at the village where they where living, intending to go to an island some ten or twelve miles distant and get a cask or two of oil for the lamp, and some of the walrus meat and some hide to feed to the dogs. Ahmow's father, Nantwok by name — which means the polar bear, for the Eskimo are named like our Western Indians, after animals, birds, or incidents of their lives — had intended at first to go alone ; but his little boy begged so hard to go — and they humor their boys so in all their wishes — that his father promised him that he might. So Ahmow wrapped himself up in his new reindeer suit that his mother had just completed for him from the reindeer skins his father had secured in the fall, for it was a very cold day out-of-doors, al- though the Eskimo seldom notice the cold, however intense it may be, unless the wind is blowing sharp from the direction in which they want to travel. He helped his father, as all Eskimo children are very fond of doing, with such aid as he could in preparing for the journey. He brought water in a sealskin bucket, and with his father put a thick coating of ice on the bottom of his sledge runners so that they would glide over the snow smoothly. He helped catch the dogs and harness them and tie them to the sledge ; and when this was done ran into the snow-house — or rather crawled in on his hands and knees, so low is the door — and got his father's whip and their lunch to eat while they were gone. Then both of them jumping on the sledge, the long whiplash was cracked over the backs of the dogs and away they went on as merry a ride as any young fellow would wish to take, whether Eskimo or civilized boy. On they went at this fast gait for two or three miles. Then the dogs were allowed to drop down to a pleasant trot, a gait they will keep up all dav with a light sledge when a number arc harnessed to it. Once or twice the dogs threw their noses in the air and sniffed the breeze. Then Nannook would take one dog, the best hunter, out of the sledge, and the dog's nose would lead him to a seal-hole in the ice. Here the two would wait a few minutes, and if the seal did not come to "blow" (which means to get its breath, the first gasp or two being quite loud), they would resume their sledge jour- ney. One seal came up to breathe while they were watching it, and Ahmow's father caught it with his seal spear, just to instruct his little boy in the way ■ a ESKIMO WALRUS SPEAR. a b — wooden handle. a c — walrus ivory lance. e — sealskin line extending to h — barbed head. When ready for use the ivory lance is " bent on " to the wooden handle, and the head placed on the end c ; all held in a straight line by the line e passed over the pin /. When the head is driven under the skin of an animal, a twist is given the spear which breaks off at c and a, the wood and ivory falling away, and nothing but the line is left in the hands of the hunter. of hunting and catching them. The hole in the snow where the seal breathes is not' much larger than a dime or quarter of a dollar ; so you can .see that the dog's keen nose is needed to find so small an affair among vast fields of ice. The seal was thrown on the sledge, and they were off again for the island with its oil-casks. When they were very near to it, what should they see spring up from its side, where he had evidently been prowling around the oil-casks and meat-cairns (huge stones piled over the meat) to get a meal, but a huge polar bear that made off across the ice to escape. Nannook leaned forward and,by a single pulling on a strap, let loose the whole team of dogs. They soon brought the polar bear to bay, sitting up on his haunches fighting them, and here they remained till Nannook came up with his gun, and with a single effectual shot killed the great animal. He was soon skinned, the meat from his carcass put in a stone cairn for dog-food in the future. ^^^ Cfggj'jgjgj g^iM/^^J^^^H^^^^ ilK starlings fly in the windy sky, The rabbits run out a-row, The pheasants stalk in the stubble dry As I tramp through the evenglow, — As I tramp, tramp, tramp, and grow More weary with every stride, And think, as the riders come and go,- If I had a horse to ride ! HE farmer trots by on his roadster high. The 'Squire on his pony low. Young Miss sweeps out from the Park-gate And canters away with her beau : They are proud of themselves, — oh, no! But couldn't I deal in pride, And couldn't I too cut a dash and show, If I had a horse to ride ! HK farmer is four limes as fat as 1, The 'Squire he is blind and slow, Young Miss has not nearly so bright an eye As Bess at the " Barley Mow " ; — Ah, \\(jiil(ln'l I cry "Gee-hup, gee-ho ! " And woukhi'l 1 bang his side, And wouldn't 1 teach him to gallop it, though, If I had a horse to ride ! !Il^ il il' o^~ :/^,. 1 1 was only a Beggar that grumbled so. As his blistered feet he plied ; But I he cry is a cry that we all of us know.- JJ I had a horse to ride .' ^'''<'f% ^^ LyCCC*c^m. '.*d^ HEIGH-HO for the bath-tub sea, Heigh-ho, heigh-ho ! Both of the faucets are running free And the waters rush and flow. And there is Ted, and there is Tim, And they watch it filling to the brim. Each one ready to set afloat On this wonderful tide a boat. Now Ted is neither perch nor trout, And he cannot swim, But more like an eel he flounders about, And cries, and calls to Tim ; And Tim, the sturdy little man. Tugs at him, pulls him best he can. Till dripping at eyes and nose and ears Ted's woe-gone face appears. 'Tis a forbidden play, 'tis true. They know that well ; But mamma's away, and there's nothing to do. And who is there to tell ? So here they launch the baby's shoe, And here sails mamma's rubber too. And here, at length — oh my! — goes Ted, Head-first, heels-over-head ! Now who, when mamma comes, will tell The dreadful news ? If not the little boy that fell, Why, then, his stockings and shoes ! His new suit, too, will tell it plain. And his drenched curls tell it over again ; And I half suspect she will see the traces Of tears on both their faces. A CHRISTMAS GREETING, 1 PUTNAM, DAVIS & CO., IVOEY GOODS. BEASS GOODS. BASKETS. I'ai'icr Knives, Iiiksiiiiids, WoVcii Rush, I'apcr Wcii^hls, Thcrniomclcrs, Birch IJark, Pen Racks, Candle Slicks, Crlobc Baskets, Seals, &c. Papec KniVes, &c. Lapy;e iSf Small. Maine, Todd & Bard Gold Pens a Specialty. CROSS STYLOGRAPHIC PENS. 889 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER. BABYLAND. rj 1886. 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By Charles Egbert Craddock, author of " The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," " Down the Ravine,'' etc. A dramatic serial of boy life in the Cireat Smokies, with new scenes and new characters, among the latter a jolly vouni; mountaineer who sings original dialect songs full of wild humor. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Romulus and Remus. By Charles Remington Talbot. This story is not a tale of ancient Rome ; instead, it is modern high comedy. Full of mirthful surprises. So far as known, the first strictly humoious serial prepared ."^or a young folks' magazine. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. M(mtezunms Gold Mines. By Fred A. Ober, author of "The Silver City." This serial of romantic adventure is based on Mr. Ober's own search for the lost gold mines of Montezuma, which are firmly believed in Mexico to be still in existence, their precise locality a guarded secret among one or two tribes of mountain Indians, who inherit the precious knowledge, handing it down in turn to their children. The hero of the story is "John North," the hero of "The Silver City," and the serial opens on the mysterious island of Cozumel. The story has been written to satisfy the incessant demand and unappeas- able desire of the readers, old as well as young, of "The Silver City." Illustrations by Ily. Sandham. The Secrets at Roseladies. By Maiy Hartwell Catherwood, author of " Rocky Fork," and " Old Caravan Days." It is enough, perhaps, to n veal here, of Pen Bidgood, and Willie Bidgood, and "Sister" l^idgood, and little Ilonora Jones, and Aquilla Jones, anl beautiful Sarah Roseladies, and Dan Marsh of the house-boat, that one of their secrets concerned the secrets of the Indian Mounds on the Lower Wabash. Illustrations by W^ A. Rogers. Howling Wolf and His Tnck-Pon}^ little Indian boy in search of the lost " medicine" of the Utes. An enchanting serial for Tittle Folks, which the bi will equally enjoy. Illustrations by 11. F. Farny, and from photographs. By Mrs. Lizzie IV. Champney. The hair-breadth adventures of a bri lit f. ' Bird-Talk. By ]\Trs. A. D. T. Mliitney. For some time Mrs. \\'hitney has been making a study of wild birds and their individual song expression ; and from that study comes now a delici group of poems, each descriptive of a bird and its haunts, and each including a metrical rendering of that bird's si based on the true vowel sounds in the notes of its melody. 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I'.olton's " little biographies " of successful American men, under the title "How Success is Won," many jiarents rec|uested that a series about successful women be prepared for their daughters ; in accordance are given now tiie examples of a dozen bright, strong, and prosperous women ra/io havr succeeded '\\\ their chosen work. Twelve papers, with portraits. Wonder- Winos, Mellanoonos, Colossii, and Others. By C. F. I/older, of the X. \'. Central Park .Museum of Natural History. Twelve iK^Jvel-chaptcrs of ar.inial life, as true as strange. Illus- trations h\- f. Carter Beard. \ \^Annn- PrinrP nf TAmmPrrP By .9../,/.,. /?. //,//v;/.. Commercial counsel. A .\ 1 ULlll^ 1 1 lilLC Ui V^UlllllldLU. well-known authority and writer on business practice and commercial usages has written for the young folks a serial story of a boy's career, from a penniless youth to a young millionaire, as valuable as it is exciting and inspiring, showing that ledgers, stocks and bonds are as romantic and potent weapons in the hands of a young man with a knightly soul as ever were lance and shield in the days of old. The girls too come in for a good share of the young "prince's" honor, and the story shows how many business ventures are made successful by the tender "power behind the throne." Twelve chapters, with forms, laws and usages. Onr \ Ql'ntlV r'miQlllQ ^^-^' "'^^''^- ^ ^^- ^^""''^'''"-'^ ^^^ Eastern traveller. Entertaining and in vyLli ^YoiclLiL V^vJUolllo. structive. Studies of our kindred in the far fatherland of the race, trac- ing the relationships and delineating ihe great family traits. With many illustrations. Wn^/'Q \r\ T)n ^llTinrrQ By various authors. Practical handiwork for young folks. The new \\ tlVo LU iJ\J 1 illll^Jo. scries of these popular papers will open with a delightful needlework article, " Baby's Shoe," by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, io hz followed h\ Mrs. Annie Sattyer Do-wns' Tind Amanda B. Harris'' instructions (two articles), " TIow to Write a Ccmposition." OeaiCn'vJUeStlOnS ni Ijieelv nlStOiy. FayAdSms. The value everywhere set upon the past two years' work with Search-Questions in Literat.ire, and the cordial help afforded to the young "search- ers " by librarians, professors, editors, and literarians throughout the country, have led to a broad and careful plan for Historical Search-Questions which shall extend through several years' Readings, thus giving "searchers" a systematic survey of the great Historical Periods. Each year's work comi)rises Answers to twelve sets of questions, of twen'y ques- tions each. 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Lothrop and Company announce that, leading in the great literary movement toward lower prices, and large sales, they have made, without reducing quantity or quality, an extraordinary reduction in the price of Widk Awakk, the best illustrated young folks' magazine, looo quarto pages and 500 original pictures yearly, and will now receive subscrip- tions at the former wholesale price of onlv ?2..(o a year. D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY, Publishers, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. THE CLOCKS OF KENIL W O R T H . " The clocks we?-e stopped at the ha liquet- hour." AN ivy spray in my iiand I hold, The kindly ivy that covers the mould Of ruined halls ; it was brought to me From Kenilworth Castle, over the sea — O, Ivy, Ivy, I think of that Queen, Who once swept on her way through the oak walls green. To Kenilworth, far in the gathering glooms, Her cavalcade white with silver plumes. They are gone, all gone, those knights of old, With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, And thou dost cover their castle's mould., O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true I O, Ivy true, O, Ivy old. The great clocks stare on the cups of gold Like dreadful eyes, and their hands pass on The festive minutes, one by one. — " Dying — dying," they seem to say — " This too — this too — shall pass away," And the knights look up, and the knights look down, And their fair white brows on the great clocks frown. They are gone, all gone, those knights of old, With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. And thou dost cover their castle's mould, O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true ! O, Ivy, Ivy — I see that hour. The great bell strikes in the signal-tower, The banners lift in the ghostly moon. The bards Provenc^al their harps attune, The fiery fountains play on the lawns. The glare of the rocket startles the fawns, The trumpets peal, and roll the drums. And the Castle thunders, " She comes, she comes ! " They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. And thou dost cover their castle'' s mould, O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true.' On the dais the Queen now stands — and falls A silence deep on the blazing halls ; She opes her lips — but, hark ! now dare The clocks to beat in the stillness there ? — "Dying — dying," they seem to say — " This too — this too — shall pass away ! " And the Queen looks up, and with stony stare The high clocks look on the proud Queen there. They are gofie, all gone, those knights of old. With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, And thou dost cover their castle^ s mould, O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true! But hark ! the notes of the culverin ! To the Castle's portal, trooping in, A thousand courtiers torches bear. And the turrets Hame in the dusty air. The Castle is ringing, " All hail ! all hail ! " Ride slowly, O Queen ! 'mid the walls of mail. And now let the courtliest knight of all Lead thy jewelled feet to the banquet hall ; A thousand goblets await thee there. And the great clocks lift their faces in air. They are gone, all gone, those knights of old, With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, And thou dost cover their castle's mould, O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true ! Then the dark knights say, " What is wanting here ? " " That the hour should last " — so said a peer. " The hour ^//(///last ! " the proud earl calls ; " Ho ! Stop the clock-^ in the banquet halls ! " And the clocks' slow pulses of death were stilled. And the gay earl smiled, and the wine was spilled. And the jewelled Queen at the dumb clocks laughed, And the flashing goblet raised and quaffed. They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, And thou dost cover their castle's mouldy O, Ivy, Ivy, kincf and true ! THE CLOCKS OF KENILU'ORTH. 307 lluL time went on, thouf^h the clocks were dead ; ( )'er the dewy oaks rose the morning red. The earl of that sun-crowned castle died, And never won the Queen for his bride, And the Queen grew old, and withered, and gray, And at last in her halls of state she lay On her silken cushions, bejewelled, but poor, And the courtiers listened without the door. They arc gone ^ all gone, those knights of old. With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. And thou dost cover their castle's mould, O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true ! O, Ivy true, as they listen there. On the helpless Queen the great clocks stare. And over and over again they say, " This too — this too — shall pass away." And she clasps the air with her fingers old, And the hall is shadowy, empty and cold. " Life ! life ! " she cries, " my all would I give For a moment, one moment, O, Time, to live ! They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. And thou dost cover their castle's mould, O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true .' The twilight Hushes the arrased hall. The Night comes still, and her velvet pall Of diamonds cold drops from her hand, And still as the stars is the star-lit land. Men move like ghosts through the castle's rooms, But the old clocks talk 'mid the regal glooms: — " Dying — dying," tliey seem to say. Till the astrals pale in the light of day. They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. And thou dost co-'cr their castle's mould, O, It'V, T-'W kind and true ! On her crownless brow fell white her hair. And she buried her face in lier cushions there : " One moment ! " — it echoed througli the hall, ])Ut the clock stopped not on the arrased wall. There is a palace whose dial towers Uplift no record of vanishing hours, Di.sease comes not to its doors, nor falls Death's dusty step in its golden halls. And more than cnnuns, or castles old. 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