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WORCESim 
 
 WORCESTFLR, the second city of Massachusetts and "The Heart of the 
 Conunonvvealth," with a popidation of over lOOOOO, occupies a pleasant hill-girt 
 site near the Blackstone River. Its manufactures are of a most heterogeneous 
 character, the staples being iron, copper, and steel wire, machinery, envelopes, boots and 
 shoes, organs and pianos, to a total annual value of ;?5o, 000,000. 
 From the imposing Union Station, designed by H. H. Richardson, the visitor proceeds through 
 Front .Street to the Common, which contains a War Monument and a memorial of Col. Timothy Bige- 
 lovv. On the west side of the Common rises the City Hall, an imposing building of white marble, com- 
 pleted in 1S98. This faces Main Street. Following Main Street to the left we may see the Court-Housc 
 and the building of the American Antiquarian Society. This society, one of the leading learned 
 bodies of America, was founded m 181 J and possesses a valuable library of over 100,000 volumes and 
 an interesting collection of relics. The collection of newspapers, comprising oxer 40CO volumt.^, 
 extends from the Bostoji Ncivs Letter of 1704 down to the present day. In Salisbury Street is the Wor- 
 cester Art Museum, erected, at a cost of $100,000, by Mr. Stephen Salisbur\-, and opened in 1898. 
 Among its permanent contents are oil paintings, engravings, and ca.sts. Loan exhibitions are held 
 here from time to time. 
 
 Following Salisbury Street we come to a huge stone that marks the spot where once stood tlie 
 home of George Bancroft, the father of American History. Following Main Street to the left from the 
 Common, we pass the imposing new Post-office and reach Clark University, opened in 1887 and 
 intended rather for the endowment of research than for ordinary educational purposes. Among tl.e 
 other buildings of interest are the Free Public Library with 80,000 volumes, the High School, the 
 Natural Historical Society's Museum, the Polytechnic Institute, the Oread Institute, and the College 
 of Holy Cross, commandingly situated on Mt. St. James, to the south of the city. Among the 
 most pleasant excursions from Worcester is that to Lake Quinsiganiond, a popular resort two miles to 
 the east, reached by electric trolley. The views in this book are arranged, as far as possible, in the 
 order mentioned in the description. 
 
 J. MURRAY JORDAN, PUBLISHER, 
 1438 SOUTH PENN SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA. 
 
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 1438 S. PENN SQUARE 
 PHILADELPHIA