Glass Book COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT / MASSACHUSETTS JUSTIN WINSOR. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, & CO. 1882. Copyright, 1882, By Justin Winsor. MASSACHUSETTS. An Indian name originally applied to a small hillock, bordering on Boston harbor, and thence to a neighbor- ing tribe of Indians. It is the chief political division of New England, and one of the original thirteen States of the American Union. It lies for the most part between 40° and 42° 45' north latitude, and 70° 30' and 73° 30' west lono-itude. 'to' Physical Desckiption. — Its area of about 7,800 square miles, forms in the main a parallelogram, of 160 miles east and west, 50 miles north and south, — with a projection at the southeast and a lesser one at the northeast, which gives a breadth of 90 miles at this part, where it borders upon the ocean, while the general irregularity of this coast-line gives a sea-frontage of about 250 miles. 'No large navigable river flows in any part, though the Connecticut River, bisecting the State during 50 miles of its course, and fed within it by sev- eral lateral streams, has been made navigable for small craft. The Housatonic, a lesser stream, flows parallel with the Connecticut, farther west. The two valleys are separated by the Hoosac Range (1,200 to 1,600 feet high) of the Berkshire Hills, a part of the Appalachian system, and a continuation of the Green Mountains of Vermont. These, with the Taconic Range on the western side of the Housatonic Valley, of which the highest peak is Greylock, or Saddleback (almost 3,500 4 MASSACHUSETTS. feet), in the extreme northwest corner of the State, form the only considerable elevated land. Bordering on the Connecticnt, Monnt Tom, (1200 feet) and a few other hills form conspicuons landmarks. Wacluisett (2,018 feet), farther east, rises from a level country. The Blue Hills in Milton are the nearest ele^'ation to the coast, and are conspicuous to navigators approach- ing Boston. The Men-imac runs for 35 miles throuorh the north- east corner of the State, and affords valuable water- power at Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill. A few small streams, useful for mill purposes and irrigation, seek the ocean through Boston, Buzzard's, and Nar- ragansett Bays, running for the most part through a rolling conntry. The southeast parts of the State are level, — with a slightly elevated ridge (Manomet) south of Plymonth, — sandy in soil, with tracts of forest, largely white pine, and well watered by ponds. Be- tween Plymouth and Buzzard's Bay there is the most considerable region of untamed soil in the State, where deer are occasionally seen. South of Cohasset the shore is sandy, with a few isolated rocky ledges and bowlders. About Boston, and to the north of it, the shore is rocky and picturesque. Massachusetts Bay is a name now applied to the gulf of which the outer limits are Cape Cod and Cape Ann ; but in early days it was applied to the enclosed lesser bay on its western side, now called Boston Harbor, the finest roadstead on the coast. The extreme hook of the Cape Cod peninsula forms Provincetown Harbor, which is an excellent and capacious port of refuge for vessels approaching Boston. Salem Harbor is the most considerable other haven on the bay ; while on Buz- zard's Bay, New Bedford has a good harbor. The principal islands lie off the southern coast. The largest is Martha's Vineyard, 21 miles long, Avith an average breadth of five or six. It has in Holmes's Hole a spacious harbor, much frequented by wind-bound vessels seeking a passage round Cape Cod. The island is interesting as the scene of Mayhew's missionary MASSACHUSETTS. 5 eiForts among the Indians, and it still harbors a rem- nant of a tribe. It has a population (4,300 in 1880) formerly dependent wholly upon the sea; and of late years it has become a summer resort of much popu- larity. Farther east, Nantucket, an island of triangular shape, 15 miles long and 11 wide at its eastern end, is likewise the home of a seafaring folk (population in 1880, 3,727) who still retain in some degree primitive habits, though summer visitors are more and more affecting its life. Nantucket shoals, southeast of the island, is a laroe sandbank dano^erous to navio-ation. Flora and Fauna. — The original native trees and plants did not vary from what is common to New England and Northern New York. The presence of a dense population has driven some out, and brought in others, including some noxious weeds. The larger wild animals liave disa]:»peared except an occasional deei-; but small game still runs, and even within the municipal limits of Boston wild foxes are occasionally killed. No very large birds frequent the State, though a stray eagle is sometimes seen. Reptiles of a harmless kind are found, and three kinds of venomous snakes, — the latter even near Boston, particularly in the Blue Hills of Milton. Fish are abundant on the coast, and the cod is sometimes used as an emblem of the State, a figure of one hanging in the Repi-esentatives' Chamber at the State House. The artificial propagation and preserva- tion of salmon and other edible pond and river fish have been of late carried on successfully under the super- vision of a State Commission. Geology. — Professor N. S. Shaler of Harvard Uni- versity says : " Geologically as well as topographically, the State is divided into four districts, which extend farther than the State limits. In the southeastern part the whole of Cape Cod and Plymouth County is made up of rearranged glacial drift. Westward, from the shore region to the Connecticut, the rocks are of the Laurentian, Cambrian, and Carboniferous ages. The b MASSACHUSETTS. Connecticut River flows through a basin of trassic rocks, abounding in reptilian footprints. West of this basin, to the New York line, the surface is occupied by an extensive series of highly metamorphosed rocks, the age of which is doubtful ; but the series is certainly as old as the Silurian. The whole surface of the State was greatly affected by the List glacial period, as much so as Scotland or Sweden. "The economic resources are limited. An area of about 250 square miles in the southeastern part of the State shows carboniferous rocks, containing several coals. The deep-drift coating, the profoundly dis- located character of the beds, and the graphitic nature of the coals have made mining unsuccessful. Mines of silver-bearing lead have at times been worked in the northeastern shore districts, and in the Connecticut Valley, but without prorit. Emery is now successfully worked in the western district. There are also deposits of hematite iron ores all along the border of New York, which are considerably worked. There are numerous quarries of sienite in the eastern parts of the State, some of red sandstone in the Connecticut Valley, and of white marble in the western regions." ClUnate. — The climate is a trying one, showing great extremes (20° Fahrenheit below aiid 100° above), with about 42 inches of rainfall. The mean average temperature of Boston is 48° Fahrenheit. In the interior it is a trifle lower. Changes are often sudden, and the passage from winter to summer is by a rapid spring. The ocean tempers the climate considerably on the seaboard. Boston Harbor has been frozen over in the past, but steam-tugs plying constantly prevent now the occurrence of such obstruction. Agriculture. — The soil, except in some of the valleys, can hardly be called naturally fertile ; and sandy bar- rens are common in the southeastern parts. High culti- vation, however, has produced valuable market gardens about Boston and the larger towns ; and industry has MASSACHUSETTS. 7 made the tilling of the earth sustaining in most other parts ; while the average sterility of the soil has doubt- less had a strong influence in developing a sturdy yeomanry in the rural regions. In 1875, 671,131 tons of hay were cut. On the sea- board, some extensive salt marshes yield a hay which is much prized. The corn crop diminished one half from 1855 to 1875. The State produced in 1880, 1,797,593 bushels of Indian corn, 15,768 of wheat, 645,159 of oats, 80,128 of barley, 213,716 of rye, 67,117 of buckwheat. In 1879 the average cash value per acre of principal farm-crops was $26.71, which amount is exceeded only in Rhode Island. In the Connecticut Valley tobacco is growm, 3,358 acres being given to it in 1880, producing 5,369,436 pounds, which gives the State the thirteenth rank in the Union. In forty years the sheep have fallen from 384,614 to 65,123, in 1880 ; and in the same year there were 139,861 horses and 174,859 cows. In 1880 there were 38,406 farms, of wdiich 35,266 were owned by occupants. Most of them were betw^een 20 and 500 acres each, nearly 12,000 having over 100 acres. The Populatioi^ and its Conditio:^'. — The State is divided into eleven Congressional districts, each entitled to one representative in the Federal Congress, and rep- resenting from 151,000 to 181,000 inhabitants. It is divided also into 346 tow^ns, and these are grouped into 14 counties, with an aggregate in 1880 of 1,783,085 inhabitants, of which the native-born are 1,339,594, and the foreign-born, 443,491. This population was divided into 379,710 families, living in 281,188 dwel- lings, with nearly 222 j^ersons to the square mile, and less than an average of three acres to each person. Nearly every fifth person is a voter. The total vote in the Presidential campaign of 1880 was 282,512. The number of persons born within Massachusetts, and living in 1880 out of the State, but within the limits of the United States, was 1,356,295. The population at past censuses has been 8 MASSACHUSETTS. 1790 378,787 1840 737,699 1800 422,845 1850 994,514 1810 472,040 1860 1,231,066 1820 523,159 1870 1,457,351 1830 610,408 1880 1,783,085 There were, in 1880, 31 cities and towns of over 10,000 inhabitants. Births and Deaths. — It is calculated that to every 1000 inhabitants the births are more than 23, the mar- riages about 8, the deaths 18^-, the excess of births over deaths being nearly 5. In 1880, 44,217 were born, and 15,538 couples were married, while 35,292 persons died, at an average age of 32 years. Taking persons over 20 years of age, the deaths in 37i\ years were 187,264, with an average age of 51.42. During sixteen years the average age at death of all conditions was 30.18 years. In 20 years the birth-rate to 1,000 persons was 26.2 ; the death-rate 19.7. Health. — A Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity supervises the public hygiene, and the institutions for the insane and paupers. By their reports of 1880 it appears that the prominent causes of death are for the ages: from birth to five, — diarrhcea, diphtheria, pneu- monia, scarlet-fever, and obscure diseases of the brain and intestines; from five to ten, — infectious diseases and obscure diseases of childhood ; from ten to fifteen, — diphtheria, consumption, and typhoid fever ; from fifteen to twenty, — consumption and typhoid fever; from thirty upward, — pneumonia and heart-disease, with cancer from forty to sixty. Paralysis and apoplexy gain after forty, and after seventy the greatest portion die of old age. The twelve principal causes of fatality in all ages are placed in this order : consumption, pneu- monia, diphtheria, heart-disease, old age, cholera-in- fantum, paralysis, cancer, scarlet-fever, cephalitis, bronchitis, and apoplexy ; and by these disorders sixty per cent of all deaths occur. Intermittent fever was known in the earlier history of the State, but in this MASSACHUSETTS. 9 century, before 1877, was practically unknown, except in the form of an occasional epidemic, but since that date has made rapid progress in the western parts. Paupers. — Other tables of the same board show that in July, 1880, 19,318 paupers were receiving, wholly or in part, local or State support ; and the same was true of about 3,000 insane persons. The average num- ber of inmates of these charitable establishments (State, city, and town) in 1880 was 7,467 persons. At public and private insane asylums there were 4,398 cases within the year. Immigration. — The immigrants from Europe during the year ending Sept. 30, 1880, were 33,636 in number, of which one third were Irish, and the males in com- parison with the females were as 18 to 15. A large part of this influx merely passed through the State to the West. Business and Finance. Commerce and Manufac- tures. — Up to 1830 the commerce of the State found various outlets beside Boston ; but since then this city has more and more absorbed the whole foreign trade. The whaling business still remained to other ports, and at one time gave occupation to a thousand ships. The introduction of petroleum gradually diminished this resource of the lesser ports. The packing of pork and beef was formerly cen- tred in Boston ; but while now a similar business ten- fold as large is done, it has been greatly exceeded in the West. For many years Massachusetts controlled a vast lumber trade, drawing upon the forests of Maine, but the growth of the West has changed the old chan- nels of trade, and Boston carpenters now make large use of Western lumber. The American trade with China and India was begun in Salem, and was next controlled in Boston, till this also was lost some years ago to New York. In commercial relations the chief port of Massachusetts attained its highest influence 10 MASSACHUSETTS. about forty years ngo, when it wns selected ns the Amer- ican terminus of the first steamship line (Cunard) con- necting England with the United States, but Boston lost the commercial prestige, then won, by the ftdlure of the State to develop railway communication with the West, so as to equal the development eftected by other cities. It was between 1840 and 1850 that the cotton manufactures of Massachusetts began to assume large proportions; and about the same time the mnnu- facture of boots and shoes centred here, find hns ever since mnintnined its prominence, much more than one half of all boots and shoes manufactured in the country being the product of this State. Again, ice and granite became important articles of export; and Quincy gran- ite, from 1849, was sent to various Southern ports, liav- ing an importance as a building-stone, which it has hardly lost now, with the later multiplication of varie- ties of such stones. Medford ships began to be famed shortly after the beginning of the century, and by 1845 that town employed one quarter of all the shipwrights in the State. From 1840 to 1860 Massachusetts-built ships competed successfully for the carrying trade ot the world. Before 1840 five hundred tons made a large ship, but after the discovery of gold in California the size of ships increased rapidly, and the lines of their models were more and more adapted to speed. The limit of size was reached in an immense clipper of 4555 tons, and the greatest speed attained in a })assage from San Francisco to Boston in seventy-five days, and from San Francisco to Cork in ninety-three days. The development of steam navigation for the cariying of large cargoes has driven this fleet from the sea. Hardly eighteen per cent of the exports and imports through Massachusetts is now carried in Ameiican bottoms. The grain elevators, which pour corn in bulk into ships at Boston to-day for P^uropean markets, are the result of the first attempt at such transportation, made in 1843, when citizens of Massachusetts sent corn to starving Ireland. Coastwise steam lines, supported by Massachusetts MASSACHUSETTS. 11 CMpital, had run to Philadelphia and Baltimore for some years before the Civil War broke up other less successful ones, wliich had connected ports farther south. When the war and steam navigation put an end to the supremacy of Massachusetts wooden ships, much of the capital which had been employed in navi- gation was turned into developing railroad ficilities, and coastwise steam lines. An effort to establish a European steam line fjiiled. In 1872 the great fire in Boston, destroying $72,000,000 worth of property, made large drains upon the capital of the State, and several years of depression in business followed, to be suc- ceeded by an era of business prosperity still continuing. The imports of Boston — practically of Massachusetts — for 1880 were $(38,649,664; the exports, 169,178,764. In 1880, 322 steamships sailed from Boston for Euro- pean ports. In 1880, 180 steam craft were owned in Massachusetts, with a capacity of 48,917 tons. Massa- chusetts had in 1880 a fleet of 376 sail of cod-fishing vessels, manned by 4185 men, — three quarters of all belonging to one port, Gloucester. In mackerel catch- ing 239 vessels are employed. In 1882, 20,117 persons were actively engaged in the fisheries, and it was esti- mated til at 100,000 peo])le depended on them for sup- port. The capital invested is $14,334,450, and the product is worth $8,141,750. The total tonnage of the State in 1881 was 430,182, which gave the State rank after New York and Maine. In 1880, of 39,921 busi- ness houses, 329 failed, with liabilities at $3,336,954. A general act of 1870, with supplements of later years, allows of the incorporation of companies under it, and in 1880 such corporations, so organized, had $30,150,255 capital, — and this was in some part money disengaged of late years from navigation and its at- tendant branches of trade. While the cai)ital of the State may not have devel- oped even yet, as it might, all that is possible for a sys- tem of railway communication with the West, it has fostered, and made possible, large facilities in the States of the Mississippi Valley and beyond, which may in 12 MASSACHUSETTS. time so enlarge the terminal facilities of the State's chief port as to make it a more important outlet for expoi't of the produce of the West, and give it a dis- tinction justly its due from its geographical position. In the working of ores the State is not prominent. Five furnaces in 1880 yielded 19,000 tons of pig iron. In wool, the Boston market is the largest in the coun- try. The State has far more spindles (4,465,290) in cotton manufacture than any other State, and not much short of half the number in the whole United States (10,921,147). She employs in this business 62,794 hands, or about one third of the entire force so em- ployed in the United States. Massachusetts is the only State in the East, manufac- turing textile fabrics, where ten hours is the operative's day; and it is reported by the State Bureau of Sta- tistics that, equal grades being considered, as much is produced under her system, per man, loom, or spindle, as in States where eleven hours or more is the rule ; and that the Massachusetts operative earns as much or more per day. Canadian French now constitute a considerable proportion of the factory hands. In cer- tain departments of labor Chinese are beginning to find employment. Formerly farmer's daughters of native stock were much employed in factories. Operatives of foreign birth or parentage have taken in great part their places ; and those of native stock have sought other occupations, — largely in the manufacturing of small wares in the cities, and particularly in departments of trade where skilled labor is essential. Household service is seldom now done, as it formerly was, by women of native stock; persons of Irish, Swedish, and Scottish origin, with many from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, taking their places. Railways. — The report of the Railroad Commis- sioners for 1880 shows : 29 street railways ; capital, $6,144,000 ; assets, $10,173,079.84 ; total income, $3,711,378.18; expenses, $3,003,024.87 ; length of roads, MASSACHUSETTS. 13 240 miles ; miles run, 12,516,363 ; passengers carried, 68,631,842. Of steam railways there were 3,044 miles of single track, of which 1,893 were main lines; and 27,057 Massachusetts stockholders held 178,806,559.95 capital stock of the total of $118,738,871.58; and 21,615 per- sons were employed. The total income of these roads was 135,140,374.77; and the dividends declared were $5,987,718.64. Total passengers carried 45,151,152; freight carried, 17,221,567 tons. There were to pas- sengers in 1880, 9 fital and 15 other accidents; and 157 other persons were injured on the roads. The Hoosac Tunnel — after that of Mont Cenis the longest in the world, 5J miles in length — pierces the Hoosac Mountain in the northwest corner of the State, and opens a second direct railway communication with Western lines, that of the Boston and Albany having been long without a rival. It cost $9,000,000, the State lending its credit, and was built between 1855 and 1874. Savings Banks, etc. — In 1880 the number of open ac- counts was 706,395; amount of deposits, $218,047,922.37 (onlv exceeded in New York) ; amount of earnings, $11,894,710.60; ordinary dividends, $7,957,887.09; annual expenses, $581,274.35 ; number of outstanding loans (none exceeding $3,000) 32,320, aggregating $34,203,951.81. The number of banks in 1880 was 164, against 22 in 1834. The number of co-operative Saving Fund and Loan Associations was 16, with $372,462.31 assets. National Banks. — The report of the Comptroller of the Currency for 1880 says, "The thirteen States hav- ing the largest capital [in national banks] are Massa- chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, etc. ... in the order named." In 1879 the capital of National banks in Massachusetts was $94,748,172, that of New York being $85,706,942. In 1881 there were 242 such banks, with $95,605,000 capital, and $525,827 dividends, and 14 MASSACHUSETTS. in 1880 they issued $3,693,885 in circulating bills,— Pennsylvania with $2,036,890 coming next. A report to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for the six months ending May 31, 1880, shows Massa- chusetts to have 218 banking and trust companies, private bankers, and savings banks (notr organized under the national law), with an aggregate capital of $5,638,099 ; average deposits to the amount of $208,822,039. These banks also held investments in United States bonds, amounting to $22,909,377. Public Deht^ etc. — The public debt of the State, Jan. 1, 1881, was $32,799,464 ; the sinking funds, $13,050,192.20; the trust funds, $2,890,650.9^2. The total taxable value was 81,927,855,430.09. The taxes produced $4,950,000. The rate of State taxation is much smaller than that of any other State. The State receipts were on account of revenue $7,881,198; on account of funds, $5,616,418, or $13,497,616 in all. The Boston Stock Exchange stands next to New York in the extent of the securities in which it deals. Citizens of Massachusetts (16,855 in number) hold $45,138,750 of the United States bonds, and the pro- portion of holders (23.04 per cent) to the population of the State is in excess of that of all other States, and New York, which is next, shows 20.24 per cent. In 1881 the State contributed $2,699,681 as internal revenue to the Federal treasury, being a twelfth rank among the States and Territories. Social Statistics. Intellectual Life. — No statement of the influence which Massachusetts has exerted upon the American people, through intellectual activity and even through vagary, is complete without an enumera- tion of the names which, to Americans at least, are the signs of this influence and activity. In science: John Winthrop, the most eminent of Colonial scientists ; Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) ; Nathaniel Bovvditch, the translator of La Place ; Benjamin Peirce ; and Morse the electrician ; not to include an adopted MASSACHUSETTS. 15 citizen in Louis Agassiz. In history: Winthrop and Bradford laid the foundations of her story in the very beginning; but the best example of the Colonial period is Thomas Hutcluuson, and in, our day, Bancroft, Sparks, Palfi-ey, Prescott, Motley, and Pnrkman. In poetry, the pioneer of the modern spirit in American verse was Richard Henry Dana ; and "later came Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes. In philoso- phy, and the science of Kving, Jonatiian Edwards, Franklin, Channing, Emerson, and Theodore Parker. In oratory, James 'Otis, Fisher Ames, Josiah Quincy, Jr., Webster, Choate, Everett, Sumner, Winthrop, and Wendell Phillips. In fiction, Hawthorne and Mrs. Stowe, not to embrace the living and younger names of Howells and Aldrich. In law, Story, Parsons, and Shaw. In polite scholarship, Ticknor and Hillard. In art, Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Washington Allston, William M. Hunt, Horatio Greenough, W. W. Story, and Thomas Ball. What in America was called the Transcendental Movement — which sprung out of Ger- man affiliations, and swept in its train many scholarly persons, and resulted in the well-known community of Brook Farm, under the leadership of the late Dr. George Ripley — was a growth of Massachusetts, and in passing away it left, instead of traces of an organization, a sen- timent and an aspiration for what was called a higher thinking, which gave Emerson his friendly sympa- thizers. ^ It might go withont saying that a commu- nity which fostered such persons and feelings was not at all times free from riotous and unbalanced ideas, which could inaugurate too many departures from the common course of wisdom. Uducatto7i. — or the 307,321 children, between five and fifteen, in Massachusetts, 281,757 attend the pub- lic schools, in addition to 25,020 over fifteen, and 1,833 under five; while 27,370 of all ages attend charitable, reformatory, and piivate schools. The public schools are 5570 in number ; the academies and piivate schools, 423. The cost of maintaining the pub- 16 MASSACHUSETTS. lie schools is $5,156,731 per annum. This expenditure is exceeded only in the States of New York, Illinois, Pennsylvanin, and Ohio. It is a little more in Iowa. A Board of Education (the governor, lieutenant-gov- ernor, and eight others) have the general charge, and their secretaiy acts as superintendent of the State system in conjunction with local superintendents and committees. Women are eligible to these positions ; and among the teachers of the public schools they are largely in excess, — 7,462 women and 1,133 men; and of the combined number (8,595) 2,228 had attended normal schools. The male teachers on an average receive $67.54 per month ; the women, $30.59. The system includes common, high, and normal schools, with one normal art-school, and various evening, in- dustrial, and truant schools. No discrimination is made as to race, color, or religious views. The aver- age attendance is 89 per cent of the membership. Two fifths of one per cent of the native population are illiterate. The State normal schools, where the teachers are trained, are five in number, besides the art-school. The attendance upon them was 841 in 1880. Some of the cities and towns maintain their own training-schools. Meetings of teachers are held once a month or oftener in various parts of the State, for comparison of views and experience. The high schools are 215 in number, with 18,758 pupils and 494 teachers; and other secondary instruc- tion is given in the business colleges, private academic schools, and the more distinctive preparatory schools, which send their graduates to the colleges. Of these last the most important is Harvard College, the chief department of what is known as Harvard University, which includes in addition various professional schools, and other colleges of special studies. This university in 1882 had 1,382 students, with a staff of 200 officers and instructors ; and of these students 823 belong to the academic department (Harvard College), where they are allowed wide latitude in the choice of the studies pursued. The classes of undergraduates are MASSACHUSETTS. 17 recruited largely from the State ; but the establisli- ment of examhiations for admission in distant cities, like Philadel[)hia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and San Fran- cisco, is increasing the proportion who come from other parts of the country. Harvard University is mainly at Cambridge, three miles from Boston, but some of the departments are in the latter city. In the extreme west of the State is Williams Col- lege, which in 1880 had 227 students ; and in the Connecticut Valley is Amherst College, with 339 stu- dents. Boston University, in its several departments, had 510 students in 1880 ; and Tufts College, a few miles from Boston, an institution supported by the Universalist sect, had 63 students. Two Roman Catholic colleges are maintained : Boston College with 80 students, and College of the Holy Cross, at Worcester, of about the same size. Of the various institutions for the instruction of women, two rank with the colleges for men : Smith College at North- ampton, and Wellesley College, not far from Boston. The income of colleoje funds ($425,958) is only ex- ceeded in New York ^($710,164). For agricultural students there are two schools: one supported by the State at Amherst, and the Bussey Institution, a department of Harvard Univer- sity. In technological science there is special instruc- tion given in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston), the Lawrence Scientific School (of Harvard University), the Free Institute of Industrial Science (Worcester), and the School of All Sciences (Boston University). In theology, nearly 300 students, in 1880 were divided among the schools at Andover (Congre- gational), at Boston (in connection with the University, Methodist), at Cambridge (Harvard University, non- sectarian, and an independent Episcopal School), at Somerville (Tufts College, Universalist), at Newton (Baptist), and at Waltham (New Church). In law there are schools in connection with both Boston and Harvard Universities ; and the same is true of medicine, that of the former being of homoeopathic tendency. 18 MASSACHUSETTS. The State is also supplied with special schools of varions other sorts, particularly those for deaf mutes, the blind, and the feeble-minded, in which noteworthy methods had been employed with success. In 1880 the United States Patent Office issued letters to an average of one inhabitant of the State in eveiy 1,333, a degree of inventive energy only exceeded in Connecticut, where the pi'oportion is one in 1,(320. The total receipts of the Post Office in 1880 were $2,484,692, an amount only exceeded by New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, w hile the State stands seventh in population. The Press. — The earliest printing in the British Colonies was done at Cambridge in this State, where, in 1640, the first book was printed, which is known as the " Bay Psalm-book," being a version of the Psalms for singing, made in the colony. Cambridge still re- tains its pre-eminence in the University and Riverside presses. A printing-house was not set up in Boston till 1674. In the early part of this century book print- ing was done at various country presses ; but at i)resent it is all done in Boston, which, with New York and Philadelphia, is now a principal centre of the American book trade. A single number of two separate ventures to scatter pubhc intelligence had appeared in Boston in 1689 and 3 690 ; but the first regular newspaper was not established till 1704, when Uie "Boston Newsletter" became the pioneer of the American newspaper press. There is at present no newspaper of much influence printed outside of Boston, except the " Springfield Republican," and even the Boston newspapers are generally held to be behind those of New York and Cliicago in enterprise and power. In 1880 there were 35 daily newspapers, with 33 others, having an annual circulation — for dailies of 86,304,851 ; for weekhes, etc., of 10,204,537 ; and 392 periodicals of all kinds issued. MASSACHUSETTS. 19 Libraries. — The State is tlie most richly provided with public collections of books (apart from school libraries) of any in the Union. In the number of vol- umes the Public Library of Boston (404,201 in 1882) probably stands at the head of all in the country, though the Library of Congress closely follows. Each of these libraries fills its enumeration, however, with large numbers of duplicates, — that at Washington from those received under the copyright act, and that of Boston from the extensive provision of extra copies for its ten popular departments, largely coimterparts of each other. It is accordingly probable that the library of Harvard University (nearly 300,000 volumes), which has but few duplicates, outranks all others in the country in the count of titles, as it is much the largest of all American academic collections. Of the eight largest libraries in the United States, three are in Massachusetts, the Boston Athenaeum, one of the best of the class of pro- prietary libraries, being counted with the two already named. The State lectin the founding of city and town libraries, supported by public taxes, thirty years ago, and has instituted more of them than exist in all the other States combined. After the one at Boston, that at Worcester is the best known. Collections of fiiir pro- portions are attached to the lesser colleges, Amherst, Williams, and Wellesley. The special historical libra- ries of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, the IMassachusetts Historical Society, the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society, and Congregational Library, at Boston, added to the departments of the Harvard and Boston libraries, make Massachusetts exceedingly rich in books upon American history. No one of her libraries has the resources of the rarest of early Americana which will be found in the private collection of the late John Carter-Brown at Providence, and in the Lenox Library at New York; but with access to such private collections as that of Charles Deane at Cambridge, the student of American history is probably at less disadvantage in Massachu- setts than in any other libi'aiy centre in the States, 20 MASSACHUSETTS. though the value of the Peter Force collection in the Library of Congress is not to be forgotten. In science, sections of the Boston Public Library and the Harvard Library are of the most importance, though in physics and natural history the collections of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and of the Boston Society of Natural History may well supple- ment them. In private libraries the State may claim numbers, rather than individual richness, and is prob- ably surpassed by New York in signal collections. The State itself, in the State House, has a collection of considerable value, confined for the most part to law, public documents, and American history. Crime. — A board of prison commissioners (three men and two w^omen) report in 1880, 3.821 persons in confinement, 2,070 in county prisons, and 1,751 in other institutions. In 1879 there were 16,211 sentences for drunkenness ; and during the last 20 years 60 per cent of all sentences for crime were traceable to liquor, or 340,814, in that time, out of 578,458 sentences. Of this aggregate, 332,495 were against chastity, morality, and decency; 55,327 against property ; and 1,656 (felonious) and 81,440 (not felonious) against persons. Seventy- five per cent of criminals are between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. Fires and Lisurance. — The fires in 1880 were 1,722 in number (of which 596 were total), causing an aggre- gate loss of $4,454,221, of which 71 per cent w^ns paid by insurance companies. The causes were in 383 cases reported unknown ; and in 294, incendiary. In life-insurance, six Massachusetts companies have gross assets of $32,939,505, and gross liabilities of % 27,546,554 ; while companies organized without the State, and doing business within it, have $369,996,657 assets and $328,105,152 liabilities. Government, Militia, etc. — The State, under the Federal Constitution, sends two senators to the Con- MASSACHUSETTS. 21 gress of the United States, and the most eminent men who have thus represented the Commonwealth have been John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Riifus Choate, Edward Everett, and Charles Sumner. The State is also entitled to eleven members of the National House of Representatives. The Executive Department of the State Government is confided to a governor, who is aided by a lieuten- ant-governor, and eight others, representing so many divisions of the State, who, with the governor and lieu- tenant-governor constitute the executive council. They are chosen yearly. There are also a secretary of the Commonwealth, a treasurei*, and auditor. An attorney- general is the State's law officer. The governor, as commander-in-chief of the State militia, has a military staff. The judges are all appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of his council, and hold office during good behavior. The highest court is the supreme judicial court, which has a chief justice and six associate justices. Among the eminent jurists who have been at the head of this court are John Adams, Theophilus Parsons, and Lemuel Shaw. A superior court, with a chief justice and ten associate justices, was established in 1859. Each county has its own courts of probate and insolvency. Various larger cities and towns have police and municipal courts ; while groups of towns have district courts. The legislative departments are the Senate, of 40 members, chosen by senatorial districts ; and a House of Representatives, of 240 members, chosen by districts within the counties. These two bodies form the General Court so-called, which is chosen yearly, and it elects its own officers. It meets in the State House, at Boston, a structure prominently placed on the highest point of land in that city, its dome serving as an apex to the elevation of its sky line. It was built in 1795-97, but has been enlarged since. Before it are statues of Daniel Webster, by Powers, and Horace Mann, by Miss Stebbins, and within are Chantry's toga-draped statue 22 MASSACHUSETTS. of Washington (placed there in 1828), and Thomas Ball's statue of John A. Andrew, — the latter the most eminent of tlie recent governors, whose term of service covered the period of the Civil War (1861-65), and who acquired the sobriquet of the "great war governor." Of the incumbents of tlie twelve principal ottices of the Federal Government, this State has furnished, since the organization under the Constitution, 34. — a number exceeded by Virginia (40), Pennsylvania (36), and New York (35). Tlie enrolled militia (every able bodied male between 18 and 45 years of age) in 1880 were 238,762 in num- ber ; the active volunteer militia numbering 334 officers and 4,436 enlisted men, organized in two brigades beside two unattached corps of cadets, one the gov- ernor's bodyguard. HisTDRY. — It is possible that the coasts of Massachu- setts were visited by the Northmen, and by the earliest navigators who followed Cabot, but the evidence is that of conjecture only. Gosnold left tlie earliest trace of English acquaintance on its shores, when he discovered and named Cape Cod in 1602. Pring and Champlain later tracked them, but the map of Champlain is hardly recognizable. The Urst sufficient explorations for car- tographical record were made by John Smith in 1614, and Ids map was long the basis — particularly in its nomenclature — of later maps. Permanency of occupa- tion, however, dates from the voyage of the Mayflower, which brought about a hundred n\en, women, and chil- dren, who had mostly belonged to an English sect of Separatists, originating in Yorkshire, but who had passed a period of exile for religion's sake in Holland, in the early winter of 1620 they made the coast, of Cape Cod : they had intended to make their landfall farther south, within the jurisdiction of the Virginia Company, which had granted them a patent ; but stress of weather prevented their doing so. Fiiuling tliem- selves without warrant in a region beyond their patent, they drew up and signed, before landing, a compact of MASSACHUSETTS. 23 government, wliicli is accounted the earliest written constitution in history. After some exploration of the coast they made a permanent landing, Dec. 'Jl, 1620 (new style), at Plymouth, a harbor which had already been so named on Smith's map in 1616. A subsequent patent from the Council for New England, upon whose territory they were, confirmed to them a tract of land which at present corresponds to the southeast section of the State. They maintained their existence as a colony, though never having a charter direct from the Crown, till 1691, when, under what is termed the Pro- vincial Cliarter, Plymouth Colony was annexed to Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Company had been formed in England in 1628 for the purj^ose of promoting settle- ments in New England. There had been various minor expeditions, during the few years since Smith was on the coast, before this company, in the Puritan interests, had sent over, in 1628, John Endicott, with a party, to what is now Salem. In 1630, the government of the company, Avith questionable right, transfei-red itself to their territory, and under the lead of John Winthrop laid the foundations anew of the Massachu- setts Colony, when they first settled Boston in the autumn of that year. Wintliro)) remained the gov- ernor of the colony, with some interruptions, till his death in 1649, his first rejection coming from a ]^arty of theological revolt which chose Henry Vane, later Sir Henry Vane, to the office. Tlie early history was rendered unquiet at times by wars with the Indians, the chief of which were the Pequot War in 1637, and Phili])'s War in 1675-76; and tor better combining against these enemies, Massachusetts, with Connecticut, New Haven, and New Plymouth, formed a confederacy in 1643, considered the prototype of the larger union of the colonies which conducted the War of the Revolu- tion (1775-82). The struggle with the Crown, which ended in independence, began at the fouiulation of the colony, with assumptions of power under the charter, — which the colonial government was always trying to 24 MASSACHUSETTS. maintnin, and the Crown was as assiduously endeavoring to counteract. Theological variances and differences of political views led to some emigration of the early colonists to Rhode Island. To secure "more room," led others to go to Connecticut, where they established a bulwark against the Dutch of New York. An inroad of the Quakers disturbed their peace for several years, and led to violent laws against all such aggressive dis- sentients. After more than a half-century of struggle, the Crown finally annulled the charter of the colony, in 1685, and after a brief temporary sway of Joseph Dudley, a native of the colony, as president of a pro- visional council, Sir Edmund Andros was sent over with a commission to unite New York and New England under his rule. His government was espoused by a small church party, but was intensely unpopular with the bulk of the people ; and, before news arrived of the landing of William of Orange in England, the citizens of Boston rose in revolution (1689), deposed Andros, imprisoned him, and re-established their old colonial form of govermnent. Then came a struggle, carried on in England by Increase Mather as agent of the col- ony, to secure such a form of government, under a new charter, as would preserve as many as possible of their old liberties. Plymouth Colony, acting through its agent in London, endeavored to secure a separate exis- tence by royal charter, but acce])ted finally union with Massachusetts, when association with New York became the alternative. The Province of Maine was also united in the new provincial charter of 1691, and Sir William Phips came over wdth it, commis- sioned the first royal governor. He was a native of Maine, a rough sailor, who had got his knighthood because he had raised treasure from a Spanish wreck in the West Indies. He was a parishioner of Mather in Boston, and, it was thought, received the appoint- ment through Mather's influence. Throughout the continuance of the government under the provincial charter, there was a constant struggle between the pi-erogative party, headed by the MASSACHUSETTS. 25 royal governor, and the popular party, who cherished recollections of their practical independence under the colonial charter, and who were nursing the sentiments which finally took the form of resistance in 1775. The popular majority kept up the feeling of hostility to the royal authority, in recurrent combats in the legislative assembly over the salary to be voted to the governor. These antagonisms were from time to time forgotten in the wars with the French and Indians, and early in Phips's administration by the unfortunate austerities of the Salem Witchcraft delusion. During the Earl of Bellomont's administration, New York was again united with Massachusetts, under the same executive. The scenes of the recurrent wars were mostly distant from Massachusetts proper, either in Maine or on Canadian or Acadian territory, although some savage inroads of the Indians were now and then made on the exposed frontier towns, as, for instance, upon Deer- field, in 1704, and upon Haverhill, in 1708. Phips, who had succeeded in an attack on Port Royal, had ignominiously failed when he led the Massachusetts fieet against Quebec in 1690. The later expedition of 1711 was no less a fliilure. The most noteworthy administration was that of William Shirley (1741-49 and 1753-56), who at one time was the commanding officer of the British forces in North America. lie made a brilliant success of the expedition against Louisburg in 1745, William Pepperell, a Maine officer being in immediate command. Shirley with Massachu- setts troops also took part in the Oswego expedition of 1755 ; and Massachusetts proposed, and lent the chief assistance in, the expedition to Nova Scotia in 1755, which ended in the removal of the Acadians. Her officers and troops played an important part in the Crown Point and second Louisburg expedition (1758). The beginning of the active opposition to the Crown may be placed in the resistance, led by James Otis, to the issuing of writs to compel citizens to assist the revenue officers ; followed later by the outburst of 26 MASSACHUSETTS. feeling at the imposition of the Stamp Act, when Mas- sachusetts took the lead in confronting the royal power. The governors put in office at this time by the Crown were not of conciliatory temperaments, and the meas- ures instituted in Parliament served to increase bitter- ness of feeling. Royal troops sent to Boston irritated the populace, who were highly excited at the time, when an outbreak, known as the Boston Massacre, occurred in 1770, and a tile of the garrison troops, in self-de- fence, shot down a few citizens among the crowd which assailed them. The merchants combined to prevent the importation of goods which by law would yield the Crown a revenue ; and the Patriots, as the anti- prerogative party called themselves, opened commu- nication with those of the other colonies through " committees of correspondence," a method of the ut- most advantage thereafter in forcing on the Revolu- tion, by intensifying the resistance of the towns in the colony, and by inducing the leaguing of the other colonies. In 1773 a party of citizens, disguised as Indians, and instigated by popular meetings, boarded some tea-ships in the harbor of Boston, and, to prevent the landing of their taxable cargoes, threw thera into the sea, — an act known in history as the " Boston tea- party." Parliament in retaliation closed the port of Boston, — a proceeding which only aroused more bitter feeling in the country towns, and enlisted the sympathy of the other colonies. The governorship was now given to Gen. Thomas Gage, who commanded the troops which had been sent to Boston. Everything foreboded an outbreak. Most of the families of the highest social position were averse to extreme meas- ures, and a large number were not won over and became expatriated Loyalists. The popular agitators, at whose head was Samuel Adams, — with whom John Hancock, an opulent merchant, and one of the few of the richer people who deserted the Crown, leagued himself, — forced on the movement, which became war in April, 1775, when Gage sent an expedition to Con- cord and Lexington to destroy military stores accumu- MASSACHUSETTS. 27 lated by the Patriots. This detachment, commanded by Lord Percy, was assaulted, and returned with heavy loss. The country towns now poured in their militia to Cambridge, opposite Boston ; troops came from neighboring colonies, and a Massachusetts general was jilaced in command of the irregular force, which with superior numbers, at once shut the royal army up in Boston. An attempt of the provincials to seize a com- manding hill in Charlestown brought on the battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), in which the provincials were driven from the ground, although they lost much less heavily than the royal troops. Washington, chosen by the Continental Congress to command the army, arrived in Cambridge in July, 1775, and, stretching his lines around Boston, forced its evacuation in March, 1776. The State was not again the scene of any con- flict during the war. Generals Knox and Lincoln were the most distinguished oflicers contributed by the State to the Revolutionary army. Out of an assessment at one time upon the States of $5,000,000 for the expenses of the war, Massachusetts was charged with $820,000, the next highest being $800,000 for Virginia. Of the 231,791 troops sent by all the colonies into the field, reckoning by annual terms, Massachusetts sent 67,907, the next highest being 31,939 from Connecticut, Vir- ginia only furnishing 26,678. After the outbreak of the war a provisional govern- ment was in power till a constitution was adopted in 1780, when John Hancock became the first governor. His most eminent successors have been Samuel Adams (1794-97), Elbridge Gerry (1810-12), Edward Everett (1836-40), and John A. Andrew (1861-66). Governor Bowdoin in 1786 put down an insurrection known as Shays's Rebellion. The Federal Constitution was ac- cepted by Massachusetts by a small majority, and its rejection was at one time imminent. But Massachu- setts became a strong Federal State, and suffered heav- ily under the Embargo Act of 1807, which was laid in the interests of the Democratic party. The sentiment of the State was also against the war with England in 28 MASSACHUSETTS. 1812-14; but much of the naval success of the war was due to Massachusetts sailors. In an apportionment of troops at the time, out of 100,000, Massachusetts was to furnish 10,000; Pennsylvania with 14,000, New York 13,500, and Virginia 12,000, now exceeding her quota. During the interval till the outbreak of the Civil War of 1801, Massachusetts was foremost in political change or ])rogress. She opposed the policy which led to the Mexican War; but the State sent one regi- ment (1057 men) into the field, under the command of Caleb Gushing. The Liberty party, forerunner of the Freesoil and Republican parties, arose among her people, led on by such men as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell PhiUips. The Federal domination had been succeeded by the Whig rule in the State, and when its greatest exponent, Daniel Webster, died in 1852, the Freesoil party was gathering force, and after an interval became the Republican party, with new affiliations, which drew off a majority of the old Whig party. This last political organization expired under the operation, — as it lost also its minority by their joining the Democratic ranks. Charles Sumner became the most eminent exponent of the new party, and he be- came the State's senator in the Federal Congress. The feelings which grew up and the movements that were fostered, till they rendered the Civil War inevitable, received something of the same impulse from Massa- chusetts which she had given a century before to the feelings and movements forerunning the Revolution. When the war broke, it was her troops who first re- ceived hostile fire in Baltimore, and, turning their mechanical training to account, opened the obstructed railroad to Washington. In the war which was thus begun, she built, equipped and manned many vessels for the Federal navy, but during the early years of the conflict she was not allowed any credit for these sailors on her quota of men ; and when allowance was finally made in 1864, she showed a record of 22,360 men who had since 1861 enlisted in the navy. In 1862, out of MASSACHUSETTS. '29 300,000 men called for, Massachusetts was required to furnish 15,000. During the war all but twelve small towns furnished troops in excess of what was called for, the excess throughout the State amounting in all to over 15,000 men, while the total recruits to the Federal army were 159,165 men, of which less than 1,200 were raised by draft. The State, as such, and the towns spent $42,605,517.19 in the war; and pri- vate contributions of citizens are reckoned in addition at about $9,000,000. This does not include the aid to families of soldiers, paid then and later by the State. Since the close of the war the State has remained generally steadfast in adherence to the principles of the Republican party, and has continued to develop its resources. Navigation, wliich was formerly the distinctive feature of its business prosperity, has, under the pressure of laws and circumstances, given place to manufactures, and the dcAcloping of carrying facilities on the land rather than on the sea. / ( ■*- . ■ /■ =»--^ I I I