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The Sixth Division will form on Huntington avenue, south-east side, right at Dartmouth street. When the Fifth Division moves, the Sixth will move through Boylston to Berkeley street, and, when the Fifth has passed, will follow it.
The Seventh Division will form on Berkeley street, right at Columbus ave- une, and extending towards Tremont street ; then on Tremont street south to Worcester street, leaving all street crossings uncovered ; then on Montgomery street, Warren avenue, Appleton and Chandler streets, in the order named, and will follow the Sixth Division.
Organizations marching from the south to points of formation on the Back Bay will proceed by Chester Park (south side), West Chester Park, and Huntington avenue.
Chiefs of Division will leave uncovered the street upon which their right rests, also those streets that the division crosses in its formation. The for- mation of columns will be in companies, or platoons of not less than eight files front.
The Head-quarters of the Chief Marshal will be on the Parade Ground of the Common, near Boylston-street mall, until 11.15, A.M., after which they will be on Columbus avenue, corner of Berkeley street.
The Chief Marshal's flag will be yellow, triangular, with Maltese cross in the centre.
The General Staff, except those specially assigned, will report promptly at 10 o'clock, A.M.
Chiefs of Division will establish their head-quarters at the points indicated
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above for the right of their respective divisions, and will remain, or be repre- sented there, until their divisions shall move. They will detail bearers for the respective division banners, who will be stationed, during the formation, at the right of the division, and who will march in advance of the division, thirty paces in rear of the one preceding. They will also detail mounted orderlies to carry their respective head-quarter flags.
Each Chief of Division, when he shall see the division next preceding his own in motion. will close his division in mass, and be prepared to march promptly at an interval of forty paces in its rear ; he will station an Aid at the rear of his division to notify the chief of the succeeding one of the moment to move.
Each Chief of Division will labor, during the march, to maintain his di- vision at the prescribed interval, and if he shall find that it is losing distance, or becoming unduly extended, he will at once communicate the fact to the Chief Marshal.
Divisions in taking up line of march will take distance from the head of column.
Aids detailed by the Chief Marshal will attend at the several railroad stations, from 9.30 to 11 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of giving all necessary information to organizations arriving. Organizations are requested to follow the route from the railroad station which may be indicated by such Aids.
As each organization arrives on the ground prescribed for its division, its Chief will report at once to the Chief of Division the total number of its mem- bers present, of its band and of its carriages, and will be assigned a place in the column.
Carriages will form two abreast, and maintain that order during the march.
It is expected that the formation will be completed at 11.30 o'clock.
Arrangements will be made to water the horses of the First Brigade at Park square ; of the Second Brigade at Beacon street ; of the First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Divisions on Dartmouth street, at Commonwealth avenue, from 10 to 12 o'clock.
Horses of the Sixth Division will be watered at the corner of Dartmouth street and St. James avenue, near the Art Museum, from 11 to 12.30 o'clock.
Horses of the Seventh Division will be watered on Tremont at Clarendon street, on Berkeley at Chandler street. and on Warren avenue at Berkeley street, from 12 to 2 o'clock.
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All mounted officers and men will see that their horses are properly watered before the column moves, as no halts can be made for this purpose.
At a quarter before 12 o'clock each Chief of Division will report by Aid to the Chief Marshal.
At 12 o'clock, noon, one gun will be fired from the Common, and the head of the column will move ; after this hour the route of the procession will be kept clear of all teams.
Any Chief of Division not ready to move promptly in his order will at once notify the Chief of the one next succeeding to march in his stead, and will take position for the march in rear of the last marching division, retaining at the head of his own its own proper banner. Should he, however, be subject to detention by the unreadiness of a small portion of his command, he may, at his discretion, detach such portion, and send it, under charge of an Aid, to report to the Chief of the last marching division.
Any organization reaching the ground after the departure of its division will report to the Chief of the next succeeding one, not already in motion.
THE ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION
will be from the junction of Columbus avenue and Berkeley street, through the following streets : -
Columbus avenue, Chester park (north side), Washington, Summer, High. Pearl, Post-office square, Congress, State, New Devonshire, Washington, Hanover, Tremont, Boylston, to Berkeley street, where the procession will be dismissed.
Citizens are requested to decorate their stores and residences situated on the line of the march.
At Arlington street His Excellency John D. Long. Governor of Massa- chusetts, will review the procession.
At Berkeley street the Chief Marshal will review the column.
The Chief Marshal, having made the route a comparatively short one. earnestly desires that no organization leave the column until dismissed at the junction of Boylston and Berkeley streets.
After passing that point, organizations going south will proceed via Huntington avenue, West Chester park, Columbus avenue, and Northampton street.
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Chiefs of Division are requested to transmit to these head-quarters, on the day following the march, consolidated reports of their commands.
By order of
A. P. MARTIN, Chief Marshal.
J. HENRY SLEEPER,
Adjutant-General.
Trades' Display.
250TH ANNIVERSARY SETTLEMENT OF BOSTON.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S ROOM, 40 BEDFORD ST., BOSTON, Sept. 15, 1880.
The Grand Procession on Friday, the 17th inst., will move at 12 o'clock precisely.
The Trades' Display will close the column as the Seventh Division.
Participants are particularly requested to be in line as below, at 12 o'clock. It is requested that the horses be baited and all assistants take their dimmers before entering the line. Arrangements will be made to furnish water for the horses in Tremont street at Clarendon, in Berkeley street at Clarendon, and in Warren avenue at Berkeley street, from 12 to 2 o'clock.
Nos. I to 35, inclusive, will form on the west side of Berkeley street, south of Columbus avenue, the right resting on Cortes street, -entering from Tremont street.
Nos. 36 to 85, inclusive, will form on the west side of Tremont street, south of Warren avenue, the right resting on Warren Avenue, - entering from streets on the casterly side.
Nos. 86 to 95, inclusive, will form on the south side of Montgomery street, the right resting on Clarendon street, -entering from Canton street.
Nos. 96 to 125, inclusive, will form on the south side of Warren avenue. the right resting on Tremont street, -entering from Newton street.
Nos. 126 to 140, inclusive, will form on the south side of Appleton street, the right resting on Berkeley street, -entering from Canton street.
Nos. 141 to 144, inclusive, will form on the south side of Chandler street. the right resting on Berkeley street. - entering from Dartmouth street.
All intersecting streets and courts will be uncorered.
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Aids to the Assistant Marshal of this division (Capt. John Mack) will be in attendance on the several streets to receive the participants.
Each participant will display his Card Number as he enters the street in which he is to be placed in line.
Per order, GEORGE B. HANOVER, Clerk of Committee.
CHARLES W. SLACK,
NATHANIEL J. BRADLEE,
JOUN .S. BLAIR,
BENJAMIN D. WHITCOMB, STEPREN II. KIMBALL,
Executive Committee Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.
By request of the Committee of Arrangements the Mayor issued the following proclamation : -
MAYOR'S OFFICE, CITY HALL, September 15, 1880.
In accordance with a vote of the committee of the City Council on the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, I hereby request citizens to close their stores and places of business, so far as may be practicable, on Friday, the 17th inst., and that the day be observed as a holiday ; also that residents aud occupants of buildings along the route of the processions make display of decorations during the day and illuminations in the evening.
FREDERICK O. PRINCE, Mayor.
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WINTHROP STATUE.
WINTHROP STATUE.
Although unattended with any public ceremonies, the unveiling of the statue of Governor John Winthrop, the founder of Boston, was an interesting event of the celebration.
The action of the Board of Aldermen to procure this statue was as follows : -
At a meeting of the Board, June 23, 1879, on motion of Alderman Stebbins, a committee, consisting of Aldermen Hugh O'Brien, Solomon B. Stebbins, and Charles HI. B. Breck, was appointed to consider the expediency of erect- ing a statue of John Winthrop.
On the Ist of September, 1879, the committee reported as follows : -
The special committee appointed to consider the expediency of erecting statues of Samuel Adams and John Winthrop in this city, having considered the subject, beg leave to submit the following report : -
The committee were advised that duplicates of the statues of Winthrop and Adams, now in the Capitol at Washington, could be obtained at reason- able prices, and therefore, through Hon. F. W. Lincoln, one of the com- missioners who purchased the original statues for the State of Massachusetts, and who kindly assisted the committee in this matter, they corresponded with the artists in relation to the subject. The committee find that the statue of Winthrop, cast in bronze at one of the best founderies in Italy, can be obtained for a sum not exceeding $5,000. It will be a copy of the marble statue now in Washington, with some alterations made by the artist, Richard S. Greenough, in the model, in order to adapt it for casting in bronze. This statue is recog- nized as one of the finest works of art in the country, and it is doubtful
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FOUNDER OF BOSTON
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STATUE OF JOHN WINTHROP,
SCOLLAY SQUARE.
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whether anything more satisfactory could be obtained, even if new designs were solicited. The price, also, is remarkably favorable, being much less than that for which an original design could be obtained. In view of the fact that the City Government of next year will undoubtedly take measures for a suitable recognition of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, it would seem that the dedication of the statue of one, who may be termed the father of the town, would form an important and interesting feature of any celebration which might be determined upon; and. as it is necessary that the order for the statne should be given immediately, to have it here in season, the committee recommend immediate action, and append an order to that effect.
In accordance with the recommendation of the committee the follow- ing order was passed : -
Ordered, That His Honor the Mayor, with three members of the Board, be a special committee, with authority to contract for the delivery to this city of a bronze statue of John Winthrop, at a cost not exceeding $5,000 ; said som to be paid from the income of the Phillips-street Fund.
It was also voted that the committee making the report be the special committee provided for in the order.
A contract was at once made with Mr. Richard S. Greenongh, of Rome, Italy, for furnishing the statue, for the sum named in the order.
At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen, Jannary 12, 1880, His Honor Mayor Frederick O. Prince, and Aldermen Hugh O'Brien, Charles HI. B. Breck, and Charles V. Whitten, were anthorized to take charge of the erection of the statue.
An order passed July 6, 1880, authorized the Committee on Winthrop Statne, in consultation with the Committee on Paving, to select a suitable site for the statue in Scollay square.
On the 26th July, 1880, the order was passed authorizing the committee to contract for a suitable pedestal.
The statue represents Governor Winthrop stepping from a gang- board to the shore. In his right hand he carries the charter of the
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colony, its great seal conspicuously displayed, and in his left he holds the Bible. The attitude and expression are dignified and impressive, conveying at once the artist's idea of representing Winthrop entering upon his mission as the leader of the people and founder of the colony.
The statue is seven feet ten inches in height. It was cast at the foundery of Signor Nelli, in Rome, Italy, and was pronounced the best piece of casting that had been done at that foundery or elsewhere. In what is technically called the " finishing " a new process was adopted, a stippling with fine wheel rasps, after the usual finish was completed.
The style of the pedestal is Renaissance in treatment. The plinth, or substructure, which serves as a fender to prevent injury to the pedes- tal, is of unpolished Quincy granite, measuring nine feet in diameter at the base, and three feet in height. The pedestal is of highly polished red Jonesborough granite, and is eight feet four inches high. The height of the die is three feet two inches ; the sides are two feet nine inches wide, and the back and front are three feet two inches wide.
The following inscriptions are cut upon the faces of the die : -
(On the front ) JOHN WINTHROP FOUNDER OF BOSTON 17 SEPTEMBER, 1630
(On the right )
GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 30 OCTOBER, 1629 ARRIVED WITH THE CHARTER 22 JUNE, 1630
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(On the back)
HE WAS BORN NEAR GROTON SUFFOLK, ENGLAND
22 JANUARY, 1588
HE DIED HERE IN BOSTON
5 APRIL, 1649
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FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE
NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION
THE EARLIEST AMERICAN UNION 17 SEPTEMBER, 1643
On the back of the plinth is inscribed :
ERECTED A.D. 1880, FROM A FUND BEQUEATHED TO THE CITY OF BOSTON BY JONATHAN PHILLIPS
The pedestal was designed by GEORGE A. CLOUGH, City Architect, and built by the Hallowell Granite Company.
MOTORDO HASW MAOS 2AW 3H
THE RECEPTION IN FANEUIL HALL.
THE RECEPTION IN FANEUIL HALL.
On the evening of the 16th of September His Honor the Mayor and the Committee of Arrangements gave a reception in Faneuil HIall to the distinguished guests from other cities.
The hall was handsomely decorated with bunting and drapery. The platform was reserved for distinguished visitors and citizens, while the body of the hall and the balconies were filled by an interested and attentive audience. The Boston Cadet Band was stationed in the east balcony, and rendered the following selections at intervals during the evening : -
1. Overture. " Fra Diavolo" Auber
2. Dno for cornets Sohein
(Performed by Thomas W. Henry and Mace Gay.)
3. Concert gavotte Resch
4. Selections from " Nabuco" Verdi
5. Cornet solo. "Surf" Steinhauser
(Performed by Thomas W. Henry.)
6. Potpourri. " Boccacio " Suppe
At eight o'clock the Mayor called the assemblage to order, and spoke as follows : -
REMARKS OF IHS HONOR THE MAYOR.
Ladies and Gentlemen, -Two hundred and fifty years - ago to-morrow, John Winthrop, and the brave band of Puri- tan emigrants who had recently arrived in the country, came to this peninsula and laid the foundations of Boston. There
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was then but one inhabitant here. I need not refer to the hardships and sufferings of the early settlers; I need not speak to you of their courage, their fortitude, and their heroism; I need not remind you of their piety, and godliness, and religious devotion. Their story is known to all of you, and is as familiar as household words. We are largely indebted to them for most of the blessings we enjoy to-day. They sowed, and we reap. This territory, which was occupied by the single inhabitant whom Winthrop found here, has now become a great and prosperous city, contain- ing a large and an intelligent, thrifty, and happy popula- tion. In comparison with all cis-Atlantic institutions it is ancient and venerable. Its two hundred and fifty years of life are closely interwoven with the history of all the rest of the country. Our most important political ante-revolutionary events are associated with it. Here was first proclaimed the capacity of man for self-government; here was first promul- gated the political truth that all power emanates from the people; here was first enunciated the right of education at the public expense, because the safety of society cannot be as- sured if the people are ignorant. Here was erected the first church, the first school-house, and the first printing-press, -- those mighty agents in the progress of civilization. Here, on the landing of Winthrop, was kindled the vestal flame of liberty, civil and religious. Watched by Puritan care, and protected by Puritan valor, it has spread and become the bea- con of hope to all the oppressed nations of the earth. It is becoming and proper, then, that we should celebrate so impor- tant an event as the anniversary of this city. If there be any place in the land which Americans and the lovers of free institutions should regard with reverence and affection, if there be any spot which should be deemed classic ground, it
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is the city of Boston. We should celebrate it from regard to the memories of those who laid the foundations of our prosperity, and established those free institutions which have made Boston what it is. It should be celebrated with thanksgiving and praise, and at such time we should review our history, recognize its suggestions, and heed its lessons. As a part of our commemoration we are assembled here in the old hall, so full of historic memories and patriotic associations, to congratulate each other on the glorious hopes and indulge in pleasing anticipations of the future. Distinguished citizens from every part of the land - statesmen, priests, divines, scholars, merchants, representatives of all the professions - honor us here to-night with their presence, and will speak to you words of interest and sympathy appropriate to the occa- sion. I will now first ask your attention to one who needs no introduction from me, - one whom you know well, and whose eloquent voice has often been heard here; a descendant from our old first governor, - the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop.
After the applause which greeted the introduction had subsided Mr. WINTHROP spoke as follows : -
ADDRESS OF THE HON. ROBERT C. WINTHROP.
I heartily wish I had language, fellow-citizens, for any adequate acknowledgment of the kind and complimentary words of the Mayor, and the flattering manner in which you have responded to them. I can only assure you that I am most deeply grateful for such a demonstration of your regard. I have come, Mr. Mayor, agreeably to your summons and to my own promise, to unite with you in the congratulations of this anniversary. But I am not quite sure in what capacity I am called to appear here. The City Council have done me 5
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the honor to include me among their distinguished guests, and I thank them heartily for so agreeable a compliment. But I am unwilling to forget, or to have it forgotten by others, that I can claim a place here as my birthright, - the birthright of a native Bostonian. Perhaps, too, I might be pardoned for asserting some peculiar inherited interest in the historical event which we are about to celebrate. Yet in neither of these relations, nor indeed in any other relation, do I propose to detain you many minutes.
The time has been, my friends, when such a scene as this; when such a reception as you have given me; when such an audience as I see before me and around me, assembled in this grand old hall of the heroes and patriots of independence, would have stirred and kindled me to no mere brief or formal utterances, and when I should eagerly have clutched at the opportunity to be heard at length. But that time is past. I am unfeignedly conscious that orations and long speeches are for younger lips than mine, and I willingly renounce them for the future.
And there is still another reason why I may fairly excuse myself from attempting any elaborate effort on this occasion. It is that I have already had a part in one of these same historical jubilees of Boston. Fifty years ago, when the two hundredth anniversary of our city was celebrated, I was something more than a witness of the festival. I was then a young officer of volunteers, and at the same time an active member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, which did the escort duty for the City Government on that day, as it is to do it again to-morrow. It happened, as I well remember, that I was appointed the "grand guide of the right " for that parade, and it seems but yesterday that I was engaged in aligning the battalion, in front of the State-House,
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to receive the authorities of the State and city, before march- ing with them between the long rows of school-children, - of whom my friend Mr. Evarts may have been one, and possibly the Mayor another, - to hear, as I did hear, the noble oration of the elder Quincy and the charming poem of Charles Sprague, at the Old South. And then came the dinner at the Exchange Coffee House, where I was privileged to sit down with Otis and Quincy, and the Appletons and the Lawrences, and Governor Lincoln, and Judge Story, and Leverett Salton- stall, and Everett, and Webster, and so many more of the illustrious men who were the pride and glory of the Common- wealth in those days. Certainly, my friends, to have played ever so humble a part in one such jubilee festival is enough for a lifetime, and I may well leave it to other and younger men to be heard on this occasion.
For myself, I am here, fellow-citizens, only to recognize, . as the law phrase is, and to be recognized as one of the old Puritan stock, in lineal descent from the foremost of the founders of Massachusetts and of Boston, whose statue is to be unveiled and inaugurated to-morrow. My venera- tion for his character would alone have brought me here to-night. To him belong all the honors which may attach to the name which he first rendered familiar and famous in the American hemisphere. And, in view of the tribute which the city is now paying to his memory, I may be excused for recalling the fact that three or four years only after his arrival with the Charter of Massachusetts, when he had been called on, somewhat invidiously, to present a statement of his public receipts and expenditures to the little colonial legisla- . ture, he concluded the statement with an humble request in these words, - that " as it stands upon the record that, upon the discharge of my office, I was called to accompt, so this
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declaration may be recorded also; lest hereafter, when I shall be forgotten, some blemish may lie upon my posterity, when there shall be nothing to clear it." Two centuries and a half have now passed away, and it is safe to say that he is not forgotten yet, nor altogether in the way of being forgotten; while, if any blemish rests on his posterity, they alone must bear it, as they are ready to bear it, for themselves.
But the grand celebration of to-morrow, I need not say, has a far wider range, and a far more comprehensive refer- ence, than to any individual man or to any single period of our history. It is to commemorate Boston, as planted, indeed, in 1630, but as taking root, and springing up, and spreading forth its leaves and branches, and bearing fruit abundantly, for a full quarter of a thousand years, - leaves for the healing of the nations, branches for the shelter and refuge of the oppressed, and fruit for the nourishment of freedom every- where. It is to commemorate all the great events, and all the great men of its whole continuous and consistent history, from those small beginnings, when, as Cotton Mather tells us, it was once contemptuously called "Lost Town," owing to its sad and mean circumstances, until it became not only the chief town of New England, as it still is, but the metropolis of all English America, as it was before the Revolution.
From that period the growth of the country, and the rise and progress of other cities north and south, east and west, and, above all, the development and expansion of our imperial sister, New York, to whom we all do willing homage, have reduced its relative rank in all the material elements which make up the importance and grandeur of a great metropolis. But there is enough left this day for us to contemplate with gratitude and pride. It has been from the first a city set on a hill, - yes, on three hills. It has never been hid. It never
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