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On August 1, 1928, the Boston Consolidated Gas Company was consolidated with the Citizens' Gas-Light Company, the pioneer light- ing company of Quincy, which was established February 24, 1860 for the purpose of manufacturing and selling gas within the limits of the town. Pipes were soon laid. On December 1 of the same year, the homes and stores of the center district were lighted for the first time. By 1867, only a few streets were lighted. To encourage the lighting of streets, the town agreed to pay for the gas and lighting of the lamps for every person who would erect a lamp-post and lantern at their own expense, such posts to be erected at stipulated distances. Street lighting by coal gas furnished by the Gas-Light Company soon proved very expensive for the town. In order to reduce the cost of street lighting, the town had the streets lighted with naphtha gas (called gasoline) from 1874 to June of 1876. At that time the Gas-Light Company reduced its rates, and the lighting of street lamps with coal gas was resumed. The adoption of gas for lighting was very slow, for in 1876 the company was supplying gas for only one hundred street lamps and two hundred and forty-three customers, although the town had a popu-
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lation of nearly eight thousand. As of December 31, 1944, the Boston Consolidated Gas Company had twenty-two thousand, one hundred and ninety-nine active meters in Quincy.
On June 20, 1928, the New England Power Association of Boston purchased the Quincy Electric Light and Power Company, which had been organized on February 15, 1888, by a group of far-sighted citi- zens, one of whom, Henry M. Faxon, is living today. The success of the company should be attributed to Mr. Faxon who, for many years, served as its president and general manager.
The original plant of the Quincy Electric Light and Power Com- pany was located on Quincy Avenue nearly opposite the Headquar- ters of the Quincy Fire Department. On March 2, 1902, the company started operating its new plant at the foot of Morrison Street on the banks of Town River. This plant is used today for two purposes: as a substation for the distribution of alternating current throughout the city by the Quincy Electric Light and Power Company, and as a substation for the Boston Edison Company for converting alternating current to direct current for the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company.
Since November, 1920 the Quincy Electric Light and Power Com- pany has purchased its electricity from the Boston Edison Company.
From June 30, 1900 to December 31, 1944, the meter installations of the Quincy Electric Light and Power Company increased from five hundred and fifty-nine to twenty-six thousand, one hundred and ninety-eight.
The United States Naval Air Station at Squantum, famous throughout the country, now includes the site where, in 1923, was founded the first Naval Reserve Air Station in the United States. The founder of this station was the famous explorer and scientist, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, then Lieutenant. This station also includes the site where in 1910, was held one of the first aviation meets of the United States. The feature of this meet was the ten thousand-dollar Boston Globe "double trip" non-stop flight of thirty-three miles around Boston Light House (the oldest in the United States), which was won by Claude Graham-White of England in forty minutes. This flight marked Quincy definitely first in aviation in the United States.
Radio is represented in Quincy by transmitting station WNAC, key station of the Yankee Network for New England, and the inde- pendent station WMEX.
The Quincy Chamber of Commerce, "Headquarters of Business and Civic Activities" of Quincy, is the outgrowth of the Quincy Board of Trade, constituted December 16, 1895. It was organized for the purpose of "uniting the energies and influences of the public welfare of Quincy, and to aid in the development of all legitimate enterprises
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which would tend to increase its prosperity." Quincy's character as an industrial center over a period of years, has been wisely advanced by businessmen working through this active civic organization. A cordial welcome awaits all interested in Quincy at the "Friendly Old Colonial Home," the new headquarters of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce, located at the corner of Washington and Coddington Streets, in Quincy Square.
In 1936, a committee of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce organ- ized the Quincy Community Fund to act as a clearing house for the city's Social Service and Character Building agencies. The secretary of the Chamber of Commerce has always acted as secretary and cam- paign director of the fund. Since 1943 the Quincy Community Fund has been merged with the National War Fund.
The Social Service and Character Building agencies of Quincy and the National War Fund appeals, which benefit by the Quincy Community-National War Fund, are the following: Family Welfare Society, Child Guidance Clinic, Junior Welfare League, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Quincy Catholic Charities Association, Quincy Council of Social Agencies, Quincy Vis- iting Nurse Association, the Salvation Army, Young Men's Christian Association, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, First Parish Church - Servicemen's Recreation Room, Knights of Columbus Civic Institute - Servicemen's Center, U.S.O. (United Service organization), United Seamen's Service (Merchant Marine), War Prisoners Aid (for the exclusive benefit of the armed forces of the United States and their allies captured by our enemies, and now in concentration camps over- seas), American Field Service, American Relief for Italy, American Relief for Norway, Belgian War Relief Society, British War Relief Society, French Relief Fund, Friends of Luxembourg, Greek War Re- lief Association, National American Denmark Association, Philippine War Relief of the United States, Polish War Relief, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Russian War Relief, United China Relief, United Czechoslovak Relief, United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America, United Yugoslav Relief Fund, Refugee Relief Trustees, and the United States Com- mittee for Care of European Children. In addition to the Quincy Community-National War Fund, several other Social and Character Building organizations are carrying on excellent programs for the benefit of the citizenry of Quincy. It is of interest to note that the first service organization of Quincy, the Quincy Charitable Society, estab- lished November 21, 1837, lives today in the service of the Quincy Welfare Society.
On April 7, 1917, the day following the entrance of the United States into World War I, at a meeting called by the Honorable Joseph L. Whiton, then Mayor of Quincy, it was unanimously voted to organ- ize a branch of the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Red Cross in Quincy. At the public meeting held May 23, 1917, the Quincy Branch was organized with the late Doctor Nathaniel S. Hunting, one
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of Quincy's beloved physicians, as chairman. In this capacity he served faithfully for many years. The achievements of the Quincy Branch during World War I were notable.
The present Quincy Chapter of the American Red Cross was organized as an independent chapter of the American National Red Cross in May of 1921. It operates under a national charter and is responsible for all local phases of national obligations as well as all local Red Cross activities in Quincy. Since its inception, the Quincy Chapter has grown and served the community in both peace and war. From the beginning of World War II the local and national demands for the various services of the Quincy Chapter have increased tremen- dously. At the present time more than three thousand, five hundred loyal volunteer workers, assisted by a small paid staff, are meeting these war-time demands enthusiastically and promptly.
The services of the Quincy Chapter are organized on a twenty- four-hour basis as follows: Assistance to Servicemen and ex-Servicemen and their families; Disaster Preparedness and Relief; First Aid, Water Safety, and Accident Service; Camp and Hospital Council Service; Nursing Service; Nurse Recruitment for the Armed Forces; Nutrition; Public Information Service, and Volunteer Special Service such as Home Service, Staff Assistants, Nurses Aides, Canteen, Motor, and Production Corps. The Production Corps during a four-year period has made one million, three hundred and thirteen thousand, seven hundred and eighty surgical dressings and one hundred and thirty-two thousand, six hundred and eighty-nine garments for the armed forces and for National and Foreign Relief. This corps had also made and filled seven thousand, four hundred and fifty-seven kit bags which are given to the members of the armed forces leaving for service overseas. The Canteen and Motor Corps have performed devoted service by providing hot coffee, milk, coffee-rolls and doughnuts to the men of Quincy reporting for their pre-induction examinations or their induc- tion into the armed forces. During the hurricanes of September 23, 1938 and September 13, 1944, the Quincy Chapter rendered vital assistance to the citizens and officials of Quincy. In addition, the Quincy chapter acts as an agent for the International Red Cross in their many types of aid to the American prisoners of war and civilian internees.
The American Junior Red Cross, established by Presidential proc- lamation during World War I, is the Red Cross in the schools - pub- lic, parochial, and private. The Junior Red Cross of Quincy with its twelve thousand members is the largest youth organization in the city. The Red Cross considers this a challenge and an opportunity to de- velop in youth, by service, the highest qualities of citizenship and better human relations throughout the world.
For twenty-five years the American Red Cross has conducted a nation-wide Roll Call or membership campaign. In 1939, the Roll
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Call of the Quincy chapter was about four thousand dollars, an inter- esting comparison to the roll call of 1943-1944 of one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars, which was oversubscribed fifteen per cent by the loyal supporters of the Red Cross in Quincy.
The story of the Red Cross is one of consecrated service to man- kind.
Quincy today, as in 1636, leads in the practical application of Freedom of Worship. It was in Quincy that the project of an inter- faith series of noonday religious meetings was started in February, 1939 at the suggestion of the Reverend Victor V. Sawyer, chaplain of the Quincy Kiwanis Club and minister of the Wollaston Methodist Church. These community gatherings in the Strand Theater are spon- sored by the Quincy Church Attendance Council, composed of repre- sentatives of the local service clubs: Kiwanis, Rotary, Quintonus, Lions, and the Chamber of Commerce. The purpose is to promote church attendance throughout the year at the church of one's choice, and to promote a better understanding and co-operation among the Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. At these gatherings, the example of which is being followed by other cities and towns throughout the United States, one may freely hear representatives of the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths. The slogan of this project is: "You go to your church and I'll go to mine, but let's walk along together."
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CHAPTER XVII
MANET
WHEN Old Braintree was founded, world conditions were as un- settled and ominous as those which prevail today. "Russia was an unknown and barbarous region. Prussia was yet to be created. The Thirty Years' War was still raging; Sweden was the first military power in Europe. Poland then was the bulwark of civilization. Richelieu, the great cardinal-duke, was organizing modern France. In England men had yet to hear of Oliver Cromwell."
Through world changes of more than three hundred years, Old Braintree and Quincy have remained, increased, and prospered. Quincy stands today sturdily facing the future with the same confident spirit which characterized it in early days on through the years of farmland, village and town.
Truly, Quincy is worthy of its motto: "Manet - It Remains."
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APPENDIX I POINTS OF INTEREST IN QUINCY
TOWN HALL; CITY HALL OF QUINCY. Completed November 1, 1844. Architect, Solomon Willard. Built of Quincy Granite.
FIRST PARISH CHURCH. Gathered September 26, 1639. Present edifice, fourth of the Parish, dedicated by the Reverend Peter Whitney, November 12, 1828. The First Parish Church is a national shrine, for here lie the mortal remains of John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, second and sixth Presidents of the United States, and their wives, Abigail (Smith) Adams and Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams.
OLD BURYING GROUND; HANCOCK CEMETERY. Oldest headstone marked December 10, 1666. Erected in memory of the Reverend William Tompson, first minister of the Church of Christ in Braintree.
THE BIRTHPLACES OF PRESIDENTS JOHN AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 133 and 141 Franklin Street, South Quincy. The birthplace of Presi- dent John Adams was built in 1681. Headquarters of the Adams Chapter, Daughters of the Revolution. The birthplace of Presi- dent John Quincy Adams was built in 1716. Headquarters of the Quincy Historical Society.
ABIGAIL ADAMS CAIRN, Penn's Hill, South Quincy. Erected in 1896. From this spot Abigail Adams with her son, John Quincy Adams, then a boy of seven years, watched the smoke of burning Charles- town, while listening to the roar of cannon at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.
SOUTH DISTRICT or STONE SCHOOL HOUSE, 117 School Street. Built of Quincy Granite, 1829.
AHAVATH ACHIM SYNAGOGUE, 141 School Street. Dedicated 1903.
J. S. SWINGLE QUARRY, West Quincy. Deepest quarry in Quincy; depth, 375 feet.
BUNKER HILL QUARRY, head of Bunker Hill Lane, West Quincy. From this quarry came the stone for the "first and second experiments" of Bunker Hill Monument. The First (commercial) Railroad in America ran from the Bunker Hill Quarry to the tide water in the Neponset River, 1826.
GRANITE RAILWAY QUARRY, West Quincy. The Old Incline Plane, and Turn Table, at the foot of this quarry, designed and built by Gridley Bryant, were a part of the First (commercial) Railroad in America.
SAINT MARY'S CHURCH (second edifice), Crescent Street, West Quincy. Original Roman Catholic Parish in Quincy and the South Shore. Dedicated September 18, 1842, by the Right Reverend Bishop Fenwick.
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FIRST IRON WORKS, 1646. Site near the junction of Furnace Brook Parkway and Cross Street, West Quincy.
THE WILLIAM B. RICE EVENTIDE HOME, 215 Adams Street.
THE BEALE HOMESTEAD, 181 Adams Street. Built in 1792. Outstand- ing Colonial architecture.
THE ADAMS MANSION, 135 Adams Street. Built in 1731 by Major Leon- ard Vassall, a Tory or Loyalist. Purchased by President John Adams in 1787. Once the home of President John Adams, Presi- dent John Quincy Adams, and Honorable Charles Francis Adams, Minister to England during the Civil War. On the death of Brooks Adams in 1927, the last of the family to occupy the man- sion, the Adams family formed the Adams Memorial Society, which owns and maintains the "Old House" as a memorial to the members of the Adams family whose names are a part of the nation's history. Among the celebrities entertained here were President James Monroe in 1817, General Lafayette in 1824 and 1825, Doctor Benjamin Franklin, and Honorable Daniel Webster.
ADAMS ACADEMY BUILDING, erected in 1871. Site of birthplace of John Hancock. Present headquarters of the Quincy Council, Boy Scouts of America; Production Corps workrooms, Quincy Chapter of the American Red Cross; Library of the Quincy Historical Society.
QUINCY HOMESTEAD; DOROTHY Q. HOUSE, 34 Butler Road. Built by the third Edmund Quincy in 1706. In the Secret Chamber of this house, John Hancock hid from the British in 1775. The Quincy Homestead is maintained by the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames.
MAYPOLE PARK, Samoset Avenue, Merrymount. Site of Morton's May- pole of 1627, and the Cedar Tree of the Seal of the City of Quincy.
MOUNT WOLLASTON BRIDGE over Black's Creek, formerly Mount Wol- laston River, on the Quincy Shore Boulevard near the junction of Furnace Brook Parkway. Here Captain Wollaston and his party landed in 1625.
EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE, established in 1919. The site of the Josiah Quincy Mansion 23 East Elm Avenue, Wollaston.
COLONEL JOSIAH QUINCY MANSION, 20 Muirhead Street, Wollaston. Built in 1770. Among the celebrities entertained here were Gen- eral Lafayette, Doctor Benjamin Franklin, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Captain Isaac Hull of the U.S.S. Constitution (Old Iron- sides), and Honorable Daniel Webster. The Mansion is now owned and maintained by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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MOSWETUSET HUMMOCK, junction of East Squantum Street and the Quincy Shore Boulevard. Chief seat of Chickatabot, the Sachem of the Moswetuset or Massachusetts Tribe of Indians. Site from which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts derived its name.
MYLES STANDISH CAIRN, Squantum. Erected in 1895 to commemorate the landing of the first white men on these shores, September 30, 1621, Captain Myles Standish and party from Plymouth, guided by Tisquantum or Squanto, the faithful and beloved Indian friend and interpreter of the Pilgrims.
KENDALL PARK, 106 Atlantic Street, North Quincy. Site of Quincy's geological phenomenon, the "Kettle Hole," formed during the Ice Age of America.
SHIP COVE, now part of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Shipbuilding Division, Quincy Yard. Site of the first shipyard in Old Brain- tree, 1696.
THE GREGORY BAXTER HOUSE at the corner of Canal and Spear Streets, built in 1650, is the oldest house now standing in Quincy.
THOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY, junction of Washington and Cod- dington Streets.
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APPENDIX II BIBLIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS, Charles Francis, ed. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising portions of His Diary from 1795-1848, 12 Volumes, 1874.
ADAMS, Charles Francis. Letter to Edwin Wilson Marsh of Quincy, 1876.
ADAMS, Charles Francis, Jr. Address at the Dedication of the Thomas Crane Public Library, 1882.
ADAMS, Charles Francis, Jr. History of Quincy, Hurd's Norfolk County, Chapter XIII, Pages 257-388, 1884.
ADAMS, Charles Francis, Jr. History of Braintree, Massachusetts (1639-1708), The North Precinct of Braintree (1708-1792), and the Town of Quincy (1792-1889) 1891. Fifty copies were printed for private distribution.
ADAMS, Charles Francis, Jr. The Three Episodes of Massachusetts History. 2 Volumes. 1892.
ADAMS, Charles Francis, Jr. The Centennial Milestone, 1892.
ADAMS, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams, 1930.
ADAMS, Henry. The Adams Mansion, 1935.
ADAMS, President John. Deeds and other Documents relating to several pieces of land and to the Library, presented by John Adams to the Town of Quincy, 1822.
ADAMS, President John Quincy. Address to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, 1832.
ADAMS, James Truslow. The Adams Family, 1930.
ADAMS, James Truslow. Dictionary of American History, 1940.
BARBER, John W. Historical Collection of Massachusetts, 1839.
BATES, Samuel A. Braintree Town Records 1640-1793, 1886.
BAILEY, Ebenezer. Separation of Church and State, 1901. Proceedings of the Fitchburg Historical Society, 1900-1906, 1908.
BARTLETT, J. Gardner. Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Brain- tree, Massachusetts, 1927.
BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER. Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts at Boston, November 15, 1820 to January 9, 1821. 1853.
BRADFORD'S HISTORY. "Of Plimoth Plantation," 1901.
BRAYLEY, Arthur W. History of the Granite Industry of New England. 2 Volumes, 1913.
CUTLER, Reverend Benjamin C. A Sermon preached in Christ Church, Quincy, on completing a Century since its formation on Christmas Day, 1827. 1828.
COLLINS, Timothy J. Chronicle of the Tercentenary Celebration, June 7-13, 1925. Three Hundred Years of Quincy, 1926.
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COLLINS, William H. Fore River Yard and United States Navy, 1942.
CURTIS, Noah. Personal Diary, 1812-1852.
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FISKE, John. Civil Government in the United States, 1891.
FISKE, John. The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789; 1891.
FISKE, John. The Beginnings of New England, 1898.
HANCOCK, Reverend John. Two Sermons, preached in the First Church of Christ in Braintree, on completing the First Century since the Gathering of It, 1739.
HART, Albert Bushnell, ed. Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, 5 Vol- umes, 1927-1930.
HUNGERFORD, Edward. The Modern Railroad, 1912.
HURD, D. Hamilton. The History of Norfolk County of Massachusetts, 1884. HUTCHINSON, Thomas. History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1764- 1828.
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NASON, Reverend Elias. A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, 1874.
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PALFREY, John G. History of New England, 5 Volumes, 1858-1890.
PARTRIDGE, Lelia E. The Quincy Methods, 1885.
PATTEE, Doctor William S. History of Old Braintree and Quincy, 1878.
POWELL, Colonel William H. List of Officers of the Army of the United States from 1779-1900.
QUINCY, Edmund. Life of Josiah Quincy, 1868.
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QUINCY, Josiah. Figures of the Past, 1883.
QUINCY SCHOOLS AT WORK. Report prepared under the direction of James N. Muir, Superintendent of Schools. Text by Mildred B. Harrison, 1940. RILEY, Arthur J. Catholicism in New England to 1788, 1936.
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WARREN, George W. History of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1887.
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NEWSPAPERS
Quincy Monitor, Vol. I, No. 2. Catholic Quincy, May 1886.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Historical Data relating to Counties, Cities, and Towns in Massachusetts. Prepared by the Secretary of the Common- wealth, Division of Public Records, 1920.
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