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than two hundred newly-naturalized American citizens, small American flags. It was one of a series of gatherings "to promote real Americanism and better understanding among all peoples regardless of racial, relig- ious or other affiliations; to help preserve our institutions for posterity and develop a genuine spirit of fraternity, brotherhood and goodwill," to quote from the acknowledged purpose of the Cosmopolitan Club. This club, consisting of representatives from twenty-six nationalities resident in Brockton and vicinity, takes an enthusiastic part in the promotion of what is called the "Brockton idea."
The movement attained commendable impetus in preparations for "Citizens' Day," which was observed on the Brockton Fair Grounds, June 30, 1925, with Hon. James J. Davis, United States Secretary of Labor, one of the speakers. Over 30,000 people were on the grounds and the speeches were broadcasted by radio throughout the country. There was a central committee of two hundred and thirty men and women which was organized into thirty-two sub-committees. Over five hundred committee meetings were held and over one thousand served on individual organization committees. The movement registered itself in public recognition as the forward movement which exceeded any other undertaken for the purpose in the United States.
Concerning the movement, Secretary Davis said :
Your city of Brockton is one of the bright spots in the work of making real Americans out of the strangers who come to us from foreign lands. Here you are well organized for the education of the foreign-born in the institutions and ideals which make America great. In that you are makng easy the way of the alien on the road to citizenship. No community can find a better way to serve the aliens who have come to it, or to serve the interests of the whole nation. This work of providing education in true Americanism for those who come to us from abroad means practical patriotism.
It is to be regretted that this work is not being pursued on a greater scale in every community from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where are found scattered groups of the more than 6,000,000 aliens who go to make up our great un-naturalized alien population. It has been estimated that no more than twenty per cent of this alien population is reached by such efforts at education in Americanism as you have undertaken with such great success here.
It is with profound satisfaction that I find so many different organizations en- gaged in this work. Here your patriotic, civic, religious, fraternal and service groups have joined in patriotic cooperation to forward this movement that means so much to the America of today, and the America of the future. This cooperation, which you have found so successful here in providing educational facilities for the alien in America, I should like to see organized upon a national basis under the guidance of the federal bureau of naturalization, in order that every alien in this country might have his opportunity to learn and know America as America is. If this education in true Americanism is good for a few, and you have clearly demonstrated here that it is, surely it is good for all.
It is all too true that we have long neglected the alien who comes to America seeking American opportunity and American liberty. We admit him to this country, and from the day he leaves the immigration station of his arrival we completely
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lose track of him. He is truly a stranger in a strange land, in most cases ignorant of our language, our customs, our mode of life.
It is small wonder that he naturally seeks the companionship of those who are here from his native land, that he clings to his old language and his old customs. The time has come to give to every alien admitted to the United States the means of knowing his new country, its history, its traditions, its ideals. If we can do this we will make sure of better Americans for America, and of a better America for Americans.
He complimented Brockton for being the first city in the country to set aside a day for such an occasion and stated that within a short time he expected that every city in the country would be doing the same thing.
The Brockton Chamber of Commerce, successor to the Brockton Board of Trade, has headquarters on Legion Parkway, and is an active or- ganization for the development of the municipal progress and excel- lence. Harry C. Briggs is the president and Joseph F. Reilly executive secretary of the 1927 organization. It is the representative commercial body of the city, well organized to take advantage of an opportunity in the forward movement.
Community Chest-Beginning with 1922 the best recognized char- ities of the city have been assisted by the Community Chest, as it is popularly called, funds voluntarily contributed by charitably-disposed people and corporations, and placed in the hands of the Brockton Social Service Council for distribution. At the annual meeting of this or- ganization in February, 1927, officers were elected as follows : President, George H. Leach; first vice-president, George N. Gordon ; second vice- president, Stephen P. Alden ; treasurer, Josph C. Crocker, Jr .; secretary, John J. O'Reilly. The executive committee consists of George W. Alden, Mrs. B. Milo Burke, Robert C. Fraser, Harold C. Keith, Judge C. Carrol King, C. A. McLaughlin, John F. Scully, Albert G. Smith and Mrs. George W. Sprague.
The Community Chest plan was adopted because it was the concensus of opinion that it was superior to the old method of individual drives in the interest of various charitable organizations.
The Community Chest has trustees-at-large, consisting of Stephen P. Alden, John M. Bosch, Mrs. B. Milo Burke, George N. Gordon, Alton B. Hastings, Jr., S. Ernest Hinckley, Harold C. Keith, Preston B. Keith, Isaac Kibrick, John M. Long, Morton L. C. McCrillis, Daniel W. Pack- ard, Fred L. Packard, Lester Packard, Albert G. Smith, Mrs. George W. Sprague, Max Wind and Mrs. Joseph Hewett.
The beneficiary trustees are: American Legion, Michael A. Caffrey, Loring Hall; Boy Scouts, William L. Merrill, George H. Leach; Brock- ton Hospital, George W. Alden, Herbert L. Tinkham; Catholic Char- ities, Clement L. McCann, Rev. Dr. Irving L. Gifford; Day Nursery, Mrs. Ellis B. Ford, Mrs. Charles Wadleigh; Family Welfare Associa-
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tion, Ernest A. Burrill, William B. Nash; Girl Scouts, Miss Miriam B. Swift, Miss Vesta L. Crocker; Jewish Charities, A. B. Yaffe, Dr. D. L. Butler ; Red Cross, John F. Scully, Mrs. Walter H. Gilday; Salvation Army, Commandant J. T. Parkin, Captain Charles Drew; Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Clarence C. Reed, Charles A. Parris; Visiting Nurse Association, Mrs. Perley G. Flint, Mrs. Fred Drew; Wales Home for Old Ladies, Norman W. Sampson, Carleton R. Blades; Young Men's Christian Association, Evan W. Thomas, C. A. McLaughlin; Young Men's Hebrew Association, Louis Hollman, Miss Esther Pollen; Young Women's Christian Association, Mrs. George W. Sprague, Miss Vesta M. Little.
In four years since the Community Chest was established, the total amount pledged has been $610,671.92 and, up to the time of the annual meeting in February, 92.2 per cent of the pledges had been collected. Campaign expenses have amounted to 3.07 per cent, and administration expenses 4.5 per cent.
The Brockton Hospital, the most notable institution of its kind in Plymouth County, is in this year 1927 carrying on its thirty-second year of activity. The late George Clarence Holmes was called the "Father of the Brockton Hospital." As a newspaper man, he advocated its es- tablishment in his correspondence to the Boston "Sunday Globe" and worked persistently to get the movement started and bring it to success.
The Brockton Hospital provides a service for medical and surgical treatment for other towns in the county, which are without hospital facilities, and is one of the institutions which are justly the pride of the county. An average of approximately 6,000 patients have received treatment annually in recent years. Until 1926, an organization which had been of great assistance to the institution, was the Brockton Hos- pital Ladies' Aid Association. Much to the regret of the trustees, it decided that its work was done, and disbanded after thirty-six years in which it had assisted materially in raising the institution from among the minor hospitals of the State to its present position of stability and importance. The president of the Brockton Hospital Company in 1926 was Herbert L. Tinkham, and in his annual report he recommended the employment of a social service worker, which had been suggested by the American College of Surgeons, as the next important step.
There has been a School of Nursing in connection with the hospital for thirty-one years, and the graduates have invariably been a credit to the institution. The Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the School of Nursing is Bertha A. Hunt, R. N.
The hospital is located on Center Street, Brockton, a little over a mile east of the Brockton Railroad Station. There are fourteen acres in the hospital grounds. The general management and control are in the hands
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of a corporation consisting of the persons named in the original articles of the association, practicing physicians of Brockton, who are members of the Massachusetts Medical or the Massachusetts Homeopathic Med- ical societies, those who contribute annually to the hospital, the mayor of the city, president of the Board of Aldermen, president of the Com- mon Council. The Brockton Hospital Corporation was organized in 1890 and the hospital opened for service in 1896. The hospital has a capacity of over 125 beds and a daily average of 100 patients. The School of Nursing, established in 1907, offers a three years' course.
The present officers, trustees, and committees are as follows: Pres- ident, Herbert L. Tinkham; vice-president, Robert W. Laird; treasurer and business manager, Geo. W. Alden; auditors, Horace A. Keith, Mrs. Perley G. Flint ; clerk, Dr. Frederick M. Hollister ; trustees, George W. Alden, Dr. Arthur L. Beals, John M. Bosch, Harry C. Briggs, Dr. Frank H. Burnett, William T. Card, Davis M. DeBard, Miss M. Sylvia Donald- son, William E. Doyle, Fred Drew, Fred F. Field, Jr., Mrs. Perley G. Flint, Dr. Walter W. Fullerton, Mrs. Joseph Hewett, Arthur M. Keith, Mrs. Eldon B. Keith, Horace A. Keith, Isaac Kibrick, John S. Kent, Jr., Robert W. Laird, Dr. Joseph. H. Lawrence, Miss Lillian D. Leach, Merton L. McCrillis, Sven Moberg, Dr. Frederick W. Murdock, Daniel W. Packard, Dr. A. Elliott Paine, Lars Peterson, Clarence C. Reed, Fred D. Rowe, Mrs. Abbie S. Savage, Warren S. Shaw, Evan W. Thomas, Herbert L. Tinkham, F. Harold Tolman, Max E. Wind.
Friendship Committee, Horace A. Keith; Endowment Fund Com- mittee, Stephen P. Alden, chairman ; George H. Leach, Isaac Kibrick; School of Nursing Committee, Dr. Arthur A. Beals, chairman; Stephen P. Alden, Mrs. Annie Caswell, Lewis E. Rye, Dr. Frederick M. Hol- lister, Miss Bertha A. Hunt, Clarence A. Mclaughlin, Miss Lillian D. Leach; Executive Committee, Dr. Arthur L. Beals, John M. Bosch, Harry C. Briggs, Dr. Frank H. Burnett, Dr. Walter W. Fullerton, Lars Peterson, Daniel W. Packard, Merton L. McCrillis, Dr. Joseph H. Law- rence, Evan W. Thomas; ex-Officio, Herbert L. Tinkham, Robert W. Laird, Geo. W. Alden, Mayor Harold D. Bent.
Finance Committee, Daniel W. Packard, chairman; Herbert L. Tink- ham, Robert W. Laird, George W. Alden.
Hospital Committee, Dr. Arthur L. Beals, chairman; Dr. Frank H. Burnett, Dr. Wallace C. Keith, Dr. Joseph H. Lawrence, Dr. Walter W. Fullerton.
Welfare Committee, John M. Bosch, chairman; Merton L. McCrillis.
House and Grounds Committee, Evan W. Thomas, chairman; Lars Peterson, Harry C. Briggs.
Surgical staff, Dr. M. Francis Barrett, chief ; Dr. George A. Buckley, associate; Dr. Charles D. McCann, assistant.
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Medical staff, Dr. William Gordon Walker, chief; associates, Dr. Henry J. Lupien, Dr. John J. McNamara, Dr. John A. Pettey.
Obstetrical, Dr. Charles D. McCann, chief; Dr. Alphonse F. Budreski, associate.
Pediatric, Dr. Walter E. Caswell.
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Dr. John F, Callahan, Dr. John R. Noyes, Dr. Andrew J. Sullivan.
Anesthetist, Dr. Helen M. Haynes.
Laboratory Director, Dr. Frederick M. Hollister.
Registrar of Records, Dr. Arthur L. Beals.
Radium Service, Dr. George A. Moore.
Roentgenologist, Dr. Loring B. Packard.
Cystoscopist, Dr. Harrison A. Chase.
Out-Patient Department, Dr. Charles D. McCann, surgeon ; Dr. Joseph E. Brady, asthma clinic; Dr. Walter E. Caswell, children's clinic.
Venereal Disease, Dr. George A. Buckley, chief ; Dr. Helen M. Haynes, associate.
House Officers, Manuel M. Glazier, M. D., April, 1926; Valmore A. Pelletier, M. D., August, 1926; David William Pope, M. D., August, 1926.
Staff Organization, Dr. Frederick M. Hollister, chairman; Dr. Wil- liam Gordon Walker, secretary.
Efficiency Committee, Dr. Frederick M. Hollister, chairman; Dr. M. Francis Barrett, Dr. Loring B. Packard, Dr. Arthur L. Beals, Dr. Wil- liam Gordon Walker.
Special Consulting Staff : Surgeons, Dr. Daniel F. Jones, Dr. Horace Packard, Dr. Charles F. Painter, Dr. Geo. W. W. Brewster; Physicians, Dr. W. W. Gannett, Dr. Joseph H. Pratt, Dr. Frank H. Carlisle, Dr. Bradford H. Peirce; Neurologist, Dr. Oscar J. Raeder; Dermatologist, Dr. Austin W. Cheever; Pediatrist, Dr. Paul W. Emerson; Urologist, Dr. John H. Cunningham ; Proctologist, Dr. Ralph W. Jackson; Roent- genologist, Dr. George W. Holmes; Bacteriologist, George E. Bolling; Dentist, Dr. J. E. Ganley.
Honorary Consulting Staff : Surgical, Dr. N. C. King, Dr. J. H. Law- rence, Dr. T. H. McCarthy ; Medical, Dr. J. E. Bacon, Dr. A. L. Beals, Dr. W. W. Fullerton, Dr. W. C. Keith, Dr. J. P. Shaw.
Officers of the Hospital and School of Nursing : Superintendent, Fred- erick M. Hollister, M. D .; Business Manager, George W. Alden; Principal and Superintendent of Nurses, Bertha A. Hunt, R. N .; As- sistant Superintendent of Nurses, Winnifred E. Cameron, R. N .; In- structor, Eunice M. Logue, R. N .; Night Supervisor, Alice E. O'Neill, R. N .; Supervisor Operating Rooms, Mary MacGillivray, R. N .; As- sistant Supervisor Operating Rooms, Viva E. Johnson, R. N .; Supervisor
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Obstetrical Department, Adele M. Burton, R. N .; Supervisor Out- Patient Department, Mary E. Forbes, R. N .; Head Nurse Male Ward, Anna Leland, R. N .; Dietitian, Gladys A. Cole; Statistician and Book- keeper, Jennie F. Palmer; Record Clerk, Sara E. Ginrich; Supervisor Women's and Children's Wards, Helen A. Grogan, R. N .; Head Nurse Wales Private Ward, Anna L. Strand, R. N .; X-Ray Technician, Chris- tine MacR. Helm, R. N .; Laboratory Technician, Edith H. Kelley, B. S .; Housekeeper, Josephine G. Robinson.
Chronological List Presidents of the Brockton Hospital
Hon. Ziba C. Keith, 1890-1892.
Mr. Kenneth McLeod, 1907-1912.
Mr. Robbins B. Grover, 1893-1897. Mr. George H. Leach, 1913-1919.
Mr. Oliver A. Miller, 1898. Mr. Stephen P. Alden, 1920-1921.
Mr. William Rapp, 1899-1901.
Mr. Davis M. DeBard, 1922-1925.
Mr. George C. Holmes, 1902-1904.
Mr. Herbert L. Tinkham, 1926.
Hon. John S. Kent, 1905-1906.
Treasurers of the Brockton Hospital
Fred B. Howard, 1890-1897.
William G. Allen, 1911-1917.
Fred R. French, 1898-1899.
Davis M. DeBard, 1918-1920.
Albert H. Fuller, 1900-1903.
George W. Alden, 1921.
Dr. Samuel J. Gruver, 1905-1910.
Brockton Shoe Workers Well Paid-According to the records at the Bureau of Labor Statistics at Washington, District of Columbia, ob- tained as the result of a survey, the average full time earnings per week in Brockton in 1926 was $33.17. The average for the State of Mas- sachusetts was $28.44 and in the shoe industry for the United States, $25.28. This brings the Brockton average earnings for shoe workers $7.89 per week above the national average and $4.73 above the State average.
As compared with other shoe cities, the number of hours averaged a week in Brockton for full time was forty-eight. For all Massachusetts the average was forty-seven and eight-tenths hours and for the shoe industry in the United States forty-nine and one-tenth hours.
The average earnings per hour for the Brockton shoe worker was sixty-nine and one-tenth cents. For the State it was fifty-nine and one- half cents and for the United States in shoe industries fifty-one and six- tenths cents per hour.
According to the records of the Massachusetts State Department of Labor and Industries for 1925, the total number of manufacturing estab- lishments in Brockton was two hundred and sixty-five. Forty-five were engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and sixty-five in the
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manufacture of cut stock and findings. The total value of all products manufactured in the city was $69,692,575. The boot and shoe value of manufactured products was $41,783,163, or sixty per cent. The value of cut stock and findings was $12,842,934, or eighteen and four-tenths per cent, and these figures do not include the value of lasts, nails, blackings, stains and dressings, models and patterns and adhesives.
The average number of wage earners employed in the two hundred and sixty-five manufacturing establishments was 13,148. The total amount of wages paid was $15,732,922.
Million Dollars for Charity Fund-A check for $1,000,000 was de- posited in the Brockton National Bank February 7, 1927, bearing the signature of Edgar B. Davis, once a poor boy in Brockton. The city was his birthplace and was always considered his home until, a few weeks before the date given, he transferred his residence to Luling, Texas. Back of this million-dollar check, another one of similar size deposited for the benefit of Texas orphans and farmers, others of sub- stantial amounts, a fortune in each instance as regarded by the average man, lies a romance which would require a volume rather than mere mention to tell deservingly. The biographical sketches connected with this history tell something of this present-day Christian philanthropist, who recognizes the leading hand of Providence in his remarkable career, regarding himself merely the instrument of the Divine Power in doing all the good he can to his fellow-men.
The income of the million dollar fund in Brockton is used for general charitable and educational purposes, with special reference to needy orphans and children, and for the alleviation of suffering and distress, all without distinction as to race, party, sex or creed.
The name given by Mr. Davis to his benefaction is the Pilgrim Foundation. The incorporators are Mr. Davis and his secretary, Carle- ton R. White; George H. Leach, vice-president of the George E. Keith Company ; Charles P. Holland, president of the Plymouth County De- velopment Company; Walter F. Stephens, attorney for Mr. Davis; Ralph W. Copeland and Rev. Joseph Machin of West Bridgewater. The working organization of the foundation consists of three trustees, chosen by and from a board of seven directors, who are: Mr. Davis during his lifetime, and three to be appointed annually by him; George H. Leach, Charles P. Holland, Rev. Joseph Machin ; one to be appointed annually by the mayor of Brockton, H. Lawton Blanchard being the first appointee; one to be appointed annually by the president of the Brockton Central Labor Union, who named John P. Meade, director of industrial safety for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and one to be appointed annually by the president of the Brockton Chamber of Commerce who has named Dr. Pierce H. Leavitt.
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Mr. Davis acquired his present fortune from the oil wells of Texas. It is well to call it his present fortune as he made a previous one in rubber, passing it out here and there where it would do the most good, until there was nothing left. He is following the same general program with the present fortune and will continue to do so with as many fortunes as are given into his hands. It is his financial philosophy, and doing good his religion.
Mr. Davis is passionately fond of music, and gets a great deal of spiritual uplift from it. Consequently he decided to secure some of the best musical talent in America, bought out the largest theatre in Brock- ton for Good Friday in 1926, and invited everyone who could find a seat to attend. The following year he repeated the concert in the same way. He has a magnificent summer home on Buzzards Bay, and nationally known musicians give a concert every Sunday afternoon in the house, to which everyone is invited. Mr. Davis may be in the Philippines or in any other part of the world, as he is a frequent visitor wherever his desire for unselfish service calls him, but the concert at The House on the Sands at Wareham goes on for the enjoyment of whoever wishes to attend. Mr. Davis carefully selects the talent from his wide knowl- edge of the best in the musical world, makes up the programs and pays the bills.
Realizing the inadequate swimming facilities for the youth of Brock- ton, he established two swimming pools, with bath houses, playground equipment and attention given to every necessary detail, one at the north and one at the south end of the city. He then named this particular benefaction in honor of his old school teacher and friend, John I. Rackliffe, and went on to the next good work.
It is surely not the province of as permanent a record as a historical volume to attempt to make a list of the major benefactions of Edgar B. Davis. While one list was being made-even if anyone could know how to make such a list-Mr. Davis would make another necessary, as he receives his income and passes out his bounty as a continuous process and as a part of the day's work. He stated when he wrote the million-dollar check for the benefit of charitable and educational work in Brockton: "Believing, as I do, that the funds for the founda- tion about to be created for the benefit of humanity came from God Himself, I sign these papers to the honor and glory of God."
Plymouth County Development Company-An organization created by Mr. Davis for the benefit of the city of his birthplace and others is the Plymouth County Development Company, Inc., which has ac- quired several valuable properties for investment in the center of Brock- ton. Among them are the Amglim Building, Brockton's first eight-story business building; the Kennedy Building, Daniel S. Block, and the
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former Thomas White factory. Shortly after acquiring the latter prop- erty, the company sought a shoe-manufacturing concern to locate in Brockton and help solve the economic problem by manufacturing a grade of shoes seemingly more in demand at that time than the higher priced product for which Brockton was famous. None of the Brockton manufacturers appeared to be willing to demonstrate the practicability of engaging in the manufacture of the middle grade shoes, and the Plymouth County Development Company showed its desire to cooperate in such an experiment.
Following out the purpose in life of Mr. Davis which he has demon- strated to be service to his fellow-men, absolutely independent of the ordinary limitations or prejudices which actuate most people, the Plym- outh County Development Company can be depended upon to be of great benefit to the city.
Other Trust Funds and Donors-There have been a few gifts to the city of Brockton to be held in trust. All of the donors were citizens of Brockton.
Frederick Perkins of North Bridgewater, by his will gave to the inhabitants of the town, then under that name, a tract of land on the west side of North Main Street for a public common and pleasure ground. This was in January, 1863, and is the tract known as Perkins Park, on which was erected the soldiers' monument.
Under the will of Charles Stone, the city received in 1892 the Charles Stone Fund of $1,000 "the same to be invested and the income used by the overseers of the poor in furnishing clothing or other necessary articles to poor children outside of the almshouse."
Under the will of Abby W. Ford the trustees of the Public Library received, in 1903, the Henry A. Ford Fund of $3,000 "for the general uses and purposes of the library."
The sum of $1,000 was received for the Public Library under the will of Abby Baker Kingman in 1904.
In 1910, the Public Library received $3,000 by the provision of the will of Mary E. Perkins.
The sum of $75,000 was received by the city of Brockton in 1911, under the will of Clara Snow, to be divided : $25,000 "for excursions during the hot weather of the poor children of the city of Brockton ;" $25,000 "in giving Christmas dinners to worthy poor people;" and $25,000 "in giving Christmas presents to poor children of the city." The provisions called for each to be known as "The George G. Snow Fund" and the money to be invested and re-invested, the annual income to be devoted to the purposes stated.
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