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The popularity of the playgrounds may be shown by other figures. On Thanksgiving Day of 1911 there were 7,500 boys and men out to watch the several football games. On Sunday afternoons when the employed yonng men play baseball an attendance of 6,000 people on the grounds is not unusual. Young people are thus kept from the streets and entertained in a clean, healthy way.
It must be said that in the development of the Hol- yoke playgroundls there has been a steady holding to the ideal. For this too great credit can hardly be given to the superintendent, Frank O'Connell, who understands play, and who loves children and their pleasure in play. Because he understands the practical side of affairs, too, he has been able to make a comparatively small amount of money go a great ways.
Each year has seen a different supervisor of the grounds for the season of active supervised play. Mis- Legarde of Providence came in 1910 to show the way for hundling large numbers of children in play and in such pleasant wark as basket making, raffa weaving, and chair caning. Miss Theresa Mckenna, also of Providence, took the work forward in 1911, and this past year P H. Kelly of Holyoke has been the efficient supervisor.
The original playground commission was: William J. Howes, chairman; Mrs. James A. Allen, secretary ; Lonis A. LaFrance, Frank B. Towne, Mrs. William G. Dwight, Edward T, MeHugh, Archibald Brooks, Mary E. Husscy, and Moritz Ruther. Ex-Mayor N. P. Avery and Martin P. Conway have taken the places of Moritz Ruther and Mr. McHugh, and Mr. Avery is now chairman.
The playground commission would like very much to extend the scope of its work, believing that in such a way Hulyoke could hold to hier place as a leader in making her- self a good city for men and women to live in, and for their children to grow up in.
The opening of the school halls for the use of the people during the winter evenings, and the extension of the playgrounds, both in numher and in equipment are de- sirable ends towards which the playground leaders hope to work.
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HOLYOKE'S FIRE DEPARTMENT
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JULE W. B. C. PEARSONS, HOLYOKE'S FIRST MAYOR
CHIEF JOHN T. LYNCH.
Holyoke was probably the first city of its size to estab- lish an all-permanent fire department. Originally the fire tlepartments in cities and towns were volunteer organiza- tions that generally combined social and fraternal features as well as fire fighting. Then came the growth that in- creased the number of fires, and it was soon learnerl, often at expense of life and property, that the first few minutes of an incipient conflagration were the crucial time for fire fighting. So men were permanently established at the fire stations ; aml to ask them a large number of men employerl regularly at some occupation called callmien, responded to the alarms. These men were paid a salary each year; and there being a considerable number of them, and the extra money thus earned coming in very handy, especially in a city like Holyoke, where large wages are exceptional, it was a long and nphill fight to abolish the call department. Many citizens mistrusted the policy of an all-permanent de- partment under circumstances that prevailed here But in 1901 the step was taken that placed the thepartment untler au all-permanent basis; and it cannot be said that the citizens would now desire to go back to the old system that hitherto prevailed. For bringing this about, eredit must be given to Charles L. Newcomb, for many years chairman of the fire commission, and under whose regime the department was steadily brought up to increasing efficiency. As the wife of President U. S. Grant said of her husband, Mr. Newcomb is a very obstinate man ; amt in the face of bitter opposition Chairman Newcomb held firmly to his policies of improve- ment and advancement nutil when he left office Holyoke hrad the finest botly and equipment for fire fighting of a city of its size in the comtry.
Early recarils show that on December 17, 1850, a war- rant was issued signed by Fayette Smith, Alexander Day, anıl Hervey Chapin, then selectmien of the town of Hol- vnike, to ser if the inhaltants of said district would vote to establish a fire department. At this meeting, Chauncey B Rising, William H Carter, and Dr. A. S. Peck were ap- pointeil a committee to arrange a constitution and by-laws, At an adjourned meeting at the office of Miller & Newell, January 3, 1851, Fayette Smith presuledl and J. M. Davis acted as clerk. The In-laws as drawn up were adopterl. and these officers were chosen Chief engineer, Jonas Kendall : first assistant engineer, R. G. Marsh ; secund as- istant, S. K. Hutchinson ; third assistant, A S. Peck ; Emrah assistant, Ephraim Allen There is some indication that the work days of the Imil'mg fre ilepartment were not
without the enatomary "scrapping" that illummates the kis - tory of many other early departments of a city's Instory. For we note that at a subsequent meeting Jonas Kendall re- signed aud Ephraim Allen was "frul"-removeel, the record gently puts it, and! R. G. Marsh was electedl chief engineer, Jonas Kendall, first assistant, and P. W. Gal- fautdet, fourth assistant. This apparently put the fat in the fire once more, as at a later meeting more resignatima were handed in, and J. M. Morrison was elected first assistant, Gilbert Hogan, third assistant, and John Ross, funrih assistant.
The first company organized was the Mt. Tumm Hove Company, with these hosemen : H. J. Iloilges, C. W Ran- let. William Melcher, Jonas Kendall, T. H. Kelt, P. C Alexander, Albert Graves, Thompson Newbury, Stuart Chase, E. B. Wheeler, Edwin Chase, Daniel Bowdoin, G. W. Billings, L. P. Bosworth, J. C. Smith, A. Bowiloin, E. B. Rose, Sammel Flinn, W. Collins, and J. M. Cavanaugh. The sum of $1,300 was appropriated for engine, hose, hooks, ladders, etc., and the engine of the Hadley Falls Company honght. This was the first engine ever ownerl by the town and was christened Holyoke No. 1. It was an old-fashi- ioned haml engine of Button make. The salary of the chief engineer for the first year, it might he noterl, wa- Sen.
Of the sixty-two members in the year 1832 of this company, Robert Russell and Robert Honston are the two only surviving, so far as known. The Union llook and Ladder Company was organized in June, 1859, with these members: W. B. C. Pearson>, Samuel Roberts, E. O. Thorndike, G. N. Case, J. R. Hulbanl. P. S. Buckminster, F. K. Graves, John Carleton, Lyman Beach, Horace Baker, Frank Andrews, George MeCoon, Israel Thorndike, Levi Wilson, Abram Day, F P. Lund, E. M. Boston, D. Dill, G. D. Lincoln, E B. Rose, C ] Leach, M E. Flamlers. Charles Twiss, Ellsworth Chapin, aml S. ( Page One of the first engme honses was built on High street, near what was then Exchange Hall, a picture uf which hall is shown elsewhere me this issne h 1850 there were the following companies in the department : Holyoke No. t. Mechanic No. 1. Mt. Tom Hose No 1, and Union Honk and Ladder No. 1. The Reliance No. 1 house, on High street, was built aluring 1864, md in 1866 it was voted to locate the No 1 machine m the Holyoke Machine shop. This was after- wards reconsulereil, mul the No. 2 machine was sent an "Tigertown" (South Holyoke) In January, 1stk, the sal-
ury of the chief engineer was nierensed to Stun a year, and the Mt Holyoke Hilse Nu " was located at South Hol- woke. The first steam fre ungine was bought in 1866 and located on High street, a secoml-class Amoskeag machine, later located in the Highlmul- In 1874 it was voted to sell all the apparatus to the new city of itolvoke, mul the first chapter of the thepartment's history was closed.
Since the fire department was organized the following men have serverl as chief engineers of the department : 1851. R. G. Marsh; 1852-3, Daniel Bowiloin ; 1854-3, T. H. Kelt ; 1836-7-8, W B. C. Pearsons : 1839-60, Jones S. Davis ; 1861- , W B C Prarsons: 1862-4, W. H. Dickinson ; 1863-6-7. L. P. Bosworth ; 1868-0, R. P. Crafts; 1870, O). S. Tuttle ; tx7t. R. P. Crafts; 1879-3-4, Richard Pattce: 1875, B. F. Mullin : 1876-7-8, J. D Hardly : 1879, B. F Mullin; 1880, E. P. Ford: 1881-2-3-4, B. F. Bigelow; Issa to the present time, John T. Lynch.
The most serious fire in Holyoke's experience occurred May 25, 1873, when the French Catholic Church, a wooden huilling, canghi on fire when packed with worshipers. Some trapery enught from a candle, ami the interior being lry, the flames spread with great rapitlity, over seventy person> perishing. Outsiders attempting to get in to rescue those pemtell insitle and those coming out the main body of the church were met hy a stream of humanity rushing down from the galleries, anel the borlies were piled one on another. in some places seven or eight feet deep. The hero of the hour was John T. Lynch, the present chief of the de- partment. Withont hesitating a moment be rushed into the bmthing amel began to pull out the bothies, being aided lty a stream of water from his company's hose, which alone save his life. He resentel a score of mure of persons; and Holyoke has never forgotten his trees, even to the present
The fireman is the popular hero of the community, attl Ins calling is so full of peril as to entitle him to all possible consitleration. h is a httle ironic of Fate that this month has seen the tragic death of Assistant Chief Patrick J. Reilly, not from falling wall or Raming fre, hut in a clash hetwren an antimobile aml a hose wagon. \ brave, con- wientious worker. of merring good jnegowent, and an- versilly liked and held in high esteri, he was a member of the fire ilepartmem that the city conhl ill afford to lose
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HISTORY OF HOLYOKE'S CHURCHES
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
REV. E. A. REED, D. D., Pastor
Rev. E. A. Recd. D. D., recently completed 25 years of serv. ice- as pastor of the Second Congregational Church. An apprecia- tive people presented him with $2,000 as a mark of the gratitude which not only the parish, but the whole city feels for the service which Dr. and Mrs. Reed have rendered during their long residence here.
This parish is the largest Congregational parish in New Eng- land and a few figures will prove illuminating. The parish (includ- ing Grace Church) has over 1,700 members. Last year in the num- ber of infant baptisms it stood _und in Massachusetts. Last year $9,879.66 was given by the church in benevolence, and $12,000 was expended on home expenses. The total value of property and trust funds owned by the parish is in the vicinity of $900,000. The Bart- lett fund, the income of which is used in the relief of children, amounts to $9,950; the Sarah E. Skinner fund is $5,000, and its in- come is for the relief of worthy poor; the Eliza Smith fund has a principal of $10,562.92, and the income from this fund is spent for the relief of aged people, and this summer there was announced a bequest of $5,000 by Miss Nettie Blanding, the interest to be used in swelling both the foreign and he ne missionary gifts of the Sec- ond Congregational Church.
Now for a glance at its charmed history. Previous to 1848 the Congregationalists residing in this vicinity worshiped with the First Congregational Church. In the summer of that year services were commenced in a schoolhouse on Lyman street, with Rev. A. C. Pierce as the officiating clergyman. The following year these wor- shipers used the brick schoolhouse on Chestnut street for a brief time, and then removed to Exchange Hall on High street. May 24, 1849, an ecclesiastieal council was held to assist in organizing a church called the First Con- gregational Society of Ireland Depot, and on Sep- tember 20 Mr. Pierce was ordained and installed. At first the growth was slow. In 1870 the year closed with the total membership numbering but 286.
The church early canght the missionary spirit, as is illustrated by the fact that in 1850 money was appropriated to buy missionary maps. This giving spirit has not been cramped by sectarian lines. When the Methodist Episcopal Church on Appleton street was built the Second Congrega- tional Church gladly aided to the extent of $2,000, and "it was largely through the liberality of cer- tain members of this church that the Presbyterian Church was enabled to build its commodious church edifice." When Holyoke was incorporated as a town the present church name was adopted.
A council held June 9, 1851, approved the dis- missal of Rev. A. C. Pierce, who felt it best to re- sign on account of the pecuniary embarrassment of the church. "Nothing could have sustained the wavering hopes of this church during those years but the timely and generous aid furnished it by the Massachusetts Home Missionary So- ciety. For 15 years that society contributed to the support of the ministry here."
The Hadley Falls Company gave a site at the northeast corner of High and Dwight streets and the first church building was dedicated July 27. 1853. "One of the finest churches in Western Massachusetts," it was pronounced by the criti- cal. It cost $12,000, and it was patterned after the First Congregational Church of Manchester, N. H.
Rev. Richard Knight was installed April 20. 1853, and resigned March 29, 1855. Rev. J. B. R. Walker was installed November 8, 1855, and re- signed February 7, 1864. Rev. Lucius R. East- man was installed August 30, 1865, and resigned May 18, 1867. Rev. J. L. R. Trask was installed December 4, 1867, and weis retained two years longer than his three predecessors combined, but on December 3, 1882, he preached his farewell sermon, having established a record for length of service second only to Dr. Reed's quarter-cen- tury of noble leadership.
May 17, 1883, Rev. M. W. Stryker was installed, and remained as pastor nearly two years. Heheld
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
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notable mass meetings in the Opera House, reach- ing many of the unchurched, and during his pas- torate the present meeting house of the Second Church was built, and it was dedicated January 20, 1885. The cost of building and site was about $100,000. Mr. Stryker closed his work here April 12, 1885, and on October 18 of that year Rev. II. H. Hubbard began a year's pastorate, ever nota- ble, because in that brief time he received 139 new members into the fellowship of the church.
Dr. Reed, the present pastor, was installed December 28, 1886. Under his wise leadership this church has taken its place among the half dozen largest churches in the denomination. Twice during his pastorate Dr. Reed has wel- comed the Massachusetts Conference of Congre- gational Churches, assembled in annual meeting. At the state meeting at Fitchburg Dr. Reed was the preacher. He has been president of the Con- necticut Valley Congregational Club, and all the honors which Hampden County Congrega- tionalism can bestow have come to Dr. Reed as by unquestioned right. No incident in his great pastorate has rejoiced him more than the recent completion of the Skinner Memorial Chapel, which has already justified its great cost, and proved itself a needed blessing to Holyoke.
The Second Church has among many things stood strongly for the worship of God in noble music. Its organ has no superior in Massachu- setts, and its organist, Professor Hammond, has rendered a notable ministry in the realm of sa- cred music. He has given 560 organ recitals. all open gratuitously to any that would come, and during the last Lenten season held in the Skin- uer Chapel a most notable series of Saturday af- ternoon recitals.
For many years this church has had a city mus- sionary on its staff and the present incumbent is Miss Mary Ruggles.
'The officers are as follows: Deacons, Edward W. Chapin, Wilbur C. Newell, Caleb J. Humc- stou, William A. Allyn, Edward C. Purrington, Charles A Prouty, Guy H. Beman, Joseph 1. Skinner, Frederick S. Webber, William D. For- tune, Frank B. Towne; elsurch committee, pastor. dencons, Edward P. Bagg, Willis D. Ballard, Sid- ney E. Whiting, Timothy H. Fowler, William S. Stedman, Jolın G. Clark; superintendent of
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HISTORY OF HOLYOKE'S CHURCHES
REV. E. A. REED, D. D.
Sunday school, Joseph A. Skinner, church clerk, Edward C. Purrington ; assistant clerk, Guy HI. Beman; treasurer, Willis D. Ballard.
Officers of the parish: The parish committee, Arthur J. Newell, Arthur M. French, Nathan P. Avery ; collector, William A. Allyn; treasurer, Henry C. Smith; clerk, Charles P. Lyman; sexton, John B. Haskell.
GRACE CHURCH
(Branch of the Second Congregational Church)
REV. E. B. ROBINSON, Pastor
Under a sort of collegiate system there are two churches in what is known to the denomination as the Second Congregational Church. Each of these churches manages its own affairs, yet both are organically one. This system is coming to be generally recognized as being of the first importance as a means of solving the city prob- lem, and to Holyoke belongs the honor of having worked out this method, to a degree almost unknown elsewhere, and here is how it happened :
Many children in the lower wards of the city lacked Sunday school privileges, so February 2, 1879, a school was opened in a vacant room of the Parsons' Hall block. The Sunday school class of J. S. McElwain, a teacher in the Second Church school, was in charge. Among the workers were W. A. Allyn, C. H. Taber, and J. N. Hub- bard, the first named becoming the first superintendent.
With the growth of the work a chapel beenme a neces- sity, and the one erected at 290 Main street, at a cost of $1,000, is still standing, though now occupied by A. L. Codaire & Co. Another mark of progress was the secur- ing of outside preachers to aid with the work in addition to the voluntary labors of Holyoke pastors. After MIr. Davies of Hartford Seminary and Rev. Mr. Mcclellan had staked ont the field it was cleared and plowed by Rev. A. W. Remington, who took charge of the work in 1802, turning it over to Rev. F. P. Reinhold in 1898. The latter remained four fruitful years, and in turn was succeeded by Rev. E. B. Robinson, the present pastor.
A church of 21 members was organized on the last Sunday in March, 1894, and in April, 1896, a new building, costing over $15,000, was dedicated, on the present site nt the southeast corner of Cabot and Race streets. Rev. A. W. Remington and Joseph Skinner, for many years superintendent of the Sunday school, had at last seen their dream of a church building come true. In 190G this build-
ing was greatly enlarged and improved, at an expense about equal to the original cost, and in 1011 the auditorium was beautified. Plans have been prepared for further enlargement.
Grace Church has been run along unusual lines. Its picture services are held on alternate Sunday evenings through the season, and the church owns slides worth nearly $1,000. This year for the third summer the church has carried on a Daily Vacation Bible School in co-opera- tion with Amherst and Mount Holyoke Colleges. The paul teachers this year were Leland Olds, Amherst, 1912: George Olds, Amherst, 1913, and Miss Helen Schadee, Mount Holyoke, 1910.
For years the church has maintained a gymnasium and has conducted numerous ontings each season. A yearly pilgrimage has been made to Amherst College and along many lines this college has aided greatly in the work at Grace Church. Mount Holyoke has helped the church by sending students as volunteer workers in clubs and classes.
Grace Church has heen famed for its welcome ever ex- tended to the adopted citizens, and each year a service is hell, having special significance for cach nationality largely represented in the constituency.
In the gymnasium Grace Church young folks are given the same dramatic privileges which college young folks enjo".
Grace Church has always been active in the Christian Endeavor movement, and this year sent a delegation of seven young men and women to the Sagamore Conference. The Y. P. S. C. E. executive committee of 14 members meets monthly.
The church enjoys an unusually fine Sunday school plant, with many separate rooms, beautified by the classes that use them. F. B. Towne, who has worked in the school for a quarter of a century, is superintendent of the Sunday school. There is a boys' department with a paid worker in charge. Each Friday afternoon during nine months of each year there is a service for boys and girls, under the direction of Mrs. L. B. Robinson, who also con- ducts Sunday noons an unusually large class of young ladies.
Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Robinson recently completed ten years of service and were generously remembered, not only by their congregation but also by others in the city.
Officers: Deacons, L. S. Whitcomb, E. B. McGowan, C L. Taylor, William Ironside, and E. B. Miles; treasurer, E. B. Miles; clerk, John Smith; church committee, pastor, deacons, Sunday school superintendent, president of the Y. P. S. C. E., clerk and treasurer, also L. J. Becker, Jolın Harper, and Alexander Thomson.
Organist, Miss Eula Taylor.
Y. P. S. C. E .: President, John Riffenburg.
Junior Y. P. S. C. E .: Superintendent, Mrs. E. B. Robinson.
GRACE CHURCH
REV. E. B. ROBINSON
Ladies' Auxiliary: President, Mrs. William McCray. Sexton, George H. Fisher.
This young church has over 600 resident members, and this autumn for the first time will welcome the annual ineeting of the Hampden County Association of Congre- gational Churches and Ministers. Mr. Robinson is presi- dent of the Connecticut Valley Congregational Club, and is an interested alumnus of Amherst College. Recently Mr. Robinson served two terms as president of the Hamp- den County Christian Endeavor Union.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
REV. H. O. HANNUM, Pastor
This is the oldest church organization in Holyoke, hay- ing been formed December 4, 1799, by the pastor of the First Church in West Springfield. The names of the nine original members were Joseph Rogers, Amos Allen, Titus Morgan. Timothy Clough, Lucas Morgan, Nathan Stevens, Jonathan Clough, John Miller, and Grover Street. Amos Allen, one of the first deacons, lived a stirring life. In 1756 he was taken prisoner by the Indians in the French war, and was carried by his captors to Montreal, where he was sold to the French. At the close of the war he was released and returned home.
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