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Mrs. T. W. Kirkland, the first president, had formerly
held the same office in the Parent-Teacher Association of the Normal Training School at Auburn, N. Y., where she was principal for a number of years.
The first officers of the local Association were: Pres- ident, Mrs T. W Kirkland ; vice-president, Miss Catherine Callahan; secretary, Mrs. W. L. Foote; treasurer, Miss Mary E. Bachelder.
The meetings are open and free to the public, Six afternoon and three evening meetings were held last year. Two very instructive lectures were given on two of the evenings, one hy Prof. C. A. Kohl of Mount Holyoke Col- lege, and one by Prof. G. A. Dawson of Hartford, Conn. The Inst evening meeting was under the direction of Miss K. G. Shine, who had drilled some of her pupils in that telling little playlet, "How the Votes were Won." This was much appreciated and enjoyed. A real social with an hour of dancing, which brought ont the real social center spirit, closed a successful and profitable year, both educa- tionally, socially, and financially. In February the Asso- ciation sent Miss Shine ns delegate to the state convention in Lynn, which was entertained by the six Parent-Teacher Associations in that city, While there she was named on the state playground committee of the Congress.
With several of our Holyoke principals, teachers, and parents planning for these organizations in their districts, the Highland School Association stands ready to assist in any way possible. Superintendent McSherry has given his word of hearty approval and endorsement. The officers for the coming year are: Mrs. J. J. Kirkpatrick, president ; Miss Lucy B. Ramage, vice-president ; Mrs. W. L. Foote, secretary; Miss Mary E. Bachelder, treasurer. Chairmen of committees: program, Miss K. G. Shine, Mrs. G. S. Parsons ; refreshment, Mrs. W. E. Martin, Mrs. W. E. Sawin; membership, Mrs. T. D. O'Brien.
INGLESIDE SCHOOL
HOLYOKE'S WATER SUPPLY
Holyoke's Water Supply System is unique in two re- »pects, first, that its rates are the lowest of any eity in the country, and, second, it is the only municipally-owned plant in which the department pays a trix to the city like n privately owned plant. The quality is equal or better than any, and that it is and is to be ever free from pollu- tion is determined hy the department's policy to own the water sheds that feed its reservoirs and remove therefrom every source of possible contamination. Among its ad- vantages, therefore, the water supply, both in quality and quantity, stands among the urst.
The hirst water supply was obtained from a reservoir luented on the sinare where Dillon's block now stands, bounded by High, Maple, Lyman, and Fonmain streets. This was abont 1848. It hield 3,000,000 gallons of water, being filled by pumps from the river This remainedl until 187t, when a committee, consisting of John C. Newton, James G. Smith, Timothy Merrick, W. B. C. Pearsons, and John E, Chase, scenred an engineer andl investigated the sititnf101.
The necessary legislation being seenred, a water board was elected, consisting of W. B C. Pearsnus, Dennis 1.lig- guns, John Delaney, J. P. Buckland, Joel Russell, and Jolin E Chase, March 21, 1872. Ashley and Wright's ponds, about three and one-half miles from the City hall, were secured, and little by little the surrounding lands were ob- tained, until all the water sheds of the ponds became city property
The water was let into the mains, Angust 6, 1873. The water commissioners were the first to take quarters in the City halt, when it was completed, in 1876.
The rapid growth of the city soon led to the necessity uf a still further extension of the water system. In t881 further improvements were made at the ponds, allowing of the delivery of more water by way of larger mains. In 1885, work was begun on the Whiting Street brook, a small reservoir being completed there, In 1886, two inde- pemlent lines of pipe to Ashley ponds were completeil. In
JAMES L. TILHE
(888, the beginnings were made for ; storage reservoir on the Whinung Street brook. The contract for the dam was awarded the Delaney Brothers, and nearly completed in t889. The length of the dam is 1,773 feet, and has a flow- nge area of 114 acres, aud a capacity of 550,000,000 gallons or more, with the use of flash boards
In 1801 and 1892, there were severe dranghts, and the
reservoirs were drawn down to a point that were deemed unsafe. As a result, the use of water was curtailed, and it was feared that the repetition of these conditions might bring ahout serious dangers.
So a further supply was looked for, and no less than seven plans considered. After considerable study, and act- mg in part on the advice of James L. Tighe, who began his service on the board in 1892, the Munn brook plan was chosen, Unfortunately, Westfield objected, and the State Legislature sustaining the objections, the city was forced to hmk in other directions. As a result, the southwest branch of the Manhan river was selected, and the Legislature proving favorable, the land and water acts were obtained, and a pipe line laill and completed in 1898. The reservoir was christened Fomer Reservoir the same year, and in 1899, though a long dry season, the city of Holyoke had plenty of wholesome water.
There was yet nile trouble with the Holyoke water supply system. The pressure was not sufficiently grenit for fire protection in all parts of the city. It was then de- termined to build a high service reservoir on Tatro brook, one of the principal feeders in the Ashley ponds reservoir. Work was begun on this new reservoir in 1899, then land aside a couple of years, and begin again in 1902 Some twelve thousand stumps were pulled up, and twenty acres of muck dug ont The area of the high service reservoir ~ sixty-five acres, and its capacity some three hundred and fifty million gallons The dam is one thousand six feet long and thirty-five feet high at the gate house. The reservoir is one hundred and eight feet above Ashley ponds, and cost $130,000.
During the current year work has been pushed on the completion of n large storage reservoir at Fomer to sup- plant the present intake reservoir of 17,000,000 gallons. This will contain about $00,000,000 gallons, cover an area of 131 acres, and make available from the city's water sheds n yield of 14,000,000 gallons a day, sufficient to sup- ply a population of 140,000 people.
HOLYOKE'S FAMOUS TURBINES
Down in Central Pennsylvania lives and thrives and flourishes a man now in his late seventies, of whom the ordinary Holyoker knows little or nothing. Yet practically every mill water wheel turning in Holyoke is from designs made by John B. McCormick-either the Her- cules or the McCormick water wheel being in the greater number by far of the mills of llolyoke employing water power. Herewith is a cut that pictures Inventor MeCormick sur- rounded by the models with which so many years of his life he was busy -and successinlly busy - showing how best to harness the great power of the river that had heen dammed and canalled and made to go here and there, and to aml fro across the plains and hillsides of the new city, ururding ;s man wished and di- urted.
Supplementing this work was the man sån was tu show how best to Het the power out of this magnificent Estrim of dams and canals. The old usershnt mul underslun wheel had passiil away : the days of the iron turhie werr at hummil. There wire many inventors, hnt one Mir Carmich Clumis of an extravagant nature tuluil away before the mexurable list of the Holyoke testing Aume tuventur McCormick was an Edison of his day. Stories go that his he- ginings were after this fashiun. le had been running a small chair fac- tory when his water wheel gave out. He studied it over a bit, and then fixed it up so that it did better. Hle then caught the "bug" to invent a better. An Ohio firm of manufacturers seized his idea with avidity. According to some accounts the seizure was partly piratical ; however this may be, he grilv-
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itated to Holyoke and proceeded to juvent the Hercules water wheel. He then was connected for years with the Hol- yoke Machine Company. Later he severed his connection with that concern and invented still another water wheel,
the McCormick turbine. Jolly Brothers made these wheels and the Holyoke Machine Company still continue to make the Hercules wheels -- the two best water wheels in the country, people say who are sup- posed to know. Some 12,500 horse- power of McCormick turbines are in nse alone in Holyoke, it is asserted.
In due process of time MeCor- mick severed his connection with Jolly Brothers, and went down to Georgrville, Pa., where he married a few years ago an attractive young woman who was intending to be- enie a nurse. It would have taken her ahoui six months to complete her course, lint it snited her better to be- emne Mrs. McCormick, and those ihn havr met the couple say she dil nnt makr a imistake, as the two are very happy For a minher of years Mr MlcCurmek reecivedl royalties friun mme manufacturer aml anther, wn there is no fear of the wolf being ut the door, thank you
Besules bring a successful uven- tuir, Mr McCormick was aml is a fine musician, am has written books on mitt and Light the violin 1lr also lin. really artistic work in oils in Lavt those who knew him in Hol- ! »is that he conkhi't help sne. reidmy in what he undertook-he hul a perfect genius for success, Ar mms rate u is noteworthy that he succeeded both m oils and water. When Holyoke erects its Hall of Fame it should not forget to place therein the bust of John B. McCormick, in- ventor, even if he did have the bad taste to shake off the dust of Holyoke from his shoes in Inter life and seek Cen- tral Pennsylvania for a sput in which to spend his, declining years.
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THE PAPERMAKING INDUSTRY
CAREW PAPER MILL IN 1848.
Holyoke is known far and wide as the Paper City, to which name it is well entitled, both by reason of the quan- tity and quality of its product. Nearly thirty mills in Hol- yoke are devoteil either to papermaking, the manufacture of some of the paper mill products, or allied in some way to paper manufacturing. Of the seventeen mills of the Amer- ican Writing Paper Company, the greater part are located in Holyokı.
The first paper mill in this state, so far as known, was located at Milton in 1717. In this locality Springfield hoasts of the first paper mill, founded in 1796, and located on the Mill River by David and John Ames, The Ameses had mills at South Hadley Falls, Suffield, Conn., Northi- ampton, auml Chicopee Falls. J. C. Parsons built the first paper mill in Holyoke about 1833. He had been previously manager for the Ameses mills at Northampton, at South Hadley Falls, and Suffield, Conn, The Parsons Paper Company, as originally organized, had Colonel Aaron Bagg as president of the concern, J. S. McElwain, secretary, and J. C. Parsons, treasurer and agent. The original stock- hoklers were Chester W. Chapin, Whiting Street. J. C. Parsons, Aaron Bags, Lucy Bagg, Silas Frink, Broughton Alvord. Lorenzo Gayloril, Rufus Mather, Ethan Brooks, George Fowles, Lester Williams, Henry Stearns, H. D. Bartlett, Jolin Ely. E. H. Ball, and Newton Day. Two years later another mill was built, anıl in 1888 the Parsons Paper Company No. 2 was organized and the No. 9 Mill built, devoted exclusively to bond and ledger papers.
The srcomil paper manufacturing concern in Holyoke was the Holyoke Paper Company, the origmal mill being built in 1857. D. M. Butterfielil was the first agent : Stephen Holman succeeding him and acting as agent from 1860 to 1865. Mr. Holman is now ninety-two years ohil, and claims the distinction of being the oldest living man of Holvoke's pioneer manufacturing dlays. He retired from active busi- ness some years ago and resites in Swampscott. Hle carries his years lightly, and it is refreshing to notr that when he left on an European trip earlier in the year, he remarked that he would "return home in time to go fishing up in Maine with the boys." llere, tao, at the Holyoke Paper Mill, the late William Whiting took his first lesson in the business that was later to bring him hoth wealth and fame : and for this company he made his first trips as traveling salesman, Mr. Whiting first went to work nuder Mr. Hol- man and surprised the latter gentleman by his youthful ability and astuteness.
About 1865, O. 11. Greenleaf, of the firm of Greenleaf & Taylor of Springfield, aml later of the Greenleaf & Taylor Manufacturing Company, of linntington, bought a controlling interest in the Holyoke Paper Company, which he retained mmil his deathi.
The Whiting Paper Company was organized and bilt its first mill in 1865. L. L. Brown, of Adams, was the first president, and William Whiting, treasurer and agent. In 1871 a new inill was erected, known as the Whiting No. 2 Mill, and later the mill at North Wilbraham, known as the Collins Manufacturing Company, became a part of thai plant. The North Wilbraham mill has been greatly en- largeil and added to the past two years, and is now the largest paper mill in the country, exclusively devoted to the manufacture of fine writing paper. The No, 1 Mill has also been enlarged, and the total prod- nct of the three mills is over thirty tous of writing paper a day. In addition to the manufacture of paper, the Whiting Paper Com- pany maintains a large stationery business in New York City, and also a stationery business in their Holyoke mills, Whiting's papers are known the world over for their superior quality, and gener- ally acknowledged to be the very best manufactured in this coun- try.
Other mills were organized about as follows: Valley Paper Company, 1866; Riversile Paper Company, first null built in 1867. second mill 1892. Charles O. Cha- uin was the first president. James Kirkham was the first treasurer. both of Springfiell. The Frank- liu Paper Company was organiz- ed about the same time, with Cal- vin Taft as president, anil Jam's H. Newtou as treasurer and agent. This company at one time dil a large business in the manufacture of paper for paper cutlars, mak- ing not only the paper. bm cloth lining it as well.
In 1969, the Albion Paper Company was organized, and bought the mill of the Hampden Paper Company, built a few years previous. Later they built a much larger mill. Early in the 90's the company got into financial trouble aml eventually was bought by the
American Writing Paper Company. The Union Paper Com- pany was organized in 1870, buying the mill of the Bemis Paper Company. In the last of the 80's some changes were made, and it became the Connecticut River Paper Com- pany. It is now the No. 3 Mill of the Riverside Division of the American Writing Paper Company.
The Crocker Manufacturing Company was organized 111 1871, the Beebe & Holbrook Company in 1872, the Mas- sasoit Company ( Holyoke mill). in 1872; the Excelsior Pa- per Company, whose plant was bought by the Taylor- Burt Company a few years ago, in 1872. The Newton Paper Company was organized in 1876, the Wauregan Paper Company in 1878, the Chemical, the Nonotuck, and Syms & Duilley Companies in 1880. The George R. Stevenson Paper Company was organized in 1882, the George C. Gill Company, and the Norman Paper Company in t891, and the Lunten Paper Company in 1892.
Post's Paper Mill Directory gives the following mills and daily products in pounds of the largest paper organiza- tion, the American Writing Paper Company, which was or- ganized uniler the laws of the State of New Jersey in July. 1899:
Oakland Paper Company, Manchester, Conu .. 7,000 Platner & Porter Company, Unionville, Conn., 6,000 Windsor Paper Company, Windsor Locks.
Conu. . .60,000
Chester Paper Company, Huntington. . .... 6,000
G. K. Baird Company, Lee .. 4,500
Agawam Paper Company. Mittineague. .24,000
Hurlbnt Paper Company, South Lee. . 10,000
Harding Paper Company, Franklin, Ohio .. .19,000
Shattuck & Babcock Company. De Pere, Wis. .. 32,000
Holyoke Mills :-
Albion Paper Company .. 40,000
Beche & Holbrouk Paper Company . .. 30,000
Crocker Manufacturing Company. .50,000
George R. Dickinson Paper Company .50,000
George C Gill Paper Company. .40,000
Holyoke Paper Company 16,000
Linden Paper Company 32,000
Mt. Tom Paper Company. 10,000
Nonotuck Paper Company 40,000
Norman Paper Company 28,000
Parsons Paper Company 28,000
Riverside Paper Company 56,000
Wauregan Paper Company 10,000
JOSEPH CAREW, FOUNDER DE THE CAREW MANUFACTURING COMPANY
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CAREW MANUFACTURING CO. SOUTH HADLEY FALLS, MASS.
THE PIONEER PAPER MILL OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY
THE CAREW MANUFACTURING COMPANY HAS ENJOYED A REPUTATION FOR HIGH QUALITY SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION WHICH IT HAS ZEALOUSLY GUARDED TO THE PRESENT
TIME THEY MAKE TODAY, HIGH GRADE, LOFT DRIED BONDS, LINENS, LEDGERS AND FINE WRITINGS
CAREW QUALITY
HAMPSHIRE PAPER CO. SOUTH HADLEY FALLS, MASS.
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS
Old Hampshire ond
THE HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY HAS CREATED A WORLD WIDE FAME FOR DOING ONE THING A LITTLE BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE-THEY ARE SPECIALISTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOND PAPER
MAKERS ALSO OF
OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND STATIONERY THE STATIONERY OF A GENTLEMAN
THE PAPERMAKING INDUSTRY
AARON BAGG
D.WID AMES.
This gives, according to these figures, a total daily output of no less than 299 tons for all the mills and some 215 tons for Holyoke alone. It is figured that it takes two tons of raw material, coal, cte., to make one ton of paper, so that the enormous tonnage of Holyoke paper mills can be appreciated. In addition there are to be con- sidered the following independent mills and their tonnage as given by the same directory, as follows :
Chemical Paper Company ..... .100,000
Crocker-McElwain Company . . 40,000
Franklin Paper Company. . 16,000
Newton Paper Company 40,000
Parsons Paper Company (inde-
pendent company)
15,000
Taylor-Burt Company
10,000
Valley Paper Company.
12,000
Whiting Paper Company (inclnd-
ing North Wilbraham plant ), 60,000
Across the river are the mills of the Hamp- shire Paper Company, makers of the famous Okl Hampshire Bond, with capacity of 10,000 ponds daily, and the Carew Manufacturing Company, with a capacity of 24,000 pounds daily. If these be reckoned into the count of the independent mills this gives a total independent mill tonnage of a little over 118 tons daily. Eliminating the North Wilbraham miill and we obtain a daily ont- put for llolyoke and the Falls mills across the river of 331 tous daily. This as estimated re- quires 00 tons of incoming freight : so that the paper mills alone require 1,000 tons a day to be moved, and as the tonnage is increasing not de- ereasing. the actual figures are higher than that, and with this is not counted the product of the big papeterie concerns, the Deane Steam Pump Company, Holyoke Machine Company. Jolly Bros., and other similar concerns handling beavy material; nor the enormous business of the Farr Alpaca Comapny, the big amount of freight that comtes and goes out of the Lyman Mills, United States Envelope Company, Skinner Silk Mills. and others. Next to Boston, Holyoke is the big- gest freight center in New England.
Lec. Mass., was, years ago, the papermaking center of New England. The big power that the damı here affords-it takes so much power for paper mills that it is said that if an equivalent
amount was used for cotton manufacture Holyoke would be a city of 200,000 or over-coupled with the particular excel- lence of the water for this industry, led to the rapid build- ing of mills in Holyoke and its supremacy as a papermak- ing eenter-a supremacy that is likely to be maintained for many years to conie.
J C PARSONS
To the Chinese is accredited the discovery of the art of making writing paper, although the word paper comes to us through the Egyptians, papyrus, or being the mother word, so to speak The exact date of the invention of either is lost in dim antiquity. It must have been a day of mueh excitement when the first world dwellers found that a burnt stick would make a mark on the sheet of papyrus, or when the Indian first carved his totem sign on the bark of the birch tree. There is authority for stating that paper was first made in France in 1189. That was some years ago. In this country Pennsylvania claims to be the first state in which paper was made, and the year 1690 the first year it was made in these colo- nies. Before that time it was, of course, import- ed from the mother country.
in this state paper was first made at Milton 111 1717-almost 200 years ago. The first Spring- Geld paper mill was in 1796, as already noted. The original building stood on the Mill river un- til a few years ago, when it was torn down to make room for larger buildings. This was the mill first banght by David Ames. In 1900 there were 763 paper mills in the country. Jobn Ames. the youngest son of David Ames, was the in- ventor of the Ames family, and largely through his inventions the old processes of papermaking were discarded and more modern methods substi- tuted. About this time Fourdrinier invented his papermaking machine, ibe principles of which are emhodied in nearly every paper mill in the country, as they. generally speaking, except for certain classes of work, superseded the eylinder machine. Other machines mvented by Ames were a paper cutting machine, cylinder washer, cylin- der drying machine, water-mark stangang ma- chine, and many others.
Of many inventions of the presem day few have brought more fame to Holyoke than the Mullen tester, made hy B. F. Perkins & Son, Inc These are in use in about every paper mill, paper jobbing office, aml retail paper dealer in the country, as well as standard adopted by the United States Government. In Berkshire county paper was made as early as 1806. The paper used hy the government for bank notes is made by the Cranes at Dalton, whose fame is more than national
HOLYOKE'S SOCIETIES AND CLUBS
MT. TOM GOLF CLUB.
Holyoke is particularly rich in clubs, societies, and fra- ternal organizations of various kinds, and their total mem- bership is surprisingly large. Space does not permit us to picture only a few of the many clubhouses or more than outline the organizations that are so numerous and pros- perous. Below is briefly sketched the outline of the organ- izations of the kind in the Paper City
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THE HOLYOKE LODGE NO. 902. B. F. O. E.
Founded April 11, 1904, and has a present total men- bership of 439. The meetings are held the first and third Wednesdays of each month in Wakelin Hall. The full list of officers is as follows: Exalted knight. Waiter D. Hanley : leading knight, Timothy J. Lynch ; loyal kinght. Abram H. Topham; lecturing knight, David F. Allyu; sec- retary. James J. Murray: treasurer. George E. Claren-
bach ; tiler, Jacob Kuss; esquire, Willis D. Ballard ; inner guard, Karl B. Koehler; organist. Charles W. Van Volkin- burg: trustees, Mark B. Carpenter. Roger P. Donoghue. John R. Harrington.
HOLYOKE LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS.
Founded in 18491. The charter was surrendered in 1454 and reinstituted March 3. 1875 The present total membership is 346. The meetings are held Tuesday even- 11gs in Odd Fellow's Hall. 243 Iligh street. The inlt list of others is as follows: N. G., Elmer J. Johnson; V. G .. Albert S. Wilder; recording secretary, Charles S. Roberts ; financial secretary, Leroy F. Avery; treasurer, J. Howard Howes; warden, David W. Lockart; con., Clarence R. Kingsbury : chaplain, Henry Holley : R. S. S., Percy Cim- mings ; L. S. S., Theodore Vandenberg ; R. S. of N. G., Le- roy Goman: L. S. of N G .. William P. Morris; R. S. of
V. G., Fred P. Dupce: L. S. of V. G., Ernest F. Stedman ; I. G., George H. Bridges: O. S., Nelson H. Barrett.
THE MT. NONOTUCK COLONY NO. 116, UNITED ORDER OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS
Founded October 4. 1888, and has a total membership of 230. The regular incetings are held the first and third Tuesdays of each month in Grand Army Hall, High street The full list of officers is as follows: Ex-governor, Chris- topher Keens ; governor, Mrs. Lillian E. A. Ellis: lienten ant governor, Mrs. Clara J. Tohman : secretary, Harry Crosby: treasurer. Mrs. Ida R. Babcock; collector, Mrs. Anna Crosby ; chaplain, Miss Nellie F. Luby : sergeant at arms. Edith A. Hildreth: deputy at arms, Mrs. Laura A Rider : sentinel, inner door, Marshall Gare; seutinel, outer door, Mrs. Mabel A. Smith: per. member to sup. colony. Harry Crosby : medical examiner. Dr Frank .A. Woods.
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MIT TOM GOLF CLUB, INTERIOR VIEW
THE NONOTUCK COUNCIL OF ROYAL ARCANUM NO. 98.
Founded June 5, 1878, and has a present total mem- bership of 128. The regular meetings are held in Wakelin Hall, the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. The full list of officers is as follows: Regent. William T. Lambert ; vice regent, Timothy J. Cronin; orator, George O. Kellogg : secretary, Charles D. Colson ; treasurer, John J. Byrnes ; guide, Charles W. Duston : warden, John Sul- livan; collector, Thomas W. Doyle; trustees, John Sheri- dan, Maurice Fitzgerald, James MeTearnen.
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