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The speakers were trained by Mrs. Addie Chase Smith, O. M., of Boston.
Judges of Declamation, -Hon. Russell A. Sears, Mayor of Quincy ; Miss Mary W. Dewson, Quincy; Walter S. Pinkham Esquire, President of the City Council, Quincy.
Judges of Essays and Translations,-(Greek), Rev. William Gallagher, Ph. D., Head-Master, Thayer Academy, South Brain- tree.
Latin,-Horace Mann Willard, D. Sc., Principal, Quincy Mansion School, Wollaston.
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French,-James A. Beatley, Esquire, Master, English High School, Boston.
German,-Mrs. Albert F. Schenkelberger, Quincy.
English,-Mrs. W. G. A. Pattee, Quincy ; Charles Theo- dore Hardwick, Esquire, Quincy.
Donors of Prizes,-For Declamations-Hen ry H. Faxon, Esquire, Quincy. For Essays and Translations,-Joseph M. Sheahan, M. D., Quincy.
The order of speaking was assigned by lot.
The Prize Speaking Fund, deposited in the Quincy Savings Bank, amounts to about $300.
WINNERS OF THE PRIZES FOR DECLAMATION.
First prize, $15 in books to Miss Christina P. Mitchell, '99. Second prize, $12 in books, to Miss Fannie E. Beckwith, '98. Third prize, $10 in books to Miss Ethel E. Douglas, 1901. Fourth prize, $8 in books, to Miss Norma Cutter Lowe, '99. Fifth prize, $5, in books, to Miss E. Gertrude Ward, '98.
WINNERS OF THE PRIZES IN ESSAYS AND TRANSLATIONS.
GREEK PRIZES.
For translation from Homer's Iliad, book VI. 440-502, - First prize $3, "Thoas": Florence M. Osborne. Honorable mention, "California or Bust !" : George R. Lewis.
For translation from Xenophon's Anabasis, book IV, chapter 7, 8-15, -- First prize, $3, " Atreus " : Helen E. Bemis. Honora- ble mention, " Clearchus " : Lemuel Pitts.
LATIN PRIZES.
. For translations from Cicero, " Pro Quinto Ligario Oratio ad Cæsarem," chapter I, -- First prize, $3, " Antiochus " : Flor- ence Osborne. Honorable mention, " Ariobarzanes ": George R. Lewis.
For translation from Virgil, Æneid, book VI, lines 845-901, -- First prize, $3, " Olivia " : Margaret Sheahan. Honorable men- tion " Cassandra " : Miss Tina Hodgkinson.
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For translations from Cæsar, Belli Gallici Liber VI, chapter XIII,-First prize, $3, " History ": Kenneth Lewis. Honorable mention, " Minnehaha " : Ruth Hayden.
FRENCH PRIZES.
For translations from " Les Miserables," class of '98 (first division)-First prize, $3, " Latinus ": Nathaniel Thayer. Hon- orable mention, " Marie " : Julia J. Ford.
For translations from "Colomba," class of '98 (second divis- ion),-First prize, $3, " Destournelles " : George R. Lewis. Honor- able mention, " Numero Treize " : Florence M. Osborne.
For translations from "L'Abbe Constantin," class of '99, -First prize, $3, "Esperance " : Christina Mitchell. Honorable mention, "M. Aramis" : William E. Mitchell.
GERMAN PRIZES.
For translation from W. H. Riehl's " Der Fluch der Schoen- heit " class of '99,-First prize, $3, " Robert Inglehart " : Elijah Swift. Honorable mention, " B. J.": Kenneth Lewis.
ENGLISH ESSAYS.
Class of '98 -- First prize, $3, " Solomon Grundy " : Florence M. Osborne, subject, " The Companionship of Books." Honor- able mention, "Portia ": Avice E. Williams ; subject, " The Companionship of Books."
Class of '99 -- First prize, $3, "Olivia " : Margaret M. E. Sheahan, subject, "The Companionship of Books." Honora- ble mention, " Little Miss Muffet " : Bessie Whittemore ; subject, " Resolved, That Quincy is the most desirable suburb of Boston."
Class of 1900-First prize, $3, " Your Uncle Dudley " : Carle R. Hayward, subject, " Snow-bound in a Farm House." Honor- able mention, " Roxana": Katherine T. Pendergast; subject, " Memories of Childhood."
Class of 1901,-First prize, $3, divided between, “ Bourr- yan " : Lucy D. Luard, subject, " Nature Study," and " X. Y. Z." : Jeanie I. Joss; subject, " My Favorite Books." Honorable mention, "Tentum ": Bertha M. Miles, " The Companionship of Books."
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ANNUAL PRIZE CONTEST FOR 1899.
Henry H. Faxon, Esquire, with his customary liberality, offers prizes once more for excellence in declamation, as follows :
1. First prize, $15.
2. Second prize, $12.
3. Third prize, $10.
4. Fourth prize, $8.
5. Fifth prize, $5.
These prizes are to be given in the form of books. Pupils winning prizes may select any books that meet with the approval of the Head-Master, Mr. F. A. Tupper.
The prizes for essays and translations are given by Henry H. Faxon, Esquire, and Luther S. Anderson, Esquire. These prizes, which consist of $3 each in books, are offered for ex- cellence in the following departments :
1. English Composition, Classes of '99, 1900, 1901, 1902.
2. Translations from the Greek, Classes of '99, and 1900.
3. Translations from the Latin, Classes of '99, 1900, and 1901.
4. Translations from the French, Classes of '991, '992, and 19001.
5. Translations from the German, Classes of '99 and 1900.
SUBJECTS FOR PRIZE ESSAYS.
CLASS OF 1899.
1. The Evils of Intemperance.
2. The Spanish-American War.
3. What is Practical Education ?
4. Heroes of Peace.
5. The Ideal High School.
6. The Culture of the Imagination.
7. The Triumphs of Mind over Matter.
8. A Geological Excursion to Nantasket.
CLASS OF 1900.
1. My Favorite Character in History.
2. The Importance of Hygiene.
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3. A Boy's Honor.
4. The True Greatness of Quincy.
5. The Place of Athletics in Education.
6. Woman's Sphere.
7. Practical Applications of the Principles of Drawing. '99 subjects are open to 1900 also.
CLASS OF 1901.
1. How High School Life Differs from Grammar School Life.
2. How to Succeed.
3. America's Supremacy in Machinery.
4. My Ambition.
5. A Yachting Trip.
6. Wild-flowers in Quincy.
7. The Business Man in Modern Life. '99 and 1900 subjects are open to 1901.
CLASS OF 1902.
1. My Favorite Study.
2. Nature's Lessons.
3. Pictures of Quincy.
4. The Games of Childhood.
5. Camping Out.
6. Why Study Latin ?
7. Our Dumb Animals. '99, 1900 and 1901 subjects are open to 1902 also.
PASSAGES FOR PRIZE TRANSLATIONS.
Homer,-Iliad, Book VI, 1. 66-115.
Xenophon,-Anabasis, Book IV, Chapter 5, §§1-10.
Cicero, -First Oration against M. Antonius, Chapters I and II as far as "Ecce enim Kalendis Juniis."
Virgil, -- Æneid, Book VI, 637-678.
Cæsar,-Commentaries on the Gallic War, Book V, Chap- ter 58.
FRENCH,-CLASS of 18991.
From " La Prise de La Bastille," Chap. III, to bottom of page 20.
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FRENCH, -- CLASS OF 18992.
From Quatrevingt-Treize, page 15, begin with : "Boisberth- elot n'eut pas le temps de repondre a La Vienville," and end on page 18 : " Tout le navire etait plein d' un bruit monstrueux.
FRENCH, -- CLASS OF 19001.
La Bataille de Dames. Page 23, the whole of scene XII. Page 64, the whole of scene VI. Page 77, the whole of scene XV.
GERMAN, -- CLASS OF 1899.
1. " Der Schwiegersohn." Page 5, line 19; page 10, line 17.
GERMAN, -- CLASS OF 1900.
1. "Fritz auf Ferien." Page 6, line 14; to the end of page 8.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
1. The date of the Prize Speaking and announcement of essay and translation prizes will be Friday, 7 April, 1899.
2. Essays and translations must be signed with an assumed name.
3. Together with each translation and essay there must be handed in a sealed envelope containing : (a) Both the assumed name and the real name of the pupil. (b) A statement to this effect : The essay or translation offered by -- (pupil's name) is my own unaided work.
4. On the envelope write the assumed name of the pupil, the subject, and the year of the class.
5. Use examination paper. Write on only one side of the paper. Neatness, spelling and penmanship, are of great import- ance. Clear, vigorous and idiomatic English is always accepta- ble to the judges.
. All essays and all translations must be handed to the Head Master, Mr. F. A. Tupper, on or before Friday, 10 March, 1899.
Rock Island Fund.
(Expended for High School.)
Estes & Lauriat :
Longfellow, 6 vols ,
$6 00
Plutarch's Lives, 5 vols., 6 63
Emerson's Essays,
67
Churche's Iliad and Odyssey,
1 40
Etymological Dictionary,
1 40
Macaulay's Essays,
40
American Statesmen, 3 vols.,
2 50
Churche's Virgil,
1 00
R. Farrell Duffield :
Dictionary of U. S. History,
1 50
Ginn & Company :
Jebb's Homer,
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Class Atlas,
1 66
Charles E. Lauriat Company :
Iliad and Odyssey, 2 vols.,
3 34
Ancient Classics, 7 vols.,
4 76
Roman Literature,
1 67
Greek Literature,
1 67
Seelar's Virgil,
2 25
American Statesmen, 3 vols,
2 21
*See page 40. (Report of Superintendent.)
$40 00
Grammar School Graduation.
JUNE, 1898.
March. Drummer, Lewis B. Tabb.
· Chorus,-Where 'er I Go.
Greeting to the Parents,
Herbert Warren Lull, Superintendent of Schools.
Chorus,-(a) God of all Creation.
(b) The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
Greeting from the City,
Hon. Russell A. Sears, Mayor of Quincy.
Chorus,-(a) Sweet Spring is Returning.
(b) A Vacation Song.
Greeting to the Pupils,
Miss Mabel Ellery Adams, Horace Mann School, Boston. Chorus,-(a) Our Country.
(b) Pledge to the Flag.
Greeting from the Committee,
Hon. Charles H. Porter, Chairman of the Board.
Presentation of Diplomas,
Chairmen of Sub Committees.
Chorus,-Our Public Schools.
Words by Frederic Allison Tupper. Director of Music,-Mrs. Laura C. F. Smith.
Pianists,-Helen E. Bemis, Q. H. S.,'97 ; Helen Sibley, Q. H. S.,'99.
Private reception to Graduates by the Principals immedi- ately after the exercises.
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GRADUATES.
ADAMS SCHOOL.
Arthur Thomas Beckford, Charles Barnicoat,
Edward J. Kelliher,
Wendell Hartford Luce,
Joseph Burns,
Ada Ross Malcolm,
William Costello,
Mary A. Manning,
Marie Francis Coughlin,
Richard MẹGrath,
Carl Rumsey Derby,
Catherine McLeod,
William Ellis Derby,
Ethel May Miller,
William Dornan,
Byron C. Miller,
Edward Lawrence Duran,
Warren Mitchell,
Francis J. Duffy,
William A. Milne,
Lavenia Mary Dean,
Anna Edith Roach,
Charles W. Evans,
Martha Helen Shaw,
Joseph H. Elcock,
John David Smith,
Fannie E. Frye,
William Lawrence Sullivan,
James Gorman,
Daniel Sutherland, Edward Swain,
Theophile Ernest Gagnon,
Annie Isabell Hadden,
Bessie Bell Taylor,
Catherine Cecilia Hartrey,
John P. Tierney,
Etta Helen Holmes,
George W. Turner,
Georgie I. Howard,
William Bryant Parker.
CODDINGTON SCHOOL.
Merton Lewis Alden,
Herbert Percy Arnold,
Robert Alphonso Callahan,
Sidney Taylor Carr,
Muriel Elaine Clapp, Ralph Porter Damon,
Daniel John Doran,
Zita Mechtilde Fegan, Rudolf Fornell, John James Garden, Florence Sherwood Greer, Lillian Louise Hammons, William Stoddard Hardwick, Charles Everett Hardwick, Marden Warner Hayward, Corinne Louise Hayward, Thomas Francis Healy, Minnie Agnes Heffernan, Charles Woodberry Hodgkinson,
Annie Gertrude King, Edward Daniel Larkin, John Anthony Mahoney, Elizabeth Brown Merrill, Albert Saville Metcalf, Aurilla May Paine, Carrie Edith Parker,
Vesta Louise Pawsey, Hiram Edgar Preble, Ethel Randall, William Thompson Richards, Gideon Emanuel Spencer, Catherine Louise Steele, Percy Eliott Taber, Helen Beatrice Tisdale, George Leslie Trescott Tupper, Norris Bartlett Wason, Alfred Emerson Wason.
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GRIDLEY BRYANT SCHOOL.
Auguste James Amet, Nicholas Joseph Auguste Gis- lain Badot, Annie Beatrice Dillon,
William Edward Duggan,
John Luke Dunley,
Francis Joseph Farrell,
Ellen Mildred Farrell,
Mary Agnes Fitzgerald,
Daniel C. Foley, Thomas Joseph Foley, Jr., Teresa Leona Forde, James Edward William Geary, Melbourne D. Geddes, Thomas Frederick Grignon, Matthew Joseph Keenan, Nellie Moir, Andrew Joseph O'Brien.
JOHN HANCOCK SCHOOL.
Daniel Francis Ahearn, Kathryn Josephine Ahearn, Annie Laura Agnes Blair, Eugene Francis Burke, Annie Pernella Carlson, Bernard Joseph Clare, James Henry Davey,
Katherine Gertrude Deady, Timothy Joseph Donovan, Ella Quincy Doyle, Eric Otto Conrad Ericson,
Florence Lillian Hersey, Annie Josephine Igo,
Edith May Johnson, William Immanuel Johnson,
Alice Gertrude Jones, Alice Forbes Joss, Alfred Knight,
Edith Masson, William Murdock McDonald,
George Miller Milne,
George Kar Moorhead,
Harry David Nicoll, Jeannie O'Hara, Katie Maude Peters,
Edna Lewis Smith, Arthur Llewellyn Thomas, Charles Wallin,
Katherine Walsh.
LINCOLN SCHOOL.
Walter Michael Barry, George Booth, John Henry Collins, Forbes Alexander Craig, Lena Agnes Hadden, John Cleveland Hector, Louise Foster Holder,
John Garmory. Emma Magdalene Kelly. Elizabeth Orr,
John Paul Rizzi,
Alfred Herbert Spargo, Daniel Joseph Sullivan, Emile Vendret.
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MASSACHUSETTS FIELDS SCHOOL.
Everett George Atkins,
Bernard Critchley,
Mary Ferguson,
Thomas Forrest,
George James Sadlier,
Harry Robert Hey,
Macey Vance Saunders,
Gertrude King,
George Henry Stebbins,
Mary Ellen Lavelle,
Lennie Lee Titus,
Mary Helen Leake,
Inez Titus,
QUINCY SCHOOL.
Charles Henry Aulbach,
Everett Earl Grant Berry,
Herbert J. Burch,
John D. Colligan,
Mary Ellen Coughlin,
Helena Danely,
Flora Everett Drew,
George Geekie, Joseph Edward Granahan,
Henrietta H. Harding,
Margaret Ellen McPartlin,
Helen Louise McKenna,
Anne Cecilia McKeon, Alice Winifred McGrail,
Charles Miller, David George Moffat, Eleanor May Nelson, James F. Newcomb, Agnes A. Scharnagel, Annie Gertrude Sullivan, Timothy Francis Sullivan, Elinor Mary Swanson, Henry E. Swanson, Adin Packard Wilde, Mabel May Wilson, Reginald Young, Baren Joseph Thomas.
WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
George Alexander Barry, Mabel Evelyn Barry,
Marie Caroline Bass,
Magdalen Cecilia Burns, Alice Emeline Caldwell, William Alfred Carey, Annie Eliza Carter, Annie Gertrude Crowley, Gilbert Damon, Gertrude May Dole,
Alice Gertrude Feeley, Nora Esther Feeley, Harry Lincoln Ford, Leo Thomas Ford,
Bennie Warren French, Harold Graham, Malcolm Graham,
Freeman Witherell Higgins,
Grace Marion Lapham,
Amelia Adeline Linnell,
Lizzie Stella Paterson, Thomas Pendergast, Kathleen Poulton,
Helen Libby, James Andrew Lycett, Katherine Agnes Moran, Thomas Francis Moran, Harriet Annie Muse, Mabel Whitney Goodman Nott, Edith Gertrude Pine!, Florence A. M. Totman, Edward Harris Wight.
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WILLARD SCHOOL.
Joseph Aloysius Beard, Wesley Beaulieu,
Mary Florida Delia Bernier, Frederick Ernest Berry, Sadie Frances Berry, Helen Usher Burke, Katherine Elizabeth Cahill, Helen Frances Cashman, Margaret May Cole,
Arthur Timothy DeCoste, Bertha Margaret Denneen, Andrew James Dinegan,
Theresa Josephine Dolan,
Daniel Halley Donovan, Bridget Doyle,
Annie Loring Driscoll,
Margaret Isabel Egan,
Mary Charlotte Ellison, Gertrude Alfreda England, Joseph James Flaherty,
Henry Charles Hamel, Ellen Beatrice Hughes, Charles Albert Keating, Annie Louise Keefe, James Benjamin Mahoney, Wilfred Martell, Charles Edward Mathaurs, Michael Vincent Reardon, Elizabeth Josephine Reinhalter, Elizabeth Victorine Reinhalter,
Mabel Haskell Ripley, Annie Elizabeth Shea, Miriam Miller Shirley, John Donald Smith, Mabel Mary Stanger, Henry Edward Teasdale, Clara May Thorne, Florence Frances Trainer, William Williams.
WOLLASTON SCHOOL.
Ernest Weston Arnold,
Bertha May Badger,
Warren Jackson Barlow,
Ida May Brown,
Ray Brown, John Thomas Cain, Frank Moses Coupal, Bessie May Drew,
Thaddeus Starratt Dunn,
Harriette Paulin Fenton,
Carrie Louise Hewitson,
Helen Richardson Hennigar, Charles Hoxie,
Mabel Ruth Kay, John Alvin Kay, Morris Henry Litchfield,
Minnie McCarthy, Carrie May Miller, Ina Lucas Morgan, Edward Joseph Murphy, Mary Webber Patterson,
Jessie Morse Ray, Blanche Winifred Rhodes, Carleton Longfellow Rice, Margaret Sibley, John Edgar Simmons,
Lewis Banard Tabb, Walter Grant Thomas, Edith Ward. Ray Faunce Weston, Walter Lawrence Whittemore.
Cooking.
Schedule of the twenty lessons in cooking given by Mrs. Mary L. Wade to the Class of '98, Quincy High School.
Girls in the class, 21. Average attendance, 19.
Jan. 14. Fire ; measuring ; cooking water, cocoa ; housekeeper's rules ; five food principles.
Jan. 21. Boiled, baked and mashed potatoes ; steamed rice.
Jan. 28. Macaroni with white sauce and cheese; corn starch ; blanc-mange ; boiled rice.
Feb. 4. Wheatmeal with dates ; oatmeal porridge ; baked apples.
Feb. 11. Potato soup; tomato soup ; croutons ; crisp crackers.
Feb. 18. Hard and soft boiled eggs; baked and coddled eggs, egg vermicelli.
Feb.
25. Tapioca cream; baked custard; snow-balls with cus- tard sauce.
Mar. 4. Oyster stew ; fish chowder.
Mar. 11. Broiled steak ; lamb chops ; meat cakes ; spinach.
Mar. 18. Roast beef ; fricassee chicken.
Mar. 25. Soup stock ; macaroni soup; hash ; scalloped meat.
Apr. 15. Baking powder biscuit ; orange shortcake.
Apr. 22. Griddle cakes ; quaker muffins; popovers ; brown bread.
May 6. Doughnuts ; gingerbread ; cookies.
May 13. White bread ; entire wheat bread.
May 20. Pastry.
May 27. Cake.
June 3. Invalid cookery. June 11. Ice cream ; sherbet.
Data of Quincy.
THE CITY OF PRESIDENTS.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Quincy, as follows :
Section 1. The design of the City Seal shall be a circle, one and one-half inches in diameter: the centre of the Seal a view of "Mount Wollaston "; in the outer circle, over the top, the dates 1625, 1640, 1792 ; upon a scroll under the dates the word " Manet "; upon a tablet under the view the word " Quincy" the date of the incorporation as a city, 1888.
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QUINCY
1625, Capt. Wollaston.
1640, Braintree incorporated.
1792, Quincy, a town.
1888, Quincy, a city.
N. B. City government inaugurated January 1, 1889.
Legend : Manet (ma net), (Quincy) remains.
Merry Mount, ) Landing place of Capt. Wollaston. Home of Morton.
Place : Mare Mount,
Passonagessit, Scene of the " May pole."
Mount Wollaston, Home of Ex-Mayor Adams.
Tree : " The lone, barren savin tree, which has for ages with- stood the blasting storms." Trunk still standing.
Water: Quincy bay.
Name : In honor of Col. John Quincy, descendant in the third generation from Edmund 2d, who settled in Quincy in 1634. Grandfather of Abigail (Smith) Adams.
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Quincy's mother, Braintree (Monatiquot).
Quincy's sisters, Randolph (1793). Holbrook (1872).
Ward I, Centre (Houghs Neck, Germantown).
II, Point (Neck).
III, South (Plains). Two precincts.
IV, West (The Rail, Town Hill). Two precincts.
66 V, Wollaston, (Heights, Park).
66 VI, Atlantic (Squantum, Norfolk Downs, The Farms).
N. B. In parentheses are local names for parts within these wards.
Valuation, $19,236,832.
Tax levy, $358,514.97.
Rate, $18.
Area, 16.7 square miles. (2530 acres in public parks).
Population, 24,058 (?)
Latitude, 42 degrees, N. (Boston, 42 degrees, 21 minutes, 30 seconds.)
Longitude, 71 degrees, W. (Boston, 71 degrees, 4 minutes, 9 seconds.)
Variation of needle, 11 to 12 degrees west of north.
Polls, 6126.
Voters, 4196 (December).
Representative district, fifth Norfolk (two representatives).
Senatorial, first Norfolk.
Councillor, second. Congressional, tenth.
City election, first Tuesday in December.
POPULATION AND GROWTH.
1792
*1,000
1840
3,486
1890
16,711
1800
1,081
1850
5,017
1892
+19,000
1810
1,281
1860
6,778
1895
20,712
1820
1,623
1870
7,442
1897
+23,000
1830
2,201
1880
10,570
1898
+24,058
*Estimated.
+Estimated by the State Board of Health.
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Distances : From most extreme western point of Quincy to the most easterly point of Houghs Neck about 81-2 miles. From same western point to Squaw Rock, Squantum, about 71-2 miles. From Neponset bridge to Quincy Point bridge about 5 miles.
Old Plymouth Turnpike (Old Colony). Milestones : Ninth on Adams street, tenth on Hancock street; eleventh used to be on Franklin street near old Adams houses. The old road is now represented by Adams, Hancock, School and Franklin streets.
Public Parks : Merry Mount, Faxon, Blue Hill Reserva- tion.
Mayors :--
Hon. Charles H. Porter, 1889-90
Hon. Henry O. Fairbanks, 1891-92-93
Hon. William A. Hodges, 1894-95
Hon. C. F. Adams, 2d, 1896-97
Hon. Russell A. Sears, 1898
Hon. Harrison A. Keith, 1899
Council: Twenty-three members. Three from each ward and five-at-large.
School Board : Nine members. One from each ward and three- at-large.
Administrative Officers.
1. Commissioner of Public Works.
2. City Treasurer.
3. City Clerk.
4. Collector of Taxes.
5. City Solicitor.
6. Chief of Police.
7. Chief Engineer of Fire Department.
8. Overseer of the Poor.
9. Principal Assessor and six assistants.
10. Park Commissioners.
11. Board of Health.
12. Trustees of Thomas Crane Public Library.
13 Managers of Adams Academy.
14. Managers of Public Burial Places.
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Quincy granite : Bunker Hill Monument, King's Chapel and Custom House in Boston; the Stone Temple and City Hall in Quincy, are built of this material. Earthquake Day : November 18, 1755. See John Adams' Diary. War of Rebellion : Quincy sent 954 inen.
Deaths, 105. Total cost, $48,912.11.
NAMES OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
Quincy High School. Name of the city.
Adams. John, Second President, 1797-1801. John Quincy, Sixth President, 1825-29.
Coddington. William Coddington, one of the earliest land owners, " Father of Rhode Island."
Gridley Bryant. Builder of the railroad in West Quincy. First train ran October 7, 1826. Horse-power. First
incorporated railroad in America.
John Hancock. Born in Quincy. First Governor of Massa- chusetts. President Continental Congress. First signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President.
Massachusetts Fields. " The spot which was to the Massachu- setts (Indians) what the Isthmian Fields were to the Greeks. In all Massachusetts there was no site of greater historical importance than this ; for from it the Commonwealth may, in some sense, be said to have derived its name."
Quincy. In honor of the Quincy family, who for two and a-half centuries have owned the same land that was bought of the Sachem who ruled Massachusetts Fields in the days of Standish and Squanto. The family furnished a president to Harvard College and three mayors to Boston.
Washington. George Washington, First President.
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Willard. Solomon Willard, citizen of Quincy, inventor of hot air furnace, designer of Bunker Hill Monument and of the monument at "Old North Bridge," Concord. "While Solomon Willard laid open the quarry and devised the drills, the derricks and the shops, Gridley Bryant was building a railway."
Wollaston. Captain Wollaston landed in 1625 on what has since been known as Mount Wollaston and Merry Mount. From this Mount that part of Quincy now known as Ward V, took its name, and then from this fact the school was named.
Superintendents :-
Col. Francis W. Parker, April, 1875. Sylvester Brown, April, 1880. George I. Aldrich, April, 1883. Herbert W. Lull, January, 1892.
Evening common schools began, October, 1870. Vid. Acts and Resolves of 1883, sec. 1, chap. 174.
Transportation began 1874. "Probably the first town to act under the law of 1869." Drawing introduced, 1881.
Free text-books, 1884.
Evening drawing school, October, 1885. Vid. Acts and Re- solves, 1883, sec. 7, chap. 44.
Music introduced, 1887.
Tenure of office for teachers, 1889.
Nature work introduced, 1890.
Sewing introduced, (Grades V-VIII) 1892.
Cooking introduced, (High School) 1892.
Vertical writing, (Grades I, II, III) 1896.
Adams Academy (semi-public), September, 1872. Marks birth- place of John Hancock. Woodward Institute (semi-public), April, 1894. Sailors' Snug Harbor.
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National Sailors' Home.
Steam railroad : N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., main line and branch.
Stations : Atlantic, Norfolk Downs, Wollaston, Quincy, Quincy Adams, Montclair, West Quincy.
Electric railroad : Quincy and Boston; runs from the centre in eight directions, Hancock street, Newport avenue, Elm avenue, Coddington street, Washington street, Water street, Independence avenue, Quincy avenue.
EARLIEST NAMES.
1. Rev. John Wilson. The house just south of the new Episcopal chapel, Hancock street, Wollaston, was occupied by his son, John Wilson, M. D.
2. William Coddington.
3. Edmund Quincy (2d).
4. Atherton Hough.
5. Rev. John Wheelwright.
6. Anne Hutchinson (memorial stone and tablet, Wollaston).
Tutor, Henry Flynt, Harvard College.
Josiah Quincy (3d), President Harvard College.
" The Dorothy Q" (Jacksons, Wendells, Holmeses) (Oliver Wen- dell Holmes).
" Dorothy Q was a lady born ! Ah, since the galloping Norman came, England's annals have known her name And still to the three-hilled rebel town Dear is that ancient name's renown."
Another " Dorothy Q". (wife of John Hancock) niece of "The Dorothy Q".
Squantum, Cairn, 1621-1895, Miles Standish. Penn's Hill, Cairn 1775-1896, Abigail Adams. Quincy Historical Society. Birthplace of John Quincy Adams (South).
Adams Chapter, Daughters of the Revolution. Birthplace John Adams (North).
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Thomas Crane Public Library, Books 20,000.
The Quincy (Butler) house, Hancock street, Black's brook, 1685.
The Adams home (Vassal house), President's bridge.
The "Stone Temple." Burial place of two Presidents.
Col. John Quincy. Name of the town, 1792. Grandfather of Abigail Adams.
John Adams. First Vice President, 1789-1797. Second Presi- dent, 1797-1801. "Colossus of Independence." Harvard 1755.
John Quincy Adams. Sixth President, 1825-1829. " Old Man Eloquent." Harvard, 1787.
John Hancock. First Governor of Massachusetts, 1780. President of Continental Congress. First signer of the Declaration of Independence. "The official sanction subscribed to the in- strument for her (Quincy) becoming an independent muni- cipality, was given by her honored and illustrious son, John Hancock, then Governor of the State." In 1792 at the first election John Hancock received all the votes cast for gover- nor, 51 in number.
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