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that, whether for variety, or sharp perspective outline, may challenge rivalry, far and near. Yet what need to consume pages in description, when the people can see and judge for themselves !
The generous gift in money wherewith Mr. Davis so aptly and usefully crowned his benefaction, will prove of incalculable service. The whole transaction; from its early initiation by Mr. Bigelow to its ultimate munificent completion by Mr. Davis ; is one in which all the parties to it may well feel a just pride ; and upon which the People of Worcester can felicitate themselves, more and more, until the Lake shall be entirely exhausted by mill-wheels.
Until that day-dies infausta, infelix ! it is our duty, to whom the talent has been committed, to put it to its best use. To see that it is made to promote popular enjoyment; to develop a taste for the beauties of nature ; and to refine and soften, by cul- tivating, humanity itself. All this will exact devotion, patience, -some expenditure, not necessarily lavish. The COMMISSION can do somewhat ; the City Government may achieve its share. But, after all, the chief responsibility for the future of this and all Public Grounds, as of everything affecting or connected with the municipality, will remain with the body of the people. " A stream will not rise higher than its fountain.
An official note from our most courteous and excellent City Treasurer supplies a statement, herewith furnished, of the actual condition, upon the 30th day of November, A. D., 1884., of the Fund given by Hon. Edward L. Davis for the survey, demarka- tion, and improvement of LAKE PARK :
(Copy)
" OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER.
Worcester, Mass., Dec. 20, 1884.
TO EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN, ESQ.,
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION OF PUBLIC GROUNDS.
Sir :
The undersigned, as Treasurer, ex-officio, of the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) given to the City of Worcester by Hon. Edward L. Davis, as by his letter of June 26, 1884, addressed to the Mayor, Board of Aldermen and Common Council, will more fully appear, presents herewith, for the infor- mation of the Commission, under whose direction said sum of money is to be
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expended, a brief statement of receipts and payments, on account of said donation, together with the balance carried forward at the close of the finan- cial year, ending November 30, 1884.
Amount received, July 1, 1884, $5,000 00
Receipts to Nov. 30, 1884, viz :
Interest on Bank Deposits,
50 55
Total,
$5,050 55
Payments to Nov. 30, 1884, viz :
Sundry bills for surveying,
$48 30
Balance, Nov. 30, 1882, viz :
Deposits in Bank,
5,002 25
Total,
$5,050 55
Respectfully submitted.
WM. SUMNER BARTON,
Treasurer."
This relates solely to the last municipal year and is brought down to its close. A considerable sum has been expended since that date, for setting monuments, further surveys, the prepara- tion of a topographical map of the whole territory comprised within the Park, as well as for downright labor in some tenta- tive work of grubbing and grading.
In mid-Summer last, when if ever the subject matter might seem to require no special advocacy, a petition was presented to the City Council, in purport to wit :-
" WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.
TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL :
The undersigned would respectfully ask your Honorable Body to take and hold
NEWTON HILL
for the purposes of a Park and Reservoir, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the General Court, approved May 23, A. D. 1884.
That Act was passed by the General Court, at the express solicitation of the City of Worcester, represented before the
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Judiciary Committee of the House by His Honor the Mayor and the Chairman of the COMMISSION OF PUBLIC GROUNDS. At the preliminary hearing before the Committee of the Senate, the City Solicitor appeared. The original action of the City Council was based upon a communication from the present writer, under date of January 22d., A. D. 1884., and published as a supple- ment to the last Annual Report of this Commission. The appli- cation of the City was sustained by a vigorous public sentiment, never more sensitive than now ; which has always desired the acquisition of Parks and Play-Grounds ; which expects to have them to pay for to the extent that such privilege is not reserved for posterity ; and which never ceases to wonder and fret at the inertia of the municipality. But the Act was deliberately passed just as it was sought for ; as similar Acts had been before, but to be suffered to lapse .* And, as first above stated, a Petition
*[CHAPTER 263.]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR.
AN ACT
To provide for Public Parks in the City of Worcester.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows :-
SECTION 1. The city of Worcester by its city council may at any time within one year after the passage of this act take and hold by purchase or otherwise for the purpose of public parks all or any part of the land in said city which is bounded northerly by Highland Street, easterly by Park Avenue and southerly and westerly by Pleasant Street, and also all or any part of the land in said city bounded southerly by land of the trustees of the Worcester lunatic hospital, easterly by Lake Quinsigamond, northerly by Lincoln Street and westerly by Lake Avenue, as located by decree of the said city council dated September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and with the right to appropriate a portion of the land first described to be used as a reservoir.
SECTION 2. Said city, within sixty days after said city council votes to take any land under said act, shall file in the registry of deeds situate in the city of Worcester a description of the land taken sufficiently accurate for identification, which description shall be signed by the mayor of said city, and the title of the land taken shall vest in the said city from the time of filing such description.
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asked the City Council to make use of the power thus granted. As much account is made of the character of signatures to a Petition ; and properly enough, if the subscribers understand the full bearing and scope of the text; and as other Petitions have since been presented to the City Council, inconsiderate compliance with which would inevitably jostle this one side, if not defeat it entirely ; the roll of signatures is published in full, as of people in every condition in life, and who were particularly cautioned not to attach their names unless they fully approved the entire text and bearing of the Petition. They desire the use and enjoyment of Parks for all time,-and at once ! They would get them now, while the land is vacant and cheap ; letting other things that we can get along without wait until the necessity for them makes them indispensable :
PETITION.
" The undersigned would respectfully ask your honorable body to take and hold Newton Hill for the purposes of a park and reservoir, in accordance with the provisions of the act of the general court approved May 23, A. D. 1884.
Stephen Salisbury, Henry Woodward, H. M. Rice,
Jonas G. Clark, Geo. E. Merrill,
H. R. Williamson,
David Whitcomb, Geo. Sumner,
Wesley Davis,
Edward L. Davis,
Otis E. Putnam,
G. A. Kimball,
SECTION 3. The city of Worcester shall pay all damages sustained by any person or corporation by the taking of any land under this act, and if the owner of any land taken shall not agree with said city upon the damages to be paid therefor, such damages shall be assessed and determined in the manner provided where land is taken for laying out of highways.
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 15, 1884.
Passed to be enacted.
Passed to be enacted.
GEO. A. MARDEN, Speaker. IN SENATE, May 19, 1884. GEO. A. BRUCE, President,
MAY 23, 1884. Approved. GEO. D. ROBINSON.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, BOSTON, June 2, 1884. A true copy.
Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth.
[SEAL. ]
HENRY B. PEIRCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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P. C. Bacon, E. A. Goodnow,
W. W. Rice,
Charles E. Brooks,
Jesse Moore,
B. W. Potter,
Charles E. Black,
Henry J. Howland,
Chas. B. Whiting,
Edwin T. Marble,
N. S. Liscomb, J. B. Watson,
Henry M. Clemence,
Henry W. Miller,
Geo. L. Newton,
G. L. D. Newton,
W. H. Goulding,
W. Ansel Washburn,
Edward W. Ball, Samuel Winslow,
T. R. Norcross,
E. E. Fiske,
D. S. Messinger,
S. A. Pratt,
M. B. Green,
I. N. Metcalf,
O. B. Hadwen,
M. S. Ballord,
E. Cutler,
F. B. Knowles,
G. W. Elkins,
S. A. Maynard,
C. M. Miles,
J. Alvin Farley,
E. M. Barton,
F. B. Kendall,
David Manning,
E. W. Vaill,
Geo. H. Clark,
P. Hunt,
S. R. Leland,
H. C. Rice,
S. J. Wilcox,
John Jay Putnam,
Stephen Sawyer,
Calvin Foster,
Samuel Woodward,
Wm. H. Jourdan,
F. H. Kinnicutt,
Stephen Salisbury, Jr.,
G. Henry Whitcomb,
R. James Tatman,
J. W. Jordan,
C. M. Dyer, Edward W. Lincoln,
C. F. Washburn,
G. H. Kendall,
Josiah Pickett,
Wm. K. Crosby,
J. Q. Adams,
Charles Wilder,
G. H. Estabrook,
Joseph E. Davis,
H. P. Duncan,
Joseph E. Fales,
A. H. Hammond, Joseph Sargent,
Wm. T. Merrifield,
N. T. Bemis, Jerome Marble, D. O. Mears,
N. A. Lombard,
Geo. F. Hewett, G. C. Bigelow, Joseph A. Howland,
Asa Nourse,
Thomas H. Gage,
O. P. Shattuck, J. H. Rollins, Thomas H. Dodge, Henry Griffin, Thomas Talbot, Alex. Marsh, George E. Francis, F. A. Clapp, Henry S. Pratt,
P. D. Towne, Thomas J. Hastings, Jared Whitman, Samuel Porter, W. H. Willard,
Warren Williams,
Geo. E. Ham,
D. G. Tapley, L. A. Wood, John C. Otis,
Jas. W. Welch,
E. Boyden, Wm. G. Strong,
Henry G. Taft,
Edward F. Bisco,
L. J. White,
Samuel Mawhinney,
Merrick Bemis,
Wm. A. Richardson, J. H. Bigelow, John R. Hill, A. F. Burbank, Albert Wood,
J. H. Dodd, Henry Bacon,
Frank W. Wheeler, H. C. Rawson, Asa L. Kneeland,
Isaac D. White, Jr., W. B. Chamberlain,
B. Frank Lee,
R. R. Shepard, Oramel Martin, George T. Rice, James F. Allen, Chas. E. Stevens, Edward R. Fiske, Chas. H. Peck, Chas. B. Damon, C. G. Parker,
H. J. Jennings,
Geo. E. Fairbanks,
Francis B. Rice,
Adin Thayer, E. B. Stoddard, A. G. Bullock, Thomas A. Clark, Wm. F. Collier,
Philip W. Moen,
A. C. Munroe,
Aug. N. Currier,
Geo. L. Bliss,
I. S. Gordon, Chas. A. Lincoln,
E. D. Cheney, A. B. Lovell,
James Green, Alex. Bigelow,
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Edwin Eldred,
Wm. W. Johnson,
E. Warner,
Sumner Pratt,
John B. Devereaux,
Charles A. Chase,
Fred. S. Pratt,
W. A. Williams,
S. B. Winchester,
Edw. I. Comins,
John B. Goodell,
C. H. Benchley,
George W. Gale,
J. A. Clemence,
Frank S. Stone,
Lyman Drury, Samuel R. Heywood,
Jere. Winn,
E. S. Knowles,
Andrew Stone, Lucy A. Stone,
C. M. Bent,
C. B. Robbins,
Henry H. Houghton,
H A. Marsh,
E. B. Crane,
James P. Hall,
E. F. Bisco,
D. H. Eames,
Geo. W. Harlow,
Chas. B. Pratt.
O. T. Crawford,
Geo. A. Pearson,
Francis H. Dewey,
John S. Baldwin,
E. P. Howe,
W. C. Munger,
W. G. Maynard,
R. H. Southgate,
H. Goddard,
Albert Tolman.
Chas. F. Pierce,
A. D. Hubbard,
Geo. A. Bates, R. F. Upham,
John D. Washburn,
L. B. Witherby,
S. Penniman,
D. C. Tourtellot, Charles L. Redding,
Daniel S. Burgess,
Chas. S. Childs,
Jonas White,
Priestley Young,
A. G. Walker,
W. Mecorney,
David Manning, Jr.,
Philip L. Moen,
John A. Dana,
Geo. H. Mills,
Harvey B. Wilder,
Geo. H. Gould,
J. Fred Mason,
A. L. Burbank,
Geo. W. Phillips,
C. B. Metcalf,
Frederick G. Stiles,
Samuel D. Nye,
R. Woodward,
J. E. Estabrook,
Charles C. Baldwin.
That Petition was referred by the City Council to a Com- mittee, which proceeded to amuse itself in dreary negotiations with the proprietors of the Hill,-the admitted impossibility of agreeing with whom upon any reasonable terms was the avowed reason for applying to the Legislature for an enabling Act. The Committee would fain buy and hold. But the Act authorizing the City to do so had expired ; and, because of its conceded futility, the General Court passed the new Act empowering Worcester to " Take and Hold!" The Committee were aiming to accomplish something for which they had, if warrant of Law, not even a remote expectation of success !
What better is this than boy's play ?
The petitioners,-clear-headed, responsible men,-ask the City Council to " take and hold " NEWTON HILL. It was no act of silly gush,-on their part,-no impulse of sympathetic
C. L. Gorham,
S. M. Richardson,
Geo. T. Witherby,
Geo. E. Batchelder,
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emotion. When Hon. Stephen Salisbury (since gone to his rest !) was solicited to head the petition with his influential name, he replied that he had not reflected upon the subject and would prefer to take time. The next forenoon, he returned the paper to the writer, saying that he had concluded it to be his duty to sign it and that he took pleasure in so doing. Others were equally earnest and sincere. Of course it is within the discretion of the Honorable CITY COUNCIL to waive, or abso- lutely decline, the opportunity. But the Petitioners have asked only for what they want-an addition to one of our Parks, desirable alike from propinquity and its unique character ;- which once acquired is obtained forever. They are not afraid to trust a Worcester County Jury, to determine, if needs must, what may be the value per acre of a disused or half-starved cow- pasture ! Having faith that the new PARKS-COMMISSION will make suitable provision for the wants of the City, in like respects,-both Northwardly and Southwardly,-they cannot see why the City Council should not, in a manly, straight-for- ward fashion, accede to their prayer. The writer has urged this measure, for years, as one of high public policy. Perhaps, at times, he may have appeared unreasonable, or importunate. But it has ever commended itself to him as vital to the future, proper development of the City ; and, with this final appeal, he takes leave of the subject, as its advocate, forever.
The visions of the Seer,-son of Levi,-like the Sibylline Books, increase in value as their realization, or time, diminish their number. He has beheld in the dim distance, the WATER- PARK of Worcester, which is not by any means a Park by the Water, being the Lake itself! no longer drawn down at the sweet will of manufacturers, who have learned that a motive power is valueless in proportion as it ceases to be certain ; no longer obstructed by a solid causeway, which has yielded place to a succession of Arches over which travel finds no impediment, and through which the pleasure, or racing, boat, gains easy transit. He looks further : and sees the procession of vehicles and pedestrians, by the North-West shore of Quinsigamond, as
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they wind around Wigwam* and pass along the broad Avenue to which stolid lunacy does not oppose a barrier, or priggish exclusiveness-its first cousin-offer futile objections. The hill- sides are dotted with pleasant cottages,-the smiling homes of a population no more content to ferment and seethe in the dust and grime of Pine Meadow ; but willing, even anxious to secure the blessings of pure air and cheerful surroundings for their children, if too late for themselves. LAKE PARK has been cleared up and developed ; its countless possibilities realized, so that happy parties are in the constant enjoyment of its native beauties. Wide views from lofty acclivities, lovely vistas through forest openings, sparkling streams and chance water- falls, with white, crisp towns in the blue haze upon yonder hills ! While beneath our feet lies here, there, and miles remote, the fair Lake,-the like to whose limpid mirror men cross broad Oceans to see, entitling them Katrine, Leman, or whatsoever name may offer as a synonym for our aboriginal Quinsigamond.
*LAKE AVENUE, northwardly, if of unvarying width, should be deflected to the inside of Wigwam, at a great saving of cost; and accelerating its con- struction by bringing it within the possible expenditure of the City. The COMMISSION always contemplate practicability. Their plan looked to no wild extravagance,-no visionary outlay. Utilize what is possible, so far as may be, and thereafter project for continuance, or extension, as you may desire. With LAKE AVENUE-South-transferred to the Bridle Path; and the Avenue itself opened northerly to the base of Wigwam; why not diverge to the Westward, meeting Faith Avenue as it swings down from Burncoat, to Lin- coln Street, on an easy curve?
Would any one know, at a glance, just how it will disfigure that shapely Hill, to make a sheer cut from its Eastern side for the sake of constructing a road-way, by dumping into the Lake ;- let him but look at the slope of NEW- TON HILL, by the Spurr* Bowlder, which neither sward nor naught else has over-grown since the original excavation thirty years ago! With the rest of LAKE AVENUE re-located, and constructed, as it should be, the wayfarer will hail with joy the diversion which offers him a stretch of inland scenery after four miles by the very Lake side. And Wigwam, in the hospitable occupation of the Natural History Society, will accord a genial welcome to its guests without compelling the City to waste the substance of the People in marring its symmetry.
*Named for the late George R. Spurr, who, as Chairman of the Highway Committee, at the request of the writer, took precautions to save that huge rock from the drills and powder of his vandals.
E. W. L.
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Off-towards the West, over the South Ledge, and through Quinsigamond Village around the foot of Mount St. James, the wide AVENUE so often advised and commended, is at length opened for travel and traffic ; and the throngs that are now vis- ible upon it direct their steps to the new Play-Ground secured for the Southern section of the City by the PARKS-COMMISSION, to witness the sports of the youthful athletes. Supplying facil- ities for exercise in the open air, which are heartily enjoyed and thoroughly appreciated, the wonder augments that the People were content to await the tardy boon with so much patience. Not so extensive a tract as might be wished, it is as large as could be secured in a manufacturing centre without an absolute arrest of business enterprise. It is occupied and used for a Play- Ground, as it was meant to be ; for a monotony of Gardens or Parks can become as tiresome and pall upon the taste as soon as anything else that lacks variety.
And now, getting around by PARK AVENUE, the Seer looks down from NEWTON HILL,-at last securely in municipal owner- ship,-upon the old territory of the Agricultural Society, cov- ered with substantial residences instead of empty cattle-sheds. It has ceased to be a deserted waste for three-fourths of the year, not even ministering to the uses for which it was first acquired, and for which its rise in value long since rendered it inappropriate. But, reduced to settlement, its taxable returns furnish a perceptible and welcome entry in the civic income ; while the revenue from its sale has enabled the Society to pro- cure a more suitable location elsewhere. And with it have fled its attendant nuisances,-the fungus growth of a populous City, -a continuous offence to the neighborhood until they are either expelled from the system or sloughed off.
Continuing on along PARK AVENUE, and following West Boylston Street to where the irons of two Railways intersect it ; the gaze of the Seer is arrested by the newer and permanent location of the Agricultural Society. FAITH AVENUE reaches over,-connecting Lincoln with West Boylston, Street, sur- mounting the ridge by an easy grade, and uniting two contiguous portions of the City that were too long sundered. Accessible
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by broad roads or smooth railways; with an ample area for every use that exacts a level surface ; and with an unfailing supply of water; was it not a wise measure of policy to remove thither when the price set upon land was reasonable ?
And the Seer progresses Eastward, over FAITH AVENUE, and, coming down Lincoln Street, invades Paine Woods. To his inquiry what may be the meaning of this festive pic-nic of grown people, with prattling children, all happy as larks,-the reply from a dozen eager tongues is, that the City came at last to per- ceive that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; that it is not all of life to live ; that the municipal body, if it builds over its territory closely, must provide occasional openings to the Sun and Air : and that, if the men of old dedicated the COM- MON and ELM PARK to popular use and enjoyment, their suc- cessors of this day and generation but bury their talent in a napkin who do not provide in abundant, aye lavish measure, for wants that grow more importunate and inexorable as population becomes crowded to the point of oppression,-almost suffoca- tion.
And, as the Seer closes his eyes wearied by their protracted insight, his ears are saluted with the clatter and rumble of cars upon the Street Railway, as they descend from Burncoat to Barber's Crossing and pass swiftly along their route through Grove Street; by the Rural Cemetery and the Wire Mill, to the heart of the City.
"Finis coronat opus!"-May the good work be accelerated !
All which is Respectfully submitted,
by EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN,
Chairman.
Worcester, Massachusetts, January 26, A. D. 1885.
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APPENDIX.
The arrogant encroachments upon what has always been regarded as private right ; followed up by equally high-handed usurpation of the public easement ; in every instance by that creation of the popular will and tolerance-the Corporation ; - heretofore noticed in these Reports ; bid fair to meet with an adequate check. A paragraph in Bradstreet's, of March 29, 1884, makes the following record : -
" The question whether the erection of telegraph poles and apparatus upon a public highway, the fee of which is in a private person (though burdened with the public easement), creates a separate and additional burden, requiring an independent assessment of damages, for which the owner was not com- pensated when the highway was laid out, and whether the omission to provide compensation in an act authorizing the erection of such poles rendered it unconstitutional, has recently been considered by the Supreme Courts of Mas- sachusetts and of Illinois. The Massachusetts court, in the lately decided case of Pierce vs. Drew, held that the use of a portion of the highway for the poles, etc., of companies formed under the law of the State for the transmission of intelligence by electricity and subject to the supervision of the local municipal authorities, which has been permitted by the legis- lature, is a public use similar to that for which the highway was originally taken or to which it was originally devoted, and that the owner of the fee is entitled to no further compensation. A different conclusion was reached by the Supreme Court of Illinois in the recent case of The Board of Trade Tele- graph Company vs. Barnett. In this case, the facts in which were similar to those in the Massachusetts case, the court held that the construction and maintenance of a telegraph line upon the highway was a new and additional burden upon the fee, to which it was not contemplated that it should be sub- jected, and for which the owner was entitled to additional compensation, and that any act not providing such compensation must be regarded as infringing the constitutional principle that ' private property shall not be taken or dam- aged without just compensation.'"
What is law in Illinois, as above stated, is affirmed as law in the imperial State of New York by its Court of Appeals. When will the rights of individuals ever obtain recognition from the Judiciary of Massachusetts !
E. W. L.
THE CITY HOSPITAL.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1884.
Alderman-JOHN R. THAYER,
BENJAMIN W. CHILDS, Terms expire 1885.
Councilmen 3 JAMES C. COFFEY,
At Large-DR. THOMAS H. GAGE, DR. JOSEPH SARGENT,
Term expires 1885.
1886.
ALBERT CURTIS,
66 1887.
STEPHEN SALISBURY, Jr.,
66
1888.
ORGANIZATION.
President-ALBERT CURTIS. Secretary-STEPHEN SALISBURY, Jr.
Auditors-
S JOHN R. THAYER,
JAMES C. COFFEY.
Superintendent and Resident Physician.
DR. CHARLES A. PEABODY.
Board of Commissioners of the Jaques Fund and other Funds of the City Hospital.
CHARLES B. PRATT,
Term expires 1885. 66 66 1886.
ALBERT CURTIS,
BENJAMIN WALKER,
1887.
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Consulting Physicians and Surgeons. Joseph Sargent, M. D. Thomas H. Gage, M. D. Oramel Martin, M. D.
Visiting Staff. Surgeons.
J. Marcus Rice, M. D. Albert Wood, M. D.
Emerson Warner, M. D.
George E. Francis, M. D.
Physicians.
John O. Marble, M. D. Wm. H. Workman, M. D. Leonard Wheeler, M. D. Wesley Davis, M. D. J. Bartlett Rich, M. D. O. H. Everett, M. D.
Oculist and Aurist. LEWIS S. DIXON, M. D.
Pathologist. S. B. WOODWARD, M. D.
House Officer. A. C. GETCHELL.
ORGANIZATION.
President- . Secretary-CHARLES A. PEABODY, M. D.
LEONARD WHEELER, M. D. Committee on Reports J. O. MARBLE, M. D. J. BARTLETT RICH, M. D. J. MARCUS RICE, M. D. Committee of Conference E. WARNER, M. D. A. WOOD, M. D.
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