HomeMy Public PortalAbout1873 Annual Watertown Report ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE AUDITORS OF THE
TOWN
OF WATERTOWN,
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REPORTS OF THE TREASURER, SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS, APPRAISERS, COL-
LECTORS OF TAXES, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND HIGHWAYS,
TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR, ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, TRUSTEES OF THE
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, ETC., ETC.
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ROCKWELI, R CIIURCHILL, PRINTERS,
1 2 2 WAS 11 I N G T O N STREET .
1873 .
TOWN OFFICERS, 181?.
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Selectmen.
JOHN K. STICKNEY, THO S. L. FRENCII,
OLIVER SHAW, GEO. N. MARCH,
II. W. MACt RDT.
Tou•n Clerk.
JOSEPH CRAFTS.
Tnwn Treasurer.
JOHN K. STICKN EY.
Assessors.
ISAAC ROBBWS, JOHN K. STICKNET,
JOSFPH CRAFTS.
School Con»nittee.
HF.NDF.RSON J. EDWARDS, Chairwan. Term expires, March, lQ73.
ABRAHAM L. RICHARI)S, it 64 It 18 3.
CHARLES BRIGHAM, it « .t 1874.
JOHN COOLIDGE, JR., it it tL 1914.
CHARLES W. STONE, Secretary, cc At it 1R";;.
REV. NATH. FELLOWS. It
I. -reyor of Bighirnys,
GEORGE H. SLEFI'L•'R.
Urerrec9•s tf the Taor.
JOHN K. STICKNEF, OT.IN'Flt CI AW,
TI OS. L. FI E'I CH, GEE. N. 'MAE.CIi.
II. W. AIACi'RDY.
Constal,les and Trvant 0lwcrf•s.
GEORGE PARKER, L7.IIt'1i V. H0W ARD,
HENRYF. IiRIC;IiT.
(71-7lertor of Tarr.
GEU. L. NOYES.
4 TOWN OFFICERS.
Auditors and Appraisers.
GEORGE N. MARCH, WILLIAM H. CLARK,
WILLIAM H. DADMUN.
Board of health.
FRANCIS BEND ALL, JOHN H. CONANT,
FREDERICK ROBBINS.
Fence Viewers.
JOHN COOLIDGE, JR., GEORGE PARKER,
WM. C. S. HARRINGTON.
Surveyors of Lumber.
WM. H. DADMUN, GEORGE C. SANGER.
Field Drivers.
ZACHARIAH BOODY, EZRUM V. HOWARD,
REUBEN PUFFER, HENRY F. BRIGHT,
GEORGE PARKER, L. P. HAMMON D.
Trustees of Free Public Library.
JESSE A. LOCKE, Term expires March, 1873.
ALFRED HOSMER, 94 94 " 1873.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE, It Ic 49 1874.
GEORGE N. MARCH, it ti t: 1874.
A. C. STOCKIN, ig 99 " 1875.
GEO. K. SNOW. " " " 1875.
OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE SELECTHEN.
Policemen.
GEORGE PARKER, EZRUM V. HOWARD.
Sexton and Undertaker,
ALEXANDER GREGG.
Pound peeper.
ZACHARIAH BOODY, who is also keeper of Almshouse.
TOWN OFFICERS. Jr
Sealer of lt'eights and .1leasures.
JOSEPH CRAFTS.
Surveyors and Measurers of Wood and Bark.
SADit"EI. S. GLEASON, ARTE'MAS B. ROGERS,
A. M&MASTER, ROBERT B. SAFFORD.
WILLIAM H. PEVEAR.
Clerks of the Market.
SAM17EL S. GLEASON, J. ALBERT SULLIVAN.
Janitor of Town. Hall.
HIRAM McGLAU FLIN.
.'Measurers of Grain.
CHESTER L1'.1fAN, ALBERT C. T.TM.1N,
SAMUEL S. GLEASON, WILLIAM PERKINS,
H. N. SMITH.
Public ]Feiyher and Superintendent of Hay-Scales,
THOMAS PATTEN.
Prirate A"eighers of Hay, Coal, etc.
ROBERT B. SAFFORD, W ILLIA'H II. PEVEAR.
L. B. IIA3L%fOtiD.
F,ngineers of Fire llcrartment.
ATWOOD D. DREW, REUBEN PUFFER,
WILLIAM H. PARK, JR., SAML. S. GLEASON.
TOWN GRANTS AND APPROPRIATIONS.
Grants of Money made by the Town of W"a.tertowu, for the
year 1872, and ordered to be assessed upon the Polls
and estates of the Town, accordincr to Latin-, the said
grants being appropriated as follows, namely :For the support of schools, $20,000 00
44 << the poor, 2,500 00
<< it highways, 10,000 00
bridges and culverts, 19500 00
Payin; interest on town debt, 49000 00
it portion of is 31000 00
Insurance, 400 00
Police expe,ises, 2,000 00
Discounts and abatements, 31000 00
Fire Department, 29800 00
Free Public Library, 11500 00
Contingent expenses, 1,700 00
Lying concrete sidewalks, 3,000 Oo
Salaries of town officers, 4,535 oO
Laying concrete walks in Cemetery, 8-50 00
Purchase bell for Engine House, 450 00
Isaac B. P:-ftten, Post No. 81, G. A. R. 300 00
Cementing -find repairs, barn cellar, at
Alnishouse, 250 00
Painting and repairing Torn Douse, 1 ,000 00
For drainage, 2,500 00
Widening Market street, 2,500 00
horses, cart, and harnesses,
1,500 00
$68,785 00
8 TOWN GRANTS.
Grants of mane to be paid from the Contingent Fund,
and appropriated as follows, viz. : —
For Collection of Taxes, $500 00
Grants of money, for which the Town Treasurer was
authorized to borrow on the credit of the town, the same
beiu( appropriated as follows, viz. :—
Alterations and heating South School-house, $3,600 00
Purchasina lands and erecting School-house
at Etna. Mills, 8,500 00
Widening Starch Factory Lane, 500 00
Purchase of Bose for Fire Department, 3,000 00
For Hospital, 15000 00
$16,600 00
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
VALUATION AND TAXES OF TIIE TOWN, OF WATERTOWN, FOR
THE YEAR 1872.
The valuation of Real Estate is $4,408,670 00
« << Personal 46 2,363,440 00
Total valuation of estates is $6,i 72,110 00
The whole number of rolls is 1,170.
AMOUNTS ASSESSED.
State Tax, $6,340 00
County Tax, 39676 37
Town Grants, 68.635 00
Overlayings, 2,245 11
-W,R96 48
Tax on 1,170 rolls, at $2 00 each, $25340 00
44 estatea, at 1.16 per ct.,
on $6,772,110 009 is 78,556 48
$80,896 48
The sum of $39 00 has also been
assessed as additional taxes, $89 00
The number of dwelling-houses is 68;,
" horses, 387
" cows,
250
oxen, etc.,
13
acres of land taxed,
290654
ISA A C ROBBI\S, )
JOIIN K. STICKNE1', ( :1.�.��s,,,,•.• of,
JOSEPH CRAFTS, S ii ilff° tulcn.
COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
To the Auditors of the Town of Watertown : —
GENTLEMEN,— I herewith submit my report of the collec-
tion of taxes, for the years 1870-71.
ACCOUNT, 1870.
To balance of taxes unpaid, as per corrected
report 1872, $19221 42
Interest collected on ace't 1870, 167 66
$1,389 08
CR.
By cash paid Town Treasurer, as per receipts, $1,236 27
abatements, as per Assessors' certificates, 152 81
$1,389 80
ACCOUNT, 1871.
DR.
To balance of taxes unpaid, as per corrected
report, 1872, $71212 53
Interest collected, 257 31
A7,469 84
CR.
By cash paid Town Treasurer, as per receipts, 49126 10
abatements as per Assessor's certificates, 291 00
balance taxes uncollected, 0,052 74
$7,469 84
JOEL BAR`rARD, Collector.
WATERTOWN, Feb. 22c1, 18 7 3.
COLLECTOR 9S REPORT. 11
We have examined the foregoing accounts of Joel Barnard,
Collector, and find the same to be correct,
GEOI.GE N. MARCH,
WILLIADI I1 CLARIi, Auditors.
WILLIA'NI II. DAMMUN,
To the Auditors of the Town of W(dertown: —
DR.
GENTLEMEN, — I herewith submit my report of the collec-
tion of taxes for 1872.
To whole amount of taxes committed, $80,896 48
6' additional taxes, 89 00
11 interest collected, 54 58
$81,040 06
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By cash paid Town Treasurer, as per receipts, $68,805106
" " 66 County Treasurer, County tax for
18729 3,676 37
By discounts allowed, 22342 61
abatements for Assessors' certificates, 836 61
balance taxes uncollected, 59379 41
$81.040 06
Respectfully tours
GE)RGE L. NO ES, Collector.
WATERTOWN, Feb. 22c19 1873.
The foregoing account of George L. NOycs, Collector, has
been carefully examine(l, and found to be very accurately and
Systematically kept, and is correct,
G EORG E N. MARCH,
WILLL 1 II. CI.ARK,
WILLIAM II. DADMU .
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
SCHEDULE OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FI-
NANCIAL YEAR, ENDING FEBRUARY 6, 18 7 3.
Cash in treasury Feb. 17, 1872, $39169 43
Ree'd of Joel Barnard, Jr., taxes and interest, 1870, 1,236 27
11 " " 14 1871, 4,126 10
Rec'd of George L. Noyes, taxes and interest,
18729 6805 06
Borrowed of Watertown Swings Bank, for hose
and furniture for engine-house 39000 00
<< of Hinckley & Co., for laud and building
school-house at _ZEtna Mills, 41000 00
of Watertown Savings Bank, in ar ticipation
of taxes, 1,500 00
<< of Alden Bradford, for building school-
house at ..Etna Mills, 21000 00
44 of Eastport Savings Bank, for the same, 21100 00
96 of Hinckley & Co., for school-house at
1Etna Mills, also alterations on South
school-house, 49000 00
$93,936 86
ON ACCOUNT OF AMISHOUSE.
Rec'd of town of Belmont, support of
paupers, $205 08
from sale of produce, 78 83
<< board of Mr. Emmons, 78 54
of Abiel Abbott, board of Dan'l
Burns, 58 50
AUDITORS' REPORT. 13
Rec'd of Jos. Crafts, guardian, board
of E. D. Tufts, $300 00
46 for board of roen and horses, 849 00
$1,569 95
HIGHWAYS.
Rec'd for sale of horse, $100 00
61 " labor, 124 75
is 44 it Wien and horses, 23 50
<< it repairing old culverts, 168 50
labor at new school-house,
lEtua Mills, 83 50
$5Q0 2
Rec'd of 1I. J. Edwards, gas, 38 95
64 of Ezra `hi , insurance, 3 13
44 of board of health, 184 60
is of James Tunney, police once steps, 1 00
66 of State aid, 19000 00
it of State Treasurer, school fund, 268 85
44 Thos. Patten, town scales, 135 38
46 of Fire Dep't, coal used in engine-house, 85 00
of State Treasurer, hank tax, 1 .153 55
" it
`6 corporation tax, 1872, 49320 69
;rave lots, 270 00
rent of town hall, 587 18
" County Treasurer, on acconut of dog
licenses, 307 83
$1049363 12
EXPENDITURES.
scuooLa.
Appropriation, $201000 00
Town's sh.u•e of StateSchool Fowl, 268 85
Transferred from Contingent Fund, 1 ,351 38
$22,120 23
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14 AUDITORS' REPORT.
SALARIES OF TEACHEI:S.
Geor(re R. Dwelley, $29000 00
George W. Andrew, 1,460 00
W. T. Copeland, 1400 00
George S. Turner, 1,430 00
B. S. Andrew,
GOG GG
Harriet Robbins, 685 00
Annie Al. Cary, 420 00
A1ary D. Patten, 522 50
C. S. Cushing, 800 00
Ellen Al. Crafts, 630 00
Annie E. Coolidge, 500 00
Lottie P. Kent, 475 00
Fanny Robbins, 150 00
Ellen AL Souther, 550 00
Harriet B. Crafts, 450 00
L. A. Otis, 475 OU
Bertha Al. Whitney, 47 5 00
Elizabeth Jennison, 500 00
Lyda F. Wicks, 475 00
Nellie Bradley, 400 00
Annie Al. Gregory, 795 00
Lily, Frost, 400 00
Henry G. Carey (music), 340 00
A. F. Horne, 82 50
Etta B. D:idmun, 200 00
James Al. Bell, 93 66
Nellie Williams, 237 50
$16,552 82
EVENING SCHOOL.
Paid George S. Turner, $200 00
A. Chatman, 43 15
E. Powell, 88 00
AUDITORS' REPORT. 15
Paid L. A. Otis, $80 00
Bertha .1I. Whitnet-, 95 50
Annie M. Carey 4 00
Fanny R-obbins, 2 00
,lt. Tucker, 1 50
George R. D«•elley, 50 00
$564 15
Paid janitors as follows :—
IV. T. Copeland, $140 00
Eduard G. Bunker, 940 00
$1,080 00
FUEL FOR SCHOOL-IIOI SES.
Roval G ill:ev, coal, $19102 50
Aikin &- Woodward, charcoal, i 4 40
41 J 6 00
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Parker & Howard, truant officers, $60 00
Advertising for teachers, 10 45
Alfred Howes, hardware, 39 SI
A. IV. -,1;pra:;n(,., apparatus 11. S., 4 22
A. Al. Davenport & Co., furniture, etc., 89 00
Wm. Romers, repairing clocks, 21 50
C. G. Cooke &,- Jiro., printing, 22 50
AV. S. Copeland, cleanin" school-house, 12 50
Tainter & Tripp, concrete walk, 258 .54
Thor. L. French, repaij:s, 218 01
Norcross & Blaisdell, repairs, 139 80
I)• W- Ch,"Inberlain, paints, 29 50
('loaning school-houses, 38 ,82
Bliss & Perkins, was fixtures, 14 00
Timing pianos, 4 50
W111. O. Haskell & Sons, furniture, 181 10
16 AUDITORS I REPORT.
R. Puffer, painting, 49 93
R. Gilkey, lumber, 47 42
Snow & Bradlee, printing, $42 25
Chamberlain & Co., apparatus, 42 08
J. S. Turner, stove pipe, etc., 41 43
Hugh Hart, labor, 21 20
A. W. Spra yue, chemicals, 20 00
George R. Dwelley, 64 11 77
Gibbs & Co., express, 75
J. S. Sumner, repairs furnaces, 120 30
J. L. Ross, furniture, 56 00
L. Bent & Co., repairs, 25 12
J. A. Sullivan, chemicals, 9 95
Geo. S. Bowen, stoves, 18 45
Geo. W. Walker & Co., shovels, etc., 18 25
John Barnard, labor, 67 82
Emerson's express, 32 40
Otis Bros., 3 07
Andrew Cummings, 2 33
H. F. Miller, balance on piano, 175 00
Henry Russell, painting, 48 01
J. S. Blaisdell, labor, 10 80
G. B. Stockwell, 3 00
John Madden, snow-scraper, 1 50
W. L. Stiles, oil, 90
S. S. Gleason & Co., sundries, 111 32
$2,024 80
BOOKS, STATIO-NERY, ETC.
Nichols & Hall, $157 49
Noyes, Holmes & Co., 37 90
W. A. Wilder &-. Co., 162 50
Tliompson, Bigelow & Brown, 85 46
Woolworth & Amesworth, 110 94
AUDITORS' REPORT. 17
Guinn & Bros., $4 36
A. E. Winship, 25 98
R. B. Safford & Co., 33 15
C. C. McLaughlin, 103 78
721 56
$22,120 23
SIDEWALKS.
Appropriation, $3,000 00
Paid Tainter & Tripp, concrete walks, $2,684 08
Henry Russell, brick, 24 53
" Samuel Barnard, " " 7 00
Otis Brothers, It " 48 13
Dan'l Bond ,&- Son, 1871, brick walks, 10 68
Simpson Br ►thers, concrete, 20 57
" 66 << " 18 59
" Samuel Jennison, brick, 1871 , 18 00
" Thomas Gavin, grading, 8 75
Boyd & Crate, 7 50
Simpson Brothers, 20 ?6
Transferred to Contingent Fund, 131 41
$3,000 00
1LAMSHO UTSE.
DR.
To npprohriation, $29500 Ott
" transfer from receipts. viz.,—
From town of Belmont, 205 08
Sales of produce, 78 83
18 AUDITORS' REPORT.
From board of _11r. Emmons, $78 54
" Daniel Burns, 58 50
it E. D. Tufts, 300 00
men and horses employed
on highways, 849 00
$4,069 95
CR.
By cash paid for sundry purposes, viz.,—
" Zachariah Boody, salary,
etc., $535 45
Z. Boody, for sundry cash
purchases, 105 70
Mrs. E. A. Emmons, ser-
vices, 58 50
Grain and meal (Coffin &
Magee), 295 27
Hay, 292 48
$1,287 40
FISH.
Paid M. Rogers, $18 80
DRY GOODS.
Paid Nourse & Barnard, dry goods and
tD
crockery, $50 52
it Otis Brothers, dry goods, 57 72
$108 24
GROCERIES, ETC.
By cash paid S. S. Gleason & Co., $3 71 30
G. A. ASeacham, resin, 1 88
S. E. Sparrow, 7 7 3
Samuel Noyes & Co., 69 14
P. B. Pendergast & Co., 22 11
A472 16
AUDITORS' REPORT. 19
PROVISIOl\S, MEAT, ETC.,
By cash paid Daniel Bond & Son, 43 01
<< H. P. Mason, 84 04
C. Whittemore & Son, 62 09
$189 14
CLOTHING.
By cash paid A. B. Rogers, $32 95
FUEL.
By cash paid R. Gilkey, coal, $112 17
is Stone & HaYden, mood, 13 60
C. Conant, « 19 13
$144 90
SLOES, ETC.
By cash Paid S. H. Coombs, -
$30 50
HARDWARE.
Paid A. Howes, $22 84
44 W. L. Stiles, 17 72
— $40 56
BLACHS\IITHING.
Paid James Hall, $24 10
J. Ross, 1 50
W. C. Foley, 81
John 11ladden, rep'g wagons, 1:1 10
John Ross, 96 <: 16 15
" G. F. Teele, is is 17 50
John Tucker, rep l pumps, 75
$79 91 -
SUNDRIES.
Paid Henry Russell, painting, $10 11
L. Bent & Co., rep'g furniture,
3 37
James liannahan, con►,
50 QO
G. It. Stockwell, « 25 00
20 AUDITORS' REPORT.
Paid C. B. Page, medicines, 3 70
J. A. Sullivan, do., 15 37
By paid highways account, labor, rent and
horses, 23 50
Thos. Patten, rep'g harness, 3 47
Henry Bright, killing hogs, 3 00
$2,542 08
ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS OUTSIDE ALMSHOUSE.
J. Welch and daughter, $144 00
R. Gilkey, coal, 62 75
S. S. Gleason & Co., sundries, 11 69
Wm. Rooney, IV, orcester Lunatic Hos. 88 78
Mrs. Thos. Denney, 4 81
City Hospital, small-pox cases, 132 85
Alfred Hosmer, 11 11 11 24 00
Charles Arnold, bedding, small-pox cases, 15 00
John H. Conant, ex. small-pox cases, 14 75
City of Lowell, aid to Kerwin, 6 00
Refreshments furnished to travellers, 14 03
Refqrm school, 11 07
City of Cambridge, aid to Mary Dailey, 36 25
Joel Barnard, aid to Caroline Christian, 30 00
Whittemore, for provisions, 1 15
City of Charlestown, account of Mary A.
Chant, 27 25
City of Lowell, it <6 Miss
Derwin, 10 50
Dr. Samuel Richardson, 15 50
City of Boston, aid to Mary Skinner, 105 12
66 66
6 6 4 6 11N. 11'.
FT. Stone, 78 62
66 it 49 11 1 1 Elizal)eth M.
Walker, 32 88
AUDITORS' REPORT. 21
City of Cambridae, aid to 'Mrs. John
Dailey, $72 25
Charles H. Barry, coal for Mrs. Smith, 17 00
R. B. Safford, sundries, 7 63
Samuel Noyes, " 6 50
$970 38
Transferred to ContivaentFund, annexed
balance, 557 49
$4,069 95
BRIDGES AND CULVERTS.
Appropriation, $1,500 00
special, 29500 00
— $49000 00
Paid Geo. Peirce, labor and materials, $264 66
Tlios. L. Fr,-nch, c, << 240 56
Day &, Collins, drain pipe, 829 19
James Tunney, labor, 52 50
A. L. Danforth 4, 10 00
Win. Sampson, stone, 30 60
Highways, rep'g old culverts, 168 50
James 011ara, labor, 33 00
Patrick Grace, stone, 241 87
Royal Gilkey &; Co., cement, 24 75
Geo. H. Sleeper, freight on pipe, Ill 40
Davis cC Farnnin, grates, P. 75
Knox Angier, edgrestono, 6 18
Miles Pratt & Co., castings, 60 27
John Ross, 15 19
John Cullen, labor, 5 25
Transferred to Contingent Account unex-
pended, 1,999 33
$4,000 00
i
22 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
INTEREST ACCOUNT.
Appropriation, $4,000 00
Transferred from Contingent Account,
etc., 110 82
$4,110 .82
Paid E. J. Norcross, 1 year's interest
on $200 00, $12 00
Boston Five Cent Savings, 1
year's interest on $10,000, 600 00
Lowell Institution for Savings, 1
year's interest, 774 88
Lowell Institution for Savings, 1
year's interest on $5,500, 330 00
Watertown Savings Bank, interest, 287 58
Mrs. L. Forbes, 1 year's interest
on $3,000, 210 00
Mrs. Faxon, 1 year's interest on
$300, 18 00
Thos. Peirce, 1 year's interest on
$190009 60 00
Miss A. I. Norcross, 1 year's in-
terest on $700, 42 00
Mrs. E. Glines, 1 year's interest
on $1,000, 70 00
State Treasurer, 1 year's interest
on $13,768, 848 58
Messrs. Hinckley & Co., 1 year's
interest on $4,000, 280 00
Eastport Savings Bank, 6 months'
interest on $2,100, 73 50
Alden Bradford, 6 months' interest
on $2,000, 70 00
National Bank of Commonwealth,
discount on note, 138 65
AUDITORS' REPORT. 23
Paid National Bank of Commonwealth,
discount on note, $103 13
National Bank of Commonwealth,
discount on note, 100 00
National Bank of Commonwealth,
discount on note, 75 00
Interest on note, In anticipation of
taxes, 17 50
$4,110 82
INSURANCE.
Appropriation, $400 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 631 38
$1,031 38
Paid Joel Barnard, insurance, $340 13
Wm. 11. Ingraham, insurance, 691 25
$1,031 38
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Appropriation, $1,500 00
Paid Geo. N. March, Treas. of Library, $1,500 00
PA YMENT ON TO 11:V DEBT.
Appropriation, V-000 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 500 00
Paid Watertown Savingg Blink note 1 5t10 $3500 00
$ 00
« Tbu9. Peirce, 1,000 00
Lowell Ius. for Savings, 1,000 00
$3,500 00
24 AUDITORS REPORT.
STATE AID.
Received from State Treasurer, $1,000 00
Paid William Wall, $140 00
Charles F, Jackson, 72 00
John Hallahan, 168 00
Deborah Bright, 48 00
Horace W. Otis, 72 00
Mary Severence, 48 00
Henry G. Peirce, 168 00
Mary McCabe, 48 00
Otis A. Pollard, 96 00
Sarah W. White, 96 00
Transferred to Contingent Ac't, unexpended,44 00
$1,000 00
SALARIES.
Appropriation, $4,535 00
Paid School Committee salary, 1871-72, $250 00
Auditors' salary, 1872, 75 00
Assessors' salary, 1872, 600 00
J. Crafts, Town Clerk, salary, 1872, 400 00
Geo. H. Sleeper, Surveyor, 1872, 1,500 00
John K. Stickney, Treasurer, 11 400 00
<< <' services on State
Aid, 30 00
Selectmen and Overseers' salary, 500 00
Geo. L. Noyes, Collector, 500 00
Transferred to Contingeut Account
unexpended, 280 00
$4,535 00
AUDITORS' REPORT. 25
POLICE.
Appropriation, $2,000 00
Transferred 59 44
$2,059 44
Paid Geo. Parker, 1 year's service, $917 45
Ezrum V. Howard, fit915 00
H. F. Bright, special 64 15 00
H. B. Cheney, 26 25
H. N. Smith, 10 00
C. C. Lougee, 14 5 00
N. & AV. Gas-Light Co., 87 20
Geo. Peirce, labor, 13 55
John Barnard, 9 70
Clark & Fox, gas repairs, 31 68
Wm. Read & Son, handcuffs, 11 00
John Ross, repairs, 6 49
Nourse & Barnard, spittoons, 1 37
Wm. L. Stiles, ' 1 25
Chas. L. Nye, special service, 7 50
Repairin; flat, 1 00
$2,059 44
PURCHASE OF HORSES AND CART.
Appropriation, $1,500 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 395 00
$1,805 00
Paid John Noson for two horses, $725 00
Emerson & Porter, for two horses, 860 00
J. PulAifer, for two-horse cart, 310 00
- $19895 00
26 AUDITORS' REPORT.
BELL FOR ENGINE-HOUSE.
Appropriation, $450 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 49 02
$499
Paid Holbrook & Son, for bell, 493 00
Alfred Howes, for rope, 6 02
$499 02
WIDENING MARSEI' STREET.
Appropriation, $2,500 00
Paid Geo. Peirce, fencing, $145 16
James Tunney, labor, 15 75
Transferred unexpended, 2,339 09
2,500 00
NEW SCHOOL-HOUSE AT �TNA MILLS.
Appropriation, $8,500 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 183 75
$8,683 75
Paid Roger Drury, for land, $2,000 00
Sturgis & Brigham, plans, 133 75
Ezra tiding, contract, 69230 00
Thos. Gavin, digging well, etc., 140 00
Joseph Crafts, examining records, 10 00
Joseph Cutter, release papers, 3 00
Thos. L. French, extra, labor, 18 00
Ezra Wing, extra labor, 20 00
Pat. Boyle, gravel, 25 50
Highways account, labor, 83 50
$8,683 75
AUDITORS' REPORT. 27
REPdIRS ON SOUTH SCHOOL-HOUSE.
Appropriation, $3,600 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 171 28
$3,771 28
Paid Norcross & Blaisdell, $2,193 78
Geo. W. Walker & Co., heating, 1,300 00
Thos. L. French, labor, 85 00
Tainter & Tripp, concrete, 192 50
$3,771 28
G. A. R. ISAAC B. FATTENS POST NO. 81.
Appropriation, $300 00
Paid 11. W. Otis, Pres. 300 00
TOWN CEMETERIES.
Appropriation, $350 00
Transferred from Contingent Account, 1,56 89
Paid Tainter & Tripp, for walks, 174 30 $506 89
Thos. L. French, labor, 92 59
Geo. K. Snow, on :account. 200 00
Johif Coolidge, jr., 40 00
$506 89
CEIVElti T-I G CELL)t OF TO W.'1 BARN.
Appropriation, $250 00
Paid Thos. L. French, labor, $118 93
R. Gilkey & Co., lumber, 37 97
Geo. Peirce, labor, 82 50
John Barnard, labor, 10 46
Transferred unexpended, 14
$250 00
28 AUDITORS' REPORT.
orS TE A�I FIRE-ENGINE.
Appropriation, $5,000 00
Paid Union Machine Co., $4,724 00
W. P. Leavitt, labor, 25 00
A. D. Drew, harness, 200 00
Transferred unexpended, 51 00
$5,000 00
NE W HOSE AND FURNIT URE FOR ENGINE-HO US E.
Unexpended appropriation of 1871, $1,824 67
Transferred from Contingent Account, 256 23
$2,082 90
Paid James Boyd & Sons, hose, $1,945 60
A. TM. Davenport cC Co., furniture, 137 30
$2,082 90
STATE TAX.
Thole number assessed, as required
by warrant, $69340 00
Paid State Treasurer (amount beinn
transferred from receipts) , $6,340 00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation, $2,800 00
Transferred from Contiugent Fund, 862 40
$3,662 40
Paid Hiram McLaudin, engineer, salary, $960 00
H. G. Pierce, driver, salary, 627 13
Pay Roll of Eugine Co. No. 1, to
May, 1872, 217 50
AUDITORS' REPORT. 29
Paid Pay' Roll of Hook & Ladder Co., $100 00
En;ineer's salary to May, 1872, 87 50
Nov. 16 133 33
proportion of coal used for heating
engine-house, 85 00
A. D. Drew, expense in purchasing
hose, etc., 30 00
Pay Roll of Engine Co. No. 1 to
Nov., 1872, 217 50
Emerson's Express, 108 25
Coffin & Magee, brain, 180 75
N. & W. Gas Co., 83 20
S. S. Gleason, refreshments, etc., 65 12
Wm. Mills, steward, 10 00
R. Gilkey, coal, 97 50
Wm. Moore, steward, 16 50
Clark & Fox, gas fixtures, 21 70
E. G. Bunker, tender to steamer, 8 00
Alfred Howes, hardware, 5 20
James Boyd & Sons, 53 16
D. Bond & Son, hay, 2.3 43
B. B. Titcomb, it 88 94
Wra. Baldwin, it 25 21
T. P. Enjerson, it 47 93
Gpo. E. Bridges, cop waste, 11 00
John Ross, hl.acksinithina 52 35
John Madden, repairs, 21 75
Hnllin-swort11 & Whitney, sp'm oil, 9 50
R. Puffer, 3 hvdro putts., 6 45
H. A. Winship, hats, etc., 98 25
A. Jackson, shoeing horses, 17 27
E. G. Tarhell, rep. harness, etc., 14 38
W. C. Foley, shoeing horses, 13 05
T. E. Flynn, labor, 4 00
J. E. Mackin, 11 4 00
H. McOlicuflin, sundries, 6 25
1W
30 AUDITORS' REPORT.
Paid A. Loker, wood, $8 03
L. Bent & Co., repairs, 1 75
C. C. DlcLauthliu, stationery, 5 44
French & Coffin, horse blankets, 14 50
Proctor & Co., overcoats, 15 00
B. O. and G. C. Wilson, oil, 7 75
Stackpole, Perkins & Co., 6 75
Samuel Berry, sawing wood, 1 75
George Pierce, labor, 11 33
G. E. Teele, 66 6 50
John Barnard, setting glass, 4 02
Geo. McWhirter, rep. harnesses, 20 00
W. L. Stiles, repairs, 4 95
A. B. Rogers, towels, 3 00
Thos. Patten, weighing horses, 53
$3,662 40
HIGHWAYS.
Appropriation, $1000 00
Received for sale of horse, 100 00
<< labor, 124 75
men and horses at Town
Farm, 23 50
66 labor, rep. culverts, 168 50
it gravelling at school-house
at Etna Mills, 83 50
Transferred from Contingent Account, 708 87
-$12,209 12
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Surveyor of Highways, pay roll for 12 mos., $9,389 99
Coffin & Dlagee, for grain, 422 40
John Tucker, rep'g wagons, 19 00
S. S. Gleason, oil, etc., 22 38
John Ross, blacksmithing, 20 61
AUDITORS REPORT. 31
Paid Neal 'Melutire, blacksmithing, $35 30
Janes Hall, 64 08
S. L. Deed, 1 50
Antipas Jackson, 96 17
W. C. Foley, 22 09
John 'Madden, rep'g wagons, 5 25
Parker & Gannett, tools, 71 04
Dodge & Gilbert, << 8 45
Alfred Howes, 10 41
Stratton & Perry, 4 88
George Fuller, double harness, 78 00
H. A. Winship & Collins, halters and collars, 41 00
H. F. Lemon, gravel, 11 80
Reuben Puffer, 66 32 20
S. S. Pinkham, 33 60
J. H. Conant, << 75 20
C. H. Bridges, labor, 47 00
James Airiedy, 66 6 40
Boyd & Cate, stone, 154 80
W. C. S. Harrington, stone, 24 00
Mr. Sampson, << 65 55
D. & II. Gore, paving and stone, 305 65
Rawson & Hittinger, rep'g stone crusher, 16 56
R. Gilkey & Co., lumber and cement, 62 67
R. Gilkey, coal, 8 00
Wm- Read & Sons, powder, 4 50
Davis & Farnum, grates, 55 56
Emerson's Express, 11 40
Miles, Pratt & Co., castings, 85 48
Thos. Patten, rep harness, 43 07
W. L. Stiles, plate iron, 4 50
Almshouse, board of men and horses, 849 00
$129209 12
32 AUDITORS' REPORT.
CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
Appropriation, $1,i 00 00
Transfers, unexpended balances, as fol-
lows : —
On account of sidewalks, $131 41
t 64 almshouse, 557 49
bridges and culverts, 17999 33
66 State aid, 44 00
salaries, 280 00
Market street widening, 21339 09
town barn, cellar, 14
' steam fire engine, 51 00
Transferred from receipts, 99866 27
$16,968 73
Paid balance of accounts exceeding the
appropriations as follows
On account of schools, $1,851 38
66 " " Interest, 110 82
" town debt, 500 00
61 police, 59 44
<< " horses, 395 00
engine-house bell, 49 02
64 it 11 new school-house, .2Etua
• Mills, 133 75
<< " 16 South school-house, 171 28
" cemeteries, 156 89
<< < << Fire Department, 862 40
<< " highways, 708 87
<< " " insurance, 631 38
Paid N. & W. Gas-Light Co., street
lights, 978 33
AUDITORS' REPORT. 33
Paid N. &- W. Gas-Light Co., town
hell, $243 20
N. & W. Gas-Light Co., posts
and burners, 602 45
Royal Gilkey, coal, 434 50
S. S. Gleason & Co., sundries, 14 31
Nourse & Barnard, crockery and
flannel, 7 86
Win. Rogers, care town clock, 52 00
Alfred Bowes, hardware, 9 92
Hiram McLaughlin, cleaning and
care of town hall, 32 10
C. C. McLauthlin, printing and
stationery, 102 09
Thos. L. French, labor and mate-
rials, 61 90
Snow & Bradlee, printing, 68 23
I1. W. "Iacurdy, labor and mate-
rials, 99 87
Rockwell & Churchill, printing
town reports, 469 50
II. W. Macurdy, extra work on
Library, 75 50
Henry Il,ussell,labor and materials, 50 44
James Tunney, building wall, 13 00
John Cullen, it it 11 37
H. A. Davis, adjusting weights
and measures, 5 60
J. B. Goodrich & D. H. MRson,
services before Le;;islattire in
opposing railroad petitinne, 200 00
L. `1'. Brown, janitor town hill, 64 00
Clark lk Fax, goas burnem, etc., 7 18
ISasc RObbins, !soup on Green st., 6 00
34 AUDITORS' REPORT.
Paid John Finnerty, labor on heating
OL -%ti•orks, $4 00
Rollers for hose-trough, 4 00
J. F. Wheeler, legal services, 25 00
E. Al. illosher, lantern frame, etc., 20 00
Alfred Mudge & Son, printing, 18 65
Chas. F. Jackson, surveying, 6 00
Geo. Pierce, labor and material, 85 47
H. J. Edwards, legal services, 100 00
D. D. Dickerson, tent for hos-
pital, 15 00
Wm. C. Brigham, steel stamp
weights and measures, 6 00
James Manahan, trimming trees, 1 50
Clark & Fox, gas fixtures, Library, 42 77
Assessors, extra services, 150 00
Joseph Crafts, surveying, 106 50
Alexander Gregg, mowing ceme-
teries, 17 00
G. B. Stockwell, for Board of
Health, 29 00
H. J. Edwards, (clerk of Court on
By-Laws, 12 60
S. J. Flannery, lighting lamps, 24 00
E. V. Howard & Parker, notices
for Board of Health, 10 00
Fred. Robbins, carriage-hire on ac-
count of Board of Health, 5 25
Mrs. Christian, repairing flag, 4 50
Stephen Holmes, raising flag-staff, 10 00
James Boyd, damages, defect in
highway, 20 00
Isaac Robbins, street lamp, 6 00
Henry Collins, ringing bell, July
4th, 1 00
i
AUDITORS' REPOKT. 35
Paid Henry F. Bright, $42 00
H. A. Winship & Co., harness for
water cart, 27 00
Goodrich & Edwards, retainer on
.11-arket street injuaictiou, 100 00
Goodrich & Edwards, services in
slaa;hter-house crises, 210 00
E. P. Emerson, express, 6 G5
D. & 11. Gore, pavin, at cnricic-
house, 102 00
Execution iiI cases of Sawyer and
others, y 53 27
Geo. Peirce, signs on streets, 19 75
Chris. Whitney, labor about town-
house, 11 00
Geo. Peirce, fencing, 8 60
IL F. 1lerritiel(l, hoisting draw, 59 10
S. F. C'arri( •, plumbing, 1 75
John Cooliclre, jr., labor at Fast
District school-house, 41 17
Thy,". Paatten, one-half services at
town scales, 67 69
Thomas Patten, extra services,
��c�i_►hind, 25 00
Fire Depa rtmertt, fc►r jr►nitor ser-
vices at to«n 1a1111, 119 00
Joseph Crafts, re i-j erica births,
mrat•riitg(,s mid deaalla9, GO 45
Ju"el►h C'raft", 8111a1r.'Y its sealer of
�rci_�hts mid mensums, 50 00
Eureka �'cxtl. Cc)., vetltilatin(r
stal►le engine-house, 40 00
G. 11. Stockwell, horso and car-
riage hire, 34 00
Jopo-ph Craft", services, over-
seer, 1671-2, 20 00
36 AUDITORS' REPORT.
Paid Henry Russell, stock and labor, $12 18
N. H. Crafts, verifying line on
Market street, 10 00
Geo. W. Walker, repairing beat-
ing apparatus, 8 68
Berry & Moody, labor and mate-
rial, 6 46
Alexander Gregg, certificates of
deaths, 5 50
Geo. W. Bright, labor, 4 00
Thomas Patten, repairing, etc., 3 40
C. C. Perkins, surveying, 3 00
G. B. Stockwell, H. & C., Board
of Health, 2 00
John Ross, repairing town pump, 1 25
John K. Stickney, stamps, sta-
tionery, etc., 40 00
$11,459 11
Cash in hands of Treasurer, 5,809 42
$16,968 73
Total of account, $162968 73
Less transfers, $5,630 23
cash on hand, 5,809 42
11,439 65
Sum of Continaent Expenses, $5,529 08
CASH ASSETS, Feb. 22, 1873.
Balance in Treasurer's hands, $59809 42
Outstanding taxes in hands of Joel
Barnard, 3,052 74
Outstanding taxes in hands of Geo. L.
Noyes, 5.379 41
Due from State on account of State aid, 1,011 00
$15,252 57
AUDITORS' REPORT. 37
SumiE1 li I.
JOHN K. STICKNEl, TREASWRI:R. IN ACCOUNT WITH Till, TOWN
OF WATE;RTOW. .
To cash paid A1msho1Ise accc�iuit, $ 3,:)12 46
<< <� 1►ridges and culverts, .5.31 51
<< << special. 1,469 16
� 0
cc cc contingent'. I ,! 69 ',
�
<< Fire I)epartlllent, :3,66 2 40
916 66 stetinl fire—en;ines, 4,749 00
tc 66 new hose and furniture,
balance, 2,082 90
6 4 Ilig1111-a "; necount, 12,209 1.2
<< Intere-t, 4,111) 82
66 6 6
lnsurruu•e, 1 .031 3
<< 14 Tre:is. of F.Pub. Library 1 ,,500 00
46 huli -e account, 2,059 44
cc << school te-ti hers' salnrivs, 1 1 .1111 97
cc 66 cc tU1'�. L"SO 00
�. 44
il►cident;il exhenae -►..120 21►
Lt State Aid, .1:►(► 00
salaries of town of eers, 4,25,5 00
9
4 t0%vn debt, 3,500 00
engine hearses, Mc., 1181-15 00
•' New gc'110u1-hon5e and
l,lncl, 8,6S ; ;:►
Iie11 u1u,n engine-house, 41,19 1►-►
wid►.nin.r liarket %,tr(,(-t, 160 (91
repairs, etc ., on the South
s('hoOl-houKe, 3,771 28
Post 81 , G. A.
R., 300 00
Cemetery 0,11,111iytii(Mers, 501, ti;l
" Almshouse harp cellar, 249 8G
TO ball111ce in the Treasury, 5,809 42
$1049363 2.2
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
CIt
By Cash Receipts,
$104 3f,3 2..2
E. O. E.
JOHN K. STIC'KNEY,
Tow)t Treasurer.
WATERTO N, Feb. 22, 1873.
REPORT CONCERNING THE ACCOUNTS OF THE
TREASURER.
Iry C 03131ITTEE, Feb. 25, 1873.
The Auditors chosen to examine and audit the accounts of
the Treasurer for the financial year ending Feb. 22, 1873,
have attended to that duty, and
REPORT
That the accounts of the Treasurer have been carefully
V
and correctly kept, and that he has satisfactory vouchers for
all payments made by hiili. according to the schedule` here-
with submitted, showin; a balance in his hands of fte thou-
sa0141d eic lit hundred Hine .Ind 142 dollars (45,809.42) on the
22d day of February, 1873.
GEO. N. �I ARCH,
AVAL H. C'LARK, Awlitors.
WALL H. DAD AIUN,
APPRAISEMENT
Of'Proper• y (it Town Farm, pertairrirrg to and rt.sed
on Roads.
Horses, $1,500 00
Harness, carts, microns, etc., 1,295 50
Stone-cr•uslicr en�inc and covering, 15375 00
Materials for roads, 840 00
°$5,010 50
APPRAICEMENTT
,,t' .Persomd Pegperty (itT
t the Almnshouse in 'atertown,
pertuinin;l to and used on the Town F rnz.
.Live Stock, $520 00
Ilan• aml Strati-. 160 00
Grain aml Produce, 209 50
Parnrin Uten•ily, etc., ('69 25
.Furninire in Howie, 717 40
Oroceries an(l PruArisior}s, 295 95
$2,572 50
A rletaile(l inventory of the above property cm, lie •even
it the Select me,i's rooms.
GEE. N. MARCH
WIL II. CLARK, raiser.q.
11' 1. II. DAD1 UN9 S
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RS 7'I..1It1 TED EXPENSES FOR 1873.
1872. 1:,
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prtr7lccl. 1 nzencled.
School Expenses. ... .. .. . . . .. .. . . .. . I $20,000 I $21,851 38 !$22,000 00
Fire Department. ... . . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . 2,800 3,662 40 3,700 00
Support of Poor.. . . . . . .. . . . . .. . .... 2.500 I 1,912 51 2,500 00
Highways . . ... .. . . .... . . .. .. .. .. ... 10,000 10,708 87 10,000 00
Bridges and Culverts. . ... .. . ..... .... .
4,000 2,000 67 1 2,000 00
Interest on Town Debt. . . .. .. .. . . .... 4,000 4,110 82 ; 5,500 00
Salaries. . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. 4,53--, 4,255 00 1 4,50 00
Discounts and Abatements.. . . .. . . .... 3,000 I 3,623 03 3,000 00
Paying portion of Town Debt. .. .. .. .. 3,000 i 3,500 00 3,000 00
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Police . . ... 27000 2,959 44 I 2,000 00
Insurance . . . .... . . .. .. . . . . . . .. . . .... 400 I 1,031 38 I 1,000 00
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Free Public Library. . .... . ... . . . . .... 1,V0 1,500 00 1 2.000 00
Concrete Sidewalks. . . . .. . . .. .. . . .... . 3,000 2,868 59 2,500 00
Contingent Expenses .. .. .. . . . . . . . ... 1,700 5,529 08 ' 2,000 00
$62,435 $69,553 17 $65,750 00
AUDITORS REPORT. 43
SCHEDI-L:E AND T A L U,I TI ON ON TOit:N
PIS O P .It T Y.
Tow- F-t i i. —
311 acres of land, $1,000, $31 .500 00
I3uildinas on the same, 3,500 00
$35,000 00
Personal I,rol,erty, as leer appraisement, 2,572 50
Used on roads, 5,010 50
$7,583 00
Tom-, -Iiousi,l :km) LAND, AND E -
12,920 feet of lau(t], $12,1120 00
Town-house and Dir ine-house, 33,000 00
14 uruiture in Town-house, including
heating apparaitus, 53000 00
$52.920 00
IlIGII S('li00L-]10uSE,—
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3,204 feat of lain], $4,600 00
Mail �rhool-house aims furniture, 12,000 Ol►
Philosophical .lpparatu,�, 2,0 0o (,(I
Library and piano, ,�(►(( it.l
CENTRE, SCHOOL-I1OU-SE,
15,318 feet of land, $4.000 00
-Sellool-house and furniture, 12,000 00
Viano, 300 00
'BAST SC11001,-1101,SF., — $1 (;)300 0O
27,378 feet of hind, $29500 Q0
-ScLool-house and furniture, 12,000 00
Piano, 300 00
$14,800 00
44 AUDITORS' REPORT.
WEST SCHOOL-I-IOUSE, —
21,500 feet of laud, $2,250 00
School-house :md furniture, 10,800 00
$13,050 00
NEW `NEST SCHOOL-HOUSE, —
Land, $2,000 00
School-house and furniture, 7,000 00
$9,000 00
SOUTH SCHOOL-HOUSE, —
11,830 feet of land, $2,000 00
School-house and furniture, 155000 0,1
17,000 O0
Free Public Libre;ry and furniture, +,000 00
Iron Safe at T,)wn Treasurer's, 65 00
Hay Scales, 300 00
Gravel Bank on Beacon Hill, 1 2-5
acre land, 1,500 00
APPARATUS USED BY FIRE DEPART-
3IENT, —
Steam Fire-eu ine and IIose-earriage, $4,500 00
Two Ilaml-encrines and apparatus, 400 00
Hook-and-Ladder Carria(re, 125 00
3 horses used on Engine and Hose-Car-
ria,e, 1,100 00
Hose, harnesses and furniture, 2,500 00
$8,623 00
$204,543 00
AUDITORS' REPORT. 45
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A LIST OF JURYMEN
As prepared by the Selectmen Feb. 8th, 1873, to be passed upon
at the annual 141arch meeting.
Adams, Alvin, Edgecomb, Freeman H., Nichols, Gilbert,
Barnard, Joel, Emerson, Thomas P., Nichols, Thomas E.,
Batchelder, Sam'l L., Evans, John A., Noyes, George L.,
Bent, Luther, Farwell, William E., Norcross, George F.,
Bent, Herbert F., Fewkes, Jesse, O'Brien, John,
Berry, Charles W., Fitzwilliam, Edward, Payson, Gilbert R.,
Berry, Frank, Foley, William C., Pierce, George,
Bean, James M., Gerould, Lyman P., Perkins, William,
Bowen, George S., Gilkey, Royal F., Phelps, Jonas,
Bradlee, Charles H., Goodnow, Nathan B., Plaisted, E. S.,
Brigham, Charles, Harris, Porter, Priest, Philemon,
Brooks, Rufus F., Horne, Robert F., Rogers, Artemas B.,
Blaisdell, James T., Howard, William C., Rich, Lathley,
Bright, Charles H., Kendall, Francis, Rosebrook, Alvin E.,
Chase, Henry, Bing, William S., Sanger, Charles E.,
Coolidge, Wendell P., Knox, Oscar F., Sharp, James,
Corson, W. W., Ladd, Joseph H., Stone, Joshua C.,
Cox, Benjamin, Lane, Frank W., Stone, Joseph H.,
Crafts, Joseph, Madden, James, Wall, James F.,
Critchett, James H., Masters, Fred 11i., West, Thomas P.,
Derby, Henry C., Mayo, Emery M., Weiss, Henry W.
Drake, Nathan, McLauthlin, Jos. L.,
SELECTMEN ' S REPORT .
The business of the town is rapidly increasing from year
to -ear, and we :are proud to say equa,'ly so in wealth and
pr(wperity ; this fact must appear evident to every observer.
"illn es are springing alp, as if by magic, in every section
within our limits, and more extensive icnprov emeuts are de-
manded, such as the laying out of new streets, and widening
of ethers, malting of sidewalks, and extensiou of gas mains
through our principal avenues, and, what appears to us par-
amount, to every other, a more thorough system of drainage.
The experience of the past season has taught us a lesson in
thk respect which we ought to profit by, and we would rec-
nnnuiend a committee he appointed to investigate this matter
and report at the adjourned meeting. The natural result of
th(-se improvements, if accomplished, will l)e to increase the
town expenses, and should he defrayed by assessweut of
taxes ; it would .also impose heavier burdens upon the tows,
offil erq, in the selection of whoin clue regard should be had
to efficiency, as well as a willingness to discharge the duties
inc•t,mbent upon them. W(. have abundant material to choose
from, and in this connection would :suggest the propriety, in
making up the next Board of Selectmen, to take one rrom
each district ; in adopting this plan it will give better satisfac-
tion and the town be more fairly represented. In all subtir-
ban villages there will be persons found ever reach• to berate
the authorities, particularly if their especial interests are out
suilserved ; and oar town is nu exception to the rule. Art
att"mpt h:ls recently been madtt by petition to the Legislature
to 11gaiu n1utilate our ancient to%Vjl by a f(AW eiisatieetrd citi-
zeilK ; but thanks to the good sense cif that huuurlthle body,
and the able Counsel employed, their plan has been frustrated.
1W.
50 SELECTMEN 9S REPORT.
We trust the time is far distant when any future division of
our town shall be called for ; its area is certainly not so large as
to necessitate such a calamity. On the other hand, we should
guard agaiiist creating any cause for alienation, and manifest
a conciliatory disposition in the distribution of torn offices
and public improvements.
The plan adopted the past year of choosing five members
on the Board of Selectman has worked satisfactorily, and we
would recommend the same for the ensuing year.
STREETS.
Pleasant street has been widened throughout to the Com-
missioners, line, and obstructions removed. All claims for
damages were by vote of the town referred to the County
Commissioners for adjustment, and will be duly awarded,
whenever the abuttors shall signify their willingness to abide
by the decision of said Coin inissioners.
Alarket street has been Martially widened by the Surveyor
of Highways to sixty-six feet, and a portion of the fences
removed, but on the 15th August, 1872, an injunction was
served upon the town authorities by the Supreme Judicial
Court, staying further proceedings until a hearing should be
had in the case, and a decision declared of the legality of
the action of the town.
The Chairman of the Board, who will retire froin his office
at the close of the year, takes this opportunity of returmmib
thanks to his associates for their unif()rm courtesy towards
hint in all their business relations, and to his fellow-citizens
for the honor conferred upon hhu during his lour term. of
service.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN K. STICKNEY, 8e7ectnmen
THO1\I kS L. FRENCH, Q f• time
OLIVER SHAAV }
GEOPCII N. �IAItCII, Tozcn of
II. W. 11IA.CURDY, � TI cxte�•fou�n
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOH
The Board of Overseers submit as their annual report the
following statements, viz. : —
The firm has been well managed under the superintendence
of Mr. and Mrs. Boodev, and although the craps have not
proved equal to those of the previous year, }yet a fair average
has been obtained.
The labc►r has mostly- been performed by the Superinten-
dent anal paupers.
At the last annuQ meeting the sum of $250 was appro-
priated, for the purpose of cemeiitiva the barn cellar and
other improvements, which have been atten(led to, and add
much to the usefulness and appearance of the premises.
A building for a hospital has been erected in au isolated
spot on the town farm, but the amount appropriated has been
found iusutlicient to finish it, and the Boarcl wmllel recotn-
mend :en .1(lditional sum of $500 be granted for flint pur-
pose.
Paupers at the Almshouse Feb. 10, 187.3
�oseph Mm—kin, Elijah Hat ar.
'jueretia Norcross, Geri�y II;e,ar,
Jahn R. Tufty, Abi(rail Grardner,
Eliza I). '1'iifts9 Amoy. L. Derb%•,
Antonia lSurneau, Win. Rune•, Jr.
Daniel Burns.
52 REPORT OF OVERSEEI'S OF POOR.
Travellers lodged during the year ending Oct. 1, 1872 :At the Almshouse, 14
Station House, 195
Total, 209
Persons sent to State Almshouse, Tewksbury : ---
Thomas Hassett, Dec. 15, 1871 , since deceased.
Hannah Roberts, Feb. 14, 1872.
Thomas Kinneen, Sept. 49 1872.
Respectfully submitted,
M JOHN K. STICh'-IJY,
THO',NIAS L. FREN-ClI,
OLIVER SHAW,
GEO. N. 1IARCH9
H. W. MAC RDY,
Overseers of the Poor.
REPORT OF THE StM EY OR OF HIGHWAYS.
The appropriations placed by the votes of the town cl tiring
the Last year under the control of the Surveyor of High-
way are as follows :—
For highways proper, $10,000 00
is widening of Market street, 2,.500 00
of drahm a and new culverts, 2,500 00
Total, $15,000 00
There has been but one pay-roll kept for all the labor per-
formed under tLe above appropriations. And as the largest
portion of the labor has been done on the highways, the
whole amomit of the pay-roll has been charged to highways
in the Treasurer's accomit.
ILA order, therefore, to explain how much of the labor has
been performed under each appropriation, the followhic state-
ment is sul)mitted, viz. : —
Appropriations as above, $157000 00
The Treasurer's accomit shows as follows : —•
Charged to hid Imnys, $12,209 12
<< 16 dr,iina?a 1,4119 l (i
Market street, 160 91
t:i,8:19 19
T'nexpende(l halance of appropriations,
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54 REPORT OF HIGHWAY SURVEYOR.
Paid into Treasurer and credited to highways,
Cash, sale of horse, $100 00
Labor, 124 75
16 of men and horses at Almshouse, 23 50
44 repairing old culverts, 168 50
61 gravelling at new Nest school-
house, 83 50
$500 25
Total unexpended balance, $1,661 06
Appropriation for highways, $10,000 00
Paid into Treasury, $500 25
$10,500 25
Labor and materials expended
on highways, $99714 12
Balance unexpended, 786 13
$109500 25
Appropriation for widening Market street, $2,500 00
Expended for labor on Market street, $1,501 50
materials per Treasurer's
account, 160 91
Balance unexpended, 837 59
$2,500 00
Appropriation for drainage and new
culverts, $2,500 00
Expended for labor on new culverts, 993 50
materials per Treasurer's
account, 19469 16
Balance unexpended, 37 34
$2,500 00
Total unexpended balance as above, $1,661 06
REPORT OF HIGHWAY SURVEYOR. 53
Balance unexpeuded from highways, $7863 13
<< << Market street, 337 59
<< <� Drainage, 37 34
$1,661 06
The labor performed ou highways includes the Grading for
all the concrete sidewalks laid in the town during the past
With reference to Market street, work was commenced
thereon early in the season, and the road was opened to the
width of sixty-six feet a large Dart of the way from the
square, so called, to and beyond what is known as Clay hill.
But on the fifteenth of August an injunction was put upon
further proceedings by the Supreme Court, acid the work was
stopped. The injunction has not yet been removed or de-
cided, and the matter is still iu abeyance.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. H. SLEEPER,
Surveyor of Highways.
ENGINEER'S REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
This department as now organized has four Engineers, a
Chief and Secretary, fifteen hc,semen, one engine-man, a fire-
man and driver ; the engine-man and driver are permanently
employed, and are at all tinges in or about the engine-house.
The engine-man has, under the direction of the Board of En-
gineers, the care of the engine-house and engine, to keep it
in good order and see that it is at all times in condition for
immediate use ; and the driver has the care of the three
horses that are in the department, to properly groom them
and keep the harnesses and stable clean ; and Nye recommend
that the three horses that are now in the department be as-
signed for the use of the Fire Department only, as they are
trained for the work, and do it much better in the excitement
of fire. Our steam-engine has given perfect satisfaction, and
the hose company attached to it his also given entire satis-
faction as orderly, Drell-disposed, and active firemen.
The department has been called out to fifteen fires, and
worked at six, including the NO, fire at Boston. Our Ladder
Company has been rather inefficient for the year past, oNN•ing
to our ladder truck not being in keeping with the other ap-
p.tratus in the department, and we find it impossible to get
the right kind of men to tale hold of this truck, as it is, and
for the pay we now give them. We therefore recommend a
new ladder truck, and that we pay the company attached to it
twenty--five dollars each, and the hose company forty dollars
each ; and we also find it difficult to arrange for a supply
wagon out of the department. AVe recommend that the en-
gineers be authorized to sell or exchange one of the hand-
s
REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 57
en,ines now out of service, and other appliances not in use,
and that they use the proceeds to pay or part pay for a supply
wagon for the Fire Department. We find, with these excep-
tions, that the depRrtilvmt is in hood condition, and compares
with any other of its size in the Commonwealth. We were
authorized to purchase fifteen hundred feet of hose, and lo-
cate them where we thought hest for fire service. The hose
have been purchased, using but part of the money appropria-
ted to pay for them. We ask to be allowed to use the bal-
ance for the purchase of hose carriages, to reel them oil when
they are located. We have three thousand feet of good No.
1 hose, and the department is well supplied with hose and
other appliances ; but these are of no use to us without a sup-
1)]y of «•titer, which was plainly illustrated at the Roston fire.
For this reason we urge the buil(lin7 of more reservoirs in
the following localities : one on Cottage street, one on Irvin
street near 'Milldam road, one on Walnut and Aft. Ankirn
streets, one on Church and Summer streets, — these would
give the Fire Department a suppl%• of clean water that would
enable the firemen to cope speedil,N• and successfully with any
fire that may break out in our town. 11'e also advise that
Wharves be built almigsi(le of oiir ponds, brooks and river,
k for the engine to Stand upoii, with basins so that the suction
hose can be submerLf-yecl ; by these m(,,:ius we can het a sul)ply
of eater in localities where no%v they lire inaccessible. 11'itil
thesp and other advanta,eg that can be had, it would add
greatly to the efficiency of the department by placing a
fire-alarm telegraph as a counec•til) liult between the east Bart
l of the town and the eurfine-house so tha
t iuiniedi,ite unfits
Of a fire and of its whereabouts could be sent to the erigiue-
hawse, and in a few minutes we could he at the fire. 13�• this
ine:uis l,nrne would not bairn, endan�* � .• R V
L.
i in0 the dwellings to
the Nnnie fate, without the departmE�ut l:notiti•ing of it. 11'e
find that the expenses of tiie d��part �ut. exceed the appro-
1,riution for tho Year ; this escc�sy :irises mamly by it Hein;
58 REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
undecided at the time of the appropriation how the horses
were to be furnished, and by which department they were to
be fed ; therefore we made no estimate on that expense.
The Board now respectfully asks for an appropriation of
three thousand seven hundred dollars, to defray the expenses
of the department the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
A. D. DREW, Chief Engineer.
For the Board of Engineers.
P. S. In addition to the above, we would suggest to our
citizens in what way they can be of great service to them-
selves, and also to the Fire Department, viz. : by having
pails of eater in convenieut places in their houses, and small
pumps, to be used to farce the water on to the fire ; and
when a fire occurs, make a fireman of yourself, and not de-
pend solely upon the steam engine and the fireman, but c o
Zn
to work and fight the fire. By doing this, the fire could he
held in check until the Fire Department can come to your
assistance ; in this wad- many of our fires would be put out
on their first discovery, for five minutes, time at the com-
mencement of a fire is worth more than hours after it i� well
under way.
A. D. DREW,
Chief Engineer, IF. F. D.
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR.
BIRTHS.
The whole number of births registered during the year
1872 was one hundred and nine (109), ten (10) less than
in 1871.
The number of births is in the ratio of one (1) to 39.79
of the population.*
Of the whole number born, silty (60) were males, and
forty--nine (49) females.
One hundred and two (102) were born in Watertown
one (1) in Newton, two (2) in Boston, one (1) in Wayland,
two (2) in Charlestown, and one (1) in Sidney, Me.
There were born of American Barents, 40
foreign parents, 55
American and foreign parents, 14
109
MARRIAGES.
I
The whole number of marriage's recorded for 1872 was
l ei.ghty-one (81), seven ( 7) mOro than in 1871.
First marriage of both parties, G5
" onC and second of the other. 15
Second of one and third of the other, 1
81
•The population of Watertown, according to the census of 1 s 7 0. is 4,337.
1
60 REPORT OF T01PN REGISTRAR.
Number of niarritzaes, Loth parties native horn, 34
It it 46 foreign born, 37
it << one native and the other foreibn, 10
81
Ades of some of the parties married.
Oldest couples, Groom, 53, Bride, 54
CA 66 481 At 40
49 is 48 is 33
At CL 451 << 40
it At 43, it 37
Youngest couples, 249 itgo
it LC 201 96 19
6 C 114 229 64 23
GL « 219 GG 21
<< <L 239 44 18
C< « •7 4, 16 17
<< A 211 At 18
GC « 249 << 21
<< 46 231) A.A 20
CG 64 239 A 18
<< 46 4 21, 46 20
<< « 229 64 22
<< << 249 44 24
<< 21, A A 19
<< 06 22, At 22
<< 196 24, 23
<< A 46 241 << 22
I CA 221 << 22
<< A. 24, 20
<< « 219 « 26
46 iC 249 is 233
LA << 249 A 1Q
(C 496 22, << 23
REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR. F 1
youngest couples, Groom, 2.1, Bride, 24
21, ct 18
<< c� 22 cc 2.1
<< c� 19, 44 20
cc cc 219 " 19
<< fC 24 ct 23
Tlae number of intentions of marriame recorded is seventy
(70).
Tho ratio of intentions of marriage is as 1 to 6 2—
of the population.
NOTE. —Persons soletnnizinir niarria;es are r��gmred by
law to make returns of the saute to the Town C Jerk or Re r-
istrar, between the first and tenth days of each month.
DEATHS.
The whole number of deaths re,ristered for 1,572 is eiahty-
`vo (82), fourtet n (14)less than in 1871.
The ratio of deaths to the polmlation is as one (1) to
2.89+ of the population.
I- Ofthe ti�Bole number of deaths, thi it -six (36) were
wales, mud forty-iiine (49) were females.
The condition of persons deceased, as per record, Was,—
Sinale persons, 55
married, 20
widowed, 7
82
Abe and condition of mme of the older rensons deceased.
1. 94 3'ears, 0 months, 0 dayg, female, single.
2. t�(1 _ c< 44 Widow.
3. 74.1 46 10
4. 78 64 6 46 <<
5. 1s 44, _ •� 1�� tc cc
0
62 REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR..
6. 75 years, 2 mouths, 0 clays male, widower.
7. 74 " 4 << 5 female, widow.
8. 72 66 4 << _ (1c 6c
9. 71 " — 46 — male, married.
10. 69 << — 6t — " «
11. 67 << 11 cc 16 female, Widow.
12. 66 11 66 — male, married.
13. 61 6 — female, married.
14. 60 3 b �'
The number of persons deceased under 5 years of age, was 38
It between 5 and 10 years of age, was 8
it cc 10 and 20 cc .c It 4
20 and 30 " it " 3
cc cc 30 and 40 cc cc cc 5
it " 40 and 50 " " " 6
49 " 50 and 60 " " it 4
" cc 60 and 70 " cc it 5
it it 7 0 and 80 " " " 7
`` " 80 and 90 " " " 1
it " 90 and 100 " " `• 1
The number of deaths of persons native born, was 73
" " foreign 9
82
The number of deaths of native-born parentage, was 39
" foreign '` 35
" native and foreign 8
82
CAUSES OF MORTALITY.
Anemia, 1 Cholera infantum, 14
Apoplexy, 2 " morbus, 1
Brain disease, 3 Consumption, 4
Bright's disease of kidney, 2 Convulsions, 2
Bronchitis, 1 Diarrhwa (chronic), 1
Cancer, 3 Erysipelas, 1
REPORT OF TOWN REGISTR AR. sJ
Heart disease, 4 Rheumatism and injury, 1
Hemihlegia, 1 Scarlatina, 4
Infantile, 3 Scarlet fever, 4
Lf and diarrhoea, 1 Scrofula, 1
Intemperance and disease Severe cold, 1
of stomach, 1 Still horn, 9
Intestinal obstruction, 1 Stranjulated hernia, 1
Afali,nant tumor, 1 Suicide by drowning, 1
Old age, 1 Tubercular meningitis, 1
Paralysis, 1 UnkiiOwn, 1
Phthisic, 1 Whoopino cough, 3
PnetlmGnia, 1 Varioloid, 1
Premature birth, 2 —
Puerperal, 1 82
Facts concerning births and deatlis required by statute, to
be returned to the Town Clerk.
"In there cord of hirtlhz, the date of the birth, the place of the birth, the
child (if it haze any), the sex and color of the child, the names and the
places of birth of th(, parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of
the parvr•ts, and the date of the record.
" In the record of deaths, the date of the dentli, the name of the dereawd,
the sex, the color, the condition (whether single, widowed or married), the
age, the residence, the occupation, the place of death, the place of birth, the
names and places of birth of the parents, the disease or cause of deatil, the
place of burial, and the date of the record."
Respectfully- submitted,
JOSEPH CRAFTS, Tozen Clerk.
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64 REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR.
DOGS.
The whole number of dotes licensed the bast year is 172.
males, 164 ; females, 8.
Amount received for licenses, viz : —
164 male dohs, at $2 eacli, $328.00
8 female doffs, at $5 each, 40.00
$368.00
Clerk's fees : —
172 licenses, at 20 cents each, $31.40
Paid County Treasurer, $333.60
The whole number of dotes killed during the past rear as
per return of Henry F. Bright, Constable, is forty-two
(42).
LIBRARY IN SELECTMEN'S ROOM.
Geology- of Mass., by Edw. Hitchcock, LL. D. 1 vol. 40
Geology, Mineralog-, Botany, and Zoology of
Mass., by Edw. Hitcheock, LI.. D. 1 vol. 80
Ichnolo,y of New Ii;naland, by Edwd. Hitch-
cock, LL. D. 1 vol. 40
Supplement to do., by do. ' 1 vol. 40
Invertebrate Animals of Mass., by A. A. Gould. 1 vol. 80
Report on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds of Bass. 1 vol. 80
History of New England, by Wm. Hubbard. 1 vol. 80
tPlynioutli Colony Laws, Ed. by Win. Bri(;haun. 1 vol. 80
Records, Ed. by N. B. Shurt-
leff, lI. D., from 1663 to 1698, 12 vols. 40
REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR. 65
Records of the Governor and Company of the
Bass. Bay. Ed. by Ni. B. Shurtletf',
Rcrrtrd;4 lI. D., from 1638 to 1686, vols. 1, 3,
and 4. Parts 1, 2, and 5. 5 vols. 40
Ancient Charter and Laws of the Mass. Bay,
pub, hi- order of the General Court, 1814, 1 vol. 80
Acts and Resolves of the Province of Mass. Bay,
from 1692 to 1714. 1 vol. Imp. 80
Journal of House of Reps. of the Province of
' Mass. Bay, held at Boston, A. D. 17.3 6. 1 Vol. folio
Journal of a Convention for framing a Constitu-
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deport of Sanitary Commission, 1830. 1 Vol. 80 .
1111wS of the Ignited States, 3 Vols. 80
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Herrick's Town Officer. 1 Vol. 80
Mass. Special Laws, from the Adoption of the
Constitution to A. D. 1870. 12 vols. 80
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Pickering's Term Reports, Vol$. 1 to 4, 6 to 24 inc. 23 Vols. 80
lietcalf a <<
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66 REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR.
Cushing's Term Reports, vols. 2 to 12 inclusive. 11 vols. 8°
Cray's 1 to 16 << 16 vols. 80
Allen's 1 to 14 14 vols. 80
Mass. Reports, by A. G. Browne, Jr. 10 vols. 80
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inclusive. 48 vols. 80
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH CRAFTS,
Town Clerk.
r
C0111MONWEALT11 Or MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, Ss.
At the Superior Court begun and holden at Cambridge,
within and for the. County of Middlesex, on the fourth
1116nday of June, being the tzcenty fourth. day of said
month, Anno Dondni, 1,472.
The following By-La«•s of the Town (if Watertown in sad i
County*, are presented to this Court for al)l)roval, to -wit : —
1st. There ;+hall be annually elected 1►y- the inhabitants
Of the town, at their annual meeting in March, at least three
suitable persons, to he called Commissioners for Truant
Ujildren, ivho shall hold their offices for one year, %vhose (Iu-
ty it shall he to make. and enter coml)laiillts ai'Minst ;Ill such
person`] its are 11111yied or de-crlbed 111 the flrA section of the
two hundred -,III(] seventh clinlAer of the I.a%vs of the Coln-
mc►nWealth for the year eighteen hundred quid Sixty--t%v0' elI-
titled, ' Ali Act concerning Truant Children and Absentees
froln School.)
Be, it enacted, etc., as.follnivs —
' SF.(-r. 1. Each city and town shill] snake rill needful
provisions and acrranrenlents concerning habitual truants, and
also concerning► children wandering about in the streets or
h11hJic 1014ces of any city or town, having nu I'IWful occ1111.1-
tion or business, not alttenclin School, and rrowinLr ill-) in i4y-
uorance, i►etwevil file 11AN'S of set•en and -ixteen years ; and
hall :ll.c► nuke all sueh liy. -T aws reslacctinr sm-h�children as
dull he devillf-d 11lust cc►nduc:ive to their weU;lre and the rc►od
67
68 BY-LAWS.
order of su 2h city or town ; and there shall be annexed to
such By-Laws suitable penalties, not exceeding twenty dol-
lars for any one breach ; provided, that said By-Laws shall
be approved by the Superior Court sitting in aiiy County in
the Commonwealth."
SECT. 2. The alntshottse of the town is hereby assigned
as the suitable situation natiled in said act.
SECT. 3. Complaints under these By-Laws shall, when-
ever practicable, be entered by said commissioners before any
magistrate having jurisdiction of the offence in Watertown,
Cautbridlge or AValtham.
SECT. 4. Habitual truants shall, upon it first conviction,
be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, or by im-
prisonment in the almshouse, as the court or magistrate may
determine ; upon a second conviction they shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding ten dollars or by imprisonment, as
aforesaid ; upon a third conviction, they shall be punished by
a fine not exceedino, fifteen dollars, or by imprisonment as
aforesaid ; upon a fourth conviction, by a fine of not less
than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment as aforesaid.
SECT. 5. Children wandering about in the streets or pub-
lic places of the torn, havinc no lawful occupation or busi-
ness, not attending school, and growing, up in ignorance, be-
tween the apes of seven and sixteen years, shall, tip„n a first ,
conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars,
or by imprisonment in said almshouse for such time as the
magistrate or court ntay determine. Upon a second convic-
tion they khall be punishes] by a fine not exceeding fifteen
dollars or by imprisonment as aforesaid ; upon a third con-
viction they shall be punished by a fine of not more than
twenty dollars, or by imprisonment as aforesaid.
SECT. 6. Before iiiaking any complaint as aforesaid, the
said commissioners, or either of theiii, shall report to the
school committee of the town fOr the time being, the residence
and condition of the person or persons to be complained of,
BY-LAWS. C a
with their names, and the names, residence, and occupation
and comlition of their parents or guatdiaws, and such other
nlateric�l facts ConCeriling such persons, as rrlay come to their
knowledge ; aml the said commissioners shall receive and tol-
low such directions concerning such Persons as the school
committee may see fit to give ; but if within ten days after
tuaking such reports the said school committee shall [lot give
airy such (lirec•tions, the said commissioners shall forthwith
enter their cotuplaint before the proper magistrate or court.
SECT. 7. The said commissioners shall each receive such
annual compensation for their services as the selectmen for
the time being shall determine ; such compensation shall con-
tinue until the expiration of their time of office. In case of
resignation, the coninlissiouers so resigning, shall be entitled
to a prof)ortiotlal atnotitit of said compensation.
SECT. 8. The selectmen at their first regular meeting af-
ter these By-La« ,i shall he approved, aild hereafterwards at
their first regular meethip after the annual meettn,_ of said
inhabitmits, shall divide the to«-ii into three suitable districts,
<uid shall assign one of said conitnissioners to each district,
11-110 shall have the special charge tan(1 superintendence 'if the
slime, Aild of all the aforesaid parsons residing or found or
l►eing therein ; but it shall be the duty of each commissioner
to report to the school connuittee any oflewe withitr ilia
ki)(Avle(lge, whether committed in his owii or any other dis-
k ric•t.
SECT. 9. The school committee of the town for the time
l,(•ing, may exercise, if they choose so to do, the general
rharfie and suheri'It CDdenre of the doings of bind comnlis-
siotters, who shall in such c!2t?e he suhject to the orders of
.said connijittee.
-SEM 10. The said (,oir,tnissionery shall he organized as a
Board in the month of March, RM"'all,y, by the. choice of a
chairman, wilo pl►tt]l ;also 1)(1, the s(.c•relary of the Board.
SECT. ] l . The said a,rntnissiow,rs slitalI keep it fair record
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of their proceedings and of the offences complained of, with
the acquittals or convictions and the punishment awarded
therefor, and the names and residences of the persons com-
plained of, and the names and residences and occupations of
their parents, or guardians, which, or a copy of which, shall
be delivered to the chairman of the School Committee, or
any one of them at all times.
SECT. 12. The School Committee in their annual report
to the town, are requested to present an abstract of the com-
missioners' report, with a particular statement of their action,
if any, upon the matters embraced therein, accompanied by
such observations in relation thereto as Imy be required for a
full understanding of the operations of the Boatd.
HIGHWAYS.
SECT. 13. Whoever shall throw stones, sticks, or other
missiles, or shoot with or use a bow and arrow in any of the
streets, or upon any of the sidewalks in this town, shall for-
feit and pay into the town treasury- for elch offence, a suns of
not less than one dollar, to be paid by each offender, or his or
her parents or guardians respectively-.
SECT. 14. No person having charge of any beast with in-
tent to drive the same, shall stiffer or permit any such beast
to run, r;allop, trot, pace, or go at any rate exceeding teu
miles to the hour through any way or street in this town
on the Lord's day ; and any person who shall violate the pro-
visions of this by-law, shall be lial)le to a penalty of five dol-
lars for each otrencle.
SECT. 1.5. No horse, or ether gr;tzin, cattle, goats, sheep,
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or swine, shall be sitfl(�red to run at lar or to remain, or,
to loiter by the roadside, or by the roadside of any- railroad
corporation, or to feed upon or root up the herbage therein,
either with or without a keeper, and no pet•�on shall vol►in-
tarily- permit the same to go upon any sidewalk, harnessed or
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unharnessed ; anti for every offence agaiust this by-law the
owner shill forfeit and pay live dollars.
SECT. 16. No persou shall tie or fasten any horse to, or
have the same stranding by any ornamental or shade tree in
or near the streets, lanes, or places of this town, so near as
to injure any unprotected tree, or wrongfully injure or abuse
such tree in any other wanner, under a penalty of one dollar
for each offence.
SECT. 1-1. No person shall place or cause to be placed
ijpon any footpath or side«valk, any wood, lumber, iron, coal
trunks, boles, boxes, crates, casks, barrels, stone, packages,
or other things, or allow any door or gate to swing outward
over any street or highway, for more than one hour after
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being notified by a constable, police officer, or other person,
to remove the same under a penalty of one dollar for each
offence.
SECT. 18. No person shall behave himself or herself in a
aide or disorderly or boisterous manner, sin; any song or
songs or refrains, or use any indecent or profane or insulting
language, in any street or other public place in the town, or
near any dwelling-house or rather building therein, or he or
mmim upon any sidewalk, public passage-wily, or way or
ways to any public hail or church, court, or public office, or
upon any door step, portico, or other pr(iectio►n from !ul`• such
house or other building, or upon any bridge, to the disturb-
ance or obstruction of any person lawfully entitled to pass or
inhabit or resort thereto ; and no person shall ;tit Upon any
brid:;e, wall, fence, hank, or door step facing Upon ally public
place, nr►t being the occupant or owner thereof, withoilt the
express consent of the owner or occupant of the premises as
his companion or guest, or at his invitation or request ; nor
shall any person by any noise, gestures, or other means,
Wantonly and designedly frighten or drive any horse in charge
of another in any street or other public place in the town ;
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and for any offence against this by-law, each offender shall
forfeit a penalty of five dollars.
SECT. 1(). No person shell fire or discharge any (un, fowl-
ing-piece, pistol, or other fires►rin, or any fire-crackers or tor-
pedoes, or make any bonfire or other fire in any street or pub-
lic place of the town, or within ten rods of any dwelling-house,
excepting in the performance of some duty, under a penalty
of five dollars for each offence.
SECT. 20. No person sl►all make any indecent fii7ure or
write any Words, or make :.any marls upon, or cut, whittle or
deface in any manner any wall, post, fence or building, or in -1
any public place whatever in this town, nor post nor paint any
advertisement of any nature upon any rail, rock, brido'e, wall,
fence or building, without the express consent of the owner or
occupant thereof, and of the selectmen of the town, in case the
property or structure is the property of the town ; and any per-
son by himself, or his ageut, offending any provision of this
by-law, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for each
offence.
SECT. 21. All persons intending to erect, repair, or take
down any building on land abutting oil any way which this
town is obliged to keep in repair, and Who desires to make
use of any portion of said way for the t)urpose of placing
thereon building materials or rubbish, shall, before so placing
any building materials or rubbish, give notice In writing to
the selectmen of such wish. And, thereupon, the select-
men are to cause to be allotted such portion of said way to
be used for such purpose, as in their judgment the necessity
of the case demands, and the security of the public allows,
and to grant a permit accordingly.
SECT. 22. It shall be the duty of every person, to whom
any such permit may be granted, to place all his building
materials and rubbish on the place designated by the select-
men ; and during the whole of every night, from twilight in
the evening until the next morning, unless the same is en-
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closed, keep lighted lanterns so placed as effectually to se-
cure all travellers from liability to come in contact with such
materials or rubbish.
SECT. 23. In case any person shall use any portion of such
way for the purposes mentioned in the twenty-first section,
without the permit in writing of the selectmen as therein
provided, or for a longer time than so permitted, or shall
fail to comply i ith the requisitions of the twenty-second sec-
tion, the party so in default shrill forfeit and pay into the
town treasury tell dollars for each day that such offence shall
continue, and shall also reimburse the town for all expenses,
by way of damage or otherwise, which the two may be com-
pelled to pay by reason of the way being so encumbered.
SECT. 24. No building shall be moved over any way in this
town, which this town is obliged to keep in repair, without
the written permit of the selectmen being first obtained ; and
,any person so moving or assisting in moving any such build-
ing without such F�ruiit being first obtained,or any such per-
.-on who sh►ill not comply with the restrictions and provisions �
which the selectmen may think the public security demands,
shall forfeit and pay into the town treasury-, for every such of-
fence, fifty dollars ;provided, such restrictions and provisions
are set firth in the permit ; provided also, that the selectmen
ill 114► vase grant, a permit for the removal of any building
�� hritsoev,�r, which iu the course of its removal will he likely
t,► danjage any trees, the property of individuals, whether
sIM'ding in file road or in tile. field, unless the consent of
of such individual is first 01Aaiued.
SECT. 2.5. to cr,aa any building shall be moved contrary
to the provisions of the twenty-fourth section, the owner of
the bnildiug shall reinil►ui.9e the town all exppljses by way of
cl:imagee or otherwi�N, which
!►ay by rousun of thc� the town nay he compelled to
ns,y being so encumlered.
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HEALTH AND COMFORT.
SECT. 26. No person who shall remove or drive, or cause
to be driven any cart or wagon containing night soil, slau,h-
ter-house offal, or blood, between April 1st and December
1st, between the hours of five A. M. and ten P. M., shall
permit any such wagon to stand between said hours in any
street or square. Any person offending against this section
shall forfeit and pay the sum of tea dollars for each and every
offence.
SECT. 27. No person shall put or leave any dead animal
or dead animal substance, fish offal, or other aninnal matter,
refuse vegetables, or the husks or pods thereof, or other vege-
table matter, or deposit any coal ashes, or store or house sweep-
ings in any street, exeept with the written perinission of a
surveyor of highways, nor throw, conduct, or permit soap-
sucls, sink or waste water to floe- into any street. And any
person offending any provision of this section, or permitting
the same from premises in his occupancy or control, shall for-
feit and pay the sum of one dollar for e«ch offe,iee.
SECT. 28. No person shall be allowed to collect swill or
house offal in any of the streets of the town, without having
first obtained a written license from the selectmen, which
said license shall desi(irate the locality in which said person
may collect such swill or house offal ; and no person actin,
tinder such license shall allow any cart, wagon or truck used
in collecting or conveying such swill or house offal to be
drawn over or stand upon any sidewalk. And any person
offendina against this section shall forfeit acid pad- the sum of
two dollars for each and every offence, and be thereafter dis-
qualified from obtaining such license.
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POLICE AND POLICE REGULATIONS.
SECT. 29. The selectmen shall appoint annually two or {
more police officers, where especial duty it shall be to see
that these police regulations are duly enforced, and who
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shall remain in office until others are appointed in their stead,
subject to removal by the selectmen.
SECT. 30. The police officers sh;ill receive from the town
such compens;ition as the selectmen may deem reasonable.
SECT. 31. They shall disperse all gatherin rs in the. streets
or elsewhere, by clay or night, of noisy men or boys, and
may and shall take into custody- all disorderly persons, anci
persons found wandering at unreasonable hours and in sus-
picious places, and hold thew in custody until they call be
nought. before a magistrate for examination.
SECT. 32. All idle or disorderly childreii who sliall mis-
pend their time in the streets or fields duriijg school hours :
all per�ous who shall by clay or nigglit congrecrate noisily- in or
abort the, streets, or distiirl, the public ,quiet by un:inthor-
ized rimrinb of the church or other balls, or in an%• other ini-
proper manner, or who shall eu_ra`e on `uuul:iy in idle short
Or needless labor, or fishin`, or hinting, or who shall ut any
time deface, pull Jowil, or injury :c;:y- l�uilciin , fence or sign,
or other structures in thi.s town :got under his own rightful
control, or shall trespass on any property, real or personal,
or wrongfully- remove therefrom or ill
jure thereon ;,ny tree,
plant, shrub, fruit or ve etable, or who shall cre-me ant' dia-
t,u•bauee of, or in any l:cwful n►eetil" of the citizens of this
town, or be -uilty of u5ill' prc►f:cne or obscene lanfru:,^e in
pi,blic, or in the he;u•in(r of others, or who shall indecc.>>>tIN. ex-
Pose hiy Iwr.c,n by lathing or in any other war. in si,l,t of
tl,e l)ublie road or of any private divellinc, or shall pwrnlit.
any d<u�ri•rocia ai►imalK to *o at lure, or make any ucedless
and alarinin,ur trneti noise or tumult, or leave or occasion :1nY need-
less or mike- nuisance in t.hc hi(r
h�c;�y or on
the sidewalks, or on the l)rid`es over C'harlc•s river. shall
f„r each and every cite of such offences he severally liable
to a fine not exceedinc twenty dollars.
SECT. ,33. lVberercbr thw word " street " or " strrets „ is
wentioned in these by-laws it should he tinder tool as meau-
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in-; all alleys, lanes, courts, public squares, and public places,
inrludiug sidewalks :lull gutters, gutless the contrary is ex-
pressed, or thu coustructiou Would be inconsistent with the
inauifOst interest ; and till tines shall he for the use of the
treasury- of the towii of Watertown.
`\'hiCh said ley-Laws behur seem and understood by the
Court , are on this, eighteenth day of Jule instant, approved.
lu teAhilony that the foregoi»a is a true copy of record,
1 hcreto set my hand and affix the seal of said Superior Court,
this thirty-first day of July, A. D. 18 i 3.
JOHN J. SAWYER, 1' sst. Clerk.
THE
THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
WOOL CJOMMITTEE
or
AV A T E R, T O AV N ,
FOR Y 872-i3.
B O S T O N :
PRESS OF ROCKWELL & CHURCHILL.
122 WAS " INGTON BTUERT.
1878.
WATERTOWN, February 24, 1873.
In School Committee, Voted, that the annual report of
the School Committee, as presented by the chairman, be
adopted.
t.ttest : CHAS. W. STONE,
Secretary.
REPORT .
IT has become a, trite and almost a wearisome thing to at-
tempt to enforce the surpassing importance of education,
and to seek to make clear the easiest and best methods of its
general diffusion. No matter how nearly- a principle may
have reached the " absolute truth " of which philosophy has
taught us to conceive,—no matter to how great an extent its
proper application may concern us, and all mankind, in the
conduct of our daily lives,— yet, if only it has once been so
generally accepted that it has become unfashionable to con-
test its verity, lnd that all men have become accustomed
to claim to act upon it, in their daily intercourse with each
other, and even, perhaps sincerely, to claim that they do be-
lieve, and actually practice upon its truth —then the very
fact of its general acceptance, the very fact that it stands,
apparently, in no need of enthusiastic defence against in-
credulous sneers or honest scepticism, the very fact that no
one disputes it, seems, by a curious anomaly in our mental
and moral constitution, to lessen our zeal, not only in main-
taining its truth, but even in guiding our conduct in accord-
ance with its dictates. It is the same principle which has
led some acute observer of human nature to affirm broadiv
that zeal and bigotry always have been, and always must lie,
inseparable ; that no man who sincerely believes in the truth
of his own opinions can ever show himself really tolerant of
what he must regard as the mere delusions anal foolish ab-
surdities of those who differ from him. We may indeed re-
fuse to accede to the sweeping generality of this proposition,
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but no one can deny that it rests upon a certain basis of
truth. We must admit that man is constituted so as to need
some opposition for the full development of his strength,
whether of mind or body, and that it is difficult for all of
us, however our judgment may be convinced, to give more
than a merely perfunctory assent to what we can find nobody
to oppose ; and it may well be feared that the cause of educa-
tion has suffered from this reason. We all, in words, extol
its importance ; we all think it necessary to profess our
readiness to become its champions against any possible as-
sailants, and most of us do this in pretty much the same
spirit, and perhaps with not so much real advancement, as we
have sometimes noticed in a gang of street sweepers, listless-
ly passing down the streets, in the neighboring metropolis.
It is doubtless impossible wholly to eradicate the effects of
this evil, but it is, as it seems to us, none the less the imper-
ative duty of this committee to whom it has been entrusted, to
care for one of the most vital parts of our town organization,
to be instant, in season and out of season, yet always in season
in seeking to make it, to each individual of our community,
not only an abstract idea, but a concrete reality ; not merely
an empty and lifeless theoretical principle, but a vital and
force-supplying presence ; that the ignorance of one is the mis-
fortune, as it has been the crime of all ; that the knowledge
j of the citizen is the strength and prosperity of the nation ; that
wisdom is virtue, and ignorance a sin.
It is no leas the duty of those to whom the educational in-
terests of the country have been committed, to magnify to
the community the importance of their task, at least with
some semblance of approach to the sublimity of its scope,
than it is to provide for those with whose direct instruction
they are more immediately concerned, all the best means of
education which uncontrollable circumstances do not keep
out of their reach. We have, therefore deemed it not only
permissible, but our bounden duty to present in this report,
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not merely the bare statisties of our action for the past year,
but also to lay before the town such of our awn reflections
as we have hoped may either become the basis of future
action, or may serve to incite any to greater fervor in the
noble cause of education.
The first, though not the most important object of the ed-
ucation given to our children is that they may learn how to
gain a living in the world, that they may be able to obtain
the food, the clothing, and the shelter which they need, and
that they may have the power of acquiring and holding a
decent station among their fellow-creatures.
The second and a higher end is to cultivate the mind, so
that they may have some share of intellectual pleasure, and
may fill a graceful part in a civilized and refined society.
But the great object of education, the end to which all the
others are but means, is to acquire goodness, to learn to be
useful to others, and at the same time to enhance our own
happiness by int reasing that of those with whotu we are
associated. It is one of the most sublime truths of ethics
that the service of mankind is the service of the individual ;
that the human race is not made up merely of aggregated
items, each individuality separate and complete in itself, but
is itself one whole, one organism, made up indeed of sepa-
rate and to some extent of distinct entities, but all of these
component parts being interdependent on each other and on
the whole, ant] no one of them capable of attaining its high-
est development unless there is an equal advance ill all.
The individuals compose humanity just as the red corpuscles
make up the vital principle of the blood ; each is indis-
peneable to till, and the loss of any one must not only lessen
the total aggregate, but must definitely subtract froui the en-
ergy of the remaining particles ; and this solidarity of man-
kind prevails no less in education, in the domain of art,
science and literature, than in that of mortals. We miry in-
deed lay down the general principle, almost with the force
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of an axiom, that national intelligence, wisdom of govern-
mental institutions and the general diffusion of happiness, can
never be fully attained without first giving to each individual
member of the body politic the beneficent and humanizing
effects of a sound and liberal education ; it is for this reason,
and upon this principle alone, that the fundamental element
of our school lams can be supported ; that the welfare of the
State demands that it be made up of educated citizens,
whose minds and hearts have been trained alike to reverence
the teachings Of literature, of morality and of religion, who
have learned to weigh and balance in fitting set-off the dif-
ferent motives and inducements by which they are urged to
adopt various courses of action, and who thus, though each
may often err in his individual opinions, may yet securely
repose confidence in the intellectual mean of their judgments,
and this principle, so far as in us lies, we deem it our duty
always to maintain and to enforce with iteration and reit-
eration.
The education which all children have a right to receive at
home from those under whose immediate charge they have
been placed by nature, and which it is our duty to provide
by all the means at our disposal, that they shall receive in
the public schools, which we have been called upon to su-
perintend, is something more than a mere process of teach-
ing. The acquisition of knowledge is much, but it is not
enough. The mind of the student, young or old, is not a
mere vacuum to be filled, like a storehouse, with a mass of
undigested facts, but it is rather like the steam-engine, need-
ing, indeed, supplies of fuel to furnish the means of its ,
working, but makin=; its own force from the food which it
assimilates. It is not then alone the direct and immediate
results of education that decide its value, but rather
its remote and future erects, the manner of life which it
tends to induce. We have wished that the teaching in our
low
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schools should be such as at once to supply the minds of the
6 scholars with proper mental food, and to give them power to
control all their resources, and the disposition to use this
power for the best food of themselves and of others. In such
a school the pupils love and respect their teachers, and the
teachers—not mere hirelings, who teach only that they may
have the means of livelihood — love the work in which they
are engaged, make it the prime object of their lives to dis-
cover and to administer the best methods of instruction and
of discipline, and in all things use their best endeavors to
subserve the highest welfare of the immortal beings whose
plastic minds are placed under their charge. Such a school
is the best type of what is sometimes called the spirit of free-
dom, — a freedom which submits itself to all necessary restric-
tions, not forced by any outward authority, but because of its
'own intelligent appreciation of its needs. Its graduates have
been put into the path which, faithfully followed, leads to the
position of a typical American citizen. But the lessons of
the school-room, though they may do pinch, cannot of them-
selves lay the sure foundation of a noble and learned and up-
right man. The gentleman and scholar is not the product
of one influence, or of one set of influences alone. Parental
guidance is, as it should be, the most powerful means of in-
struction, most beneficial in it.s operation, if it acts ill 11:11--
mony with the teachings of all en]iglitetied and well-adminis-
tered school system ; most pernicious, if, like Voltaire, it only
tears down what the labor of other instruction has built up.
And we cannot forbear saying that too many parents suffer
themselves to be ignorant, and even careless, as to what their
children are doing at school, and take no pains to understand
and wisely adapt to their chilch•en's peculiarities the influ-
ences which are there exerted upon them. If the parents are
indiffereiit to the manner and tendency of school instruction,
if they deem that all their parental obligations are complied
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with when they have abandoned their children to the teachers,
is it to be wondered at if the indifference of the parents ren-
ders the scholars regardless of the instruction which is of-
fered to them at school, and hinders them from reaping the
full benefit of the efforts which are made by their teachers in
their behalf? The wonder is often expressed that so many of
those children who ought to spend their time in the school-
room are but rarely seen within its walls, and those too gen-
erally the very ones who most need the advantages of a free
education. This evil has been an increasing one, and it seems
to us, as we have before intimated, that the fault is mainly
with the parents, because it has not been sufficiently impressed
upon the children that the only road to virtue, happiness and
eminence lies through the portals of a good education. The
influences of home and of school should co-operate ; they
should exert a reciprocal action for each other's good. Noth-
ing can be more injurious to the scholar, nothing can oper-
ate more powerfully to dampen the enthusiasm of the really
interested teacher, such a teacher as we larve already adverted
to, than to see parents allowing, and in some cases even en-
couraging, an irregular attendance at school on the part of
their children. But it is not enough that parental influence
should not act against the teachings of the school-room.
Home instruction should not be suffered to become a mere
negative element in the education of our children. The
school-room, the house of God, and the home circle should
be regarded as the three great educational means, and every
pains should be taken that these three separate instruments
may operate harmoniously together. Parents should often
visit the schools, and there observe the conduct and progress
of their children, and afterwards, in the privacy of the home
circle, supply to their offspring whatever additional instruc-
tion may be necessary ; clear away, so far as may be necessary,
whatever difficulties have arisen in their path ; and above all
to see to it that a proper correlation of forces may be pre-
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served ill the children's minds, and that no two impulses,
good iu themselves, may be allowed to counterbalance each
other. Let the parents see and understand that it is their
duty to provide that their children are properly educated,
and that this duty is one in the discharge of which they may
indeed derive assistance, and valuable assistance, from others,
but which they cannot wholly transfer or avoid, and then
when they endeavor to fulfil this duty, the cause of education
in our town will male such an advance, as, if we should now
predict it, would be deemed incredible. If the parents are
familiar with the scholars and the teachers, they will not be-
grudge to the latter the confidence which we think they will
be found to merit, while yet they will seek to provide clue
remedy for any faults and deficiencies which may be discov-
ered to exist in the modes of instruction and administration.
It only remains for us, before passing from this subject,
to say a word upon another of its subdivisions, which we
fear has not alNi ays received the consideration that its in-
trinsic importance demands. We refer to that instruction
which often, not intended to be given to the pupils, is yet in-
sensibly imbibed by them, every day and every hour. That
education of character in which the scholar gradually, and
often unconsciously, develops himself into the likeness of the
teacher, or the guardian whom he has been taught to regard
as a model, until he has assimilated many of the niure prom-
inent characteristics of the latter. Aii has been beautifully
said, " Human agency. can cause the atoms of matter to pass
from one state to another, orilfroiu one condition into another ;
but to destroy them requires the same infinite power which
called them into existence. The various forms of matter
may be ground to powder, or dissipated in vapor. :animals
and plants may die and be decomposed, their particles may
return to the common earth, or float insensible in the air, but
they are not lost. They enter into an infinite series of Dew
COMbivations, and reappear in other forms of beauty and of
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life. In the ceaseless round of change, not an atom is de-
stroyed or lost." And the same is true of mental life. No
thought ever dies, no idea, once promulgated into the world,
has yet ceased or will ever cease to operate for good or for
evil upon its destinies. And this is specially true of the
teacher whose peculiar duty it is to give instruction, to whom
those that surround him are wont to look for an example, and
whose slightest word, and least premeditated gesture may
be the seeds of good or evil in his pupils. There is room,
then, and ample opportunity for each teacher to exert him-
self to see to it, not only that all his actions originate from
right principles, and direct themselves towards noble ends,
but that in no case shall his motives or purposes be open to
misconception on the part of his pupils. A clear transpar-
ency of character, admirable in all, is doubly necessary to
the model teacher, although this is far from being the only
qualification which he needs. In his school-room, each
scholar should see, beyond the possibility of mistake, that
his teacher is like the great Bing in Lowell's poem : —
" Strong to keep upright the old,
And wise to buttress with the new,
Prudent, as only are the bold,
Clear-eyed, as only are the true."
ORGANIZATION OF THE .P.RF,SEN T SCHOOL
COMMITTEE.
The School Committee holding over from 18 71-2 were : Hen-
derson J. Edwards, Abram L. Richards, John Coolidge, Jr.,
and Charles Brigham. There « ere chosen at the March
meeting, 1872
For three years, C'HARLES AV. STONE,
I NATHANIEL FELLOWS.
The School Committee, as at present organized, consists of
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 13
Term expires.
Chaj?-Man- —HENDERSON J. EDWARDS, 1873.
,Secretary. —CHARLES 11'. STONE, . . . 1875.
ABRADI L. RICHAP.DS, 1873.
JOHN COOLIDGE, JR., 1874.
CHARLES BRIGHA3f. . . . . . 1874.
NATHANIEL FELLOWS, 1875.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
high School.
H. J. EDWARDS, Chairman, and the entire Board.
West District. South District.
NAT'H FELLOWS, Chairman, CHARLES BRIGHAM, Chairman,
CHARLES BRIGHAM, H. J. EDWARDS,
A. L. RICHARDS. JOHN COOLIDGE, Jr.
East District.
JOIN COOLIDGE, Chairman,
A. L. RICHARDS,
CHARLES W. STONE.
Centre Grammar and Primary, No. 1.
A. L. RICHARDS, GYhairman,
CHARLES BRIGHAM,
CHARLES W. STONE.
Centre Intermediate and Primary, A-o. 2.
CHARLES W. ,STONE, Chairman,
H. J. EDWARDS,
NAT'H FELLOWS.
SCHOOL B UILDIE OS.
At the March meeting of last year, the town made a
generous appropriation in response to the request of the
School Committee, and of others particularly cognizant of
14 SCHOOL COMMITTEE IS REPORT.
the facts and of the necessities of the case, for a new Primary
School-house at the 'Etna Mills, and for repairing and finish-
ing the, at that time, unused portion of the school-house at
the South District. As the expenditure of this money so
appropriated and the carrying out of the plans then discussed,
were referred to a special committee, we hereby refer to their
report in the premises. We deem it, however, our duty in this r
connection to express our entire approbation of the work done
by this committee. The building at the South has been sub-
stantially remodelled in the interior, and a hall furnished
for the use of the Grammar School which will bear favorable
comparison with any Grammar School hall In town. Steam-
heating apparatus was put into the building, which, up to the
time of writing of this report, has worked most satisfactorily.
We believe that the residents of this section of the town fully
appreciate the consideration of the town in their behalf.
At the East District, the committee have caused a new
fence to be built, which is an improvement in the general
appearance ; the building is now in good repair, and amply
sufficient for the needs of this section. At the Centre Gram-
mar School, the committee have caused the wallas to be con-
creted, a much-needed improvement, which Ave think cannot
fail to meet the commendation of the public, and especially
those connected with the schools. The accommodations of the
Grammar School are ample ; but the rooms assigned for the
use of Primary Schools Nos. 1 and 2 are entirely inade-
quate, and some method must be devised to relieve these
schools of their cramped and overcrowded condition ; the
number of the pupils in these schools for the last few years
has been steadily on the increase, and the time has come
when the committee deem it absolutely necessary to take
measures for relief in this respect. We would suggest the
institution of a new Primary School in this section. Some
change in the heating apparatus is necessary, and should be
provided for in the appropriation. At the West District, no
SCHOOL C03131ITTEE'S REPORP. 15
chancre has been made and no expense incurred, the conimit-
tee deeming it unadvisable to act in the matter, for the reason
that the whole subject had been referred to a, special commit-
tee. All that was said in the last report in reference to the in-
sufficiencies of this building are reiterated with increased
force, and we sincerely hope that the committee appointed
for this purpose may be prepared to report at the annual
meetincr, with some plain for the amelioration of affair's In this
department.
The Hicrh School Building, occupied by the High School
and the Centre Intermediate, is sadly inadequate to the wants
of the town. Your committee in their last report advocated
the erection of a new building for the exclusive use of the
High School. We desire at this time to urge the same demand
with, if possible, increased force ; the arguments used at that
time are as applicable as ever, and merit the careful and
earnest attention of the town. The portion of this building
now used by the High School is in scarcely a single respect
suitable for the purpose, and the whole of the building is
actually needed, and could be ,judiciously used, for the Inter-
termediate and Primary Schools of this district. The impor-
tance of this school and its increasing prosperity demand the
most careful considerationand the most kindly support of the
town ; and we believe that the tiiue has came when this
much-needed change should be no longer dekiyed.
16 SCIIOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
HIGH SCHOOL REGISTER.
George R. Dwelley, Principal, Miss Caroline S. Cushing,
First Assistant, Miss Ellen M. Crafts, Second Assistant,
Miss Anna Gregory, Teacher of Drawhig, Henry G. Carey,
Teacher of Music.
For the year.
Whole number of Scholars registered. . . . .. . . . . . ... .. . . .. .. .. .. ....82
it << << Girls . . . ... .. .. . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
it << " Boys. . .. . . .. .. . . . . .. . .. .. . . .... . . . . . . . ... . . .. . .40
NUMBER OF SCHOLARS OVER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term. For the year.
Whole No. 38 33 32 4G
Boys, 17 13 13 22
Girls, 21 20 19 24
The graduates for 1872 were, in the four years' course,
Miss Alma F. Barker, Miss Lilla Patten, and Master Fred.
T. Russell.
The graduates in the three years' col.rse were Hiss Bessie
Rogers, and Masters William T. Pierce, M. Thacher Rogers,
and Edgar '_r. Locke.
Masters William Perkins and Hiram Kendall of the second
class, and Frank Saeger of the third class, left school for the
Agricultural College, James Stevens of the first class, for
the Boston Catholic College, and Frank Lemon of the third
c'.ass, for a Commercial College.
Three pupils of the second class hav taken Latin as an
extra study.
There will be seventeen candidates for graduation at the
close of the present year.
Certain members of the first and second class — known as
the " High School Associates " — contributed fifty and iaa
dollars to increase the apparatus of the school.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 17
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Studies of First Year.
Teachers. Subjects. Text-Books.
Miss Crafts Algebra . . . . . . . Bradbury's Elementary Algebra.
" Physiology Hooker's First Book of Physiology.
Physical Geography Warren's Physical Geography.
It It history . . . . . . . Worcester's History of the United States.
" " Latin . . . . . . . . Harkness' Grammar and Reader.
" Cushing English . . . . . . . Parker's Exercises in English Composition.
Studies of Second Year.
Teachers. Subjects. Text Books.
Miss Cushing. Geometry . . . . . . Bradbury's Elementary Geometry.
" " History . . . . . . . WoreestWs History of England and Frauce.
It English . . . . . . . Quackenbos's Rhetoric.
Crafts . Latin . . . . . . . . Harkness' Latin Grammar. Caesar. First Book.
Cooley's Natural Philosophy. Blackboard Instruc-
Mr. Dwelley. Natural Philosophy . tion from Ganot't: Phyeies. Experiments, two
hours per week.
Studies of Third Year.
Teachers. Subjects. Text-Books.
Miss Cushing. French. . . . . , 4 Talbot's Pronunciation. Otto's Grammar. Le Petit
Robinson de Paris.
Quackenbos's Rhetoric. Scott's & Goldsmith's Po-
ems. Blackboard and Oral Instruction from the
" it following text-books: Greene's Analysis, Histo
English . r
of English Language (condensed from Latham k
Craik). Graham's Synonymes. (Tould's "Good
l English," and Trench On the study of Words."
Mr. Dwelley. Trigonometry . Bradbury's Elementary Trigonometry.
" " Book-Keeping . . . Bryant & Strntton's .l High School Double Entry
Book-Keeping.
Cooley's Chemistry. Blackboard Instruction from
Barker's Theoretic Chemistry." Eliot & Sto-
" " Chemistry . rer's "Elementary Manual of Chemistry," and
Cooke's ,Chemical Philosophy." Experiments,
twice a week.
Worcester's History of Greece and Rome. Black-
" itHistory . . . . . . . board Instruction from Smith's —Smaller Hista-
ries." Baird's "Classical Manual,"etc.
Ilnrkness & Andrew's & Stocldard's Grammar.
It is Latin . . . . . . . . Cwsar, 2d and 3d Book. Doderlaine's Latin Syno- ,
Inymes.
Ppr SCHOOL C03131ITTEE918 REPORT.
Studies of Fourth Year.
Teache". Ful jcc tx. Text-Books.
1![lras Cr�}ts Geology . . . . . . Tenney's Geology.
• Astronomyy . . . . . Rolfe& Gillett's "Handbook of the Stars."
Cushina.lMoral Philosophy . . Abercrombie's Moral Philosophy.
Ca t tex .. . United Townsend's •'Analysis of Civil Government."
8tatrs . y
French . } Otto's Grammar, "La Bataille de Dames." French
t Composition.
Gray's "School and Field Book of Botany." Daily
Mr.Dweller. Botany Analysis of Plants. Eighty species in Summer
Term.
.Arithmetic Green)eaf's Intellectual Arithmetic. Greenleaf's
Nigher Arithmetic.
Cleveland's "Compendium of English Literatnre."
Craik's "English of Fhakesppeare." and Black-
• I board Instruction from DeVere's `•.Amerienn-
English isms." Gilman's "First Steps in English Liters-
c tun-." hlnller'A " Lectures on Language," and
Oral 1'resentn1ion of Herbert Spencer'n •'11hiloso-
hhy of Style." Selections from Whitney on '•Tho
Study of Language.." Abbot's ••Shaksperian
Grammar,"etc.
4
20 SCIIOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
SALARIES.
As regards the salaries of our teachers, we can only repeat
the language of previous reports. If there is one profession
above another, which demands the highest endowments of
both mind and heart, animated with zeal, and tempered with
discretion, it is that of the teacher ; and yet, of all the pro-
fessions, it is, and has been, the worst paid. The teacher
can never hope to obtain the name and fame, which, as they
constitute no small share of the rewards offered by other avo-
cations, so contribute in a great part to make up the attrac-
tions by which their ranks are kept constantly supplied with
the best kind of candidates. The rewards of all labors are
honor and emoluments, and political economists have ob-
served, that generally any deficiency in the one is counter-
balanced by a corresponding increase in the other, but this
rule has never been applied to the school teacher, who has
always been scantily paid, and always, so far as his profes-
sion has been concerned, doomed to live in obscurity, and
die in oblivion. And this state of things long ago produced
its natural result, by causing most ambitious and talented
young men in choosing their life-work, to regard teaching
as, at best, nothing more than a temporary expedient, or a
last resort ; something to be taken up in the first instance,
not for its own sake, but only as a means of livelihood, while
engaged in acquiring some other profession ; or else some-
thing to be resorted to, when it should have become apparent
that other avocations demanded more laborious exertion, or
a higher order of talent than could be given to them ; only a
few, who really loved the work of a teacher, because they
knew it was that for which they were best fitted, continued,
in spite of the many discouragements which surrounded
them, to persevere in the thankless task which they had
taken for their life-work. With these scant exceptions, the
great body of the male teachers of New England, not Many
SCHOOL CO3I31ITTEE'S REPORT. 21
years agro consisted of three classes, each teaching merely for
the sake of their hay : those who were preparing themselves
for some other labor at the same time that they taught, and
who, beside the difficulty of interesting themselves, so as to
interest others in NN hat to them was merely an episode in
their lives, a necessary evil to be gotten over as soon as pos-
sible, could, by the vary necessities of their position, give
only, a divided attention to the work for whieli they were
paid. Those who had failed in what had been their first,
perhaps even their second or third choice for the employ-
ment of their lives, and now discouraged, had taken them-
selves to teaching as something within the competence of
anybody. And lastly, those who either had not confidence
eilou;li in themselves to contend with the members of what
they regarded as the higher professions, or else had not suf-
ficient mental energy to enrage themselves in the contests
for which they yet believed that their abilities fitted them.
Accordingly, here was no " esprit de corps " among teach-
ers as a body. Following an avocation which was not gen-
eral1v regarded as a desirable one, they were themselves, for
the Most part, to acquiesce in the judgment of those who
contemned them. And as every man's position and his own
idea of that position, his real character and his own esti►nate
of that character, al«•ay tend to approximate to each other,—
the higher by elevating the lower, and also the lower by
deteriorating the higher, — as long as thHt state of things con-
tinued to exist, it was not to be expected that there should
be any marked advancement among the teachers of our
public schools. If there has been, a3 we sincerely be-
lieve there has, an improvement and a progressive improve-
ment ton, for the past twenty years, in the l)ositiou and char-
acter of the teachers, no less than in the duality and the ex-
tent Of the instruction given in our schools, we are firmlv
convinced that among the more prominent. causes of this
improvement has beenthe the comparative advance, now geuer-
22 SCHOOL C01131ITTEE'8 REPORT.
ally established, which during the time has been made in the
salaries of the instructors.
People have begun to see that education, like all other rood
things, must be paid for ; that here, as elsewhere, little begets
little, and much alone can be relied on to produce much,
and that the dearest articles are often the cheapest in. the
long run. But Ave cannot think that this Bain has yet reached
the point at which it can afford to stop. As was said in sub-
stance in the report of last year, it is only when comrnunities
are fully awakened to the fact that they must pay for what
they receive in the department of education as in other mat-
tern ; only when teachers shall be fully and fairly conipen-
sated with proper regard to the magnitude of the work in
which they are enaaaed ; when we shall have made the pro-
tession of teaching, as to say the least it ought to be, equally
honorable and equally remunerative with other professions ;
that we shall be able to command for this, equally with other
pursuits, the attention and services of men of the highest Or-
der of abilities. Our own teachers, as a general rule, receive w
salaries equal to those given for similar work by other towns ►
of the same wealth and population ; but we have been unable
to persuade ourselves that the pay which we give, compared
with the work which we expect to see accomplished, can be
relied on hereafter to procure for us such teachers as we
shall heed from time to time to fill vacancies or to occupy
new positions. We would earnestly suggest that by in-
creasing the amount of the appropriation to be made by the
town for school purposes, making up if necessary for the
proposed increase by a more stringent economy in other and
less important matters, the committee should be granted the
practical opportunity of carrying out what the theory of the
law gives the power of doing, of raising the salaries of our
teachers, new or old, within such limits as, in the best exer-
cise of our discretion, we may consider to be for the best in-
terests of the town and the scholars. It is probable that no
SCHOOL C03131ITTEE'S REPORT. 23
general recasting of the salaries would need to be made at
once, but it is important, as it seems to its, that the commit-
tee should he allowed to form their best judgrtieut in this
matter, without being hampered with the recollection that
they have already reached limits which they are restricted
front passing.
It has al%vays been among the hardest and most irksome of
the duties in which we are en^aged to male proper selections
of teachers. The great difficulty here arises, as we think,
froth the same cause to -which we have already adverted,
front the fact that the salaries which we have been able to of-
fer have not been large enough to attract to us In `reat niini-
bers such teachers as we have desired to obtain. We believe
that higher talents are regnired for the teacher than for the
member of any other profession ; he should have large and va.-
ried acquirements ; a deep and profound scholarship ; the rare
faculty of imparting instruction ; the ability to interest others
ahnost. against th sir will even, in matters which they must
learn in order to appreciate ; unwearied patience and forhear-
ance for the mistakes and faults of his puhil-z ; an armor of
proof in the perfect serenity of his temper arrainst, the miluer-
ous petty- irritations of the school-room ; ;Lu evert gentlrne.s
of disposition, and yet an unbending determination to tollow
the dictates of ,in enlightened conscience and a keen sense of
right. In a word, he ,should have the wisdom of the serpent,
and the gentle nature of the dove. What other avocation
demands or even furnishes scope for higher talents And how
can we expect that men endowed with `tech gifts will be al-
hired to it momentous round of lahor by the tray of hewers of
wood, or drawers of water?
SCHOOL S UPERI N TEND1,-I T.
Your committee must reiterate the opinion and rec(iinmen-
dation which llRkA already been so often ivade, that it stiperin-
teudeiit of schools is needed, and would be of r;reat valtie to
1
24 ,SCHOOL COMMITTEE IS REPORT.
our system of instruction ; and that such an office should he
at once created, the incumbent to receive a salary ample
enough to enable us to command the services of %N,hatever
man may be deemed the best fitted for the position ; to
devote his whole time and attention to an active and constant
supervision of our different schools, engaging in no other
business during his term of office. It would seem to be evi-
dent that the members of this Board, being compelled to de-
vote the most of their time and attention to their respective
pursuits, cauuot give more than a comparatively, small por-
tion of their time to the schools. Our own experience during
the last year, although we have earnestly endeavored to be-
stow upon the educational interests of the town all the time
that it has been possible for us to give to them, has served to
confirm us in the belief which we formerly entertained, that a
proper supervision of our schools demands, and would repay,
more attention than can be afforded by any one who is liable,
at the most critical moments, to be called off by the pressure
of other duties. An increase in the number of the Com-
mittee, it is apprehended, would rather lessen the efficiency
of our labors, by detracting from their unity and harmony of
action, than increase the a`gregate amount of time available
for school purposes. And all the teachirugs, both of theory
and experience, by which mankind have learned that the ex-
ecutive power of government should be confided to a single
hand, seem to us to apply with as much force to the adminis-
tration of our schools as to other public affirirs. A school
committee, without a Superintendent set to manage our ed-
ucational interests, seems to us to occupy pretty much the
same position as that which would be held by the council of
the State, if it were called upon to act, as the chief executive
power of the Commonwealth, without any Governor ; it is
the French Directory over a`ain. Considering the number
of school-houses under our charge, and the constant attention
required by all of them to keep them, in good repair, and ,
SCHOOL COMMITTEES REPORT. 25
provided with suitable conveniences, considering the number
of schools, of teachers, and of scholars, that make up one
part of our complex school organization, the large amount of
detailed official work to be clone, and the sutu total of the
annual expenditures, it seems manifest, that in no other de-
partment of torn affairs are so many persons employed, and
so many distinct objects looked after, without a competent
and responsible officer at the head. Certainly, Avith a good
Superintendent, with the guidance of one controlling mind
to carry out the plans, devised after mature deliberation by
the committee, a greater uniformity, and a better classifica-
tion of our school labor can be secured, than if twenty or
more teachers, of diverse temperaments, and of different
administrative capacities, were alone entrusted with these re-
sponsible duties. Nor is the matter mended by assigning
this task to the members of the committee themselves.
Apart from the fart already mentioned, that the labor neces-
sary to discharge properly these duties is more than can be
performed by men who are engaged in other pursuits and
callings ; apart from the fact that the frequent changes which
would then be occasioned by the burden and anno ance of the
of ice would have in practice about the saine result as if the
greater part of the teachers were to be renewed every year
— the mere fact that the committee do not and can not make
a specialty of education, would prevent their front carrying
through these duties as they should be accomplished ; but so
surely as any part of this work is neglected, our schools
must suffer ; same prolx►rtion of the money appropriated by
the town will be masted, and, what is infinitely gorse, our
children will be deprived of at least some part of that sound
education which we all spree they are entitled to receive itt
our hauls.
The interest of our schools demmids that the office of Su-
periaendent be created and worthily filled. If' additional
motives were needed, we Wright add that a due regard to the
26 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 18 REPORT.
prosperity of the town also demands it. The salary of such
an official would not be money lost, even regarded simply as
a pecuniary investment. Men who are searching for a fit
place in which to locate their business, or in which to estab-
lish their residence, and rear up their children, are, as a rule,
attracted no less by the educational facilities which are of-
fered them than by purely business inducements. The gen-
eral prosperity of a community is almost invariably in pro-
portion to the thoroughness and perfection of the means of
instruction which it affords. We cannot afford to let the
impression go abroad that our town is inferior to other
communities of the State, in its regard ai:d its provisions for ,
education. Nearly, if not quite all, the cities of the Common-
wealth, and a large number of the towns, have recently found
it necessary to tape the step which we now advise ; and it
is believed that in no instance has a community, after once
appointing a Superintendent, found it advisable to dispense
with his services, and the testimony o: the experience of all
these towns and cities, so far as we have been able, with con-
siderable effort, to ascertain, is unanimously in favor of the
appointment of such an officer. Let one example suffice for
many. The School Committee of Boston in their annual re-
port for 1371, say : « The proposition to appoint a Superin-
tendent of the Public Schools of Boston was discussed in
the City Council and in the School Committee, for several
years before it was adopted, the papers of the day entered
frilly into the consideration of the subject, and the public
mind was deeply interested. After mature deliberation, the
office was instituted by the School Committee, in April, 18.51,
and on the 13th of May following, the first Superintendent of
public schools was elected. The office was instituted with
the belief that it would add greatly to the usefulness and ef-
ficiency of our public schools. Twenty years of its activity
have shown that this was a wise judgment. It is a source
of information to teachers, to parents and to the cominittee, ,
SCHOOL CO:IiUITTEE'S REPORT. 27
it helps more than anything else to model otir schools, and
and strength to those employed in them ; it
;tff„1d3 comfort
forms and deepens a general interest in the cause of educa-
tion, by the able reports which it sends forth. The influ-
ence of the ofce has been to advance public instruction, not
only in our owti city, but throughout the State and Country."
CoyDITION OF SCHOOLS AND CHANGES OF
TEACHERS.
ing pon the creneral condition of the schools as
In report tl o 1 e 0
they have appeared to your committee in such visitations as
they have been able to make, we do not propose to enter into
any discussion as to the comparative merits of differeut
schools or of the teachers. During the past year the schools
have enjoyed unusual prosperity, and the uuniher of pupils
has been larger than in any previous year. We do not claim
that our schools are perfect, but we do claim that (relleNdIv
speaking they show a marked and gratifying progress in the
right direction ; this is to be accounted for in various -%vays,
a
—the liberal and generous appropriation of the town for their
support, the earnest labors of the teachers, and the general
interest taken by the parents as indicated by their trrqllent
visit:►tions.
Hiss Hattie Crafts has been promoted to the charge of the
(south Intertnediate to till the vacancy caused by the transfer
.if llis Robbins to the position of first assistant in the Cell-
tre Grammar, left vacant by the resignation of ,Nliss Carey,
%vho had so long nnel so acceptably filled that position. 1I ins
Lilla Front was elected to till the pl:lre, of second assistant iu
the Mme school, left vacant by the resignation of JI ins 14 annie
Robbins. hiss Carey and Miss Robbins carried with them
the sincere affection of their pupils, and the greatest com-
]nencintion and respect of the pareiit.s and committee. We
trust they may he as successful in their future lives as they
Ofbeell ill the past.
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28 SCHOOL C031MITTEE'S REPORT.
Miss Harriet Robbins and Miss Frost had to encounter the
difficulty of following the footsteps of a successful prede-
cessor, and we are pleased to find them in all respects satis-
factory, and worthy of commendation. Miss Etta B. Dad-
Milli, who was elected to fill the place of Miss Crafts, pro-
moted, has entered upon the duties of a teacher with all
earnestness of purpose which makes her success sure. hiss
Nellie Williams was elected to take charge of the new Primary
School at the .Etna Mills district in October. Miss Williams
bad already had experience as a teacher, and the committee
feel justified in according to her the highest praise for the
manner in which she has conducted this school. The new
Grammar School at the South was for a few weeks at the *,
commencement of the fall terns under the charge of the '
Rev. Air. Bell, who resigned, and A1r. B. S. Andrew was
elected in his place. There were many and various difficulties
to be encountered, and Mr. Andrew undertook the task with
a determination to place this school upon a level with the
other Grammar schools of the town ; and we believe that
he has fully succeeded.
We ought in justice in this connection to make mention
of the fact that the scholars of the East district, assisted by
Mr. Copeland and Air. Carey, succeeded in raising a sum of
money nearly sufficient for the purchase of a Piano for their
school. The whole amount was subsequently made up by the
committee, and the Piano purchased. IVe believe that there
should be a Piano in each of the Grammar Schools.
The labors of Mr. Carey in the department of Music and
of hiss Gregory in the department of Drawing have been
contin(ied throughout the year with the most market] and
sat6factory results.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE 9S REPORT. 29
TEACHERS.. AND THEIR SALARIES.
Names. Date If Salary.
Schools. Election.
High School..• ..•• George R. Dwelley.. .. . .... 1871 $$2,000
,< << .......... Caroline S. Cushing, 1st Asst.. 1871 800
<< ........... Ellen lkf. Crafts, 2d Asst..... 1871 700
East Grammar..•.• •• Warren T. Copeland.. .. . ... 1868 1,400
41 Intermediate..... Annie E. Coolidge. . . .... .. . 1871 500
it Primary...••. ••••iLottie P. Rent.... . .. .. . .... 1871 475
Centre Grammar... .... George W. Andrew.. .. ...... 1870 1,G00
!{ i, .. .... Harriet Robbins, 1st Ass't ... 1872 600
it " Lilla Frost, 2d Ass't.. .. . ... 1872 500
is Intermediate...• Iielen M. Souther.... . ..... . 1870 500
It it ... Etta B. Dadmun, Ass't. . .... 1872 I 400
" Primary, No. 1. 1 . A. Otis.... .... .. .. . .... lAFO 475
" " No. 2.. Mary D. Patten.... . . . . ... . I ti"1 475
South Grammar...... B. S. Andrew.... . . . .. .. ... 1872 1,400
It Intermediate.... Hattie B. Crafts. ..... .... ... 1872 500
46 Primary...... .. Bertha Af. Whitney.... . ..... 1872 475
Rest Grammar........ George S. Turner.... .... .... 1868 I.500
Intermediate.... . Elizabeth Jennison.... ....... 1871 500
Primary. . .... .. Lyda Wicks .. .. .... .... ... 1868 475
" .... . . . .. Nellie Bradlee, Ass't .... . .... 1871 400
Etna Nfilla Soho ol.... . Nellie E. Williams.... . ...... 1872 475
T,,a(-,her of 1)rawing... Anna Gregory. ... .. . .... ... 1871 1,000
" :1irtsi,..... Henry G. Carey. .... .... .... 1871 {If10
_
VISITS .
NumheT of ridita by individual members of the Committee.... . .. .. .... 153
Number of visits made by other persons...... .....9 ............ ...... 277
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SMOOL C031MITTEEIS REPORT. 31
N 17MBEIS OF CHILDREN IN TO W.Y.
The assessors for 1872 return eight hundred and eighty-
four (884) children in town between five and fifteen years of
age.
NJ-MBER OF CHILDREN IN TIIE SCHOOLS.
"umber of children between five and fifteen, 775
over fifteen, 63
under five, 0
Total, 838
Difference between number of children in town and
number between five and fifteen years of age in
Schools, 109
A comparison of these figures with those of last year shows
z decrease of nea •ly fifty her cent. of the number between
five and fifteen years of age nut attending school, —a fact
worthy of comment.
SCHOLARS NEITHER ABSENT NOR TARDY
D URIN G THE YEAR.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Misses Cora Barker, Joanna Riley, Lottie Bailee*, Susie
"anger, Alice Patten, Mabel Walker. Masters Charles
(Treen, Fred. Crawford, Lewis McLaubhlin, Edward Morse,
Frank Coolidge, Frank Cheney.
CENTRF. GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
ISAbella M. Ayres, Frank E. Lana, IlarrY Morse, J. Lewis
I11.164dell, S. Alice (xre ,, Fred. G. Barker, Frank Burke,
Ilfary F. Foley, Eliza F,. S. Green, Ida F. `Yoreester, Clar
ence N. Lewis, Clara A. Farwell.
32 SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
EAST GRAB'1MAR SCHOOL.
Docia E. Macready.
WEST GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
H. B. Hastings.
SOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
James Ward.
CENTRE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
Jennie Patten.
EAST INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
John Powers, Peter McDonough.
Patrick Mocklar has been neither absent nor tardy for
three years.
WEST INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
Lizzie R. Kinsman, Jennie L. Kinsman, Ruth W. How-
ard.
SOUTH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.Mary Gaven.
CENTRE PRIMARY NO. 2.
Eugene Proctor.
WEST PRIMARY. �
Patrick Noonan, Henry Howard.
,ET-NA MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Maggie Sullivan.
• SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
E tPE V SES FOR 1872-3.
Sunni total of expense's, $21,851 38
Appropri,itiors, $20,000 00
Town's share of School fund, 268 85
$10,268 85
Deficit, $1,582 53
The deficit is accounted for by the filet that two new
teachers have been eniployed by- the coniniittee, not contem-
plated in the appropriation. (Mr. Andrew at the Soutli
Grammar and Aliss Williarlss at the :-Etna, Mills Primary. )
Also the expenditures for uew furniture and scliool apparatus
neeebsarY at the institution of these schools.
E STI.IIA TED EXPENSES FOR 187.3-71.
The following sutus will be necessary to nieet the expenses
of our schools for the coruinr; -car : —
Salaries of teachers, $1 7,250 00
Care of school-houses, 1,200 00
.Feel, 1,200 00
Apparatus and Libras j', 150 00
E enina school, 400 00
Incidentals (repairs, etc.), 31000 00
$23,200 00
The following extracts from " Bond's " history may ltc. of
interest :
-
"The first notice of a schoolmaster in the records is Nov. 7,
1649, when the 4electinen ordered that Dai-W 111eellell [Mitchell],
of St.arnford, conn. l►e vertified of the towns' desire for him to
keep school. Wether he accepted does not appear from the
records, It is not to he eertainly inferred from this that there
were r,o pc-hox is before this time, There are no town rt•coril- ex-
hnt or the first four years (1630-34), and t,l;ose for the next. nine
PAn (1G34-43) are little more than general ordinances, The
i
34 SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
records for the nest four years (1643-47) are wanting, A school
might have keen kept in private houses and in the meeting-Louse,
as was often done afterwards, Jan. 6, 1650-1, Richard Norcross,
was hire(] for one year for £30, and was allowed 2 sh. a head for
keepinn the dryherd, He is the only schoolmaster mentioned
until 1675, His salary Lad continued the same. In 1667 it is
stated that the school was to be free to the inhabitants ; (not in-
habitants) to pay as before, and their pay to go towards his salary
of £30.
cc Feb. 23, 1674-5, a committee (Capt. Dlason. and Simon
Stone.) was appointed to treat with Dlr. [William] Goddard to
keep school, and he was employee] at a salary of M. to begin
Ap. 5, 1675. ,
44 Alar. 27. 1677. no-reed with Left Sherman to keep school, to
rI
begin Ap. 9. From May 1 to Aug. 31, to keep eight hours in the
day ; to begin at seven in the mornin,- and not to break up until
five at night, noontime excepted. From Aug. 30 to Oct. 31 six
hours in the day. In ]larch and April, and the four winter
inonths, to begin at ten and continue until two.
" Jan. 7. 1678-9. the selectmen notified Left. Sherman and Air
Goddard. giving them one-fourth year notice, that they had chosen
another roan to keep school, when their year was out, viz, Richard
Norcross, from Ap. 9, 1679. In June. July. and August. lie was
to teach only Latin and writing at his own house ; the other eight
months Latin and English scholars at the school-house ; to have
£20 out of the town rates for 1679 (and probaly what he could
obtain from tuition as before), It was soon after determined to
have the school kept the whole year at the schoolhouse, and to add
£5 to his salary-.
It Ap. 81 1679. Lieut Sherman refused to give up the key of the
school-house to those sent to demand it.. Dec. 1, 1679, the town
voted that Lieut, Sherman is to keep school as formerly. It
appears that Lieut Sherman's was not a grammar school, and the
County Court, Dec. 1680, ordered Watertown to provide a grain-
nia.r school. A committee was appointed Ap. 1681. to provide a
master to teach Latin and English, and Richard Norcross, was
chosen, Am 3, 1681 , to begin when 11 the Captains " [Sherman]
time is out next April, Salary £25, and the benefit of Latin
Scholars over and above. Air Norcross was again employed in
rW
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 35
1682 and 1683. He was to be paid for scholars not of the town,
and if the [number] be large, the town to have places provided
for the bOA.s in the meetinn-house.
Nov. 26, 1690. the town allowed 915 for the schoolmaster's
maintenance. About this period repeated complaints were made
to the Count• Court of the deficiency of schools in Watertown.
" I)ec. 12, 1690, Nathaniel Stone [Stone, 19.] was chosen
schoolmaster, and the committee reported, Jan. 9, 1690-1. that he
hati accepted, ta•ent�• persons having engaged to pay, or Gee him
paid 50. sh. a quarter, in addition to the £15 granted bS- the town,
I Nov. 27, 1693. the selectmen made the following agreement with
Richard Norcross : to teach school one year from next Dec. 4th ;
to he paid by the parents. for English, 3 d. a week ; for writing,
4 d, a week ; for Latin, 6 d. a week ; school to be kept at his
house until Ap. 1st ; then, upon a months trial at the school-
house [if] there appear [not] a considerable quantity of scholars,
then he hath liberty to keep all the }-ear at his house, and the
town to pay him additional .£5. But, if he have none but Latin
scholars, then to allow out of his .£:5 what such Latin scholar's
proportion eometh ,o, If lie find scholars to increase, to keep
school at the school-house from Ap. 1 to Oct. 1st. and the re-
mainder of the year at his own house. Also to catechize scholars
and all other persons that are sent to liim. June. 1696. the select-
men applied to Edward Goddard to teach school,' to whom he
replied, that if they would repair the school-liouse and give him
X20 he would come ; but the town did not accept the terms, and
the town was fined for not having a school.
" Feb. 15, 1696-7. The town refried to have a grammar school.
r►nd appointed a committee to estimate the repairs of the sc11001-
house. two of them reported that it wound cost .£3 or .£4 to finiRh
it well ; the other; reported that 30 Sh. or 40 Sh. would wake it
sufficient for use at present. and 40 Sh was granted. Feb 26. the
town vote.] Mona• fc►r a sc•hOol ; anti Mar. 29. they voted f 1 tl and
oert►►in privileges. if hAward Goddard would keep school. Wether
Le then accepted does not appear in the rveorda. Aug 1.5, 169:1,
Edward G-widard agret-d to keep the gram►nar school hint' 24.
l i00, Voted. if fir Goddard kill keep school the rear ensni►,ty, to
grant bin) the remninder of the -CIO, granted for keeping school
Pram Aug, 15, 1699, and .£l0 ►none for the year ensuing, and the
36 SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
rates from the 11 parents and owners of children." June 3, 1700,
[Rey] Mr Samuel Parris. agreed to keep school at his place of
abode till some other is chosen. Sept 3. 1700, Mr. Norcross was
chosen to keep school fur £10, and the usual rates from parents,
and they to send one quarter cord of wood i❑ the winter. At this
time 11Ir Norcross had been a Schoolmaster forty-nine years. and
was seventy-nine years old. Nov. 21. 1 i00. voted to keep the
school the first and third quarters at the old school-house, and the
second and fourth quarters in the iniddle of the town, and that the
Farmer's Precinct, by paying £20 be freed froln any other school
charges this year. Also agrees] with Ames Angier [grad. Iiarv.
Coll, 1 i 01] to keep school from Dec. 8, to have £30 in money,
and those that send children to send one fourth cord of wood.
Mar 2. 1 i 01-2 agreed that the grammar school should be kept the
second quarter at the house where old Father Ives formerly- lived.
Jan 1. 1 i 02-3 Ames Angier agreed to teach school half a year
and no Ionger, to begin Jan 25th. Ap 23. 1704, Nathaniel
Gookin [grad. Harr. Coll. 1 iO3] agreed to keep school half a
year, seven hours a dav, for £1 5 Ap 3. 1705, voted :C30 for
schools : £10 to be equally divided between the farmers and the
westerly inhabitants if it be improved for s---hooling ; if not. to be
for the use of the poor. Ap 13. 1704 engaged Nathaniel Gookin
to teach four months. May 10, 1706 the town 11 desired Rev
Joseph Morse to keep school, and be helpful to the minister, for
£40. and 4d. per week for all who send their children. " which he
accepted conditionally."
The above report is respectfully submitted for the action
of the Board aiid Town.
H. J. EDWARDS,
Clccrir•m.ctn School Committee.
DMULATIONS FOR THE GOjERNMEI1T
** OF THE
TEACHERS. PUPILS. AND JANITORS,
OF THE.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF WATERTOWN.
FOR THE TEd CHERS.
Teachers will be at their respective school-rooms fifteen
minutes before the openin of the sessirni.
The school will he opened with readin1 the Scriptures,
without %vritten note or oral comment." Amend. Rev.
Stat. Chap. 57, 1862.
i There shall he it recess of fifteen minutes in the iniddle of
t each half clay-.
The hour for recess, as well as for openin, and closing of
tbe schools, is to he closely observed.
Care must be takep that it free and healthful circulation of
nir is preserved in the, school-roams, by opeiiii).g doors and
"Findows, before acid after school, mid durincr recess, and by
re9111atiug ventilators and registers to secure its nearly as
l,oayible a meun temperat ore of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
i
A clue re,+,*ard to neatness and order niiist 1►e observed ,Intl
maintained in and around the school-houses.
The win(low4, ventilators, and doors are to be Alit and
fastened in each school-room, before leuviii them at the close
c,f each "asion.
Prompt n"tiry is to he given to the Committee of an%, in-
j<<ry done to any article: or portiou of school property, and of
38 SCHOOL C03131ITTEE'8 REPORT.
any repairs that -are needed ; and the teachers are to use all
possible care that no article or portion of school property in
their respective rooms be in any manner marked or injured.
When there are several schools in one building, it shall he
the duty of the male teacher (if there shall he one employed
in the bUllding) to look after the general good order of the
house, entries, cellars, outbuildings, fences, etc., to prescribe
such rules as shall secure the good order of the same, and to
see that all school furniture is duly and properly cared for.
No scholar being a member of any school above the grade
of Primary Schools, who has been absent five consecutive
school-days in a term, except by reason of sickness certified
to the teacher by the parent, guardian, or attendant physi-
cian, shall be admitted to his or her seat, or restored to pre-
vious position in the class, unless by direct permission of the
Committee.
All teachers are expected and required to report to the
Committee all cases of irregular attendance and tardiness
which are not satisfactorily covered b;• the written excuses,
or the personal statements made by the parents or guardians
of the offending children.
FOR THE PUPILS.
The school-house will be opened by the teacher at least
ten minutes before the commencement of the school ses ion,
and it is expected that no scholar will be about the school-
house before that time.
No scholar will be allowed to take from its place any
article of school furniture without the teacher's permission,
or to interfere in the least with the furnaces, stoves, registers,
etc., without express orders.
Every pupil who shall accidentally or otherwise injure any
part of the buildings, or :any -,chool property, shall be liable
to pay all damages.
Every pupil who shall, in or around the school premises,
SCHOOL C0MIMEE'S REPORT. 39
use or Write and' profane or unchaste language, or shall cut
i)r draw a,ny vulgar pictures, or in any way intentionally de-
fiice anj• pa•c►perty -whatever, belonging to the school estate,
;-hall ire punished ill proportion to the offence, and shall lie
liable to action at la��•.
The scholars shall pass through the streets, on their way to
a�ncl from school, in an orderly and beeomin( planner, and
�,o enter the school-room, and tale their seats in a quiet and
reSpe0fnl n►a nner. They will not be allowed to make use
()f the school-room, entry, or stairways at any time for play.
They shall take care that their books, desks, and the floor
around tlleni are kept neat, and in crood order.
All scholars are expected to pay clue attention to the
cleanliness of their persons, and the neatness and decenev of
their clothes, not. only for the purpose of forming good habits
cf order, but also that the school may be at all tinges pre-
bared to receive friends and visitors in a respectable manner.
FOR THE JANITORS.
They sball see that the school-rooms are thoroughly swept
at lea, bvice each weak, and oftener if' necessity requires,
alit] that the entries and stairways are swept every day after
tile. close of the school ; also to see that the desks, settees,
14bairs, all(] all the articles of school furniture, are kept
properly dusted and clean.
They shall make the fires in the stoves and furnaces in
their respective school-liouses, and see that the school-rooms
during the seasc,ll of tnakinr fires are at a temperature of 68
degrees Fareuheit, at the opening of the Schools.
The ashes from the tires must be carefully sifted, and kept
ill sueh locality ns not to engrender fire ; and all dne econ<�m�r
must be used in the c mistunpt ion of fuel. I
The Outer
doors of the school-houses must he carefully
locked by the janitors when they leave the premises. Y
The out-houses are to he kept in .48 neat condition as pos-
40 SCHOOL ('OMMITTEE''S UETIORT.
sihle, and no rubbish or objectionable matter shall he allowed
to accumulate on the premises.
In the winter vason, in case of snow, suitable paths must
he made froln the sidewalks to the doors of the school-houses.
But in cased of extraor4linary sturnis, a(blitional compensa-
tion for makin, paths may he grauted by the Committee.
The foregoing regulations were passed in School Com-
mittee, April 12, 1861.).
Attest : JOSEPH CRAFTS,
secretary.
REPORT OF THE BUILI)I\G COMMITTEE.
The committee appointed at the March meetlnc to procure
a location, and cruse to be erected a Primary- School-house in
the vicinity of the _Etna Mills, and also to attend to the al-
teration and furnishing of the hitherto unused roonis in the
South District School-house, have attended to the duties im-
posed upoii them, and submit the followingr as their report :The committee niet and organized earl- in the month of
April, and after visiting several locations, and sonle negotia-
tion with various parties, purchased the lot, on which the
school-house has since been erected, of Roger Drnrv, for the
siini of two thousand dollars. Subsequond'v, on the truth
clay of .Tune, a contract ivas made with Mr. Ezra Wing. he
Mein; the lowest bidder, to erect and couiplet the lii,ildin�
according to plans and specificatious determined can by the
committee, for the suin of six thousand one hundred and sev-
enty-five dollars. The work NS as at. once commenced. and the
building completed and ready for occupaney during the ea l%
part of Octofwr. The huildi>>, is of two stories, slated root•,
is 43 feet loner by 34 wide, and is thoroil;rhly finishc,d, inside,
and out. At the, time the appropri:it ion wa m.4kl�, it .% as
intended to finish only the roouis on the first floor, lv:ivin4
the upper rooins to he. coupleted NOW" necessity- required ;
but after di.scussillir the niatter, the committee detcruliued
upon finishing the whole building, which h:is ])cell done.
The committee carefiilly watched the work as it proceecle•jl,
:and list ified in reportin,',Y, th:it it was well :end thorowrlllN-
performed, and ,it a cost very lavorahle to the town. 'I`Ile
rooms ore light,.a►iry and pleasant, and hard acapacitN• for fort
scholars each. The 1mver room only has beell tinishc��1 fi r
School purposes. 'rhe building is liu• ,er, better furnished,
2 BUILDING COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
and of a more substantial character than was at first coutem-
plated ; but we believe that the growing interest in this sec-
tion frilly justifies the expense, and that the building will
compare favorably with the Primary School buildings of any
of the neibhborina towns. The size of the lot furnishes am-
ple room for play-grounds, and the committee recommend
a suitable appropriation for fencing and grading the same.
The lot contains about one and a quarter acres.
On the fifteenth day of June a contract was entered into
with Messrs. Norcross and Blaisdell for the alterations, etc. ,
at the South School-house, for the sum of two thousand one
hundred and seven dollars (they being the lowest bidders) ;
the work was at once commenced and completed to the entire
satisfaction of the committee. In the upper story, one half
of which had been previously used for the Intermediate
School, the other half being uufiniAhed, the wall was moved
back, making one large room with two ante-rooms, for the
use of the Grammar School. On the first floor, the rear
room (Hitherto unused) has been tinislied, making two
commodious rooms on this floor. -The building, as at present
furnished and arranged, is undoubtedly the beat and most
convenient Grammar School building in the town.
Ire reference to the heating, your committee were for a
time in doubt ; but after soiree considerable investigation, and
on the advice of parties on whose jud`_uzent in such matters
we priced much confidence, the committee decided to heat
the building with steam. Accordingly, a contract was en-
tered into with George W. Walker &- Co., to put in the ne-
cessary steam-heating apparatus. For a statement of the
amounts paid out on account of the foregoing contracts, we
hereby refer to the Treasurer's report.
JOHN H. CONAN T,
A. O. DAVIDSON,
THOS. L. FRENCH,
tit-M. 11. WICKS,
II. J. EDWARDS,
Committee.
FIFTH AID�l�'UAL REPORT
(_IF TILL
O1' TRUSTEES BOARP
OF THE
FREE PUBLIC LII3RARY
OF THE
TOWN Uv
18 i 3.
I3Uti '1'0ti
ROCKWELL & CHURCHILL, CITY PRINTERS,
122 «ABnINGTOY ST1tIC8T.
1873 .
BOARD OF TRI'STEES FOR 1872 73.
AI.FRED IIOSMEIR, Term expires 1873.
JESSE A. LOCKE, °` lC 1873.
GEORGE N. MARCII, 44It 1874.
JOSHITA COOLIDGE, 46 1874. ,
GEORGE K. SNOW, 1875.
A. C. STOCKIN, At 1875.
JOSIIUA COOLIDGE, Chairman.
A. C. STOCKIN, Secretary.
GEORGE N. MARCH, Treasurer.
Exuciltiue Coinncittec.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE, GEORGE N. :MARCH,
A. C. STOCKIN'.
Cu i n ittee on B,)(-)s.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE, ALFRED IIOSIfER,
A. C. STOCKIN.
Committee on Finance.
GEORGE N. MARCII, GEORGE K. SNOW,
JESSE A. LOCKE.
Librari«n.
SOLON F. WHITNEY.
i
TRUSTEES' REPORT.
DIE Library has been uniformly- prosperous from its
1)eviimin;. Every succeeding year bas fi,ilud it ill an iln-
proved condition for iisefiilness, and its worth is coiltilill,lliv
_ lwcomimr better known and appreciated. During the past
y c ar it Ilas not experienced the usual interruption of a vaca-
tion. It has been thou_rht advisable to increase the facilities
for its circulation, by placing it «•ithin the daily- rcac•li ot• all
its readers. The Librnry has bevil opened since October 1 ,
during, a part of et-cry afterrmoll :Intl evening (except S"un-
days), for the do livery of books. By cpalizing the daily
distribution, more time is afforded fOr the examination of
hooks wIlc'll returucd, for the discovery of any- injuries for
whic•li compensation should be made. The lo•. occasioned
by the careless limidlingr of looks not milt• atuocts their
pecimial.1- value, but bN beiu�* def;lced and smilccl tile list, of
them is aftended `vith Much less safistilctioll, :Intl tiler I.ibral•v
N despoiled of its tidy- appearance. Cont c►f• valll-
able books have been received, which, with the u:lulcs of the
donors, nue specified in the report of the Librari:111. The
1411pplentrnt:ll,r c:lt:►I();rue Also sllc ws, beside' these, :1 list ()I*
Ilion. that. have been pilrcllased : collLainin a „f•
411ch VXtellt, atld vnrioh- of sill►lects as, It 1s believed. will
meet tho wants mf• :Ill c ks,cs of reader;s.
To provide nl"re t,ull�• f"r Special Wants, notice Iris hel-11
punted that :Illy- book not funnel in the catalognie, beillu* de-
Aired, would l,r prorllred uho11 request being Made, there
f*irtg 110 Rpcci:d Objection tilcreto,
4 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Contributions to the Library, of all the books and pam-
phlets its friends may be induced to spare, are now, as here-
tofore, earnestly solicited. Books, so exclusively devoted 't
to the interests of particular sects as to male the purchase
of them with the public ftinds inexpedient, would be proper
and desirable, if they were gratuitously presented.
The only condition required for the acceptance of any and
all books that may be given is, that they are not immoral.
The books inost in request are those of the class called
light reading. In regard to some of these that show the
darks of excessive use, there is some satisfaction in the fact
that the books least worthy of preservation are soonest worn
out.
Complaint has been made sometimes that we have so few
books of this character. But as lame a proportion of the
funds at our disposal has been expended iu this direction as
the wants of other classes of readers and the general inter-
ests of the Library would allow.
The Reading• Room, during the past year, has been in a
more satisfactory condition. It has 1.ONv a retired, well-fur-
nished room, and its tables are provided with the current
publications of the time, beside the numerous books of refer-
ence contained in the Library-, for the use of which this de-
partment was more especially designed. That degree of
stillness and quiet which is indispensable to the purposes of
this place has not been always secured, altliough the duty
is constantly enjoined by lame placards upon the walls.
With some of the visitors, the temptation to talk overcomes
their own inclination to read, and frustrates the attempt of
others to do so.
The boys, also, whose attendance has been allowed, bring
with them those inevitable habits which, unchecked, make the
school-room a bedlam, and that can be restrained only by
the continuous presence of some recognized authority. As
the attention of the Librarian cannot be exclusively c iveu to
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TRUSTEES REPOItT. 5
this department, it becomes a matter of inquiry how to pre-
vent the proper purposes of the Reading Room heincr thwarted,
Without the use of what mi-lit seean harsh tneasnres.
A donation of one hundred do lat•s has been received front
Mr. William P. Cole, of Baltimore, a native of Watertown,
;rho removed therefrom fifty years ago. In the letter tendering
this valuable gift, he writes : " i1IN- loin; al)Senec, hats ill nu
way lost «•ith me the feeling.; of steady and profound interest
in everytliinry that relates to, or in MIN, rn:auner concerns, nit
»ative town, where lie bulled the ash&s of these mast dear,
:11)d hest reniembered by me." The receipt of this letter has
keen acknowledged, and t1w amount of the donation has been
expended, in addition to the suns appropriated by the tOwD,
for the purchase of books. A donation of ei-liteeu volutues
of new books has been made by the Rev. G. S. Abbott,
which is valuable, not only as a►a addition to thr Library,
lout also as all evidence of the interest taken in its weltiu•e
1,Y the donor.
A detailed statement of the affairs of the Library will bc,
f oind in the aunexed Deport of the Librar't:an. to whom She-
c•i:al credit laelon;;s, for the er-cellent s�-stetn adopted at the
l,eriuning, for the mata:arentent of the Libi-an-, and for tire.
nniform success that has attended it since. And it is peen-
li:ar13• forte nnte for it, interests t.h:at Ili, resi`nation, eorttenl-
plated ii year• agog, has been deferred.
Thv Rides and Regulatimis, have recently' been atiieuded,
ANith such :alterntions and addition as -'%eCuled to he ravededg
and area herewitla appell(le(j.
The Report Ot' the Trcrasurer will show thr aacL�„uait Of our
expendittire dtarin.o, the past year. The estimate: for the eaa-
st.ing year is s(illw`% la:tt inel-eased by the enlarretnelit of the
l,l:an Ildol►t�d for t'uturr operatiutts. The apl►ropri:ation of the'
folloK•iug atatny i; t•ecotuu1ended as ncces•ar► tug the laul,l�oses `
specified :—
6 TRUSTEFS" REPORT.
Librarian's Salary and Assistance, $800
Bind ill Book`, 15U
111811ralle0 50
Gas, 2W)
New Books and Magrazines, SOO
$2,00o
The Free Public Librn y is the re-qhonse to a demand for
more 1�110A%•led e and a «•i(ler mental culture. The rapid ill-
crease Lind ro«-th of fliese histitutious in(lieate the extent of
this demand, and also the creneral readiness to Meet it. Their
oric ill is of recent date ; and the distinction of beincr first in
this auspicious movement belmigs to a neighboritig towil,
ha`I11, no great commercial of manufacturill," interests, and
of Moderate pretensions to population or wealth.
It is stated in a late nia(razine* that the town of W ',land
Ce was the first: shot in the United Mates to set the exam1 le
of a free public literary ; which was e.,Aablishcd mainly throu-f.Yli
the influence of the Rev. John Burt Wicyht, a learned theolo-
aian. i0io was ordained minister of Wayland ill 1815. . . .
Iial'pening to be a liepresentative for Aliddlesex in 1551,
he mot from the Le(dslattire all :let granthi the power to
maintain free publics libraries in every town of the Colllnlon-
wetalth. Thereupon, Wayland established one."
This may svem to be too iusigiliticalit all event to notice
here , but it was the first ,tvp in a movement which is des
tineol, without doubt, to exert a wider and deeper intlueuce,
anti will have a more salutary eilt'ct tlpe)il huulall pro`-ress,
t han sonic of t lie exploits that have oectipied a larger share of
Public: attel►tion.
Stanc d, ill behalf and by authority of the Board,
JOSHUA C OOLIDGE,
Chairman.
FEBREARY 2, 18 i 3.
* Galaxy, May, 1867.
'1
REPORT OF THE LIMURI A:N.
To the Trustees of the TT ulerlown F•ec l'1111Ije L;lwary: —
GENTLEMEN : In accor(larr('e with your re ulatimis I hereby
,�uhnrit my fifth annual report.
Tile number of books belott,ind to the Library-,
Feb. 17th, 1872, was 5,902
The nuniher at present below(vine►•, Feb. 17th, 18 73, is 6,1501
Slowing all increase of 51.111)
Of these there were presented, 113
•• •L it pttt•climsed, 489
R+tmher lost and paid I'm-, 5
The number of pamphle6l and papers, Feb.
17th, 1872, was 2,1(t3
The number now bclon�ir+, is ;,4(91
Of these thpry have been ptrrch:tsed, chiefly f�ir
the Reading I:(mm q, �;
The number prem-uted, partly for the Re:1dirt,
Room, is , 12
The mimber wim had subscril e(I to the ohli;,t-
tioes and received card.,, Foh. 171h, 1 S72. 1 ,2,;�+
The number «<I+() have subscribed to Feb. 17th,
187:3, is
The nutnhei. 1% hO subscribed during t lw � c�;++ , 234
OMP e whole uurnher of vOl+rnres issued Burin:;
the val• is 17.711
The rtnrc,utrt ()t' moncy received for tines is C.`i 7.:►:i
.. •• ..
lo-A or destroyed, five bt)()ks
4.25
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From these figures you will see that there has been a larger
increa e in the number of books belonging to the Library than
11sual, and a still lamer increase in the number of pamphlets.
The anneal elanlnlation was made last July and August
without closing the Library, thus keepin; the Library- open
every library day except holidays duriu� the entire year.
Since the first of October, the Library has been opened every
day from 3 o'clock to Fi, and from G to S, with an additional
]lour, till 9, on Saturday evenings. This fact accounts in a
pleasure for the increased circulation. It was thought that
the pressure for bool.s would be thus better distrihtited
through the week, so that one attendant would be able, by
being present a larger number of hours, to better serve the
public than even the two, required at certain hours of the
week, had clone before. Whether one can deliver all the
books demanded without too long delays defends upon the de-
l"lnand for books, and the attention required in the Readiu g
Rooln, and can be answered only by the future experience of
the Lil Crary. The hatter of takin; from 1 he shelves the hooks
asked for, and making the proper charges, while requiring
readiness and accuracy, is very e.lsily provided for. If the
iluniber of the book desired is written on the card furnished,
and the card presented to the attendant, the work is very
simple. But if tLe person wants a particular book, and does
not know its author, and so cannot find the title and number
in the catalogue or supplements, it is more difficult. If a
person wishes to consult all, or several, of the books in the
Library upon a certain subject, and floes not kno-W the vanes
of their authors, or who the best writers are, it is still more
difficult. The librarian should in solve way help people to a
knowledge, not only of all the uuthors whose works are in the
Library, but he should be able to show readily whit books he
has on each .and every important subject. And what subjects
are not important ? What ,ubject of 111111lan thought In-tv nut
suddenly, in some partleular case, become the one most eagerly
TRUSTEES' REPORT. 9
inquired into ? Some of the best librarians have collected,
arranged.and catalogued with frreat care and labor what many
would call trash. An insignificant pamphlet may suddenly
prove to he the most valuable, because most needed in tine
Library. Ilo%v much time shrill be devoted to the work of
arranain(; and cataloguing, out merely the bound books, but
the pamphlets of the Library ? How many times shall ref-
erences be made under their appropriate subjects to books
containing important information or valuable essays on many
different subjects? Should not more be done, should not
more be printed for the use of the readers of it Library like
ours? I would Madly have done more in this direction,
although but a part of the work actually done in the card
catalogue is laid before the public, for it is hardly practicable
to print so full a catalogue as it is desifable should be kept in
the L brary. A card catalogue, with more abundant cross-
references than we have found tine to make, is a necessity in
every well-inaua,.-d Lil)rarN-.
At the annual examination of the Library, the books not
found on the shelves were noted and checked as they came in,
till every one not otherwise accounted for was again npoa the
.shelves. This work occupied quite a number of weeks, but,
(.-onsiderinpr the fact. that the public was not deprived of the use
()f tine Library for it single day, it was quite satisftetol.1% It
may not be thought necessary again to entirely close the I.i-
I)rary for the annual examination. It is possible hN- extra la-
bor to ascertain the enact numl►er of vohtnles on the shelves,
as well a9 their condition, without shutti», out the public for
a sinrrle clay.
An :Lll►h;tl)etiCa,l list of periodical, to be fotnnd on the tables
4 the reading-room will 1►e t�►und at the end of this report.
The reading-room has bean i'recluctitcd by a lamer number
Of persons this past year than ever before, though some of
the readers have bee►i boys froni the, mills" who last rear
spent their spare evenings in the evenin(T selloo]. lI"hether
10 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
the IILeading Room is what they most need or not we will not
here discuss, but certainly we might claim some share of '
public support for entertaining, if not instructing, those who
otherwise, would have been left to themselves.
Sonic young nien and some young women, who are en-
g:Iyed in study, have made good use of our books of refer-
ence. Such it is always a great pleasure to assist in every
possible way. Every right-minded man will do all in his
power to encoui age the young to increase their knowledge,
and both by precept and example will seek to lead them into
the best ways of using the means offered in this Library. IIe
«•ill see therefore that the Beading Room should be a place for
quiet reading and study, and not for social converse, however
pleasant and profitable that aright be in itself. I have no
douht, if this matter could be presented in the proper man-
irer, that there would be no disposition on the part of any to
violate the proprieties of a public Beading Room by conversa-
tion, which must distract the attention. of readers, and so de-
feat the very objects for which the room was opened ; but
that, on the other hand, there would be a determination to
male it the quiet workshop, in which shall be used these
books which some one dills the tools of the mind.
Our Library and Reading Room tables have been enriched
by many contributions during the past year. You will
doubtless call the attention of the town to the larger gifts.
At the end of this report you will find an alphabetical list of
donors, with the number and character of their gifts. No
good book or pamphlet can come amiss in a public library.
Would it not be well to call attention to some of the more
valuable works whose titles are recorded in the supplement
appended to this report? Among the books may be found,
besides duplicate sets of Scott and Dickens, a set of Mac-
Donald, a duplicate set of Oliver Optic for the boys, and
other works of a light and attractive character, besides many
inexpensive volumes on a great variety of subjects. In the
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TRUSTEES' REPORT. 11<
scientific department are to he found, for example, on astron-
oilly, The Ileaveias, by Amedee Gui:llemin, Milner and Peter-
mann's Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy-, and Milner's Won-
ders of Astronomy. On architecture, Select specimens of
Gothic Architecture, by Win. Caveler ; Eastlake's Ilints on
Household Taste : Pu;in's Examples of Gothic Architecture,
in three quarto volumes of plates ; a complete set of Ruskin's
works , besides mall- smaller works. Liibke's extensive and
clalmr:afely illtistr:ated History of Art seems to have come to
the l:uowled(e of but few. The Universe, by Poneliett, and
all those finely illustrated works of Figuier, are entertaining,
as n'►11ll a instructive. Dana's large wort: on Mineralogy, and
his Manual of Geology, are standard hooks for this country.
Dana's recent Corals and Coral Islands belongs as iiauch to
reolog as to geography. In geogr:ap1ly, especi►,lly physical
ge►►graphy. the :accessions have been quite large. The elan-
orate work of Elise Reelus, Milner's Gallery of GTeo' r:lpiiy,
illustrated with e.igravings and maps, Gallery of `atlirv, Pic-
torial and Descriptive, besides hi Descriptive _Atlas of As-
tronomy, and Physical and Political Geolgr:aphy- ; Adams'
translation of Earth :li►d Sea, by Fi;uier ; with the tiro ];ir,e
octavo volume; of Willies, U. S. Exploring Expedition :
i;v'a Jap in Expedition, in three volumes, with plate" and
Maps ; Atli ison's Travels on the Amoor . II:arri.' S,►lath .�f-
rira ; Starr Kill'wg «"Mite Hills, and that uses
book of uiiivc•rq:al reference, I.ippincott,s (;:az,tte►'r I,f tlar
World. and & Gi.ay'4 Atlas of ac has0ts, nl:al:e,
this department (luite full for a Ijihrary of this size.
Oil Natural History, :are thoSe five large ;ulll l,r►,t'iigrly
illirstratc•d volumes () 1'� OOd"A : the first two, on the dKer-
ti-rant raee:S of 111,111 ; the tl►ird, on m:anim li,a : the fmirth, oil
1►ir►1K ; an►1 the fifth, on rc'l►tiles and tale to%vor Arlin], .4 : I1„11-
chet'q Animal hill dom : ( 'iiviri'• Animal Kingdom ; with
most of I> u•K•in'y and Acrissiz's �1 orkq,
I 11"C' not mentioned Boiven'y Political Economy, or
i�
12 TRUSTEE`' REPORT. i
Grey's two volumes of Essays on Political and Social Sci-
ence.
Aluspratt's Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and analyt-
ical, as applied to the arts and manufactures, in two volumes,
quarto, gives much Invaluable information to the manufac-
turer, though written in the old-fashioned style, while Ros-
coe's and Schellen's Spectrum Analysis give some of the latest
scientific views and discoveries in a very clear and interest-
ing manner. Atkinson's translation of Ganot's Elements of
Physics, with over seven hundred cuts, is a satisfactory book
on the first principles of natural philosophy. If one were
inclined to botanize, lie would find charming help in the
Lady's Botany, by John Lindley ; or, better, in the Flower-
ing Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, by Arne Pratt, illus-
trated by hundreds of colored plates, representing plants
wonderfully like many of ours. The department of educa-
tion has not been neglected, and perhaps the recently pub-
lished work of Walter Smith is des tined to help on the
work of art education, now attracting some attention in this
vicinity.
I❑ the study of language and literature you have provided,
besides the essays of flax Muller, :harsh, Whitney, a fine
copy of J. Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley, March's Com-
parative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language, besides
essays by Schele De Vere, Trench, and R. G. White. Taine's
English Literature, in two vols. octavo, is very- readable, and
full enough for reference ; while Allibone's, three volumes,
Dictionary of Authors, is indispensable. Dunlop's History of
Fiction, there is a fine copy of.
Long fellow's Poets and Poetryof Europe is quite a ponder-
OUS VOlUI11e, as is also Griswold's Prose Writers of America.
Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature, in three vols.octavo,
claims a mention here.
You have not neglected the theological alcove. Bunyan's
works, in four large, well-illustrated volumes, gives with his
I
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Pilgrim's Progress his other works. Iieecher's Life of Christ ;
Hanna's Life of Christ,— one of the volumes is Rev. llr. Ab-
1)ott's donation ; Backus' History of New Eu,land, with refer-
cnce to the Baptists ; the last Journal and digest of the Canons
of the Episcopal church, — the gift of Dr. Perry ; Tillotson's
Palestine and its holy sites and sacred story, are among the
larger «vorks. Perhaps Sale's translation of the Koran, which
nrtny have inquired for, will now find frequent use.
Some valuable editions of collected works, such as the works
of Fisher Atues ; works of Rev. Sydney Smith ; works of
lhniel Webster, in six volumes, with private correspondence,
edited by his son, Fletcher Webster, in two volumes ; works
of John Adams, in tell large octavo volumes ; works of Ben
Jonson, have been put upon the shelves.
In history }•ou have provided :in extnt copy, for reference,
of Bond's Genealogies of Watertown. Harris' Epitaphs, from
the old bur)•ing-ground in `fiaterto%%-n, will interest the curi-
ous among both young and old. Drake's History and Ali-
ti►juities of Boston, a heavy octavo, full- illustrated ; and
the smaller and later work, Old Landmarks of Boston, arcs
full of interest. Frothingham's Rise of the Republic (if
the United States, and a volume of lectures on tile. earl%-
hi•torY of will be niuch read. BO ynto►u's
11istory of the Navy during the IILehellion, ill two Vols.
octavo,, with numerous plates ; and Schouler's two volumes,
giving it History of Mmssachusetts in the Civil War, represent
this part of onr history. Arnuld's, �1tcriyale's, atltl �I�►tutnun-
sen's histories of Rome are among tht- aceessio►ns. Felton's
G'reacc, Ancient and Modern, gives us it eharmin; insight into
the life and ennstitution of all periods of this people's his-
tor;v ; while ti1"or►lswort.h's pictorial, deseript ive, anti historical
Greece, %vith itC1 beautiful engravings, illustrative of the see-
nery, areltitecture, c►►stutnc►, and line ;iris of that country,
rnav at alit• tiute entertain and in.stni► 1. v
Prof. Goodwitt's translation of I'lutat•c h';c Morals, in five
V0111tnVs ; Jowett'S translation of the Dialogues of Plato, in
14 TRUSTEES',' REPORT.
four volumes ; Bryant's translation of the Iliad of Homer, in
two large volunies ; and his translation of the Odyssey, :also
in two volumes ; and Bayard Taylor's translation of Goethe' ►
Faust, have been considerably sought for. Rawlinson's Five
great Monarchies, in three volumes, and Nolan's British Ent-
pire in India, in two large volumes, are among the accessions
to the alcove of history.
Ballou's Treasury of Thought, an encyclopaedia of quota-
tions, and Chambers's Information for the People, contain a
great variety of information. The complete sets of Harper's
Magazine, in forty-three voluanes ; and the Penny Alagazine,
in thirteen volumes, caan haardiv fail to carry to any household
something to interest every member of a fawily. The sets of
the Edinburgh and the Quarterly reviews will become more
and more valuable for reference.
In biography, Lamon's Life of Abram Lincoln ; Tyermaan's
Life of John Wesley, and Swinburne's Life of William Blake.
Carpenter's Microscope ; Packard's Insects ; a new edition
of I ouatt on the horse ; Samuels' Birds of -New England ;
Smith's classical Dictionaries of Greek and Roman antiquities ;
Greek and Roman biography, and mythology ; Greek and
Ronan (and other ancient) geograaph}-, are among the very
best books of their soveraLl subjects.
The set of the new and enlarged Patent Office reports,
which you have put upon the shelves, with the aid of some
of our manufacturers, will, no doubt, do much to stimulate
invention among our mechanics, if they will properly consult
their palges. Already, fifty-six large quarto voluiues, very
fully illustrated, have been received, and they continue to
come at the rape of one each month. These manifestly- Must
be consulted in the alcoves of the Library ; but no one need
be debarred their use. Each number has certified copies of
the original draawin;s and specifications upon which all patents
of the mouth are issued.
These, among the more costly works, added from the ap-
propriations of the last year or two, show a growth of solid
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worth in themselves of more value to the town than the ex-
pense of the whole.
In reilectin.• upon the character of books called for during
the last year, I have thought that perhaps the reason why
inatiy of the hest books you have added durincr the last two
or three years are not in treat deniand is a want of ititor-
mation in regard to them. The supplements have been too
brief. It is hoped that this notice nlay call the attention of
some to very valuable works, and that the fuller stipplenient
appended will direct inquirers to some of the newer acces-
sions. All added this -ear will be found under their authors,
works of fiction and ,juveniles only thus #0►und, while all
others will be found under the subjects of which they chiefly
treat. The first suppleuients being out of print, the more
important works purchased during the first year after the
entalonue was printed, with those purchased since, are ar-
rawyed umdcr their appropriate subjects.
Our Library en jc ys the conimeridable distinction of lwin(r
orie• of the pioneers in a great movement which IA-ill VIU] cin1v
by ni Idtip, the best thou(lit of all :ties and of all natic►nq ae-
Cessil,lc' to :tll nien, a work which is Crain; oil J%•ith tlio"t 4tn•-
I►ri,iu� r:,piclity in our good old C'oniunonweallh. When
this Libral•y was opened, five Nears ago, it was tine of forty-
fii•cb public libraries in the 'Staid. opened lay• thn slznn-
taiwous emitributioiis of the c•itizeiis and former inli:tl►it:t,it's
of this town it was opened ti•erlti• to all, qo f►eelN. that the
poor boy obliged to toil all ci:,%- in the funic�s of the dve-
house, the dntit or steam of the 1-i:tper-mill, the din of 'tile
iron-foundries and Machine-shops, or the o1' knittin-
111fichines or spilldlc�s, e:tn sl►encl au hunt :tut c�� cnin� in im-
prtwinfy his min(] 1►3r contact with. "mite of. till' best 1)4)ok. on
his partic•til:ir iu(Itt:.t1•y, Without u)y►uVy or (wilier c•,,i,dition
tl►:in elelti) hands and a (li)iet ant] l,c ha, ic►r. \ow,
ac•cl,rclinr to ;t report huou to he pul►li,hc�cl 1►� the= State,
them are eighty-ti o free pu),1ic libraries with 564,4 ;t � ol-
16 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
unies, and an annual circulation of over one and a third mil--
lion volumes. There are besides 213 social libraries in 108
cities and towns, having 777,569 volumes. Most of these
may serve as the foundation to free public libraries in their
several places, so that, at no very distant day, free public
libraries will be supported as universally and, I doubt not,
as liberally as free schools, which they supplement, whose
work they tale ul) and carry on.
The growth of our"Library is shown by the list of acces-
sions to have been a healthy growth. Rooted in a generous
soil, and started at a more auspicious time than when Horace
Mann sowed district school libraries throughout the State,
we hope it may live and not die. It must put forth each
year its crop of leaves of light reading for old and young,
which may be the more attractive form of literature to most,
and though these fall each year as of little worth for the
future, they help to create an interest in that which is solidly
though slowly and surely accumulating. We have already
accumulated that which if lost it would be difficult to gather
again.
Allow me just to mention, in this place, that every friend
of the Library is constantly wishing,— hardly as yet hoping,
— that some benevolent son of Watertown, or some of her
adopted citizens, may be moved to protect these treasures,
and secure a place in the grateful hearts of all future inhab-
itants of this town, by giving, or in helping to give, a fire-
proof building. To one having the means. and the desire to
be of use to his fellow-man, this is a rare opportunity. The
value of such a structure would be felt in many ways. The
increased confidence in its greater security would stimulate
donations of valuable works, the saving in insurance would
help to swell the purchases, and the building itself would
become an object of interest and pride to every citizen.
In making these sug restions, I should be the last to forget
that such an institution, although filled with all books and
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arranged Avith a view to the greatest convenience, mould he
valueless unless used. The worth of books depends upon
their use ; and if I were speaking to the young. or to th(ise',
echo stand in greatest need of a public library, I should
urge them to seek with increased diligence the best books to call for these even with importunity, in faith that even if
seas niuA be crossed to find them, and sacrifices made to ob-
tain their purchase, that they would not be called for in vain.
All of which is respectful I Y submitted.
SOLON F. WHITNEY,
Librarian.
18 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
LIST OF DONATIONS OF BOOBS AND PAMPHLETS.
Papers. Pamph. Bound ,
`%ols. "
Abbott, Rev. G. S.. . . . ... . .... . . .. .. . . .... .. .. 18
Agriculture, Department of, Washington.... . . .. . 3
American Peace Society.... . . . ... .... . ... .. .... 7
American Unitarian Association .... . . . ... .... .. . 52 12
Bailey, John J., Saint Louis, ;tlo.... . . .... . ..... 1
Beebe Library, -Wakefield, Trustees of. ..... .... . 1
Belmont Publie Library. ..... . . .. .. . ..... . ..... . 1
Boston 4. << 7
Bradlee, John E. ..... .... .. .. .... . .... . .. .... . 1&
Bradlee, Mrs. D. F. .. .. .... .. .. .... . ..... . ..... 16
Brigham, E. H. .. . . . ... .. . .... . . .. . . .. .. . .... . 7
Brookline Public Library:. .... .. .. . . .... .... .. . 1
Brooks, Hon. George M.. .. . . .... . ..... .. .. .... 1 18
Charlestown Public Library.. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... . 3
Cobden Club, London, England. .... . ... . . .. .. .. . 8
Dad►nan, William II.. .. . . . . .. . . .... .. .. .... . . .. 1
Davis, John, Washington, D. C.. .. . ... . .... . .. 7 $
Davis, Mrs. DI. W. . .. .. . . . ... . ... .. . . .. . . .. .. . 2 1
Ditson, Oliver & Co. . . . .. . . .. . . .... .. .. .. . . . . .. 24
Eaton. J. Jr., Co►n. of Education, Washington. . .. I
Firt Parisl► Church.. .. .. . . .. .. . ... .... .. .. .... 4
Flint, David B.. .. . . .. .. .. .. . . . .. • • .... 388
Gleason, S. S.. .. .. .. . . .... . . .. .. . ..... .... .. .. 29
Goodnow, Nathan B., " The Patent Star...... .. .. 12
Gorcley, Charles P., 11 The North End illission
Ma-arine,•. etc..... .. . . .... . . .. .. . ... .. . . .. . .
Hale, E. B.. Supt. of Schools, Cambridge, Hass• .. 4
Hosmer, Alfred, ,11. 1). . .. .. .. . . . . .. . . .. . . ..... 20 1
Huckins, I). T. . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .... 21
Holton Public Library, Brigbton, Blass. .. .. . ...•. 1 i
Holbrook, Mrs. Sopl►ia.. .. ... . .. . . .. . . .... . . .... �
Keyes, F. H.. .... . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. .. ... . . . 2
Lane, F. «'. . .. .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . .... .. 27
Lancaster Committee on Public Library...... .... 1
Lowell Citv Library. . .. .. .. .. . . .... .... .... ... . 1
B1cLautblin, C. C. . . . .. . ... .. .. .. .... . . .. .. .... 1
BlcKvIlar, Eben F. . ... . .... .. .. . ..... .... ...... 1
TRCSTFES' ItFPORT. 1
Papere. Pamph. 13mind
'_lurch, George N . .... .... . ..... .... . ..... .... ll I
.Massachusetts Rociety for Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.... .... ...... . ..... . .... . ..... . ..... l I
Massachusetts State Board of,11ealth.. .. .... .... 1 _►
Mercantile Library Association, -New York...... .. l
]\Tee- Bedford Public Library.. .. .. .. . . .. .. . ..... I
Newton Public Library . .. .. .. .. .. . . ..... . ..... 1
1`i_ers, Mrs. C....... . ... .. . . .. .. . . .. .. .... .. .. I
Pe rrv, Win. Stevens, Rev., Geneva, N. Y-- . •. •. 1
Pierce, B. lI....... . ... .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . . ... . .... ^0
Pierce,Joel ...... .... .. .. .. .. . .. . .. . . .... .... f
Polechio, Joseph. ..... .. .. . . .... . ... .. .... .... . 4" 23
Poole, Win. F.,Librarian of Public Library, Chin.,
Ol»o...... .... ...... .... ... .... . . .. .. . ... .. 1 1
Quincy, Trustees of Public Library. ..... . .. . .. .. I
Reiehe, Charles, Boston. .... . . .... .... .... . .. 1
Sevonth Day Adventist Tract Society. ..... . ..... I
Smith, Dexter, editor and publisher.... .... . ..... 5
Snow,George K...... ...... . . .. .. . .. ... .. .. .. .. 2
Spra,lniv. \Ire. E. M...... .... .... . . .. . . . . . ... .. ;
still-, Will. I..... ...... .... . . .... . . .. .. . . .. .. . I
Stratton. H. It., South B( cton, AN—.. . . . ... .... . ^,
4tat(• Board of health.... .... .... . .. . .. . . .. .. .. 1
Vnhmown .... .... ...... .... .... .... .. . . . . .... .
Waltham Public Library.... .... .. .... . . . . . . .... I
White, Smith & Perrr, "The Folio". . .. .... . . .. III
Whitney, Solon F.... .... .... ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Ire
Wim•hester Public Library.... .... . . . . . . .. .. . . ..
Wolmrn Public Library. .... ...... . . .. .. . . .. . . ..
Worcoster Public Library, Directory of... .. . . ... . . 1
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LIST OF PERIODICALS ON THE TABLES OF THE
READING ROOM.
The advocate of Peace. The Horticulturist.
The agriculturist. Journal of Chemistry.
American N;Aaralist. Littell's Living; Age.
Appleton's Journal. London Quarterly.
The .Atlantic. Massachusetts Teacher.
Bibliotheca Sacra. The Nation.
British Quarterly. North American Review.
Chambers' Journal. North-End 'Mission Magazine.
Christian Resister. Old and New.
Contemporary Review. Our Dims► Animals.
Dwight's Journal of Music. Overland Monthly.
Eclectic 3iaoazine. Patent Star.
Edinburgh Review. Popular Science Monthly.
Educational 'lonthly. Punch.
Every Saturday. Religious Magazine.
The Folio, Scientific American.
The Galaxy. Seribner's 'Monthly.
Good Words. Watchman and Reflector.
Harper's Magazine. Westminster Review.
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24 TRUSTEES' EFFORT.
RETICLE IV.
There sliall be three Sta►id►ng Committees, as follows :An Exec►►tive Co►uinittee, consisting of the Chairnian, Seere-
tary and Treasurer ; a Committee oil Books, co►i"istint of the
Chairnian of the Board and two members chosen upon nomina-
tion ; and a Committee on Finance, consisting of the Treasurer
mud two members,also chosen upon nominatimn. The C'hair►uan
of the Board shall be Chairman of the first two Committees,
and. the Treasurer shall be Chairman of the Committee un
Finance. Each Chairman may call, if necessary, a meeting
of his own Committee, and report its action at the next mejet-
ina of the Board.
ARTICLE V.
The Executive Committee shall have charge of all matters
which pertain to the building and its fixtures, and to any al-
terations or repairs in the same ; shall provide all necessary
books, blanks, stationery and stamps for the use of the Libra-
rian ; and shall see that all regulations established by the
Board are enforced.
The Committee on Boobs shrill purchase all books, sub-
scribe for all periodicals, direct in relation to the binding of
books and their preparation for use ; shall, under instructions
from the Board, manage tile. exchange or sale of duplicates ;
shall decide what books shall be used as works of reference,
and how long, never more than two weeks,) each book in-
tended for general circulation may be retained by the taker ;
shall have full powers to accept or reject all gifts of books,
pamphlets or manuscripts, reporting to the Board all those
declined, with the reasons for not receiving them ; shall de-
terinine the arrangement of books, and shall make an annual
examination of the Library, and report its condition. The
Chairman shall at the regular meeting in February, present
for consideration by the Board his annual report, together
with the reports of the Treasurer and Librarian, and shall
superintend the printing of the same for general distribution.
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P.TrcLE. 1'I.
It slialll he the fluty of each Trustee to propose any book
or periodical which be deems suitable and desirablo for the
Library. And no book shall he purchased, :and no sllb crip-
tion shall be made for any periodical or nvNv..grll►et•, -without
permission from the Board.
ARTICLE ` 11.
The Committee on Fivanee shall examine all bills, and at
their 'discretion approve them. And no bill shall be paid
-,cithOIlt the assent and end(►rseuleut, of :at least two of the
C"on111lattce. At the refrular meethicy in I' cbruary. till' Treas-
urer shall place in the hands of file Chail•nWill his allnu:al re-
port, together with till e8tilllate ill detail (►t' the exhu uses for
the ensaiinn •car.
ARTICLE
Whenever the o.lice of Libr:lrian is vacant. it shall he filled
by an election In ballot, and the p( n-m thus ello I shall
rcceive such compensation :as the Board shall adjukhre tO lit,
proper avid reasonable.
ARTICLE. EX.
.
`File Lihi-arian Shall be c'har,c(1 %vith th(! inllue'diate S111wr-
vi;�ion of the Library and remliu;,-r()(,ln, :11111 th(,ir C(jnt(qlts,
aatd shall luv re,p(►msible f )r the gm)d ordtl,r of (lie taut( : ,trill
rc!rister all(] prepare for use, and :lrl'au:.re in a111row.i:at(. rla-
c►rs. ,all b(►(,ks, panlphlo.4 and p(-riodi(-al, receive(1 into Ill..
Library ; make Al 1•evwds : kccp as list (;t' :all bm,lis
c-:Illed f(►1•, au(1 not to be fi,uud in th(! Jjhl*:ar%', tO,k.tll(q' «�itll
tll(` laallics of tho-v .skull for thvnl ; hI'el)aI'(. ('at,IIU"Ut'"; W I I v I I
rctillired ; r4vnd aackllo led rluents of* all donations, exceptin;r
th()ge of In(►now ; tralnsmit. CoIMIS of va('ll Allllalal report, and of
H:Ich c:ataalogue and its suppielrlerlts tc► su-la tustitutiolls and in-
dividuals as are by courtesy entitled to them, ; do Within the
26 TRUSTEES REPORT.
rooms whatever may be necessary for the convet►ience
those who e•onle to the Library, either as visitors, as readers
or .is takers of looks ; and as the custodian of the propert
of the Lil,rary shall take the utmost st pains to preserve it all
save it from unueC(ISS.11-V deterioration. The Lil,rarian sh.11
also prepare an annual report, and plact. the same in th
hands of the Chairman at the regular mectim, in February.
ARTICLE X.
The Board nay at ally- time elect 1)y- ball()t an assistan
Librarian, who, holding office at the plc.-,l ore of the Trustees
and for such compeusatiou ,is shall be deemed sufficient, shall
perform whatever duties the Librarian or the Board may prc,
scribe.
ARTICLE XI.
The Library shall he open every day, excepting Smidays and
the ll,�ual holid.iys, and at such flours as the Board shall froni
tittle to time determine. The Cli.lir►u u1 sliall have authority
to s►ispend this rule, and prohibit the ►q)enin` of the Lilm-ary, .
upon any occasion of untlstlal interest ur importance. The
rule shall also be suspended, l)v of der of the Board, when-
ever Stich action may he necessary- to tac•ilitate either the an-
1111al examination, or any considerable change to be made in.
the Library.
ARTICLr, ZII.
Ever}- hersmi entitled to the iisw of• Ilia Library shall receive
from the Librari:m a printed cal d, which shrill be renewed
from time to time., «•ith the name and wimher of the sai► ,
person written thereon. -And is the t1111N- tug e of obtaining
any book that nia'y- be nautcd, this card must be presented
to the Lil_trariau or the assistant, with the catalomue number
of the desired 1►ook written dither on the card iu a blank
space arranged for the purpose, or ou a s►•parate slip of pa-
per. books returuc I must he delivered directly to the Li-
brarian or the assistant.
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ARTICLE 111I.
Berk: may be taken from the LihrarY by all resident
E Alults. A delivery neon the card of a resident Shall he con-
-idered It delivery- to him in person. A blank certificate
properly prep area. and signed by some Drell-known resident
adult, shrill testify that a person :jpplN-iufr firr a book, and not
known to the Librarian, is :also a resident adult.
ARTICLE XI`T.
Any minor, not less than -,ixteen Ve:ars of age, and resident
t in tu�rv, tuay:acquire the right of a i adult as a taker of hooks,
l,y filin` with the Librarian as certificate signed by a parent or
"Mardian of that minor, or some other responsible person,also
a resident, )ry which the signer shrill become responsible for the
e:lid minor to the same extent as he would he for himself. A
deposit of the hill value of the volume called for, or of the set
to which it belong•. Iuay take the place of such certificate.
AR•raCLE- XV.
.1.veiT person having the right: to tal.c� h:►oh�, shall, before
exF.rcising that right., sign Such ohli^ration ;a� the Trustees may
re(luire, and may then use the Library argon such comlitions
and with such restrictions as the Trustees may fi'()Iu tune to
time prescribe.
ARTICLE 1 V j,
No person shrill to take a hook from tho, Lihr:ary
who is aceountrable for a book not returned, or for an trn �;licl
tine or asePsaaneut. l;WTY 1)(1ok intended for gener:all rir-
raal:rti„n aural) he properly covered and mmnhered, 111(l hear
"p,om the outside a labo-19 stating the leng(la of time it m:r�• 1►e
kept, and the fines For retraining it longer. And every hook
of reference shall he plraiarly cl(.si;rnrate1l vas snch, and shall n:►t
be carried away from the I,ibrna��• without n written Pc�rmis;�ion
s)gu by two Trrjst�•e,m, rand then for no th:an two dra�•s.
28 TRUSTEES' DEPORT.
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The Librarian shall have, and is hereby• required to exercise a
a discretionry power, especially in the case of young persons i
as to withholdiaa� from free and unlimited use such books as,
from their value, rarity or character, are not altogether suit-
able for general circulation.
ARTICLE XVII.
One volume only can be taken at a time, and no nook can
be retaken until it is broworht back to the Library, and re-
entered ; and it shall not he retaken if, previous to its re-
turn, tlae Librarian has received :a written application for it,
when it shall be held one Aveek for such aphlicaut. If two or
more applicatimis have been received for the same book, it
shall be delivered without the privilege of renewal, to the
several applicants in the order of' their applications.
ARTICLE X` 1II.
The fines for retainincr books beyond the prescribed period, f
shall be as follows, namely- : Folio, 4 cents a day ; quarto,
3 cents ; octavo, 2 cents ; all. smaller books 1 cent ; and for
books dania(yed or lost, the actual loss sustained. There
shall also be :a special fine of one dollar :assessed aalx,n every
volume that is not returned at the time :appoiute(l by tlae
Trustees for the aunual exaniii)ation of the Library. But
this examination shall not be niade without basing duly noti-
fied at least four weeks beforehand.
..ARTICLE Z 1Z.
It shall be the duty of the Librarian to send for all books
which :are held two %veeks beyond the prescribed time. auad
at the expense of those to whoaaa they stand charged. Aud
if the books are not then de ivered, they shall be considered
as lost, and a demand sliall be made for the valaie of the
sanie, .and the fines which have :accrued.
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TRUSTEES 9 REPORT. 29
ARTICLE 1X.
The Reading Roam shrill be open at the same hours as the
Lil►r iry, to :ill persons who strictly observe such rules as the
Trustees may adopt for the regulation of the room ; which
rules shrill be conspicuously displayed upon placards. And
it shall be the duty of the Librarian for a time to refuse the
benefits of the Library and Reacting Room to all who persist
in abusing any property of the Libr:iry or ivlio violate the
common rules of civilit3, and hood order.
ARTICLE 11I.
The Librarian shall keep a record of all donations, except-
ing; those of money, and mention shall be made of theul in
the annual report of that officer. Each donation shall have
the name of the donor affixed to it.
ARTICLE X II.
All officers and privates, and :111 persons employed in all
departments of the U. S. Arsenal, who shall eomr ;miler the
t ►reZ5 m 1•e�itlatic,ns, shall be entitled to the privile,e, of
the Library.
ARTICLE 1�III.
Ever • non-resident contributor to the ori;inal filud I)
Which the Library was established, and any other non-resi-
dent who may mike either a contribution of a valrle not less
th:111 one hundred dollar39 or an annual payment of the sttm
of eight dolhirs, Rhall be entitled, to►�.;c-thc►r with his or her
111011iato t;ill�il3•, to the privile es of the Lilwary, in the same
junnner, "Pon the s:une eonditiotts as residc•nty of the
town.
A Ire Ic ix 11Ij'.
The }i,rre*c,iii� artirlv• 11my he revised and an�c ndc,l :is ti,l_
I''n's : Any .yrtic•le, With the rtmEndn�ent I►rc,I►,►., ►1 f►,r it. car
��+1y a(lditionail article, shall 1►c suhnriited tc► th, li,1a1d in
30 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
writing at, any regular meeting, ai►d shall reach discussior
and a rote at the next regular meeting. But no amendment or
addition shall be made without the assent of two-thirds of the
full Board.
THE READING ROOM.
As the purposes of the Reading Room are not social,
conversation is prohibited, and silence will be required of all
who enter the room.
:any person may obtain a book for use in the room, by
writing his or her name, together with the title and catalo(;ue
number of the desired book, upon a blank which will he fur-
Iiished for the purpose, and presenting the seine to the Libra-
rian at the deliver- window of the room. The person thus
obtaining a book will return it to the Librarian before heaving
the room, and, until it is rettime(l, will be held responible
fir it.
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AV ATERTOWN
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY .
THIRD SUPPLE"ENT TO CATALOGUE,
1373 _
TRUSTELS' REPORT.
W ATRRTOWN FREE. PUBLIC LIBRARY.
' List of Rooks adtletl t tiring the !leaf entlittg Feb. lath.
1Ri3. with Books of the last three 11ears at•r•ttttgetl tattler
stthferts, e:rcehtittg ,jttt'r'ttiles ttttirl works of fiction. tt'hit•h
are girpett. ottlll 7tttfler authors.
THE THIRD SGPPIJ;IICN F.
Abbott, Jacob. Gentle nleasnres in the mana-mment and training of
NN. . 1 °the young. :�. T.. 72 1�, ? . ..... ...... . ..... .. .. . .. . . . .f.lr'.
Ahhott, J. S. C. kings and queens. N. Y., 1855. 1_►'. . .. .. .. . . ;:':t 22
Adams, Ilannah. history of New England. 13., IA05, 11) "62 20
Adams, John. Works. B., 185G. 10 vols. k.... ..... . ... .. . .....417.:1-18
}' Adams, Jol►n. Life by Clias. F. Atlanls.... ...... ... . .... .... .... 417.9
Adams, W. 11. 11p., l:d. Every-day r+}�jectQ. Tdinl,urrh. hN;0. L2". 11133.12
Ligbthon:es and lightshil►Q. L., 1 N 7 41. it;. . ..... .... .... . 1
`131.17
Adams,William T., Olircr• Optic. [A second �vt (if his At ork�-.) B.,
1869-72. 160. (2 copies of each) :
Allinboard............. ..... 942.21.962.24 N,,w or never................ 9112.2i.
Bear and forbear............. 901.6 25 O... n tillss. ..-.......... 954.14. !►t;5 3
Bivonae and battle............ 945 6, To Our Ntantl:►nl-hr:rr,r.......... i'.'.'l.2. :4i:.--Y.
Bent eluh..................,,, 902.2:t.94'2'2n 11r t. ! ..
Brak••tip............... 9115,5. 24 Pat:u•o and rt.itnke........... PaLl,I]. 11
Drai a old salt................ 962.3.965 23 -
Iirenkiag I l:urrwutl pl:utk.............. 94.".'�, lr► .
away..... ......... 86S1.211:+44.11 Poor nn,l prowl..............
Crin;.-it -tree. .. ..
•and ertrss ... 94:1 1.;, 14 hrd eros«....................
DPsk and di-lift............... 94.'t.11. 12 Itiell will ht1m111+'............. 9n2 12. :'44 14
r
Dike- anti dttahr's............ 962.1o.9mriao The Kailar had 11t12.1. 'y." 1'1
Doan the Rldne........... . 965112. 13 Neek and find......,..... 9r221•94; 12
?)own the river............... 962.23,945.b Phamrtwk anti thistle ....., ts'2 , '
P5eh1 and forest............ �'
•. 9dS.7,g The t+vltiit•r bt►y.............. 962,4, `
IMOt'ng .toe................. 092.A,t 5,22 The Murryflag
Y're'4k+ of fortune...., ••• ..•.•.• 11r: 7�. !'aJ 11►
...... 96Y.1P,t►44.73 Btvltch off 9i.i.5,!►t�....I
Rana• and waste............. 962 1d. 944.19 Thmugh by daylight...
ng.pt•anti have....... �:,a! a':•........ tMt:.75,t�14.1a Try again........ ...........
In srhoul and out............ A2 IT. 944 15
1 •wtL Lightning e] tr m ....... ... ch and wait.............. W2 13. 941 4''11 4'
Litte by At9t25.4 6•,1*15. .2 Work and win...............
7^4... ..„a
Jtd,�l
............ The yankec ml,ltlMake ttr brak......... ...... 915.4 They y .........
gelant........ 1
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962 5, N',. -DipMortlt.,rn land*..... ......... 96.,.16, 17 t' thtr B
It attfc.... .......... 9G3.74, 1:. ,
Afrien. Barrie, W. C. Wild sports in southern ".Africa.... ....Taylor, Dayard .,�t;.1
. Travels in South Africa. . . ..
IRric ultare. Brill •• .... . . .... .112.14
geln:tn, Thomas. Young gardener'Q asmit•tant....
- Bujst, Robert. The family kitchen gttrticner.... .... . . .....
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Agriculture. Burr F. jr. Garden vegetables and hour to cultivate
them. ... .. . . .. .. . . .. . . . . . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. . . . . 933.18
1Varing, Geo. L. jr. The elen►ents of agriculture. ... . . .. .. 933.16'.
Report.,- monthly-- of the De partnlent of Agriculture,
Washington.. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. Iecadiny room table. �
See also Domestic animals and Horticulture.
Aiken, John. 'Men►oir by Luc} Aikeu. 2 vuls.. ..... . .. ... . ... ..733.17, 18•
Alcutt, A. Bronson. Concord days. B., P372. It;... . . . . . .. . ... .. 43 1.7 '
Alcott, L. M. Aunt Jo's ,crap bad;. Shawl ,traps.. .. . . .. . . . . .... 311.10 i
Alfred the great. Hughes, Thoinaa.. . . .. . ... . . . . .. . . .. .. .. .. .... 732.15 .
Alger, Horatio, jr. Strive and succeed. B., 1 S il. 1G°, cuts. .. .. J 1.5.11
Allen, L. F. American cattle. N. I-., 1868. 120. . .... .... . . . . .. 11133.14
Alps, IIours of exercise in the. Jolin Tyndall.. .. .. .. . . .. .. . ..... 933.1U
Atijerica, Discovery- and conquest of. Robertson, Win. .. .. .. .. .. .. 851.16
America and Asia. It. Pumpelly. .. . .... . . .. .. .. .. . ... .. .. . . .. .. 313.4 ,
American girl abroad. Adeline Trafton. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . ... .. .. 362.25
American notes. Charles Dickens. ... .. ... . .. .. . ... .. . . .. ....)72.7 a 26.5.10
Ames, Fisher. Works, with a selection from his speeches and corre-
spondence. B., 1854. 8 , 2 vols. in I. . . .. .. ... . .... . . .. .. 417.7
Life, by J. T. Kirkland. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . ... .. ... ... .. .. .. . . 417.7 -
Ames, Diary- C. A iueniorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary, with their
later poems. N. T., 1873. 12,, 2 portraits. . .... . ... .. .. .. 723.28
Amoor. Atkinson, Thos. W. Travels in the rcgtt io • of the upper
and lower Amoor.... . . . .. .. . . .... . . . . . .. .. .... .. . ... .. 357.6
Anatomy-. Lambert, T. S. Human anatomy. .. .. ... . . ... .. .. .... 933.19
Anderson, William, Col. Sketch of the mode of manufacturing gun-
powder. L., 1862. s-, 10 plates.. .. ... . . . . . . . . .... . ..... 92 7.18
Andes and the Amazon. Orton, J.ui►eq. . .. . . . . .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. 352.20
Andrews, J. N. Sermons on the Sabbath and law. Battle Creek,
Dlich., 1870. 16.. . . . .. .. . . .. .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. .. .. .. . . .. .. 523.15
Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining. Buck. Chas.... .... 545.6
Anglo-Saxon. :March, F. A. Comparative grammar of the Anglo-
SaxonIan«ua;;e. . .... .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. . . . . . . .. . ..... .. 446.1
Angus, Joseph. Christ our life. Phil., n. d. 12...... . ... .. . . .. .. 554.18
Annual Register. 1758-1783, with index to 17t�o. L., 1764-1785.
27 vols.. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 121.-
Antiquities of the Christian church. Bingham. J. 10 vol.. .... .. .. 862.6-17
Antiquities of Greece. Becker, `V. A. Charicles. Illustrations of
the private life of the ancient Greeks. . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. . ... . . 444.18
Putter, John. Arch.rolo�;ia Graca. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. .. .. .434.10.11
- Smith, Will. I>ictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities 141.12
See also Felton, C. C. Greece, ancient and n►odern.. .. ... . . 434.12
and Woodsworth, C. Greece; pictorial, descriptive and his-
torical . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . .. *146.11
Architecture. Caveler, William. Select specimens of Gothic archi-
tecture,-examples in England. . .. . . .. .. . .... .. .. .. .. .. .. *927.22
REA—Dl1RT. 35
Architecture. Davidson, E. A. Elements of building construction
and architectural drawing.. .. . ..... ...... . ... .. ...... .... . 141.16
— Gothic stone work. History and principles of church
architecture,etc...... .... .... . .. ... .... . ... .. .... .. .. .. . . 141.15
— I?a,�tlake, C. L. Hints on household taste ..... • ...•• . • •.•• '934.14
— — Feudal castles of France.... .... . ... .. .... .... . ..... .... 846.14
-- Lefi•vre. A. Wonders of arebitecture. . .... ...... .... .... . 931.18
— Liihke, W. rSce History of art.. . . . ..... . . . . .. .. .. . . .... . *146.10
--- Pug;in, A. and A. W. Examples of gothic architecture; from
ancient edifices in I:ng;land. ... .... .. .. . .. . . . .... .. .. ....*,127,19-21
Ru.,kin, John. Lectures on architecture and painting.... .... 444.9
— — Seven lamps of architecturee. ..... ...... .... .... .... .. .. 444.9
l — The stones of Venice'.. . .... .... . .. .. . ..... . ..... .... 446.6-8
— The study of architecture in our schools. . .. .... .. .. .... 444.13
Timbs, John. Abbeys, castles, anti ancient halls of En- land
andWales. .. .. ...... . ..... . ... . . ..... .. .. .. ...... .... .8.52.1R, 19
Art. Long,►. Sam'] P. Art. its lass and the reasons for them ...... 443.6
Liihke, Wilhelm. lii4tury of art. Illustrated by over six
hundred fine wood cuts. 2 vols.. . . . .... . . .... . . .... . .....*146,9,10
I
01mleOx.—Vol. I. Egyptian art. I'll(, art of 0-mral Asia. The art of Wt•Mem Asia.
Tl:,•art of I'.aatern Asia. Greek art. I.truscan art. I{otnnn art. H arly Chrit•tian art. The
art of IAlam. The Romancpgae style. Vol. 1I. The Gothic style. General eharacyerietice
of m lern art. Mod,rn :if hilecture. art of Italy in the l.'ith e•otmiry. The plautic
art f Italy in the With century. -Nort1wrn likmi, art i•I tit., l tth anti ItSth centuries. flue.
tic nrt Ili flit,17th aml 18th reuturit•N. Art in 11w 111th ct•rthlrit.
Art. Ruskin, John. Lectures on girt. tlxftml. 1S;i1.. . . .. .. .. .. .. 433.13
-- — Modvrn painters. 5 vol:t.... .. . . .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . 444.14)
— The political t•Cnliolily of art. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .... . ... . . 444.13
— Pre-Rallhnelit'sm . . . . .. . . .... 444.13
-- — ,I'11e lluccn mf the air, In im.,a stmly of the I;ruck myth of
clrnid and Sturm.. .... .... . .. . . . . . .... . .. .. . .. . .... .. .... 444.12
— The tet•n path"i; lecturcK on art and it,4 "ITlivation to dec-
orati-,n and ninnufalfitre. ... .. .. . . .. .... . . .... .... .... .. .. 444.1
Smith. lValter. Art education, •chola�,tic anti intlimrial. . .. .. 935 12
Art-, in•hi-triA. C'h,•f,- I%riit re tit' the irttlustrial art+. . . . .. . . . . . . .. 144.2
A-trt,l,t,,,11 till lilt illlll. .,. Il'!N• Ilenet'n�. An illit,trnted hantll,,wk
n iutl•uLtra�trtmt,nl� . . . . . . .. .. . . .
— 54ilnt•r. '1'ho�. Rnt1 . . ..... . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . 144.3
1'e'le'rnitinn, A. Descriptivi' 4t1:1• I,t*asilull-
MO*1', I t!•... . l
�.— �lllllt•r. l�lu,�. �� tliidery f a ... .... ... ...... . . . . . . . . . . . . �:'`-
o �tronomy. . .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
aerolitco, nncl fi►Ilitiv stars. . . . . . . ..
't:;2.8
1'rnit ht t. K .1. Tllc Imirerser; or, the infinite!} Cry•;It anti
the inHnitt•I� little..
•14,; t;
I'rllrt r,r, it. ,♦r, •l•ht alit• arttl:ntl IU: t.l llllllllr vsi•av'z alt•Ill,
nlunll ililrl ltlallt'I,, nis-It nrs and t`nlllt '�'
pair. r . .. .. .. .. . the• sill, anti ct,lt,retl
,t'p . . .... . . .... .. .. . . .. . . .. . . .. .. . . . . . .
36 TRUSTEES I;EPORT.
.Astronomy. Proctor, It. A. Other worlds than ours.. . . .... ...... 953.6
Athenaeum journal of literature, science and line arts. ..... .... .... 427.5-10
Athens and the btorea,Reminiscences of. Herbert, H. J... .... .... 312.9 .
Athens . its rise and fall ; with views of the literature, philosophy, and
social life of the people. By Bulwer-Lytton, E. (G. E. L.).. 852.22
Austen, Jane. Leigh, J. E. Austen. Memoir. L., 1870. 8'. 272.20, 73.1.11
Austria, The empire of; its rise and power. J. S. C. Abbott....... 763.21
Autumnal catarrh (hay fever.) ;Morrill Wyman. .... .. .. . . .. ...... 955.11 .
Azealiu, 31. Tapparelli d', Recollections of. 2 vuls. .... .. .. ......734.15, 16
Backlog studies. Warner, C. D. .... .... . . .. .. .... . . .... .... .... 431.11
Baile, J. Wonders of electricity. N. Y.9 1872. 12°, pl. and cuts.- 933.13
Bailey, S. W. homage of eminent persons to the book. N. I.,
1869, '71. 180. (2 cop.).. .. .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. ....554.19. 21
Ballantyne, R. M. The Norsemen in the West; or, America before
Columbus. Lon., and N. T., 1872. 1619 cuts...... .... .... 96F.2
Balloons. Wonderful balloon ascents. Marion, F. . ..... . . . , 931.10
Ballou, M. M. Treasury of thought. A n encyclopardia of quotations.
Boston, 1872. 80. ... .. ... . .... . . .. .... .... ..... . .... .... 136.4
Baptists. History of the Baptists of New England. Backus, I..... 527.2, 3
- The Madison avenue lectures.. .. . ... .. .... .. .. .... .... .... 554.17
- Infant baptism an invention of men. Chase, John. . .... .... 554.20
Bates, Joseph. Autobiography of Elder Jos,ph Bates. Advent
movement of 1840-44. Battle Creek, Mich., 1;468. 162. .... 523.13
Bates, Wm. C. The stars and stripes in Rebeldum. B., '62. 1f 431.10
Battle of the books. Dodge, Abigail. . ..... .... .... 0..... .... .... 432.6
Baxter, Richard, Life and times of. Orme, Win....... . . . ... . . .... 545.2, 3
Beecher, Edward. The papal conspiracy exposed and Protestantism
defended. Boston, 1855. 121. .... . . .. . . . ... I. ...... . ..... 524.7
Beecher, H. W. Life of Christ... . .. .. .... .. .. . . .. .. .... .... .... 526.1
- Yale lectures on preaching. N. T., 1872. 12... . ..... .... .. 524.9
Bell, II. G. Life of Mary Queen of Scots. N. 1" '55. 2 viols. 1.8c. 721.:39, 40
Bertram, J. G. The harvest of the sea. L., 169. 80% 49 plates.. .. 144.4
Bewick, Thos. Select fables of .Esop, and others. Lon., n. d. 16' 27 2.27
Bible. Translation of the New 'Testament. Wakefield, G..... .. .. .543.15
- An apology fur. Achlre�seil to Thor. Paine. Watson, R. .. .. 522.24
-- Bards of. Gilfillan, George. . .. .. .. . . .. .. . .... . . . .. .. .... 5.54.6
- Homage of eminent persons to the hook. Bailey, S. W.. ...554.19. 21
- music. Jacox, Francis. . . . .. .. .... . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . .. .. 534.9
- New Testament history. Student series. Smith, Wm.. . •. .. 1063.2
- Old Testament history. Student series. Smith, Win. .. .. .. 100.1
-- A manual of biblical literature. Strickland, W. P.. .. . . .. .. 524.1
Biography. Allibone, S. it. Dictionary of British and American
authors. 3 vols. ... . . .. . . .... .... .. . *135.1-5 ,
TRUSTEES' REPORT. 37
Biography. Chambers, Win. and Robert. Historical and literary
celebrities. ..... ...... .. ......... ...... ........... . ..... .. 722.32
Child, L. 31. jlarried women; biographies of good wives... 272.19
Creasy, E. S. Memories of eminent Etonians...... .. . .... 737.1
Grant, J. The metropolitan (London) pulpit.. ..... .... .... ;I6.25
Griswold, R. G. Prose writers of America. ... .. ...... .... 146.13
Lives of distinguished shoemakers. . ....... .... .... .. .. .... 722.31
LongfOlow. II. W. Poets and poetry of Europe.... ....... 146.12
Redding. C. Perrom.I reminiscences of eminent men--.. . 733.25-27
Smith, «'m. Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography.. - *141.7-9
Trotter, L. J. Studies in biography........... .... ...... .. /35.1+1
Tuckerman, I1. T. American artist life... . . ..... .... .... . 43 6.1
Wilberforce, S. Heroes of IIebrew history.... ...... ...... 734.20
For biographies of particalarhersons. scc the names of the persons, or the
names of the authors.
Biology, the principles of. Spencer, Herbert.... .. .. .. .... .... ..444.1G, 17 "
Blake, Wen. A critical essay. Swinburne, A. C. ..... ..... .... .... 734.14
Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the families and descendants of the
early settlers of Watertown. with the early history of the town.
B., 1R55. 8*, 10 plates and 2 nmap-t. ... .... . .... .. .. . ..... . *144.5
— The same. (For general cirri,latirm) . . .. .. . . ..... .... r,17.13
Books and reading; or, what books shali 1 rrall, and horn-e-Imll I read
them. Porter, oalt...... ... . .. . " .A
Boone, Anna B. The increase of crime and its cause ... .. . . . . .... 7:.1;,1
Borgia,Luerezia,duchess of Ferrara. A biography. Gilhert.Win. I t . 7:1::-2::, _1
Boston. Drake,"S. G. History and antiquities of Iiostmi. from its
settlement in 1630, to 1770. Illustrated with maps, plates anti
cuts ...... ...... ... -
Drake, S. A. Old landmarks anti historic personages of
Boston . ... .. .... ....
Lyman, 1'. 3d. Papers relating to tile•garrison•mob ...... .. N.)_,t
Shurtleff, N. B. A topographical and historical description of
Boston .... .... .... .. . ...... . .....
13imonds, Thom. C. History of South Roston..... . .... .... .
Quincy, Josiah. Ili%tort' of the Boston Athenamin. .... . ... . ,.1
Report of the ("(whituate water board for 1870... ,.... . .., . At. z'-I
Reports and bulletins of Public Library. ...... . .
B'n getaltle life
atly. Reatltiv,t anti wonders of ve .....
...... .... . . ;+;;�,,;�
Ilibherd, Shirley. The fern garden. How to keep, make,
enjoy it............. ......
Lindlry. .John. Ladies' lwtany; It familiar introduction to the
nutnral syRtrm. 2 vols, fiOPlatee......... ...
H. A. The vegetahlo kingdom. See the i'nivvrse.
(pp. 361-612).... ......... .... .... .... ... . .. .. ...... . .....
... ..... ... .... ....
38 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Botany, Pratt, Anne. The flowering plants and fernQ of Great Britain,
G Yols. 313 colored plates . .. .... . . .... .. .. . . .... . . .... *1I3.13-19 '
ITseful plants adapted for the food of man.. .. .. .. .... .... .. 931.12 .
Walter in the woods, or, trees and cornnlon objects of the
forest described and illustrated.... . .. .... .... .. .. .... .... 931.11
Bowen, Francis. Principle of political economy. B., 1859. 80.. .. 10.55.11
Boynton, C. B. History of the nav Burin, the rebellion. A. Y.,
141;7. 2 vols, 3GYplates. . .. . . . ... .. .. . . .. .. . . . ... . ..... .. . 1065.3. 4
Brace, C. L. The new West; or California in 186 7-G8.... . .. .. .. 312.13
Bradlee, Join E. Pocket guide to the White Alounta,ins. B., 1862.
18_', tllaps. .. . .. . . . . . . .. .. .. .... . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . .... . 311.11
Bricklayers. See Drawing for bricklayers. Davidson, E. A.... ...
Bridi;enlan, T. Young gardener's assistant. \. Y., n. d. 80. ..... 935.8
Britain, A political survey of. [1774.] 2 vols. . .. .. .. . ... . . .... . 857.2, 3
Brougham, IIenry, lortl. Discourse of natural theology. L., 1835. 554.9
Life and tinuvs of, written by himself. N. Y.. 1871,3 vols. 121 735.19-21
See Historical and literary celebrities. Chambers. W. & It.. 722.32
Bryant, Win. Cullen. Odyssey of Homer. Trau,lation. B., 1871.
2 vols., 81-. . .. . ... ... . .. . .. .. . ... .. .... . ..... . ... .. .. . . 766.6. 7
Bui,t, It. The family kitchen gardener. N. Y., n. d. 120.. .. .... . 933.17
Bulwer-Lytton, (E.) It. Chien ffercdith. Poems. B., IS'18, '72.
1607 5 vols. . . . . . . . .... .. .. . . .... .. .. .. .. .. . . .... .. .. ...
.742 26-30 ?
Banyan, John. Complete work;. Edited with noes, etc., by Henry
Stebbins. L. & IT. Y.. n d. 4 vo ls. i'` Stt�vl plates and cuts. *537.1-4
Co9Lbnb?. Vol. ], Memoir, Grace abounding, Gospel trut:,s opened. Sighs from hell. Law
and,,race, Prayer, The holy city, Resurrection of the de:ul, Dill,rence t in judgment abou t
waterbapt.6m no bar to communion,etc;Vol.3,Pilgrim'rs progress, Saved by grace, Christian
behavior, Come and welcome, The barren ti,-tree,Seasonable counoll,The fear of God, etc;
Vol. 3, Holy war,Of Jesus Christ. The greatness of the Ponl. Solomon's temple spiritualized,
etc; Vol. 4, Life and death of Mr. Badman, The unsearebable riches of Christ, the house of
forest of Lebanon, Poetical worke, Emblems, etc.
I3urnand. F. C. Aly health. B., 1872, 1G-). . . . .... . .... .. .. . . .... 271.26
Burr, F. jr. Garden vegetables. B., 1813 . 12' cuts. ... ... .... 933.IS
Byron, G. G. N. lord. Works. (Vol. l wanting.) Phil., 1843.
3 vols., 12- . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . . .. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. . ..... .... . . .. 744.4, 5
rontent.s. Vol. 1, :Uanfrril, Hebrew L.unent of Tasso, Shorter perms, tide on
Venice, The prophecy of Dante, Cain, Nfarino Falicro, Sardanapalus, The two Foseari;
Vol.2,«Verner, The deformed transformed, 1Ienvrn and earth, The ishand, Hours of idleness
Translations and imitations, Fugitive pieces,English bards and.Scotch reviewers,Occasional
pieces, etc.
California. Brace, C. L. The new West; or, California in 1967-186ti 312.13
\ordht►fI', Charles. C'alif. : for health, pleasure and residence 316.9
Campbell, John. A political survey of Britain. L., 1774. _' vols., 4° 857.2. 3
('.aulplhell, Thus. See Chambers, `V. & It. Hist. and lit. celebrities 722.32
Canada, TravL is in. Doll, .1. (a... .. .. .. . ..... . ... ..... . . . . ..
Cagle Cull cvntunnial celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 15$.1.... .. .. 866.13
TRUSTEES' REPORT. 3:1
Cappe, Catharine, Memoir of. Written by herqrlf. ... .. . ..... .... 545.11
Carleton. See Coffin, C. C.
CarovC. The story without an end. N. Y., 1872. 18C ... • .•.••• 1166.1
Carpenters and joiners, Drawi,tg for. Davidson, E. A. .. .. .... .... 1.11.11
C'.ctaloglics. Mercantile library, -N'VW York. Second supplc•ruent.. . 115.10
Public libraries. Brig liton. 111dinvy, Rre. F. :1. Secant]
catalogue of the Holton Library. is72 1
— Cincinnati, U. Poole, Win. F. 1871 .. ... .. . ..... .... . 10511.2
— \ledfurd. 184 1 . . .. .. . . ... . . ..... . . .... .... .... 1t':,S.2
— Netrton. ...... . ..... . . .. .. .... .... . . . .... . ... .
— Saint Louis. Bailey,J.J. Catalo ue, cla-�silied and alpha-
betic•al, of the Public School library. . .. . ... . . . . . . . . .. .. . ... 105 G.I
Quaritch, Bernard. A g nund vatalupue of books arr.:n�-od
inclasses .... . ..... . ..... . ... .. . . .... . . .. .. ... .. . . . . . . . 145.7
Cary, Alice and Phwbc. A memorial, with :,unit: of their later pocuis -:;:i _S
Catharine I1. (of Russia) Lite of.. .. .. .... . . .. .. . ... .. . . . . .. . ... " ,I
Caceler, 1Cna. Select .-pvcimuns of Gothic architecture. L., 18:39,
4°, 80 plates..... .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. .... ... . *n_';._,_►
Central America. S:Iu1er. E_ t;. . . .... . .. . . . . . . . .. .. . . .. .. . . . ... 316.2
C.•ylun, rears wanderings in. 11al:er. S. 11'. 2 cop.. ..353.4 & 351.15
Chambers, lxnawrt. 'Mcwoir. by 11•illi,ttu (_'hantl,.,r.,. .. . . .. . . . . . . .. ;:;a.ft)
Chambers. 11'w. and It. Hisimie,tl an,l life retry c, I, Ini:i�s. l�. arnl
1?dinh.. 1871. L-0 ....... .... .. . . . . 722 :1.2
CI•ntr"Lot.—Riogr:►phicul tilcrtnc(•a„f\:ip„1< Lout• Philippe. Th,• Nike of W. Ili, tton,
Sir Rs,hert feel. 1.nn1 Itrnugham. Thntnri. lT,•,r, . Will. lVio•.l-a•orth. Thomax CampIb� H.
Trnucie.lcffnt,I)►nhll),-1711,•-c•.,:,fnriw. Pi.•t•to. 11,•}ne. R-11:0i •,,,k, and itorueu.�\'a l,-
iawlon and him rnnh•,up„raricw, t'runw,•It
D11111'v Wortley I►tunta);u.
Chaplin, J. Duncan Dimbar. Th,' rc,-t,rd ,►f• an earneQt ministry.
N. T., l.sc.;. 12 port..... . . .. .. .. . . . ..... .... .. ....
Life• of Ilenry Dunster. B 1`t" '. 1 t' . . ... ^._'._'1
, .. .. .... .. .. .*12 17
Ch:rracter, Elc•rnents of. Chandler, Miry (.:.. ... .. .... .... -
Chnrl►•s, Eli/. NI-41. The Drmytons and the Dawnrnt. . . . .... .�.
.. a 1~
The %ietory of the vangui.-lied. ..... .... •••.. . ••. . 7 ^`,
Charles L, lliptnrival notices of events in tilt,- • . . . . .reign of. . . .. .. . ... .. 1(tt' 4.a. 4
Charleit Nil.. if Sweden, Ilistory of. `"oltaire, 1•'. 11. A. de. ,. .. ..
Chas,•, 1. Infant lur ,tip 1.1I
I ur an invention of nr:ua. . .. .. .. -
C'hentirllry. 1lus ►raft. �. .. .... . . .. .. �;�•1 :.'t-1
f Chcruiat.�•, lheoretival. praetie:tl. an,l :)na-
lylical, ris .Jpllb4 d Nnl relatin;x to ilir arts and nr,tr►nfa,'tureg.
L. and E,linh., 2 voL., 4 I,Iaies ;ntd o%er l lih: * .�
If„aco,•, li. 1:. Svi�.,,c►. I,rin ` ut•. .. .. l'�;.l. _
tors. 12 1.34
Sput-truer anH1%,%im, 1111istratoll . .. .
chc•Ilen, 11. �vpcctrum anaiy-i4 in its npphenlion to terre•tri :.l 113.4
"uhrinnveA,and the phc•it•;il r<,nrtitution of the•hrn ertl v
With numerous ko,klrnat4, enlored pltttc•a, and Aw-�it„nt'•• ::n:l
Kirchhnf a naps. .... . .
40 TRUSTEES 9 REPORT.
China. Baron Gros's embassyto China&Japan, 1857.'58. Moges,M.de 311.6 �
Chinese classics. Legg, James.. .. .... . . .. ... . .... .. .. . . .... ... . 525.13
Choate, Rufus. Life. Brown, S. G... .. .... .. .. .. .. .... .... .... 734.9
Christ. .Xngus, Joseph. Christ our life : in ori!,in, law and end.... 554.18
Beecher, Il. W. Life of Jesus Christ. .... .... .... . ... ... 52G.1
Ilanna, Will. The Life of Christ. .... .... . . .. .. ...... .... 536.2
Hovey, Alvah. God with us, or,the person and work of Christ .524.8
Liddon, H. P. The divinity of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ. Oxford lectures.. . ... ***' **** *... *
ectures.. .... .. .. .... . ... .... .... .... .... 534.10
Schaff, Philip. The person of Christ . . . .. . . .... . ... .. .... 523.16
Christian ethics. The law of love and lore as law. Hopkins, At. .. 534.7
Clapp, Al. E. Portrait of a Christian : a memoir of. Robbins, C... 554.3
Civilization, Curiosities of. Wynter. Andrew. . . . .... . .. .. .... .... 433.`2
Clement, Clara E. A simple story of what one of your lady friends
saw in the East. B., t..... .. .. . ..... . . .... . ..... ...... .... 315.10
Clemens, S. L. lZoughing it. Hartford, 1872. 8", 300 cuts. . . .. .. 316.7
Cobden chub. Essays. 2d series, 1.871, '7 2. L. & N. Y., 1872. 80. . 436.9 ;
Coffin, C. C. I11y days and nights on the battle-field. B., 1,�64. 16',
cuts. . . . .. .. .. . .. .. . ... .. . ..... .... .... . . .. .. .... . . .... 311.7
Coleridge, S. T. Shairp, J. C. See Studies in poetry and philosophy 40"1.8
Collyer, Robert. The life that now is. B., 1872. 16°, port. . . .... 332.10
Columbus, C. Student's life of Christopher Columbus, condensed.
Irving, Washington . . .... . . .. .. . . .... . . ... ...... .... .... 734.18
Concord days. Alcott, A. Bronson. . .... .. .. .. . ... .. .. .... . . .... 431.7
Confessions of an elderly lady. Gardiner, At. .... ... . .•.. .... .... 415.19
Confucius. Chambers, R. & W. See Ilist. &: lit. celebrities . ...... 722.32
Conversion of the northern nations. :11erivale, Chas.. . ..... . ..... 836.9
Conversion of the Roman empire. Wrivale, Chas.. .... .... .. .... 836.10
Cooking. The young housekeeper's friend. Cornelius, Al. H....... 933.9
Coolidge, Susan. `That Katy did. B., 1-73. 16, cuts. .. .. ...... 271.30
Coquercl, Athanase, .;r. Fine arts in Italy in their religious aspect.
L.. 1859. 16'. . .... .... . . .. .. .. .. .. . ... .. . . .... . ... .. .... 442.11
Corals and coral islands. Dana. J. D.. . ..... .... .... .. .. .. .. .... 136.3
Cornelius, Mary 11. The young housekeeper's friend . .. ... .. .. .... 9.33.9
Costume in England; a history of dress from the earliest period.
Fairholt, F. W. . . . . .. . ... .. . . .. . . .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .... .... 852.16
Cowper, William. Life. Southey, It.. . . .. .. . . .. .... .. .. .... .... 551.29
Craik, D. (Al.) AT. The adventures of a Brownie, as told to my
child. N. Y., 1872. IS, , ruts.. .. .. .. . . . . .... .... .... .... 951.34
Ilannah. N. Y., 1 S 7_'. IG. 27 3.33
Is it true: N. Y., 1872. 1l: . . . .. . . . .. .. . ..... . ... .. .... 945 15
Little Sunshine's holiday. N. Y., 1872. 16. . ..... .. .. .. .. 945.13
Dlistress and maid. N. Y., 1872. 1G- .. .. .. .. . . .... . ..... 2742.25
Twenty years ago. N. Y., 1872. 16J, cuts . .. .. . ..... .... 945.16
Craik, Georgiana M. The cousin from India. N. Y., 1,872. 16c, cuts 945.14
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Cramp, J. '.1i. Baptist history. Phil., n. d. 12........ ...... .... 554.14
Cranmer. Life of archbishop. Le Bas, Chas. W. .... .... .... •.•552.26, 27
Creasy, Edward S. Memoirs of eminent Etonians. L., 1850. 80.. 737.1
Criticism. Dallas, E. S. The gay science. .... ...... .....• .••••• 435-5. 6
Cromwell, Oliver, and his contemporaries. Chambers, W. & It... .. 722.32
Cromwell, 0., Life of. Lamartine, A. dr..... .... ...... ...... .... 721.41
- Russell, bf. ...... ...... . .. .. .... .... . . .. .... .... ....731.9, 10
Cruelty to animals. $tyles, John. The animal creation : its claims
onour humanity. .... . ..... ..... . .... .. . ..... ...... . ... .. 934.7
Crime, The increase of, and its cause. Boone, Anna B. ..... . ..... 756.4
Cruise of the North Star; 31r. `'anderbilt's excursion to Europe.... 312.3
Cuml,erland, Richard, Memoirs of, written by himself. Phil., 80... 726.17
i Cumming, R. G. Five years of a hunter's life in S. Africa, 365.21, 22.313.7, 8
Cyclopwdia of useful arts and manufactures. Tomlinson, C.... .... *146.7, 8
See also Dictionaries.
Dana, James Dwight. Corals and coral islands. N. Y., 1872. 80,
maps, plates and cuts... .... ...... .. .... .. .... .... .. . ..... 136.3
Dante, Alighieri. Divine comedy. Translated by 11. W. Longfellow.
B.. 1871. 3 vols., IV. .... ...... .... . . .... .... . . .... ....742.2'0-22
Davidson. Ellis A. Drawing for bricklayers. L., 1'. & N. Y., n. d.
161, 34 plates...... ...... . . .. .. . ..... .... .... . . .... . . . ... 141.12
Drawing for carpenters and joiners. L. & N. Y., (1871.)
160, 254) fig.......... ... . ..... ...... .. .... ...... .... .... 141.11
- Drawing for machinists and engineers. L. & N. Y., n. d.
16(', 46 pl........ ...... .... .... .... . ... .. ...... .... ...... 141.14
- Drawing for stonemasons. L., P. & N. Y., n. d. 16 . 31 pl. 141.13
- h lenlents of building construction and architectural drawing.
L. & N. Y., n. d. 16.. ..... .... .... .... .... .... ...... .... 141.16
- Elements of practical Perspective. INT. Y. & L. (1872.) 160,
36 pl.. .. .... .... .... .... ...... . ..... .... .... .... .... 141.10
- Gothic stonework. L., P. & N. Y., n. d. 160, 25 pl........ 141.15
- Linear drawing. L. & N. Y., 1872. 163...... .... .... .. .. 141.8
- Orthographic and isometrical projection. L. & X. Y., n. d.
16', 43 pl...... .... .... 141.3
Davidson, L. M., Biography of. •Sedgwick, C. M..... .. . . .... ....
I)ehatable land between this world and the next. Owen, It. I).. ....
DeFoe, Daniel. Chambers, W* & It. .S'cr Ifist. Rnd lit. celebrities. 72?.32
Devrient, Eduard. All revollectiona of Felix Afendelssohn Bartholdy,
and his letters to me. L., 1 mo. 12'.. .. .
Dewdrops of the l9th century. S 7?
mith. 4eba . ..... .. 432.S
Dew"o, Mary A. Life and letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick.'
8Alsclame,.nre.(iuiaot. .�... .,.. .... .. .. . . . . .. . . . . .. .. .. 7°3..'i
DeWitt,
French muntr-%• family. ti. T.,
1 t3G8. 120.... ...... .... .... ...... ...... .... .... .... .•.• 273.12
42 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Dialogues of Plato. Translated by Jowett, B.. ..... .. .. . ... .. .... 10.4.1-4
A diary in the East. Russell, W. H.... .. .. .... . ... .. . . . . .. . ..... 315.6
Dickens, Charles. See Fields, Jas. T. Yesterdays with authors.... 445.3
- Forster, John. Life. . .... .. .... . ... . . .... . ... . . .. .. .. ..725.25, 26
Dictionaries. Allihone, S. Austin. A critical dictionary of English *
literature and British and American authors. 3 vols..... .... *135.1-3
- Ballou, M. M. Dictionary of quotations. .... .. .. .... . . .... 136.4
Brewer, E. C. Dictionary of phrase and fable.. .... .. .. .... 142.1
Cates, Win. L. R. Dictionary of general biography. .. .. .... *152.6
Smith, Wm. Dictionary- of Greek and Roman Antiquities. . . *141.12
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and smythology. *141.7-9
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography.. . ..... . . ..*141.10, 11
Wheeler, W. A. Dictionary of noted names of fiction. . . . . .. 151.12
- Dictionary of polite literature. . . .. . . .... . . .. .. .... .. .. .. .. 141.6, 7
Dikes and ditches. Adams, W. T. (2 cop.).. . . . . . . . . .. .. ..962.10 s 965.10
Directories. Newton, 1868. Drew, C. C. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. 846.1
- Waltham and Watertown (1869.) Greenough, W. A. jr. . . .. 846.2
Divine comedy, Dante's, 'Translation of. Longfellow, H. W.. . ....742,20-22
Divine tragedy. Longfellow, H. W.. . . .. . . .. . . . . .. .... . . . . .. .... 765.19
Doddridge, Philip, Memoir of. Orton, J... . . . . . .. . ..... .... ...... 54226
Domestic Animals. Allen, Lewis F. American cattle : their History,
breeding and management. . .... .. .... . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . .... 933.14
- Youatt, Wm. The horse. With a treatise on draught. .... . 1135.11
- Domesticated trout. How to breed and grow them. Stone,
Livingston. .. .. .. . ... .. ... . .... .. .. .. . . . . . . . .... .. .. .... 931.2E
Drake, Samuel Adams. Old landmarks and historic personages of
Boston. Boston, 1773. 120, 92 cuts. .... . . . . .. .... 312.17
Drawing. Davidson, E. A. Elements of building construction and
architectural drawing. . . .. .. . . • . .. . . .. .. .. . ... .. .. .. . . .... 141.16
- - Linear drawing, application of geometry to trade and man-
ufacturers . . . .. .. . . .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. . . .... .. . . .. .. 141.8
- - Orthographic and isometrical projection, development of
surfaces, and penetration of solids. . . .. .. . . .. .. . ... .. ...... 141.2
- - Drawing for carpenters and joiners. . ..... . . .... .. .. .... 141.11
- - Drawing for bricklayers. . . .. . . .... .. .. . ... .. .... . ... .. 141.12
- - Drawing for machinists and engineers. ..... . . . .. . . . . .. 141.14
- - Elements of practical perspective. .... .... . . .. . . . . . . . ... 141.10
- - Drawing for stone masons. . .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . ..... 141.13
- Ruskin, John. Elements of drawing. . .... . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 444.14
- - Elements of perspective; for schools.. . . .... . . . . .. . . .... 444.14
Dudley, Dean, piih. Boston business directory for 1865.. . . .. .. .... 851.18
Dunbar, Duncan. The record of an earnest �ininistry Chaplin, J. 732.21
Dunlop, J. History of fiction. London, 1845. 8.. . .. .. .. ...• •••• 417.8
Dunster, Henry. Life of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard
College. Chaplin, J.. ... . . . ... .. .. .. . . .. . ... .. ...... .... 732.17
t'
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Dupur, A. E. Hiss. The conspirator. N. Y., 1857. 120•• •••• •••• 272 31
Dusenberr. B. 31. Monument to the memory of General Andrew
Jackson. Nashua, 1846. 120. ...... ..... ••• ••• •-•• •••••• 722.30
Eastern pilg,;rims; the travels of three ladies. Smith, Agnes.••• •••• 316.8
Ea<tlake, C. L. Dints on household taste. Edited by Charles C.
Perkins. B., 1872. 80, plates and cuts. ..•• . ••••• •••••• •• 934.14
EasUnan,S.C. White Mountain guide book. Concord and B., 1870.
160, 2 maps, cuts...... ...... ...... .. .. .. .... ...... ...... 351.16
Eaton, John, jr. Report of the commissioner of education. [2d
report, 1871.] Wash., 1872. 80.. .. . ..... .... ...... ...... 566.1
Edinburgh Review. 1802-1828. 28 vols.... .. ...... .... ......126.-127.-
Edinburgh, Traditions of. Chambers R...... . .... . ..... ...... .. 852.20
Education. Abbott, Jacob. Gentle measures in the management and
training of the young...... ... .... .. .. . . . . .... . . .. .. . . .... 563.16
Bible in the public schools. Case, opinions, and decisions of
the superior court of Cincinnati.... . ..... .. .. . ..... .... .. . 565.2
Burnap, Geo. W. Lectures to young men. ...... .... ...... 546.24)
- Clark, R. W. The bible and the school fund. B., '70. 160. 561.1
Eaton, J. jr. Report of the commissioner of education for
- the year 1871...... .... . •. . .... . ..... . . .. .. ...... 566.1
Lewis, llio. Our girls. ... .. .... .. .. ... .. .... .... .... . 943.6
- Afore, HHnnah. strictures on the modern system of female
education. . .... ....... ...... .. .. . .. .. .. .. . ..... ...... .... r)42.13
- Ruskin, J. Study of architecture in our schools.... .. .... . 444.13
Smith, W. Art education, scholastic and industrial.... .... . 935.12
- Whitman, J. Young man's assistant in self-cultivation...... 552.30
- Reports of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 15th to 35th,
inclusive, except the 24th and 26th. . ..... .... .... .... .. .. ..
[.1 ny person having these two numbers, or earlier numbers than the 15th
will confer a great faror by sending them to the Library.]
Edwards, .Mrs. A. Ii. Philip Earnscliffe. N. Y., 1873. 8'--). ........ 274.5
Edwards, H. S. Life of Rossini. L., 1869. 80, Port..... .... .... 736.13
Eggleston, E. The end of the world. N. Y., (1872.) 12.... . . .. .. 273.16
- The Hoosier gchoolmaRter. N. Y., (1R72.) 120. 29 cuts.. 272.29
Egypt. Harman, if. Ai. A journey to Fgypt and the Holy Land. .. 313.12
- Hapley, H. i'nder Egyptian palm¢. . ..... .... . . .... . . . . . 812.1
Electricity, Wonders nf. Aaile, ,i.... .... . ..... . *'* ** .... .. . 983.13
Eliot, ,John. Memoirs of the life and character. Moore, Af.. .. .... 553,85
Elli"tt, F. See Hilt. and lit. celebrities. Chamhera, W. and 11.. .. • 722.82
EnKineerR. See Drawing.... .... . ..... . ..... . . . ..
England. Burnet, " "" •• • • • • •• 141.14
Gilbert. lii•tory of his own time. (16�4a-17 1"%. IQ57.1
i - Fairholt, F. W. Costume in FnKland. . ..... .... . . .... .. ..
S 52.16
j - Henry, Robert. Iliat. of Grnat Brit. froiu the time of CirQar, 84C.4-15
- Ilcde, E., Earl of Clarendon. Ilietory of the rebellion and
civil wars in England.... .. . . .... ...... .... . . .. .. .. .. .. ......
IF
44 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
England. Martineau, Harriet. History of the peace. 1816-54. ..863.17-20
Timbs, John. Abbeys, castles, and ancient halls of England
andWales. . . . .. .. .. .. .... . ... .. .. .. . ... .. . ..... . .....852.18, 19
- Ancestral stories and traditions of great families. Illustra-.
tiff e of English history.... .. .. ...... .. .. . . .. .. . ..... . .. ... 852.17
- Turner, S. History of the Anglo-Saxons. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . ..867.8-10
See also Britain, Great Britain, Geography.
English literature. Allibone, S. A. Dictionary of English literature
and British and American authors. . . . .. .. . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . *135.1-3
- Griswold, R. W. Prose writers of America.. .. . . . . . . . .. . .. *146.13
- Longfellow, H. W. Poets and poetry of Europe...... . . . .. 146.12
- Taine, H. A. History of English literature. .... .. . . . . .. .. 436.7, 8
- Underwood, F. H. Handbook of English literature. Vol. 1.
American authors. Vol. 2. British authors. . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. 445.1, 2
--- Yonge, Charles D. Three centuries of English literature. . .. 442.12
Entomology. See Insects. Packard, A. S. Guide, etc.
Epitaphs. Harris, W. T. Epitaphs from the old burying-ground in
Watertown . . .. .. . . .. . : . . .. .. .. .... . . .. .. . . .. .. . . .... .... 1065.1
0
Eulogies of Jackson, Andrew. Bancroft, George ; Dallas, G. M. ;
Butler, B. F. ; Woodbury, Levi; and others.. . . . . . . .. . . .••• 7 22.30
Europe. Froissart, J. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and
adjoining countries. ... . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . . .... . .... .... . . .. . . 867.4, 6
Guizot, F. P. G. History of civilization f-om the fall of the
Roman empire to the French revolution. . •. .... . ... .. . ... . .862'.2'1-24 �
Merivale, Charles. Conversion of the nor,hern nations. .. .. 636.
- - Conversion of the Roman empire. . .. .. . ... . . . . .. . . .. .. 836.1
- Alonstrelet, Enguerrard de. Chronicles of.... . . .. .. .. .. .. . 867.6,
Evidences of Christianity. _M'Ilvaine, C. P.. . . . . .. .. .... .. ..551.10, 554.16
Fables. Saxe, J. G. Fables and legends of many countries. . ... .. 744.9
Fairfax. Life of the great lord Fairfax, com.-in-chief of the army of
the parliament of England. Dlarkham, C. R.. .. .. .. . ... . . . 736.12
Faraday, Michael. Life of Gladstone, J. H. . . . .. .. .. . . . .. • • • •• •. 731.15
Farquharson, M. F. Wanted-a pedigree. Phil., [1871.] 12°. •• 273.11
Fenelon, F. de S. de la Motte. Adventures of Telemachus. N. Y.,
1863. 120 .. . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. . ... . . . . .. 723.29
- Life of Fenelon, archbishop of Cambray.. Butler C..... .. .. 541.11
- Life of. Lamartine. A. de.. .• • . . . . ... . . .. . . .. .. . . . . .. 723.29
Ferguson, A. History of the Roman Republic. N. Y., 1854. 18°. 851.15
Fern,;. See Botany. Hibberd, Shirley.. . .... . ... .. .. .. . . .... .. .. 932-18
Fessenden, Wm. P. Memorial address on the life and character of 736.1
Fichte, J. G. See lIist. and lit. celebrities. Chambers, W. & R.. .. 722.32
Fiction, History of. Dunlop, J.. . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . 417.8
For zcorks of fiction see nexuses of authors through the supplement.
Fields, J. T. Yesterdays with autliors. B., 1872. 12.. . ..... • • •. 445.3
Fine arts in Italy, in their religious aspect. Coquerel, A. . .. . . .. .. 442.11
Flagg, W. Woods and by-ways of N. Eng'. B., 1872. 12°. 22 pl. 312.16
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Fletcher, Jas. IIistory of Poland. N. Y., 1854. 18.....•• ..•••• 851.17
Florence, Florentine history. [79-1.815.] rapier, H. E.....• ••.•1063.5-10
Fourth gospel the heart of Christ. Scars, E. H. .... .... .... ...... 554.10
France. Daily news correspondence. A continuous history of the
war between Germany and France. ...... ...... . ..... .... .. 852.24
— Feudal cmstles of France....... . ..... .... .. .. .... .... .... 866.14
Guizot, F. P. G. History of civilization from the fall of the
Roman empire to the French revolution.... .... . ....• ....••862.21-24
— Inside Paris during the siege. [1870.] .. .... .... .... .... .. .311.2
— Jerningham, 1I. E. H. Life in a French chateau. .... .. .. .. 312.12
Lamartine,A. M. L. P. de. History of the French revolution
of 1848..... ...... 832.14
Frederic II. of Prussia, called the Great, Life of. Ellis, G. J. W. A.,
LordDover . ...... ...... .. .. .. .... .. .. ... ... . ..... ...... 731.7, 8
'Free trade. Cobden essays. ...... ...... ...... ...... . ..... ...... 4311.9
French country family. DeWitt, Madame, nee Guizot. .... .. .... .. 273.12
French and Italian note-hooks, Passages from. Hawthorne, N....441.11, 12
Frothingham, R. The rise of the republic of the United States .. .. ]055.12
Froude,J. A. English in Ireland in 18th century. N.Y., 1873. 12c. 1063.11, 12
Fruit book, American. Cole, S. W...... .... .... .... .... .... .... 90"1.14
Furniture, Hints on household taste in furniture, upholstery, and
other details. Eastlake, C. L.. . . ...... .... .... .... .... .... 934.14
Galaxy, The. 1866. 2 vols...... .... ...... .. .... .... .... .... .. 174.—
Games. Every boy's book: an encyclopaedia of sports ... . ... .... 932.1 1
Gantt, A. Elementary treatise on physics. L., 1872. Sc, 726 cuts 14..8
Gardiner, Col. James Life of. Doddl-id*e, I'....... .......... ....
l fi4_'.17
Gems. I{ing, C. W. The natirral history of precious stones, and of
preciousmetals...... .... . .. . .. . . .... .... . .. ... .. .... .... .)33.5
G►•ogrraphy. Figuier, (G1.) LoviQ. Earth and Qea. Translated,
cditvd and enlarged by W. I1. 1). Adams. 243 pl. and cuts... 13.:,.4
— Ilartwig, (i. The polar world. 163 pl. and cuts. .... . . .... 3.,7.4
— Marsh, G. P. Alan and nature; or, physical geography.... . 434,6
— Milner, Thos. Descriptive athLc of astronomy, and of physi-
cal and political geography. MapQ, physical and political, M•
Augustus Peterman ...... . ..... .... .... .. ...... .... . ... .. *327.1
— — The gallery of geography. A pictorial and cicacriptice
tour of the world. ..... .... .... . ..... . ..... . . .... .... .... 137.11, 12
— lteclus, Eliaf•e. The earth. A descriptive l►istory of the life
or the globe. Engli,.h ed. 230 small u►apQ, and 34 col. map.q 31G.3, 4
— Thomas, J. and Baldwin Thus. ,, A con�plc to pronouncing
gazetteer of the world. Pub. byLippincott. Phil..
Smith. Win. Netionary of Greek and Roman heograph.Y."141.10, 11
— Atnnzon. Ilernclon. Win. L. and �Tilihon, l,. 1;xplr,ruticm of
thu valley of the Amazon. 4S i1h uutics. ..... . . . .... .. .. .. .. 01:..7-1t
46 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Geography. Amoor. Atkinson, Thos. W. The upper and lower Amoor,
and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China 357.6
- America, Central. Squier, E. G. The states of Central
America; their geography,topography,climate,population,etc. 31G.2
- California. Nordhoff, Charles. California: for health, pleas-
ureand residence . . . . .. .. . . .... . ..... .... .. .. . ... .. . . . . .. 316.9
- Iona. Gampbell, Geo. D., Duke of Argyle. . . .. . . .. .. . . . .. 352.14
-- Japan. Perry, M. C. Expedition to the China seas and
Japan, 1852-54. 3 vols. 4`=, with many maps, cuts, and col-
ored plates representing animals and places. ..... . ..... . . .. .. 357.-
- Massachusetts. Walling and Gray. Official topographical
atlas of Massachusetts- *138.-
- Mississippi valley. See Phys. Geog.
- Ocean. Figuier, (G.) L. The ocean world, etc..... .. .. .. .. 143.1
- Palestine and Sinai. Ritter, Carl. The comparative geog-
raphy of Palestine and the Sianitic peninsula. Translated and
adapted by Wm. L. Gage. 4 vols.. . .... .. .... .. .. .... .. ..356.17-20
See also Palestine.
- Scotland, etc. Hunnewell, James F. Lands of Scott. . ..... 311.3
White Mountains. Bradley, John E. Pocket guide to the
White Mountains. ... ... . . . .. .. .. .... .. .. .... .. .. . . .. ••• 311.11
- Eastman, S. C. The White Mt. guide-book. Maps and cuts 35)1.16
- - King, T. S. The White hills; etc.. .. . . .. . . .... .. . .. .. 314.4
See also Phys. Geog., also names of countr'es, seas, etc.
Geology. Dana, J. D. Corals and coral islands. . .. .. .. .. .... .. .. 136.3
- - Manual of geology.. .. . . .. . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .... ... . .... 935.6
- Figuier (G.) Louis. Earth and sea.. . . . . . .. .. . .. . . . . .. . . 135.4
- - Primitive man.. .. .... . . .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ... . .. .. 935.3
- Hartt, Chas. F. Geology and physical geography of Brazil. . 315.4
- Lyell, Charles. The student's elements of geology . . . .. .. .. 933.8
- Alan's age in the world according to holy scripture and science 935.4
- Milner, Thomas. The wonders of geology. . . .... . ..... . . .. 137.8
- Newberry, J. S. Geological survey of Ohio, 1870. 17 maps.927.16, 17
- Pouchet, F. A. The universe. . .. .. . .. . . . . . .. .. .. .. ...... 146.6
- Reclus, Eliste. The earth. .. . . .. .. .. . . . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .... 316.3, 4
Germany. Daily News war correspondence. A continuous history
of the war between Germany and France.... .. .... .. .... .. .. 852.24
Gibbon, Edward. Life of Mahomet. New York, 1860. 180.. . .... 721.42
Gilbert, Win. De profundis, a tale of social deposit. L., '66. 16'.. 271.16
Gilbert, Wm. Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara. L., 1869. 2 vols.
port. .. . . . .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. . ... .. . . .... ..... .... ... . 733.23, 24
Gilman, Caroline, and C. H. Jervey. Stories and poems, by mother
and daughter. B. & N. Y., 1872. 161.. . . .... . .... .... .. .. . 945.12
Gilmore, J. H. (E'dniiind Kirke.) Down in Tennessee and back by
way of Richmond. N. Y., 1864. 12.. . . . . . . . .... .... .. .. .. 312.11
Ginx's baby. Jenkins, E.. .. . . .. .. ..... . . . . .... . . .. .. .... .... .. 431.5
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Gipsies, Some account of, in Book of the hand. Craig, A. R. ... .. 434.9
Gladstone, J. H. 3lichael Faraday. N. Y., 1872. 160. ••. •...•• 731.15
Gough, John B. Autobiography and personal recollections.•....... 735.G
Government, Thoughts upon. Helps, Arthur•.•. .•.. •.•. •••• •••• 1054.5
Government. Smith, Goldwin. The empire. A series of letters to
the Daily News. ..... ... .. ... .. .... ...... ..... .... . ..... 443.5
Great Britain. History of progress in. 2 vols. ... .. .. .• .• •••• .•••t�GG.15, 16
See also Britain, England, Scotland, etc.
Greece. Felton, C. C. Greece, ancient and modern...... . ..... .. 434.12
- R-ordswurtli, C. Greece : pictorial,descriptive, and bistorical '146.11
See also Smith, W m.
Greek authors. Homer. Iliad. Translated by Wm. C. Bryant.... 4 35.1
- The Odyssey. Translated by Win. C. Br}ant.. .... •.•• -•i i;f.f, i
- - Translated by T. A. Buckley ....... ...... .... ...... 452.23
- Plato, The dialogues of. Translated with analyses and intro-
ductions by B. Jowett. 4 vols............ . ....... . .... .... 1054.1-4
- The republic. Translated by Davies & Vaughan.... .... 441.2
Greeley, Ilorace, Life of Parton, James. ..... . . .... .. .... ...... 7 3.21
Greenough, W. A. jr. Directory of Waltham &Watertown for 1469. 846.3
Greg, William It. Essays on political and social science. L., 1853.
2 vols., h-)...... .. .... .... . ... ...... 1055.G, 7
Guizot, F. 1'. G. Iliutory of civilization. N. Y., 1172. 4 vols., 12 . 46-2,21-24
Gunpowder. Anderson Will., Cal. Sketch of the mode of manu-
facturing gunpowder in Bengal. Illustrated .. .... . ..... .... 927.18
Gutenberg, and the artof printing. Pearson, Emily (. ....... .. . ... 934.11
Gymnastics. The muscles ant] their story from the earliest times.
Blundell, J. W. F.. .... .... . ... .. .... .... .... ..... ...... 955 8
Hal,it and intelligence, in conneaionwith the laws of niatterand force.
A scricR of scientific essays. Murphy. J. .1.. .. .... .... . ..... 435.3, 4
Ilal-, Edward Everett. flow to do it. It.. 1S72. 18"). (2 cop.) 271.17, :)4.1.11
half hour@ with the best authorK. finight, Charles.. .... .... ......432.12-l5
Half truths and the truth. Lectures. Manning, J. M.. ........ .... 523.1121
Manna, Win. The life of Christ. N. Y., n. d. So.. .... .... . . .. .. 5311.2
Hardee, W. J. Rifle and light infantry tactics. Phil., 'Gl. 2 v. 240. 661.:3, 4
Harman, Ilenry 11i. A journey to Egypt and the holy Land in :t-
11,70. Phil., IA7.4. 12°..... ........ . ..... .... . . .... . . .. .. :11:3 1-)
Harpers' Magazine. A full set. N. Y., l N:;1-471. 4:1
Harris, Wm. ('. Wild sports of Southern Africa. Lon., 1,852. k
map and 21; plates.... "Ile
Harris, Will. T. 1H;pttaphs from the old burying ground in Water-
town. Boston, lAG9. 8''... .... . .. . .. .. .... . ... .. ]f►GS.1
Haaeis, JI. 11. Music and morala. N. 1%, 18%1. 12 . .. . . . . .. 442.13
Hawthorne, Nilth. Passages from French and Italian.note• books.
Boston, )872. 2 vols. lr,� . .... ...... .... . ... .. .. .. .441.11, 12
See Fields, Jae. T. Yesterdays with authors. .... ...... .... 445.3
48 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Healy, Nfary. A summer's romance. Bos., 1872. 16... . ..... .... 271.27
Heat. Abbott, Jacob. Science for the young. .... .... .. .. .. .. .... 932.14
Hellborn, Kreissle von. Life of Franz Schubert. Translated by
Arthur, duke Coleridge. Lon., 1869. 2 vols. 121, port. . ..732.19, 20
Helps, Arthur. Thoughts upon government. Bos., 1872. 80.. .... 1054.5
Henderson, Peter. Gardening for profit. N. Y., n. d. 12c, 69 cuts 932.19
- Practical floriculture. N. Y., n. d. 121, cuts.. . . .. .. . . .. .. 932.20
Henry IV., Life of. James, G. P. R.. .. .. . . .... . . . ... .... . ... ..735.11-13
Henry, Robert. History of Great Britain, from the invasion of Julius
Caesar. Lon., 1800. 12 vols. 8c .. .... .... .. .. . . .. .. . . . . ..846.4-15
Herndon, Wm. L. Valley of the Amazon, explored under direction
of the U. S. navy department. Wash., 1854. 3 vols. 81.
[Vol. 3, maps.] .... . .. ... .. .. . ... .. . .... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 315.7-9
Heyne, G. C. Chambers, W. and R. See Hist. 8, lit. celebrities. .. 722.32
Hibberd, Shirley. The fern garden. Hove to make, keep, and enjoy
it. Lon., 1870. 16°, 8 plates and 40 cuts... . .... . ..... .... 932.18
History, Ancient. Neibuhr, B. G. Lectures. 3 vols... .. .. .. .. ..864.18-20 .
Rawlinson, Geo. Five great monarchies of the ancient east-
ern world. 3 vols. . . . . . . . . .. . ... .. . . .. .. . . . . . . .... .. ..1055.8-10
For hi.st. of particular countries, see the vanes of the count)ies.
Hobbs, James R. The picture collector's manual. L., 1849.
2 vols., 80. ..... .. . . . . .. . ..... .. .. .. .... .. ...... . ..... ...143.9, 10
Hogart, Wm., painter engraver and philosopher. Sala, Geo. A..... 734.10
Holland, Sir Henry. Recollections of past life.. .. . ..... .... .. .. . 733.19
Holland, J. G. The marble prophecy, and other poems. N. Y.,
1872. 160. . .. .. . . .... ... . . . . . .. .. .. .. .... . . . .. ... .. . ... 744.8
Holmes, O. W. Elsie Venner. B., 1872. 1Go.... . . . . . ... ... . . .. 272.34
- Mechanism in thought and morals. . .. .. .. . . .. .. . ... . . .. .. . 441.9
--- The poet at the breakfast table. B., 1872. 120. ..... . . . . .. 273.15
Homer. Odyssey. Translated by Wm. C. Bryant. B., 1872. 2 vols.
80.. .. .. .. . . .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. I. .. ... . . .... . .... .. .. .. .. -N6.6, 7
- - Translated by F. A. Buckley. N. Y., 1861. 120.. .. •. .. 452.23
Hopkins, Mark. The laic of love and love as law; or, Christian
ethics. N. Y., 1871. 120.... . . . . . . .... .... .... . . .. .. . . .. 534,7
Horse, The. Youatt, Wm. Illustrated. Revised by W. Watson... 935.11
Horticulture. Bridgeman, Thos. Young gardener's assistant. . . ... 935.8
- Burr, F. jr. Garden vegetables and ho« to cultivate them.. 933.18
- Henderson, Peter. Gardening for profit; a guide to the suc-
cessful cultivation of the market and family garden. . .... .... 932.19
- - Practical floriculture ; a guide to the cultivation of florists'
plants. . ... . . . . .. . . ... . .. .. .. .. . . .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . . ... 932.20
- Hibberd, Shirley. The fern garden. How to make, keep,
andenjoy it. ... .. . . .. . . ...... . . . . . .. ... . . . ... . . .. .... ... 932.18
- Hovey, C. Al., editor. Magazine of Horticulture, etc. ... . . .. 115.19
Hovey, Alvah. God with us. B., 1872. 160... . .. .. . • . . .. •. .. •• 5::4.8
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Hove to do it. Hale, Edward Everett.. .. .... ..... ... .... ...• •••• 945.9
Howe, Henry. Travels and adventures of celebrated travellers.. ... 316.5
Howells, W. I). Their wedding journey. B.. 1872. 120.....• •.. 272.28
: Hughes, Thus. Alfred the great.... .... ...• •••• •• •• ... .... .. ... 132.15
Iceland, A summer in. Paijkull, C. W. . ... .... .. . ..... .. .. .. .. 315.2
India. Illustrated history of the British empire in India and the East.
Steelplates and maps. . .... .. .. . ... .. .... ..... ...... .... .137.9. 10
Infant baptism an invention of men. Chase, Irah. . .... ...... . ... .. 554.20
Infidelity, The causer and cure of. Nelson, David. ..... . ... .. .... . 5114.15
Ingelow, Jean. Off the 5kelli[;s. B., 1872. 16°. (2 cop.) ......271.31, 33
Innocents abroad; or, the new pilgrims progress. Clemens, S. L.,
(Mark `]'wain.) . ... . . .... . ..... .... .... .... .... .... . ..... 315.3
Insects, Guide: to the study of. Packard, A. 5.... . ..... ...... .... 935.5
Intellectual science, Elements of. Porter, Noah.... . . .... .... .... 443.7
Ireland. Adarus, Win. T. (Oliver Optic.) Shamrock and thistle;
or, young America in Ireland and Scotland. . . ... . . .....962.8 & 965.8
— Froude, J. A. The F.nglisii in Ireland in the lath century.
2 vols.. ... .. . ..... . . .... .. .. .... .. .. . . . .. . . .... . .....1063.11, 12
Italy. Butts Isaac. History of Italy, from the abdication of Napo.
leon I.; with reference to earlier times. 2 vols........ .. ..863.15, 16
— Gallenga, Antonio. Hiaory of Piedmont. 3 vols. ...... ..81-3.12-14
Moens, W. J. C. English travellers and Italian brigands. 2
vols... .... ...... .... .. . .. . .. .... .. .. .. .... .... .... .... .. 312.5, 6
Jackson, Andrew, Sketch of the life of. Puaenbury, B. M .... .... 722..M
Jacoc, Francis. Bible music. B., 1872. 160.... ...... . . .... .... 534.9
Japan. Moges, Marquis de. Baron Gros's embassy to China and
Japanin 1857, '58.... .... . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. ...... ...... .. .. 311.6
Jenkins, E. Ginx's haby: his birth and other misfortunes. B..
1871. 16�..... .... .... .... ...... .. .. ...... .... . ..... .... 431.5
— Lorca Bantam. A satire. N. Y., 1872. 160....... ...... .. 431.E
Jerningham. It. E. H. Life in a French chateau. L., 1867. 12c.. 312.12
Jeru,alem. The recovery of. Exploration and discovery in the city
and the holy land. Wilson and Warren.... .416.1
Jesse, John II. London : its celebrated characters and remarkable
places. L., Im71. 3 vols. 12'. .... . ... .... .... .... .... ..
Jews, Customs of tile..... .... .... .... .... .. .. ...... ... 55;i._'4
Jews, Antiquities of the, Jewish war, etc. Josephus, F .... . . .. .. . 533 1-3
Jones, J. B. The Winkles. N. Y., 1R8S. 1g0..... .... 273.9
Journvy round my room. Maistre, Xavier de .. .... .. . ... .... .. . . 441.10
Juveniles. For trorks of this class,see names of anchors throurgl, the
supplement.
Saff, Alphonse. A tour round my Barden. Ed. by J. G. Wood.
I.on., 186b. 140, Mi cuts.: .... . ... .. ...... . .. . .. .. .. 931.16
50 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Keble, J. Shairp, J. C. See Studies in poetry and philosophy.. .... 431.8
Kellogg, Elijah. Arthur Brown. B., 1873. 1G°.. .. .... .... . ..... 942.14
- Boy farmers of Elm Island. B., 1871. 1G°.. .. .. .. .... .... 942.17
The cruise of the Casco. B., 1872. 160. . . .... . . . . .. . . .. . 942.16
Hard-scrabble of Elm Island. B., 1872. 11;1. .. .. .. .. . . . . .. 942� 19
The sophomores of Redeliffe. B , 1872. lG°. . . .. .. . . .. . . .. 942.13
The spark of genius. B., 1872. 161.... .... . . . . .. .. .. .... 9I2.12
The young deliverers of Pleasant Cove. B., 1872. 160. ..•• 942.15
The young ship-builders of Elm Island. B., 1872. 1G°. .. .. 942.18
King, Thomas Star. The White Hills. N. Y., 1870. 81, 60 cuts.. 311.4
Kirke, Edmund. See Gilmore, J.R.
Knapp, Elder Jacob. Autobiography. N. Y., 1868. 120.... . . .. . . 732.22
Koran, The. Mohammed. Translated by Geo. Sale. With a me-
moir of the translator.. . . .. .. .. .. .... . . .. .. . .. . .. .... .... 52.1.14
Labor. Banks, N. P. Emancipated labor in Louisiana.... .... ..•. M 8.4
- Ruskin, John. Laws of Fork. See Time and tide. Twenty-
five letters to a working ►nan.. .. . ... . . .. . . .. . .. .. .• .. .. • • 444.10
Lamartine, Alphonse de. Life of Fenelon. N. Y., 1860. 120. .... 723.29
- Life of Oliver Cromwell. N. T., 1860. 180... ..•. .. . • • • •• 721.41
Lambert, T. S. Human anatomy, physiology, and hygiene. Hart-
ford, 1854. 12°, 8 plates, 277 cuts. . _ . . . . . . . ..... .... . . .. 933.19 I
Lamon, Ward H. The life of Abraham Lincoln. B., 1872. 80.... 727.26
Language. De Vere, M. Schele. Americanism - the English of the
newworld . .. . . .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .... .... .. .. . . . . .. .. .... .... 443.8
- - Studies in English; or, glimpses of the inner life of our lan-
guage. .. .. .. .. .. . .. . .. .... . . .. .. . . . . . ... .... .... . . . . .... 432.9
Marsh, G. P. Lectures on the English language. . . . . .• .••• 434.7
- Origin and history of the English language.. .. . . . . . . .. • . 434.5
Tooke, J. H. Diversions of Purley.. .. .. . . . . .. .. .. .. .• . .444.19, 20
Trench, C. T. .English past and present.. .. .. .. . .. .• .• .. • • 442.10
White, R. G. Fords and their uses, past and present. . .. . . • 432.10
Law. Woolsey, Theodore D. International laws. Designed as an
aid in teaching and in historical study. ... .. .. .. .... . . .... . 1053.2
Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews. Huxley, T. 11.. .. ... ...... . 443.1. 2
LefZvre, A. Wonders of architecture. N. T., 1870. 160, 50 cuts. 931.18
L'Estrange, A. G. Yachting round the west of England. L., 1865.
80. pi. . . . . . . .. .. . . .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. .. . . ... .. . . . ... .... 316.6
Lewes, '-1,farion J. (George Elliot.) 3liddlemarch. N. T., 1872.
2 vols., 120. (2 cop.). . .. . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . 273.13, 14, 273.19,20
Libraries. Mercantile Library association, Constitution of, with the
act of incorporation, by-laws and regulations. ...... .... .. . . . N.4.16
See also Catalogues.
Liddon, H. P. The divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Lectures before the University of Oxford, 1866. N.Y., '71. 12° 534.10
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Light. Science for the young. Abbot, Jacob..•... ••• ••••• • ••••• 932.15
See also Physics.
Li�;hthouseq and li;htdhihs. Adams, W. II. D. . . ..... ...... ...... 931.17
Lindly. John. Ladics'hotany; a familiar introduction to the natural
system. L., n. d. 2 viols. 8°, 50 plates.. .......... .... .... 143.11,12
Lives of distinguished shoemakers. B., 1849. 120..... •.••••••••• 722,31
London. Jesse, J. H. London : its celebrated characters and re-
markable places...... .... . ..... . . .... . ..... . . .... ...... ..313.9, 11
London Times. Lives of Wellington and Peel. N. Y., 1852. 1 G'•. 721.38
Longfellow, II. W. Translation of The divine comedy of Dante
Alighieri. B., 1871. 3 vols., 100 .. .. .... ...... ...... ....742.`'0-2?
Three books of song. B., 1872. 160 .... ..... .•. •••• •.•• 742.23
Lord Bantam. A satire. Jenkins, E .. . . .. .. ...... .... . ..... .... 431.6
31aedonal11, George. The vicar's daughter. B., 1872. 16°, cuts. .. 271.28
Wilfrid Cumbermede. N. Y., 1872. 120, cuts. ..... ...... . 273.10
IkUlvaine, C. P. Evidences of Christianity. N.Y., 1833. 120. (2
cop.).... .... . ..... ..... ... . ..... . ..... ...... ....551.10, 554.1G
Maehinists. See Drawing, also Mechanics.
Marlicon avenue lectures (on Baptist principles). Phil., n. d. 120 . ..5.54.17
Alalory, 'Thomas, Sir. Morte d'Arthur. Phil. and I.., 1868. 160.. 441.13
Man. Campbell, G. D. (nrcke of Argyle.) Primeval man... .•.. 442.6
- Figuier, (G.) Loud. Primitive man. ..... . ..... ...... .... 935.3
- Lubbock, Sir John. The origin of civilization,and the primi-
tive condition of man. .. .. .... .... .. .. ...... ...... .... .... 934.10
- Man's age in the world...... . ... .. . ..... .... . ..... .... .... 935.4
See also Geology, Lyell, and Fignier.
- Aludic.Robert. :tlnn in his physical structure and adaptation it 931.15
Aianufac. Iiurty, P. Chefs-d'aeuvrn- of the inelustrial arts .... .... 144.2
See also Ilist. of progress in Gt. Britain, vol. 2 •... . .... .... 866.1A
Alarhle prophecy, and other poems. J. G. Holland. ..... ...... .... 744.9
Alarkhmn, C. It. Life of the great lord Fairfax, commander-in-chief
of the army of the parliament of England. L., 1870. 80, port. 7:16,12
Mark Twain,pseud. Ree Clemens, Samuel L.
Masons. Columbian lodge. Ileard, J. T. A historical account of
Columbian lodge of free-masons of Boston, ;Hass.. . ..... .... SA3.11
MaReachunettr in the Civil war, Ilistory of. William Slhouler. 2
To ...... . ..... ...... .... . ... .. ......Vol 1, 82GA G; vol. 2. 10C.-i.5
Ma9sachuRetvs Historic Society. Lectures before the Lnwell Ingti-
tate on the early history of B., 1869. ty`'. .. 1t1��.� '.
Mw4maehusetts, official topographical atlns of. Willing & Gray.... . 13A.-
Ma xcy, Gerald. Poems. B., 186G. 1610, port...... .,, •• 742.31
Massie, J. W. Ameriea; her c�lnint for anti-slavery srmpathy. i,.,
1864. 120. ma)...... ...... .... .
Maxi.'nilian I., late emperor of Mexico, Life of, with x sketeh of
Carlotta. Hall, Fred.... .... ;34.11
.... .. . ... . .. ..... . . .. . .
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Mechanics, machines, engine-work and engineering, Dictionary of..135.10, 11
- Burty, Philippe. Chefs-d'oeuvre of the industrial arts. .. .- ... 141.2
Mechanism in thought and morals. Holmes, O. W. .. . .. . ..... .. . . 441.9
Meditations on the last clays of Christ. Schauffler, W. G. ..... .... 554.13
Medbery, James K. Men and mysteries of Wall street. 6 cuts.... 433.6
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, My recollections of, and his letters to me.
Devrient, Edward... ..... . . ... ..... . .... 735.22
Mental hygiene. Ray, I. . .... . . .. .. . .. . . . . .. .. .... .. . ..... .... 955.9
Mercantile Library of N. Y., Second supplement to the catalogue of 145.10
Mexico, Life in, during a residence of two years. Calderon de la
Barca .... .... .. .. . .. . .. .. . ... .... .. . . . . .. .... . . .. .. .. . . 313.5, 6
Middlemarch; a study of provincial life. Lewes, M. J. (George
Eliot.) (2 cop.). . .... .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. ....273.13, 14, 2 33.19, 20
Military science. Manual of sable exercise, (with) Constitution of
the Boston light dragoons.. .. .... .. .. .... . .... .... .... ... 661.1t
- Rifle and light infantry tactics. Hardee, W. J...•. •••• •.•• 661.3, 4
Mind, Physiology and pathology of. See Psychology.... .. •. . . ..•• 956.21 j
Mineralogy, A system of. Descriptive. 5th (enlarged) edition. .--- 937.1 '
- The natural history of precious stones, and of precious metals.
King, C. W.. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... . . . ... . . .. .. . . .... ...... .. 933.5
Minster, Annie Maria. Glenelvan. N. Y., 1861. 120 . ..... . ..... 272.32
Mirthfulness and its exciters; or, rational laughter and its promoters.
Clark, B. F . ... .... .. .. .... .. .. . . .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . 433.8
Missions, Origin and history of. Choules, J. O. and Smith, Thos..517.18, 19'
Mitford, Miss. See Fields, Jas. T. Yesterdays with authors..... .. 445.3
Modern literary criticism. L., 1867. 160. .•. •••• •••• ••• • •••• •••. 431.4
Moffat,James C. A comparative history of religions. N. Y., 1871. 160 534.5
Moges, Marquis de. Baron Gros's expedition to China and Japan, in
1857, '58. L., 1860. 160, 4 pl.. . ... .. . . . . .. . . .. .. .... . ... 311.6
Montaigne, Michael de. Essays. Notes and life. C. Cotton, Tr.
L., 1870. 120.. .. .. .. . . .. . . .. .. .. . ... .. . . . ... .. .. .... .. . 442.14
Moral philosophy. Shairp, J. C. See Studies in poetry and philos-
ophy.... .... .. .. . ... .. .. .... .... .... .. .. .... .... .... .... 431.8
Muller, Max. Lectures on the science of religion, etc. N. Y., 1872.
120 .. . .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . .... 534.6
Murray, Hugh. Travels of Marco Polo. N. Y., 1855. 180, 2 maps 361.25
Murray, William I7. H. Sermons, Park-street pulpit. B., 1872. 120 554.12
Muscles and their story; from the earliest times. Blundell,J. W. F. 9155.8
Music slid morals. Haweis, H. R. .. .. . . . . . . . .. . . ... . .. . .. . .. ... 442.13
My little lady. N. Y., 1872. 160. .... .. . . .. .. .. .. . . .... .... .... 271.29
My study windows. Lowell, James R. . . . ... . ... .. .... .... .... . . 442.7
My summer in a garden. Warner, C. D. 2 cop.. ... , . .. •••• •••-942.10, 11
Mythology. Baring-Gould, S. Curious myths of the middle ages.- 441.7
- Clement, C. E. A handbook of mythological and legendary
art. ... .. .... . . . ... ... ..... ... .. .... .. .. .. .. .... .... .... 142.
TRUSTEES REPORT. 53
Mythology. Dictionary of polite literature; or, fabulous history of
heathen gods and illustrious heroes.. ...• ••.• •.•• •••• •• •• .• 141.6, 7
— Ruskin, Jahn. The queen of the air: being a study of the
Greek myths of cloud and storm. .... . ..... ...... ... ... .. .. 444.12
Smith, Wm. Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and
mythology. 3 Dols.. . ...... .......... .... .... .... .... .... *144.7-9
Napier, II. E. Florentine history. L., 1846. 6 vols. 120......1063.,5-10
Napoleon Buonaparte, Life of. Walter Scott.. .. ....• . ....• ..•.••1064.1, 2
Natural History. Adams, W. H. I). The circle of the year; or,
studies of nature and pictures of the seasons.. . . .... .... .... 932.13
— Every-day objects; or, picturesque aspects of nat. history 933.12
— Bailey, W. L. Our own birds. A familiar natural history
of the birds of the U. 8.... ...... .. ... . ... .. ...... .. .. .... 931.2
— Bertram, J. G. Harvest of the sea.. .. .... . .... . ...... .... 144.4
— Bowden, J. The naturalist in Norway; or, notes on the wild
animals, birds, fishes, and plants of that country. . .... . .. .. 932.7
— Clark, H. J. Mind in nature; or the origin of life, and the
mode of development of animals. . .. .. .... .... .... .... .. .. 916.18
Darwin, Charles. The descent of man, and selection in rela-
tionto sex. .... ...... .... .... .. .. .... .... . . .. .... .. .. . ... 934.8. 9
— — On the origin of species by means of natural selection.... 934.12
— Figuier, (G.) Lo•tis. Rlammalia. Their various orders and
habits, illustrated.... .... .... .... . . .. .... .. .. .. . . .... .... 144 1
— — Reptiles and birds. A popular aveount of their various
orders, etc. N. T., 1870. So, 307 cuts. (2 cop.).. .... .... 143.5, 6
— Fraser, Robert W. The seaside naturalist. Out of door
studies in marine zoology and botany, and maritime geology. 932.10
— Gosse, P. H. Land and gea.. .. .... . . .... .... .... .... .... 931.1.1
Gould, A. A. Report (in the invertebrata of AlitQsaehusetts.
2d eel., with mollusca. B., 1870. w-'.... .... .. .... .... .... 1:,°.14
Karr. Alphonse. A tour round my garden. Revised and r
edited by J. G. Wood.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .. .. .... 931.16
— Mivart, St. George. On the genesis of species.... . .... . ... 932.12
Phipson. T. L. The utilization of minute life; being practical
studies on inflects, crustacea, mollusea, worms, polypes, in-
fusoria, and Hponges.
Ponehet, F. A. The universe;.or the infinitely great Rnd in.
. ......
933.4
finitely little.... .... .... .. . . .. ... . .. . *146.6
Samuels, E. A Ornithology and o6logy of New England. With
illustration, of many species of hirde, and accurate figures of
their eggs. The edition with 24 col. plates of birds, 4 of eggs. •152,10
-- — The same; puhli..hFgd by the State, under the title "The
Birds of New England," with 8 col. plates, rep. a large num-
ber of birds oil a smaller scale.... ..... .... .... . $152.11
... . . .. ....
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Natural History. Samuels, E. A. Ornithology and 061ogy of New
England. ... .. .... ... . . .. .. .. .. .... .... .... .... .... .... T.L. 76
Wallace, A. R. Contributions to the theory, of nat'l selection. 932.16
— Wood, J. G., Ed. Episodes in insect life. ... .. . . .... . . .... 935.7,
— — Illustrate(] natural history. (Animals.). . . .. .. . ..... ....*135.7-9
[Mammalia, 135.7; Birds, 135.8; Reptiles, fishes, mollusca, etc. 135.9]
— — Natural history of man; being an account of the manners
and customs of the uncivilized races of men.. . . .. . . .. . . .. . .*135.5, 6
[Australia, etc., America, Asia and ancient Europe, 135.5; Africa
135.G.]
— — Strange dwellings. Being a description of the habitation
ofanimals. . .. . .. .. .... ...... .. .. .. .. . .. . . . .... .. .. .... . 933.15
Navy (U. S.) during the rebellion, History of. Boynton, C. B. . .. . 1065.3-4
Nelson, David. The cause and cure of infidelity. N. Y., n. d. 121. 554.15
Netherlands, The history of. Grattan, T. C. . . . .. ...... . . .. .. .... 851.14
Newberry, J. S. Geological survey of Ohio. Report of progress in
1870. Sections and cuts. . .. .. .. .. .. . . . . .. .. .. .... . ..... 927.16, 17
New England, The woods and by-ways of. Flagg, Wm. (Ill.) -..... 312.16
Nordhoff, C. California: for health, pleasure, and residence.
N. Y., 1872. 80, map and 57 cuts. . .. .. ... . .. .. . . .. .. . ..... 316.9
Norsemen in the Nest; or, America before Columbus. Ballantyne,
R. Al. . .. .. . . .... . . . . .. . . .... . . .... .... . . .. .. . ..... .... . 966.2
North America in 1870—'82, Travels in. Chastellux, F. J. de.. . .... 3i3.1. 2
Northmen. Private life of the old Northmen. he; ser, R..... .... . 852.15
Odyssey. Homer. Translated by Bryant, Win. C. . .. .... . .. .. . .. 7 66.6, 7
Old England: its scenery, art, and people. Hoppin, J. M.......... 441.8
Oliver Optic. See Adams, Wni. T.
Orations. Edmands, J. Wiley. Oration at the semi-centennial anni-
versary of the Boston English High School.. .. • ... .. ... ... . 446.2
Francis, C. Address delivered July 4th, 1828, in Water-
town, in commemoration of the anniversary of national inde-
pendence.. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. .. .. . . .. .... . . . . . . . .. .. . .... . . . M.3.7
See speeches.
Overland monthly. Vols. 1, 2, 3, & 4. . .. .. . ... .. . . . . .• . • . ..• .. 115.—
Owen, Robert Dale. The debatable land. N. Y., 1872. 1 c.-.. . 534.8
Owen Meredith. See Bulwer-Lytton, (E.) R.
Painters. Hobbes, Jas. R. The piettife collector's manual; being
it dictionary of painters, etc.. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . • • • . . .. • 143.9, 10
Painting, Lectures on architecture and. Ruskin, John .... . ..... . 444.9
Palace and cottage; or, voting America in France and Switzerland.
Adams, W. T. (Oliver Optic.) (3 cop.) . ... .. . . .. .. 962.11 & 965.11
Palestine. Jewett, Win. Christian researches in Syria and the holy
Land. [1823, 24.].. .. . . . . .. . . .. ..... . . . . .. . ..... .. .. .. .. 541.16
Maundrell, II. Aleppo to Jerusalem.... . . .... .. .. .... .. . 553.34
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Palestine. Biller, Ellen C. Eaotern sketches; scenery, schools, and
tentlife.... .... .... .. .... .. ...... .... ....... ...... .... .. :311.4
Tillotson, John. Palestine: its holy sites and sacred (10)story 5 6.1
Three weeks in Palestine and Lebanon...... .... •• ..•••• ••• 552.9
4
See also Clement, C. E.; Stanley, A. P.
Paley, William.m. Natural theology, with notes by Lord Brougham
and Sir Charles Bell. L., 1836, 2 vols. 12'. ..... .... . ..... 551.7,8
Parton, James. The life of Horace Greeley. B., 1;372. 12c, port.
andcuts...... ...... ......... .... . ..... ...... . ... .. . ..... 73:3.21
Penmanship, Spencerian key to practical. Spencer, H. C.... .... . 934.13
Pen ylvannia pilgrim, and other poems. Whittier, J. G.... . .... . . 742 24
Penn-ylvania, School history of. Sypher. J. It.. . .. .. .... .... .... 824.23
Peony Jlagazinc. L., 1t;32-194:i. 14 vols• . .... .... ... . 175.—
Pereival, E., Ed. Tlie garland; or token of fri►�ndship. B., 1852.
12'',6 pl...... . . .... . ... .. .... .... .. .... .... . ..... . ...... 442.1l;
Perry, A. L. Elun►ents of political economy. N. 1., 1872. I20.. I I I.13.I
Perspective. Davidson, E. A. Elements of practical perspective.. 141.111
Ruskin, John. Elements of .. . .... . . .... .... .. .. .. .. .. 44 4.14
Philip, R. The Barthas; or, the varieties of ft-male piety. N. T.,
1841. 180..... ...... . . .... .... .. .. . ..... . . .... . ..... .... :i:2.'11
Phrenology, Outlines of. Spurzheim, G. ..... . .. ... .... .... .... .. 931.8
Phi'=ic•al Geohraphy. Foster, J. W. The 'Mississippi valley : its
physical geugrapi.y, etc. ..... . ....... . .. . . . ... .... .... .... 357.3
Hartt, Ch. F. Geology and physical geography of Brazil... 315.4
— Humboldt, F. 11. A. Von. Cogn►os. a physical description of
the universe. 5 vole... ... . .... .... .... 911.12-16
— A Wrier, T. The gallery of nature : a pictorial and dc-c•riptive
tour through creation. Illustrative of the wonders of astron-
oruv, physical geography, and .. ..... .... .. .... .....• I37.S
,See r,lsr) rwography.
Phvaician`s problems, A. Elam ('.. .. . . . ...
-
Ih} i Cazin, Achille• The phen►l,n►•na Of light and heat. . .. .., 11:31.7Fonvielle, W. de. Thunder and li,ghtnhig. ...... .... . . .. .. 'r;l.►:
Ganot, A. Elementary treatise on physics. experimental au►,)
applied...... .... ...... .....
Marion, F. Wonderful balloon a«cent-4.... �!
1.1l►
— The wonders of optics.... .... . . .... .....
Sche lien, Dr. 11. S+pc•ctrum anal :►;l
` analysis. S part., 13 pL•►tr�,
and 213 cuts..... .... .
Phc.ioln Care ► 1�m. I3. ... . ... .. ...... .... . . .. . .. .. I:.�c._�
K7• enter 1'rinciplem of human pl►v..jillnc3 . 91l;.17
-�- Cnmbe, A. The phyEiol►,gy of cliKc,ation, with rclatti,m to
dietetics...... ..
I.anmhcrt, T. $. Human anatomy,.... .... ...... . . .. .. . . .. .. �►;;I ;►
phym=ic,lug�•, and hiPietnre cells gicn►�.. !r:;c.l!t
ctor's manual. Hobbes, James IL..
PlmVo. Dialogues. Translated h E. •..... ...... . . .... 14:; :►. 1►m
y Jowett. N. Y., , 1. 4 T.
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56 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Poe, Edgar A. Works. With a memoir by R. W. Griswold. N. Y.,
1855. 4 vols. 12°, port... .. . . .... . . .... . ... .. . . .. .. ....442.17-20
Poet at the breakfast. table. Holmes, O. W..... . .. . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 273.15
Poets and poetry of Europe. Longfellow, H. W. .. . . . . .. . . . . .. .. .. 146.12
Poland, History of. Fletcher, J.. . .. .. . ... .. . ... .. .... .. .. . ..... 851.17
Political economy. Bowen, F. Principles of political economy.... 1055.11
Mill, J. S. Dissertations and discussions. .. . . . . .... . . .. ..416.15-18
Perry, A. L. Elements of political economy. . ... .. .. . . .... 1053.1
Ruskin, J. Unto this last. Four essays on the first princi-
ples of political economy.. .. . . .. .. . . .. .. .... .... .... . .. . .. 444.11
Political essays. Ames, Fisher. See Works. .... .... . . .. .. .... . 417.7
Political science. Greg, W. R. Essays on political and social
science.. .. . . .. .. . ..... . . .. . . .. . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .... .. ..1055.6, 7
Pope. See Fields, Jas. T. Yesterdays with authors.. . . . . .. . . .. . . 445.3
Popular epics of the middle ages of the Norse-German and Carlovin-
gian cycles. Ludlow, J. M.. .... . ... . ..... . . .. .. . . .. .. .... 441.3, 4
Porter, Rose. Summer drift wood for the winter fire. N. Y., n. d. 161. 271.32
Pratt, Anne. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. L.,
and N. Y., n. d. 6 vols. 8°, 313 col. plates. . .. ... .. .. ....*143.13-18
Precious stones. King, C. W. Natural history of precious stones
and of the precious metals. ..... . . . . .... .. . . .... ... . . . . . .. 933.5
Prime, E. D. G. Around the world. N. Y., 187'1. 8°..:. ..:. •... 314.3
Printing. Gutenberg, and the art of printing. Pearson, Emily C... 934.11
Private correspondence of Daniel Webster. Ed. b3 Fletcher Webster.446.9,10
Proctor, R. A. The orbs around us. L. and N. Y., 1872. 12°.. .. 934.15
Prose writers of America. Griswold, R. W. . ... .. .. . . .... .... . .. *146.18
Psychology. Mandsley, H. Physiology and pathology of the mind. 956.21
Spencer, H. The principles of psychology. . . .. . . .. .... .. .. 434.13
Pugin, A. and A. W. Examples of Gothic architecture. L.. 1850.
3 vols. 41.. . . . .. . . . .. .... . .. .. . . .... .... .... .... ....*927.19-21
Putnam, G. P. and Sons., pub. The best reading. N.Y., '72. MO. 161.20
Quarterly Review. 1809-1816, 1921-27. 27 viols.. . . ... . . . . . . . . . .. 122.-
Quincy, J. History of the Boston Athenwum. Carob. 1851. 8°.. 837.1
Quotations. Treasury of thought. An encyclopa'dia of quotations.
Ballou, M. Al.. .... .. .. . ... .. . ... .. . . .. .. .. . . .. . . . . .. .... 136.4
Rawlinson, G. Five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world.
N. Y., 1871. 3 vols. 80. .. .. . ... . . .. .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . .1055.8-10
Reading. Porter, N. Books and reading; or, what books shall I
read, and how shall I read them?. ... . . .. .. .. .. . ... .. . . .... 434.8
Putnam, G. P. and Sons, pub. The best reading. Hints on
the selection of books; on the formation of libraries, etc. . . . .. 161.20
Ruskin, J. Sesame and lilies. Two lectures on " What and
how to read" and 11 Why to read'. . . . .. .. . . .. .. ...... . . .... 444.10
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Recreations of a recluse. L., 1870. 2 vols. 120. •••. ••.•• •••••. 445.4, o
Red cross; or,young America in Eng. and Wales. Adams. W. T.962.9&963.a
Redding, C. Personal reminiscences of eminent men. L., 1867.
3 rols. 12...... .... . ..... . . ... . . . .. .. ...... ...... . .....733.25-27
Reid, Diayne. The boy hunters. B., 18:i9. 160....... ...... .. .. 945.8
Religion. Moffat, Jag. C. A comparative history of religions. •• .• 534.5
Muller, Diax. Lectures on the science of religion, etc...... 5;4.6
See also Sermons.
Re1'nolds, G. W. Nt. Pickwick abroad. L., 1.464. 8', cuts.. ..... 7 4.4
Rhetoric, Practical system of. Newman, L. P.... .. .... . ..... .... 442.2
Richardson, J. Wonders of the Fel lowstone. IN. Y.. '73. 12°, 17 cuts. 312.1.1
Rohertson. W. Ilistory of the discovery and conquest of America.. 851.16
Roman imperialism, and other lectures and essays. Seely, J. R. 532,2
Rome. Arnold, T. History of Rome.. ... .... . ... . ..... .. .. .... 865.18
Ec•hard, L. Roman history.... .... .... .. .. .. . . .... ...... 862.6, 7
Ferguson, A. History of the progress and termination of the
Ronutn Republic...... . . .... ...... . ... .... .. .. . ..... .... . 851.15
Kingston, T. L. History of Frederick II., Emperor of the
Romans. [1194-1250.] Camp. &. L., 1832. 2 v., 8 ... .... 867.11-12
Aferirale, C. Conversion of the Roman empire.. •. .... .... 83G.10
- Ilistory of Rome under the empire.... ............. .... 834').2-8
Mo+nmsen, T. History of Rome. 4 yols. ...... .... . .....852.10-13
Ros+•oe, II. E. Chemistry. Science primers. N. I., 1872. 180. .. 921.34
Spectrumanalysis...... .... ...... ....... ... 143.4
Rossetti, Christina G. Poems. B.. 1870. 16c. .. . ... . .... . . ..... 742.32
Ros 4n i. The life of. Edwards, li. S. . ..• . .. .... .... .... .... .... 7 36.13
Roughing it, by 1iark Twain. Clemens, S. L. . .... . . .. .. .... .. .. 3 16.7
Russian war. Nolan, E. H. Illustrated history of the a•ar against
RuRsia. 2 rule...... ...... ... . . .. .. ...... .... ...... .... 80-7.1 2
Sacred offering. . .... ...... ....... .. . . .. .. .... .... . . ..... . ... .. : "2 °4
Saint Louis: t1w future great city of the world. Rearis, L. L'.•.. . M.S.1, 2
Sanitary nwasurc*s, Report on the importance and economy of.. .... 7.16.3
Sauntering,. Warner, Chats. D. (2 cop.) .... .... .... .... .... .. .. 311.8,n
Sa%:+ge. Richard. Works. With a life, by Saml. Johnson, L., 1777.
2 rolA. 1G '.... .. .... .... . ..... .... .. .... ...• • •
. 744.G.7
Saxe, J. G. FnhleR and legends of many countries. B., 187:?. IRo 744.9
Sear,,, Ed. H. The fourth gospel the heart of Christ. B., 1872. 1410 5.14.10
SuhafC, Philip, Tile person of Christ. B., IM5. the
SchaufAer. fit' 5-'3.1G
1Z. %leditationR on the laAt dati•R of Christ.... . . .. ..
Scht•llen, It. Rpt•rtrum 8i2, 8''.analysis. N. Y 1 „;III 36w 2
_ t•utg � 1►l. 13G 2
Schonler, Will. A hixtorc +.f DiaRRachusetta in the civil war.
826.160 rol. _). ... .. . .
&h+jbert, Franz. l,ifi• of. llrlUo • .... .... ... . .. .. ....
von s ..... .. .... .... . . .... 7 32.1'+. _'++
Science. Hu,lr�', `(' 11. Lap sermons, addresses,... 1. .... .... . . ...
anti reviews.. .. 44.;.1, _'
Nichols, Ja+. R. Fireside science.
Proctor, R. A. Light ht . .... .. .. . ..... . ... . . . . n3?.17
g science for leisure hours.... . . . . .... . 9.1103.11
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Science. Tyndall, John. Fragments of science fnr unscientific people 933,T
See alto specific branches of science.
Scientific .American. 39 vols., a full set from the first . ... .. . ..148.-& 188.-
Scientific discovery, Annual of. 1r50-70, 20 vols.. .. .. .. .. .... ....924.1-20
Scotland. Hunnewell, Jas. F. Lands of Scott. . .. . . .. . . .. . .. ... 311.3
- Maxwell, C. A. The sea kings of Orkney, and other histor-
icaltales. . . . .. . ... .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .... . ... 852.23
- Rogers, Charles. Traits and stories of Scottish people. ..... 852.21
Scott, Sir Walter. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. Exeter, 1836. 2
viols., 8`: . . .. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. .. .. .. . . .. ... . .. .. ....1061.1, 2
Sculpture, ancient and modern, Handbook of. AX-estniacott, R.•.. . 443.
Sermons. Andrews, J. N. Sermons on the Sabbath and law.. . .. 523.1
Collyer, Robert. The life that now is. . . .. .. . . .. . . .. . ..... 532.1
- Nature and life. ... . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . .. . . .. .. .. 532.
Murray, Will. H. II. Park Street pulpit.. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 554.1
South, Robert. Sermons. [The Riverside Press edition, in
5 volunies.j . . . .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . .... . . . . .. . . .. .. .. .. .... 525.8-
Spurgeon, C. H. Sermons. With a biographical sketch.. .. .523.1
Swaim, S. B., In Tribute to the memory of. . .... . . . ... .. .. 737
See also undcf- subjects treated, and authors.
Sewell, Elizabeth AL Amy Herbert. L., n. d. 180.... . . .. . . •• .. 271.1
- Cleve Hall. L., n. d. 160 . . .. . . . ... . . . . .... . .. . .. . . ... . 4_'71.1
I - The earl's daughter. L., n. d. IG:,' . .. . .. . ..... . . .. .. .... 271.
- Gertrude. L., n. d. M . . .. .. .. .... . . . .. .. .. . . . . .... . . 271.21
Katharine Ashton. L., n. d. 16... ... .. . ... . . . ... .. . . .. .. '}71._'71
Langton parsonage. L., n. d. 111'... . . .... . . . . .. . . .. . ..... 271.24
Margaret Percival. L., n. d. lt;". . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .... .. .. 271.28
Ursula. L., n. d. 16= .. .. .... .. .. . ... . . .. . .. . .. .... .. .. 271.25
Shairp, J. C. Studies in poetry and philosophy. N. i., 1672. 12' 431.8
Shakespeare. Essay on his genius. and on the rise and progress of
the English drama. White, R. G. . . . . . . . .. .. . .. . .. . . .. . . .. 432 11
Shawl straps. Aunt Jo's scrap-hair. .. ... . . . ... . . .. .. . ... .. . ..... 311.10
Short studies on great subjects. 2d series. Froude, J. A.. . ... .. .. 465.5
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. A topographical and historical description
of Boston. B., 1872. 80 . . .. .. .. .. . ... .. ... 827.15
Siberia, Tent life in. Rennan, Geo.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .... 312.8
Sigourney, Lydia H. Whisper to a bride. Hartford, 1581. 18°- .- 522.35
Simonds, Thos. C. History of South Boston. B., 1857. 1_'0. ... . 862.19
Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history. Stanley, A. P. 524.2
Slavery. Massie, J. W. See America : her prospect for the Slave, etc. 862-18
Smith, Agnes. Eastern pilgrims : the travels of three ladies. L.,
1870. .13 . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. 316.8
Smith, C. 'M. The working nian's way in the world, an autobiography
of a journecinan printer. N. T., 1854. 12... . .. .. .. .. . . . . .. 732.11
Smith, J. T. Nollekens and his times : comprehending a life of that
celebrated sculptor. L., 1828. 2 vols., 80. .. . . .. .. . ... .. ..725.229 18
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Smith. Walter. Art education, scholastic and industrial. B.,L.. 18,2.
h=' .... .... .... .... . . .... ...... .. .. ...... ...... ...... .. .. 935.12
Sn ith, William. Dirtionary of Greek and Ronan antiquities. L.,
1872. 8 , cuts. . .. ..... . . ..... .... . . .... .. .. .. .. .... .... *141.12
Dictionary (if Greek anti Roman biography and mythology.
B. (L.), 1870. 3 vols., r cuts... .. .. . ... .. .... .... .. .. . *141.7-9
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geo raphy. B., (L.) 1870. 2
vols., 6c, mars. plans and cuts...... ...... .... . . .. .. .... .*141.10. 11
The New Testament history. (Harlier's student's series.).. .. 1063.2
The C)Itl Testament histnn. (Harper's student's series.).. .. 10G3.1
c Social science. Slack. H. J. I'hilosophy ofprnzress in iiurnan affairs. 755.27
Society and solitude. Emerson, R. W... . ... . . .... . . .. .. ... 442.3,4
snags. Slave songs of the Vnited States. L•'ct, by Allen, Ware and
Garrison ...... . ... .. .... . ... .. . ..... . . .... .. .. .. . . . . .. .. 7 67.4
Spanish literature, History of. Ticknor, George. :1 vole.. . . . .. .. .. 10,55.3-5
Spectrum analysis. Roscoe, 11. F.... .... .... .... .. .. .... .. .. .... . 143.4
Sc•hellen, I1. See Cheniistry...... .... .... .. .... .... . . .... 1:3G.2
Speeches. See Adams, John. Works. .... .. . .... . . .. .. ...... .. 417.9-18
See Ames. Fisher. «ork-�• . .. .. . . .. .. . .... . ..... . ... .. .. 417.7
- flee Webster, Daniel. Works . .... .... . . .... .... .. .. .... . 446.3-8
S1t� ocer, Ii. C. Spencerian key to practical penmanship.... . . .... . :134.13
SIlhitualism. The physics and physiology of. Hammon, «in. A. .. 523.11
SpnBord, Harriet Y. TI thief in the night. B.. 1872. 16". . .... . 271.15
Stearns, 0, S. Tribute to the memory of Rer. Saml. It. Swaim.... 737.2
Stel- of belief; or, rational Christianity maintained against atheism,
freereligion, and Homanisu►.... .. .. .... . . .. .. .. . . .... .... . ,32.5
Storiea anti poems by mother and daughter. Gilman. Carnline and ,
C. IL Jervey ...... .... .. .. . . . ... .... .. .. . . .. . . .... . ..... 945 12
For stories n»ti other forms ms of f etinn, see their authnrs.
Slone, Livingstone. Dolnt•rtic•att•ti trout. B., 1!472. N" cuts....... 9:11,22
Sto-iP masnn4, Drawing for. Davidson, E. A. ..... .... .... .... . .. 141 13
Sul-de brains anti Iiawom fingers, being some of the chist•l-marks of
our indu4t•ial anti 4cientifie grog-rests. «ynter, Andrew. . . .. 433-25
Sul urban 4ketches. Ilowells, W. 1Y .. .. .. . . 4421..q
l:ut t•t s!t anti it., conditionv. Whipple, F.. I'.. ..... .... .... .. . . .. .. 441.E
S►anday evening lerturea for vnung I►e"ons. ... .. .. . .... .. .. . . . . .. 5.13.19
Swaim, S. 11. Sermtma. Edited by 0. S. Stearn`. 13., liZG6. 8^
.. t.37.2►
Sort-den. Voltaire, F. M. A. de. Ili=tort' of Charles ill, king of
Sweden . . .... ...... ...... .... .... .... .... . 73 1.14
Swinhurne, A. C. William Blake. A critical essay. L. IK6A. S' -'RC
Swiss basket-maker and other stories. N. S-., i . d. 1R°.... .. .. . ... q-
ai.R3
Taxation. Well@, D. A. Report (2d) of rommittrc appointed to
revise the laws for the asgessnient and ci lection of tatt•s in
N. Y., 1872. Pub. 17 Cobden Club. London . . .. .. . (16.3,6
Taylor,Bayard. Trao,lle in 9. Africs. N. j'., 1873. 1: cut-4.... 31:1.l 4
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Ten great religions. Clarke, James F.. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .... 524.1
Thackeray. Fields, Jas. T. Yesterdays with authors. (Article 2.) 445.3
Theodosia Ernest; or, the heroine of faith. Phil., n. d., 12 cuts...272.35, 36
Thoughts in my garden. Fare, Mary G....... .. .. .... .. .. ...... 532.7
Three books of song. Longfellow, H. W. .. ..... . . .. .... .... .. .. 742.23
Ticknor, G. History of Spanish literature. B., 1872. 3 vols. 8°.1055.3-5
Tillotson, J. Palestine; its holy sites and sacred story. L., n. d. 8°,
maps and 350 plates and cuts. . . . .. . . .. .. . . .. .. . . . . .. . . .. .. 53G.1
Titeomb's letters to young people. Rolland, J. G.. . ... .. .... . ... .. 433.11
Trafton, Adeline. The American girl abroad. B., 1872. 1G°. ... . . 362.25
Travels. Chateaubriand, F. A. de. Travels in Greece, Palestine,
Egypt, and Barbary. (1806, 1807.). . .. .. .... .... .. .... . . .. 315.1
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain.) The innocents abroad. 315.3
Clement, Clara E. A simple story of the Orient.. .. .... .. .. 315.10
- Coffin, C. C. Our new way round the world (2 cop.)..355.10 8. 314.1
-Cox, S. S. Search for printer sunbeams in Riviera, Corsica.,
Algiers, and Spain. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. . . . ... .... .. .. .. .... .. .. 314.2
Gilmore, J. R. (Edmun(7 Kirke.) Down in Tennessee and
back by way of Richmond. . . . . .. . ... . • .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .... 312.11
Howe, H. Travels and adventures of celebrated travellers
in the principal countries of the globe. ... .. .. .. .. .... .. .... 316.5
Kingsley, H. Tales of old travel, re-narra'ed.. . . .. .. . . ... . 312.4
Malcolm, II. Travels in south-eastern Asiv ... . .. .. .... .... 551.21
- Murray, Hugh. Travels of 'Marco Polo. .. .. .. .. . ..... . ... 361.25
--- Prime, E. D. G. Around the world. . . .. .. •.•• . ..... .... 314.3
Smiles, S. Round the world. By a boy. . ...... . . ..... .... 312.10
Swift, J. F. Going to Jericho: or, sketches of travel in Spain
and the East. . .... . .... . ..... . .. . . . . .. . . .. .. . . .... . . .... 3.53.19
Taylor, Bayard. By-says of Europe. N. Y., 1fiG9. 12°.. '253.18
Urbino, S. R. Mrs. An American woman in Europe.•• • ..•. 311.10
See also names of places, countries, or seas.
Trout. Stone, L. Domesticated trout.. How to breed and grow
them. . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. .. .. .. .. . . . . . .. ... . ..... .... .... .... 931.22
Trowbridge, J. T. A chance for himself. B., 1872. 170, 19 cuts.. 96G.3
Coupon bonds, and other stories. B., 1873. 12', 10 cuts. .. 273.17
Two thousand years hence. O'Neil, 11. . . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. . . .... .. 433.24
Tyerman, L. Life and times of John Wesley. founder of the Meth-
odists. N. Y., 1872. 3 vols. 8", port. ... . .. . .. . ... .. . . .. 736-e-10
Underwood, F. II. A hand-book of English literature. Vol. 1
American authors, Vol. 2, British authors. B., 1872-3.
120. 2 viols. . .. . . . . .... .. .. .. .. .. . . . . .. .. . . .. . . .. .. .. .. . 445.1, 2
United States in the light of prophecy. Battle Creek, Mich., 1872.
1G0 .... . . .. .. . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . . .... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . 523.17
United States. Familiar letters on public characters and public
events. [1783-1815].. .. . . . .. .. .... .. .. .... . ... .. .... .... 864.21
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United States. Frothinhbam, R. The rise of the republic of the
United States.... . .. . . .. .. .... .. .. ...... ...... .... . . .... 10.;5.12
Giddings, J. R. history of the rebellion.... .. ...... . ... .. 867.13
ti Massie, J. W. America: the origin of the present conflict
her prospect for the slave. and her claim for anti-slavery sym-
pathy ...... ...... . .. ... . . .... ...... .... ...... ...... .... . 862.18
— Motley, J. L. Historic progress and American democracy.. N. 2.2
— Munroe, J. Conduct of the executive in the foreign affairs of
I the U. S., con. with the mission to the French. [1794-6.]... K.G.1
— ar between the Mates. 2 viols.....•8G7.14,15
Stephens, A. 11. The w
U. S. navy. Boynton, C. B. History of the navy during the re-
bellion. ..... . ..... .... .... . ..... .... .... .... ...... .. .. .. IOG5.3-4
Urbino, S. 11. Mrs. An American woman in Europe. B., 69. 1C. 311.10
Ursula. A tale of country life. Sewell, Eliz. Di.. .... .. .. .... .... 271.25
Vicar's daughter. Macdonald, George... .. .. .... .... .. .. .... ... . 271.28
Voyages. Barrow, Sir J. The mutiny and piratical seizure of 11.
M. S. Bounty.... .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. 361.24
Neale, Johnson. Mutiny at the Nore, and mutiny at Spithead 361.23
Reynolds, J. N. Voyage of the U. S. frigate Potomac [.lobo
Downes, commander] around the globe, 1831-34.. .. .. .. .... 357.5
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INDEX .
AUDITOR'S REPORT. PAGE
Almshouse Account, 17
Almshouse, Inventory of, 39
AllushouSe, Report of Overseers of, 51
Assessors' Report, 9
Assets, 36
Borrowed ;Money, 40 F
Bridges and Culverts Account, 21
By-Laws, 67
Collector's Report, 1870, 10
Contingent Account, 32
Dogs, concerning, 64
Expenses, per estimate, 43
Fire Department, Account of, 28
Fire Department, Engineer's Report, 56
Highways, Account of, 30
Highways, Report of Surveyors, 53
Insurance Account, 23-46
Interest on Town Debt 22
Library Account 2:3
Police Account, 25
Re-Ostrar's Report 39
Salaries, 24
School Expenses, 13
Selectmen, Report of, 49
State Aid, 24
State Tax, 28
Tax (Synopsis of) from 1820 to 1872, 45
Town Debt, 40
Town Grant, 6
Town Officers, List of: 3
Town Property, Valuation, 43
Treasurer, Report of, 37
SCHOOL COAUMITTEE'S REPORT.
REPORT OF BUILDING COWMITTfiE.
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LIBRART, TRUSTEES AND LIBRARIANS REPORT.
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