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Feb. 20. Fire loss of $1000 in studio of Olin W. Chase, 503 Main Street.

21. Carl J. Rolander elected president of Swedish Charitable Association to succeed Eric O. Granberg.

21. Worcester Driving Park Co. disbands after existence of 21 years.

21. Michael L. Carroll, head instructor at Worcester Trade School, resigns.

21. Hearing at State House, Boston, before joint legislative committee on railroads, on petition to retain South Worcester station.

22. President Frederick W. Hamilton of Tufts College speaks at Worcester conference of Universalist churches.

22. Worcester Metaphysical Society organized with Rev. R. J. Floody, president.

22. John Adams, real son of the Revolution, at age of 96 years attends at banquet of Sons of the American Revolution, Boston. 22. Annual banquet of Worcester Builders' Exchange; principal speakers, William H. Sayward, secretary Master Builders' Association, Boston; Charles W. Bosworth, judge of Bankruptcy Court and president of Union Trust Co., Springfield; J. P. Bird, general manager National Manufacturers' Association, New York.

22. James J. Regan, St. Paul, national president of the A. O. H., guest of Division 3, A. O. H., at 39th anniversary dinner.

27. John A. Sherman, president of Sherman Envelope Co., entertains his employees and families at banquet in the Sherman factory.

28. William W. Lee, teacher of mathematics and science at Bancroft School, resigns to accept position as superintendent of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Boston.

Mar. 3. New organ to be installed in Jamesville Baptist Church. 6. Rev. John Gullans, of Seattle, accepts call to Swedish-Finnish Lutheran Church.

7. Seventeenth annual meeting of Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association opens in Horticultural Hall.

Annual banquet of Sons and Daughters of Maritime Provinces in vestry of First Presbyterian Church.

10. Annual meeting of Tatnuck Improvement Society at Tatnuck schoolhouse; Congressman John A. Thayer and Representative Michael A. Hencbery, speakers.

16. Annual banquet of Worcester Branch of National Metal 33 Trades Association; Hon. Charles G. Washburn and Harrington Emerson of New York, principal speakers.

16. Worcester Retail Grocers and Provision Dealers' Association have annual banquet with speeches by guests from Boston, Chelsea and East Weymouth.

19. Trustees of Worcester Trade School plan to add course in bricklaying.

City Hall

Feb. 20. Order adopted by City Council for purchase of 44,000 feet of land on Lovell Street for schoolhouse.

20. City Council adopts order for remodelling of Thomas Street schoolhouse at estimated cost of $8000.

20. City Council adopts order for installation of new heating plants at Adams Square and Elizabeth Street schoolhouses, at estimated cost of $9600.

27. City Auditor Williamson files legal takings of 260 acres of land in Asnebumskit watershed for proposed Kendall reservoir.

27. Hearing at City Hall before Massachusetts Gas and Electric Light Commission upon petition of Mayor James Logan for cheaper arc lights.

28. Olmstead Bros., landscape architect, Brookline, submit report and plans for redesigning Washington Square.

Mar. 6. License Commissioners file annual report showing total receipts of $215,572.36 and net balance to city of $158,953.11. 6. Present Board of License Commissioners, Reginald Washburn, James F. Carberry and W. Levi Bousquet, reappointed by Mayor Logan and confirmed by City Council.

11. Returns of marriage licenses for 1910 total 1637.

13. Hearing by Street Lighting Committee of City Council on plan of street lighting presented by Worcester Merchants Association. 13. City Auditor Frank E. Williamson files with County Commissioners plans for proposed Kendall reservoir, to cost approximately $400,000.

14. February bills of city of Worcester amount to $300,708,35. Industrial

Feb. 21. Edwin W. Lynch disposes of his stock in the Worcester Amusement Co., and resigns as president and member of the Board of Directors.

21. People's Savings Bank lets contract to remodel building, to Hoggson Bros., New York.

22. Lucius J. Knowles elected vice-president and treasurer of Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, to succeed F. P. Knowles.

23. George McAleer, sixteen years treasurer of Bay State Savings Bank, resigns.

23. New York Central R. R. will spend several hundred thousand dollars to improve freight yards in Worcester.

27. Wolfenden & Ziroli, architects, draw plans for armory of Varnum Continentals at East Greenwich, R. I.

28. J. M. and C. J. Buckley, 67 Harrison Street, secure contracts for two mercantile structures at 17-27 Sleeper Street, Boston; total cost, $106,000.

28. Coghlin Electric Co. secures $10,000 contract at toy factory of Morton E. Converse & Son, Winchendon.

Mar. 1. William E. Fawcett, 64 Sever Street, resigns as secretary and superintendent of the C. T. Sherer Co.

1. Stamp sales for February at Worcester postoffice net $3434.11 more than in February, 1910; total sales, $38,134.42.

6. Contract for steel footbridge at Crystal Street awarded to Eastern Bridge & Structural Co.

6. Worcester port of entry handles in February 749 packages, valued at $26,000.

7. Wells Chemical Bronze Works, 219 Summer Street, suffer $1000 fire loss.

7. Richard French Iron Works, Muskeego Street, to build drop forge shop 94 by 36 feet.

10. Annual meeting of United States Envelope Co. at Portland, Me. Directors elected include seven Worcester men: C. Henry Hutchins, James Logan, Louis H. Buckley, Willard E. Swift, G. Henry Whitcomb, Samuel E. Winslow, Fred Daniels.

17. Worcester Welding Co. incorporated with capital of $10,000 to do autogenous welding.

Necrology

Feb. 20. Sylvester W. Dearborn, former contractor and inspector in city building department, at his home, 78 Florence Street, of heart disease, aged 75 years.

23. George B. King, active in First Baptist Church, of heart disease, aged 70 years, 10 months and 11 days, at his home, 25 Merrick Street.

23. George E. Kirby, aged 70 years, 4 months and 25 days, umbrella manufacturer, and 35 years sexton of First Universalist Church, at his home, 27 Beacon Street, of consumption.

24. Mrs. Marion L. Comey, wife of Dr. Perley P. Comey, in Atlanta, Ga.

26. Daniel J. Ward, actor and newspaper man, aged 55 years, 10 months and 7 days, of chronic bronchitis, at Hotel Parker. 27. Edward A. Dewey, many years night station-master at Union Station, aged 66 years, 11 months and 6 days, of Bright's disease, at his home, 314 Grafton Street.

Mar. 1. Thomas Monahan, city inspector of cattle and provisions, aged 74 years, 2 months and 27 days, of paralysis, at his home, 7 Sycamore Street.

7. Elnathan Pratt, pioneer market gardener, aged 76 years, 11 months and 16 days, of rheumatism and paralysis, at his home, 134 Elm Street.

8. George Foster Chase, baritone singer, of Bright's disease, at his home, 149 Burncoat Street, aged 32 years, 6 months and 8 days. 13. John M. Kendall, of the Warren Leather Goods Co., aged 45 years and 8 days, of Bright's disease, at Hotel Standish.

Argentine Trade Notes

The population of the city of Buenos Aires on December 31, 1910, was 1,314,163, as compared with 1,242,278 on December 31, 1909.

Plans for the new freezing plant at the Port of La Plata, which is to be erected in accordance with a concession by the Argentine Congress to an American concern, have been prepared, and work on the building will soon begin.

The number of passengers carried on the tramways of Buenos Aires in 1908, 1909, and 1910 was 255,073,846, 281,712,392, and 323,782,738, respectively, and the receipts were $10,420,010, $11,771,294, and $13,546,424, United States currency, respectively.

There were 27,719 sales of real estate in Buenos Aires during 1910, the value of which was $177,608,197, United States currency. There were 14,011,759 square meters sold, at an average price of $12.67 per square meter. The number of properties mortgaged in 1910 was 9697, with a valuation of $62,455,161.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has issued a decree directing Argentine consular officers to give, at least twice a year, in their respective districts, lectures on the resources and the general progress of Argentina. They are to set forth the advantages which the country offers to capitalists as well as to immigrants and colonists.Consular Reports.

Birmingham Industrial Bureau Active

Plans for the new industrial bureau of the Chamber of Commerce were endorsed at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chamber. A report of the committee on the location of new industries was submitted and was accepted by the Board. The report contained the plans of the industrial bureau in detail as they were worked out by the committee in conjunction with a number of local railroad men. The report was read by Chairman M. P. Messer of the industrial committee.

After endorsing the plans the Board of Directors. referred the matter back to the committee to work out the details of the guarantee fund of $200,000 which is to be raised by subscription. No cash, it is stated, will be handled, as all that is necessary is a surety of a sufficient sum to carry on the work of locating new industries.

The committee reported that during the past 38 years a total of 456 new industries have located in Birmingham, making an average of 16 new industries located each year. In other cities of the same size as Birmingham, it is stated that the average of new industries located is from two to five a year.

According to the report of the committee the applications of 16 new companies which are anxious to locate here are now being considered by the committee.— The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.

What April 26 Means

THE Worcester Board of Trade has for many years had as its principal speaker at its annual banquet a national figure; not a voice from the wilderness, but a man fresh from the seats of the mighty. President Taft while he was still a member of Mr. Roosevelt's Cabinet, Senator Burton of Ohio, and last year the illustrious Senator from Texas, Mr. Bailey, were three recent conspicuous examples of a long line of orators and notables that have graced these occasions during the past thirty-five years.

The only drawback to this luminous record is the continuous incentive to excel. Each year the desire grows to improve upon the record of the year before. Already these dinners have grown so large as to tax the capacity of Mechanics Hall, and from one of the social events of the year it has come to be the very greatest of them all.

The Board of Trade now has 850 members. We meet monthly in groups at our regular smoke-talks. Sometimes the speaker appeals to one element in our membership and sometimes to quite another, but at the annual banquet we all get together and boost for Worcester.

There is something psychological about this annual feast-day. In a very vital sense it quickens the function of civic pride. Mechanics Hall is one of the great meeting-places of this country. Not so ancient perhaps as Boston's cradle of liberty, it still takes no second place to that famed resort of the eloquent in its record and traditions as a meeting-place. From its rostrum have stormed the apostles of freedom, temperance and religious liberty. Here stood, only the other day it seems, the lamented McKinley, and for half a century from its dais the brightest minds in both of the political parties have kindled the enthusiasm of their followers.

It is in this place hallowed by so many traditions, its walls covered with the portraits of our great men orators, statesmen and warriors-that we meet annually to commemorate our growth as a community and as an organization.

Seen from this angle this event assumes another significance than that of a mere public dinner, elaborate and sumptuous though it may be. Of its deeper meaning we must not lose sight. Back of the music and gayety and flowers and lights, the china and silver and food, is the fundamental thought that men ought to give up at least one night a year to glorifying the city in which they live and move and have their being.

And just in proportion as men sense this obligation and just in proportion as they rise to it, not only one night but every night, not only one day but all days, will Worcester grow and prosper. For the growth and development and increase of this sentiment constitutes that strange elusive thing about which we hear so much talk nowadays called civic pride.

to-day and has always given to its people far more than it has ever received from them. It is one of the regrettable things of modern times that a set of loose and wicked thinkers has arisen in this country whose principal business seems to be to slander and decry every time-tested institution that this country boasts. As a nation we have gone reform-mad. It has come to be quite the fashion to slander our public officials and to decry and deny the efficiency of our city governments. In some communities there may be need of this sort of thing but Worcester is not among them, and any attempt to initiate such a campaign here should be resisted to the death. It is not by the undermining of the public confidence in all government that the republic is to succeed. Rather is it for us highly to resolve, as we are coming more and more to do in these annual gatherings, that we will individually make ourselves worthy of such a splendid community as this is, set flower-like in the very heart of our American civilization.

The men of Worcester ought to be proud of their citizenship, for they are citizens of no mean city. Fortunately for us we are to have here this year in the person of Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland a speaker who will delight in pointing out from his own observations the large part this city has played in the nation's development. His words ought to bring with them a sobering sense of our obligations to make the Worcester of the future a worthy successor of the Worcester of the days gone by.

Real and Unreal Boston

The "greater" movement seems to be exceedingly popular in certain sections of the country at the present time. There is a "greater" Davenport, Ia., and a "greater" Dayton and a "greater " Buffalo, and finally there is a "greater" New York which seeks to annex everything north of Jersey.

Birmingham, Ala., has this fever badly. In 1900 the Census Department only gave Birmingham the benefit of the industries located within its borders. Hence these tears! In 1910 the hustlers in the Iron City of the South got together and prevailed on the census-takers to include in the list of Birmingham's industries all that are located in the county of which it forms a part.

As a result of this makeshift Birmingham expects to capture the caption, "Largest industrial city in the South." Of course Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis and Louisville will not like this transaction much, but Birmingham is satisfied that it is all right, its motto being apparently Soc et tuum," or "The end justifies the means."

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but no one would think of comparing it even then with a diamond.

So with a community that has grown as Boston has, soberly, steadily, sturdily. Can mere numbers add anything to its prestige? Having labored for 300 years to produce quality, will it attract to itself a more desirable or a less desirable element when it begins to specialize in quantity? Of the two cities, which has the proudest record as a community, which has accomplished the most for the republic, which is the more truly AmericanBoston or New York? Boston can never hope to rival the metropolis in population if it annexes everything it wants. Will it not lose also the only claim to pre-eminence that it ever possessed, viz., that of being the Athens of America, the one place where money has not ruled supreme?

In other words, may not the effort to create a real Boston result in the development of a Boston that is absolutely unreal?

The expressed desire behind the proposed growth in population by forcible annexation is to incite manufacturers to locate in the greater city. Boston's chief charm for more than a century has been as a residence centre and the further fact that it is the birthplace of culture, refinement and good breeding in the country. What will become of its reputation in this respect when it has 1,500,000 people and its sky resembles Vesuvius?

The real Bostonians will do well to bear in mind that there are some things in life more valuable than money and some reputations harder to come by and more golden when obtained than those incident to mere numbers. It would be easy to duplicate any one of a half dozen great industrial centres on this continent and make them each more populous than Boston, and still not have anything when you got through but a mere beehive. What there can possibly be in a contest to construct another Pittsburg on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and wipe out the traditional Hub in so doing is a mystery to everybody outside the favored few who seem to be committed to this latest device for glorifying Boston.

We refer of course to the fire in the New York city shirt-waist factory and to the destruction by the devouring element of the State Capitol at Albany.

In no one particular does our modern civilization break down so completely as at this point.

Within seventy years Charlestown, S. C., Savannah, Ga., Pittsburg, Pa., Portland, Me., Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Baltimore and Chelsea have all been fire-swept, some of them almost to the point of extinction, and rebuilt by the insurance companies. The property loss in each of these cases has of course been staggering, but there have been individual disasters in which the loss of life has been even more awful than in the frightful calamities enumerated above. To every reader will readily recur the Iroquois Theatre fire, the holocaust at the Collingwood school, the awful carnage at the burning of the General Slocum, and finally this more recent funeral-pile in Manhattan.

Language fails us when we attempt to depict such horrors, and we pass over them as speedily as possible. But we ought not to lose sight of the lessons they teach. Either New York or Albany is likely to be duplicated tomorrow in any city that has a capitol or a shirt-waist factory. It is frequently remarked here that Worcester has a first-class fire department, and it has, but it is more good luck than good management that has prevented an enormous property loss here, even if we escaped with that alone.

Given a city in which there is as much frame construction as there is in Worcester, filled as it is with modern "three-deckers," a blaze started in the right location. here with a high wind blowing would be practically irresistible if it ever got under great headway.

It is said that the first few years of a child's life are the most important of his entire career, and the person who has the shaping of them will have more effect on his future than any other single influence he will ever meet. It is the same way with a fire. There is a time at the very start when it can be controlled and extinguished by one person. After it gets by that point a thousand men and millions of gallons of water may be absolutely impotent to stop its spread and sway.

In advance should plans be made in all large stores and manufacturing establishments to cope with such emergencies. Chemical extinguishers, three-gallon size, will discharge a stream capable of rendering the ordinary blaze harmless in a moment.

Underwriters list no less than seventeen different kinds of such extinguishers which have been tested and found satisfactory. In the city of Rochester, N. Y., during the months of January and February last past, out of eighty-nine fires no less than forty-four were extinguished by these small chemical extinguishers or almost exactly 50 per cent.

In the ordinary store two such extinguishers are sufficient, but enough should be provided so that there shall be no question about their being handy when needed. Particularly ought the number to increase as the building goes up in the air. To compel employees, and particularly women and children, to work nine stories or more towards heaven in buildings without fire-escapes and fire-extinguishers is an act so indefensible. as to merit universal condemnation.

Human life is proverbially cheap in America as elsewhere. We see individual instances proving this to be the case every day, but it would seem, when so little is needed to conserve the most valuable product that the nation boasts, that that little might be provided. Punishing the owners of the New York shirt-waist factory will not restore to life their dead employees, any more than punishing those who first discovered the Albany fire will restore its million-dollar staircase and the other priceless features of the Capitol building. But as a result of these two disasters we can say, and we ought to say, that every building, whether public or private, shall be provided with suitable and sufficient fire-extinguishers, and further that it shall be a criminal offense not to provide ample escapes from all buildings where any considerable number of persons are employed in absorbing occupations.

There were no fire-extinguishers in the State Capitol and no fire-escapes in the shirt-waist factory. In the light of these two facts neither of these disasters is mysterious. Their outcomes were as logical as the multiplication table.

The question is, shall we take warning from these fatalities by observation or await an experience of our own?

The records of the last meeting were read and approved.

A report was received from the Committee on Transportation transmitting a letter from Mr. L. F. Vosburgh, general passenger agent of the New York Central Railroad, in which he informed the Chairman, Mr. E. M. Woodward, that the two sleeping cars complained of by the Board, viz., Nos. 2022 and 2024, on the midnight train out of Worcester to New York and the 11 o'clock train out of New York for Worcester have been replaced at the suggestion of this Board by more modern cars, and that in addition to this improvement, on June 1st brand new Pullmans will be put on this line for this run.

The report was accepted and adopted.

A communication from Mr. E. J. Seward, treasurer of the Royal Worcester Corset Co., with reference to the advisability of Worcester manufacturers uniting in a cooperative plan of advertising in the leading South American newspapers under the auspices of this Board, was referred to the Committee on Foreign Trade for investigation and report, the Secretary being made a member of the committee for the purpose of submitting the project. to the manufacturers and assisting in working out the

mass of detail involved, provided the matter met with the approval of the parties concerned.

A communication was read from Prof. W. D. Hurd of Amherst Agricultural College submitting a plan for extension work in connection with the activities of the United States Department of Agriculture in this county and asking for co-operative effort on the part of this Board with the Agricultural Society, the Horticultural Society, the Grange, Y. M. C. A. and other bodies. Matter referred to Committee on Agriculture.

An invitation was received from the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration signed by the Secretary, H. C. Phillips, to this Board to send a delegate to its seventeenth annual meeting May 24-26. On motion of Mr. Inman it was voted that Mr. Charles T. Tatman represent this Board as its delegate at this session. A communication was received from Mr. E. M. Woodward, vice-president of this Board, expressing his thanks for the gift of a bunch of roses from the Directors on the occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Woodward.

A communication was received from the Boston Chamber of Commerce extending an invitation to this Board to attend its European tour, the party leaving Boston in June to be gone two months, estimated expense being $600.

A communication was received from the National Board of Trade with reference to the passage of the Appalachian forestry reserve bill.

The thanks of Hon. Manuel L. Quezon, resident Philippine Commissioner, for entertainment by this Board under the auspices of the Committee on Foreign Trade contained in a letter written by him February 11, 1911, was read. A similar expression from Hon. Benito Legarda, his colleague, was also announced by the Secretary, who stated that Mr. Legarda had forwarded to this office a consignment of very fine Filipino cigars, to be distributed among those present at the luncheon tendered the two commissioners.

A letter was read from the National Business League of America, advocating the establishment of a permanent exposition of American products in Paris, and inviting this Board to be represented at a conference to consider the subject to be held later in the year. Matter referred to Committee on Foreign Trade.

The Secretary read his report as official delegate to the recent Pan-American conference, which was approved and placed on file.

The plan proposed for the improvement at Washington Square was exhibited and thoroughly studied by the Directors, and it was then

Voted, That the Secretary be instructed to file with the City Council a request for a hearing on the part of the Board of Trade on the plan for the improvement of Washington Square as prepared by Olmstead Bros. It was further voted that the Special Committee on Union Station Tower be continued as the Committee on the Improvement of Washington Square, that the committee may add to its number if it desire, and that it be empowered to spend not more than $100 in carrying on its work in this connection.

After a discussion of the status of the Henebery bill, so called, it was voted that the Secretary be empowered to communicate with the various commercial organizations throughout the State and in behalf of the Directors of this Board to request them to ask their several legislative delegations to support this bill on the ground that the measure is for the public good. Adjourned.