Holyoke City (part 4 of 4)

The p;irisli grounds are said to be the fine.M in the diocese of SpriiiKru-I'l- They occupy ihc ytiUlc slope which e.^lcnd? fmm Dwight street on tlic ii.Tth to Suffolk and Applclon streets on the south, where these streets rise to meet llial which is aplly calle.l Fleasaul. This broad expanse of iranqnil green arresls the weary eyes of passersby and soothes them. Nor ate the lawns of Holy Cross merely ohjee^^ of dclifiht to spectators. They are the play tentrr^ of the chiUlrcn of the neighhorhond. hiileed, the

Holyoke'S Parks

The lone circui around us formed sbnres and the h[\h for our industrial boundaries have bi?i tic. and they disliiui and residenlinl sicH (lividualily seldom i sily of the development of ihc great waiter power and t eslablishment of manufacturing industries, that ihey h. any realisation of the value of l!ie preservation of ihe natural beauty spnts to future gencraiions. With iluni i broad open spaces were accessible and it was only a st guardians of botii liome and school. It is pry-cmiDcntly the rifihl ;tiid duly of ihe li-acliers lo know wlial is being done for tlie cliild ;tt home. It is her fuiiclioii to furtlier the best teachings of tiie parents or help build a stiindard of right living where there has beiin a poor one, or noniat all. To do this she needs to know the home.

.\ child i5 often a totally (liPfercnt child in the school than Ik ts. in the home, through misunderstanding or lack of intelligent training.

M is> K.iilRriiic t'l. Shine, assistant principal in the building, has been of invaluable a-'^sistance in its success, and is an enthusiast on all ph.ises of Parent-Teacher

: of tlie Congress. Willi several of our HoiyoWe principals, teachers, and parciils planning for these organizations in iheir districts, the Highland School Association stands ready to assist in any way possible. Superintendent McSherry has given his word of hearty approval and endorsement. The officers for the coming year are : Mrs. J. J. Kirkpatrick, president ; Miss Lucy B. Ramage, vice-president; Mrs. W. L. Foote, secretary; Miss ^Tary E. Bachelder, treasurer Chairmen of committees: program. Miss K, G, Shine, Mrs. G, S. Parsons; refreshment, Mrs. W. E, Martin, Mrs. \V. E, Sawin; membership, Mrs. T. D. O'Brien.

Ledgers And Fine Writings

THE CAREW MANUFACTURING COMPANY HAS ENJOYED A REPUTATION FOR HIGH QUALITY SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION WHICH IT HAS ZEALOUSLY GUARDED TO THE PRESENT TIME. THEY MAKE TODAY, HIGH GRADE. LOFT DRIED BONDS, LINENS. LEDGERS AND FINE WRITINGS

Are Specialists In The Manufacture Of Bond Paper

THE HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY HAS CREATED A WORLD WIDE FAME FOR DOING ONE THING A LITTLE BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE - THEY ARE SPECIALISTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOND PAPER

Arcanum No. 98

FoiiiKled June 5, 1878. and lias a jiro^eni loini itieni- Utrsliip of 12S. The regular meetings aro held in Wnkclin Hall, llie Fccoiid and fourth Wednesdays of each nioiilh. The full list of officers is as follows; Regent, William T. l-ambert; vice regent, Timothy J. Cronin; orator, George O. Kellogg; secretary. Charles D. Coison; Ireasiircr, John J. Byrnes; guide. Charles W. Dnston. warden, John Sullivan; collector. Thomas W. Doyle; Inislee-^, John Sheridan, Maurice Fitzgerald, Jamc* McTe;irnen.

The Isabella Court. M. C. O. F.. No. 112

Founded February 3, 18!)5, r.nd lias a present tola! membership of as:.. Meetings are lield first and third Tuesdays of eacli month in Wakelin Hall. Thi^ full list of officers is as follows: fast chief ranger, Mary A. Gri'cne; chief ranger. Margaret Roekwood; vice chief ranger, R xiiie McCoriiiick; treasurer, Margaret E. Clark; recurding secretary Nellie T. McLean

The Police Relief Association

Fotmded November 11. l'J02. and has a total membership of lis. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month in the Police Court Room. City Hall. The list of officers is as follows: President, Ricliard Peters; vice-president, James Malcolm; treasurer, Patrick F. Ryan ; secretary. George W. O'Cnnnell.

St. Jerome'S F. A. M. B. And L. Society

Foimded in 1S(1!I. The present tntai membership is :is2. Meetings are held ever)' Sunday at C.?.0 p. m., in St. Jerome Hall. Tlie full list of umctrs is a^ follows; Spiritual director. Rev. Daniel T, ncvino; ]. resident, Urban Fleming: vice-president, James P. Rolian; financial secretary, John P. Shea; treasurer. Ceorye Fitzgerald; recording secretary, John M. Shea; correspondirit! secretary. Edward La Brecruic: marshal, P- A. Shea; serueanl at arms,

The Willimansett Club

Organized .\uL!Ust (>, l!ioi">, and has a present total membership of 7i22. The meetiiii:s arc held al the corner of Bridge and Emerson streets. The full list of officers is as follows: D. C. Amuotte. president; James Thomson, viee-prcsident; T. Delude, treasurer; Henry Lavallce. clerk.

The Sons Of St. George

Founded Juue l^Tfi. a.id 1ms a total mauihership of 183 The mectiiiEi are held the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month in Odd Fellows Hall, High street. The full list of ofiicers is as follows; President. Frank Hcardscll; vice-president. Fred Wigfileswortli ; secretary,

John H. Mo.vOTi; assistant , James Partington; siley ; chaiilaiii, Edmond icl, -Mbert Faucctt; outside sentinel. Robert Taylor. David Moxon.

The Massasoit Commandery No. 273 A. And I. O. K. Of M.

Founded January 31. I'.nio. .uid membership of 1-15- The mcetinKs a and fourth Fridays of each month The full list of officers is as follow M. Prilay; generalissimo. Luciu

Nelson Barrett; prelate. S. V. Fales; recorder. Thomas Halket: assistant recorder, George Crame . ihiir E. Snow; senior warden. H. F. f-Ioward ; ju; den, r.iifitaf Larson; sword bearer. Otto Hansoi

Division Number 11

The regular meetings are held on the second Sunday and fourth Friday of each n,onlh at A. 0. H Hal!, a corner of Front and John streets. The full list of officer, is as follows: President. John T. O'Donnell; rccordmg secretary. Michael J. Fahey ; financial secretary, John J. Ward; treasurer, John C. Moriarty.

Calvary Cemetery

1008, by Rt. Rev, Bishop Bctvtn It . oiii uii-; acres, the grounds being laid om uikKt 'if dir A. B. Tower, civil engineer. There is nu a^si^i charge, it being held in fee simple by iho BiOi. niocesc. Superintendent. Rev. P. B. Plielan.

Holyoke'S Municipal Lighting

a spleniiid record in liolyoke lliey neeiied, .ini! ihey put up a proposition that he could not resist. Tliat's why Hoiyoke has no municipal lighting manager - just yet. Major Chapin bricked up Mr. Snow lo ilie limit. After a

- iiu.di.iii has always been K^ed aiid practically siippurted by women. In the early months of 10)0 the women of Ho!- handed together and raised a building fund of for ihc new i!ome Wh, n ihe new building use, by other forms of pavemeiil, the first permanent street work that vvas done in Holyoke under the Board, was the paving on Cabot sireet from Main sireet lo the Willimanleft ih.' L'"Hi-.l I'Mini.

Holyoke nKinnf.ictun.T^ before iIil- public as niiicii as possible, il has iiiiisied that where manufacturers' Iradeninrks have been used upon any of lis products used by the Hoard that the word "Ifolyoke" be added to the list or the words "M^dc in Hulynke" placed upon the product, Il sett bridge, which was closely followed by the paving on Aiipleton street, west of High .streel. Time docs not permit nicniinn of the very many other paces ni sireet work may seem ;i curious fact llist the Paper City of the world was furin'shint; less paper to the municipality than outside mills when ihe Board assumed office. Tiiroiifih the excause for many discussions and hitter arguments, was rel.laced by a modern siruclure The New York, Xew Haven

Holyoke Board Of Trade

,u^, 111. L-iiy 1- furnished all those who ask for it, and the of the Board are at the disposal of llic stranger seeking location for his business or residence.

Harsons Paper Company

nicniation, and is one of ihc [lapers in l)ie world. In addition 10 this well-known tine lliey ;ilso manufacture Parsons Linen, Parsons Defendum l.ineii Ledger. Old Hampden Bond, and Parsons Parchmcnl Bristol, "Quality rather liian quantity" has always been llie niotio of this company, and a strict adherence lo this principle has made their product the standard of merit in paper. niannfacliiring.

William B, Whiting Coal Company

Street mill, formerly owned by the llolyuk Company, arc equipped with the latest and in papcrmaking machinery, and an inspec almosl like a visit to wonderland. Aboni skilled operatives are employed. They : papers, ledgers, card indexed and p:ipeicrie position which these products in ih

' faaends throughiicc in ail mercantile affairs rably known by reputation tfer had personal denlinirs. - the past thirty-five years, \pplcton and liond streets about ihirty years ago under the title of Watson Ely & Son. It became incorporated under the present name in IS'JS. with a capital of ?H).OU(), and the follnwing ofticers: President, Franklin W. Ely; treasurer. George S. Lewis; secretary and manager, L. .\. Willisinn. The localion of their plant is an ideal om: for the business in hand; they have a railroad frontage for the whole lenijih on one side and one of the principal commercial slreets of the city on the other. The plant covers about SO.OHI) square feet of

Clifton A. Crocker is president and I rLM-nn i Frankhn McElwain is vice-president and assist urer. They are both practical and experienced r

Source changes here: from Holyoke Old and New : a Chronological History Together with an Account of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Incorporation of Holyoke, Massachusetts As a City : 1873-1923, published 1923; 9,975 words in this source stream.

Anniversary Master Dyers

This fine plant with its wonderful equipment, highly trained organization and national reputation, offers you the best Cleansing and Dyeing of Garments, of every description, Rugs, Carpets, Draperies, Household Furnishings, Upholstered Furniture and interior of closed cars. The service includes insurance on everything while in our possesion without extra charge.

ONE of the most successful retail establishments in the city is the Holyoke City Market, operated by Joseph Eisenberg. The expansion and development of this company in the past few years, especially, has been phenomenal. About three years ago it was necessary to enlarge to meet growing demands and the store was extended another door along High Street, taking in an adjoining place of business. A delicatessen department of excellence was added. Within another year, the demands of trade increase, again required extension and the building was done over and a second floor and bakery added, so that the Holyoke City Market is now able to care for every food demand of the home, has complete stocks of fruit, vegetables, meats, canned goods, dairy products, groceries and bakery products and selling space and service that combines to make shopping easy and satisfying.

Paper

Is chemically prepared in the pulp and also chemically treated on the surface. This is a unique combination of safeguards against check-raising

Padlock S A Petty

Is made in Holyoke, and is being used for checks and drafts by those banks and other corporations who want the best protection against fraudulent alterations

Goldstein Bros

The history of the Goldstein Brothers Amusement Company in Holyoke is an excellent criterion of the development of modern amusement houses. Some years ago, Nathan and Samuel Goldstein started a novel place of amusement on High Street which was known as "Electric Vaudeville." It was the precursor of the modern motion picture and the first venture of this large circuit into the amusement field. The time was not ripe for the "movie", however, and that venture failed. The Goldstein Brothers, foreseeing with the instinct of the real showman that the future held great things for "Electric Vaudeville" were not discouraged by this first attempt and tried again and again, developing their business with the "infant industry" until today they own and control a score of theatres through New England, playing both vaudeville and motion pictures.

A desire to come back to the scene of their initial venture prompted the promotion here of the Victory Theatre Company and in 1919 ground for the magnificent new playhouse was broken. It was opened December 31st., of that year and Holyoke had the most modern vaudeville house in western New England. A year later, the Goldstein Brothers acquired a long term lease on the Strand Theatre, a newly constructed and beautifully appointed motion picture house, and shortly after leased the old Holyoke Opera House, bringing back to the city the great New York dramatic productions and well known stars, after years of absence from the footlights of Holyoke. Associated with the Goldstein Brothers is Charles Mackintosh, cotton manufacturer, of this city, and the bond issue of the Victory Theatre was subscribed by Holyoke people, making it a real community playhouse.

Automobile Insurance Of All

We are Local Agents for the AMERICAN SURETY COMPANY, of New York, the LEADING SURETY COMPANY OF AMERICA, and we can give you prompt service in all undertakings requiring bonds.

Agency Established 1880

THE comfort of the home is measured by the convenience it affords its occupants. In these days convenience in the home is to a great degree a matter of

Electrical Service

The importance of good lighting; 1he attractiveness of artistic lighting fixtures; the satisfaction and pleasure derived from the use of the various small, but helpful electrical devices; the time, labor and money-saving contributions given by electric cleaners, washers and ironers - these are some of the things that lead Holyoke's comfort-seekers to

Preston & Bishop, Inc Nap. D. Bellefeuille, Prop

Since 1884 (39 years ago) this store boasts of being the largest dealer in Sheet Music and study books. Our stock includes over 300.000 different classical, popular and teaching books.

Our Religious Goods Dept. is recognized to be the most complete in the city, comprising Rosaries, Prayer Books, Medals, Religious Statues, Crucifixes, Special Rosaries, etc.

Our Framing Dept. is in line with all the latest mouldings in Poly-Chromes, Antiques, Mahoganies, Circassians and our prices are the lowest and workmanship of the highest quality.

Our musical Dept. has built it's reputation on carrying the highest quality instruments at the lowest possible prices - Ukeleles which are in every way and every day gaining more popularity. Our prices are at a ridiculously low figure, starting at one dollar and ninety five cents up to thirty five dollars.

Holyoke, Massachusetts

by us on the Dillon Lot in St. Jerome's Cemetery. All orders received are executed at our plant here in Holyoke. This has been our practice for many years - and hundreds of others in Holyoke's cemeteries proclaim for the superiority of this Holyoke product.

The Skinner Memorial Chapel of the Second Congregational Church. - Maple St., corner of Appleton. An architectural gem. All exterior and interior stone furnished by us. Our Building Stone Dept. has materially helped during the greater part of Holyoke's fifty years of progress. The majority of our public and private business have been enriched by various kinds of natural stone.

Fiftieth Annive

are the result of more than half a century of progress in the development of a line of fine papers. Always typifying all that is best in quality and style, they are universally recognized as standard.

This prestige has been maintained through careful attention to those details which mark the difference between the good and the commonplace.

They are also made in Correspondence and Wedding Stationery, Papetries, Visiting Cards, Typewriter Papers and Tablets, which reflect, quality, correctness and good taste.

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On the occasion which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of her incorporation as a city. Looking backward to the year 1874, when the original little red brick store of Forbes & Wallace first opened its doors, and looking forward to our own fiftieth anniversary early in 1924, we find we have much to share through the year

Fiftieth

The Holyoke Water Power Company The local leadership of this corporation is a cause for profound satisfaction, and a wiser attitude toward the public paves the way to a fairer appreciation of the really invaluable services of this concern.

During the past fifty years this Company has spent in laying out streets, in grading, and in building bridges, about $500,000. Its hydraulic extensions, including the new dam, cost $881,401. When electric extensions nowT contracted for are completed the Company will have spent for them $1,355,417. Nine thousand horse power were generated in 1873, while the hydraulic power now amounts to 35,000 horse power.

During the past few years, the Company has sold for mill sites, business blocks, and residential purposes thirty-eight parcels of land containing 1,465,085 square feet, and it owns some 17,500,000 square feet less than in 1873. Steps have been taken which will eventually lead to the reclaiming for factory sites of all of the land above the dam between the so-called "Island" and the Boston & Maine Railroad.

In addition to furnishing water power to the mills of the city, the company has since 1906 generated electric power from water that would otherwise have been wasted over the dam or from its canals.

The demand of the mills of the City of Holyoke for water to be used as power in turning the wheels of industry is the equivalent of a constant flow of 18 inches in depth over the great dam.

If all the rain and snow which falls on the entire area of the City of Holyoke for one year could be put into the canals it would last only five days. Ashley Pond, one of the sources of domestic supply for the City of Holyoke, would be emptied in four hours.

During the past fifty years the Holyoke Water Power Company has given to local charitable, educational and religious organizations 179,767 square feet of land.

Emphasis on the word "power" in its name suggests the present movement to develop the most power that can be economically procured and at the same time to dispose of its real estate as rapidly as possible.

Industrial Progress Since 1873 a large majority of our important corporations have come into being. William Skinner and Sons, and the Farr Alpaca Company are titles whose vast meaning to Holyoke could not be summed up in less than many pages. Again it must ever be held in mind that the oldest companies here, such as the Whiting and Parsons Paper Companies, the Germania Mills, the Springfield Blanket Co., the Holyoke Machine Company, the American Thread Co.'s mills and the Prentiss Wire Mills, have many of them made gigantic strides through the decades, equivalent to the coming of many new mills. Large corporations belonging in their origin to this half century are the Deane Works, Chemical, Valley, Franklin, Crocker-McElwain, and Taylor-Logan paper mills and what are now the Divisions of the American Writing Paper Co.; also the American Pad and Paper Company, the American Tissue Mills, the Cowan Truck Company, the Eureka Blank Book Company, the Holyoke Bar Company, the Holyoke Belting Company, the Holyoke Valve & Hydrant Company, th*» Holyoke Silk Hosiery, the Baker- Vawter Company, the National Blank Book Company, the New York-New England Company, the Perfect Safety Paper Company, the Smith Tablet Company, the White & Wyckoff Manufacturing Company, Whiting and Cook, the Whitmore Manufacturing Company and the Hampden Glazed Paper & Card Company. Moreover it should be stated with the utmost emphasis that the industrial expansion of the past ten years easily holds its own with that of any other decade of the five included in our thought.

The Holyoke and Westfield Railroad While it is true that the Holyoke and Westfield Railroad was opened in 1871, still I must refer to it here as illustrative of the tradition of progress, of initiative, of accomplishment handed over by Holyoke the town, to Holyoke the city. Even today thousands of residents when told that we own a really important railroad exclaim, "Well, I didn't know that." It is worth careful note that this municipal railroad was built, as the municipal lighting plant was founded, both of them in answer to a pressing need if Holyoke was to move forward. A community that could build a railroad of its own, in the days of its youth, as a matter of course built as its City Hall a tremendous building and tremendously costly for an infant city. It never dawned upon the giant of those days that Holyoke could become anything else than a big, wealthy industrial city, therefore a $450,000 City Hall was not deemed an impossible achievement.

The Water Supply On August 6, 1873, water from Ashley and Wright's Ponds was let into the mains. Never again was Holyoke to drink river water. The Whiting Street, Fomer, High Service, and White reservoirs added to the original ponds make available, when the possibilities of Manhan Brook are fully developed, water amply sufficient for a city of 110,000 people. Water in almost overwhelming abundance, of purity above unfavorable criticism, provided at the lowest rate in New England by a department, which itself pays taxes to the City, is a monument to civic righteousness coupled with civic intelligence. Our water-works represent an investment of $2,000,000. Our water sheds and reservoirs cover a territory of seven and a half square miles, while the area of the city is but twenty-three square miles.

The Municipal Lighting Plant Beyond question our municipal lighting plant, stands beside our railroad and our water works as an example of unique municipal success. It is justly termed the most remarkable municipal lighting plant in New England. It has meant much to decent living, that transportation, water, light and power have been made abundant by the co-operative effort of our whole body of citizens. Health and prosperity certainly have been favored by our noble municipal investments. They must not be carelessly accepted as matters of course. They are most unusual and in some ways absolutely unique. A glory of this semicentennial year shines from the harmony now existing between both companies which manufacture electricity on a large scale. "Come now and let us reason together" is a principle the practice of which has meant much toward Holyoke 's progress. The municipal lighting plant represents an outlay of $2,500,000. Holyoke rejoices not only in the lowest electric lighting rate in Massachusetts, - .06 per kilowatt hour, but also in service of the highest order. The "free service" department is highly popular. Although the lighting of the city to-day is as sunlight to moonlight as compared with conditions existing twenty years ago, yet the cost to the city is but little more. This department handled a business of $1,164,000 during its last fiscal year, and in general holds a very high reputation for business efficiency in spite of the pressure for positions, always exerted on any municipally owned business. For thoughtful people, material power, water, and light are transparencies through which shine the noblest spiritual truths that man can grasp. Here the symbols are so compelling, that the spiritual realities, which they symbolize are ever imminent to earnest souls.

Our Suburbs With the beginnings in the seventies of our reservoir system, the Highlands began to be more thickly settled. The eighties brought the establishment of Oakdale and Elmwood, building in the later suburb being encouraged by the extension in 1887 of Maple street, across the dingle. Under the masterly guidance of William Loomis, the Holyoke Street Railroad made available great acres of land for homes, and it also made a number of other communities, for most purposes, suburbs of Holyoke, and accustomed them to regard Holyoke as a center. The great plant of the Holyoke Street Railroad is modern to the last degree. When our statistics of population tempt us to be discouraged as to the City's growth, we need to remember that the town of Holyoke was established at so late a date, that many choice sections naturally belonging to us were gathered into other legal affiliations before there was any organized community here to claim sections that were by all natural grounds, a part of our territory. Let other industrial cities which gloat over their apparent statistical supremacy bear in mind the great territory adjoining our City, and filled with people belonging to us by every affiliation of business, of fraternal and other social life, ecclesiastical life as well. We have Emerson's warning against over confidence in statistics still as we take account of stock at the close of our first fifty year period, we must wish that those that are of us by all of their interests, some day by statute may be included within this sheepfold. In 1900 we began making our legal lines more nearly co-existent with our natural lines. Smith's Ferry was annexed at a cost to us of $55,000. The era of the building of great apartment blocks started about 1900 and lasted until war costs made the cost of such building prohibitive. Speculation in these properties has so raised rents that the movement for building homes in the suburbs has flowed much more swiftly since 1914.

Mt. Holyoke College As we speak of that which is not ours and yet which is ours, thought turns naturally to Mt. Holyoke College. Four of our prominent citizens are trustees there, and one of them, Joseph A. Skinner, has rendered simply invaluable services as chairman of the board of trustees at a time when the College has been making tremendous financial effort for endowment and for buildings. Since Holyoke has been a city, Holyoke people have contributed to the College at least $600,000. A most beautiful recitation hall ; and the noble organ in Mary Lyon Chapel are both of them suggestions of Holyoke 's liberality to the great College, standing a few miles beyond our borders.

Religious And Philanthropic Institutions With the single exception of St. Jerome's Church, all of the church buildings now in use in this City belong to the city rather than to the town era. The increase in the value of ecclesiastical property in the last score of years is really startling. A fair value of local church property {aside from philanthropic and educational institutions) would appear to be around $3,000,000. When Holyoke holds its tercentenary the Skinner Memorial Chapel will be a shrine of holy associations upon which our remote descendants will gaze with loving awe.

All of our hospitals, municipal and otherwise, are the product of our life since 1873. The non-municipal ones, together with the institutions at Brightside, represent a valuation beyond the $1,000,000 mark. The substantial loyalty of our leaders is hinted at when we note that Frank B. Towne who was clerk of the City Hospital when it was started over thirty years ago, is to-day its active president. A single family has given to this institution some $250,000.

The Associated Charities, the District Nurse Association, the Milk Station and the Community Chest organization all emphasize the intelligence and cooperative spirit which characterizes our city. One man, William Whiting, in his great strength, built our City a theatre which for many years made available the most conspicuous dramatic talent of the world. This same man built for us a hotel. Fire destroyed that hotel but the "Nonotuck, " a rallying place for scores of worth while causes, has arisen through a display on the part of many citizens of the spirit which actuated William Whiting.

A Generous People We are proud to speak of our splendid public library, located in an inevitable setting, proudest of all to realize that this building which cost $100,000 over a score of years ago is the gift of several hundred people. Its present president, William F. Whiting, is the son of its first president, who gave forty years of service. One of the most noteworthy collections of musical instruments in America is housed in a costly museum, privately owned but visited constantly by those that can appreciate its treasures. The generosity of Holyoke people as a whole, rich and poor alike has long been a by-word far and wide through the world. A single family supports in striken and hate ravaged Turkey, an expression of brotherhood that is magnificent.

Our Rank And File We have been fortunate in our rank and file. For years comment has been made upon the high average quality of our industrial workers. In September 1919 the American Writing Paper Company published a statement in regard to its "Old Guard". At that time there were 509 employees who had served the company for continuous periods of from twenty to fifty years or more. Seven had been with the company over fifty years, thirty-eight for from forty to fifty years, one hundred and seventy-three from thirty to forty years, and two hundred and ninetyone from twenty to thirty years. "As never before in history the destiny of the city is in the hands of the average citizen."

A Greek philosopher of the first century urged upon the citizens of the rich and powerful city of Smyrna, - "Rest your self - esteem more in character, than in the beauty of your city. It is a greater charm to wear a crown of men than a crown of porticoes, and pictures, and gold." The Ephebic oath of ancient Athens rings in our ears to-day. "We will never bring disgrace to this our city by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city. - We will revere and obey the laws. - We will strive unceasingly to quicken the public sense of civic duty; that thus in all these ways that we may transmit the city not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."

Finally taken in the large is it not true that to a unique extent our Holyoke is entitled to be called "A City of Friends" to use Whitman's famous phrase. We are a brotherhood, working together toward the noblest ends of civilization, carrying out the co-operative purposes of God. It was not in

At the building of the cathedral of Chartres, "men and women harnessed themselves to carts and drew the great blocks of stone which were built into its splendid facade and its soaring pinnacles."

In like manner no record can do justice to the courage, to the foresight, to the self sacrifice, to the iron purpose of those masses of men and women that have made possible this civic pride which reigns in our hearts to-day.

This day the city of Holyoke by solemn service commemorates her half centurj' of existence as a municipality. Her citizens of every form of religious faith gathered this morning in their respective houses of worship to offer Thanksgiving to God for fifty years of Fatherly care and Providential guidance. Yesterday, on this very spot was portrayed for us with musical cadence and artistic symbol the source of our fair city's material greatness. Tomorrow her streets shall reflect the stately dignity of her institutions, the material evidence of her growth, and the influence of her social grace. This brief hour has been set aside to give expression to the spirit of the community as the source of external growth, and particularly as it took on intense patriotic fervor in times of national stress.

sits on this platform at the cordial welcome and urgent request of your memorial committee one of the country's ablest military commanders, one of the most gallant leaders of the world war, one of the New England doughboy's very best friends, one who never sacrificed his own humanity in doing a necessarily inhuman work, - our own beloved Major General, Clarence R. Edwards.

To others has been committed the pleasing task of voicing, feebly at least, the sentiments of reverence and affection which we all bear towards the pioneers of this city who laid its cornerstone upon such imperishable foundations. And to emphasize as best they may the particular elements in that spirit and soul life which shines so brilliantly in our backward look of fifty years, to hold them aloft at this happy milestone in our progress that they

Fiftieth Anniversary

To do so it shall be necessary to look beneath the physical landscape of this peaceful valley, beneath the external evidences of wealth and power, to the invisible bonds of a common citizenship; to look beneath our city's corporate being to the inner spirit, the soul, which animates that body ; to give expression to the motive power which dominates fifty years of our civic life.

Personally, the only requisite I can bring to the task is an ancestry familiar with this community since yonder stream was harnessed to do man's bidding; and a quarter century of residence within her borders sharing in the intimate life, the joys and sorrows, the hopes and disappointments, the crosses and the crown, of her industrial, civic, and religious life. And I am glad to greet Holyoke here assembled, cradled as it were in the lap of a designing Providence, to pay my humble tribute to the spirit and soul life of this community, which has always been strong and pure and wholesome before God and man.

The outstanding feature of the success of our community life as it is assessed today is its love for God and country. Its love for God not alone in the manifestation of its direct worship of Him as Creator and Judge, but in the love of His created Image in human kind. Christian ideals have always been the guiding principles of this community's inner life. To uphold these principles there has ever been a generous response. Though there may have been numerous individual lapses and failures in the attainment of those ideals, the ideals themselves have never been obscured. The individual may fall, but there is hope of his rescue while he holds to the true ideals of life. The community may lag in the attainment of its ideals, but it can rise, even upon the mistakes of the past, if its ideals are true and undimmed.

This community has reflected its love of God in the brotherly love of its citizens. There has been here no caste of citizenship, no pride of pomp and power. This community, be it said to its eternal glory, has been singularly free from social cleavage, radical intolerance, and religious bigotry. The man of wealth and power has been the neighbor and friend of the artisan and the day laborer. They have met on a plane of common citizenship, each respecting the other's manhood, and both contributing to the upbuilding of our common life. This community has had its outstanding figures in business, in government, and social renown, but they have rarely segregated themselves from the common life and common interests of the community. And although we rightly honor today their memory and their place in the annals of our city life, we must not forget that the true, lasting and imperishable glory of this day is the memory of the thousands of citizens of common clay whose loyalty and devotion to true Christian principles made their lives a noble sacrifice upon the altar of home, of country, and of God. The glory of this day lies in the message for the future drawn from the memory of the past. The pioneers of this community rich and poor, native and adopted, employer and employee, early learned the lesson that was so long ago crystalized in the immortal lines of the poet. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates and men decay."

What wreath of appreciation and effection more appropriate and enduring can we place at the tomb of our city's pioneers than the cheerful acknowledgement of today's superstructure as the successful issue of early foundation well laid? If he who by his labor makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his community, it is meet and just that we honor today those men and women of olden days who early learned to revere the dignity of labor, who accepted the Gospel of work as nature's law, who strove by might and main to improve their own condition that their children might live more abundantly. Here was the motive for sacrifice, here was the true dignity of labor. The soul was not starved. The hope of higher and nobler things of mind and heart sweetened the ignoble tasks and gave human life its true perspective.

When the whole body of men in a community work for their livelihood a new and better standard of living is developed in that community. Society is then measured by a different standard. Skill, industry, good management are sought and admired. Work quickens the flame of sympathy and prompts the worker "to condescend to men of low estate."

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in the struggle were content to accept whatever measure of success Divine Providence meted our to their honest efforts. This is the true Gospel of work, of progress, and of civilization which stands as the cornerstone of home and country. They were taught, and they practiced, the necessity of some personal sacrifice, some enduring hardships in a world which Providence has decreed is at best a vale of tears, a land of exile where the ideal of perfect happiness is not fully attainable. Earthly happiness is attained only in proportion as the unfolding of one's own life, conformably to the true principles of truth and righteousness, tends to promote loyalties to home and country and to God. True happiness is not always in accord with wordly ideals and worldly success.

Rough hew them how we will." If we have had a peaceful community all these years it is due in great measure to the fact that our common citizenship has not been infected with the insidious germ of a false Utopia, of Bolshevistic destruction, and individualistic dreams flowering into fierce jealousies and antagonisms. On the contrary, the individual seeing at times apparent injustices in our industrial and governmental relations, seeing the apparent uneven distribution of the fruits of labor, fortified by Christian forbearance and charity, encouraged by the American ideal of freedom of opportunity and submerging their own individual comfort to the common good, this enobled and enobling citizenship labored and sacrificed, and were happy and content withal. Happy and content in their childlike confidence in Him who marks the individual sparrow's fall.

During this long period of our corporate existence as a city we have not felt to the same extent as other communities the chilling effects of a machine age which tends to reduce the worker to an automaton, an emotionless cog without spiritual aspiration, in the industrial wheel. Absentee-landlordism and foreign manipulated producers of material wealth have been replaced here in great measure by sympathetic, mutually interested, neighborly, yea. friendly asso- ciation between owner and employee. Workers all, where true manhood and womanhood is judged by character and worth we find here to an admirable degree the elements of true Democracy. Where youth has equality of opportunity in its laudable climb to business, professional and social distinction.

Nor has the "human scrap heap," now so much emphasized by radical thinkers, ever reached considerable proportions in our fair city. The finer instincts of a noble hearted Christian people inspired by the Divine Virtue of charity, cultivated in the natural yearning of the human heart for the higher forms of cultured refinements, and watered by the dews of friendly sympathy and neighborly love, have provided the necessary institutional development, care, and protection for the community. Our Churches, Schools, Hospitals, and Charitable Organizations, second to none in the loftiness of their aim, in the sincerity of their effort, and the success of their accomplishment, have laid strong and sure the foundations of fine and noble citizenship. They have taken broken and bruised human nature and nursed it back to health. They have strengthened the weak, comforted the sorrowful, succoured the needy, given new hope to the faltering and the unfortunate in life's ceaseless strife. And in accents of pity, of sympathy and love chanted the sweet requiem of peace over the ashes of the poor, the humble and the unknown.

In an age of loose thinking in which so many communities have lost their moorings and are adrift from the safe anchorage of the eternal principles written in the human heart by a creative hand, and confirmed by the dying God-man on Golgotha, this community has steadily refused to ignore the magnetic laws of revealed truth, to exchange the pole star for the shooting meteor, as its guide in the charted sea of life.

In an age where, the new developments of science applied to the daily habits of life have revolutionized the means of locomotion and communication, where the chastening influences of homely tasks have been replaced by the leisurely turning of an electric button, where every process of life tends to luxury, to flabbiness of muscle and mind, the common citizenship of our citv refuses to have its true ideals whollv obscured. It has not permitted what it sees, what it hears, what it knows, of the riotous luxury of the world round about it to harden its heart or to embitter its soul in envious contemplation of that, which after all is not productive of purity of mind, growth of soul or cleanliness of heart.

In times of national stress the warm throbbing patriotic, intensely human, red fibred heart of Holyoke has not measured with calculated scrutiny nor unholy selfishness the blood of her young manhood poured upon the country's altar. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, from Manila Bay to Santiago, from Chateau Thierry to Belleau Wood and the Argonne, when the country's sword was drawn in defense of the nation's honor her young manhood eagerly sought place and opportunity to uphold pure and unsullied the starry banner of their fathers. And, if need be, give their lives for the liberty and freedom which it symbolizes. If American patriotism in the late war is to be measured by the blood of her young men voluntarily offered, by the sacrifice of the dear ones at home, by the absence of all selfish, hateful, hell-inspired profiteering, by the motherly love of its womankind in caring for the sick and disabled, by the unquestioned acquiescence in the officially expressed decrees of their constituted rulers even where personal opinion must be suspended under our form of government, then should that chapter in the history of our fair city be written on tablets of adamant in letters of gold. It is written in the eternal records of the Book of Life where the Recording Angel places love of country next to Love of God.

Well then may we on this historic occasion recall to mind the fine qualities of our pioneers whose integrity of character, honesty of purpose, and breadth of vision, infused such a noble Christian spirit into our municipal foundations. Their clear thinking revealed to them that it is not legislative enactment, or municipal ordinance, but the sound moral instincts properly cultivated in the great thinking mass of the common people which determine the spirit and character of a community. The new arrival to this community early learned there was a work to do. It required strong arms and stout hearts to do it. He was of a superior calibre. He came to stay. "He came to find a home and helped to found a commonwealth." He looked for liberty and he found it in freedom under law. He found obedience to the higher law the truest ideal of liberty to which man may aspire. He contributed his full share to the upbuilding and the safeguarding of that freedom.

We love to recount during these days the outward manifestation of the true inward spirit of our fifty years of municipal life. We love to contemplate this clear thinking, liberty loving, God-fearing citizenship understanding the true worth of manhood and striving to secure it themselves and for their children. We love to note the proper place accorded to the dignity of labor, the Christian gospel of work and the sweet recompense in the brotherly love and Christian charity which makes us all children of the same Eternal Father. We note with pleasure that neither the evils of a machine age, the allurements of luxury, the teaching of false philosophy, nor the temptation to ill-treat the weak and unfortunate in the promotion of wealth and power, have ever seized upon this community to obscure its ideals of love of neighbor, of country, and of God. Such loyalties to higher fixed principles are today the sweetest of memories, the noblest of crowns for the past, and the finest of inspirations to us for the future, that we may meet our problems in the same spirit, with the same power, and hand on such a tradition pure and unsullied. "Therefore brethren stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have received," that the blessing of the fathers may descend upon the children from generation to generation.

As the beacon lights of yonder mountain - God's enduring diurnal - guide the wanderer in the peaceful valley below, so may God's eternal principles of Justice, Truth, Mercy, and Love illumine and guide our pathway to the higher and nobler things of life. Under their inspirational guidance may we live our lives more abundantly in peace and harmony with our brother, "four square to all the winds that blow;" in peace and harmony with our God; "through whose Providence many things are rectified."

May these blessings be an earnest of God's Fatherly care in the years before us, imbuing all our citizens with the loving admonition of the Psalmist of olden days: "By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted."

It is highly fitting that a patriotic service should mark our city celebration. We should gratefully remember that it is more than a city - it is a part of America. The ground beneath us is American soil. Our liberties are bought by American blood. Our institutions are shaped by American tradition. Oul safety is secured by an American government. For our whole opportunity of life we are in debt to the American people who by untold sacrifice subdued the wilderness, formed the Nation and preserved it, gave us our ideals, and wrought the achievements which make this land the world's haven of hope.

"Let us here intelligently acknowledge our debt. We can never repay it. But we can humbly consecrate ourselves to such effort as will link the progress of this city with the central purpose for which Americans at their best have lived and died. Our fathers dedicated this continent to the idea that men of different creed and race and station should here find common ground where together they could fulfill their destiny and together promote the Nation's mission to the world. It was not their intent to make this a battle ground where each man should be free to seek his own, and fight for his own creed or his own class or his own race. That is not liberty. That is slavery to the outworn system from which our fathers sought escape, and which, in recent time brought Europe, and well nigh all the world to the very ' edge o ' doom. ' Prom its first conception this Nation set itself to find amid the difference of men, that common ground where all could join their hands and hearts to promote those ends which should be best for all. It was no pious dream. Under stress of war we have lately tasted what it means to find that common ground where we could live above the matters that divide us. Days there were, not long gone, when on the battle front a Jewish soldier knelt beside a Catholic comrade and helped to raise the crucifix to his dying lips. One hundred million of us paid our silent homage to the unknown soldier, buried in our Nation's capitol - a human symbol of great devotion in which all our differences found their place without obtrusion and without offense. Shall we in peace praise our heroes and lose the common ground they found V What they hallowed by their life and death, we must keep inviolate.

Out of strife and cruel delusion the whole world gropes today for common ground. All other means have failed, all other hopes proved vain. It is America's hour. And we are part of America as America is part of the world. Upon our streets there cross the crowded ways of men where loom those ominous distinctions of race and class and creed, which make up all the problems that perplex the world.

This brings world-duties to our doors. Can we among our conflicts, for others' sakes, find some common ground? This means no surrender of the cause each represents, no desertion of convictions bred into the bone. "Where the ranks of capital and labor clash, there are rights at stake on either side, to lose which would be a loss to all. It is American to fight for rights like these. It is more American to make that fight a struggle for some common ground where united effort for the public need shall make full room to exercise all rights that are worthy to survive. And for this must come the spirit which only religion can supply. We may worship God in different ways as Catholic, Protestant and Jew. It is American to preserve for each the freedom of his faith. But let us not forget that we who are called Christian look together to one God, whom we have learned to know through Jewish prophets, and that one first man of all the ages who was the Jewish carpenter of Nazareth. He is sovereign father of us all, and it is His will that we should find some common ground to use the power we get from Him to bring His Kingdom of good will among us.

Separately we may take our different ways to get to God, but together we must work and live for common ends. It is not needed that Protestants and Catholics should be drawn from one fold to the other, nor Jews be made Christian after our particular persuasions. The distinctions are too deep and time too short for this vain business. But we can help each other to be better Protestants, Catholics and Jews, for the best Catholics and Protestants and Jews have a way of finding common ground beyond their differing thoughts. Our great hope lies in them, the better, broader, spirits in each camp, who, in their finer loyalty to God find it easy to be brothers to all His human family.

We have set apart this lovely hillside and meadow as a playground for the people of our city. Here as days go by we shall learn to play and meet and sing together. May this ground, so dedicated, become for us a symbol of that common ground for which America and the whole world seek among the peoples. The day of its finding is drawing nearer with the years, as right is right and God is God, and we in Holyoke may help to hasten or delay it.

Fiftieth An Niversary

It seems to me that this meeting here this afternoon, with the other meetings of today, is truly symbolic of Holyoke. It is in keeping with the true spirit of Holyoke that her citizens should gather together on the Lord's Day to hold exercises of thanksgiving and to invoke the assistance of the Maker and Creator for the future. The fact that all creeds and beliefs have joined in making the day a memorable one, and a thoughtful one, is indicative of the tolerance which Holyoke enjoys.

The large number of churches in the city, together with the large congregations of each, is tangible evidence that the people of Holyoke are a religious people. Some cities are forever disturbed by religious differences and controversies. Our city has been and we hope it will continue to be remarkably free from such discord. The assaults of one religious sect against another contributes nothing but poison to our civic life. We should endeavor to cultivate even more a feeling of respectful tolerance among our citizens.

One of the principal reasons for the kindly attitude the people of Holyoke have toward spiritual things is that we are a city of families. We do not have any large floating population. Most of the people who live here are people who are making homes, intending to continue to stay here. The family is the foundation of all our society. Upon it the whole structure of the community rests. When the family unit is sound and healthy the whole municipality is bound to be so. The family unit is valuable because it means steadiness ; it brings responsibilities" to each member ; it develops a spirit of self-sacrifice and tends to eliminate selfishness.

One of the big problems for the Holyoke of the present and the future is to endeavor to preserve the integrity of the families which we have now and to grow and prosper so that new families and new blood shall come to us. It is not a good omen when the younger generations of the families of Holyoke leave the city for new branches of endeavor in other sections of the country. In such circumstances there is always the inference that Holyoke has not the attractiveness of other places. There is also the implication that the city does not offer the opportunities to the ambitious youth which other cities present. We must see to it that there is no emigration of our best young men and women. We want them here and we want to be big enough to keep them here.

How to accomplish such things rests largely witn us. To achieve such results we must also have trust in the Creator. A continuance of tolerance, a clinging to the spiritual things in life, and the living of clean lives will all assist us in our endeavors. All these things contribute more deeply to the welfare of the city than surface agitations. We should dedicate ourselves here today to keeping ourselves mentally, morally and physically fit to continue in our work. Let the man who is the head of the family be honored more. Those whose great accomplishment in life is, or has been the bringing up of a good family should have the satisfaction of knowing that his effort is a distinct good for the city and the nation. Full many a hero and heroine have gone unsung because their whohlife's work has been wrapped up in the rearing of a sound American family. It is such people who are the fibre of Holyoke. We must recognize their strength and the city must do all in its power to make things in general more attractive to our home builders; to lighten their burdens; to keep them in our midst. Their individual praises cannot be sung but as a group are entitled to our thanks and our respect. Let it never be said that Holyoke has failed to recognize them in the full measure which they deserve.

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In the parade, more than in any other feature of the celebration, the whole of Holyoke had an opportunity to participate. It was in this event that the social, fraternal, industrial, merchantile, educational and racial groups were ennabled to present those features of their organizations, which as component units of the whole community went to make the community a progressive and forward-looking American municipality.

Because of its great representativeness, one hundred and fifty-five organizations with six thousand people in line, the parade was the climax of the celebration spirit. It was a proud Holyoke that looked on along the line of march and saw the significance of its own many institutions presented with artistry, with historical fact, with a careful advertising rather than a boasting of the features which gave them life and permanence in the city. It was an admiring fifty thousand visitors of neighboring cities

Every float was a beautiful creation, so much so that the Board of Judges faced a hard task in selecting prize winners. Ordinarily a parade of such magnitude would be expected to drag in places, to cause holdups which would admit of more study of the features in passing the reviewing stand but in this instance as in all others, the celebration plans showed a smoothness of operation that was truly remarkable. The great line of floats and marching organizations passed the reviewing stand with a military precision, not a single halt being required in the tempo of the parade.

Two grand prizes were awarded by the committee for the finest features of the parade, both for floats. On the social and fraternal side the prize went to the Holyoke Lodge of Elks for its float depicting an Italian garden with a beautiful fountain in the center

On the business side the grand prize went to Thomas S. Childs Company, Inc., for its extremely handsome float, depicting that famous character of the Mother Goose Nursery rhymes, "The old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children, etc." A monster white shoe filled a greater part of the float, and playing around it was a group of beautiful children.

To the Polish section made up of members of the Polish Falcons, and the Polish Alliance went the prize for numbers in the social and fraternal groups and to the Cercle Rochambeau and other French organizations went the prize for the most attractive appearance. In this same group the first prize for floats was awarded to the Elks also, and the second to the Daughters of St. George with a float representing the "Landing of the Pilgrims." The third prize in this group went to the Holyoke Women's Club, for its beautifully decorated automobile, with purple the predominating color, and the fourth prize to the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters for a handsome float with three figures typifying the ideals of that organization. Honorable mention awards were made to the Springdale Turnverein, the Greeks, Knights of Columbus, the Scottish organizations and the Kiwanis Club.

In the first section devoted to patriotic organizations the first prize went to the American Legion for a float representing Flanders fields, with its "crosses row on row," a reminder of the dark days of the World War. Second prize was awarded to Eunice Day Chapter, D. A. R., for a float depicting a colonial tea, with members clad in charming gowns of the period.

The municipal section first award went to the Department of Public Works, which displayed many of the pieces of equipment used by that department in its municipal work, while the second prize went to the Gas and Electric Department in consideration ot its fine float. A special merit prize was awarded to the Water Department for its splendid turnout.

To the Precious Blood School went the second prize in this division, its float being a huge basket of flowers, a group of extremely pretty youngsters being the flowers. Third prize went to the Public School float, depicting "Wisdom," and honorable mention was made of the Public School float on Americanization.

In the fourth division, the industrial section, first prize was awarded to the Farr Alpaca Company for its floats, showing the development of this company and its products in various stages from the sheep to the finished cloth.

Second prize was awarded to the Germania Mills, its float having an actual loom in operation, while White and Wyckoff's float showing a huge box of stationery won third prize, and honorable mention was made of the National Blank Book Company's float.

In the mercantile division, Thomas S. Childs Shoe Company won first prize, McAuslan & Wakelin, with a float of a huge Horn of Plenty won second prize, and third prize went to Hanna Dowling, Inc. A. Steiger & Co.'s float won honorable mention.

The District Nurse Association won first prize in the welfare work section, the United Hebrew Association won second prize and the Boys' Club of Holyoke, third, while the House of Providence Hospital and the Associated Charities won honorable mention.

The Polish section, as noted, won first prize in the social and fraternal group for numbers, the French Societies for best appearance, with Cercle Rochambeau, with Rochambeau mounted on a fiery charger at the head of the column.

In the last division, devoted to special features, the Casper Ranger Construction Company won first prize with a float showing a beautiful sun room built against a house and the second prize went to the

The committee also awarded a silver loving cup to George Taylor Pearsons in recognition of his coming to Holyoke to represent his father, the first mayor of the city.

In the reviewing stand were seated the judges. Col. Walter Scott, New York City ; Annetta L. Clark, Northampton ; Florence B. Adams, Northampton ; Mayor Joseph M. Grise, Chieopee; Major Albert G. Beckman, Northampton; Clark F. Wilkinson, South Hadley; Fred M. Smith. South Hadley

Falls; Mrs. J. W. Heffernon, Northampton; Mrs. G. II. Ladd of Northampton and invited guests ; E. C. Purrington, vice-chairman of anniversary committee ; Mayor and Mrs. Edwin F. Leonard and Miss Pauline Leonard of Springfield; Mayor and Mrs. Harry E. Bicknell of Northampton ; Mrs. Henry E. McElwain of Holyoke ; former-Mayor Arthur B. Chapin, now of Boston ; Mrs. Grace T. Pearsons of New York ; Mrs. Edward D. Lamb of Holyoke; Katherine A. Mahoney of Holyoke ; Mrs. Alexander Macdonald ; Mrs. George II. Clark; Maj. and Mrs. W. J. Crosier

Military Division Second Battalion, Massachusetts National Guard, Major E. J. Slate commanding, with staff. Headquarters Co., Holyoke, E. Co., F. Co., of Holyoke ; H. Co., of Westfield.

Liberty Drum Corps of Westfield. Float, machine, old employes of thread mill. Girls marching (30) white dresses and red hats. Float, American Thread Company, employes in Colonial costume, 30 girls.

Holyoke Producers' Dairy Company, float. Armour Company, float shaped like a ham. T. S. Childs, Inc., with boots mounted on truck. Hannah R. Dowling, Inc., float with living models.

Boy Scouts led by colors, 54 in line. Day Nursery float. Holyoke Boys' Club, 10 marching. Boys' Club orchestra on float. Boys' Club Printing Department. Skinner Coffee House.

St. Michael's Society. St. Stanislaus Society. Polish Women's Alliance, seven trucks. One truck, with girls in native costume. Two machines with officers. Polish National Alliance, No. 525, 120 in line, 25 in autos.

Holyoke Council, Knights of Columbus, Edward A. Driscoll, grand knight, Greek Community Organization led by Nicholas Nichols, little boy in Greek native costume.

The Labor Day sporting program was elaborate and was equally successful and well attended as other events of the Semi-Centennial, the track events and city championship baseball game drawing thousands. The feature of the day was the game between the Kosciuszko Club, winners of the City League pennant and the Germania Mills, winners of the Industrial League pennant, which was played for the city title and won by the Kosciuszko Club by a score of 11 to 4. The box score of the game follows :

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Runs, Scanlon, Roberts, Mackley 2. Fitzgerald 2, Clark 2, Lizak 2, Skypeck, Finn. Flynn, Underdorfel, Wuench ; two-base hits, Clark, Mackley, Sattler, Finn, Beaulieu ; errors, Clark Skypeck, Beaulieu 2, Patnaude, Underdorfel, Whalen, Sattler ; home run, Flynn ; stolen bases, Lizak 2, Clarke, Roberts. Mackley, Skypeck, Underdorfel, Wuench, Halibauer, double play. Flynn to Beaulieu; first base on balls, off Nitovik 6, off Plynn 5 ; hit by pitcher, by Nitovik (Stick) ; struck out, by Nitovik 11, by Flynn 7. Umpires, Hanifin and Kenney. Time, 2.08.

Thousands more were present at the Hampden Street playgrounds and the Prospect Street playgrounds where sporting events were also run off. One of the unusual features of the afternoon was the ease and rapidity with which all of the events were run off and the committee had the different events all well in hand. Starting at 1.30 o'clock, the program included track and field athletic contests at Springdale Park for young men and women, while the boys and girls of the city had their own field and track events at the Hampden Street playgrounds. While these events were being carried out band concerts were given in front of the City Hall, at Springdale Park and on the Hampden Street playgrounds.

A hurling contest which was scheduled for Springdale Park had to be called off by order of the police because of the large crowds that had assembled for the championship baseball game. The final event on the afternoon's sports program was a Gaelic football game at Falco Field.

Running high jump for men - Won by John T. Moriarty, 5 feet 8 inches ; Fred W. Childs, second, 5 feet 2 inches; Eli Price, third, 5 feet 1 inch.

Other features of the celebration, more thoughtful in form but equally well attended and impressive were the Saturday evening Mass Meeting in the City Hall Auditorium, which was given over to historical resume. Rev. Edwin Bradford Robinson, pastor of Grace Church, was the speaker. He gave a symposium of a half a century of progress. On Sunday afternoon, a Memorial Service to Holyoke's heroic dead was held at the Pageant Field.

At the Memorial Service, several impressive and inspired addresses were heard with reverent attention by the thousands who attended. Among the speakers were Maj. -General Clarence R. Edwards, retired, commander of the Yankee Division in the World War ; Rev. John F. Griffin, pastor of the Holy Rosary church; Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, pastor of the Second Congregational church and Mayor James M. Curley of Boston. The 104th Regiment band gave a concert early in the afternoon.

The celebration was concluded on Labor Day night with a grand display of fireworks at the Prospect Street playgrounds. Aerial bombs of great beauty lighted the sky for miles around and a large number of ground pieces of artistic design gave a splendor of color to this spectacular finish of a great event. A bombardment that resembled a battle of great artillery pieces closed the evening with a thunderous "finis" to a celebration which for four days had been acquainting Holyoke with herself and as each new feature was felt, a new scope and vision for the future was created so that the Semi-Centennial is certain not to mark the end of Her great achievements but only a beginning of nobler and still greater attainments among the municipalities of the Commonwealth.

THE Newton Paper Company is another of the many examples of industrial success which are to be found in the industrial history of Holyoke. Starting with one machine and an output of three to four tons of paper daily, this plant now ships extensively throughout the west and to Australia and Canada. Its products include the "Elephant Brand," extra water-proof sheathing paper; "Medal Brand," corrugated carpet lining; noiseless deadening felt for floors and high grade heavy wrapping papers. .

The Newton Paper Company originated the red rosin-sized sheathing paper, now an international commodity and its "Medal Brand" corrugated carpet lining was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris exposition in 1878.

The Newton Paper Company was originally established by James Ramage and Moses Newton in 1874. It was then know under the firm name of Newton and Ramage. In 1876 it was incorporated as the Newton Paper Company, with a capital stock of $24,000, which was increased to $72,000 in 1883. The incorporators were Moses Newton, J ames Ramage, James H. Newton and George A. Clark.

Newton Paper Company Real Estate

One of the best known figures among the Canadian French people of Holyoke is A. M. Potvin. Mr. Potvin is an early settler in the city and in the course of.'thirty years as a merchant on Main Street where he conducted a clothing business, he rose to prominence and distinction. In November, 1922, he retired from this business and opened a real estate office. Mr. Potvin has been an alderman, a member of the Board of Public Works and was one of the organizers of the St. Jean Baptist Society. He is married, has two daughters, and resides on Locust Street.

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W. T. Grant Company congratulates Holyoke on its 50th Anniversary and wishes to voice its appreciation of the good-will manifested towards our organization in this City.

Established 1907

We take this opportunity of expressing our thanks to the public of Holyoke and vicinity for their support and patronage during the past thirty-two years.

M. Hirsch & Son Jeweler

Mr. Hand learned the business from the late James W. Meacham, entering his employ in the spring of 1869, where he served an apprenticeship of about three years. He then entered the store of the late Albert G. Taylor, of Springfield, having entire charge of the watch repairing department, until the spring of 1878, when he opened a repair shop, with a small stock of goods, occupying one window of the corner store in the old Holyoke House, and within a few years occupied the whole store, now used by the Mechanics Bank.

After remaining twenty-three years in this location, he removed to High Street, where he remained seven years. The rents became prohibitive and he was forced to remove to his present location, where in spite of cramped quarters and a side street location, he has built ".ip a successfull business and enjoys an enviable reputation for handling reliable and up to oate goods in his line.