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re thoroughly equipped with all necessary machinery and tools. The firm of Alvan Clark & Sons stands at the head of telescope-makers. Their reputation is world-wide. The Cambridge gas Light Co. A charter from the State of Massachusetts in 1852 granted Charles C. Little, Isaac Livermore, and Gardiner G. Hubbard, their associates and successors, the right of making and selling gas, and allowed them a capital of three hundred thousand dollars. The company was organized on the 22d day of June, 1852, by the election of John H. Blake, Isaac Livermore, Charles C. Little, Estes Howe, and Gardiner G. Hubbard as directors; the last named was chosen president, and Estes Howe was the clerk and treasurer from the beginning until his death in 1887. Blake & Darracott were the contractors who erected the first works; these works were located south of Mount Auburn Street, at the foot of Bath (then Bath Lane) and Ash streets, now appropriated for the Charles River Park. Pipes were laid in