ord of Jonathan and Elizabeth Brooks.
The writings of Frank Preston Stearns cover a wide range of subjects—art, literature, criticism, biography, political science.
In 1888 he edited a book on John Brown, by Herman von Holtz, for which he was singularly fitted through his personal knowledge of John Brown.
In 1895 he published Sketches from Concord and Appledore, and in 1905 Cambridge Sketches, both intimate biographies of famous men. In 1892 appeared Real and Ideal in Literature, and in 1897 Modern English Prose Writers.
He also wrote Four Great Venetians and the Midsummer of Italian Art; a Life of Otto von Bismarck; Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne; the Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns, his distinguished father; and True Republicanism.
Miss Annie H. Ryder, who has conducted a private school in Medford for a dozen years, is the author of two inspiring books of essays, Hold Up Your Heads, Girls, and Go Right On, Girls, and has compiled New Every Morning,
ly disappeared leaving it bright copper.
This agrees with the report of Mr. Baldwin which was at 19.4 below the surface of the pond. By the recent building of the Cradock dam the level of the lower lake has been reduced (and consequently its area, slightly), and as the tides no longer come, the water is no longer salted.
That the work of building this dam, with its waste weir, conduits and gate-house was substantially performed is evident even to the casual observer.
Though disused since 1897 it is well cared for, and the new lake thus created is kept at the normal height.
Just here we digress a little from our subject, to quote from Mr. Brooks' History of 1855:—
The lands on each side are slightly elevated, and in future times will doubtless be filled with country seats. Today sees something of fulfilment of his prophecy.
Writing over sixty years ago he did not foresee the electric light or railway on the farther side, nor yet the broad parkway on the other, or the swift
committee, made investigation.
It concluded that the subject demanded favorable action, but agreed to insert a section in the bill to safeguard the interests of the town of Medford, viz., Section 2 of Chapter 193 of the Acts of 1874.
The Broadway tide-gates were erected near the Broadway bridge over Alewife brook.
They were constructed by the city of Cambridge (by an agreement with the town of Arlington) in 1875, and were in use up to the time of the completion of the Metropolitan sewer in 1897.
The town of Medford never experienced any discomfort from the sewage from Alewife brook.
All the insoluble portions were deposited in the tortuous channel of the brook and they created a nuisance therein.
That, together with the unsanitary conditions prevailing in part of the cities of Cambridge and Somerville and the towns of Arlington and Belmont, was the principal cause of the erection of the Cradock dam in Medford center.
In the year 1861 the city of Charlestown obtained an act
nt David Henry Brown.
The meetings of the Society have been on the third Monday in the months from October to May inclusive, and for several years a Saturday evening course of addresses was added to the regular meetings.
At nearly all meetings, other than the annual, addresses have been given and papers read relating to Medford, its history, institutions and people.
Many of these have been reproduced in the Society's quarterly publication, the Historical Register.
Its issue was begun in 1897 for that express purpose, and its twenty-four volumes represent a labor of love on the part of its editors and contributors, and contain information of Medford found nowhere else.
By its exchange list with other societies it is constantly adding their publications to the Society's library, thus making available sources of information.
The existence of the Society started the effort for the preservation of the Royall house, and also Medford's two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary celeb
In Memoriam.
Rosewell Bigelow Lawrence January 31, 1856—November 2, 1921 life Member Vice-President since 1899
Leonard Jarvis Manning May 11, 1856—November 20, 1921 Vice President, 1907-16
Charles Nelson Jones . . .1836—December 3, 1921 Member in 1897.
Honorary in 1918
Agnes Wyman Lincoln July 13, 1856—December 27, 1921 Curator and Librarian, 1900-19 Vice-President, 1920-21
John Henry Hooper May 5, 1833—December 31, 1921 President, 1901-3 Historian of Medf
ittee that the high school should have the proper ratio of pupils to the teacher, so that it should be enabled to continue the high traditions of the past.
In the tide of teachers which now flowed annually through the high school, only a few of the longerlived ones will be mentioned here, teachers whose influence has perceptibly affected the life of the city.
Next in length of service to Miss Clapp are Miss Laura P. Patten and Mr. Frank S. Gilkey, who were elected by the school committee in 1897, and whose devotion to the school is still reflected in the daily work of its pupils.
January 27, 1903, my father finished his long term of service.
He was in his office the day previous to the stroke which brought his death within twelve hours. For the first time in twenty-six years his desk was closed.
It was as he would wish to have died,—a soldier in the harness.
It would be too long to quote here the tributes of teachers, friends, the various classes and the individual scholars, pr
built of wood on Playstead road with five small shops in it (this but last year removed), and soon after the Ferguson building at the other end on High street—three stores in this.
After the death of S. S. Holton, in 1896, his son, known as S. S. Holton, Jr., purchased Trinity Methodist Church and moved it to the rear of his lot near the Congregational Church, raised it up some ten feet, and the parish continued to use it till December, while their new house of worship was being built.
In 1897 he made alterations and enlargements, and began the erection of the brick building on Harvard Avenue. In this are three stores, various office rooms, the hall into which Mount Vernon Lodge, I. O. O. F., moved at its completion.
The upper and lower Holton halls were in the rear and reached by an open-arched entrance walk.
An addition to the rear of the red brick block contained a new bakery with brick oven.
The red brick block was set back ten feet from Harvard avenue, this new building fiv
rees and shrubs were kept in order by his son and grandson.
In the collection of silver belonging to the First Parish church are two silver flagons presented by him in 1823.
It was the same benefactor who built in 1846 the granite wall along the east side of the old burying ground, where so many of his ancestors lie buried.
In 1869, Mrs. Ellen Brooks, widow of Gorham Brooks, with her two sons, Shepherd and Peter C. the third, gave both land and church edifice to Grace Episcopal church.
In 1897 the Commonwealth received from the latter a gift of forty acres of land once owned by the Middlesex Canal Corporation, now a part of the Mystic Valley parkway.
The Whitmore brook reservation was created in 1901 out of land presented to the Commonwealth by Peter C. and Shepherd Brooks.
Brooks road, on the east side of the South Winchester reservoir, owes its plan and construction to the gift of the same two brothers in 1905.
Shepherd Brooks made feasible for West Medford a suitable approach
ve been organized at Cincinnati for the field.
Fifty thousand dollars in 7.30 United States bonds was presented to Admiral Farragut by his friends in New York on Saturday.
The Board of Supervisors of the city and county of New York have resolved to raise four millions of dollars to pay the thousand-dollar bounty, to prevent a draft.
The debt of Vermont amounts to $1,640,845, or $5.21 for each person in the State.
The debt is principally funded, and is payable in 1871, 1874 and 1897.
The model of a colossal statue of the late Major-General Berry is on exhibition in Portland, Maine.
This is said to be the first statue of the kind ever attempted in Maine.
The New England railroad companies are beginning to use wood again on account of the high price of coal.
Not one-half the usual amount of lumber will be cut this winter on the Aroos-took or St. John rivers, in Maine.
Supplies and labor are so high that operatives generally concede that nothing can be made
