The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation
Arthur Gilman, Ed.

General Index.

Agassiz, Louis, excites the spirit of research, 74; his school for young ladies, 74, 209-211; his personality, 74.

Agassiz, Mrs. Louis, plans her husband's school, 200; president of Radcliffe College, 180.

Aldermen, 401.

Allston, Washington, 41.

Allston Street, fort at foot of, 27.

Almshouses, 17, 32, 276.

American Lodge, K. of P., 292.

Amicable Lodge of Masons, 280-283.

Amity Rebekah Lodge, 286.

Andover, college library and apparatus moved to, 26.

Anniversary committees, 406-408.

Appleton, Rev. Nathaniel, 236; the Revolution the great event in his ministry, 237; church lands sold in his time, 237; gifts to, 237; salary, 237.

Arlington, 9.

Assessors, 402.

Assets and liabilities, comparative statement of, 319.

Assistants, Council of, 5, 23.

Associated Charities, its beginning, 259; its aim, 259; organization, 259; registrar appointed, 259; visiting, 259; conferences, 259; the society incorporated, 260; officers and agents, 260; central office, 260; woodyard, 260; a work test, 260; cooperation needed, 261; expenses, 261.

Astronomy and astronomers, 75, 76.

Athenaeum, the Cambridge, 228.

Athenaeum Press, The, 337-339.

Auditor, City, 402.

Avon Home, opened on Avon Place, 262; original board of trustees, 262; name, 262; endowment, 262; call for contributions, 262; the house enlarged, 262; beginning of the permanent fund, 263; new building erected on Mt. Auburn Street, 2632; the founder's gift of a farm, 263; cost of maintenance, 263; income, 263; inmates, 263; matron, 264; number cared for, 264; its influence, 264.

Banks: Cambridgeport National, 302; Lechmere, 303; National City, 303; Charles River National, 304; First National, 305; Cambridge National, 307; Cambridge Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 307; Cambridge Savings, 309; Cambridgeport Savings, 311; North Avenue Savings, 311; East Cambridge Savings, 312.

Baptist churches, 240.

Bears in Cambridge, 9.

Beginnings of Cambridge, The, 1-13.

Belcher, Andrew, the first innkeeper, 11.

Belcher, Jonathan, royal governor, 11.

Berkeley Street School, 212.

Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, 73.

Blue Anchor Tavern, 11.

Borland House, 28.

Boston, preeminence of, 1; not intended for seat of government, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; means of communicating with, 4; troops stationed in, 20; granted authority to improve the river bank, 106; its city council opposes the construction of Harvard Bridge, 107; completes the Charlesbank, 107; no provision for girls in its early schools, 189; high school opened for girls in, 192.

Boston Massacre, 20..

Boston Porcelain and Glass Company, 30.

Boston Port Bill, 22.

Boston Tea-party, 22.

Bounties for wolves, 9.

‘Bower of Bliss, The,’ 37.

Bowers, Benanuel, declares himself a Baptist, 12; fined and imprisoned for entertaining Quakers, 12; turns Quaker, 12; sends verses to Thomas Danforth, 12; harangues the people in the meeting-house, 13.

Bradstreet, Mrs., the ponderous verses of, 2.

Bradstreet, Simon, site of his house, 2.

Braintree Street, 3, 6; name changed to Harvard, S.

Brattle, General, notifies Gage of removal of powder from Charlestown, [410] 23; apologizes to the Cambridge people, 24.

Brattle, Rev. William, 236; his salary, 237; donations to, 237.

Brattle Street (the Watertown highway), 8, 28; Tory Row on, 28.

Brick-making, : 387.

Bridge, John, statue of, 51, 234; its dedication, 51.

Bridge, Samuel J., presents statue of John Bridge to the city, 51.

Bridges: Great Bridge, 4; West Boston, 4, 29, 110, 395; Harvard, 4, 106, 108; Craigie, 29, 30; Prison Point, 29; River Street, 29; Western Avenue, 29.

Bridges, streets tributary to, 20.

Brighton (Third Parish, Little Cambridge), 9, 16, 236; annexed to Boston, 9. See Third Parish.

Broad Canal, 30, 31, 109, 110, 127.

Broadway (Clark Road), 37.

Broadway Common, 121, 138.

Brooks, Phillips, 163, 255.

Browne and Nichols school for boys, 212-214.

Bryce, James, on American municipal government. 59.

Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, 219.

Buckley, Daniel A., founder of the Cambridge News, 222.

Bunker Hill, the march to, 49.

Burial-places, 5, 16; ‘without the common pales,’ 133; discontinuance, 133; the new ground inclosed, 133; graves of eminent persons, 133; tombs and monuments, 133-136; the milestone, 133; monument to the minute-men, 134; Dr. McKenzie's address at its consecration, 134; inscriptions. 135, 136; its renovation, 137; the Broadway ground opened, 137; disuse, 138; converted into a park, 138. See Cambridge Cemetery, God's Acre, and Mount Auburn.

Burial-Places in Cambridge, 133-141.

Burgoyne, General, quartered in the Borland House, 28.

Cambridge (see New Town), water front of, 4, 30; name given to the New Town, 8; grants of territory to. 8; its enormous dimensions, 8; curtailments, 8, 9, 14; annexes portion of Watertown, 9, 15; acquisitions from Charlestown, 9,15; lands bought from Indians, 10; meeting of synod at, 10; population, 10, 17, 29, 59, 206, 319; political activity in, 18-25; condemns sacking of Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson's house, 19; sends delegates to convention of towns, 20; General Court adjourned to, 20; sympathizes with Boston, 21; opposes collection of duty on tea, 21, 22; its representatives act as delegates to Provincial Congress, 24, 25; meetings of Provincial Congress at, 25; occupied by the American army, 26; its part at Lexington and Concord, 26; and Bunker Hill, 26; forts and breastworks, 27; its citizens favor independence, 27; rejects a constitution framed by the General Court, 27; constitutional convention meets in, 28; approves the Declaration of Rights, 28; ratifies the constitution, 28; Burgoyne's troops quartered in, 28; the village in 1780, 29; a port of delivery, 30; business depression caused by the embargo, 33; petitions the President, 33; schools in, 33; effect of War of 1812, 33; religious societies in, 33; an element of misrule, 38; social distinctions, 40; its three memorable days, 53; a change in the form of its government necessary, 55; its three centres, 55; attempts to divide the town, 55; ‘a more perfect union’ determined on, 55; acceptance of the charter, 55; communication between the three villages, 55; the sectional idea, 55, 56; its condition in 1846, 56, 57; police department organized, 56; end of volunteer fire companies, 56; a sewer system established, 57; early expenses, 57; expenses in 1895, 58, 59; its finances in 1895, 59; answer to Mr. Bryce's tests, 59; development of the spirit of municipal unity, 60; bad roads kept the villages apart, 60; isolation considered necessary by the Old Villagers, 60; ‘one great academic grove,’ 60; obliteration of sectional lines, 60, 61; water-supply system and park system unifying agencies, 61; its servants, 62; mayors, 63; its attraction for literary men, 67; its first man of science, 72; its reputation in the scientific world, 77; its nonpartisan government, 78, 79; its pay-as-you-go policy, 79; free from jobs, 79; retention of city officials in office, 80; machinery of government, 80, 81; the Rindge gifts to, 82-86; its heritage, 89, 208; water-works, 113-118; park system, 119-125; made a port of delivery, 126; stimulus to realestate interests by the act, 126; increase in valuation, 126; freight facilities, 127; improvement in mercantile buildings, 128; high buildings, 129; evidences of thrift in, 130; inducements to the stranger, 130; density of population, 131; healthfulness, 132; burial-places, 133-141; relations of the university to, 142-149; the centre of growth in municipal health, 164; its public schools, 187-207; historic [411] and literary associations, 208; newspapers in, 218-223; churches in, 233-253; charities of, 259-261, 276; a manufacturing centre, 313; favorable conditions for manufacturing, 313; its transportation facilities, 313; the manufacturing district, 314; its nearness to the labor-market, 315; its fire department, 316; its police force, 316; its water supply, 316; valuation, 319; comparative statement of income and expenditures, 319; manufacturing statistics, 322-331; government, 401-405; semi-centennial, list of committees, 406-408.

Cambridge Bank, 301-303.

Cambridge Cemetery, laid out, 137; consecration, 137; Dr. Albro's address, 137; extent and additions, 138; its care, 138; chapel, 138; soldiers' lot, 138; interments, 139; gateway, 139.

Cambridge Club, 295.

Cambridge Commandery of Knights Templar, 284.

Cambridge Common, 47-52. See Common.

Cambridge Farms (Lexington), 9, 236.

Cambridge Field, 122, 123.

‘Cambridge Idea, The,’ 87-100; who first used the phrase, 87; its forcefulness, 87; in everybody's mouth, 87; its indefinableness, 88; a symposium to define it, 88; not an idea, but an ideal, 88; a large symbol of thought, 88.

Cambridge's heritage, 89, 90; the power of the rum traffic, 91; licensed saloons, 91; a religious campaign, 91; ‘Frozen Truth,’ 91; overthrow of the saloon, 91; a Law Enforcement Association organized, 92; threats of the saloon-keepers, 92; the next election, 92; the saloon beaten, 92; Cambridge in the forefront, 92; her methods studied, 93; her influence, 93; the climax, 93; the literature of the idea, 94; vote on the license question, 94; result of the exclusion of the saloon, 94. 95; no liquor licenses signed in the new city hall, 95; lines of division wiped out, 95; the highest result of all, 96; the methods, 97; relation to the larger life of Cambridge, 97, 98; a language and a watchword, 98, 99; the task of the future, 99.

Cambridge Improvement Company, 109.

Cambridge Journalism, 218-223.

Cambridge Light Infantry in War of 1812, 33.

Cambridge Littoral, The, 101-112; Blaxton's outlook, 101; the first bridge across the Charles, 101; the first bridge to Boston, 102; the marshes of the Charles, 102; the work of pushing back the sea, 102; the canals, 103; effect of the railroad across the eastern marshes, 103; expansion of Boston, 104; outcome of the work at Boston, 104; first step in the improvement of the Cambridge shore, 105; extent of the submerged territory, 105; scheme of development, 106; Charles River Embankment Company, 106, 107; location of the bridge, 106; first section of retaining-wall built, 106; obstruction in Boston, 107; enforcing act passed, 107; the Harvard Bridge, 106, 108; the Park Commission created, 108; waste areas north of Main Street, 108; the last of the canals, 108, 109; the Binney fields, 109; Cambridge Wharf Company, 109; opening of First Street, 110; Broad Canal bridged, 110; importance of First Street, 110; a large summing up, 111.

Cambridge Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286.

Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 317.

Cambridge National Bank, 307.

Cambridge Parks, 119-125.

Cambridge Platform adopted, 10, 235.

Cambridgeport, 4; in 1780, 29; determines to have the town-house, 31; almshouse built in, 32; its growth retarded by war of 1812, 33; tendency of population to centre in, 55; new business blocks in, 128.

Cambridgeport Aqueduct Company, 113.

Cambridgeport National Bank, 302.

Cambridge Port Private Grammar School, 192.

Cambridgeport Savings Bank, 311.

Cambridge Railroad, 396.

Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter, 284.

Cambridge Safe Deposit and Trust Co., 307-309.

Cambridge Savings Bank, 309-311.

Cambridge School for Girls, 214-217.

Cambridge Town, 1750-1846, 14-34.

Cambridge Village, now Newton, 8.

Cambridge Water-Works, 113-118.

Cambridge Wharf Company, 109.

Canals: Broad, 30, 31, 109, 110, 127; West Dock, 30; South Dock, 30; Cross, 30.

Cannon on the Common, 51, 52.

Cantabrigia Club, 296.

‘Captain's Island,’ 124.

Car-building, 321.

Catholics and their Churches, The, 244.

Catholic temperance and charitable societies, 252.

Catholic Union, 252.

Cemetery Commissioners, 404.

Charities, 259-261, 276.

Charles II., intended to suppress the Company of Massachusetts Bay, 1. [412]

Charles River Bank, 304.

Charles River embankment, advantages as a place of residence, 127.

Charles River Embankment Company, 106, 107.

Charles River Encampment, 286.

Charles River National Bank, 304.

Charles River Railroad, 399.

Charlestown, 1; assembling of General Court at, 2; trail to Watertown, 3; General Gage removes powder from, 23; becomes a city, 54.

Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street), 8.

Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, the one Indian graduate of Harvard, 10.

Cheverus, Cardinal, 245.

Christ Church, founding of, 13; its chime of bells, 13; occupied by the Continental Army, 49; opened for service, 239; Dr. Hoppin's ministry, 239.

Churches, Catholic: First record of Catholic worship in the colony, 244; School Street Chapel, Boston, purchased, 244; early priests, 245; erection of church on Franklin Street, 245; Cardinal Cheverus, 245; Bishop Fenwick, 245; Cambridge part of St. Mary's parish, Charlestown, 246; Sunday-school organized in East Cambridge, 246; land purchased, 246; St. John's Church dedicated, 247; Woburn added to the parish, 247; parish of St. Peter's Church, 247,249; parish of St. Mary's Church, 248, 250; Church of the Sacred Heart, 249; parish of St. Paul's, 250; new St. John's parish, 251; Church of Notre Dame de Pitie, 251; parish of the Sacred Heart, at Mount Auburn, 252.

Churches, Protestant: Thomas Hooker's company settle at Mount Wollaston, 234; ordered to come to the New Town, 234; a meeting-house built, 234; ministers, 234; remove to Connecticut, 234; arrival of Thomas Shepard's company, 234; a new church formed, 234; Shepard installed as its minister, 234; its organization a notable event, 234; it was a Congregational church, 234; the first meeting-house, 234; influence of the ministers on the college, 235; the Cambridge Platform framed, 235; second meeting-house built, 236; President Dunster's heresy, 236; ministers, 236; the third meetinghouse, 236; fourth meeting-house, 236, 238; church lands, 237; salaries of the ministers, 237; how they were paid, 237; Dr. Holmes's pastorate, 237; a church formed in the college, 238; the parish dismiss Dr. Holmes, 238; the church goes out with the pastor, 238; it worships in the old court-house, 238; meeting-house on Mt. Auburn Street erected, 238; later pastors, 238, 2）39; its present house, 239; Shepard Congregational Society formed, 239; Second Congregational Church, 241; other Congregational churches, 241. First Parish and church removes to Harvard Square, 239; ministers, 239; Second Parish formed, 240; the church becomes Unitarian, 240; ministers, 240. Rev. East Apthorp appointed missionary of the Church of England, 239; Christ Church opened, 239; Dr. Hoppin's ministry, 239; St. Peter's Church, 240; St. James's Church, 240; other Episcopal churches, 240. Reformed Episcopal Church. 240. Methodist Episcopal churches, 240. Baptist churches, 240. First Universalist Church, 24 ; other Universalist churches, 241. New Church services, 241. United Presbyterian Church, 241. Reformed Presbyterian Church, 241. Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 241. Swedish services, 241. Colored churches and mission, 242.

Church-members, suffrage limited to, 6.

Church property exempt from taxation, 320.

Cities in Massachusetts, 54.

Citizens' Trade Association, corporate members, 297; object, 297; membership, 297; its work, 297; officers, 297.

City Hall, 86.

Clark, Alvan, 76, 379.

Clerk, City, 402.

Clerk of Committees, 402.

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 68.

Clubs: Colonial, 294; Newtowne, 295; Cambridge, 295; Economy, 295; Cantabrigia, 296.

College, the, General Court makes a grant for, 235; ordered to be placed in the New Town, 235; John Harvard's gifts to, 8; other gifts to, 8; given the name Harvard, 8; the yard boundaries, 8; why it was placed in the New Town. 235; meant to serve the churches, 235; influence of the ministers on its life, 235. See Harvard University.

Colonial Club, 294.

Commencement, the great holiday of the State, 50; festivities on the Common, 50.

Commercial Avenue, 315. [413]

Committee of Correspondence, appointment, 20; work of, 21; communicates with the Boston committee, 21; to relieve their Boston brethren, 22.

Common, the, 3, 16; an exciting episode on, 7, 47, 48, 235; Whitefield preaches on, 13, 48; an indignation meeting on, 23, 48; set apart by the Proprietors of Common Lands, 47; title to, transferred to the town, 47; colonial elections held on, 47; the Whitefield tree, 48; assembling-place of the yeomanry, 48; the march from, to Bunker Hill, 49; the old elm, 49; the American army encamped on, 49; Washington assumes command on, 49; his visit to, in 1789, 50; its appearance on Commencement Day, 50; inclosed and beautified, 50; the Soldiers' Monument, 50; planting of a centennial tree, 51; statue of John Bridge, 52; Memorial Day exercises on 52; the cannon on, 52, 53.

Common Council, 401.

Common lands, attempt to inclose, 31; opposition, 31; stormy town meetings about, 31; appeals, 31.

Concord Avenue improved, 116.

Concord, college instruction at, 26.

Confectionery, manufacture of, its beginning, 356; amount invested in, 358; number employed in, 358; raw material used in, 358.

Congregational churches, 238, 239, 241.

Congress. See Provincial Congress.

Constitution, General Court proposes to frame a, 27; Cambridge opposes the movement, 27; submitted to the people, 28; rejected by Cambridge, 28.

Constitutional convention, meets at Cambridge, 28.

Continental Army on Cambridge Common, 49.

Cooke, Prof. J. P., 76.

Correctors of the press, 69.

Cotton, John, 6, 7.

Council of Assistants, 5, 23.

County buildings, in East Cambridge, 30; exempt from taxation, 320.

Court-house, site of, 5; used as a townhouse, 5; the new, 16; inadequate for town meetings, 31.

Cox, James, publisher of the Cambridge Press, 221; the Nestor of Cambridge journalism, 222.

Craigie Bridge, 29, 30.

Craigie House (Longfellow House), 69.

Cross Canal, 30.

Dame schools, 189.

Dana, Richard Henry, 35, 269.

Dana Street, dividing line between Cambridgeport and Old Cambridge, 398.

Danforth, Samuel, appointed mandamus councilor, 23; determines not to serve, 23.

Danforth, Thomas, deputy-governor, 11; Benanuel Bowers's verses to, 12.

Davenport, Charles, car-builder, 321.

Daye, Stephen, sets up the first printingpress, 8; works printed by, 8; all employee of President Dunster, 333; not a successful printer, 333; becomes a real-estate agent, 333.

Death-rate, 131, 132.

Debt of the city, 59, 319, 320.

Declaration of rights, approved, 28.

Delta, etc., 37.

Deputies, House of, established, 5.

Dexter, D. Gilbert, founder of the Cabridge Tribune, 222.

Dilke, Sir Charles, contrasts Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Cambridge, England, 60.

Dodge, Col. Theodore A., describes an important industry, 360-370; on the advantages of Cambridge, 370.

Dorchester, 1; exodus from, 6.

Dowse Institute Fund, 320.

Dowse, Thomas, library of, 41.

Dudley, Thomas, site of his house, 2.

Dunster, Henry, president of Harvard College, 12, 332; denounces infant baptism, 12,236; and Edward Goffe, build the first schoolhouse, 188; removes from Cambridge, 236; burial there, 236; error in marking his grave, 236; secures possession of the first printing-press, 332; sued for its recovery, 332; a second press falls into his hands, 332; his political influence, 332.

Dunster Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286.

Earthquake of 1755, 73.

East Cambridge, 4, 29, 33; secures the county buildings, 30; improvements in, 128.

East Cambridge Land Company, 109, 314.

East Cambridge Savings Bank, 312.

East End Christian Union, beginnings of, 275; incorporation, 275; its building, 275; superintendent. 275; gymnasium, etc., 275; relation to the Associated Charities, 275; readingroom and library, 275; visitors, 275; the Triangle Club, 275; officers, 275.

Economy Club, 295.

Editors, famous, 220.

Educational facilities and their relation to manufactures, 315.

Election, an exciting, 7, 47, 48, 235.

Eliot, Charles W., president of Harvard University, chapter by, 142.

Eliot, Rev. John, first sermon of, to the Indians, 10.

Endicott, John, governor, 2.

[414] Engineer, City, 404.

Episcopal churches, 239, 240.

Episcopal Theological School, buildings, 254; its founder, 254; his purpose, 255; trustees, 255; its work, 255; benefactors, 256; deans, 256; professors, 256; graduates, 256; property exempt from taxation, 320.

Everett, Edward, describes a common town school, 191.

Fall River becomes a city, 54.

Farms, 4, 41.

Farrar, Professor, 73.

Fay, Isaac, makes a bequest for a hospital, 278.

Fay House, 183, 184.

Ferry, 4.

Fire Department, 316.

Fire Department, Board of Engineers of, 404.

Fire engine, the first, 17; Henry Vassall's, 18.

First Church, 233, 234.

First National Bank, 305-307.

First Parish, opposes a new parish south of the Charles, 15; petitions for a strip of land from Watertown, 15; petition granted, 15; wants a strip from Charlestown, 15; the strip annexed, 15; but does not become part of Cambridge, 15; triumph of the separatists south of the Charles, 16; called the body of the town, 16; terminates its contract with Dr. Holmes, 31, 238; majority of the parish Unitarians, 31; Dr. Holmes and his followers withdraw from, 31; erects a new building, 32, 239.

First Parish meeting-house, location. 5; second house, 5; a fourth house erected, 17; the college contribution, 17; Washington attends service in, 17; constitutional convention held in, 17; Lafayette received in, 17; college exercises in, 17; used for town meetings, 31; the fifth house built, 32; the college bears a portion of the expense, 32; retains rights in it, 32. See Churches, Protestant.

First Street, opened, 110; its importance, 110.

Fitting-Schools for boys and girls, 217.

Folsom, Charles V. 69, 336, 337.

Freemasonry, beginning of history in Cambridge, 280; its importance in Revolutionary days, 280; association first known as Aurora Society, 280; meetings at Hovey's Tavern, 280; signers to the original call, 280; first meeting, 280; by-laws, 280; officers, 281; petition for a charter. 281; name Aurora unsatisfactory, 281; name Amicable adopted, 281; new members admitted, 281; consecration of the lodge, 281; lodge rooms, 281; steady growth, 281; anti-Masonic excitement, 282; the organization dissolved, 282; the Masonic Charity Fund offered the city, 282; the offer not accepted,. 283; the charter restored, 283; the first meeting, 283; meeting-places, 283; semi-centennial, 283; seventy-fifth anniversary, 283; present number of members, 283; other Masonic organizations, 284.

Freight facilities, 127.

Fresh Pond, 113, 114, 116, 117.

Fresh Pond Park, 117, 125.

Friendship Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286.

Frozen Truth, 91, 94.

Gage, General, seizes powder in Charlestown, 23, 48; and fieldpieces in Cambridge, 23, 48.

Gallows Lot, executions on, 5, 12.

Gambrel-Roofed House, The, 43-46.

Gardner, Col. Thomas, killed at Bunker Hill, 26.

General Court, places of assembling, 2; how formed, 5; adjourned from Boston to Cambridge, 20; proposes to frame a constitution, 27.

Gibbs, Dr. Wolcott, 77.

Gilman, Arthur, his plan for the collegiate instruction of women, 177,178; Regent of Radcliffe College, 174; opens the Cambridge School for Girls, 214; secretary of the Humane Society, 270.

Girls, excluded from early schools, 189, 190.

God's Acre, 5, 16, 134.

Goffe, Edward, and President Dunster, build the first schoolhouse, 188.

Goffe, William, 11.

Gookin, Rev. Nathaniel, 236.

Government, municipal, on what it depends, 78; elimination of partisanship in, 78; non-partisanship in Cambridge, 78, 79; machinery of, in Cambridge, 80.

Government. of the City of Cambridge, 401-405.

Graded schools introduced by Cambridge, 33.

Grand Army in Cambridge: William H. Smart Post 30; Charles Beck Post 56; P. Stearns Davis Post 57; John A. Logan Post 186, 287.

Grand Junction Railroad, 314.

Gray, Dr. Asa, 73; his works and his trees, 74.

Green, James D., first mayor of Cambridge, 62.

Greene, Samuel, old-time printer, 333, 336; works printed by, 336. [415]

Harbor Master, 404.

Hartford, Conn., founded, 6.

Harvard, name given to the college at the New Town, 8. See College and Harvard University.

Harvard Annex. See Radcliffe College.

Harvard Bank, 305, 306.

Harvard Branch of the Fitchburg Railroad, 396.

Harvard Bridge, 4, 106, 108.

Harvard Hall, burning of, 17, 18; General Court meets in, 20.

Harvard, Rev. John, 8.

Harvard Square, formerly part of the Common, 16, 23; the town centre, 16; ceases to be the centre, 31; sketch of, in 1822, 35, 36.

Harvard Street, formerly Braintree, 8; called Craigie Road, 37.

Harvard University (see College), area of lands, 142; purchases and sales, 142, 143; its open spaces a benefit, 144, 145; the University population, 145; makes permanent residents, 145; collections open to the public, 145, 146; lectures, 146; concerts, 146; chapel services, 146; effect on the public schools, 146; on the printing establishments, 147; business of boarding and lodging, 147; private dormitories, 147; business dependent on, 147; effect on Cambridge as a place of residence, 147-149; a type of its life, 149; summer pilgrims to, 149; its origin, history, and purpose, 150; what it includes, 151; courses of instruction, 151; the College, 151; framework of a student's career, 152; Lawrence Scientific School, 152, 153, Graduate School, 153, 154; Divinity School, 154; Law School, 154, 155; Medical School, 156; Dental School, 156, 157; School of Veterinary Medicine, 157; Bussey Institution, 157; Summer School, 157, 158; Athletic buildings, 158; laboratories and museums, 158; religious life, 158; capital, investments, and income, 159; its spirit, 159; ‘Harvard indifference,’ 160; its motto, 160; religious life at, thirty years ago, 161; development of the new religious life, 162, 163; preachers to the University, 163; practical results, 163; physical training at, 165-170; Lady Ann Moulson establishes its first scholarship, 174; property exempt from taxation, 320.

Harvard University in its Relations to the City, 142-149.

Harvard Washington Corps, 37.

Hayward, Almira L., 232.

Health, Board of, 132, 402.

Health of Cambridge, The, 131, 132.

Health, the first board of, 271.

Henry Highland Garnett Division, K. of P., 292.

Heresy, dread of, 10.

Hews, Abraham, entries in his journal April 19, 1775, 382.

Higginson, Stephen, 35, 36.

High buildings, 129.

Hill, Dr. G. B., author of ‘Harvard College by an Oxonian,’ 72.

Holmes, John, Ballade by, VI; 35, 183.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 33.

Holmes, Rev. Abiel, dismissed from the First Parish, 31, 238; his farm, 41; importance of his pastorate, 337; his ministrations in the ‘Port,’ 240; founds the Humane Society, 267.

Hooker, Rev. Thomas, arrives at New Town, 6; his company not satisfied, 6; they remove to Connecticut, 6, 233; and found Hartford, 6.

Horton, Elizabeth, 12.

Hospital, Cambridge, opened by Miss E. E. Parsons, 278; incorporated, 278; closed, 278; Isaac Fay's bequest, 278; additional gifts, 278; extent of hospital inclosure, 278; surroundings, 278; buildings, 279; the hospital opened, 279; number cared for, 279; its accommodations, 279; cost of land and buildings, 279; cost of maintenance, 279; property exempt from taxation, 320.

Houghton, H. O., tells the story of the first printing-press, 332, 333; 334; founder of the Riverside Press, 335.

House of Deputies established, 5.

Howells, W. D., letter from, IV.

Humane Society, Cambridge, when founded, 267; preliminary meetings, 267; objects, 267-269; list of articles procured, 267; beneficiaries, 267-269; first officers, 268; address, 268, 269; some early members, 269; offi cers, 269, 270; its work, 270; lifesaving apparatus, 270, 271; the original board of health, 271; its operations extended, 272; its bathinghouse, 272-273; members, 273; presidents, 273, 274.

Huron Avenue, 116.

Hutchinson, Anne, controversy over her religious teachings, 7, 235; her opinions condemned, 7, 235; sentenced to banishment, 7.

Indians, Mystic, 9, 10; their squaw sachem, 9, 10; Cambridge land bought of them, 9, 10; friendly relations with the whites, 10; put themselves under the protection of the English, 10; Eliot's first sermon to, 10; number professing Christianity, 10; Harvard's one Indian graduate, 10; in King Philip's War, 10.

[416] Jail in East Cambridge, 30.

Jail on Winthrop Street, 5, 16.

Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 72.

John A. Logan Post, 290.

Johnson, Edward, quoted, 2, 235.

Journalists and editors, 219-223.

Kendall, Joshua, school for boys, 211, 212.

Kindergartens, 206, 217.

Kingsley, Chester W., 118 n., 120.

Knights of Pythias: St. Omer Lodge, 292; American Lodge, 292; Uniform Rank Garnett Division, 292; Henry Highland Garnett Lodge, 292.

Knox, General, 51.

Labor-market, 315.

Lake View Avenue, 116.

Langdon, President, prayer of, 49.

Law Enforcement Association, 92.

Lawrence becomes a city, 54.

Lechmere Bank, 303.

Lechmere Point Corporation, 30; erects county buildings at East Cambridge, 30.

Lee, Joseph, appointed mandamus councilor, 23; determines not to serve, 28.

Lexington, formerly Cambridge Farms, 9; church formed at, 23.

Library. See Public Library.

Life in Cambridge Town, 35-42.

Literary Life in Cambridge, 67-71.

Little Cambridge, 9. See Third Parish and Brighton.

Longfellow, H. W., 69, 70.

Longfellow Garden, the, 69.

Longfellow Memorial Association, property exempt from taxation, 320.

Lovering, Professor, 76.

Lowell, J. R., 35, 37; his playful plaint, 60, 69; what he would rather see, 70; a singer of good politics, 90; his description of Fresh Pond meadows, 125.

Lowell, high school in, 192.

Lowlands, reclamation of, 106, 107, 109, 111, 127.

Lynn becomes a city, 54.

Mandamus councilors, 23.

Manson, Elizabeth, kindergarten, 217.

Manual Training School for Boys, its building, 85, 86, 224, 225; object of its founders, 224; opening of the school, 225; supervising committee, 225; its reputation, 225; an indispensable factor in the school system, 225; equipment, 225; its scope, 226; not a trade school, 226; prepares for scientific or higher technical schools, 226; stimulating influences, 226; fire drill, 227; military drill, 227; the band, 227; the glee club, 227.

Manufactures, for year ending April 1, 1845, 322; June 1, 1855, 323; May 1, 1865, 324; May 1, 1875, 325; during year 1890, 328; general statistics for year ending June 30, 1885, 331.

Manufacturing, Cambridge a centre for, 313; favorable conditions for, 313; land available for, 313, 314; transportation facilities, 313; labor-market, 315; relation of park system to, 313; fire protection, 316; police protection, 316; table of comparative water rates for, 318; product of manufactures, 322; statistics, 322-331. See Index to Manufactures.

Manufacturing establishments June 30, 1885, 327.

Market House, 36.

Markham, Jeannette, school for girls, 217.

Marshes, 110.

Masonic organizations. See Freemasonry.

Massachusetts Avenue (Concord Road), 37.

Massachusetts Bay, Company of, transference of its charter a popular movement, 1; its first settlements, 1; seeks a seat of government, 1; what governed its choice, 1; the enemy most to be feared, 1; Charles I. intended its suppression, 1; erects New Town for a seat of government, 2.

Massachusetts, cities in, 541.

Mather, Cotton, commends Mr. Shepard's ‘vigilancy,’ 7.

Mattabeseck (Middletown), Conn., 7.

Mayor, 401.

Mayors, list of, 63.

Medford, removes its powder from Charlestown, 23.

Meeting-house, the first, 5, 234.

Memorial Day exercises on the Common. 51.

Memorial Hall, site of, 36, 37.

Menotomy, becomes the Second Parish of Cambridge, 9, 14, 236.

Menotomy Road (Massachusetts Avenue), 133.

Methodist churches, 240.

Middlesex Bank, 303.

Middletown, Conn., settled, 7.

Milestone in Harvard Square, 134.

Milk, Inspector of, 405.

Minute-men, monument to, 135.

Mitchel, Rev. Jonathan, 235.

Mizpah Lodge of Masons, 284.

Monti Luigi, the ‘Young Sicilian,’ 211.

Morse, Royal, auctioneer, 40.

‘Morse's hourly,’ 38.

Moulson, Lady Ann, establishes scholarship at Harvard, 174; Radcliffe College named for, 175. [417]

Moulson, Sir Thomas, 174.

Mount Auburn, location, 139; known as ‘Stone's Woods,’ 139; also Sweet Auburn, 139; proprietors, 139; use as a cemetery authorized, 139; the tower, 139; first committee for the cemetery, 139, 140; consecration, 140; incorporation, 140; first burials, 140; the chapel, 140; statues, 140, 141; the Sphinx, 140; gateway, 140; monuments, 140, 141; eminent dead, 141; Franklin monument, 141; interments, 141; funds, 141; other lands of the corporation, 141.

Mount Auburn Corporation, 140.

Mount Auburn Lodge of Odd Fellows, 186.

Mount Auburn Street, ‘the back road to Mount Auburn,’ 37.

Mount Olivet Lodge of Masons, 284.

Mount Sinai Lodge of Odd Fellows, 280.

Mulford, Elisha, 68.

Municipal government. See Government.

National City Bank, 303.

Neck, the, 4, 127.

New Bedford becomes a city, 54; high school in, 192.

New Cambridge, 9.

Newburyport becomes a city, 54.

New-Church Theological School, 37: location, 257; chapel services, 257; curriculum, 258; teachers, 258; management, 258; students, 258; property exempt from taxation, 320.

New England Encampment, 286.

New England Glass Company, 33.

New England Lodge of Odd Fellows, 286.

New Jerusalem Church, 241.

Newspapers: New England Chronicle and Gazette, 218; Chronicle, 221; Press, 221; Tribune, 222; News, 222; Crimson, 223; Lampoon, 223; Advocate, 223; Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 223; Sacred Heart Review, 223.

Newton, formerly Cambridge Village and New Cambridge, 8, 9; set off from Cambridge, 236; First Church organized, 236.

New Town, erection of, 2; form, 2; intended for seat of government, 2; intention gradually abandoned, 2; assembling of General Court at, 2; bounds, 2; streets, 2, 3; defenses, 3; ‘too far from the sea,’ 3; neat and compact, 3; inhabitants, 3; the common grazing-land, 3; house-lots and homesteads, 3; its ‘West End,’ 3; building restrictions, 3; the ‘Neck,’ 4; farms, 4; its threefold partition, 4; communications with Boston, 4; first meeting-house, 5; palisade, 5, 8, 133; accessions to the population, 6; Thomas Hooker's company leave for Connecticut, 6; the town nearly depopulated, 6; arrival of Thomas Shepard and his congregation, 7; election on the Common, 7, 47, 48, 235; Mrs. Hutchinson sentenced at, 7; the college placed in, 8; name changed to Cambridge, 8. See Cambridge.

Newtown. See Newton.

Newtowne Club, 295.

No-license vote, its effect upon the city, 316.

Nonantum, John Eliot preaches to the Indians at, 10; within Cambridge limits, 10.

North Avenue Savings Bank, 311.

North Cambridge, improvements in, 128.

Norton, Rev. John. criticism of Mrs. Bradstreet's verses, 2.

Oakes, Rev. Urian, minister, actingpresident, and president of the college, 236.

Observatory, 75, 76.

Odd-Fellowship, its position, 285; strength and popularity, 285; first founded in England, 285; first American lodge, 285; its purpose, 285; its motto and aim, 285; its work, 285; Cambridge organizations, 286; buildings, 286.

Old Cambridge, 2. See New Town.

Oldest Cambridge, 2. See New Town.

Old-time Society, An, 267-274.

Old Villagers, 60.

Olive Branch Rebekah Lodge, 286.

Oliver, Thomas, lieutenant-governor, 23; his promise to Cambridge citizens, 24.

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 35.

Overseers of the Poor, 403.

Owen, John, 51.

Paige, Rev. Lucius R., 276, 281, 284.

Palisade at the New Town, 5, 8, 133; Watertown refuses to share the expense of building, 8; needed as a protection from wild beasts, 8.

Park Commissioners, 403.

Parks, committee to consider the subject of, 120; public grounds in 1892, 120; their inadequacy, 120; Park Commissioners appointed, 120; the beginnings of their work, 120; Broadway Common, 121; the East Cambridge embankment, 122; Cambridge Field, 122; Rindge Field, 123; four miles of river parkway, 123; the basin of the Charles, 123; ‘Captain's Island,’ 124; views from the river parkway, 124; Fresh Pond Park, 125; Lowell's [418] description of the Fresh Pond meadows, 125.

Parsonage, the, 10.

Parson's allowance in 1680, 10.

Parsons, Emily E., 277.

Peabody, Rev. A. P., 162.

Peirce, Prof. Benjamin, remark of, 76.

Physical training, 164, 165; Harvard's first attempt, 165-167; Kay's private gymnasium, 167; recreative games, 167; boat races, 167; first game of baseball, 168; Hemenway Gymnasium, 168; Harvard Athletic Association established, 168; football, 168; the old-style gymnasium, 168, 169; the new apparatus, 169; physical examinations, 169; Harvard Athletic Committee, 170; Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, 171; Cambridgeport gymnasium, 171; growth of interest in physical development in the United States, 171; students of physical training at Harvard, 172; influence on the youth of Cambridge, 172, 173; the college offers the use of its grounds to the city, 173.

Pine Swamp Field, 4.

‘Pointers,’ 60.

Police Department, 405.

Police force, 316.

Ponema Tribe, Red Men, 293.

Poor's House, the, 17, 276.

Population, in 1680, 10; in 1750, 17; in 1765, 17; in 1776, 17, 29; in 1790, 32; in 1810, 32; in 1840, 32; in 1850, 32; in 1895, 59; comparative statement of, 319.

Population, density of, 131.

Port Bill, 22.

‘Port chucks,’ 38.

‘Porters,’ 60.

Porter's Tavern. 37.

Prescott, Col. William, 49.

Printing-press, the first, 8; productions of, 8.

Prison Point Bridge, 29.

Private Schools in Cambridge, 208-217.

Professors' Row (Kirkland Street), 36, 37, 41.

Prospect Union, object, 265; name, 265; begins work in the Prospect House, 265; leaders, 265; outgrows its quarters, 265; occupies the old City Hall, 265; classes, 265, 266; teachers, 266; the University's interest in the Union, 266; weekly meetings, 266; lectures, 266; not a charitable institution, 266; members' fees, 266; non-sectarian, 266; spirit, 266; privileges of members, 266; its value to the city, 316.

Protestant Churches of Cambridge, The. 233-243.

Provincial Congress, organized at Salem. 25; adjourns to Concord, 25; then to Cambridge, 25; appoints a receiver- general, 25; second, meets at Cam- bridge, 25.

P. Stearns Davis Post, 57, 290.

Public Buildings, Superintendent of, and Inspector of Buildings, 404.

Public Library, The, 228-232; its origin in the Cambridge Athenaeum, 228; bequest of James Brown for the purchase of books, 228; the library opened, 228; Athenaeum building becomes the property of the city, 228; which agrees to maintain the library, 228; receives the name of the Dana Library, 228; Mr. Dana's bequest lost, 228; made free, 228; name changed to Cambridge Public Library, 228; number of volumes, 228; Mr. Rindge's gift, 228; the library building, 228, 229; general reading-room, 229; children's room, 221; local deliveries, 229; Cambridgeport branch, 229; school delivery, 229, 230; total yearly circulation, 230; visitors, 230; monthly bulletin, 230; special reading-lists, 230; Cambridge Memorial Room, 230, 231; manuscript rarities, 231; Thirtyeighth Regiment flag, 231; gifts from Cambridge people, 231; Miss Hayward's work, 232.

Public Library building, 83, 84, 228, 229.

Public Schools of Cambridge, The, 187-208.

Putnam Lodge of Masons, 284.

Quakers in Cambridge, 12, 13.

Quineboquin (the crooked) River, 123.

Radcliffe College, why so named, 174, 175; established by the legislature, 175; Dr. Stearns's idea of a college for women in Cambridge, 175; origin of Radcliffe, 176; first plan for the collegiate instruction of women, 176; a house chosen, 177; Mr. Gilman unfolds his plan to President Eliot, 177, 178; Professor Greenough's reception of the scheme, 178: President Eliot willing the experiment should be tried, 178; the ‘committee,’ 178; Harvard professors approve the scheme, 179; the first announcement, 179; the examinations, 180; work begun, 180; educational privileges for women, 180; the line of progress, 181; intellectual character of the students, 181, 182; certificates, 182; the secretary, 182; the quarters prove too small, 183; enlargement, 183; a guardian angel, 183; a building becomes a necessity, 183; Miss Fay offers her homestead, 183; Fay House purchased, 183; The Society for the Collegiate Instruction [419] of Women incorporated, 184; its nickname, 184; enlargement of Fay House, 184; incorporation of Radcliffe College, 184; growth of the work, 185; its union with Harvard, 186; property exempt from taxation, 320.

Railways, street, 395-399.; Real estate owned by the city, 59.

Real-Estate Interests of Cambridge, 126-130.

Red Men, Improved Order of, 293.

Reed, Benjamin T., founds the Episcopal Theological School, 254, 255.

Reemie, Marcus, barber shop of, VIII, 35.

Reformed Presbyterian Church, 241.

Regicide judges, their life in Cambridge, 11.

Reid, Andrew, founder of the Cambridge Chronicle, 221.

Reidesel, General, quartered in the Sewall House, 28.

Reidesel, Madame, describes life in Tory Row, 28.

Religious societies, 33.

Rindge Field, 123.

Rindge Frederick H., 83-86, 196, 224, 227, 228.

Rindge Gifts, the, 82-86.

Riverside Press, The, 32; founded by H. O. Houghton, 335.

River Street Bridge, 29.

Roxbury becomes a city, 54.

St. Giles's church, Edinburgh, tumult in, 1.

St. Omer Lodge, K. of P., 292.

Saloons, exclusion of, 92; effect of their exclusion on the population of the city, 94; on the treasury, 95; on the savings banks, 95, 316; on the business of the city, 95,: 316; on real estate, 128.

Sanders Temperance Fund, 277, 320.

Savings Banks. See Banks.

Savings Banks, increase of deposits in, 95, 316.

School Committee, 402.

Schoolhouse, the first permanent, 10; site, 10; built by President Dunster and Edward Goffe, 188.

Schoolmaster's salary in 1680, 10.

Schools in 1800, 33; in 1845, 33.

Schools, graded, 33.

Schools, private: Professor Agassiz's, 209-211; Joshua Kendall's, 211, 212; Berkeley Street School, 212; Browne and Nichols, 212-214; Cambridge School for Girls, 214-217; FittingSchool for Boys and Girls, 217.

Schools, public: Elijah Corlett's ‘faire Grammar Schoole,’ 187; his reputation as a teacher, 188; his first schoolhouse, 188; Indian youths fitting for college, 188; the Court orders towns to appoint teachers, 188; how teachers' salaries were paid, 188; Mr. Corlett's meagre fees, 188; the town comes to the rescue, 188; votes him an annual salary, 188; grants from the General Court, 188; early grammar school a college fitting-school, 188, 189; for boys exclusively, 189; no formal provision for girls, 189; fashionable to ridicule female learning, 190; how girls worked their way into the public schools, 190; successors to Corlett's schoolhouse, 190; transformation of the colonial grammar school, 191; Edward Everett's description of a common town school, 191; a grammar school in a double sense, 191; ‘children’ comes to includes both sexes, 191; co-education in Massachusetts, 192; the sexes separated, 192; the Auburn Female High School, 193; the girls fare better than the boys, 193; schools made for both sexes, 193; Auburn High and Grammar School, 193; high and grammar school classes part company, 193; the tablet in the wall of the Washington building, 194; high school organized in Cambridgeport, 194; its first teacher, 194; not favored in Old Cambridge, 194; Otis schoolhouse in East Cambridge, 194; teachers, 194; teachers of Female High School, 194; high school for the city opened, 195; teachers, 195; Old Cambridge opposition, 195; Old Cambridge high school closed, 195; beginning of the Cambridge High School, 195; its new building, 195; popularity, 195; a third home, 195; the high school divided, 195; the Latin School, 196; English High School building, 196; Manual Training School, 196; a new building for the Latin School, 196; a decade of unparalleled high school development, 196; Mr. Rindge's gifts, 196. Fifty years ago, fruit of, 197; exhibitions, 197; corporal punishment diminishing, 197; reading, 197; irregular attendance, 198; school libraries, 198; committee visits, 198; popularity of Cambridge schools, 198; grades, 198; cost of instruction, 198; spelling, 198, 199; protest against many studies, 199; need of good teachers, 199; schools too large, 199; schoolhouses, 199, 200; excuses, 200; bad behavior, 200; progress, 201, 202.

Schools of to-day: committee, 202; superintendents, 202; high school system, 203; head masters and teachers, 203; a wider range of choice, 203; [420] grammar schools, 203, 204; trainingschool for teachers. 204; plan for shortening grammar school courses, 205; special teachers, 205, 206; geometry and physics, 205; primary schools, 205; superintendents, 205; kindergartens, 206; evening schools, 206; truant officers, 206; statistics, 1845 and 1895, 200; comparisons, 207; further educational advantages, 207.

Scientific Cambridge, 72-77.

Scientific School. 75, 76; instructors, 75.

Second Parish, incorporated as West Cambridge, 9, 16;.

Sewall or Lechmere House, 28.

Sewall, Jonathan, his windows broken by Cambridge citizens, 23.

Sewers, Superintendent of, 404.

Shays's Rebellion, 32.

Shepard, Rev. Thomas, arrival at New Town, 7,233; his ‘vigilancy’ against heresies, 7; his ministry, 7, 235; his presence determines the seating of the college, 235.

Shepard Congregational Society, organized, 31,239.

Simond's Hill, 37.

Sinking Funds, Commissioners of the, 403.

Social Union, property exempt from taxation, 1320.

Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. See Radcliffe College.

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, sends missionary to Cambridge, 240.

Soldiers' Monument, 50.

Solicitor, City, 404.

Somerville Powder House, 23.

South Dock Canal, 30.

Springfield becomes a city, 54.

Squire, John P., 371, 373.

Stage lines to Boston, 395, 396.

Stamp Act, 19.

Stearns, Rev. William A., his idea of a college for women. 175; on co-education, 193.

Stony Brook, 113, 114.

Story, W. W., 35, 37.

Street improvements, 128.

Street railways, 395-399.

Streets, Superintendent of, 404.

Streets tributary to bridges, 29.

Students, moral improvement in, 39, 40.

Students, Southern, 38, 39.

Suffrage, limited to church-members, 6.

Sweet Auburn, 139. See Mount Auburn.

Taxation, property exempt front, 320.

Taxation without representation, early case of, 5.

Tax rate, 59.

Tea, duty on, 21, 22.

Tea, destruction of, 22.

Third Parish, called Little Cambridge. 9; attempts to establish, 14, 15; opposition, 14, 15; compromises, 15; new petition and counter-petition, 16; the precinct incorporated, 16; a church founded 16; incorporated as the town of Brighton, 16. See Brighton.

Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), Toll bridges, 29.

Tory Row, 28.

Town, body of, 16.

‘Town boys’ and ‘Wells boys,’ 38.

Town church. See First Parish.

Town-house, location, 31.

Town, traces of English method of forming, in Cambridge, 4.

Travel between Boston and Cambridge, 400.

Treadwell, Prof. Daniel, 73.

Treasurer, City, 402.

Trowbridge, Prof. John, 77.

Trustees of Cambridge Public Library, 403.

Uniform Rank Garnett Division, K. of P., 292.

Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 241.

Union Railway Company, incorporated, 396; Gardiner G. Hubbard and his associates, 396;; first meeting of stockholders. 396, 397; officers elected, 397; efforts to procure subscriptions, 397; cars procured, 397; a successful run, 397; fares, 398; hack to call for passengers, 308; removal of snow from Boston streets, 398; passes, 398, 399; absorbed in West End system, 399.

Unitarian churches, 239, 240.

United Presbyterian Church, 241.

Universalist churches, 241.

University Press, The, 10; history of, 336, 337.

Valuation from 1886 to 1805, 319.

Valuation, increase in, 126.

Value of buildings, stock, and machinery, May 1, 1875, 326.

Vane. Governor Harry, 7; at election on Cambridge Common, 47; his defeat, 48; sails for England, 48; youngest person ever elected governor, 48; tried for high treason and beheaded, 48.

Vassall, Henry, offers his fire engine to the town, 11.

Vassall House (Craigie House, Longfellow House), 27.

Volunteer fire department, 55, 56.

Voters, Registrars of, 404.

Ward, General, headquarters, 26, 49.

Washington Elm, 49.

Washington. General, headquarters, 26,

[421] 27; assumes command of the Continental Army, 49, 50; his last tour through New England, 50; reception on the Common, 50; worships in the First Parish meeting-house, 23S.

Watchhouse Hill, second meeting-house built on, 236.

Water Board, 118, 403.

Water front, 4, 30.

Water rates to manufacturers, 318.

Water supply, 316 .

Watertown, inconvenient situation of, 1; trail from, to Charlestown, 3; refuses to be taxed for the New Town palisade, 5; portion of, annexed to Cambridge, 9, 15.

Water-Works, Cambridge, chartered, 113; authorized to take the water of Fresh Pond, 113; buys out the Aqueduct Company, 113; becomes the property of the city; sources of supply, 113, 114; Stony Brook and its tributaries, 114; storage basins, 114; distributing reservoir at Payson Park, 114; objections to municipal control, 114; its financial standing, 115; a help to the poor, 115; street improvements by, 116, 117; surroundings of Fresh Pond, 117.

Weights and Measures, Sealer of, 405.

West Boston Bridge, 29, 495.

West Cambridge, 9, 16.

West Dock Canal, 30.

‘West End,’ 3.

Western Avenue Bridge, 29.

‘West Field,’ 4.

Wethersfield, Conn., founded, 6.

Whalley, the regicide, 11.

Wharton, Francis, 68.

White, Daniel, Charity, 277, 320.

Whitefield, George, preaches on the Common, 13, 48; a friend to the college, 236.

Whitefield tree, 48.

Willard, Emery, the village strong man, 40.

William H. Smart Post 30, 288.

Williams, Rev. Mr., 73.

Willson, Forceythe, 68.

Wilson, John, Sr., 334.

Wilson, Rev. John, election speech of, 7, 48.

Windmill Hill, 3.

Windsor, Conn., founded, 6.

Winlock, Professor, 75.

Winship, Mrs. Joanna, tomb of, 189.

Winthrop, John, 1, 2, 7, 47.

Winthrop, Prof. John, 72, 73.

Winthrop Square, 5.

Wires, Inspectors of, and Superintendent of Lamps, 404.

Witchcraft, 11, 12.

Wollaston, Mount, Thomas Hooker's company settle at, 6, 233.

Wolves, bounties for, 9.

Worcester becomes a city, 54.

Worcester, Joseph E., lexicographer, 68.

Worthington Street, 116.

Wright, Elizur, description of London parks, 119.

Wyman, Prof. Jeffries, 73, 75.

Young Men's Christian Association, 242; property exempt from taxation, 320.

Young Women's Christian Association, 242.