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SHAKES. 



John D. Long 3 



Penelope R. Walbach, Boston . 3 



Sarah C. Williams 3 



C. H. Alden 3 



Fannie M. Pray, Boston ... 3 



Charles Howard 3 



Benjamin Andrews 2 



Fearing Burr & Co 2 



Francis Overton 2 



Edmund Hersey, 2d 2 



Charles A. Lovett 2 



George P. Cushing 

 John C. Hollis . . 

 George Cushing 

 William C. Wilder 

 Alonzo Cushing 



SHARES. 



. . 1 

 . . 1 

 , . 1 

 . . 1 

 1 



Joseph Jacobs, Jr 1 



L. J. B. Lincoln 



William J. Nelson .... 



Isaac Hersey 



Charles C. Melcher .... 

 Elihu Thayer 



The Company was organized Saturday, August 23, 1879, by 

 the choice of the following officers : Clerk, Starkes Whiton. 

 Directors : Ebed L. Ripley, Starkes Whiton, George P. Hay ward, 

 Charles B. Barnes, E. Waters Burr, Samuel Downer, Charles L. 

 Goodhue, Arthur Lincoln, and William J. Nelson. Auditors : 

 Henry C. Harding, Charles Siders. 



At a subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors Ebed L. 

 Ripley was elected President, and Starkes Whiton, Treasurer. 



A Building Committee, consisting of the President and Treas- 

 urer, with Messrs. George P. Hayward and William J. Nelson, was 

 afterwards chosen. 



On the following Monday Messrs. Ripley and Hayward met 

 Messrs. Goodhue and Birnie, water- works contractors of Spring- 

 field, Mass., at the office of Charles B. Barnes, in Boston, to confer 

 with them in regard to material and method of construction. 



The result of this conference was the acceptance of an offer 

 made by them to construct and complete the works on or before 

 July 4, 1880. Telegraphic orders were at once forwarded for 

 shipment of material, and thus the work was practically com- 

 menced within forty-eight hours after the organization of the 

 company. This action was afterwards confirmed by the Building 

 Committee, and a contract was made by them with Messrs. Good- 

 hue and Birnie to build the works according to specifications 

 drawn by Mr. M. M. Tidd of Boston, who was employed as 

 engineer. 



On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1879, work was com- 

 menced on Otis Street, in front of the residence of Hon. John D. 

 Long, then Lieut.-Governor of the State, who with others was 

 present at the ceremony of breaking ground, which at the request 

 of Mr. Goodhue was performed by Mr. George P. Hayward, whose 

 enthusiasm on the water question, and whose untiring efforts to 

 push the undertaking to a satisfactory conclusion made it partic- 

 ularly fitting that he should commence the actual work which was 

 to crown those efforts with success. 



On receiving the proper tools Mr. Hayward said : — 



I congratulate you, kind friends, on the commencement of measures 

 for furnishing you with an abundant supply of pure water. I congratu- 

 late the workingmen of Hingham, who have been selected by special 



