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manufactured products are the chief articles 

 of trade. 



Buildings and Institutions. Among the note- 

 worthy buildings are the Sayles Memorial Li- 

 brary, state armory, Memorial Hospital, the 

 Home for the Aged Poor and several fine bank 

 and business buildings. Besides a large num- 

 ber of private, public, industrial and business 

 ols, and a public library, Pawtucket has the 

 advantage of the Providence schools for higher 



duration Daggett Park is the largest of the 

 city's recreation grounds, and Collyer monu- 

 ment and the soldiers' memorial monument or- 

 nament the city. The old mill which witnessed 

 the beginning of the cotton industry is .^till 

 standing, and in it Pawtucket claims to have 



-tahlishod the first Sunday school in the 







History. The place was settled in 1654. 

 That part of the city which lies on the east 

 bank of the rivrr \\;as originally a part of See- 

 konk, in Bristol County, Mass., and it became 

 Rhode Island territory in 1862. The part on 

 the west bank was the principal village of 

 North Providence until 1874, when that town 

 was divided; the two villages on the east and 

 west banks were then incorporated as the town 

 of Pawtucket, which in 1886 was chartered as a 

 city. 



PAYNE, payn, JOHN HOWARD (1792-1852), 

 an American writer and actor, whose fame is 

 secure as the author of Home, Sweet Home, 

 one of the greatest songs in any language. He 

 was born in New York, and studied there at 

 Union College 

 until lie was six- 

 teen, when he ap- 

 peared for the 

 first time on the 

 stage. His youth 

 and his unde- 

 niable genius won 

 h i m immediate 

 and great popu- 

 v . A t a 

 "benefit" per- 

 formance for him 

 the receipts were 

 over $1,400, a sum 

 considered in 

 those days very 

 large. He traveled over the United States, 

 playing various parts, ard was everywhere \v I- 

 iwded houses and greeted as a 

 prodmy. In 1813 he went to London, and acted 

 m Kngland and in France for -ars. 



I"HX HOWARD PAYNE 



He also wrote or adapted numerous plays, 

 of which have retained their popularity. 



In Clari, the Maid of Milan, first written as 

 a play, but turned by Payne into an opera, 

 Home, Sweet Home was heard for the first 

 time. Managers and actors were made rich by 

 this opera, but Payne received very little of 

 the proceeds. All his life, in fact, he was un- 

 fortunate; towards the end of his life he re- 

 ceived an appointment as United States consul 

 to Tunis, but it was a most uncongenial post. 

 It was there that he died and was buried; but 

 in 1883 his body was brought back to his native 

 country and interred at Washington. During 

 the interment, a thousand voices sang his im- 

 mortal hymn. A portrait statue by Alexander 

 Doyle stands at his grave. 



Possibly there never was a better summary 

 of Payne's life than that poetically expressed by 

 Will Carleton, although he may have over- 

 emphasized somewhat the dreariness of the 

 actor-author's existence. In the course of a 

 poem relating to Home, Carleton says: 



But he who in thy praises was sweetest and best 

 Who wrote that great song full of soothing and 



' rest 

 "Through pleasures and palaces though we may 



roam, 

 Be it never so humble, there's no place like 



home" 



He who, in a moment unfettered by art. 

 Let that heavenly song fly from the nest of his 



heart, 



He wandered the earth, all forgot and alone. 

 And ne'er till he died had a home of his own ! 

 He wandered the earth at his own dreary will. 

 And carried his great heavy heart with him still; 

 He carried his great heavy heart o'er the road, 

 With no one to give him a lift with his load ; 

 And wherever he went, with his lone, dreary 



tread, 



He found that his sweet song had Mown on ahead ! 

 He heard its grand melodies' chimes o'er and o'er. 

 From great bands that playe.l at the palace's 



door ; 

 He heard its soft tones through the cottage* 



creep, 



From fond mothers singing their babies to Bleep ; 

 But he wandered the earth, all forgot and nlonr. 

 And ne'er till In II. a\ n had a home of hla < 



Consult Hanson's The Early I. iff <>/ John How- 

 nnl Payne; Brainerd's John Howard Paym \ 

 Biographical Sketch. 



PEA, the common name of an important 

 genus of plants belonging to the pulse family. 

 Of the several species, the best known is the 

 garden vegetable whose delicious unripe seeds 

 are so generally liked and used as a table food. 

 These are borne in oblong, green pods, which 

 follow tli. white blossom.* I-'i. 1-1 peas, 



which are grown ii table quantities in 



