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ishing organization, which is composed in every respect of most 

 excellent material. 



In closing tliis brief Report, we should be doing great injustice 

 did we not allude to the excellent manner in which the great 

 work of preparing the Exhiljition was performed by the Com- 

 mittee of Arrangements, Messrs. A. B. Endicott, C. C. Churchill, 

 and Nathaniel Smith, of Dedham ; William R. Mann, Sharon ; 

 Thomas Decatur, Chas. F. Curtis, West Roxbury ; Augustus P. 

 Calder, Dorchester ; and A. P. Blake and William J. Stuart, 

 Hyde Park. Owing to the short time left between the purchase 

 of the new grounds and the holding of the Exhibition, a great 

 deal of hard and unremitting work was done in the space of a 

 few weeks, and with the best results. Mention should also be 

 made of the excellent service rendered by Capt. Richard Holmes 

 of Roxbury, who in connection with Messrs. Mann & Decatur, 

 were the Committee charged with the preparation of the grounds. 



The gross receipts of the Fair were about $4,300, being about 

 $1,200 in excess of the receipts at any previous Exhibition. 



