21 



Mrs. T. Palmer, boquct of flowers, 62 



Mrs. H. F. Coggshall, boquet of flowers, 60 



Mrs. F. Perkins, boquet of flowers, 60 



Respectfully submitted, 



MOSES G. LYON, Chairman. 



MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURED ARTICLES. 



Committee. — Alfred Hitchcock, Fitchburg, — Charles Winchester, Ash. 

 hurnham, — Levi Heywood, Gardner^ — Salmon W. Putnam, Fitchburg, — 

 Joel Merriam, Jr., Westminster, — Abel Simonds, Fitchburg, — S. W. A. 

 Stevens, Gardner, — Walter Heywood, N. F. Ackley, Firchburg. 



In the examination of the articles in this department, the 

 Committee were somewhat embarrassed by the tardiness of 

 individuals in presenting their specimens for exhibition. 

 Notwithstanding the pretty general disregard of the rule of 

 the Society limiting the time when articles could be entered 

 for premiums, the Committee were disposed to be lenient, 

 and continued to make entries on their catalogue till a late 

 hour on the morning of the exhibition. 



The number and variety of articles, though highly respect- 

 able in character, and, compared with former years, some- 

 what large in quantity, yet in the opinion of the Committee, 

 falls far short of what might have been anticipated from the 

 d 'iided predominance of the manufacturing interest in 

 Worcester North. 



The Nashua and Miller's Rives and their tributaries have, 

 since the era of Railroads, yielded their latent powers and 

 given a new impulse to manufactures and the mechanic arts. 

 The towns of Ashburnham, Gardner,Winchendon, and others 

 still f lither west in this County, owe much of their present 

 thrift and prosperity, to the recent successful use of the hereto- 

 fore unappropriated water power which these streams aflbrd. 

 New factories and shops have sprung into existence, and now 



