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VOL. 20. SALEM: JAN., FEB., MAR., 1888. Nos. 1-3. 



FIELD MEETING AT MONTSERRAT. 



On the seventh day of September last, after many vex- 

 atious postponements due to threatening and forbidding 

 weather, the second field day of the season occurred at 

 Montserrat, upon the hospitable invitation of our enterpris- 

 ing townsman, Henry "W. Peabody, Esq., who has within 

 a decade acquired there and laid out for suburban residence 

 a romantic tract of some two hundred acres. The locality 

 proved to be accessible and attractive. The Naumkeag 

 Street Railway Company provided barges from their Ran- 

 toul Street terminus at the Gloucester Railroad crossing, 

 and the Boston & Maine Corporation stopped several trains 

 each way at their new station at Montserrat for the accom- 

 modation of the Institute. This picturesque little station 

 was erected in 1885 from designs by Mr. Arthur Rotch, a 

 summer resident and eminent Boston architect. It owes 

 its floral decorations to the good taste and public spirit 

 of Mrs. William D. Pickman and a few other summer 

 sojourners in the neighborhood, and the woodbines with 

 which its columns as well as the rustic arbor which roofs 

 over its mineral spring are festooned, to that of Mr. Pea- 

 body, whose hospitality to the Institute was most liberal. 



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