In 1905, this prize was won by Thomas Haley, an employee of the 

 A. T. Stearns Lumber Company, with a record of forty years. Next 

 came Patrick CaUaghan, who had served the Newton Cemetery Corpor- 

 ation for thirty-eight years, and Timothy Foley, a driver for the Metro- 

 politan Coal Compan}', with a record of thirty-seven years. The 

 Association also gives a bronze medal to every Veteran Driver, properl}' 

 entered, whose length of service is twenty years or more. In 1905, the 

 number of bronze medals awarded was sixteen. 



The Old Horse class, now the most interesting feature of the parade, 

 was started in 1904, the first prize, a handsome gold medal, being con- 

 tributed by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals. Prizes in this class are awarded to those horses who present 

 the best appearance, age and length of service considered. The winner in 

 1904 was Chubb, owned by the Boston Elevated Railwa}^ Company, and 

 driven b}^ Wm. J. Harkness. 



In 1905 this class was divided, the first division being for horses that 

 had served fifteen years or more ; the second division including horses 

 that had served ten years or more, and less than fifteen. The gold medal 

 in the first division was won in 1905 by Ned, thirty years old, a bay geld- 

 ing weighing about 1200 pounds, with indications of a Clyde ancestry. 

 He is owned by Mr. James F. AVier, of Somerville, and driven by 

 Frederick E. Wier. This is a remarkable animal, fat, sleek, practically 

 sound, and showing no signs of great age. He is very spirited, and when 

 the blue ribbon was fastened to his bridle, he alarmed the spectators by 

 jumping off at a gallop. Mr. Wier has owned this horse twenty-one 

 years, and he is still at work hauling potatoes in Somerville and Boston. 

 Ned will appear in the 1906 Parade in the class for "Provisions, Light 

 Horses." 



Other prizes in this class were given by the Animal Rescue League, 

 by Mr. W. D. Qiiimby, and by the Rev. Reuben Kidner. 



The first prize in the second division of the Old Horse class, a silver 

 medal, offered b}- Red Acre Farm, the charitable home for horses at 

 Stow, was won in 1905 by the S. S. Pierce Co., with their black gelding 

 Nigger No. 2, driven by Edward Higgins. 



The same prizes, given b}' nearly the same donors, with the addition 

 of two prizes given by Miss Julia H. Worthington, are offered this year, 

 and will be found stated below at the head of the entry list. 



