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possessing the world's largest hosiery 

 and underwear mills, as well as its most 

 extensive sail-cloth factory, upper shoe- 

 leather tannery, cash-carrier and pneu- 

 matic-tube factories. It also has what is 

 considered the highest type of textile 

 school to be found anywhere. 



SPRINGFIELD, LYNN, AND LAWRENCE, A 

 THRIVING TRIO 



Admirably situated in the Connecticut 

 Valley, at the cross-roads of east and 

 west and north and south trade, Spring- 

 field is a thriving municipality, its in- 

 dustries alive to the possibilities of the 

 future, and its civic spirit a contagion 

 that infects resident and visitor alike. 

 The city claims that its municipal build- 

 ings constitute the finest civic group in 

 the United States. In one of these build- 

 ings is an auditorium with a seating ca- 

 pacity of 4,500. 



Lynn and Laurence are such close 

 rivals in point of population that it will 

 require this year's census to decide their 

 relative rank. Lynn is the woman's shoe 

 capital of the world, and Lawrence is a 

 great mill town, with textiles and paper 

 its principal products. It is at Lawrence 

 that the paper for The Geographic 

 Magazine is manufactured (see pictures, 

 pages 234-241). 



CITIES FAMOUS FOR MEN'S SHOES, GUM 

 SHOES, AND SLIPPERS 



Following in order of population are 

 Somerville, part and parcel of the Boston 

 community, but still as independent of 

 the Hub, governmentally speaking, as if 

 it were at the other end of the State ; 

 Brockton, where men's shoes are pro- 

 duced by the millions of pairs ; Holyoke, 

 where the Connecticut River surrenders 

 its power at Hadley Falls for paper 

 mills, silk factories, and similar indus- 

 tries operated by water power at only a 

 fifth the cost of steam power; Maiden, 

 the "gum-shoe" city ; Salem, once the 

 witch city, but now a staid and solid 

 commercial community ; Haverhill, the 

 "slipper city" ; Chelsea, industrial bor- 

 ough of Boston ; and Newton. 



Fitchburg brings up the rear of the 

 line of cities with 40,000 population and 

 upward. It reminds the world that it 



makes three revolvers a minute, five pairs 

 of shoes, four cans of axle grease, three 

 shirts, eight miles of yarn, ten paper 

 boxes, fifty paper bags, fifteen pounds 

 of brass, and other things in proportion. 



One passes by with regret a hundred 

 other splendid cities and towns, for in 

 their history, their achievements, and 

 their beauty each of them challenges at- 

 tention. 



Likewise Plymouth Rock and Prov- 

 incetown, Lexington and Concord, and 

 a score of such places are shrines that 

 live in the hearts of all Americans. 



MASSACHUSETTS' PARKS AND FOREST 

 RESERVATIONS 



In the establishment of public parks 

 Massachusetts has displayed the same 

 appreciation of esthetic and humanitarian 

 values that has characterized her in 

 other fields. Greylock, the State's high- 

 est peak, has been set aside for the pub- 

 lic, a reservation of 9,000 acres around 

 its summit having been created. 



Mount Tom, which rises like a sentinel 

 lookout guarding the cities of Northamp- 

 ton, Holyoke, and Springfield, is another 

 place under State jurisdiction where one 

 may go and commune with nature. 



A number of State forests have also 

 been established. One in Plymouth 

 County, covering 7,000 acres, is appro- 

 priately named the Miles Standish State 

 Forest. Another, in the vicinity of An- 

 dover, contains 1,200 acres, while a third, 

 in the vicinity of Winchendon, contains 

 1,700 acres. There are two in the Berk- 

 shire Hills aggregating 2,200 acres. The 

 most modern forestry methods are prac- 

 ticed in these areas, and the State is 

 striving energetically to remedy the loss 

 of her timber at the hands of an un- 

 restrained commercialism in bygone dec- 

 ades. 



In her verdict of November 4, 1919, 

 Massachusetts earned the gratitude of 

 the country and showed that the spirit 

 that founded the greatest republic and 

 won a world to liberty still survives and 

 stands committed to law and order. No 

 praise is too high for this new declara- 

 tion against class tyranny, this new stand 

 for the ideals that have always made 

 Massachusetts great. 



