GOLDEN ROLL OF HONOR 
“A continuous business relationship of 40 years or more is 
certainly a fair test of integrity and honorable dealing.” 
T IIE continued growth of our Golden Roll of Honor is very gratifying to us. It is one of the 
sources of strength which enables us to maintain the standard that satisfies so many thousands 
of customers. It indicates the mutual confidence that exists between our patrons and ourselves. 
It shows that our methods are right, and that we supply our trade with “the best goods at fair prices.” 
Our business, established over eighty-eight years ago by the grandfather of the Brecks now in con¬ 
trol, is still conducted under the same roof, but with its growth it has spread on all sides, so that we 
now occupy the entire block bounded by North Market Street, Merchant’s Row, North Street, and 
Bendall’s Lane. Five floors of 10,000 square feet each constitute our salesrooms, offices and accommo¬ 
dations for a working stock for our retail business. 
Our great storehouse of seven floors, 93 to 103 Cross Street, affords facilities for carrying and 
handling goods for our wholesale trade. 
For this growth we are in a great measure indebted to the friends who constitute our Golden Roll 
of Honor, and to the many new customers they have made for us through their recommendations. We 
take this opportunity to thank all our friends for their many favors, and we beg to assure them that no 
effort will be spared to maintain the high standard of goods and service. 
This year we are privileged to add to our list the names of nine more valued customers whose 
photograpns we reproduce on the opposite page. 
We print below recent additions to our already large list of Golden Roll of Honor friends who 
have traded with us for forty years or more. 
Years 
Mr. Charles L. Allen, Amesbury, Mass. 50 
Mr. Hale Knight, Newburyport, Mass . 50 
Mr. S. D. Atwood, New Boston, N. H. 46 
Mr. Jeremiah R. Downing, Brighton, Mass. .. .44 
Mr. J. L. Greenwood, North Abington, Mass. . .44 
Mr Jacob W. Berry, Andover, Mass... 40 
Mr. S. T. Spear, North Scituate, Mass. 40 
Mr. Charles Sherwin, Ayer, Mass. 40 
Mr. C. D. Hill, Randolph, Mass. 40 
Mr. R. F. Ford, Wakefield, Mass. 40 
Mr. R. M. Bailey, Dedham, Mass. 40 
Mr. G. F. Sumner, Canton Jet., Mass. 56 
Mr. S. A. Smith, Brownville, Me. 43 
Mr. A. A. Howes, Belfast, Me. 40 
Mr. M. Little, Hanover, Mass. 42 
Mr. J. M. Arnold, Braintree, Mass. 45 
Mr. W. P. Dickey, Bangor, Me. 50 
Mr. Joseph Dyer, South Weymouth. 50 
Rev. C. S. Locke, Westwood. 53 
Mr. Thomas H. Lyndon, Malden. 42 
Mr. H. Y. Mitchell, South Easton. 40 
Mr. Arthur Trainer, Needham Heights. 50 
Mr. J. A. Vaughan, Carver.. 40 
Mr. Geo. Cruikshanks, Chelsea. 45 
Mr. S. A. Mathes, Somerville. 50 
Mr. John Chaloner, Digby, N. S. 54 
Mr. Thomas H. Lord, Ipswich. 60 
Mr. J. W. Parmenter, Wayland. ..50 
Mr. Lemuel H. South worth, West Stoughton. .48 
Mr. Charles Porter Wright, Dorchester. 59 
Mr. W. C. Spaulding, Caribou, Me. 40 
Mr. Wm. E. Potter, Plympton. 40 
Mr. Alvan L. Lovejoy, Boston . 45 
Mr. Asa T. Newcomb, Easton j Father ) 
Mr. T. L. Newcomb, Dorchester j and son ( 
Col. W. R. A. Sillowaye, Searsdale, N. Y. 70 
Mr. Mark Carney, Dedham. 40 
Mr. L. W. Gilman, Everett. 50 
Mr.George W. Billings, Roxbury. 60 
Mr. Jacob W. Glynn, South Boston. 60 
Mr. William E. Davis, Redwood City, Cal ....40 
68 
Years 
Major John J. Coffey, Dorchester. ..51 
Mr. Moses Underwood, Waltham.41 
Mr. Ira E. White, Melrose Highlands... 60 
Dr. Edward M. Skinner, Newton Centre.40 
Mr. B. L. Alley, Danvers.40 
Hon. Aaron Low, Hingham.50 
Dr. J. L. Simonds, Dorchester.50 
Mr. Andrew Able, Boston.50 
Mr. D. Tuttle, Saxonville. 45 
Mr. Thomas Brassel, South Weymouth. 45 
Mr. E. H. Stoddard, E. Brookfield.40 
Mr. John Chisholm, Round Lake, N. Y.40 
Mr. J. M. Conant, Maynard . .40 
Mr. John D. Flagg, Roxbury.65 
Mr. Samuel A. Thompson, Weymouth Heights. 55 
Mr. James Webb, Cotuit. 45 
Mr. Patrick Daly, Holbrook.40 
Mr. Samuel Tufts, Woburn.60 
Major Stephen Cabot, Andover, Me.52 
Mr. H. A. Turner, Norwell.50 
Mr. E. S. Tappan, Newburyport. 50 
Mr. H. A. Ball, Newton.45 
Mr. I. D. Edgerly, Newmarket, N. H.. v .40 
Mr. N. E. Proctor, Wenham.30 
Mr. Abijah Thompson, Winchester.55 
Mr. Dudley Bradstreet, Topsfield.52 
Mr. Warren Johnson^ Winchester.50 
Mr. F. B. Pratt, Weymouth.50 
Mr. Michael Fallon, Roxbury.49 
Mr. J. V. Jackman, Marlboro.52 
Mr. Joseph H. French, Hingham Centre.45 
Mr. Horace Eaton, Cambridge. 42 
Mr. N. Tarr, Ashmont.40 
Mr. George W. Jameson, East Lexington. 40 
Mr. J. Franklin Fuller, Boston.36 
Mrs. Adeline W. Griswold, Belmont.60 
Mr. Frederick H. Greenwood, Cambridge.60 
Mr. M. C. Dizer, E. Weymouth.50 
Mr. J. W. Bailey, Newtonville.50 
Mr. Seth Foster, Norwell.45 
Mr. Urban Derby, Concord .43 
PLEASE NOTICE. We will esteem it a special favor if parties who have traded with us for forty years and 
upwards will advise us of the fact, with particular* as to length ot time of their dealing with us, and of any features of 
interest that may be connected with the same during these long periods of years. One cannot but agree that when a 
silvery haired customer remarks to us, as is not infrequently the case, “ I have traded with this house, father, son and 
grandson*/' 40, co or even 60 years, as the case may be, the'relation between us is a little more than that of mere buyer 
and seller, and tnat it is not surprising we feel it to be so. 
