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occasional visitor. Manchester has 
been in existence 266 years and 
seems to be growing better all the 
time. It seems to have everything 
to make life enjoyable. It has 
beauty, fine schools, fire department, 
electric lights, telephone—in fact I 
don’t know what you haven’t got, 
while other places about us are 
struggling for an existence. I know 
I notice a vast difference between 
here and Boston. It is restful and 
the air refreshing. I hope you will 
all continue to have a better, bright- 
er and more hopeful outlook on life 
and that always will rest upon you 
the peace of God that surpasseth 
understanding. 
W. C. Rust said he had some ideas 
for the development of Manchester 
and thought that one thing that 
should be done was to build a new 
road from Desmond avenue to Pine 
street which would develop much 
Jand. Another thing is to build a 
stone abutment from the police sta- 
tion to the railroad and fill it in. 
Another thing, we ought to have 
the trolley cars. 
E. B. Chandler of San Antonio, 
Tex., spoke humorously as an in- 
troduction to James A. Baker of 
Houston, Tex., a summer visitor at 
Bass Rocks, who spoke very enter- 
tainingly of the conditions in his 
state, particularly in the war time, 
being introduced as the son of a 
slave driver. ‘‘My father owned 
slaves,’’ he said, ‘‘and he fought for 
the South just as you fought for 
the North, and I want to tell you 
that reared as I was among all the 
traditions of the South that no 
better thing ever happened for the 
South than when it lost its cause 
to the North. Still no slaves ever 
had a better master than my father. 
There were nine of us children and 
nine slave picanninies, and _ every 
Sunday afternoon we were all 
gathered around my mother, black 
and white alike, while she would 
read the Bible to us. At the end of 
the war everything my father had 
on earth was wiped away. Yet if 
there is one question I would fight 
for it would be against the re-en- 
slavement of the negro. The great 
question of the South today is the 
advancement of the negro. The 
door of opportunity is open but I 
tell you the white people of the 
South expect to rule and not the 
black man. This is my first summer 
in New England and I am delighted 
with it and I thank you for the priv- 
ilege of being here today.”’ 
D. L. Bingham said he was an 
active abolitionist and he supposed 
this question had all been settled 
long ago but still it keeps coming up. 
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A. S. Jewett said Mr. Baker’s re- 
marks had stimulated his memory 
of some of the incidents during 
General Burbank’s expedition when 
he was a clerk in the Provost Mar- 
shal’s office. He related several per- 
sonal reminiscences of his observa- 
tion of the conditions of the black 
man which appealed to him as being 
not altogether unpleasant. He re- 
joiced that we are now one people 
and one family as is today shown 
by Mr. Baker who speaks from the 
goodness of his heart. 
E. P. Stanley said he was a pro- 
moter of some of the town’s im- 
provements and one of the greatest 
of these is the dredging in our har- 
bor. The government plan calls for 
dredging a channel from the draw- 
bridge straight out through Glass 
Head flats. The present appropria- 
tion will take it only to Point Rocks. 
He hoped the town would vote an 
appropriation to continue it, at the 
next meeting. 
J. F. Rabardy ealled attention to 
the large amount of dredged ma- 
terial that had been deposited along- 
side the railroad and hoped they 
would provide some kind of a re- 
taining wall to confine it in the 
properl imits. Those present were: 
Geo. F. Allen, 84; George Frank Allen, 
Daniel Allen, John R. Allen, 81; John F. 
Annable, George E. Andrews, Thos. Ap- 
pleton, 91; Jos. A. Appleton, John Baker, 
James A. Baker, Robert Baker, Charles 
H. Bennett, Amos F. Bennett, 86; Francis 
Bennett, Delucena L. Bingham, 96; Henry 
T. Bingham, Geo. W. Blaisdell, M.D.; 
Edgar O. Brown, M. J. Callahan, Obed 
Carter, John W. Carter, E. B. Chandler, 
William M. Cheever, Augustus B. Cheever, 
William F. Chisholm, DeWitt S. Clark, 
D. D., Charles A. Collins, Col. Benjamin F. 
Cook, T. J. Coolidge, Granville Crombie, 
Enoch Crombie, Chas. Day, Charles Dan- 
forth, Henry S. Dennis, Cyrus M. Dodge, 
George P. Dole, Levi A. Dunn, A. B. Dunn, 
John Dugan, Michael P. Dugan, Charles 
W. Fitz, Charles P. Goldsmith, Gilman 
Goldsmith, Joseph L. Goodridge, Rufus T. 
Goodridge, David C. Goodridge, George 
Gould, James Guinivan, David Guinivan, 
John G. Haskell, William Hooper, William 
Hoare, R. F. Hoffman, Chas. O. Howe, Dr. 
C. L. Hoyt, Alfred S. Jewett, George W. 
Jewett, Dr. Edgar M. Jewett, William 
Johnson, 94; William J. Johnson, Augus- 
tus M. Killam, Lewis Killam, Fred W. 
Lane, Edward F. Lane, George F. Leach, 
George A. Lendall, J. A. Lodge, Charles 
A. Mason, David C. Mann, T. M. Ma- 
honey, N. C. Marshall, 83; I. M. Marshall, 
Arthur M. Merriam, James H. Morse, 
Daron W. Morse, Andrew J. Orr, Alex- 
ander Patillo, 82; Frank B. Pert, Daniel 
8. Pert, Julius F. Rabardy, Charles A. 
Reed, Jeffrey S. Reed, Oliver T. Roberts, 
Theodore C. Rowe, Rev. L. H. Ruge, Wm. 
C. Rust, 83; Prof. N. B. Sargent, H. W. 
Sargent, David E. Saunders, Frank E. 
Smith, Herbert Stanley, Curtis Stanley, 
Edwin P. Stanley, Otis M. Stanley, F. M. 
Stanwood, Thomas B. Stone, Joseph A. 
Torrey, Dr. W. H. Tyler, William H. Ty- 
ler, 8S. G. Whitney, John K. Winn, George 
E, Willmonton, John D, Woodbury. 
