MANCHESTER TRUST CO. 
New Banking Institution Will be Lo- 
cated in Postoffice Block, and 
Will be Ready for Business 
by May 1.Sketch of Mr. 
Mann, its Organizer 
and Treasurer. 
The directors of the Manchester 
Trust Co. have decided upon a store 
in the Postoffice block, Union street, 
as the location of the new bank for 
Manchester and it is now expected 
that the bank will be ready to open 
its doors for business by May 1. 
The store on the westerly end of 
the block, occupied by Miss Bessie 
Lethbridge as a dry goods store, has 
been leased to the new company by 
M. J. Callahan, the owner of the 
block, and the work of fitting it in- 
to condition for its new business will 
be started at once. 
From the Waterbury (Conn.) 
American of Tuesday, we are pleas- 
ed to reprint the following concern- 
ing Mr. Mann, the organizer of the 
new bank, and its treasurer. The 
article speaks emphatically of the 
standing and the esteem in which 
Mr. Mann is held in his home com- 
- munity. 
“‘The announcement of the elec- 
tion on March 6 of Ralph M. Mann, 
a Torrington boy, as treasurer of the 
Manchester (Mass) Trust Company, 
came as a surprise to his many 
friends here, who have thought of 
him as a boy still in college, with 
many years ahead of him in which 
to be fitted for such a position of re- 
sponsibility as he has now assumed. 
“Looking backward into his years 
of preparation from boyhood one 
finds as the secret of his early suc- 
cess the improvement of his leisure 
time and the ability to make the 
most of the opportunity that came 
his way. 
Ralph H. Mann was born in Wil- 
mington, Vt., May 23, 1884, and 
eame to Torrington with his parents 
in 1899. His father, Hosea Mann, was 
for many years prominently identi- 
fied with the political life of Ver- 
mont, having represented the Legis- 
lature, where he served as chairman 
of several important committees, 
road Committee, and as speaker of 
the House of Representatives in 
1890-1892. He was inspector of fin- 
ance and State Bank Examiner in 
1896-1898. In 1899 he came to Tor- 
rington and organized the Torring- 
ton National Bank, of which he is 
now cashier. He is also vice-presi- 
dent of the Willimantic Trust Com- 
pany. 
among others that of the Rail- 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
‘‘After entering the Torrington 
High School for a short time, Ralph 
felt the aspirations for a business 
life and entered Hastman’s Business 
College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from 
which he graduated at the age of 
16, and secured at once a position 
with the Guardian Trust Company 
of New York City. Soon after he 
was offered and accepted the posi- 
tion of teller in the Maiden Lane 
Savings Bank of that city. 
While here he felt the necessity for 
a broader education and fitted himself 
for college in the Manor School at 
Stamford, from which he went to 
Vermont Uniyersity at Burlington, 
Vt. Here he remained for one year 
and was elected president of his 
class. 
‘At the end of his first year he 
entered Harvard, completing the 
four years’ course in three years 
with an excellent record, and was 
granted a year’s leave of absence 
with the privilege of returning next 
June to take his diploma with the 
elass of 1911. In doing this he will 
he following in the footsteps of his 
direct lineal ancestor, the Rev. 
Samuel Mann of Boston, who gradu- 
ated from Harvard in 1665, nearly 
250 years ago. He is a member of 
the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and of 
the Mystic Shrine. 
‘¢After the close of the Harvard 
Summer School which he attended 
last summer he assisted in organiz- 
ing the Willimantic Trust Company 
and in December went to Manches- 
ter, Mass., to introduce the home 
safes, of which his father, Hosea 
Mann, is the patentee. While here 
on this errand, and with the success- 
ful organization of the Willimantic 
Trust Company fresh in mind, he 
was quick to see the opportunity 
for a similar organization and by the 
early part of January he was plac- 
ing stock for the Manchester Trust 
Company with remarkable success 
and soon had the proposed capital 
of $100.000. -with $25,000 surplus, 
fully subseribed by leading men of 
Manchester and vicinity. A broad 
charter was secured and at the or- 
eanization meeting on Monday, 
March 6, he was elected treasurer. 
Oliver T. Roberts of Manchester was 
elected president and Roger W. Bab- 
son and Frank K. Hooper vice presi- 
dents. 
‘¢Among the 15 directors are an 
unusual number of presidents and 
vice presidents of other banks, in- 
eluding Henry S. Grew, president of 
the National Union Bank of Boston; 
George F. Willet, president of the 
Norwood National Bank; and Roger 
W. Babson, who is vice president of 
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the Gloucester Safe Deposit and 
Trust Company, proprietor of 
Moody’s Statistical Manual and one 
of the greatest authorities in the 
United States on all statistics relat- 
ing to the financial condition of rail- 
roads and indurtrial companies.’’ 
MANCHESTER DEEPLY IMPRESSES A 
VISITOR. 
It must be a dull man who can 
visit, even by a prosaic railway on a 
perfect late June afternoon, Man- 
chester-by-the-Sea, the prophetically 
named Pride’s Crossing, and_ their 
neighbors, without the lively realiza- 
tion of something in sea, sky, atmos- 
phere and climate to distinguish that 
part of the Massachusetts coast from 
aught to be found even in the loveli- 
est shore regions farther south. The 
conditions are perhaps more nearly 
matched on the eastern end of Long 
Island than anywhere else. Just to 
look out of a car window on such a 
June day, at Manchester-by-the-Sea, 
say toward 6 o’clock, with the sun yet 
well up in the heavens, but the at- 
mosphere touched with premonitions 
of the coming night, is to catch an 
exquisite and elusive joy, such as 
comes only at moments when body 
and soul are perfectly attuned to 
physical surroundings. The _ strips 
and bits of glorious cobalt blue sea 
edging the prospect, the full sum- 
mer glories of dazzling green trees, 
and tenderly fresh grass, the deli- 
cious salty pungency of the atmos- 
phere. the chirp and song of birds, 
the flutter and hum of insects, dis- 
porting themselves in this, their high 
tide of life. the busy come and go of 
human beings. the smart equipages, 
the light laughter of young and old, 
and over all the ample vault of a 
sky, tender, but tempered by some- 
thing seemingly akin to the old Puri- 
tan spirit of the region—these things 
leave upon the mind of the observer 
an impression that for years after 
may serve as a refuge from the sav- 
age and the sordid—E. N. Vallan- 
digham in Boston Herald. 
MANCHESTER. 
The Rev. Allen A. Stockdale, pas- 
tor of the Union Congregational 
ehurch. Boston, who went to Kansas 
City the latter part of last week, de- 
livered four addresses in that city 
on last Saturdav. On his way back 
to Roston he will stop over at his 
parents’ home in IJndiana_ long 
enough to officiate at the wedding of 
his sister. Mr. Stockdale is pleas- 
antlv remembered here as the speak- 
er on ‘Guest Night’? at the Man- 
chester Woman’s club. 
