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1  To  the  men  and  women  of  today  and  yesterday 

who  have  painstakingly  and  unselfishly  labored 


1  to  make  their  home  the  best,  to  improve  those 


facilities  which  were  Creator-given  and  to  leave 
posterity  a  legacy  in  a  Greater  and  Better  Haver- 
hill, this  Haverhill  Book  is  respectfully  dedicated 
by  The  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce. 


15.    of  w. 
APfi     i      1920 


HAVERHILL,-A  BRIEF  OUTLINE  OF  HER  HISTORY 

By  Honorable  Albert  L.  Bartlett 


THE  Reverend  Nathaniel  Ward  of  Ipswich, — 
preacher,  scholar,  statesman  and  author, — 
was  desirous  that  his  son,  the  Reverend  John 
Ward,  and  his  son-in-law.  Gyles  Firman,  a  physi- 
cian, should  be  located  together  where  they  could 
be  worthily  supported  in  their  professions.  Conse- 
quently, the  established  settlements  being  supplied 
with  ministers  and  doctors,  a  petition  was  presented 
to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  in  May,  1640, 
asking  permission  to  establish  a  new  plantation  on 
the  Merrimack  river.  This  petition  was  at  once 
granted,  and  the  location  chosen  was  where  an 
Indian  village  called  Pentucket, — "the  place  by  the 
winding  river," — had  once  existed,  abandoned  long 
before,  however,  because  of  the  ravages  of  a  pesti- 
lence among  the  red  men  which  had  greatly  reduced 
their  numbers.  The  new  settlement  was  called  "Mr. 
Ward's  plantation,"  and  was  named  "Haverhill" 
from  the  time  of  its  being  granted,  after  that  "Ha- 
verhill,"—"the  hill  of  the  flocks,"  or  "the  hill  of  the 
oat  fields," — in  England  that  was  the  birthplace  of 
the  Wards. 

The  first  few  adventurous  settlers  came  from 
Newbury  and  Ipswich  in  1640  and  1641.  John  Ward 
came  in  the  latter  year,  but  Gyles  Firman  chose  to 
remain  in  Ipswich,  from  which  place  he  later  re- 
turned to  England  to  enter  the  ministry.  The  col- 
onists bought  the  large  tract  of  land  constituting 
the  original  plantation  of  Haverhill  from  the  In- 
dians, paying  therefor  three  pounds  and  ten  shil- 
lings, and  receiving  a  deed  thereof,  dated  November 
15,  1642,  signed  by  John  Ward,  Robert  Clements, 
Tristram  Cofiin,  Hugh  Sherratt,  William  White  and 
Thomas  Davis,  for  the  settlers,  and  by  Passaquo 
and  Saggahew,  with  the  mark  of  the  bow  and  arrow, 
for  the  Indian  grantors.  This  deed  is  still  preserved, 
the  custodian  being  the  Haverhill  Historical  Socie- 
ty. The  town  was  incorporated  in  1645,  the  twen- 
ty-third town  of  the  colony,  and  the  first  church  of 
the  town  was  gathered  in  the  same  year  under  John 
Ward  as  pastor.  The  first  selectmen  of  the  tovra, 
Thomas  Hale,  Henry  Palmer,  Thomas  Davis,  James 
Davis  and  William  White,  were  elected  October 
29,   1646. 

The  first  meetinghouse,  a  tiny  log  structure 
twenty-six  feet  long  and  twenty  wide,  was  built  in 
1648  on  the  lower  end  of  the  Mill  Lot,  now  Pentuc- 
ket Cemetery,  and  here  worship  was  held  for  more 
than  half  a  century,  until  in  November,  1699,  the 
meetings  were  transferred  to  the  new  house  built 
within  the  Common,  now  City  Hall  Park.     The  long 


service  of  John  Ward,  first  preacher  and  teacher  and 
influential  leader,  lasted  from  1641  until  his  death 
in  1693. 

The  colonists  v^rrested  from  the  wilderness  their 
scanty  living,  fought  with  cold  and  privation,  and 
were  in  constant  defense  against  the  stealthy, 
treacherous  and  cruel  Indians  who  ambushed  and 
killed  and  captured,  and  who  made  two  memorably 
flerce  attacks  on  the  little  settlement; — one  on 
Mai'ch  15,  1697,  when  they  plundered  and  burned 
nine  houses,  killed  twenty-seven  persons  of  whom 
thirteen  were  children,  and  carried  away  thirteen 
captives,  two  of  whom,  Mrs.  Hannah  Duston  and 
Mrs.  Mary  Corliss  Nefl^,  wrought  bloody  vengeance 
on  their  captors;  the  second,  just  before  daybreak 
on  August  29,  1708,  when  a  large  party  of  French 
and  Indians,  two  hundred  or  more  in  number,  at- 
tacked the  centre  of  the  tovvTi,  killed  the  minister, 
John  Rolfe,  at  the  parsonage,  where  the  High  School 
now  stands,  massacred  sixteen  persons,  carried 
away  sixteen  captives,  and  fled  before  the  sun  was 
fairly  up.  So  hot  was  the  day  that  it  was  necessary 
to  bury  the  dead  at  once,  and  so  exhausted  were  the 
townsmen  that  they  could  dig  for  them  but  a  single 
trench. 

Haverhill  was  made  a  part  of  Essex  County, 
February  4,  1680,  and  the  old  county  of  Norfolk,  of 
which  it  was  previously  a  town,  was  abolished. 
Changes  in  the  original  territory  of  the  town  were 
made  in  1725,  when  a  large  part  of  its  western  sec- 
tion beyond  Hawkes  Meadow  Brook  was  made  a 
separate  township,  called  Methuen,  and  in  1740, 
when  by  the  settlement  of  the  bountary  line  be- 
tween Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire  a  large 
tract  of  land  now  embraced  in  the  to\vns  of  Hamp- 
stead,  Plaistow,  Atkinson  and  Salem,  was  trans- 
ferred to  New  Hampshire. 

The  town  grew,  expanded  in  industries,  shared 
in  all  of  the  struggles  of  the  colony,  and  used  its 
town  meetings  as  schools  for  the  teaching  of  lib- 
erty and  equality  in  rights.  The  news  of  the  strug- 
gle at  Lexington  reached  Haverhill  on  April  19, 
1775.  Three  days  before  a  disastrous  fire  had  swept 
Main  street  from  the  Common  to  White's  corner, 
and  men  were  still  working  over  the  ruins  when  the 
messenger  rode  into  town,  but  before  evening  one 
hundred  and  five  minute  men  and  militia  were  on 
the  march  to  Cambridge.  In  the  more  than  eight 
years  of  the  Revolution,  Haverhill  contributed  its 
full  quota  of  men  and  met  its  full  share  of  expendi- 
ture.    It  bore  its  severe  burden  with  characteristic 


courage,  hope  and  determination,  and  when  the 
war  was  over  it  set  itself  to  rebuild  its  shattered 
industries.  The  shipyards  took  new  life,  the  wharves 
were  piled  with  commodities  for  commerce  and 
prosperity  smiled  upon  the  town.  Moreover  it  be- 
came a  leading  community  in  culture  and  refinement, 
in  religious  and  missionary  spirit,  and  in  temperance 
and  anti-slavery  activity. 

When  the  Civil  War  of  1861  came,  Haverhill  was 
ready  to  do  her  patriotic  duty.  Her  population  in 
1860  was  but  9,995,  yet  she  contributed  to  the  fight- 
ing force  of  the  Union  1300  men,  including  73  com- 
missioned officers;  and  although  her  valuation  was 
but  $3,798,550,  she  raised  and  expended  on  account 
of  the  war  $118,135,  while  for  aid  to  dependent  fam- 
ilies she  gave  $114,542. 

The  years  following  the  close  of  the  Civil  War 
were  filled  with  change  and  activity.     The  town  was 


innumerable  advantages  and  the  quickening  life  of 
the  city.  Twice  before,  once  in  September,  1869, 
and  once  in  June,  1872,  efforts  had  been  made  to 
unite  the  places,  but  they  had  been  rejected. 

In  October,  1908,  a  new  city  charter,  founded  on 
the  commission  form,  was  adopted  at  a  special  elec- 
tion, and  under  this  form  of  administration  the  city 
is  at  present  governed.  No  years  of  her  history 
have  been  so  marked  by  excellence  of  conditions, 
by  prosperity  and  healthy  and  rapid  growth,  as  her 
recent  years. 

"Proud  of  her  history  and  traditions;  proud  of 
the  men  and  women  who  here  have  lived  and 
worked,  preached  and  taught  and  sown  the  seed  of 
larger  thought  and  prosperity  within  her  confines; 
proud  of  her  growth,  her  honored  standing  among 
the  cities  of  the  Commonwealth,  the  intelligence 
and  high  character  of  her  people;  proud  of  the  pros- 


CITT  HALL,  PARK  AND  HANNAH  DUSTON  MONUMENT 


ambitious  to  assume  the  dignity  of  a  city,  and  on 
May  15,  1869,  by  a  vote  of  671  yeas  to  141  nays,  the 
act  establishing  the  City  of  Haverhill  was  adopted. 
On  January  3,  1870,  the  first  city  government  was 
inaugurated,  the  Honorable  Warner  R.  Whittier  be- 
ing the  first  mayor.  With  the  change  from  town  to 
city  the  old  Haverhill  underwent  a  rapid  trans- 
formation. Change  and  growth  swept  away  old 
residential  streets  and  old  buildings,  opened  exten- 
sive new  building  tracts,  built  new  schools,  churches, 
bridges  and  public  buildings,  gave  new  life  to  busi- 
ness and  brought  the  spirit  of  increasing  activity 
and  energy  to  the  community. 

On  November  2,  1896,  an  act  annexing  the  tovm 
of  Bradford  to  the  city  of  HaverhilU  was  accepted 
by  both  communities.  This  union  gave  to  Haverhill 
a  beautiful  residential  district,  and  to  Bradford  the 


perity  within  her  marts  of  trade,  the  peace  within 
her  streets,  the  harmony  within  her  factories;  she 
turns  to  the  future  a  face  shining  with  hope  and 
the  confidence  of  fortunes  even  brighter  and  greater 
than  those  of  her  past  years." 


Many  of  the  historical  events  described  by  Mr. 
Bartlett  centered  around  the  spot  pictured  above. 
The  park  was  formerly  called  "The  Common,"  and 
on  it  was  erected  the  second  meeting-house.  The 
rear  of  the  First  Parish  (Unitarian)  church  is 
seen  at  the  right  of  the  picture,  while  next  to  it,  in 
the  background  is  the  old  High  School,  now  the 
Central  Ninth.  The  monument  in  the  foreground 
commemorates  the  brave  deed  of  Hannah  Duston, 
whose  escape  from  Indian  captivity  is  recorded  in 
American  school  histories. 


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THE  SPIRIT  OF  HAVERHILL 

By  Charles  C.  Chase,  President  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce 


HAVERHILL,  on  the  banks  of  the  Merrimack, 
renowned  as  the  slipper  city  of  the  world, 
is  known  wherever  industry  or  the  fruits  of 
industry  are  recognized.  As  a  place  of  residence, 
as  a  manufacturing  city,  it  has  proved  itself  among 
those  of  greatest  importance.  The  beauty  of  situa- 
tion, topped  by  hills  whose  verdure  is  one  of  luxur- 
iance; with  fertile  valleys,  stretches  of  woodland, 
beautiful  to  look  upon;  with  many  advantageous 
breathing  spots;  with  a  park,  the  happy  recreation 
grounds  of  thousands,  affording  not  only  wonderful 
drives  and  vistas  of  scenery  of  incomparable  splen- 
dor, but  panoramic  effect  of  long  distance  views. 
Many  lakes  afford  pleasant  prospects,  furnish  an  en- 
viable water  supply  and  make  of  the  landscape  a 
vision  of  delight. 

The  construction  of  buildings  in  later  years;  the 
acquisition  of  public  property,  the  exceptional 
growth  of  the  city  in  many  directions  mark  a  pro- 
gress that  foretells  extension  of  boundaries  and  a 
development  industrially  and  socially  that  will  de- 
mand a  greater  citizenship. 

Here  where  our  ancestors  founded  homes  be- 
cause it  was  a  fair  place  and  here  where  General 
Washington  immortalized  the  beauty  of  the  river 
and  its  shores,  here  where  our  hearts  have  been  in- 
spired by  the  history  of  those  pioneers,  here  is  where 
our  destiny  lies. 


With  a  vision  comparable  to  that  of  the  first 
settlers,  our  forbears  built  their  homes  and  made 
their  town  a  worthy  place  for  others.  With  some- 
thing of  that  same  vision,  enlarged  as  to  scope 
of  present  day  opportunities,  we,  the  citizens  of 
Haverhill  commend  that  early  judgment  and  de- 
termine to  make  a  city  that  shall  always  stand 
for  the  best. 

Beautiful  for  situation,  ideal  as  a  place  of  resi- 
dence, possessed  of  many  opportunities,  industrially 
and  socially,  Haverhill  stands  today  with  broader 
outlook  and  with  an  optimism  unbounded.  The  400 
manufacturing  establishments  of  the  present,  the 
15,000  busy  workers  of  1917  are  heralds  of  thousands 
of  factories  and  a  corresponding  increase  in  popula- 
tion. Haverhill  expects  to  do  greater  things  in  the 
future  because  of  its  great  past.  It  is  to  be  a  more 
important  Haverhill  with  a  brilliant  and  powerful 
aggregate  of  citizenship  which  will  have  a  part  in 
the  successes  that  are  to  be  realized. 

Faithful  to  the  traditions,  with  belief  in  the 
present  and  all  its  future,  Haverhill  invites  others 
from  distant  places  or  nearby  towns  to  share  in 
creating  a  still  better  city  and  by  the  combination 
of  many  minds,  with  the  accord  that  comes  from  a 
unison  of  ideas  and  hopes,  there  will  remain  for 
Haverhill  a  realization  of  all  the  blessings  vouch- 
safed to  man. 


HAVERHILL  AS  A  SHOE  MANUFACTURING  CENTRE 

By  Albert  M.  Child,  Secretary  Haverhill  Shoe  Manufacturers'  Association 


WHEN  we  study  the  history  of  shoemaking, 
we  find  it  to  be  one  of  the  first  industries 
to  be  taken  up  in  Haverhill,  after  John 
Ward  and  his  band  of  adventurous  spirits  paddled 
up  the  Merrimack  in  1640  and  settled  in  the  most 
beautiful  spot  which  their  eyes  beheld  upon  its 
banks. 

From  making  shoes  for  themselves,  then  for 
their  neighbors  and  then  on  and  on,  the  industry 
grew  until  in  the  fifties  and  sixties,  the  city  was  de- 
veloping into  a  Shoe  City,  reaching  that  distinction 
when  receiving  its  City  Charter  in  1870  and  in  the 
summer  of  that  year  proving  that  fact,  when  her 
shoe  manufacturers  entertained  upon  the  eastern 
shore  of  picturesque  Lake  Kenoza,  shoe  buyers  from 


every  state  in  the  Union,  bringing  them  from  Bos- 
ton by  special  train,  banqueting  them  in  the  "Old 
Stone  House"  and  returning  them  to  Boston.  A 
valued  souvenir  of  that  occasion,  a  group  picture, 
portraying  that  milestone  in  the  industry,  hangs  in 
the  office  of  the  Haverhill  Shoe  Manufacturers'  As- 
sociation. 

The  central  figures  in  this  picture  are  Governor 
Washburn  and  Haverhill's  first  Mayor,  Hon.  Warner 
R.  Whittier.  It  was  presented  to  the  Association 
by  Mr.  Henry  G.  Dillenback,  one  of  the  local  partici- 
pants, who  was  a  prominent  manufacturer  of  that 
period. 

Haverhill  shoe  manufacturers  of  1870  knew  and 
practiced  successful  methods   of  making,  advertis- 


ing  and  merchandising  their  goods  and  their  suc- 
cessors, with  this  inherited  knowledge,  have,  with 
infinite  study,  acquired  the  highest  ability  in  devis- 
ing new  styles  and  fancy  combinations  to  attract 
and  please  the  purchaser.  Her  shoe  worlcers  are 
born  to  the  business,  growing  up  in  it,  trained  in  it; 
employers  and  employees  thinking,  talking,  dream- 
ing and  making  shoes.  So  Haverhill  well  merits  its 
acknowledged  position  as  the  "Leading  Slipper  City 
of  the  World,"  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  slo- 
gan, "Haverhill  Shoes  Tread  the  Carpets  of  the 
Globe,"  is  just  as  true  as  though  stated  in  less 
thrilling  language. 

In  1876,  at  the  Philadelphia   Centennial,  an   ex- 


making  Haverhill  the  "Great  Boot  and  Shoe  City"  is 
the  making  of  men's  medium  grade  Welts  and  Mc- 
Kays, high  and  low  cuts,  and  medium  and  high 
grade  men's  Turn  slippers.  The  value  of  men's 
shoes  made  annually  amounts  to  $6,000,000.00. 

With  the  140  concerns  doing  business  in  soles, 
taps,  counters,  leather  heels,  wood  heels,  toplifts, 
tacks  and  all  kinds  of  shoe  findings;  with  officials  in 
all  of  the  National  Banks  and  Trust  Companies,  who 
thoroughly  understand  the  shoe  business  and  who 
are  ever  ready  to  give  character  and  ability  their 
full  value  when  extending  credit  and  whose  time 
and  valuable  advice  are  freely  accorded  with  as 
liberal  treatment  as  safety  will  allow;  with  opera- 


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THE   "LANG"    AND   "BURGESS,"  MODERN   FACTORY   BUILDINGS 


hibition  of  shoes  by  a  local  firm,  Hazen  B.  Goodrich 
&  Company,  won  a  medal  for  unsurpassed  style  and 
workmanship.  Although  the  style  was  the  square 
toe  and  low  heel  of  the  period,  the  workmanship 
cannot  be  bettered  today. 

While  Haverhill  has  long  been  knoviTi  as  a  Slip- 
per City  and  still  holds  the  leading  position  in  that 
line,  she  is  fast  becoming  a  leader,  also,  in  the  man- 
ufacture of  women's  boots.  Welts,  McKays  and 
Turns,  from  medium  grades  to  a  high,  fine  and 
beautifully  made  product,  which  compares  favorably 
with  that  of  factories  in  other  sections  longer  known 
as  boot  producers. 

Another  feature  which  is  an  important  factor  in 


tives  trained  in  the  work  from  minority;  with  head- 
quarters of  all  the  shoe  machinery  companies;  with 
centrally  located  modern  factories  and  with  home 
facilities  unexcelled  in  beauty,  convenience  and  vari- 
ation, Haverhill  has  not  only  everything  which  the 
large  manufacturers  can  desire,  but  is  a  place  with 
unequalled  opportunities  for  the  ambitious  young- 
man  to  start  with  small  capital. 

Prom  the  Massachusetts  Bureau  of  Statistics,  we 
find  that  in  1914,  Haverhill  had  126  manufacturing 
establishments  devoted  exclusively  to  the  manufac- 
ture of  boots  and  shoes.  The  capital  invested  was 
approximately  nine  and  one-half  million  dollars,  the 
value  of  the  stock  and  material  $14,569,417,  and  the 


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amount  of  wages  paid  $6,318,254,  while  the  value  of 
the  products  reached  $25,319,953.  The  report  for 
1916  will  show  such  an  increase  as  no  man  dares 
estimate.  Haverhill  has  more  individual  shoe  man- 
ufacturing establishments  than  any  other  city  in 
the  world.  It  is  these  individual  establishments 
which  grow  and  develop  into  larger  firms  that  are 
the  hope  and  promise  of  an  even  greater  shoe  manu- 
facturing city  in  the  future. 

While  Haverhill's  shoes  are  largely  sold  to  the 
jobbing  trade,  many  of  her  manufacturers  sell  di- 
rectly to  retailers,  thus  eliminating  a  profit  and  in- 
creasing the  publicity  of  the  Haverhill  product. 

An  article  upon  the  shoe  industry  of  Haverhill 
would  be  incomplete  and  the  increase  during  the 
past  decade  inadequately  explained  without  a  word 
about  facilities. 

In  1905,  there  being  no  vacant  factories,  there- 


fore no  opportunity  for  expansion,  the  Haverhill 
Board  of  Trade  successfully  promulgated  a  factory 
building  campaign  which  directly  resulted  in  the 
addition  of  an  average  of  100,000  square  feet  of  floor 
space  per  year  for  ten  years.  Without  exception, 
the  eleven  factories  and  three  additions  built  dur- 
ing that  period  are  either  brick  and  mill  construc- 
tion or  cement — modern  in  every  way — and  90  per 
cent,  or  900,000  square  feet  of  this  new  space  is  util- 
ized for  the  manufacture  of  shoes,  or  an  increase  of 
60  per  cent  in  ten  years.  Therefore,  a  statement 
that  Haverhilll  shoes  tread  the  carpets,  the  streets 
and  the  fields  of  the  world  would  not  be  overstating 
the  distribution  of  the  annual  product  of  25,000,000 
pairs  of  men's,  women's,  boys',  misses'  and  chil- 
dren's Turns,  McKays,  Welts  and  Stitchdowns  man- 
ufactured in  the  "World's  Best  Factories,"  in  the 
"Fastest  Growing  Shoe  City  in  the  United  States." 


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AGRICULTURE  OF  HAVERHILL 

By  E.  A.  Emerson 


WHEN  Haverhill  was  first  settled  practically 
every  man  was  a  farmer.  In  the  early  days 
the  wants  of  the  family  were  supplied  from 
the  products  of  the  farm.  Vegetables,  grains,  fruits, 
maple  sugar,  maple  syrup,  meat,  eggs,  poultry,  and 
wool  were  common  products.  Hides  were  tanned 
and  made  into  shoes,  wool  made  into  cloth,  hats  and 
yarn  for  stockings.  From  this  condition  of  indepen- 
dence there  has  been  a  gradual  change  down  to  the 
present  time  so  that  now  we  are  dependent  on  al- 
most the  whole  world  to  supply  our  needs.  The 
writer  can  remember  when  most  of  the  clothing  for 
the  family  was  home  made  and  boots  and  shoes 
made  by  the  local  cobbler. 

For  many  years  most  of  the  farm  produce  was 


raised  in  Haverhill  or  adjoining  towns.  Now  a  large 
part  of  it  is  brought  from  Boston.  We  raise  very 
little  grain,  we  produce  very  little  butter,  no  cheese, 
and  more  than  half  our  milk  supply  comes  from  out 
of  town.  Thirty  years  ago  most  of  the  milk  was  re- 
tailed by  men  who  raised  part  or  all  of  their  supply. 
Now  the  number  of  pedlers  has  diminished  75  per 
cent,  and  most  of  the  dealers  buy  all  their  milk. 

A  few  years  ago  almost  every  farm  on  the 
roads  out  from  the  center  of  the  city  had  cows 
and  hens.  Now  many  farms  have  no  hens  or  cows. 
There  are  few  farms  where  many  vegetables  are 
raised.  On  the  trolley  lines  many  farms  have  been 
cut  up  into  house  lots  on  which  practically  noth- 
ing is  produced. 


10 


There  are  probably  a  dozen  of  farmers  who  raise 
a  large  quantity  of  milk  and  about  two  dozen  who 
raise  smaller  amounts,  about  a  dozen  who  produce 
large  quantities  of  vegetables  and  thirty  or  forty 
who  raise  small  quantities.  There  are  also  a  few 
raisers  of  small  fruits,  no  very  large  producers  of 
eggs  and  poultry,  but  there  are  several  hundred  in 
the  business  in  a  small  way.  Haverhill  is  typical  of 
other  cities  and  large  towns  in  New  England.  As 
population  increases,  milk  and  other  farm  products 
are  brought  in  on  steam  cars.  Even  in  Atkinson  we 
find  a  decline  of  agriculture.  On  Maple  Avenue 
there  are  now  five  or  six  cows  where  a  few  years  ago 
there  were  two  hundred. 

Agriculturally,  Haverhill  is  not  much  unlike  other 
New  England  cities  which  have  enjoyed  tremendous 
growths   along   industrial   lines.     Attracted   by   the 


wage  of  the  city  with  its  many  factories,  the  farm- 
er's son  has  left  the  parental  homestead  and  migrat- 
ed to  the  larger  center.  That  is  probably  one  of  the 
reasons  why  agriculture  has  not  developed  into  the 
industry  which  it  properly  is.  The  advent  of  the 
war  in  1917  brought  the  average  city-man  to  a  real- 
ization of  what  an  important  factor  home  agricul- 
ture can  be. 

The  Essex  County  Agricultural  School  in  Hathome 
is  the  first  county  agricultural  school  in  the  country. 
It  was  secured  through  the  efforts  of  the  Essex 
County  Associated  Boards  of  Trade.  Day  scholars 
are  taken  from  the  farms,  both  boys  and  girls,  and 
are  taught  the  principles  of  farming  and  may  thus 
come  back  and  apply  them  at  home.  This  is  one  of 
the  means  of  restoring  agriculture  to  its  proper 
sphere. 


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HAVERHILL'S  GROWTH  TOLD  IN  FIGURES 

By  Daniel  N.  Casey,  Secretary  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce 


HAVERHILL  is  the  fastest  growing  shoe  city 
and  in  the  period  from  1909  to  1914,  which 
was  the  last  taken  by  the  Bureau  of  Census, 
Haverhill  made  a  net  gain  of  13  shoe  manufacturing 
establishments,  leading  all  other  competing  shoe 
centers  in  the  number  of  concerns  gained  in  this 
period.  In  that  five  years  also,  Haverhill  gained  a 
total  of  52  manufacturing  establishments,  and  to- 
day has  a  total  of  nearly  400  industrial  plants.  Ha- 
verhill has  more  individual  shoe  manufacturing  con- 
cerns than  any  other  city  on  the  North  American 
Continent  about  135  firms  being  devoted  to  the 
manufacture  of  boots  and  shoes.  Haverhill  is  also 
the  center  of  the  cut  stock  trade,  there  being  about 
140  firms  engaged  in  this  line.    Worsted  goods,  hats, 


morocco  goods,  leather,  box  board,  wooden  and  pa- 
per boxes  are  also  produced  in  Haverhill. 

Haverhill  was  for  a  long  time  known  strictly  as 
a  woman's  shoe  center  and  is  today  the  slipper  city 
of  the  world.  Her  manufacturers  have  also  gone 
into  the  production  of  other  lines  of  footwear,  how- 
ever, so  that  now  Haverhill  is  producing  25,000,000 
pairs  of  shoes  a  year  for  men,  women  and  children 
in  turns,  welts,  and  McKays. 

The  disastrous  fire  of  1882  which  leveled  the  old 
Washington  Street  district,  gave  forebears  the  op- 
portunity to  re-create  the  brick  factory  building  and 
practically  all  of  Haverhill's  industrial  firms  are 
today  housed  in  the  most  modern  factories  of  cement 
and  brick. 


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The  growth  of  Haverhill  in  all  lines,  particularly 
in  the  last  ten  years,  has  been  steady.  Haverhill 
has  added  an  average  of  1,000  persons  a  year  to  her 
population  in  the  past  decade,  has  built  an  average 
of  a  modern  shoe  factory  a  year  in  the  past  ten 
years,  and  in  the  last  five  years  has  added  seven 
and  one-half  million  dollars  to  the  value  of  her  man- 
ufactured products,  while  her  building  permits  have 
averaged  close  to  a  million  and  a  half  every  year. 
New  concerns  and  complete  store  alterations  have 
naturally  followed,  and  2,000  tenements  and  homes 
have  been  built. 

Gas  in  Haverhill  is  80  cents  per  thousand  feet. 
Electricity  for  lighting  is  11  cents  K  W  hour,  with 
a  power  rate  as  low  as  any  in  the  State. 

Haverhill  has  40  miles  of  street  car  trackage. 

Haverhill  has  an  area  of  32  square  miles. 

There  are  two  general  hospitals,  a  tuberculosis 
and  a  contagious  hospital. 


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Boots  and   Shoes 119 

Boxes,  Fancy  &  Paper 6 

Bread  and  Other  Bakery 

Products 18 

Cutlery    and    Tools    not 

elsewhere   specified 4 

Foundry  &  Machine  Shop 
Models  and  Patterns,    6 

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Tobacco  Manufacturers,  ...     4 

Other  Industries 67 

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Sixty  trains  a  day  arrive  and  depart  from  Ha- 
verhill depot,  on  main  line  Boston  and  Maine.  Di- 
rect express  service  to  Boston  and  express  service 
direct  to  New  York. 

Haverhill  has  four  national  banks,  a  trust  com- 
pany, three  savings  and  two  co-operative  banks. 

Settled  in  1640,  made  a  city  in  1870,  Haverhill 
has  a  population  of  50,000. 

First  city  in  the  East  to  adopt  the  commission 
form  of  government,  Haverhill  has  smooth  paved 
streets,  granolithic  sidewalks,  several  hotels,  a  tele- 
phone to  every  six  of  its  population,  and  is  one  of 
the  first  cities  in  the  state  in  the  ownership  of  auto- 
mobiles. 

A  new  Boys'  Club  home,  for  which  funds  were 
raised  through  public  subscription,  is  just  completed. 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  Young  Wo- 
men's Christian  Association,  both  equipped  with 
gymnasiums,  are  centrally  located. 

WAGE  EARNERS  EMPLOYED 


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5.138,760 

8,992,440 

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1,240 

2,233 

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9,651,712 

15,103,788 

6,550,145 

670.02 

6,173 

3.603 

9,776 

7,150 

12,566 

26,109,453 

142,040 

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96,373 

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214 

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5,385 

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THE   BOSTON   &  MAINE  RAILROAD  BRIDGE— COUNTY   BRIDGE  IN   THE   BACKGROUND 

12 


THE  MERRIMACK  RIVER 

By  Charles  H.  Croy,  Chairman  River  Navigation  Committee 


THE  battle  for  a  deeper  Merrimack  goes  back  al- 
most as  far  as  the  oldest  resident  can  re- 
member. With  the  assistance  of  a  systematic 
plan  worked  out  by  the  commercial  organizations 
and  representatives  in  the  General  Court  in  the  Mer- 
rimack Valley  indications  were,  up  to  a  few  months 
ago,  that  there  were  very  bright  prospects  for  de- 
velopment. The  war  intervened,  however,  and  after 
a  bill  had  unanimously  passed  both  branches  of  the 
General  Court  promising  state  co-operation  with  the 
Federal  Government  on  the  project  to  obtain  eigh- 


out  into  the  sea;  and  then  proceeding  upward  is 
Amesbury,  then  Haverhill  and  Lawrence  and  Low- 
ell. These  cities  with  the  towns  adjacent  have  a 
population  of  310,000  people. 

Haverhill  has  seven  and  one-half  feet  of  water  at 
mean  low  tide,  and  there  is  a  rise  and  fall  of  about 
four  feet.  In  1914  the  special  committee  appointed 
by  Governor  Foss  advocated  the  development  of  the 
River  to  Lowell,  which  would  be  virtually  to  the  New 
Hampshire  state  line.  The  project  calls  for  a  navi- 
gable channel  eighteen  feet  deep  and  200  feet  wide 


HAVERHILL.  BRIDGE  CONNECTING  THE  CITY  PROPER  WITH  BRADFORD 


teen  feet  from  Newburyport  to  Lowell,  Governor  Mc- 
Call  vetoed  the  bill  because  of  war's  contingency. 

In  the  last  four  or  five  years  very  comprehensive 
plans  for  the  development  of  the  Merrimack  River 
have  been  worked  out  and  the  war  will  only  serve  to 
delay  the  ultimate  consummation  of  a  most  meritori- 
ous project  and  one  from  which  future  generations 
will  reap  incalculable  benefit. 

The  Merrimack  Valley  is  the  richest  industrial 
section  in  all  industrial  Massachusetts.  Twenty-six 
per  cent,  of  all  manufactured  articles  in  the  Bay 
State  are  made  along  the  banks  of  this  river.  The 
waters  of  the  Merrimack  turn  more  spindles  than 
any  other  stream  on  earth,  and  it  has  been  roughly 
figured  that  a  million  dollars  a  year  could  be  saved 
on  coal  alone  if  the  river  was  navigable  as  far  as 
Lowell,  thirty-six  miles  from  its  mouth. 

At  Newburyport  is  the  Harbor,  which  stretches 


at  an  estimated  cost  in  1914  of  $7,076,600.  The  mem- 
bers of  this  state  commission  were:  Charles  C. 
Paine  of  Hyannis,  chairman;  Andrew  B.  Sutherland 
of  Lawrence,  and  Lewis  R.  Hovey  of  Haverhill. 

December  10,  1914,  fifty  men  from  the  Merri- 
mack Valley  appeared  before  the  committee  on  Riv- 
ers and  Harbors,  House  of  Representatives,  63rd 
Congress,  and  advocated  the  development  proposi- 
tion. This  followed  the  report  from  the  government 
engineer  of  November  10,  1914.  On  May  23rd,  1916, 
representatives  of  the  commercial  organizations  ap- 
peared before  the  Board  of  Appeal  of  the  United 
States  Army  Engineers  in  Washington  and  the  next 
month  this  board  approved  the  project  as  one  of 
merit  with  the  recommendation  that  the  Federal  Gov- 
ernment participate  in  the  expense  equally  with  the 
State  of  Massachusetts.  Under  the  plan  the  United 
States  Engineers  are  to  do  the  work  with  Massachu- 


13 


setts  to  pay  half  at  a  rate  not  to  exceed  a  million 
dollars  a  year.  The  cities  and  towns  are  to  take  care 
of  all  land  damages  and  terminals  and  dock  facilities. 

The  bill  which  was  presented  to  the  Legislature 
in  1917  provided  that  the  State  was  agreeable  to  the 
plan  of  the  United  States  Army  Engineers  and  mere- 
ly made  the  state  funds  available  when  the  Federal 
Government  called  for  them. 

This  bill,  had  Governor  McCall  signed  it,  would 
have  become  a  law,  and  the  stamp  of  approval  placed 
on  it  by  the  Legislature  is  evidence  of  the  merit  of 
the  proposition.  This  is  the  plan  which  will,  undoubt- 
edly, be  followed  in  the  future. 

Some  of  the  figures  which  have  been  compiled  to 
show  the  commercial  strength  of  the  Valley  are  very 
impressive.     The  following  data  may  be  of  interest: 

There  are  on  the  banks  of  the  river,  in  this  short 


It  equals  in  value  30  per  cent,  of  the  foreign 
trade  of  Canada,  where  $360,000,000  has  been  spent 
on  rivers  and  ]■   rbors  to  develop  foreign  commerce. 

It  equals  in  value  nearly  25  per  cent,  of  the  for- 
eign trade  of  Austria-Hungary. 

It  equals  in  value  nearly  25  per  cent,  of  the  for- 
eign trade  of  the  Russian  Empire. 

It  is  equal  in  value  to  nearly  50  per  cent,  of  the 
entire  foreign  trade  of  China  and  more  than  50  per 
cent,  of  the  entire  foreign  trade  of  Japan. 

It  is  greater  in  value  than  the  foreign  commerce 
of  any  of  the  countries  of  the  Western  Hemisphere 
with  the  exception  of  the  United  States,  Canada, 
Brazil   and   Argentine  Republic. 

It  exceeds  in  value  the  foreign  commerce  of  any 
of  the  seaports  of  the  Western  Hemisphere  with  the 
exception  of  New  York  and  Buenos  Aires. 


WATER    FRONT    BELOW   HAVERHILL  BRIDGE  AT  THE  HEAD  OF  NAVIGATION 


distance:  4  cities  and  12  towns  concerning  which  the 
following  facts  are  submitted.     (In  order  to  be  con- 
servative, 1912-13  figures  have  been  used.) 
Population  307,540 

Value  of  assessed  estates  $262,710,204 

Number  of  manufacturing  establish- 
ments 814 
Capital  invested  $188,152,336 
Number  of  wage  earners  85,069 
Amount  of  wages  paid  in  year  $42,004,459 
Value  of  stock  and  materials  used  $116,870,360 
Value  of  finished  product  $196,595,077 
Value    of   raw   material    and    finished 

products  combined  $313,465,473 

The  value  of  raw  material  used,  plus  the  value  of 
the  finished  product  equals  7%  per  cent,  of  the  en- 
tire foreign  trade  of  the  United   States. 

It  equals  in  value  12%  per  cent,  of  the  entire 
trade  of  France. 


It  exceeds  the  foreign  trade  of  Galveston  by 
over  $24,000,000. 

It  exceeds  the  foreign  trade  of  New  Orleans  by 
over  $61,000,000. 

It  exceeds  the  foreign  trade  of  Boston  by  over 
$97,000,000. 

It  exceeds  the  foreign  trade  of  Manchester,  Eng- 
land, (where  $100,000,000  have  been  spent  in  con- 
structing a  canal  36  miles  long  with  extensive  sys- 
tems of  docks)  by  $37,000,000. 

It  exceeds  the  foreign  trade  of  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land, (where  $55,000,000  have  been  spent  in  dredg- 
ing and  dock  construction)  by  $66,000,000. 

It  represents  trade  of  over  one  million  dollars  a 
day  for  every  working  day  in  the  year. 

The  foreign  trade  of  the  United  States  is  $400 
per  capita. 

The  trade  of  the  Merrimack  Valley  is  over  $1,000 
per  capita. 


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Cost  of  raw  materials  imported  to  Merrimack 
Valley  is  $7,000,000  more  than  all  the  exports  from 
the  United  States  to  South  America,  and  the  trade 
in  the  Merrimack  Valley  is  three  times  greater  than 
the  entire  United  States  exports  to  South  America. 

The  trade  of  the  Merrimack  Valley  is  greater 
than  the  exports  of  the  United  States  to  France, 
Italy,  Spain,  Russia  and  Austria  combined. 

Almost  equal  to  our  exports  to  Canada  or  to  Ger- 
many, our  second  and  third  best  customers,  and  is 
over  50  per  cent  of  the  United  States  exports  to 
Great  Britain,  our  best  customer. 

The  freight  tonnage  is  over  5,000,000  tons  an- 
nually, which  is  about  the  same  as  that  of  the  Man- 
chester, England,  ship  canal,  which  cost  $100,000,000 
to  construct. 

Please  remember  that  the  above  figures  are  all  in 
connection  with  business  done  in  1912  and  do  not  re- 
flect any  of  the  recent  tremendous  increases  due  to 
war  orders. 

If  1916  figures  had  been  taken  they  would,  in  most 
cases,  have  been  50  per  cent,  higher,  and  in  some 
cases  nearly  100  per  cent,  higher. 

Not  many  years  ago  Massachusetts  was  second 
only  to  New  York  State  in  the  value  of  its  manu- 
factured products  and  led  Pennsylvania  by  $3,000,- 
000,  and  Illinois  by  $192,000,000. 

Since  that  time  New  York  State  has  spent  $272,- 
000,000  on  its  waterways  and  leads  Massachusetts  in 
manufactured  products  $1,500,000,000. 

Illinois  has  spent  $39,000,000  and  now  leads  Mas- 
sachusetts, $192,000,000. 

Pennsylvania    has    spent    $63,000,000    on    water- 


ways and  now  leads  Massachusetts  by  $840,000,000 
in  manufactured  products. 

The  great  Kiel  Canal,  completed  in  1914,  is  61 
miles  long  and  cost  more  than  $65,000,000. 

The  British  Royal  Commission  on  Canals  and 
Waterways  reported  concerning  the  German  water- 
ways: "That  the  use  of  natural  and  artificial  water- 
ways, in  cheapening  the  transportation  of  coal  and 
other  low  grade  traffic  increased  the  trade,  industry 
and  wealth  of  Germany  and  so  indirectly  increased 
the  revenues  of  the  railroads  from  passengers  and 
high  class  goods." 

The  engineering  plan  contemplated  a  lock  and 
dam  near  Lion's  Mouth  in  Amesbury  and  probably 
another  lock  between  Haverhill  and  Lawrence.  Up 
to  a  few  years  ago  when  street  railway  competition 
rendered  the  business  unprofitable,  pleasure  steamers 
plied  between  Haverhill  and  Black  Rocks  at  the 
mouth  of  the  river  and  in  1904  a  boat  line  for  some 
months  ran  between  Boston  and  Haverhill,  but  this 
had  to  be  finally  abandoned  because  the  boat  was 
forced  to  wait  for  the  tide.  There  are  about  200 
motor  boat  owners  in  the  city  with  two  boat  clubs. 

With  a  great  abundance  of  green  on  its  banks, 
with  trees  overhanging,  with  fertile  farms  adjoining, 
with  an  undulating  country  spread  out  on  both  sides, 
including  many  nooks  and  turns  the  Merrimack  Riv- 
er in  the  grandeur  of  its  beauty  rivals  that  of  the 
Hudson  from  Albany  to  Poughkeepsie.  The  waters 
of  the  Merrimack  are  a  pleasant  blue,  the  hills  which 
o'er  top  it  in  the  summer  a  delightful  green,  and  tVe 
vast  areas  of  trees  and  plants  which  line  its  bp".cs 
render  its  view  one  of  unsurpassed  adommem,  and 
wondrous  scenic  beauty. 


HAVERHILL'S  PARK  SYSTEM 

By  Henry  Frost,  Supt.  of  Park  Department. 


DIVIDING  Haverhill's  great  industrial  and  mer- 
cantile sections,  fronting  Washington  Square 
and  running  to  the  river,  in  the  very  heart 
of  the  city,  a  beauteous  breathing  spot  is  the  marvel 
of  visitors  to  our  city.  It  is  Washington  Square 
Park  and  while  its  entire  extent  covers  only  60,000 
square  feet,  its  location  in  the  very  center  of  all 
commercial  activities  is  proof  that  Haverhill  has  an 
eye  to  natural  beauty  and  a  liking  for  the  things  of 
earth.  Shrubs,  trees,  and  green  grass  make  at- 
tractive this  little  garden  spot  at  all  times  of  the 
year,  while  the  swift  swish  of  the  Merrimack  lends 
a  distinctiveness  which  makes  it  all  the  more 
wondrous. 

City  Hall  Park  as  well  is  another  area  of  green 
near  the  orbit  of  the  city's  activities  and  in  it  are 
the  statues  of  Hannah  Duston,  erected  by  the  late 
E.  J.  M.  Hale,  and  a  boulder  set  in  place  by  the 


Daughters  of  the  Revolution  in  commemoration  of 
the  men  who  fell  in  the  war  of  1776. 

Haverhill's  Park  Board  created  twenty-seven 
years  ago  has  charge  of  nineteen  parks  and  four 
playgrounds,  with  a  total  area  of  296  acres  and  an 
assessed  value  of  $507,000.  The  largest  is  Winni- 
kenni  Park  with  214  acres  which  lies  around  the 
shores  of  Lake  Kenoza.  This  estate  was  for  many 
years  the  property  of  the  late  Dr.  James  R.  Nichols, 
who  built  the  castle  which  surmounted  the  hill  from 
rocks  and  stones  all  found  in  the  adjacent  neighbor- 
hood. Later  this  castle  was  the  summer  home  of  a 
Mr.  Webb  of  Salem  and  is  now  owned  by  the  Ha- 
verhill Water  Works.  Pour  miles  of  driveway  have 
been  constructed  around  this  Park  circuiting  the 
Lake.  At  one  resting  spot  is  a  beautiful  fountain 
contributed  by  the  family  of  the  late  Dudley  Porter, 
for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Park  Commission, 


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and  Tyler  Memorial,  a  pagoda  house  of  stone  given 
by  Mrs.  Henry  P.  Tyler,  in  memory  of  her  husband. 
A  tennis  court,  bowling  alley,  swings  and  the  vast 
area  of  shade  contribute  to  make  this  Park  one  of 
the  beauty  spots  of  Massachusetts.  The  hemlock 
grove  of  extensive  area  is  one  of  the  only  two  in  the 
state the  other  growth  of  hemlocks  being  at  the 


feet,  and  Bradford  Common,  transferred  to  the  Park 
Department  by  the  first  Parish  in  Bradford  in  1901, 
contains  41,725  square  feet.  The  Gale  Park  at  the 
junction  of  Mill  Street  and  Kenoza  Avenue  was 
given  to  the  city  by  the  late  John  E.  Gale,  for  many 
years  an  enthusiastic  member  of  the  Park  Commis- 
sion.   The  curbing  around  the  Park  costing  a  thousand 


^^^^ 


DUDLEY    PORTER    ROAD,   "WINNIKEXNI    PARK 


Harvard  arboretum.    The  entire  Winnikenni  section      dollars  was  secured  by  subscription  from  the  near- 


is  in  a  wonderful  location  and  its  stretches  of  roads 
and  walks  with  its  trees  and  shrubs  make  it  most 
charming. 

Riverside   and   Shoreland   Parks   compose   sixty- 
one  acres.     Mt.  Washington  Park  is  48,000  square 


by  residents.  Some  of  the  early  churches  were  lo- 
cated on  the  lot  of  land  now  knovvTi  as  City  Hall 
Park,  and  the  title  was  given  the  city  by  the  First 
Parish  under  the  conditions  that  it  should  be  for- 
ever kept  for  Park  purposes.     What  is  now  Wash- 


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ington  Square  Park  was  turned  over  to  the  Park 
Department  in  1890  and  was  laid  out  by  Superinten- 
dent Frost. 

The  Brickett  Park,  adjoining  the  Walnut  Square 
School,  was  taken  by  right  of  eminent  domain  and 
was  named  for  the  late  Benjamin  F.  Brickett,  at  one 
time  Mayor  of  Haverhill.  Columbia  Park  was  a 
gift  from  the  people  who  laid  out  the  street  which 
the  Park  divides.  The  White  Park  on  Mill  Street 
was  given  by  the  White  Estate.  Sagamore  Park  on 
North  Main  Street  was  a  gift  from  ex-Mayor  George 
H.  Carleton.  Haseltine  Park  in  the  Bradford  Dis- 
trict, was  given  by  the  estate  of  George  Haseltine, 


tains  60,600  square  feet.  The  Primrose  Street 
playground  is  land  owned  by  the  city  and  contains 
about  18,000  square  feet.  It  was  turned  over  to  the 
Park  Commission  last  year  and  will  be  occupied 
shortly  for  the  uses  of  a  playground.  Young  lady 
supervisors  and  janitors  are  provided  during  the 
summer  months  at  the  playgrounds,  most  of  which 
are  thoroughly  equipped.  Places  are  also  provided 
for  coasting,  skating  and  the  Park  Department  is 
hopeful  of  doing  more  along  these  lines  for  the  com- 
ing generations. 

The  development  of  the  Park  System  of  Haverhill 
has  been  by  conservative  but  helpful  measures  and 


DUDLEY    PORTER    MEMORIAL,  FOUNTAIN,  WINNIKENNI  PARK 


which  also  provided  a  fountain  and  also  furnished 
money  for  fitting  the  Park  up  for  park  purposes. 
The  Union  Park  between  Union  and  Nichols  Streets 
was  a  gift  of  people  living  nearby.  The  lot  on  which 
Windsor  Park  is  located  was  taken  by  the  city  for 
street  purposes  and  the  trees  set  out  around  it  by 
S.  Porter  Gardner.  Silver  Terrace  on  Mt.  Wash- 
ington is  the  smallest  Park  with  2,416  square  feet. 
The  city  has  four  public  playgrounds.  The  play- 
ground on  Mt.  Washington,  known  as  Passaquio 
playground,  was  purchased  in  1909  and  contains  14 
acres  of  land.  The  Bradford  playground  in  the 
Bradford  District  contains  73,342  square  feet.  The 
Margin  Street  playground  near  River  Street  con- 


steady,  thoughtful  work  has  brought  all  the  results 
of  today. 

The  work  has  been  broadened  out  as  the  years 
have  passed  by  the  increased  activities  made  neces- 
sary. The  spirit  of  the  Park  Commissioners  and  em- 
ployees has  been  to  develop  the  natural  breathing 
spots  within  the  city  to  the  best  of  their  ability  and 
limit  of  the  appropriations  and  to  lay  out  the  Parks 
with  an  eye  to  future  growth.  These  men  have  had 
the  vision  of  the  city  beautiful  before  them  and 
have  labored  unceasingly  that  Haverhill's  Parks 
might  compare  favorably  with  all  others.  We  have 
today  a  Park  System  of  which  we  are  justly  proud 
and  one  that  reflects  the  citizenship  of  the  city. 


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HAVERHILL'S  WATER  SUPPLY 

By  Albert  L.  Sawyer,  Registrar 


THE  Haverhill  Aqueduct  Company  was  organ- 
ized in  1802,  the  first  meeting  being  held  in 
Harrod's  Tavern,  which  stood  on  the  site  of 
the  present  City  Hall.    At  this  date  there  were  but 
sixteen  places  in  the  United  States  that  had  a  water 
works  system,  and  there  were  none  in  Canada. 

In  1891  the  City  acquired  the  water  system  of 
the  Aqueduct  Company,  paying  for  the  same  $720,- 
504. 

The  management  of  the  Department  is  vested  in 
a  Board  of  five  commissioners,  one  being  elected 


The  purity  of  the  various  sources  of  water  supply 
for  the  City  is  considered  by  the  State  Department 
of  Health  as  generally  satisfactory.  The  chlorine 
is  considered  the  best  index  to  pollution  and  the 
chlorine  of  all  the  sources  of  supply  in  Haverhill 
averages  from  .45  to  .50  while  the  normal  chlorine 
for  the  region  about  Haverhill  is  .30.  Bacterial 
examinations  of  the  main  sources  of  supply  have 
usually  been  satisfactory. 

In  regard  to  the  hardness,  the  waters  of  the 
various  sources  of  the  supply,  with  the  exception  of 


KENOZA  LAKE,  HAVERHILL'S  CHIEF  WATER  SUPPLY 


each  year  by  the  Municipal  Council  for  a  term  of 
five  years. 

In  1896  by  the  annexation  of  Bradford,  the  City 
acquired  the  water  system  that  had  been  built  by 
that  Town. 

The  sources  of  supply  in  Haverhill  are.  Crystal 
Lake,  Kenoza  Lake,  Lake  Saltonstall  and  Pentucket 
Lake,  with  a  total  watershed  of  3207  acres,  and  a 
capacity  of  1,551,400,000  gallons  together  with  Mill- 
vale  storage  reservoir  with  a  watershed  of  4954 
acres  and  a  capacity  of  118,000,000  gallons.  Brad- 
ford is  supplied  by  Johnson's  Pond  with  a  watershed 
of  3300  acres  and  a  capacity  of  708,000,000  gallons. 
All  but  one  of  these  ponds  are  wholly  within  the  city 
limits. 


Lake  Saltonstall,  are  comparatively  soft  ranging 
from  No.  66  for  Crystal  Lake  to  No.  130  for  Lake 
Saltonstall  out  of  a  list  of  153  water  sources  of 
supply. 

The  average  hardness  of  the  various  sources 
of  supply  for  1916  is  as  follows,  in  parts  of  100,000: 

Millvale  Reservoir,    2.8 

Kenoza   Lake,   2.1 

Crystal    Lake 1.3 

Johnson's    Pond,    2.7 

Pentucket  Lake,  2.1 

Lake  Saltonstall 3.0 

As  a  matter  of  comparison  it  might  be  stated 
that,  the  hardness  of  the  Metropolitan  water  supply 
for  1905  to  1909  inclusive  varies  from  .8 — Wachusett 


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Reservoir,  to  2.0 — Lake  Cochituate.  The  hardness 
of  the  filtered  Merrimack  River  water — Lawrence 
water  supply — is  1.4. 

A  reservoir  on  Gale's  Hill  with  a  capacity  of 
9,000,000  gallons  furnishes  high  service  for  domestic 
and  fire  purposes  in  Haverhill,  and  a  second  reser- 
voir with  a  capacity  of  3,000,000  gallons  furnishes 
similar  service  for  Bradford.  Separate  mains  for 
fire  service  are  laid  throughout  the  retail  and  the 
manufacturing  districts,  which  afford  ample  service 
in  case  of  fire.  There  is  no  charge  for  water  used 
for  fire  stand  pipes  or  automatic  sprinklers. 

Since  1891  many  improvements  and  additions 
have  been  made  to  the  system.  Among  these  have 
been,  the  purchase  of  much  of  the  land  on  the  water- 
shed of  the  various  ponds;  the  construction  of  a 
reservoir  and  dam  with  pumping  station  and  pump 
at  Millvale;  a  new  station  and  two  pumps  at  Kenoza; 
two  storage  reservoirs  and  the  installation  of  an 
additional  pump  at  Bradford.  The  larger  part  of 
the  land  acquired  around  Kenoza  Lake  is  known  as 
Winnekenni  Park,  having  been  placed  in  the  care  of 


the  Park  Commissioners  by  the  Water  Board. 

The  amount  of  bonded  indebtedness  which  was 
originally  $900,000,  has  been  reduced  to  $360,000, 
and  in  1927  will  be  entirely  paid. 

There  have  been  ten  reductions  in  water  rates 
since  the  City  acquired  the  plant,  the  present  sched- 
ule being  among  the  lowest  in  the  State.  All  fac- 
tories are  metered,  and  water  rates  are  based  on  a 
sliding  schedule  ranging  from  .16  per  100  cu.  ft. 
(750  gallons)  to  .07 y2  per  100  cu.  ft.  25  per  cent, 
discount  is  allowed  on  water  bills  paid  within  fifteen 
days,  and  in  1916  $44,845.63  was  allowed  in  discounts. 

The  statistics  of  the  department  December  1, 
1916  were  as  follows:  116%  miles  of  main  pipe; 
8056  service  taps;  1477  stop  gates;  461  hydrants 
and  2599  meters;  daily  consumption  5,856,596  gal- 
lons or  116  gallons  to  each  inhabitant;  32  per  cent, 
of  the  services  are  metered. 

The  total  receipts  from  sale  of  water  in  1892 
was  $72,206;  in  1916  $158,581.  Expenses  in  1916  for 
operation  $51,568;  interest,  bonds  and  sinking  fund, 
$50,240;  construction  and  land,  $53,871. 


MILLVALE   STORAGE  BASIN  AND  RESERVE  WATER   SUPPLY 


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OUR  MUNICIPAL  ORGANIZATION 

By  Frederick  H.  Magison,  Esq.,  City  Solicitor,  1916 


THE  government  of  the  City  of  Haverhill  as  de- 
termined by  the  charter  amendment  of  1908 
(Chap.  574  of  the  acts  of  that  year),  is  osten- 
sibly and  by  reputation  the  so-called  "commission 
form"  of  municipal  government,  and  possesses  cer- 
tain prominent  features  consistently  connected  with 
this  new  and  concentrated  form  ever  since  it  was 
first  put  into  practical  use  in  American  cities  some 
seventeen  years  ago.  These  particular  features  are 
the  short,  non-partisan  ballot,  the  recall,  and  the  in- 
itiative and  referendum  provisions.  Nevertheless, 
the  terms  "commission"  and  "commissioners"  were 
carefully  and  conscientiously  avoided  by  the  authors 
of  Haverhill's  "new  charter,"  as  a  part  of  their  plan 
of  centralizing  all  authority  in  the  Municipal  Coun- 
cil as  a  board  and  of  preventing  the  exercise  of  any 
of  it  by  an  individual  member  of  that  board. 

The  governing  body  of  the  City  of  Haverhill, 
styled  the  "Municipal  Council,"  is  composed  of  a 
mayor  and  four  aldermen  elected  at  large  and  with- 
out political  designations,  for  terms  of  two  years. 
In  theory,  at  least,  it  is  supposed  to  be  continuously 
on  duty  for  the  transaction  of  the  city's  business, 
as  indicated  by  some  of  the  terms  of  the  charter,  by 
the  amounts  of  the  salaries  paid  the  council  ($2500 
to  the  mayor  and  $1800  to  each  alderman),  and  by 
the  absence  of  any  expressed  power  to  delegate  any 
duties. 

At  the  beginning  of  each  municipal  year  the 
council  is  organized  by  the  choice  of  a  president, 
not  the  mayor,  who,  in  the  absence  of  the  mayor 
presides  at  meetings  and  acts  as  mayor,  with  au- 
thority to  do  such  minor  acts  and  perform  such  du- 
ties as,  by  law  or  ordinance,  devolve  upon  the  mayor 
and  which  from  their  nature  must  be  done  by  an  in- 
dividual and  without  delay. 

Powers  of   the   Council 

The  charter  specifically  provides  that  all  power 
and  authority  vested  by  law  in  the  city  as  a  body 
politic  and  corporate  shall  devolve  upon  and  be  ex- 
ercised by  the  council  as  a  board. 

In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  most  com- 
mission government  charters,  the  form  adopted  in 
Haverhill  does  not  permit  the  exercise  by  the  mayor 
of  any  of  the  authority  which  by  general  law  and 
custom  has  long  been  an  inseparable  adjunct  of  the 
ofl!ice.  He  has  no  power  of  veto  or  approval,  or  of 
nomination  or  appointment  to  or  removal  or  sus- 
pension from  office.  He  presides  at  the  meetings  of 
the  council  when  present,  but  otherwise  has  merely 


the  power  of  his  own  vote  on  all  matters,  and  is  in 
all  other  respects  no  more  than  on  a  par  with  the 
other  members  of  the  council.  The  result  is  that 
each  alderman  has  equal  authority  with  the  mayor 
in  all  municipal  affairs. 

Division  of   Functions 

In  contra-distinction  to  the  typical  commission 
government  charter,  the  so-called  "new  charter"  of 
Haverhill  contains  no  provision  for  the  division  or 
assignment  of  administrative  or  executive  functions 
among  the  five  members  of  the  Municipal  Council, 
but  on  the  contrary,  definitely  lays  down  the  princi- 
ple that  the  Municipal  Council  shall  exercise  and 
perform,  as  a  body,  all  the  powers  and  duties  which 
were  previously  exercised  and  performed  by  the 
mayor,  the  city  council  and  its  different  branches 
and  committees  under  the  old  bi-cameral  form  of 
government. 

Despite  the  directions,  omissions  and  implica- 
tions of  the  "new  charter,"  however,  and  in  apparent 
recognition  of  the  difficulties  of  administering  the 
affairs  of  the  city  in  any  other  manner,  the  Munici- 
pal Council  has  from  the  first  adopted  the  plan  of 
subdividing,  by  order  at  the  beginning  of  the  year, 
the  various  functions  of  government  into  five  sepa- 
rate and  distinct  departments,  and  of  assigning 
one  of  these  departments  to  each  member  of  the 
council,  with  power  to  supervise  and  control  its  op- 
erations subject  to  the  general  administrative  auth- 
ority of  the  council  as  a  board,  thus,  in  effect,  close- 
ly approximating  the  poorer  of  the  two  systems  of 
government  by  commission.  (The  other  system,  it 
may  be  explained  parenthetically,  is  the  election  of 
presumably  fitted  commissioners  to  appropriate  de- 
partments already  separated  and  established  by 
charter. ) 

This  division  of  executive  responsibility  in  Ha- 
verhill, unauthorized  by  the  charter  as  it  is,  has  been 
from  the  first  the  cause  of  considerable  criticism  as 
well  as  confusion.  But  it  has  been  believed  that  in 
no  other  way  could  the  many  details  of  municipal 
affairs  be  properly  taken  care  of,  and  that  necessity 
alone  is  sufficient  to  give  this  division  of  functions 
a  sort  of  legal  status,  if  it  is  not,  indeed,  permitted 
by  implication  for  the  very  objects  for  which  govern- 
ment exists.  The  omission  in  the  charter  of  any 
provision  whatsoever  for  the  division  of  functions 
and  their  assignment  to  different  members  of  the 
council  has  been  accepted  as  a  mistake  in  judgment. 


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The  five  departments  into  which  the  government 
of  Haverhill  has  thus  by  order  regularly  been  di- 
vided are  the  departments  of  "Finance  and  Ac- 
counts," of  "Highvirays,"  of  "Public  Safety,"  of  "Pub- 
lic Property"  and  of  "Health  and  Charities." 

The  Recall  Provision 

The  recall  provision  of  the  Haverhill  charter  is 
of  the  type  usually  found  in  straight  commission 
government  charters.  In  order  to  recall  a  member 
of  the  Municipal  Council  a  petition  must  be  filed 
bearing  the  signatures  of  voters  equal  in  number  to 
twenty-five  per  cent  of  the  votes  cast  at  the  last 
election  at  which  a  mayor  was  elected.  When  such 
a  petition  is  presented  to  the  Municipal  Council,  it 
must  call  a  special  election  at  which,  unless  the  in- 
cumbent sought  to  be  removed  signifies  his   inten- 


Initiative  and  Referendum 

The  right  of  initiative  and  referendum,  in  con- 
nection with  the  internal  legislation  of  the  city,  is 
provided  for  by  the  Haverhill  charter  in  a  form  very 
similar  to  that  of  the  ordinary  commission  govern- 
ment charter.  A  petition  for  the  passing  of  an  ord- 
inance, signed  by  the  same  number  of  voters  that  is 
required  on  a  recall  petition,  calls  for  the  enactment 
of  such  ordinance  by  the  Municipal  Council,  or  for 
its  submission  to  the  people  at  a  special  election,  or 
at  a  regular  city  election,  if  one  is  due  within  nine- 
ty days.  A  similar  petition,  signed  by  less  than 
twenty-five  but  more  than  ten  per  cent,  of  the  same 
number  of  voters  obliges  the  Municipal  Council  to 
pass  the  ordinance,  or  to  submit  it  to  the  voters  at 
the  next  regular  city  election,  whenever  it  may 
come. 


HAVERHILL   CITY   HALL,  MAIN  STREET 


tion  not  to  be  a  candidate,  he  will  be  included 
among  the  candidates  for  the  office  qualified  at  a 
primary  previously  held  for  the  purpose.  At  such 
an  election  the  person  receiving  the  highest  number 
of  votes  is  declared  elected  and  for  the  balance  of 
the  unexpired  term  of  the  person  removed  or  sought 
to  be  removed. 

The  exercises  of  the  recall  privilege  has  never  yet 
been  carried  to  the  conclusion  of  a  special  election 
in  Haverhill  since  the  recall  provision  was  included 
in  the  charter.  This  may  be  due  to  the  requirement 
of  a  number  of  signers  to  the  petition  equal  to  twen- 
ty-five per  cent,  of  the  number  of  persons  voting 
at  the  last  mayoralty  election,  which  is  well  above 
the  average  proportion  required  by  the  provisions 
of  most  modern  short  ballot  charters,  and  is  con- 
sidered too  high  by  experts. 


The  repeal  of  any  ordinance  passed  by  the  coun- 
cil may  be  eflfected  by  a  majority  of  the  voters  at  an 
election,  special  or  regular,  after  the  filing  of  a  pe- 
tition therefor  signed  by  twenty-five  per  cent,  of 
them;  and  the  repeal  or  amendment  of  any  ordinance 
passed  on  petition  may  be  eflfected  by  a  majority 
of  the  voters  upon  the  initiative  of  the  Municipal 
Council  in  submitting  a  proposition  for  such  repeal 
or  amendment  to  the  people. 

Conclusion 

The  form  of  the  municipal  government  of  the 
City  of  Haverhill  is  admittedly  a  weak  modification 
of  the  commission  form,  and  is  technically  not  en- 
titled to  be  known  as  such;  but  it  is  difficult  to  know 
how  else  to  describe  it  in  terms,  inasmuch  as  the 
Municipal  Council  has  by  order  and  lately  by  ordi- 


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nance  assumed  for  its  individual  members  the  title 
and  some  of  the  authority  of  commissioners. 

But  it  must  be  evident  from  the  results  of  its 
operation  during  the  past  nine  years,  as  well  as 
from  a  comparative  study  of  the  law  under  which 
it  is  established  with  those  acts  establishing  in 
other  cities  the  genuine  commission  form  of  govern- 


ment, that  the  frequent  lack  of  departmental  co- 
operation and  the  consequent  furthering  of  ineffi- 
ciency in  the  management  of  municipal  affairs  is 
due  as  much  to  the  timid  deficiencies  of  the  charter 
as  to  the  incapacity  of  ofRcials  elected  in  a  sense  at 
random  to  executive  positions  undetermined  and  un- 
defined in  advance  for  the  benefit  of  the  electorate. 


THE  MILITARY  BODIES  OF  HAVERHILL 

By  Major  Ralph  D.  Hood 


HAVERHILL  from  the  earliest  period  of  her 
white  settlement  has  furnished  men  of  prov- 
en military  ability  and  prowess  as  upholders 
and  defenders  of  the  God-given  right,  or  religious, 
civic  and  personal  freedom  from  all  rule  except  that 
of,  "By  and  with  the  consent  of  the  governed." 

As  early  as  1631  a  military  company  was  auth- 
orized and  in  all  probability  Ensign  Noyes,  our  first 
surveyor,  was  an  officer,  although  it  was  not  until 
1662  that  a  record  was  made  of  the  organization  of 
a  Militia  Company  with  Captain  William  White  and 
Lieutenant  Daniel  Ladd  as  officers. 

In  1675  a  fort  was  built  around  the  meeting 
house  and  from  that  time  until  1762  the  colony  was 
almost  continually  under  arms  in  defense  of  their 
homes  from  the  attacks  of  the  Indians  and  French. 
On  April  30,  1697,  the  famed  Hannah  Duston  and  two 
companions  killed  and  scalped  ten  Indians,  thereby 
carving  a  place  for  herself  in  the  world's  history  as 
the  American  Amazon. 

In  the  Indian  massacre  of  August  29,  1708,  the 
following  officers  were  killed:  Captain  Samuel  Ayer, 
Captain  Simeon  Wainwright,  and  Lieutenant  John 
Johnson. 

In  the  pre-Revolutionary  period  many  companies 
of  Militia  were  organized.  Among  those  whose 
names  have  been  perpetuated,  are  found  that  of 
General  Israel  Bartlett,  the  only  general  officer  men- 
tioned in  early  history,  as  well  as  the  following  Cap- 
tains: Edmund  Mooers,  Richard  Saltonstall,  David 
Johnson,  John  Hazen  and  Ensign  Moses  Hazen. 
These  officers  kept  up  the  organization  of  the  Mili- 
tary Companies  of  that  early  period. 

Previous  to  September  5,  1774,  all  of  the  Haver- 
hill troops  had  been  Infantry,  but  on  this  date  a 
company  of  Artillery  was  organized  under  Captain 
James  Brickett,  Lieutenant  Israel  Bartlett  and  En- 
sign Joshua  B.  Osgood  as  officers,  probably  in  anti- 
cipation of  the  Revolution. 

On  April  19,  1775,  Lieutenant  Colonel  James 
Brickett  with  Captain  James  Sawyer's,  Captain  Eb- 
enezer  Colby's,  and  Lieutenant  Samuel  Clement's 
Companies  of  minute  men,  a  total  of  105  officers  and 
men,  left  Haverhill  for  Cambridge  in  answer  to  the 
first  call  of  the  American  Revolution;  one  company 


of  Militia  having  been  left  behind  to  protect  the 
town  and  finish  up  the  spring  work. 

At  the  battle  of  Bunker  or  Breed's  Hill  two  com- 
panies were  in  action  and  a  number  of  men  were 
wounded,  among  them  being  Col.  James  Brickett.  A 
greater  portion  of  these  men,  with  many  recruits 
from  home,  continued  in  the  service  of  the  Continen- 
tal Army  throughout  the  war,  among  whom  were 
Captain  William  Baker  and  General  Thomas  Bart- 
lett, the  latter  having  been  the  ranking  oflScer  from 
the  town  of  Haverhill. 

In  1804  Capt.  Huse  was  commanding  the  local 
company  and  on  May  26,  1810  the  Haverhill  Light 
Infantry  was  organized  and  commanded  by  Captain 
Jesse  Harding,  with  an  armory  in  the  Bannister 
Block  on  the  site  of  the  Wachusett  Club  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Merrimack  and  Bridge  Streets.  The  town 
boasted  of  three  companies  in  1812  and  on  Septem- 
ber 10,  1814,  Capt.  Samuel  W.  Duncan's  Company 
of  the  5th  Regiment,  2d  Brigade,  2d  Division,  M.  V. 
M.,  with  Lieutenant  Nathaniel  Burrill  and  Ensign 
Thomas  Newcomb,  marched  to  Charlestown  for  ser- 
vice in  the  war  against  England. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  in  1815  the  town  held  a 
celebration  in  honor  of  their  successful  efforts  to 
maintain  their  independence  and  the  names  of  Ma- 
jors Duncan,  White  and  Harding  appear  as  the  rank- 
ing officers  of  the  occasion. 

The  Haverhill  Light  Infantry  was  disbanded  in 
1841  and  was  succeeded  by  the  Hale  Guards  under 
Capt.  William  Taggert. 

No  company  was  organized  for  the  Mexican  War 
in  1849  and  1850,  but  many  Haverhill  soldiers  went 
with  Col.  Caleb  Cushing's  Massachusetts  Regiment 
and  at  least  seven  of  these  veterans  are  buried  in  Ha- 
verhill cemeteries. 

No  remarkable  military  event  occurred  between 
1850  and  1861,  and  during  a  part  of  this  time  the 
Hale  Guards  were  quartered  in  the  Town  Hall  and 
later  were  transferred  to  the  Armory  at  the  corner 
of  Merrimack  and  Fleet  streets,  where  they  were 
when  the  call  came  to  put  down  the  Rebellion,  and 
under  Capt.  Carlos  P.  Messer  the  Hale  Guards  as 
Co.  D,  5th  Massachusetts  Infantry,  entrained  for 
the  defense  of  Washington  and  took  part  in  the  Bal- 


timore  Riot  on  their  way.  The  following  companies 
were  later  recruited  and  did  loyal  service  from  1861 
to  1865: 

Co.  E,  17th  Vol.,  Capt.  Michael  McNamara. 

Co.  F,  17th  Vol.,  Capt.  Luther  Day. 

Co.  H,  22nd  Vol.,  Capt.  John  J.  Thompson. 

Co.  G,  35th  Vol.,  Capt.  William  F.  Gibson. 

Co.  G,  50th  Vol.,  Capt.  George  W.  Edwards. 

Co.  F,  50th  Vol.,  Capt.  Samuel  Duncan. 

Co.  I,  60th  Vol.,  Capt.  David  Boynton. 

Besides  these  other  unattached  units  followed,  all 
doing  heroic  service  for  state  and  nation.  Many 
gained  high  rank  and  undying  honor,  among  whom 
was  Major  Henry  Jackson  How,  whose  brilliant  life 
closed  on  a  Southern  battlefield.  With  a  total  popula- 
tion of  less  than  10,000  persons,  Haverhill  furnished 


1873,  John  N.  Ellsworth  was  commissioned  1st  Lieu- 
tenant and  Frank  A.  Dow,  2nd  Lieutenant. 

April  13,  1874,  John  N.  Ellsworth  was  commis- 
sioned Captain,  Frank  A.  Dow,  1st  Lieutenant,  and 
Charles  H.  Stanton,  2nd  Lieutenant,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Marshall  Alden  on  September  11,  1875, 
and  who  later  became  1st  Lieutenant  on  Sept.  17, 
1877.  It  was  in  1877  that  this  company  was  equipped 
with  the  Springfield  breech-loading  rifle,  calibre  45. 

On  September  11,  1878,  Marshall  Alden  became 
Captain,  and  on  Dec.  20,  1878,  William  L.  French  and 
George  H.  Hanscom  became  1st  and  2nd  Lieuten- 
ants, and  by  General  Order  No.  7,  December  3,  1878, 
this  Company  was  transferred  from  the  Sixth  to  the 
Eighth  Regiment. 

December  29,  1879,  George  H.  Hanscom  became 


THli)  HAVIOHHILL  ARMuRY,  KKNiiZA    AVKNLJE 


73  officers  and  1,300  men  to  preserve  the  Union,  and 
of  this  number  186  gave  up  their  lives  in  battle. 

Military  matters  were  at  a  standstill  in  Haverhill 
after  the  close  of  the  war  in  1865  until  July  1,  1869 
when  Co.  F,  6th  M.  V.  M.  was  transferred  from  Con- 
cord to  Haverhill  and  Capt.  Edmund  G.  W.  Cart- 
wright,  1st  Lieut.  Henry  T.  Fitts  and  2nd  Lieut.  Wil- 
liam  H.  Turner  were  elected  officers  on  August  6, 

1869,  and  camped  at  Boxford,  August  24  to  29,  1869. 
On  May  23,  1870,  William  H.  Turner  was  com- 
missioned 1st  Lieutenant  and  Richard  B.  Brown,  2nd 
Lieutenant.     Annual  Camp  was  September  6  to  10, 

1870,  Swampscott.  April  15,  1872,  Richard  B.  Brown 
was  commissioned  Captain  and  John  N.  Ellsworth, 
2nd  Lieutenant,  and  the  Annual  Camp  was  at 
Swampscott. 

In  1873  the  State  purchased  the  State  Camp- 
ground at  Framingham  and  the  Militia  was  equipped 
with  the  muzzle-loading  Springfield  rifle.     May  19, 


Captain  and  Benjamin  H.  Jellison,  2nd  Lieutenant. 
Lieutenant  French  was  succeeded  as  1st  Lieutenant 
by  George  W.  Sargent  on  June  28,  1880. 

In  1883  the  Armory  was  moved  to  Fleet  Street 
and  Co.  F  entertained  Co.  C,  1st  Maine  on  February 
2  of  that  year. 

On  January  18,  1884,  the  following  officers  were 
commissioned:  Capt.  B.  H.  Jellison,  1st  Lieut.  George 
W.  Pettingill,  2nd  Lieut.  John  A.  Rich,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Ira  C.  Titcomb  on  June  1,  1885,  and  later 
by  George  H.  Page  on  June  20,  1887,  and  on  January 
31,  Charles  P.  Damon  succeeded  George  W.  Pettin- 
gill as  1st  Lieutenant,  Damon  being  followed  by 
William  C.  Dow  on  May  13,  1890.  Wilmot  U.  Mace 
became  2nd  Lieutenant  on  Feb.  10,  1891. 

March  14,  1893,  Captain  William  C.  Dow  and  1st 
Lieutenant  Wilmon  U.  Mace  were  commissioned,  fol- 
lowed by  2nd  Lieutenant  Thomas  F.  Crowley  on  May 
9.    On  June  28,  1895,  William  C.  Dow  was  commis- 


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sioned  a  Major  in  the  8th  Regt.  M.  V.  M.,  and  on 
Dec.  28,  1895,  Wilmot  U.  Mace  resigned  as  1st  Lieu- 
tenant and  from  this  date  until  March  20,  1896, 
Lieut.  Thomas  F.  Crowley  was  in  command  of  Com- 
pany F,  on  which  date  William  C.  Dow  became  for 
the  second  time  the  Captain  and  David  E.  Jewell  be- 
came 2nd  Lieutenant. 

At  the  call  to  the  colors  for  service  in  the  Spanish 
War  Company  F  became  a  unit  in  the  8th  Massachu- 
setts United  States  Volunteers  May  10,  1898,  and  on 
May  11,  1898,  Captain  W.  C.  Dow  and  2nd  Lieut. 
David  E.  Jewell  were  commissioned  in  the  U.  S.  Ser- 
vice at  Framingham,  Mass.,  then  went  to  Camp 
George  H.  Thomas  at  Chicamouga,  Tenn.,  arriving 
May  19,  1898;  then  to  Camp  Hamilton  at  Lexington, 
Kentucky,  and  from  there  to  Camp  Oilman  at  Amer- 
icus,  Georgia,  on  Nov.   10,   1898. 

During  the  absence  of  Co.  F  for  Spanish  War 
Service  a  provisional  company  was  formed  and  mus- 
tered into  the  State  service  on  June  21,  1898,  and 
was  commanded  by  Lieut.  Carlos  E.  Palmer,  being 
disbanded  on  April  15,  1899,  at  the  Armory  on  Emer- 
son Street,  when  Company  F  returned,  and  was  re- 
organized under  Capt.  W.  C.  Dow,  with  Lieut.  David 
E.  Jewell  and  David  F.  Whittier.  Capt.  William  C. 
Dow  was  commissioned  for  the  second  time  in  the  U. 
S.  Volunteers  and  gave  up  his  life  while  in  the  Phil- 
ippine service. 

On  Nov.  16,  1899,  the  following  officers  were 
elected:  Capt.  David  E.  Jewell,  1st  Lieut.  David  F. 
Whittier;  and  on  Nov.  18,  1899,  2nd  Lieut.  John  R. 
Sanborn,  who  was  succeeded  on  Nov.  21,  1900,  by 
Charles  F.  Glover,  and  he  by  Harry  B.  Campbell  on 
Feb.  26,  1901.  Capt.  D.  E.  Jewell  resigning,  the  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected:  Capt.  David  F.  Whit- 
tier, 1st  Lieut.  Harry  B.  Campbell  on  Jan.  20,  1903, 
and  George  M.  G.  Nichols  as  2nd  Lieut.  April  15, 
1903. 

June  7,  1904,  Harry  B.  Campbell  was  commis- 
sioned Captain,  George  M.  G.  Nichols,  1st  Lieuten- 
ant, and  Ralph  D.  Hood,  2nd  Lieutenant;  and  in 
1905  the  present  State  Armory  was  built  on  Kenoza 
Avenue. 

May  25,  1909,  1st  Lieut.  Ralph  D.  Hood  and  2nd 
Lieut.  Fred  H.  Whittier  were  commissioned. 

Jan.  5,  1912,  Co.  F  saw  service  for  21  days  in  the 
Lawrence  strike,  and  on  Sept.  17,  1912,  Charles  H. 
Morse  was  commissioned  2nd  Lieutenant. 

Upon  the  election  and  commission  of  Major 
Harry  B.  Campbell  as  a  field  officer  of  the  8th  In- 


fantry, M.  V.  M.,  the  following  officers  were  commis- 
sioned on  June  30,  1914,  to  fill  the  vacancies:  Cap- 
tain Ralph  D.  Hood,  1st  Lieut.  Charles  H.  Morse,  and 
2nd  Lieut.  John  D.  Hardy,  the  election  being  held 
while  the  Company  was  on  duty  at  the  Salem  Fire 
for  a  period  of  eleven  days.  Following  the  retire- 
ment of  Captain  Ralph  D.  Hood,  Charles  H.  Morse 
was  elected  Captain  on  March  7,  1916,  and  on  April  , 
3  was  ordered  out  for  riot  duty  for  a  few  hours. 

On  June  20,  1916,  Co.  F  was  ordered  out  for  ser- 
vice on  the  Mexican  Border,  and  during  their  ab- 
sence on  August  2,  1916,  John  D.  Hardy  was  commis- 
sioned 1st  Lieutenant  and  on  Sept.  23,  1916,  George 
A.  Colleton  became  2nd  Lieutenant,  and  after  five 
months'  service  on  the  border  the  Company  again 
returned  to  Haverhill  on  Nov.  11,  1916,  and  were  re- 
ceived with  honors. 

After  the  transfer  of  Captain  Charles  H.  Morse 
to  the  Field  Artillery,  an  election  was  held  on  May 
1,  1917,  and  the  following  officers  commissioned: 
Capt.  John  D.  Hardy,  1st  Lieut.  George  A.  Colleton, 
2nd  Lieut.  John  B.  Peaslee. 

The  development  of  the  German  situation  as  a 
war  in  which  the  United  States  was  about  to  engage, 
brought  out  a  new  arm  of  the  Service  in  Haverhill, 
and  that  is  the  2nd  Battery  Regt.,  Massachusetts 
Field  Artillery,  its  predecessor  having  been  organ- 
ized here  Sept.  5,  1774. 

Battery  A,  2nd  Regt.  Massachusetts  Field  Artil- 
lery, was  mustered  into  the  service  on  August  5, 
1917,  with  Captain  Charles  H.  Morse,  Senior  First 
Lieutenant,  William  Henry  Root;  Junior  First 
Lieutenant,  Benjamin  P.  Harwood;  Senior  Second 
Lieutenant,  George  W.  Langdon  and  Junior  Second 
Lieutenant  Percy  L.  Wendell.  A  Home  Guard,  with 
Capt.  Charles  F.  Glover,  was  organized  in  May, 
1917. 

From  the  earliest  days  to  the  present  time  Ha- 
verhill has  always  given  her  best  men  for  military 
service,  and  wherever  her  soldiers  have  been  called 
they  have  performed  their  duty  honorably  and  not- 
ably and  in  so  doing  have  been  an  honor  to  their 
Country,  their  Flag,  and  the  spirit  of  the  Constitu- 
tion. May  future  generations  never  falter  in  the 
work  of  continuing  those  ideals  for  which  these  sol- 
diers of  the  past  have  given  their  service  and  per- 
haps their  lives,  and  may  God  grant  that  Haver- 
hill's sons  shall  never  raise  the  standard  of  war  ex- 
cept it  be  for  the  purpose  of  preserving  her  honor, 
her  homes,  a  friend  or  our  National  ideals! 


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HAVERHILL'S  TRANSPORTATION  FACILITIES 

By  Edmund  C.  Wentvvortb,  President  C.  H.  Hayes  Corp. 


ON  the  main  line  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  Port- 
land division,  Haverhill  is  directly  served  by 
this  great  New  England  railroad  with  its  net 
work  of  connections  to  all  other  roads  of  the  coun- 
try. There  is  a  good  line-up  of  service  to  all  im- 
portant jobbing  and  mercantile  centres  which  facili- 
tates delivery  of  Haverhill  products.  Sixty  passen- 
ger trains  a  day  arrive  and  depart  from  the  Haver- 
hill depot,  including  through  expresses  to  New  York 
City.  Boston,  the  heart  of  New  England,  33  miles 
distant,  is  reached  in  50  minutes. 

The  Bay  State  Street  Railway  Company,  which 
operates  the  largest  single  trolley  corporation  in  the 
world,  controls  most  of  the  urban  trackage  in  Ha- 
verhill. This  city  is  also  served  by  the  Massachu- 
setts Northeastern  Street  Railway  Company,  a  pro- 
gressive company  with  headquarters  in  Haverhill. 
These  have  a  combined  trackage  in  Haverhill  of  44 
miles.  Direct  trolley  connection  is  effected  with 
Lawrence,  Lowell,  Newbury  port,  Amesbury,  Salem, 
Lynn,  Boston,  Nashua,  N.  H.,  Manchester,  N.  H., 
Seabrook,  N.  H.,  Salisbury  and  Hampton  Beaches  as 
well  as  all  the  surrounding  suburban  towns. 

The  Bay  State  corporation  took  over  the  holdings 
of  the  old  Haverhill  and  Groveland  Street  Railway 
Company,  which  was  the  original  horse  car  line,  re- 
ceiving its  first  franchise  May  10,  1877  and  being 
permitted  to  use  electricity  as  a  motive  power  June 
13,  1892.  The  Lowell,  Lawrence  and  Haverhill  noti- 
fied the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  Haverhill  on  May 
20,  1893  that  it  had  purchased  the  Haverhill  and 
Groveland  Company.  The  Haverhill,  Georgetowoi 
and  Danvers,  operating  from  Haverhill  through 
South  Groveland  and  Georgetown  to  Rowley  and  Ips- 
wich and  also  to  Newburyport  via  Byfield  began 
construction  in  1895.  All  of  these  lines  were  later 
merged  into  the  one  corporation  now  known  as  the 
Bay  State. 

The  Haverhill  and  Amesbury  Street  Railway 
Company  received  its  first  franchise  June  13,  1892, 
entering  Haverhill  from  Merrimac  via  Kenoza  Ave- 
nue. The  Haverhill  and  Southern  New  Hampshire 
Street  Railway  Company  obtained  first  grant  March 
1,  1900,  and  the  Haverhill  and  Plaistow  Street  Rail- 
way Company,  August  29,  1901.  All  of  these  are 
now  part  of  the  Massachusetts  Northeastern  system. 

The  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  opened  for  busi- 
ness to  Bradford  on  October  26th,  1838  and  came  to 
Haverhill  in  1839  when  the  original  bridge  was 
built.  This  was  a  small  structure  with  single  tracks 
and  the  entire  upper  part  was  of  wood.    The  present 


railroad  bridge  was  erected  in  1881  and  is  of  steel 
with  two  tracks,  and  just  outside  a  foot  walk  for 
pedestrians.  Grade  crossings  were  abolished  in  Ha- 
verhill in  1905  and  1906  and  at  that  time  the  Haver- 
hill Depot  was  remodeled. 

The  main  freight  yard  on  upper  Hale  Street  and 
in  Bradford  accommodates  650  cars;  there  is  freight 
house  space  for  the  setting  of  fifty  cars;  private  sid- 
ings accommodate  380  cars  and  there  are  six  passen- 
ger stations  within  the  confines  of  Haverhill. 

By  means  of  the  through  car  service,  most  of 
which  was  arranged  through  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Haverhill  is  brought  into  more  direct  con- 
nection with  the  great  jobbing  centers.  Chicago  is 
reached  the  fourth  morning  and  there  is  a  forty- 
eight  hour  service  in  effect  between  Haverhill  and 
New  York  in  both  directions  via  the  Fall  River  Line. 
Any  improved  line-ups  of  service  are  closely  fol- 
lowed by  the  Chamber  which  sees  to  it  that  Haver- 
hill is  kept  in  close  relationship  with  the  large  cen- 
ters. 

In  the  passenger  end  several  changes  were  made 
in  schedules  and  two  new  trains  have  been  added  in 
the  last  few  years  through  the  instrumentality  of 
the  Chamber.  The  Boston  &  Maine  officials  have  al- 
ways been  glad  to  co-operate  in  every  way  possible. 
The  passenger  service  is  particularly  good  in  the 
morning  and  night  hours  when  the  great  bulk  of 
local  passengers  are  being  moved.  The  dining  cars 
on  the  limited  trains  enable  passengers  from  New 
York  to  eat  breakfast  en  route  and  step  from  the 
car  in  Haverhill  ready  for  business. 

Most  of  the  increases  in  service  on  the  Bay  State 
Street  Railway  Company  during  the  past  have  been 
granted  at  the  request  of  the  Chamber.  These  in- 
clude the  seven  and  one-half  minute  headway  on  the 
Main  Street  line,  the  extra  twenty-minute  car  to 
Bradford  and  several  minor  additions.  This  trolley 
company  which  operates  most  of  the  local  lines  in 
Haverhill  has  about  150  cars  in  this  division  and 
during  the  rush  hours  every  wheel  is  turning.  The 
Massachusetts  Northeastern  cars  have  direct  con- 
nections with  all  the  beaches  and  with  Canobie 
Lake  Park,  New  England's  greatest  summer  resort 
in  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  nine  miles  away. 

While  cold  figures  are  sometimes  uninteresting 
the  growth  of  Haverhill  in  the  last  few  years  is  re- 
flected in  the  statistics  of  the  Boston  &  Maine.  In 
1906,  28,000  freight  cars  were  required  to  handle  the 
business  and  in  1916  82,546  cars  were  needed.  This 
business  grew  to  such  an  extent  that  a  few  years 


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ago  the  Chamber  urged  the  Boston  &  Maine  to  in- 
crease facilities,  which  was  done  by  adding  300  feet 
to  the  freight  house  and  last  year  additional  yard 
space  was  secured. 

The  freight  receipts  in  the  last  ten  years  have 
been  as  follows: 

1906    $387,330.17 

1907    480,150.05 

1908    440,512.14 

1909    511,623.35 

1910    588,692.20 

1911     616,759.62 

1912    731,237.84 

1913    689,916.89 

1914    673,853.00 


1915  687,197.58 

1916  945,232.11 

Coal  Received  (Tons). 

Year                   Anthracite           Bituminous  Total 

1906  55,165                     36,930  92,095 

1907  85,490                     37,523  123,023 

1908 not  available 

1909  62,948                     19,200  82,148 

1910  70,943                     28,105  99,048 

1911  85,732                     41,605  127,337 

1912  107,209                     66,262  173,471 

1913  45,520                     27,271  72,791 

1914  51,542                     29,826  81,372 

1915  39,172                     39,146  78,318 

1916  61,449                     60,755  122,204 


FACTORY  OF  IRA  J.   WEBSTER,   VILA     STREET 


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HAVERHILL'S  FACTORIES 

By  Charles  N.  Kelly,  Vice  President  Chamber  of  Commerce 


HAVERHILL  may  justly  be  proud  of  its  fac- 
tories,— they  are  the  foundation  of  its  in- 
dustries and  its  prosperity. 

While  the  city  is  not  wholly  devoted  to  the  shoe 
industry,  this  predominates,  the  manufacture  of 
shoes  being  one  of  the  very  large  industries  here. 
Chase's  History  of  Haverhill  says  that  Phineas 
Webster  was  the  first  to  manufacture  for  the  whole- 
sale trade,  about  the  year  1815. 

Mention  is  made  of  one  David  Howe,  who  after 
the  Revolution  made  shoes  on  Main  Street  and  was 
one  of  the  promoters  and  builders  of  the  Bannister 
Block,  corner  of  Bridge  and  Merrimack  Stret,  oc- 
cupying two  stores  for  his  shoe  business  and  send- 
ing his  products  to  Danvers  by  team,  where  they 
were  traded  for  leather. 

The  methods  of  manufacturing  shoes  at  that 
time  were  very  primitive,  everything  being  done  by 
hand  labor,  the  manufacturer  using  his  factory  in 
tovim  principally  as  a  storage  for  the  raw  materials 
and  for  trading  and  shipping  the  finished  product. 
The  farmers,  for  miles  around,  came  to  town  and 
took  home  the  material,  making  the  shoes  at  their 
convenience.  Of  course,  the  cold  weather  months 
were  the  busy  time  for  shoe  making  and  the  whole 
family  would  help  at  some  part  of  the  work,  the 
women  folk  sewing  the  uppers,  the  men  folk  cutting 
out  the  soles  by  hand  and  finishing  the  product. 
The  only  part  done  by  the  manufacturer  was  to  cut 
the  upper  stock. 

Many  of  our  older  people  can  remember  the  lit- 
tle country  shops.  No  set  of  farm  buildings  in  those 
days  was  complete  without  its  little  shoe  shop  ad- 
joining, and  the  ready  money  thus  earned  was  a 
very  important  part  of  the  income  of  the  country 
people.  These  shops  were  really  the  first  shoe  fac- 
tories. 

By  1832  shoe  manufacturing  had  become  an  im- 
portant part  of  Haverhill's  business.  At  that  time 
there  were  twenty-eight  manufacturers,  sixteen  of 
them  keeping  English  and  West  Indian  goods  for 
sale  and  trade. 

In  1837,  when  the  first  railroad  was  opened  to 
Boston,  there  were  forty-two  manufacturers  and  in 
1857  there  were  eighty-two.  The  southerly  side  of 
Merrimack  Street  had  then  become  the  centre  of  the 
shoe  industry. 

While  the  manufacturers  still  continued  to  send 
their  shoes  to  the  country  to  be  made,  some  of  them 
began  to  make  them  in  town,  especially  the  better 
grades,   and   the  practice  of  sending  shoes   to  the 


country  gradually  dwindled  until  the  Civil  War, 
when  that  method  was  given  up.  The  only  shoe- 
making  in  the  country  shops  after  that  was  the 
turned  slippers  and  some  of  that,  in  a  limited  way, 
is  done  today. 

The  factories  at  this  time  were  ordinary  stores, 
three  or  four  stories  high,  built  in  blocks  of  three 
or  four  stores  in  each  block,  with  partitions  between 
each  store,  running  to  the  roof,  and  were  dark  and 
poorly  ventilated. 

These  old  factories  are  today  in  the  heart  of  the 
retail  district  of  the  city  and  have  been  remodelled 
and  rebuilt  so  that  the  evidences  of  their  former  use 
have  been  obliterated. 

After  1860  machines  for  doing  different  parts 
of  the  work  began  to  appear  and  methods  of  manu- 
facturing shoes  changed.  Contract  shops  came  into 
vogue,  many  of  the  manufacturers  letting  out  to 
contractors  the  stitching  of  uppers  and  to  other 
contractors  the  making  of  the  shoes. 

After  the  Civil  War  shoe  business  began  to  ex- 
pand and  new  factories  were  built  on  Washington 
Street  and  in  the  rear,  but  the  old  type  of  factory 
still  continued.  The  big  fire  of  1882  completely 
levelled  both  sides  of  the  street,  but  it  was  rebuilt 
on  substantially  the  same  lines  as  before. 

By  1890  new  and  modern  methods  began  to  ap- 
pear, machinery  had  been  highly  perfected  and  Ha- 
verhill was  becoming  one  of  the  largest  shoe  cen- 
ters of  the  country.  Our  progressive  manufacturers 
desired  to  expand  and  do  business  in  a  larger  way, 
the  contract  shop  was  largely  abandoned  and  the 
business  concentrated  under  one  roof.  There  are 
now  several  progressive  shops  doing  various  opera- 
tions, mostly  stitching. 

This  necessitated  larger  and  more  convenient 
factories.  The  first  large  mill  constructed  shoe  fac- 
tory in  Haverhill  was  built  at  this  time  on  Hale 
Street  and  was  the  beginning  of  our  modem  fac- 
tories. 

Our  largest  factory  at  this  time  is  owned  by  the 
Haverhill  Building  Association,  organized  by  the 
Board  of  Trade,  (now  Chamber  of  Commerce),  and 
contains  over  220,000  feet  of  floor  space,  and  there 
are  several  others  very  nearly  as  large. 

About  1910  the  re-inforced  concrete  type  of 
building  construction  became  perfected  and  since 
that  time  three  of  this  type  of  factory  (containing 
some  500,000  feet)  have  been  added  to  Haverhill 
space. 

Our  modern  buildings  are  up  to  date,  most  of 


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them  being  of  brick  or  concrete  construction, 
equipped  with  passenger  and  freight  elevators, 
sprinklers,  automatic  alarm  service  to  fire  stations 
and  electric  lights,  and  the  rates  of  insurance  are 
very  reasonable.  Their  central  location,  with  refer- 
ernce  to  transportation  of  operatives  on  all  trolley 
lines,  is  unsurpassed. 

The  factories  have  developed  as  the  shoe  business 
itself  has  grown  and  as  the  demand  came  for  con- 
centration and  increased  space  under  one  roof,  the 
giant  factories  of  today  were  but  the  logical  evolu- 
tion of  the  industry  which  for  more  than  a  century 
has  occupied  the  attention  of  Haverhill  and  given 
employment  to  its  people.  Manufacturers  of  today 
like  to  do  business  in  modern,  well-lighted  buildings 
where  the  insurance  rate  is  low  and  where  their  em- 
ployees may  have  every  advantage  to  get  the  work 
out  under  the  best  housing  conditions. 

The  Board  of  Trade,  which  is  now  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  gave  the  real  impetus  for  the  modern 
factory  building   era  for  it  established   the  Haver- 


hill Building  Association.  The  financial  success 
achieved  with  the  Haverhill  Building  Association  in- 
spired other  groups  of  men  to  form  associations  for 
factory  building  purposes,  encouraged  new  capital 
to  invest,  and  blazed  the  way  for  the  splendid  types 
of  homes  which  house  the  shoe  manufacturing  plants 
of  today. 

Building  of  additional  factories  has  not  left  the 
older  factories  vacant,  for  other  firms  have  taken 
the  places  of  those  concerns  which  transferred  to 
the  new  establishments.  There  is  quite  a  constant 
demand  for  floor  space,  which  is  but  another  indica- 
tion of  the  healthy  growth  Haverhill  enjoys. 

Besides  a  host  of  factories  which  operate  for 
three  and  four  stories  over  mercantile  marts  along 
Washington  and  similar  streets,  there  are  35  build- 
ings of  the  modern  type,  containing  approximately 
2,500,000  square  feet  of  space  with  an  estimated 
value  of  $3,000,000.  So  Haverhill  may  justly  be 
proud  of  the  enterprise  of  her  business  men  who 
have  achieved  so  much. 


EMERY  &   MARSHALL  CO.,  FACTORIES,    PHOENIX   ROW 


"HITCH  YOUR  HEART  TO  HAVERHILL." 


Combining  to  a  nicety,  two  essential  elements  in 
an  effective  municipal  slogan,  "Hitch  Your  Heart 
To  Haverhill"  has  generally  been  adopted  as  the 
motto  of  the  city.  These  two  elements  are  allitera- 
tion and  sentiment.  The  slogan  was  conceived  by 
Daniel  N.  Casey,  Secretary  of  the  Haverhill  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  shortly  after  he  assumed  that  posi- 
tion in  1912,  and  while  several  others  were  submitted 
it  was  felt  that  this  was  the  strongest  phrase  which 
could  be  used. 

In  the  past  Haverhill  has  been  known  as  the 
"Slipper  City  of  the  World,"  but  since  this  city  has 


also  produced  a  great  number  of  boots  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  has  been  using  the  phrase  the  "Great 
Boot  and  Shoe  City."  After  the  organization  started 
the  factory  building  in  1903  another  strong  sentence 
was  employed,  this  being  "When  factories  are  va- 
cant fill  them — when  factories  are  needed  build 
them."  Because  the  great  number  of  splendid  brick 
and  cement  structures  which  house  the  industrial 
plants  are  among  the  finest  to  be  found  anywhere, 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  has  rightly  proclaimed 
that  Haverhill  has  the  "World's  Best  Factories." 
The  great  output  of  footwear  has  also  brought  into 
somewhat  common  use  "Shoes  made  in  Haverhill 
Tread  the  Carpets  of  the  Globe." 


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ENGINEERING  STATISTICS 

By  Louis  E.  Lawton,  City  Engineer 


THE  City  of  Haverhill  has  maintained  a  Meteor- 
ological Station  since  October,  1899.  The 
station  was  established  primarily  for  the  pur- 
pose of  furnishing  evidence  in  lawsuits  against  the 
city  in  which  any  of  the  elements  of  the  weather 
might  have  a  bearing.  All  original  records  are  filed 
away,  and  all  such  tabulations  as  might  prove  useful 
for  our  purposes  are  made.  A  tabulation  of  maxi- 
mum rates  of  rainfall  for  periods  of  five,  ten,  fifteen, 
thirty  and  sixty  minutes  is  made  for  each  storm, 
which  proves  of  great  value  from  an  engineering 
standpoint,  and  is  constantly  growing  in  value  with 
the  increasing  length  of  records. 

Every  effort  has  been  made  to  so  arrange  the  dif- 
ferent details  that  future  changes  may  not  be  neces- 
sary, either  in  instruments  or  manner  of  observation 
and  record.  It  has  proven  a  great  benefit  to  the  city 
and  a  paying  investment,  not  alone  for  the  purpose 
for  which  it  was  established,  but  in  many  ways. 

The  following  data  collected  from  the  records  ex- 
tending over  a  period  of  seventeen  years,  from  1900 
to  1916  inclusive,  may  be  of  general  interest. 

Temperature. 

Highest  temperature  recorded,  104  degrees  on 
July  4,  1911. 

Lowest  temperature  recorded,  17  degrees  below 
zero  on  February  12,  1914. 

There  are  several  features  of  interest  in  regard 
to  short  periods  of  extreme  high  or  low  temperature. 

During  the  first  twelve  days  of  July,  1911,  there 
occurred  a  remarkable  period  of  extreme  heat,  break- 
ing all  other  records  in  severity  and  duration.  For 
six  of  these  days  the  maximum  thermometer  regis- 
tered 100  degrees  or  more.  The  highest  reached  was 
104  degrees  on  July  4. 

The  months  of  January  and  February,  1914,  were 
extremely  cold.  A  cold  wave  coming  on  the  night 
of  January  12th  and  continuing  through  the  13th 
and  14th  caused  more  discomfort  than  any  cold  wave 
for  a  great  many  years.  There  have  been  lower  tem- 
peratures in  other  years,  but  seldom  with  wind  of 
gale  velocity,  or  without  a  substantial  rise  to  above 
zero  at  midday.  On  the  13th  of  January,  1914,  the 
highest  temperature  attained  in  the  daylight  hours 
was  6  degrees  below  zero  at  2  p.  m.,  while  high  west 
and  northwest  winds  prevailed.  The  greatest  ve- 
locity of  the  wind  was  at  the  beginning  of  the  cold 
wave,  50  miles  per  hour,  from  the  northwest,  on  the 
afternoon  of  the  12th.     The  minimum  temperature 


was  on  the  13th  and  was  13  degrees  below  zero  with 
a  wind  velocity  of  45  miles  per  hour. 

In  February,  1914,  there  was  another  period  of 
even  lower  temperature.  The  lowest  reached  was 
17  degrees  below  zero  during  the  night  of  the  12th. 
There  was  at  this  time  a  wind  velocity  of  30  miles 
per  hour. 

Precipitation. 

(Including  rain,  hail,  sleet  and  melted  snow) 

The  average  yearly  precipitation  has  been  38.1 
inches. 

The  greatest  precipitation  for  any  one  year  was 
48.13  inches,  in  1900. 

The  greatest  for  any  one  month  was  10.98  inches, 
in  July,  1915. 

The  least  precipitation  for  any  one  year  was  28.87 
inches,  in  1914. 

The  least  for  any  one  month  was  0.01  inch  in 
March,  1915.  This  small  amount  of  precipitation  for 
one  month  is  noteworthy.  At  Boston,  in  authentic 
records  extending  back  to  1818,  the  least  amount  for 
any  one  month  was  0.20  inch  in  April,  1844,  until 
the  month  of  March,  1915. 

The  precipitation  for  each  year  from  1900  to  1907, 
inclusive,  was  above  the  average,  while  for  the  years 
from  1908  to  1915,  inclusive,  it  was  below  the  aver- 
age. 

The  maximum  short  period  rainfall  occurred  dur- 
ing the  storm  of  August  21,  1914,  when  3.6  inches  of 
rain  fell  during  a  period  of  10  minutes. 

The  average  yearly  snow  fall  has  been  50.9  inches. 
The  greatest  snowfall  for  any  one  year  was  100 
inches,  in  1916.  In  March,  1916,  occurred  the  largest 
snowfall  of  record  for  any  one  month.  Snowstorm 
succeeded  snowstorm  with  a  remarkable  regularity 
and  frequency.     47  inches  fell  during  this  month. 

The  least  snowfall  for  any  one  year  was  19.8 
inches,  in  1913. 

The  average  yearly  number  of  clear  days  has 
been  152.  The  greatest  number  of  clear  days  for 
any  one  year  was  232,  in  1912. 

The  least  number  of  clear  days  for  any  one  year 
was  104,  in  1914. 

The  greatest  wind  velocity  recorded  was  85  miles 
per  hour  on  December  27,  1915. 

Haverhill  City  Base. 

Haverhill  City  Base  (Elevation  0),  to  which  all 
levels  in  the  office  of  the  City  Engineer  are  referred, 
was  established  in  1877,  and  was  at  that  time  sup- 


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posed  to  be  the  level  of  extreme  low  water  in  the 
Merrimack  River  at  Haverhill  Bridge. 

Extreme  Freshet  Level. 

Observations  by  the  City  Engineer  during  the 
freshet  of  1887  showed  an  extreme  height  of  water 
in  the  Merrimack  River  of  22  feet  over  the  City 
Base.  This  was  then  known  to  be  the  highest  water 
for  many  years,  and  has  since  been  used  as  the  ex- 
treme. This  elevation  (22  feet  over  the  City  Base) 
is  about  the  level  of  the  top  of  the  pavement  in 
Washington  Square,  also  the  top  of  the  dam  at  the 
Pentucket  Mills. 

Various  Elevations  Above  City  Base : 

Ayer's  Hill  (the  highest  point  in  Haverhill,)  340  ft. 

Broadway  at  Ayer's  Village, 200  ft. 

Lakeview  Avenue   200  ft. 

Powder  House  Hill 253  ft. 

Silver  Hill 278  ft. 

Winnekenni    Castle,    296  ft. 

Water  level.  Gale's  Hill  Reservoir, 298  ft. 

Saltonstall  Lake,  water  level,  121  ft. 


Kenoza  Lake,  water  level 110  ft. 

Dead  Hill  Reservoir,  water  level 281  ft. 

Miscellaneous  Data: 

Extreme  length  of  city,   9  miles 

Extreme  width   of  city,    5%  miles 

Areas  by  wards: — 
Ward  1  73.6  acres  or        .11  sq.  miles 

Ward  2  94.4  acres  or         .14  sq.  miles 

Ward  3  110.3  acres  or         .17  sq.  miles 

Ward  4  6,985.1  acres  or     10.91  sq.  miles 

Ward  5  7,395.5  acres  or     11.55  sq.  miles 

Ward  6  2,154.5  acres  or       3.36  sq.  miles 

Ward  7  5,192.1  acres  or      3.11  sq.  miles 


Total  area  of  City,  21,985.5  acres  or  34.35  sq.  miles 

Haverhill  has: — 
140  miles  of  public  streets. 
75  miles  of  private  streets. 
60  miles  of  public  sewers. 
116  miles  of  main  water  pipe. 
91  miles  of  main  gas  pipe. 
35  miles  of  Street  Railway  track. 


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HAVERHILL'S  EDUCATIONAL  FACILITIES 

By  Clarence  H.  Dempsey,  Superintendent  of  Schools 


THE  public  school  system  includes  one  high 
school,  a  central  ninth  grade,  twenty-two 
graded  elementary  buildings  and  eight  rural 
schools.  The  value  of  the  school  buildings  has  in- 
creased in  ten  years  from  $591,000  to  over  $1,000,- 
000.  In  the  last  three  years  a  building  program  has 
been  adopted  that  provides  for  the  construction,  as 
may  be  needed,  of  district  grammar  buildings  capa- 
ble of  economical  enlargement.  In  pursuance  of  this 
policy,  existing  buildings  will  from  time  to  time  be 


of  scholars.  Those  intending  to  go  to  college  or 
technical  schools  may  elect  the  college  preparatory 
course,  those  expecting  to  prepare  for  business,  the 
commercial  course,  and  those  wishing  to  obtain  the 
best  general  training,  the  general  course.  All  schol- 
ars take  advanced  manual  arts  work  similar  to  that 
of  the  lower  grades. 

The  high  school  is  housed  in  a  beautiful  and  com- 
modious building,  equipped  with  the  very  best  of 
modem  furnishings  and  devices.     There   are  large. 


HAVERHILL  HIGH    SCHOOL.    MAIN    AND    SUMMER   STREET.S 


converted  into  primary  schools,  sending  their  upper 
grades  to  the  highly  organized  grammar  school  cen- 
ters. 

In  congested  parts  of  the  city  kindergarten 
classes  are  maintained.  Admission  to  the  first 
grade  is  permissible  to  children  five  and  one-half 
years  of  age. 

The  course  of  study  pursued  in  the  elementary 
schools  is  thoroughly  up  to  date,  having  been  recent- 
ly revised.  In  addition  to  the  conventional  book 
work,  instruction  is  given  to  upper  grade  pupils  in 
manual  arts — wood-working  for  boys,  and  sewing 
and  cooking  for  girls.  These  courses  have  been  or- 
ganized for  years  and  excellent  training  is  furnished 
by  skilful  teachers. 

The  ninth  grade  work  is  arranged  in  three 
courses  to  meet  most  effectively  the  varying  needs 


well  lighted  class  rooms  of  the  regular  type  for  reci- 
tation work,  splendid  laboratories  for  work  in  phys- 
ics, chemistry,  botany,  geology  and  other  sciences. 
Freehand  and  mechanical  drawing  classes  are  pro- 
vided with  the  best  of  surroundings  and  equipment. 
A  well-organized  and  efficient  commercial  depart- 
ment furnishes  training  of  a  high  order  for  busi- 
ness positions,  and  in  connection  therewith  an  em- 
ployment agency  assists  students  to  secure  desir- 
able situations. 

Students  are  grouped  into  sections  according  to 
their  courses — college,  scientific,  normal,  commer- 
cial and  general — so  that  work  may  be  adapted  to 
particular  needs.  Students  going  to  higher  institu- 
tions have  found  their  preparation  excellent,  and 
have  been  able  to  maintain  high  standing  on  that 
account. 


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The  high  school  has  a  fine  auditorium  capable  of 
seating  nearly  one  thousand  people.  It  is  widely 
used  for  public  gatherings  as  well  as  for  school  as- 
semblies. The  gymnasium  is  surpassed  in  size  and 
equipment  by  but  few  school  or  college  gymnasiums 
in  New  England.  It  is  in  constant  use  by  both  boys 
and  girls  for  physical  training  and  school  athletics, 
and  is  frequently  in  commission  for  social  events. 
The  high  school,  erected  by  an  unpaid  commission, 
cost  $400,000. 

One  of  the  finest  athletic  fields  in  the  country  has 
been  provided  for  the  schools  by  the  generosity  of 
interested  citizens.  Football,  baseball,  track  events, 
school  meets  and  all  sorts  of  outdoor  gatherings 
can  be  splendidly  cared  for  on  this  field,  and  specta- 
tors can  enjoy  events  in  comfort.  The  grandstand 
will  accommodate  about  five  thousand  people,  and 
beneath  it  are  locker  rooms  for  the  care  of  both 
home  and  visiting  teams.  Four  and  one-half  acres 
are  enclosed  with  an  eight  foot  cement  fence,  and 
there  are  six  more  acres  capable  of  development. 

The  health  of  school  children  is  well  safeguard- 
ed by  the  supervision  of  four  school  physicians,  a 
school  nurse  and  a  school  dentist.  In  addition,  the 
Board  of  Health  keeps  careful  watch  of  contagious 
diseases,  and  quarantines  or  excludes  all  children 
who  might  endanger  the  health  of  other  school  chil- 
dren. 

Excellent  school  lunches  of  th'e  usual  kind  are 
furnished  daily  in  the  high  and  central  ninth  grade 
buildings,  and  penny  lunches  are  furnished  in  many 
other  buildiings  where  the  need  seems  to  warrant  it. 
Ventilation,  temperature,  general  morals  and  other 
things  that  aflfect  the  welfare  of  children  are  care- 
fully regulated  by  principals  and  teachers. 

In  addition  to  the  regular  day  schools,  evening 
classes  are  held  during  the  fall  and  winter  months 
for  the  instruction  of  foreigners  in  English  and  ele- 


mentary subjects,  for  adults  who  wish  to  extend 
their  common  school  education,  for  young  men  de- 
siring work  in  mechanical  drawing,  and  for  com- 
mercial students.  Many  people  have  availed  them- 
selves of  these  opportunities  to  their  great  advan- 
tage. 

The  administration  of  the  schools  is  directed  to- 
ward the  highest  welfare  of  the  children  of  the 
city.  A  splendid  training  is  possible  through  them 
for  either  higher  education  or  for  the  occupations 
of  life.  The  city  appropriates  generously  for  the 
support  of  the  schools,  and  is  endeavoring  to  not 
only  keep  them  upon  a  high  plane  of  efficiency,  but 
to  raise  them  to  even  higher  standards. 


Parochial   Schools. 

The  St.  James  Church,  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
Boston  Archdiocese,  has  connected  with  it  the  St. 
Gregory's  Primary  and  Grammar  school  and  St. 
James  High  School.  The  St.  Joseph's  Church  has 
two  parochial  schools,  one  for  boys  and  one  for  girls. 
All  are  housed  in  comparatively  modem  brick  struc- 
tures, in  convenient  locations,  and  the  standard  of 
education  is  very  high.  There  are  936  pupils  in  the 
St.  James'  and  St.  Gregory's  school,  vidth  twenty-sev- 
en teachers,  and  778  pupils,  with  seventeen  teachers 
in  the  schools  connected  with  St.  Joseph's  parish.  A 
strong  curriculum  is  maintained  and  the  schools  rank 
as  among  the  best  in  the  state. 

The  assessed  value  of  the  school  property  con- 
nected with  St.  James'  Church,  including  all  the 
schools,  convent  and  St.  Patrick's  Hall  is  over  $200,- 
000.  The  assessed  value  of  the  schools  connected 
with  St.  Joseph's  Parish  is  approximately  $60,000. 
All  the  rooms  and  equipment  are  in  good  condition, 
and  all  are  substantial  structures  built  for  the  busi- 
ness of  education. 


THE  PRESS  OF  HAVERHILL 


ESTABLISHED  institutions,  recognized  as  pre- 
senting clean,  readable  news,  Haverhill's 
newspapers  stand  among  the  leaders  in  Bay 
State  journalism.  A  newspaper  since  1798,  the  Ha- 
verhill Gazette  today  housed  In  its  splendid  fire- 
proof plant,  combining  every  element  known  to  me- 
chanical science,  has  achieved  a  reputation  for  in- 
tegrity and  progression  that  has  helped  make  it  the 
popular  paper  that  it  is.  The  Haverhill  Record,  a 
live  Sunday  newspaper,  was  established  in  1902  by 
Lewis  R.  Hovey,  its  present  publisher. 

A  leader  in  moulding  public  opinion  since  the 
early  days  of  the  town,  the  Gazette  has  been  an  ad- 
vocate of  all  the  things  that  mean  a  better  Haverhill 
and  has  ever  taken  a  constructive  view-point.  The 
late  John  B.  Wright  a  generation  ago  in  the  face  of 
strong  opposition  built  the  Gazette  along  the  virile 


lines  it  today  follows  and  laid  the  foundation  for  its 
wonderful  growth.  Editorially  it  is  energetic,  pro- 
gressive and  constructive. 

The  Gazette's  mechanical  equipment  includes  the 
latest  machines  for  setting  types  of  all  sizes,  even 
to  the  large  display  and  streamers,  heads  and  adver- 
tising. A  bank  of  eight  linotypes,  supplemented  by 
smaller  machines,  a  great  stereotyping  room  with  its 
facilities  for  quick  casting  and  a  press  room  with  a 
Hoe  press  capable  of  turning  out  48,000  16-page  pa- 
pers an  hour  are  only  some  of  its  facilities. 

The  Sunday  Record,  which  occupies  the  entire 
ground  floor  of  the  Merrimack  Associates  Building 
on  Locust  Street,  uses  a  smaller  but  just  as  up-to- 
date  plant.  In  connection  is  a  complete  printing 
department. 


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SOCIAL  ACTIVITIES 


GOOD  fellowship  among  all  races,  between  both 
sexes  and  among  all  classes  of  people  in  Ha- 
verhill is  evidenced  by  the  number  and 
strength  of  the  lodges  and  clubs  which  flourish  with- 
in the  city.  Organized  activity  has  been  successful 
and  companionship  thus  engendered  has  reflected  the 
citizenship  of  the  community.  All  of  the  great  na- 
tional lodges  are  represented  in  Haverhill  with  good 
branches. 

There  are  ten  lodges  of  Odd  Fellows,  six  of  Ma- 
sons and  sixty-four  other  lodges  in  Haverhill,  making 
a  total  of  eighty-three  in  all.  Haverhill  has  a  Ma- 
sonic Temple,  a  Moose  Home  and  an  Elks  Home, 
while  the  Hibernians  and  Odd  Fellows  ov^rn  their 
own  buildings.  The  Knights  of  Columbus  have  re- 
cently incorporated  a  building  committee  for  the 
purpose  of  securing  a  home. 

Haverhill  has  several  clubs,  prominent  among 
which  is  the  Pentucket  Club.  The  front  part  of  the 
present  Pentucket  Club  was  originally  the  mansion 
of  James  H.  Duncan,  one  of  Haverhill's  first  aristo- 
cratic citizens,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  in  1808,  who 
represented  us  in  Congress  in  1849.     The  Agawam 


Club  vsdth  a  membership  of  350,  has  rooms  on  Mer- 
rimack Street,  while  the  Wachusett  Club  is  another 
prominent  social  body.  The  Island  Golf  Club  has  a 
splendid  course  and  recently  remodelled  the  building 
situated  on  Porter's  Island  in  the  Merrimack  River 
just  below  the  center  of  the  city. 

The  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  has  a 
well  equipped  building  with  a  fine  gymnasium  and 
several  dormitories  on  Main  Street.  Located  just 
above  the  High  School  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  is  in  an  imposing  location.  The  Young 
Women's  Christian  Association  has  a  home  and 
gymnasium   on  Winter   Street. 

The  splendid  new  home  for  the  Boys'  Club  on 
Emerson  Street  was  completed  this  summer  at  a 
cost  of  about  $45,000. 

Among  the  women  there  are  a  number  of  very 
well  organized  clubs  which  not  only  accentuate  the 
fraternal  feeling,  but  also  have  made  Haverhill  bet- 
ter known  and  better  liked  because  these  women  in 
every  effort  for  the  common  good  have  unselfishly 
put  their  shoulders  to  the  wheel  and  helped  bring 
success  to  many  a  worthy  cause. 


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HEALTHFUL,  HUSTLING  HAVERHILL 

By  George  T.  Lennon,  Agent  Board  of  Health 


FEW  municipalities  in  the  United  States  have 
been  as  progressive  as  Haverhill  in  looking 
after  and  providing  for  health  and  sanitation, 
and  as  proof  of  this,  it  is  only  necessary  to  cite  the 
fact  that  in  the  past  37  years  the  increase  in  lon- 
gevity has  been  44  per  cent. 

The  marked  increase  in  longevity  for  a  period  of 
37  years  clearly  demonstrates  the  healthfulness  of 
Haverhill  and  its  people,  while  this  is  further  em- 
phasized by  the  small  death  rate  from  typhoid  fev- 
er of  .04  per  1000  of  population  for  the  year  1916. 

The  mortality  from  typhoid  fever  is  the  best 
index  of  the  healthful  and  sanitary  conditions  of  a 
municipality,  and  that  Haverhill  has  even  been 
ahead  of  other  cities  in  the  country,  is  apparent 
from  the  notable  decrease  in  the  death  rate  from 
that  disease. 

It  was  in  1880  that  the  Board  of  Health  was 
created  and  at  that  time  the  average  of  decedents 
was  30  years,  10  months.  The  mortality  records 
for  1916  give  the  average  age  of  decedents  44  years 
and  6  months  with  a  death  rate  of  14.39  per  1000  of 
population. 

The  Health  Department  has  kept  abreast  of  the 
times  in  preventive  medicine  and  its  members  and 
officials  feel  pleased  that  their  endeavors  have  been 
beneficial  and  that  the  people  of  Hustling  Haverhill 
have  become  healthier. 

"The  Place  by  the  Winding  River,"  as  Haverhill 
was  known  by  the  Indians,  possesses  unusual  natural 
advantages  and  its  territory  of  9  miles  along  the 
Merrimack  river,  with  an  average  width  of  5%  miles, 
is  drained  by  56  miles  of  sewers. 

There  are  140  miles  of  public  highways,  32  of 
which  are  in  the  compact  part  of  the  city  and  wa- 
tered, while  110  miles  of  pipes  furnish  water  service 
to  the  5.5,000  people  who  make  their  homes  here. 
The  public  parks,  the  breathing  places  for  the  many, 
cover  259  acres  and  the  public  playgrounds  furnish 
18  acres  for  the  children. 

The  hospital  facilities  of  Haverhill  are  much 
more  adequate  in  comparison  with  other  cities,  with 
two  general  hospitals,  the  Hale  and  the  Gen.  Stephen 
Henry  Gale,  a  Contagious  Disease  hospital,  a  Tuber- 
culosis hospital  and  a  City  Infirmary  as  well  as  a 
Tuberculosis  Dispensary. 

The  Board  of  Health  consists  of  three  members, 
Dr.  John  F.  Croston,  Dr.  A.  M.  Hubbell  and  Edward 
A.  Fitts.  Dr.  Croston  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board 
since  1883,  and  besides  having  served  as  Chairman 


for  many  years,  he  has  always  evinced  a  deep  and 
active  interest  in  health  matters. 

There  are  15  employes  of  the  Health  Department, 
all  of  whom  are  daily  engaged  in  numerous  activities, 
the  work  of  the  Department  having  with  the  growth 
of  Haverhill  in  recent  years,  perceptibly  increased, 
and  the  Board  of  Health  having  been  as  progressive 
as  those  of  other  municipalities  in  caring  for  the 
health  of  the  residents  of  the  city. 

George  T.  Lennon  is  the  agent  and  clerk  of  the 
Board,  he  having  succeeded  the  late  Chester  A.  Bry- 
ant, who  had  served  in  that  capacity  for  31  years. 
The  Agent,  besides  being  the  executive  officer  of  the 
Health  Department,  also  looks  after  the  contagious 
disease  cases  as  well  as  the  many  complaints  that 
are  entered  yearly. 

The  Inspector  of  Plumbing  Dennis  X.  Coakley, 
has  been  employed  by  the  Health  Department  since 
1893,  and  for  many  years  he  and  Mr.  Bryant  had 
charge  of  all  the  activities,  each  sharing  in  the  work 
that  was  done  until  the  Health  Department  was  re- 
cognized as  one  of  the  important  branches  of  munici- 
pal and  civic  life. 

Haverhill  was  one  of  the  first  cities  in  the  state 
to  employ  a  bacteriologist.  Dr.  Homer  L.  Conner 
having  served  in  that  capacity  since  1906.  In  that 
year  the  Board  of  Health,  two  months  after  the  law 
had  been  passed,  also  employed  two  school  physi- 
cians, this  number  having  been  increased  to  four  in 
1915. 

The  school  physicians  now  employed  by  the  De- 
partment are  Dr.  J.  J.  Fitzgerald,  who  has  served 
continuously  since  1906;  Dr.  F.  H.  Coffin,  Dr.  E.  P. 
Laskey  and  Dr.  T.  N.  Stone.  The  city  is  divided  into 
four  districts  and  the  School  Physicians  devote  many 
hours  in  looking  after  the  welfare  of  the  7000  pupils 
enrolled  in  the  public  schools. 

It  was  in  1911  that  the  Board  of  Health  first  en- 
gaged a  visiting  nurse.  Miss  Anna  A.  Sheehan  being 
elected  to  that  position,  and  for  four  years  she  was 
employed  in  various  capacities.  The  Board  now  has 
two  other  nurses,  Mrs.  Alice  M.  Rogers  having 
served  since  1915,  and  Miss  Blanche  B.  Pulsifer  since 
1916. 

The  establishment  of  a  Tuberculosis  Hospital  in 
1913  and  a  Contagious  Disease  Hospital  in  1914  were 
the  result  of  the  activity  of  the  Board  of  Health 
members,  who  pointed  out  their  need  and  those  two 
institutions  have  demonstrated  that  the  Board  of 
Health  was  justified  in  urging  their  establishment. 


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That  the  Health  Department  has  been  in  the  fore- 
front in  inaugurating  progressive  health  measures 
was  again  exemplified  two  years  ago  when  the  Tu- 
berculosis Dispensary  was  established,  Haverhill  be- 
ing one  of  the  first  cities  in  the  state  to  open  a  dis- 
pensary for  the  care  and  treatment  of  those  suffer- 
ing with  tuberculosis. 

Dr.  I.  J.  Clarke  is  the  medical  director  of  the 
Tuberculosis  Dispensary,  and  he  has  a  staff  of  12 
volunteer  physicians  who  each  serve  for  two  months 
yearly.  Miss  Anna  A.  Sheehan  is  the  Visiting  Nurse 
in  charge  of  the  Dispensary,  and  as  a  field  and  so- 
cial service  worker,  she  is  daily  in  touch  with  the 
relatives  and  friends  of  those  ailing  with  the  disease. 

Mrs.  Alice  M.  Rogers  has  charge  of  Infant  Wel- 
fare and  Hygiene,  and  Miss  Blanche  B.  Pulsifer  is 
the  School  Nurse.  The  three  visiting  nurses  have 
proved  invaluable  in  their  instructive  work,  which 
takes  them  among  all  classes  of  people. 

Dr.  Homer  L.  Conner  has  since  1910  served  as 
bacteriologist  and  inspector  of  milk,  and  he  has  as 
inspector  of  dairies.  Dr.  Charlmange  Bricault.  The 
milk  supply  which  averages  about  5000  gallons  daily, 
is  obtained  within  a  radius  of  15  miles  of  the  city, 
and  as  the  producers  and  dealers  have  always  co- 
operated with  the  Health  Department,  the  milk  sup- 
ply ranks  among  the  best  in  the  state. 

Miss  Eileen  E.  Keefe  is  the  clerical  assistant  of 
the  Health  Department  and  as  she  is  familiar  with 
its  various  activities,  she  has  proved  a  competent 
and  valuable  employe,  since  she  became  connected 
with  the  department  in  1914. 

Dr.  H.  W.  Watson  has  served  for  several  years 
past  as  Inspector  of  Meats  and  Provisions,  and  in 
this  capacity  while  he  is  only  a  half  time  official,  he 
has  supervision  over  all  places  where  food  and  food 
products  are  handled  as  well  as  scoring  the  places 
quarterly. 


The  Board  of  health  inaugurated  a  dental  clinic 
for  school  children  a  year  ago.  Dr.  Isidore  P.  Mor- 
ris is  the  School  Dentist  and  in  his  work  he. has 
been  ably  assisted  by  the  School  Nurse,  their  work 
for  the  first  year  having  been  confined  principally 
to  the  lower  grades. 


THE  HOSPITALS. 


Haverhill  has  four  well  equipped  hospitals.  The 
Hale  Hospital,  erected  largely  through  the  generos- 
ity of  the  late  E.  J.  M.  Hale,  has  a  wonderful  situa- 
tion on  Buttonwoods  Avenue  overlooking  the  Mer- 
rimack River.  The  Hale  Hospital  includes  separate 
wards  for  men  and  women,  a  maternity  ward  added 
by  J.  Otis  Wardwell,  and  several  private  rooms  and 
has  accommodations  in  all  for  forty-five  patients. 
In  1916  the  Gen.  Stephen  Henry  Gale  Hospital  was 
opened.  Part  of  this  building  was  originally  the 
Children's  Home  and  was  purchased  by  Gen.  Stephen 
Henry  Gale  and  was  presented  to  the  city.  The 
building  was  entirely  remodelled  and  contains  ac- 
commodations for  about  fifty  patients.  The  Con- 
tagious Hospital,  built  by  the  city,  is  just  above  the 
Hale  Hospital,  has  separate  wards  for  all  kinds  of 
contagious  diseases  and  accommodates  about  thirty- 
five  patients.  All  three  of  these  hospitals  are  of 
brick. 

Haverhill's  Tuberculosis  Hospital  is  acknowl- 
edged by  experts  to  have  a  superb  and  unexcelled 
location.  Originally  the  building  was  owned  by  the 
White  Estate  and  it  is  at  the  crest  of  the  bill  facing 
Buttonwoods  Avenue  on  one  of  the  high  points  in 
the  city  swept  by  the  breeze  from  all  four  winds, 
free  from  dust  and  noise  and  where  the  purest  of  air 
is  always  evident.  The  Tuberculosis  Hospital  ac- 
commodates about  thirty  patients. 


THE  HAVERHILL   CREDIT   BUREAU. 


By  Charles  A.  Richmond,  Manager. 

The  Haverhill  Credit  Bureau  was  established  in 
March,  1911.  The  Retail  Trade  Committee  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  entered  into  an  agreement 
with  Charles  A.  Richmond  whereby  he  contracts  to 
furnish  a  clearing  house  of  credit  information. 

Since  the  date  of  organization,  the  bureau  has 
had  396  subscribers,  all  of  whom  have  co-operated  in 
furnishing  credit  information  from  ledger  experi- 
ence, and  to  this  has  been  compiled  a  record  of  real 
estate  transfers,  mortgages,  attachments,  foreclos- 
ures, bankruptcy  and  poor  debtor  court  proceedings, 
police  and  criminal  court  records,  divorces,  mar- 
riages, deaths,  corporation  formations  and  returns, 
partnerships  and  dissolutions,  taxes,  real  and  per- 
sonal, and  all  other  available  information  as  to  char- 


acter and  habits.  This  makes  as  complete  a  record 
as  it  is  possible  to  obtain  and  gives  a  clear  guidance 
to  the  subscriber  as  to  his  dealings  with  the  pros- 
pective customer.  The  Bureau  also  keeps  record  of 
persons  who  move  from  place  to  place  within  the 
city  and  likewise  secures  information  of  strangers 
who  move  into  the  city. 

At  the  present  time,  the  Bureau  has  over  180,000 
cards  on  which  are  more  than  1,000,000  ratings,  so 
that  there  is  hardly  a  person  in  town  or  who  has  re- 
sided here  since  January,  1911,  whose  record  as  to 
bill  paying  ability  is  not  instantly  available  to  any 
subscriber.  Charges  to  members  of  the  Bureau  are 
generally  based  upon  the  number  of  calls  made 
within  the  year. 

That  the  methods  of  the  Haverhill  Credit  Bureau 
are  modern  and  successful  is  proven  by  the  fact  that 
similar  forms  have  been  adopted  in  other  cities  in- 
stituting like  reporting  agencies. 


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CHARLES    H.    DOLE,    1st    Vice-Pres.  CHARLES  N.   IvELLY,   2nd.   Vice-Pres.   (Pres.   191S) 

CHARLES  C.   CHASE,   President  1917 
GEORGE   A.    CHILDS,    Treasurer  DANIEL    N.     CASEY,     Secretary 


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HAVERHILL  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE  AND 
ITS  ACCOMPLISHMENTS 

By  Daniel  N.  Casey,  Secretary 


IN  May,  1901,  the  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade  was 
reorganized  with  something  less  than  one  hund- 
red members.  Today  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  with  a  proud  record  of  constructive 
achievements  to  its  credit,  has  over  nine  hundred 
members  on  its  roll.  Unselfish,  public  spirited  serv- 
ice by  men  of  the  community  has  materially  con- 
tributed to  the  success  of  the  organization,  whose 
chief  endeavor  is  a  greater  and  bigger  city.  Every 
year  the  number  of  continuing  projects  has  grown, 
every  year  the  membership  has  increased.  Aug- 
mented power  and  influence  have  thus  been  lent  to 
the  Chamber  and  today  it  stands  forth  as  one.  of  the 
largest  and  best  known  in  the  entire  United  States. 

A  resume  of  the  men  who  have  guided  the  des- 
tinies of  the  Board  of  Trade,  whose  name  was 
changed  to  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1916,  would 
be  a  re-naming  of  the  men  who  have  fostered  and 
encouraged  the  developments  within  the  city  which 
have  meant  a  mightier  force  to  those  things  which 
have  built  Haverhill.  The  Chamber  was  built  on  a 
permanent  basis  and  its  leaders  have  been  careful 
to  take  up  only  those  factors  of  civic  endeavor  which 
could  be  best  followed  to  a  logical  conclusion.  En- 
thusiasm has  always  been  tempered  with  good  judg- 
ment, energy  with  foresight. 

It  is  impossible  to  give  an  adequate  review  of  the 
successful  accomplishments  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce for  the  past  sixteen  years  and  only  some  of 
the  most  outstanding  facts  can  be  mentioned. 

It  was  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  back  in  1902 
which  started  the  factory  building  project  and  under 
the  corporate  name  of  the  Haverhill  Building  As- 
sociation the  three  Walnut  Street  factories  were 
erected.  The  result  of  this  investment  proved  the 
sound  business  policy  in  the  erection  of  such  build- 
ings so  that  both  local  and  outside  capital  have 
easily  been  attracted  and  at  least  one  modern  fac- 
tory, of  brick  and  cement,  has  been  erected  each 
year  since  that  time.  Haverhill  toway  possesses  the 
world's  best  factories. 

On  the  first  night  of  January,  1913,  Haverhill's 
new  street  lighting  system  along  her  main  arteries 
was  flashed  into  existence.  The  turning  of  a  switch 
culminated  more  than  a  year  of  effort  in  the  raising 
of  a  ten  thousand  dollar  fund  to  make  this  possible, 
and  in  the  last  few  weeks  committees  worked  heroi- 
cally to  bring  about  this  much  needed  improvement. 


The  Chamber  has  always  worked  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Merrimack  River,  has  appeared  before 
Congressional  committees,  army  engineers,  state 
legislators  and  other  bodies;  collected  statistics,  tab- 
ulated facts,  and  disseminated  information  which  it 
is  hoped  will  aid  in  securing  a  depth  of  eighteen  feet 
from  the  mouth  of  the  River  to  Lowell. 

Several  of  the  large  and  successful  manufactur- 
ing plants  in  Haverhill  today  have  come  as  a  result 
of  inducements  off"ered  through  the  Chamber  and  a 
list  of  available  floor  space  is  always  kept  at  the 
headquarters  while  the  officers  are  in  touch  with 
any  new  concerns  which  might  come  to  Haverhill. 

Frequent  conferences  are  held  with  railroad  and 
street  railway  officials  and  through  the  intercession 
of  the  Chamber  additional  train  service  has  been  se- 
cured in  the  past  few  years,  while  practically  all  of 
the  extra  car  service  operated  at  regular  intervals 
on  the  Bay  State  has  come  as  a  result  of  the  Cham- 
ber's agitation.  The  Chamber  has  lined  up  direct 
through  car  service  to  many  important  jobbing  cen- 
ters, traces  complaints  in  both  freight  and  passen- 
ger service  and  through  its  activity  a  substantial 
addition  was  made  to  the  freight  house  some  few 
years  ago.  In  opposing  the  six  cent  fare  sought  by 
the  Bay  State  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  presented 
the  best  local  case  put  in  before  the  Public  Service 
Commission. 

June  1st,  1917,  a  traffic  bureau  was  established, 
with  R.  C.  Johnson,  an  experienced  railroad  man, 
as  manager. 

The  Chamber  has  an  advertising  agreement 
whereby  valueless  program  advertising  has  been 
diminished  and  solicitors  for  all  kinds  of  propositions 
have  been  discouraged.  At  most  conservative  esti- 
mates this  has  saved  a  great  deal  more  than  mem- 
bers have  paid  in  regular  assessments. 

In  1909  the  Chamber  made  such  a  strenuous  fight 
against  the  establishment  of  a  central  alarm  station 
connected  with  the  factories  having  sprinkler  pro- 
tection that  the  proposition  was  defeated.  At  that 
time  the  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade  Associates,  Inc., 
was  organized  and  in  1916  this  Haverhill  company, 
formed  within  the  Chamber,  took  over  all  the  lines 
and  is  now  operating  this  system  on  a  co-operative 
basis.  If  this  had  not  been  done  the  old  company 
planned  to  raise  the  rates  125  per  cent. 

The  Chamber  places  high  school  boys  and  girls 


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DIRECTORS,  HAVERHILL   CHAMBER    OF  COMMERCE,   1917 

ALBERT    M.    CHILD  H.   C.   CROY                                                    JOSEPH   E.    CURTIS 

P.    R.    DUFFY  W.  W.  EMERSON                                                          M.  J.  FOWLER 

CHARLES    H.    GROVER  LEWIS  R.  HOVEY                                                WILLIAM  E.   HOW 


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in  spare  time  employment,  sent  six  high  school  boys 
to  the  Plattsburg  Military  Training  Camp  last  sum- 
mer, answers  inquiries  from  every  part  of  the  Globe, 
co-operated  in  arrangements  for  a  reception  to  Com- 
pany F  on  its  return  from  Mexican  border  duty,  se- 
cures partners  with  capital  for  going  concerns,  thus 
keeping  good  business  in  Haverhill,  and  on  May 
11th,  1916,  conducted  the  greatest  meeting  that  Ha- 
verhill ever  knew.  This  was  the  fifteenth  annual 
banquet  held  in  the  State  Armory  with  1021  receiv- 
ers connected  with  San  Francisco.  The  Chamber 
has  gained  publicity  for  Haverhill  in  the  daily  press, 
national  magazines,  trade  journals,  histories  and  en- 
cyclopaedias. It  has  lent  its  efforts  for  better  postal 
service  and  opposes  any  legislation  that  might  be 
prejudicial  to  Haverhill's  industries. 

The  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Rotary  Club  are 
co-operating  in  plans  to  build  a  modern  hotel  in  Ha- 
verhill, the  Chamber  has  endorsed  a  Chautauqua 
week  for  this  city,  recently  completed  the  installation 
of  a  traffic  bureau,  and  has  actively  promoted,  in 
connection  with  the  Essex  County  Associated  Boards 
of  Trade,  better  roads  and  a  county  agricultural 
school. 

The  Chamber  has  been  able  to  bring  to  its  offi- 
cial positions  and  to  its  board  of  directors  and  its 
committees  men  who  have  had  foremost  the  interest 
of  Haverhill  at  heart,  and  who  have  piloted  the  ship 
with  a  greater  Haverhill  as  their  only  beacon  light. 
The  personnel  of  the  Chamber  has  been  loyal  and 
supporting  and  it  is  largely  due  to  these  reasons  that 
the  growth  in  membership  has  been  healthy,  substan- 
tial and  conservative,  and  that  the  Chamber  has  a 
proud  record  and  an  influence  which  makes  it  at  once 
well  known  and  highly  regarded. 


HAVERHILL  BOARD   OF   TRADE   ASSOCIATES 


The  sprinkler  and  automatic  fire  alarm  system 
in  seventy-seven  Haverhill  buildings  including  prac- 
tically the  entire  industrial  area,  are  controlled  by  a 
local  association  organized  for  service  and  not  for 
profit.  This  local  association,  the  Haverhill  Board 
of  Trade  Associates,  was  formed  in  the  Board  of 
Trade  in  1911  and  provides  service  at  cost.  A  ser- 
vice which  means  low  insurance  rates  at  a  minimum 
of  expense. 


The  officers  of  the  association  employ  a  superin- 
tendent and  assistant  who  keep  the  system  in  per- 
fect working  condition,  and  since  December,  1916, 
when  the  local  company  assumed  charge,  not  a  fire 
has  started  in  any  one  of  the  local  buildings  but 
what  it  has  been  apprehended  by  this  silent  watch- 
man. The  liability  of  a  conflagration  and  the  haz- 
ard attendant  is  greatly  reduced.  At  the  first  sem- 
blance of  a  fire  the  water  heads  open  automatically 
and  the  alarm  simultaneously  sounds  at  the  Central 
Fire  Station  summoning  the  protective  and  chemical 
companies    to    immediate    action. 

Charles  N.  Kelly  is  president  of  the  Haverhill 
Board  of  Trade  Associates,  George  E.  Kimball  is 
treasurer,  Daniel  N.  Casey  is  secretary,  and  George 
McLean  is  the  superintendent.  The  directors  are 
Charles  N.  Kelly,  George  E.  Kimball  and  Charles  C. 
Chase.  The  company  is  conducted  along  a  splendid 
line  of  non-profit  co-operative  basis  and  is  headed 
by  business  men. 


A  RETROSPECTIVE  GLANCE. 


In  1889  the  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade,  which 
might  be  called  the  grandfather  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  today,  issued  a  very  complete  book  on 
Haverhill  as  an  industrial  and  commercial  center, 
this  book  containing  some  260  pages  and  its  story 
of  the  organization  of  the  old  Board  may  be  inter- 
esting here.     The   article   set  forth   that: 

"Pursuant  to  a  call  for  a  meeting  of  business 
men  and  citizens  of  Haverhill  to  consider  the  pro- 
priety of  the  formation  of  a  Board  of  Trade,  about 
fifty  gentlemen  met  in  the  office  of  George  A.  Hall, 
Esq.,  Academy  of  Music,  March  30,  1888,  and  or- 
ganized by  the  choice  of  H.  E.  Bartlett,  chairman, 
and  E.  G.  Frothingham,  secretary.  A  committee 
was  appointed  to  nominate  a  list  of  officers  for  per- 
manent organization  and  to  prepare  a  constitution 
and  by-laws,  which  committee  met  at  an  adjourned 
meeting  at  No.  40  Daggett's  Building,  April  2,  and 
voted  to  recommend  for  adoption  a  constitution  and 
by-laws,  and  nominated  a  list  of  officers,  all  of  which 
action  was  accepted  and  confirmed  at  the  first  regu- 
lar meeting  of  the  Board,  held  at  the  Police  Court 
Room,  April  11,  1888." 


TRADE 
IN  HAVERHIL'L' 


(Ohat  Helps  the  City,  helps  you 

Boom  the  Town  -  Where  you  Live 

HITCH  YOUR  HEART  TO  lUVfRniLL 

Haverhill  Board  of  Trade 


DIRECTORS,   HAVERHILL   CHAMBER    OF    COMMERCE,    l"' 
JOSEPH  F.  McCAKTHT,  (Actin.  Sec,        GEORGE  MITCHELL  ^t^^h'r. ^S^^ONGE 

^^SV-SmXH  Al'b°E^T  L."wtLES 


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THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF  JUSTICE  IN  HAVERHILL 


By  A.  Franklin  Priest,  Clerk,  Central  District  Court  of  Northern  Essex 


MEN  in  the  legal  profession  have  great  op- 
portunities to  win  personal  renown  and  to 
bring  honor  and  fame  to  the  city  in  which 
they  reside. 

The  highest  standard  of  ethics  has  always  been 
adhered  to  by  the  members  of  that  profession  in 
Haverhill. 

Haverhill  may  well  be  proud  of  the  able  attor- 
neys, statesmen  and  jurists  who  have  claimed  Ha- 
verhill as  their  home.  The  names  of  Moody,  Bric- 
kett,  Jones,  Winn,  Wardwell,  Carter,  Ryan,  Peters, 
Wells,  Abbott  and  Fuller,  and  many  others  have  al- 
ready blazoned  their  way  to  fame  and  with  them 
carried  the  fair  name  of  the  Slipper  City  of  the 
World. 

Haverhill  should  boast  of  respectable  and  suit- 
able quarters  for  her  local  district  court.  In  that 
respect  she  has  been  remote  and  negligent  as  to  her 
own  civic  pride.  Business  men  and  the  populace  of 
Haverhill  have  awakened  to  this  fact  and  they  de- 
mand suitable  accommodations.  The  state  legisla- 
ture has  passed  an  act  authorizing  the  erection  of  a 
modem  court  building  in  Haverhill. 

Although  Haverhill  was  the  last  city  in  the 
County,  and  among  the  last  in  the  Commonwealth, 
to  realize  the  inadequate  and  ridiculous  accommo- 
dations of  her  court,  she  will  not  fail  in  her  new 
endeavors.  When  the  sounds  of  carpenters  and  ma- 
sons have  ceased,  there  will  appear  in  Haverhill, 
upon  the  best  location  available,  a  court  house 
worthy  of  the  name  of  Haverhill,  and  without  doubt 
the  best  of  its  kind  in  the  Comomnwealth. 

The  Central  District  Court  of  Northern  Essex 
is  located  now  at  36  Main  Street,  Haverhill.  John  J. 
Winn  is  justice  and  the  associate  justices  are  Otis 
J.  Carleton  and  Daniel  J.  Cavan.  The  clerk  is  A. 
Franklin  Priest.  The  probation  officers  are  Edward 
B.  Savage  and  Silas  L.  Morse. 

The  district  court  is  of  the  class  of  courts  which 
is  closest  to  the  people.  It  rubs  elbows  with  all 
classes  and  with  people  from  all  walks  in  life.  It  is 
the  first  to  hear  the  cry  of  distress  from  the  victim 
who  has  been  robbed,  assaulted  or  injured,  and  to 
give  the  shield  of  the  law  to  the  person  who  has 
been  wronged. 

Many  people  think  of  the  district  court  as  the 
place  where  the  criminal  or  viTong  doer  is  brought 
so  that  the  penalty  of  the  law  may  be  administered 
to  him.  They  who  have  been  unfortunate  enough  to 
have  been  the  victim,  the  law  abiding  citizen  who 


has  been  wronged  in  some  way,  realize  that  they 
may  immediately  seek  their  remedy  through  the  dis- 
trict court  and  not  through  the  Superior  Court. 
This  is  true  in  ninety-nine  cases  out  of  one  hundred. 

The  jurisdiction  of  the  district  court  has  been 
materially  increased  in  late  years,  making  possible 
the  trial  of  many  cases  in  the  local  court  which 
formerly  could  only  be  tried  in  an  upper  court. 

The  work  of  a  district  court  is  divided  into  four 
classes: — Civil,  criminal,  juvenile  and  miscellaneous. 

Civil  actions  are  sub-divided  into  actions  of  con- 
tract or  actions  of  tort, — the  first  arising  from  a 
contractual  relation,  expressed  or  implied,  and  the 
second  from  some  unlavirful  act  or  wrong  doing  of 
another. 

Under  the  civil  division  come  actions  of  eject- 
ment, to  expel  a  person  unlawfully  in  possession  of 
land  or  tenements,  and  also  actions  of  replevin,  to 
recover  personal  property  unlavirfully  held  from  its 
owner;  Poor  debtor,  Dubuque  and  Mesne  Process 
also  come  under  this  head.  The  limit  for  these 
actions  in  a  district  court  is  one  thousand  dollars. 

The  criminal  is  subdivided  innumerably  and  in- 
cludes the  issuing  of  complaints  for  every  crime  or 
misdemeanor  known  to  law  and  statute  of  the  Com- 
monwealth, and  every  ordinance  within  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  Court.  The  Court  may  try,  hear  and  de- 
termine all  cases  which  are  not  punishable  by  a 
state  prison  sentence  of  five  years  or  over,  in  which 
case  a  hearing  is  held  to  determine  whether  or  not 
there  is  probable  cause  to  bind  the  defendant  over  to 
the  grand  jury. 

Juvenile  includes  all  cases  where  the  accused  is 
under  seventeen  years  of  age.  The  child  is  not 
called  a  defendant  or  criminal,  but  a  delinquent. 
The  court  hears  and  determines  not  whether  the 
child  is  guilty  or  not  guilty,  but  whether  or  not  the 
child  is  a  delinquent  child.  The  hearing  cannot  be 
held  in  the  main  or  criminal  court  room,  but  must 
be  heard  in  a  separate  court  room,  called  the  chil- 
dren's court. 

The  work  in  the  juvenile  court  is  subdivided  into 
wayward  and  delinquent  cases,  children  who  have 
done  as  the  name  implies,  truants,  and  habitual  ab- 
sentees from  school,  and  neglected  children.  Many 
sad  cases  come  to  light  under  this  last  division,  and 
high  praise  should  be  given  to  the  capable  and  effi- 
cient manner  in  which  local  charitable  religious  so- 
cieties and  the  State  Board  of  Charity  aid  the  un- 
fortunate boys  and  girls  who  have  found  their  way 


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into  the  children's  court.  The  State  Board  of  Char- 
ity at  present  has  custody  of  between  six  and  seven 
thousand  children  throughout  the  Commonwealth, 
and  the  question  of  their  welfare  has  become  one  of 
the  great  social  problems  of  the  hour. 

Under  miscellaneous  comes  inquests,  i.  e.  hearing 
and  determining  cases  of  violent  deaths,  and  fires  of 
incendiary  origin;  insane  applications-hearings  to 
determine  the  sanity  or  insanity  of  a  patient  and 
commitments  to  various  state  institutions — Any  al- 
leged insane  person  so  desiring  may  claim  a  hearing 
by  a  jury  of  six  to  determine  the  question  of  insanity 
in  the  district  court — hearings  on  applications  for 
duplicate  certificates  of  naturalization;  for  marriage 
licenses  to  be  issued  within  the  five  days'  limit; 
search  warrants  for  the  unlawful  sale,  keeping  or 
transportation  of  intoxicating  liquors,  stolen  prop- 
erty, and  many  others. 

Civil  actions  are  usually  instituted  through  at- 
torneys, but  as  a  rule  the  remainder  of  the  proceed- 


ings mentioned  are  commenced  by  the  direct  applica- 
tion of  complainant  to  court,  through  the  clerk  there- 
of, who  first  hears  the  evidence,  issues  processes, 
and  the  case  is  determined  by  the  judge  thereof, 
from  whose  decisions  defendants  have  the  right  to 
appeal. 

The  lower  or  district  court  is  a  court  through 
which  the  people  may  get  quick  and  adequate  jus- 
tice, and  it  is  in  great  deal  closer  touch  with  the  peo- 
ple than  the  supreme,  superior  or  probate  courts. 

In  summary,  the  district  court  is  purely  local,  for 
local  people  and  local  conditions. 

Haverhill  has  always  had  an  able  bench  and  bar, 
of  which  she  has  been  justly  proud,  and,  guarding 
zealously  the  welfare  and  enhancement  of  the  civic 
affairs  of  the  community,  she  is  about  to  have  a  local 
court  building  to  which  every  citizen  may  point  with 
pride  and  satisfaction,  and  which  will  probably  ex- 
emplify the  esteem  in  which  Haverhill  is  held,  not 
only  throughout  the  Commonwealth,  but  the  Nation. 


FACTORY    OF   THE   J.   H.    WINCHEDL,  CO.,  AND  THE  MERRIMACK 
ASSOCIATES    BUILDING,    LOCUST  STREET 


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THE  HAVERHILL  POLICE  DEPARTMENT 

By  John  J.  Mack,  City  Marshal 


HAVERHILL  is  protected  by  a  police  force  that 
is  efficient,  loyal  and  conscientious.  Every 
effort  has  been  used  to  keep  the  department 
up  to  modern  standards  and  a  good  record  for  pre- 
vention and  detection  of  crime  has  been  achieved. 
The  percentage  of  crime  has  been  reduced,  even  with 
the  healthy  increase  in  population. 

Haverhill  has  an  automobile  police  patrol,  an 
automobile  ambulance,  a  touring  car  equipped  for 
the  especial  use  of  the  department,  motorcycle 
squad,  a  detective  division  and  plain  clothes  men 
are  assigned  when  necessary.  The  Gamewell  signal 
system  is  used,  having  been  installed  all  new  a  few 
years  ago,  and  by  it  officers  on  post  are  in  communi- 
cation with  headquarters  at  frequent  intervals.  The 
finger  print  system  and  other  up-to-date  methods  of 
police  departments  are  in  vogue  here  and  constant 
correspondence  is  kept  with  other  departments,  par- 
ticularly those  in  the  Merrimack  valley  that  offend- 
ers may  be  speedily  apprehended.  Experienced  traf- 
fic officers  are  detailed  to  important  street  intersec- 
tions and  the  city  is  covered  every  minute  of  the  day 
and  night  by  patrols  of  the  blue-coats,  while  superior 
officers  are  always  in  charge  at  the  station. 

The  Haverhill  police  department  includes  a  mar- 
shal, deputy  marshal,  captain,  four  sergeants,  cap- 
tain of  inspectors,  lockup  keeper,  two  patrol  chauf- 


feurs, police  clerk,  police  woman  and  36  patrolmen 
to  50,000  people.  There  are  also  13  reserve  officers. 
While  the  size  of  the  force  is  comparatively  small, 
its  esprit  de  corps  is  strong-  and  our  per  capita  cost 
is  among  the  lowest  in  the  state.  Several  reserve 
officers  are  regularly  detailed  during  the  Summer 
and  the  city  marshal  is  in  control  of  the  entire  de- 
partment. 

Under  the  commission  plan  of  government,  an 
alderman  is  given  supervision  over  the  public  safety 
departments  and  Alderman  W.  Henry  Root,  Commis- 
sioner of  Public  Safety,  has  direct  charge  of  the 
police  department  and  the  city  marshal  the  execu- 
tive officer.  Last  year  the  department  responded  to 
some  4,000  complaints  of  various  descriptions,  made 
a  total  of  about  2,000  arrests  and  operated  at  a  total 
cost  of  $58,985.18.  This  year  additional  sergeants 
were  added  to  the  force  and  this  makes  possible 
supervision  of  officers  on  their  routes. 

The  headquarters  include  cell  rooms,  one  large 
detention  room  and  separate  quarters  for  female 
prisoners.  The  offices  include  the  main  station, 
guard  room,  officers'  quarters  and  private  offices  for 
the  marshal  and  inspection  division.  The  Legisla- 
ture having  approved  an  appropriation  for  a  new 
court  house,  the  probabilities  are  that  more  commo- 
dious rooms  will  later  be  available. 


HAVERHILL  THEATRES 


Catering  to  any  diversity  of  tastes,  the  Haverhill 
theatres  are  all  modem  playhouses.  All  have  been 
built  within  the  past  six  years. 

The  Academy  of  Music  offers  the  latest  metro- 
politan dramatic  successes  interpreted  by  a  stock 
company  that  has  achieved  the  enviable  record  of 
being  the  best  stock  company  in  New  England,  and 
productions  are  notable  for  their  completeness.  The 
Academy   seats   1500. 

The  Colonial,  seating  1600,  plays  high  class 
vaudeville  and  has  presented  some  road  attractions. 
It  is  a  popular  playhouse.  Extreme  care  is  used  in 
the  selection  of  the  acts  through  a  trained  theatrical 


man  who  sees  them  prior  to  making  bookings  and 
thus  Haverhill  enjoys  the  best  in  the  vaudeville 
line. 

Offering  high  class  photoplays,  the  Strand,  built 
in  1915,  is  a  type  of  the  modern  theatre  presenting 
the  very  best  in  motion  pictures. 

All  three  are  on  Merrimack  Street,  the  principal 
merchandising  artery,  are  of  brick  and  fireproof  con- 
struction. 

The  Orpheum,  seating  900  and  the  Majestic,  seat- 
ing 500,  are  smaller  picture  theatres  which  maintain 
a  high  standard  of  quality  and  are  well  regarded  by 
the  theatre  going  public. 


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HAVERHILL  FIRE  DEPARTMENT 

By  John  B.  Gordon,  Chief  Engineer 


RUNNING  from  nine  houses  some  two  dozen 
pieces  of  apparatus  manned  by  nearly  150 
men,  guard  Haverhill  from  the  danger  of  fire. 
Answering  approximately  700  alarms  of  all  kinds  in 
the  course  of  a  year,  yet  operating  on  the  economical 
basis  of  an  annual  appropriation  which  does  not  quite 
reach  $80,000,  the  Haverhill  Fire  Department  while 
not  so  large  or  well  equipped  as  we  would  like  to  see 
it,  nevertheless,  for  the  size  of  the  city  competently 
protects  Haverhill,  a  municipality  with  an  extended 
area  and  laid  out  over  several  hills  which  renders  re- 
sponse often  difficult  and  fire  fighting  frequently  a 
problem. 

The  total  value  of  buildings  and  contents  in  which 
there  were  fires  during  1916  was  more  than  $3,700,- 
000,  the  insurance  thereon  was  $3,300,000;  the  insur- 
ance loss  was  $162,000  and  the  uninsured  cost  $18,- 
000.  The  Haverhill  fire  department  is  equipped  with 
seven  pieces  of  motor  apparatus,  fourteen  horse 
dravra  engines,  chemicals,  ladders  and  hose  wagons. 
Some  of  the  latter  are  held  in  reserve  while  thirteen 
horses  are  used  on  these  vehicles  which  are  always 
in  commission.  A  high  pressure  water  service  from 
twelve  and  sixteen-inch  mains  is  available  in  the 
congested  area.  The  wires  of  the  modern  fire  alarm 
telegraph  system  reach  like  nerves  to  every  part  of 
the  city  and  eighty  boxes  are  connected  with  it.  An 
automatic  fire  alarm  system  controlled  by  the  Ha- 
verhill Board  of  Trade  Associates  records  alarms 
from  practically  all  of  the  factories  while  sprinkler 
systems  in  these  buildings  hold  the  fire  in  check  un- 
til the  department  can  respond. 

In  the  downtown  section  all  of  the  wires  are  bur- 
ied in  conduits  beneath  the  streets  and  the  entire  sys- 
tem was  newly  reinstalled  in  1912. 

Every  minute  of  the  twenty-four  hours  of  every 
day  a  man  is  on  duty  at  the  desk  in  the  seven  active 
stations  and  forty-nine  permanent  firemen  await  the 
call  to  duty.  We  also  have  forty  call-men,  two  volun- 
teer companies  of  eight  men  each  and  about  fifty  fire- 
men in  outlying  sections.  There  are  475  hydrants 
and  the  alarm  whistle  is  a  diaphone  signal  whose 
voice  can  be  heard  all  over  the  city  summoning  call 
firemen  and  policemen  to  posts  of  duty.  It  was  in 
1910  that  Haverhill  first  purchased  automobile  ap- 
paratus and  at  that  time  secured  a  Knox  Combina- 
tion chemical  and  hose  wagon  with  sixty  horse  power 
at  a  cost  of  $4500.  A  Chief's  car  of  the  Knox  make 
was  placed  in  commission  June,  1910,  and  the  com- 
bination went  in  May  first  of  the  same  year.     Two 


Seagraves  trucks,  one  combination  chemical  and  lad- 
der, the  other  a  large  hose  wagon,  were  secured  in 
1913  at  a  cost  of  $11,500.  Each  one  of  these  ma- 
chines has  ninety  horsepower.  In  April  1912  Hose  A, 
which  is  another  Knox  car,  was  commissioned  and  in 
1916  two  Kissell  chasses  were  purchased.  Haverhill 
firemen,  who  have  a  very  mechanical  turn,  rebuilt 
horse-drawn  bodies  which  were  placed  upon  the  chas- 
ses, turning  out  one  combination  chemical  and  cover 
placed  in  commission  September  28th  and  one  com- 
bination chemical  and  hose  placed  in  commission 
October  24th.  In  1915  a  new  Chief's  car  of  the 
Chalmers  make  was  purchased. 

A  reorganization  of  the  Board  of  Engineers  was 
efl'ected  early  in  1917 — three  permanent  captains 
were  elected  First,  Second  and  Third  Assistant  Engi- 
neers, while  the  fourth  assistant  remained  as  a  call 
man  in  the  department — George  N.  Whiting,  George 
F.  Walker,  W.  H.  Hawkins  and  John  B.  Currier  with 
the  Chief  comprises  the  Board  of  Engineers. 

A  reserve  engine  and  hose  car  at  headquarters 
are  equipped  so  that  they  may  be  dravwi  by  auto- 
mobile aparatus. 

The  department  equipment  also  includes  a  three- 
inch  turret  gun,  an  aerial  truck,  life  nets,  smoke 
masks,  and  all  of  the  modern  appliances  used  by  the 
fire  fighters  of  today.  The  Haverhill  Fire  Depart- 
ment endeavors  to  keep  pace  with  the  progress  of 
modern  inventions  and  the  growth  of  the  city. 

In  view  of  the  scientific  fire  fighting  methods  of 
today  it  is  interesting  to  take  a  retrospective  glance 
into  the  past.  The  earliest  record  of  the  organiza- 
tion of  a  fire  company  in  Haverhill  dates  back  to 
Washington's  birthday  1768  when  a  fire  club  was  or- 
ganized and  four  wardens  chosen.  In  1769  a  com- 
pany was  formed  for  the  purpose  of  securing  an  en- 
gine and  the  first  one  ever  used  in  Haverhill  was 
purchased  that  year  by  subscription  at  a  cost  of  $192. 
Cornelius  Mansise  was  captain.  In  1783  the  fire 
club  was  given  permission  "to  set  an  engine  house 
on  the  west  side  of  the  landing  adjoining  land  of 
Samuel  White."  The  new  engine  house  had  been 
erected  during  the  summer  of  1769  and  the  first  mus- 
ter was  held  in  1770.  The  first  fire  recorded  in  the 
tovsm  annals  was  the  burning  in  1761  of  a  thatched 
house  owned  by  Matthias  Brittons  on  Kenoza  Ave- 
nue. It  is  also  recorded  that  an  engine  was  pur- 
chased by  subscription  in  1759  and  1796  and  another 
engine  was  purchased  by  subscription  in  1819.  This 
engine  was  brought  from  Boston  on  board  of  Captain 


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William  Haseltine's  sloop,  and  cost  $400  and  on  June 
15th  of  1820  was  piven  to  the  town. 

Up  to  1841  the  fire  clubs  were  self  g-overned  re- 
ceiving no  remuneration  except  the  allowance  of  their 
annual  poll  tax.  March  15th,  1841  the  governor 
signed  an  act  which  in  that  year  was  accepted  by  the 
to\vn  establishins;-  a  fire  department,  and  the  different 
companies  met  that  year  and  reorganized  according 
to  the  act.  At  this  time  the  town  also  voted  to  pay 
the  firemen  for  services,  which  was  the  first  evi- 
dence of  any  salary. 

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  reorganized  fire  com- 
panies, or  as  it  was  then  called  for  the  first  time  the 
Haverhill  Department  and  sometimes  known  as  the 
Fire  Society,  held  in  the  office  of  Charles  Minot,  Sat- 
urday evening,  April  10th,  1841,  Ezekiel  Hale  was 
elected  chief  and  he  continued  in  that  position  to 
1845.  September  24th,  1842  it  was  voted  to  purchase 
six  hydrants.  In  1848  a  new  engine  the  "Tiger"  was 
purchased  for  Company  1  and  the  next  year  a  new 
engine  house  was  built  on  Water  Street.  On  March 
10th,  1851,  it  was  voted  to  buy  a  new  engine.  This 
was  the  first  with  a  suction  hose,  all  of  the  others 
being  equipped  merely  with  hand  buckets.  In  1860 
the  present  hook  and  ladder  company  was  organized. 
At  the  close  of  this  year  Haverhill  had  four  fire  en- 
gines. Early  in  May  1866  Haverhill  secured  the  first 
steamer  used  in  the  city.  This  was  the  "General 
Grant."  The  "City  of  Haverhill"  was  purchased  in 
September  1870  and  the  "Essex,"  May,  1873.  The 
"General  Grant"  and  the  "Essex"  have  been  built  over 
and  are  now  in  use,  while  the  "City  of  Haverhill"  is 
held  in  reserve. 

The  first  serious  fire  in  the  shoe  district  occurred 
at  three  o'clock,  Sunday,  November  16,  1873,  when 
fire  was  discovered  in  a  wooden  building  in  the  rear 
of  the  Prescott  block,  Washington  Square,  now  the 
Hotel  Thorndike.  This  was  the  most  disastrous  fire 
since  1775,  the  loss  being  estimated  at  $175,000.  Ha- 
verhill's great  conflagration,  however,  occurred  Feb- 
ruary 17  and  18,  1882,  originating  in  a  wooden  block 
about  one-half  way  up  the  North  side  of  Washington 
Street.  The  first  alarm  was  rung  in  at  11:30  p.  m. 
on  Friday  night  in  the  midst  of  a  bitter  cold  and 
shrieking  gale.  The  fire  whistle  continued  to  sound 
all  during  the  fire  like  the  moan  of  a  human  groan, 
the  building  in  which  the  whistle  was  located  being 
in  the  centre  of  the  conflagration.  At  two  o'clock 
Saturday  morning  both  sides  of  Washington  Street 
and  part  of  Wingate  and  Essex  Streets  were  in 
flames.  Many  houses  in  Bradford  caught  fire  from 
the  huge  cinders. 

Telegrams  were  dispatched  to  all  the  surround- 
ing cities  for  aid.  At  dawn  the  shoe  district  was  al- 
most obliterated.  All  of  the  buildings  on  the  South 
side  of  Washington  Street  as  far  as  the  Currier 
Building  had  become  a  prey  to  the  flames,  the  North 
side  was  leveled  and  the  East  side  of  Wingate  Street 
and   Washington   Square  were   laid   in   ashes.     The 


property  loss  amounted  to  $2,000,000,  ten  acres 
were  burned,  but  only  one  life  was  lost,  that  of 
Joseph  St.  Germaine,  a  member  of  the  hook  and 
ladder  truck. 

Scarcely  had  the  bricks  cooled  before  plans  were 
laid  for  a  new  shoe  district  and  in  a  very  short  space 
of  time  brick  and  marble  buildings  towered  toward 
the  sky,  a  vast  improvement  over  the  buildings  which 
had  occupied  the  burned  area. 

The  hand  of  time  is  laying  its  palm  upon  the 
ancient  records  of  the  Haverhill  Fire  Companies  and 
the  writing  is  now  very  dim.  So  far  as  they  show, 
however,  the  chiefs  of  the  Haverhill  Fire  Depart- 
ment have  been: 

1841-184.5— Ezekiel  Hale. 

1845-1852— Ruf us  Slocomb. 

1853-1857— Daniel   Palmer. 

1858-1859— Francis  Butters,  Jr. 

1860-1866— J.  M.  Littlefield. 

1867  —George  Treab. 

1868-1869— Thomas  Grieves, 
(resigned  June  7th,  1869). 

1869-1871— William   Turner. 

1872-1873— Thomas  Grieves. 

1874-1875— J.  M.  Littlefield. 

1876  —Fred  P.  Cheney. 

1877  — O.  M.  West. 
1878-1879— Augustus  McDuffee. 
1880-1882— O.  M.  West. 

1883  —James  M.  Pearson. 

1884  — G.  F.  Pinkham. 
(Served    three    months) 

1884-1886— James  M.  Pearson. 

1887-1889— Edward  Charlesworth. 

1890-1891— John  B.  Gordon. 

1892  —Edward    Charlesworth. 

1893-         —John  B.  Gordon. 

The  first  horses  used  in  the  Haverhill  Fire  De- 
partment were  a  pair  of  grays,  driven  by  C.  W. 
Foster,  which  drew  the  "City  of  Haverhill,"  and  a 
pair  of  bays  which  drew  the  "General  Grant,"  the 
latter  driven  by  the  late  Abraham  D.  Champion. 
These  horses  were  brought  to  Haverhill  in  1872. 
Alexander  Roberts  who  was  engineer  of  the  "Essex," 
is  the  oldest  living  member  of  the  department.  Ha- 
verhill also  had  the  first  chemical  engine  east  of  Bos- 
ton. The  first  installation  of  the  Gamewell  fire 
alarm  telegraph  system  was  made  in  1883  and  in 
March  3rd  of  that  year  Edward  Charlesworth  was 
appointed  superintendent  of  office  alarm. 

The  present  chief  has  been  connected  with  the 
Haverhill  Fire  Department  since  1881,  having  been 
out  of  the  harness  but  one  year,  1892,  and  has  been 
chief  continuously  since  1893. 

The  Haverhill  firemen  put  their  talents  to  good 
advantage,  much  of  the  apparatus  having  been  re- 
built by  them  in  the  spare  hours.  A  seventy-five  gal- 
lon chemical  tank  on  a  rebuilt  hose  cart,  so  arranged 
that  it  can  be  drawn  by  horses  or  men,  is  now  sta- 


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NORTH  coxc;kegation'al  church 

(TWO  \TEWS) 


CENTRE  CONGREGATIONAL   CHURCH 
GRACE  METHODIST  CHURCH 


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tioned  in  Ayers  Village.  This  wagon  was  made  by 
the  firemen  from  discarded  apparatus.  In  1917  two 
volunteer  companies  were  orffanized  to  report  at  the 
Court  and  Essex  Street  Stations  upon  second  alarms 
to  take  out  the  apparatus  held  in  reserve.  G.  Her- 
man Pulsifer.  formerly  assistant  chief  in  the  Haver- 
hill Fire  Department  and  A.  F.  Turner,  formerly 
connected  with  the  Boston  Fire  Department  are  cap- 
tains of  these  emergency  companies. 


The  Haverhill  Fire  Department  has  never  fal- 
tered in  its  duty;  its  response  has  been  complimented 
by  experts  from  the  National  Board  of  Fire  Under- 
writers; its  personnel  is  of  a  high  standard;  its  tra- 
ditions heroic  and  its  creditable  record  truly  noble; 
its  standing  is  justly  high;  its  record  clean  and  hon- 
orable; its  membership  composed  of  men  who  have 
never  flinched,  and  its  performance  always  reflects 
the  highest  credit  upon  the  city  which  it  represents. 


HAVERHILL'S  CHURCHES 


HAVERHILL  has  been  called  a  city  of  many 
churches.  Every  denomination  is  represent- 
ed in  the  39  edifices  dedicated  to  religion. 
The  churches  are  well  distributed  in  every  part  of 
the  city.  It  was  a  minister  of  the  Gospel  who  was 
the  first  white  man  to  paddle  up  the  Merrimack 
and  settle  where  the  purling  Mill  Brook  joined  the 
s\vift  Merrimack,  and  Haverhill  ever  since  then  has 
had  ample  facilities  for  her  people  to  worship  as 
they  wish. 

Haverhill's  ecclesiastical  history  is  very  much 
like  that  of  many  of  the  other  older  New  England 
settlements.  The  town  and  the  parish  were  identi- 
cal for  nearly  1.30  years,  town  meetings  and  the  ser- 
vices of  the  Sabbath  being  held  in  the  same  build- 
ing, at  once  the  town  house  and  the  parish  meeting 
house.  In  the  town  books  and  by  the  town  clerk 
were  preserved  the  records  of  such  transactions  as 
would  now  be  considered  as  relating  entirely  to  the 
various  religious  societies,  but  were  then  a  part  of 
the  town's  business.     In  1728,  however,  the  town 


had  become  so  large  as  to  make  it  a  matter  of  con- 
venience for  its  inhabitants  to  divide  it  into  two 
parishes  and  later  into  more.  Not  until  1848  did 
the  town  have  a  distinct  assembling  place  of  its 
own.  Practically  all  of  Haverhill's  churches  have 
proud  histories  and  their  parishes  are  strong,  which 
is   another  representation   of  the  community  spirit. 

Haverhill  has: 

8  Baptist  Churches, 

7    Congregational    Churches, 

6  Roman  Catholic  Churches, 

2  Episcopal  Churches, 

2  Methodist  Churches, 

2  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches, 

2  Pentacostal  Churches, 

2  Unitarian  Churches, 

2  Christian  Scientist  Churches, 

2  Synagogues, 

1  Presbyterian  Church, 

1  Adventist   Church. 


HAVERHILL  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 

By  Leonard  W.  Smith,  Curator 


SITUATED  at  one  of  the  most  picturesque  bends 
in  the  beautiful  Merrimack  river,  the  home  of 
the  Haverhill  Historical  Society  and  grounds 
occupy  a  prominent  place  in  the  landscape  of  that 
section.  The  whole  neighborhood  is  full  of  historic 
interest;  not  far  away  the  first  settlers  landed;  near 
by  is  the  spot  where  the  first  group  of  log  houses 
were  built;  the  first  meeting  house,  the  first  school 
and  the  first  burj-ing  ground.  On  one  of  the  lawns 
in  the  Historical  Society  grounds  stands  a  modest 
white  house,  built  for  the  first  minister,  Rev.  John 
Ward.  This  house  as  far  as  knowTi  was  the  first 
frame  building  in  the  town  and  occupied  by  the 
Rev.  John  Ward  and  his  family  during  his  long  pas- 
torate. Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  and 
Mrs.  Ward,  married  the  Hon.  Nathaniel  Saltonstall, 
and  to  the  young  couple  the  Rev.  Mr.  Ward  gave 
the  house  lot  on  which  the   Historical  House  now 


stands.  The  Saltonstalls  descended  from  a  rich  and 
aristocratic  family,  and  this  young  Nathaniel  built  a 
beautiful  Manor  House  on  the  lot,  and  for  many 
years  it  was  known  as  the  "Saltonstall  Seat."  Mr. 
Saltonstall  had  a  row  of  Sycamore  trees  planted 
along  the  front  of  his  estate,  and  these  trees  were 
set  out  by  Hugh  Tallant,  the  first  Irishman  who 
came  into  the  town.  These  trees  were  made  historic 
by  Whittier's  poem  "The  Sycamores." 

During  the  Revolutionary  War,  Colonel  Salton- 
stall who  resided  at  the  homestead,  favored  the  King 
in  his  sympathies,  differing  from  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  family  who  were  in  favor  of  the  Col- 
onists. Under  these  circumstances  he  decided  to  go 
to  England  and  live,  and  the  property  was  confis- 
cated by  the  Government  and  purchased  by  the  Dun- 
can family  who  were  the  owners  until  the  estate  was 
presented  to  the  Haverhill  Historical  Society.     The 


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P"IRST    BAPTIST    CHURCH 
MAIN    STREET 


TRINITY    EPISCOPAL    CHURCH 
FIRST  PARISH  CHURCH  (Unitarian) 


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house  which  Hon.  Nathaniel  Saltonstall  built  was 
partially  destroyed  during  the  Revolutionary  period 
and  when  it  came  into  the  possession  of  the  Duncans, 
the  present  mansion  was  built  for  Samuel  Duncan, 
and  his  bride  Mary  White,  thus  uniting  two  of  the 
oldest  and  important  families.  Soon  after  the  es- 
tate was  presented  to  the  Historical  Society.  It  was 
formally  opened  January  30,  1904,  with  interesting 
exercises.     Since  then  there  has  been  added  to  the 


first  few  articles  then  owned,  many  valuable  relics 
of  early  history  until  the  catalog  numbers  over  two 
thousand  exhibits.  Among  them  are  portraits,  docu- 
ments, china,  linen,  the  original  deed  from  the  In- 
dians, a  piece  of  cloth  in  which  Hannah  Duston 
brought  home  the  scalps  of  the  Indians  whom  she 
and  her  two  fellow  prisoners  killed,  and  many  other 
historic  gems.  At  the  east  of  the  home  is  a  fine 
colonial  garden,  full  of  old  fashioned  flowers. 


HAVERHILL  POST  OFFICE 

By  L.  F.  McNamara,  Postmaster 


DOING  an  annual  business  of  more  than  $140,000, 
and  employing  over  one  hundred  people  in 
the  transmission  of  its  business,  the  Haver- 
hill Post  Office  must  be  considered  a  most  important 
link  in  Haverhill's  industry.  Haverhill  is  a  first 
class  post  office  and  enjoys  practically  all  of  the  pos- 
tal advantages  of  the  larger  centers.  Mails  are  re- 
ceived and  dispatched  at  all  hours  during  the  day  and 
night  and  eleven  contract  stations,  dependent  upon 
the  Haverhill  post  office,  are  so  established  that  they 
render  convenient  service  to  all  the  citizens. 

The  earliest  record  of  the  government  mail  ser- 
vice extended  to  Haverhill  was  during  the  time  that 
Ellis  Huske  was  Boston's  postmaster  from  1734  to 
1784.  He  established  an  inland  post  route  from  Bos- 
ton via  Medford,  Woburn,  Andover,  Haverhill  and 
Exeter  to  Portsmouth.  The  postal  service,  via  Ha- 
verhill, began  Thursday,  April  14,  1740,  which  may 
be  called  the  beginning  of  postal  facilities  in  this 
city,  and  there  was  one  mail  a  week.  The  mail  car- 
rier or  post-rider,  as  he  was  called  in  those  days, 
had  charge  of  the  collection,  transportation,  and  de- 
livery of  all  mails  in  all  the  towns.  May  13,  1775, 
Congress  ordered  that  post  offices  be  established  in 
certain  towns  and  Simeon  Greenough  was  appointed 
to  be  postmaster  of  Haverhill.  The  office  was  sta- 
tioned in  the  house  at  the  corner  of  Water  and 
Moore  Streets.  Later  it  is  believed  that  the  govern- 
ment business  was  transacted  in  the  stores  of  John 
Edwards  and  Moses  Ross  on  Merrimack  Street  near 
Haverhill  Bridge,  and  the  post  office  location 
changed  from  time  to  time  with  the  appointment 
of  new  postmasters. 

In  1858  Davis  Bodfish  was  postmaster.  He 
moved  the  office  to  the  block  on  Merrimack  Street 
where  the  P.  C.  Wilson  store  is  now  located.  On 
May  nth,  1861,  the  late  Edwin  P.  Hill  was  called 
postmaster.  During  his  term  of  office,  for  the  first 
time  in  the  history  of  Haverhill,  the  postoffice  was 
withdrawn  from  all  connections  in  other  business 
and  the  building  on  the  corner  of  Main  and  Merri- 
mack Streets  was  commodiously  fitted  up  after  the 


model  of  the  Boston  postoffice  of  that  time.  When 
the  late  William  E.  Blunt  held  office,  after  being  ap- 
pointed in  1876,  he  moved  the  office  to  the  old  post 
office  block  in  the  wooden  building  at  56  Merrimack 
Street.  Following  Mr.  Blunt,  who  held  office  twelve 
years,  Gilman  L.  Sleeper  moved  the  post  office  to 
109  Merrimack  Street  in  the  Academy  of  Music 
Building.  In  1893  the  erection  of  the  present  post 
office  building  in  Washington  Square  was  begun  and 
was  finished  and  occupied  the  following  year.  The 
cost  was  $75,000.  The  land  on  which  the  post  office 
stands  is  part  of  the  original  grant  of  200  acres  of 
parsonage  land  which  was  granted  as  pasture  land 
to  Rev.  John  Ward,  the  first  minister  of  Haverhill. 
On  this  lot  also  was  set  the  first  engine  house  erect- 
ed in  Haverhill,  this  latter  having  been  built  in  1783. 

The  post  office  has  kept  pace  with  the  growth  of 
the  city.  September  1st,  1882,  Haverhill  was  given 
its  first  letter  carriers  and  at  that  time  there  were 
but  five.  Today  Haverhill  has  thirty-nine  regular 
and  ten  substitute  carriers,  thirty-four  regular  and 
six  substitute  clerks  and  four  rural  carriers.  There 
are  three  branch  offices  in  Groveland,  South  Grove- 
land  and  Georgetown.  The  eleven  contract  stations 
include  East  Haverhill,  and  Ayers  Village,  there  are 
nine  numbered  stations,  and  one  independent  station 
in  the  Bradford  District. 

In  the  last  ten  years,  while  Haverhill  has  been 
growing  10,000  people,  the  revenue  of  the  post  office 
has  nearly  doubled.  For  the  calendar  year  ending 
1906  the  receipts  were  $78,439.40,  and  for  the  cal- 
endar year  ending  January  1,  1917,  the  receipts  were 
$143,926.75.  May  1st,  1917  there  were  364  deposit- 
ors in  the  postal  savings  department  and  there  were 
$59,625  to  their  credit.  There  are  about  200  mail 
boxes  in  the  city  proper  and  suburbs. 

Midnight  collections  are  made  from  all  boxes  in 
the  principal  residential  and  business  districts  and 
clerks  are  on  duty  all  night  dispatching  these  mails 
on  the  early  morning  trains.  Two  parcel  post  teams 
are  operated  all  the  time  and  several  special  deliv- 
ery boys  are  employed  to  handle  this  special  matter. 


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The  present  postmaster,  appointed  in  1913,  succeed- 
ed Charles  M.  Hoyt,  who  was  appointed  in  1909. 
Clarence  B.  Lagacy  is  assistant  postmaster.  Nelson 
R.  Foss  has  charge  of  the  finance,  George  L.  Kelly 
is  superintendent  and  John  J.  Cronin  is  assistant 
superintendent  of  mails. 

The  Haverhill  post  office  has  an  efficient  corps 
of  men.  Haverhill  has  a  postal  area  of  .54  square 
miles  and  this  offers  quite  a  complex  problem  to 
the  post  office  department,  but  one,  which  we  believe, 
is  handled  in  such  a  way  that  meets  with  the  ap- 
proval of  the  citizens  and  renders  service.  While  the 


post  office  building  itself  is  none  too  large  because 
of  the  growth  of  the  city  and  the  demand  made  up- 
on the  department,  the  office  itself  compares  favor- 
ably with  those  in  other  cities  much  larger  than  Ha- 
verhill. The  quality  of  personnel  of  the  men  is  high, 
their  painstaking  efforts  are  sincere  and  their  daily 
results  gratifying.  Those  interested  in  Haverhill 
may  rest  assured  that  the  post  office  department 
stands  ready,  at  all  times,  to  render  the  highest  effi- 
ciency of  service  in  the  best  possible  manner  and  to 
aid,  so  far  as  possible,  in  the  development  of  the 
community  it  serves. 


RETAIL  BUSINESS  OF  HAVERHILL 

By  Charles  H.  Grover,  Chairman  Retail  Trade  Committee 


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[ANY  times  it  has  been  truly  said,  by  men  who 
know,  that  a  man  who  can  do  a  successful 
retail  business  in  Haverhill  can  do  business 
anywhere — the  reason  for  this  frequent  remark  is 
because  the  retail  business  in  Haverhill  is  so  well 
conducted.  The  stores  of  Haverhill  are  abreast  of 
the  times.  They  are  nearly  all  owned  or  conducted 
by  men  who  have  grown  up  in  the  business  from 
clerks  in  Haverhill  stores  or  who  have  branched  out 
from  some  other  business  and  established  one  for 
themselves.  But,  growing  up  in  the  business  or 
growing  old  in  the  business  does  not  mean  that  they 
have  grown  stale  or  old  fashioned.  Nowhere  can 
one  find  more  up-to-date  merchandise  or  more  mod- 
ern store  methods  than  right  in  Haverhill.  Her 
merchants  and  their  buyers  visit  the  great  markets 
often  and  are  in  constant  touch  with  all  that  is  good 
in  merchandise  and  they  are  only  too  glad  to  adopt 
new  methods  found  to  be  efficient  in  the  best  estab- 
lishments in  the  large  cities. 

Haverhill  is  not  a  cheap  town.  Her  purchasing 
public  on  the  whole  demands  good  merchandise. 
They  want  what  is  right.  They  want  good  quality, 
and  they  are  willing  to  pay  a  fair  price.  And  the 
people  or  Haverhill  pay  only  a  fair  price  for  their 
goods.  Quality  considered,  nowhere  in  the  world  are 
goods  of  all  kinds  sold  at  a  more  reasonable  profit 
than  in  Haverhill,   Mass. 

Considering  the  size  of  the  city,  Haverhill  mer- 
chants carry  heavy  stocks.  Their  patrons  have  the 
advantage  of  splendid  assortments  of  merchandise 
enjoyed  only  by  the  buyers  in  much  larger  cities. 
Probably  the  city  proper  could  not  support  so  many 
large  and  so  many  well  equipped  establishments  as 
she  now  does  were  it  not  for  the  very  extensive  sub- 
urban patronage  she  receives  from  the  many  small 
towns  for  which  she  is  the  best  trading  center. 

Perhaps  another  contributing  fact  to  the  scale  on 
which  the  retail  business  in  Haverhill  is  done  is  due 


to  her  close  proximity  and  the  ease  and  frequency 
with  which  her  residents  can  reach  Boston.  Haver- 
hill merchants  are  thus  placed  in  direct  competition 
with  that  great  city  and  must  therefore  meet  its 
competition  with  first  class  stores  and  stocks  and 
methods  to  keep  her  patronage  at  home  where  it 
belongs. 

Competition  among  the  Haverhill  merchants 
themselves  is  keen  but  friendly.  They  vie  with  each 
other  to  gain  patronage  and  on  the  other  hand  work 
together  in  harmony  for  the  welfare  of  the  whole 
city.  They  have  an  organization  represented  by  the 
Retail  Trade  Committee  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce which  has  worked  out  many  plans  for  the  com- 
mon good  of  all,  and  who  as  a  committee  have  been 
able  to  eliminate  many  of  the  evils  which  affect  mer- 
chandising in  other  cities. 

This  year  the  committee  has  inaugurated  a  cam- 
paign of  newspaper  publicity  in  an  effort  to  keep  a 
still  larger  share  of  Haverhill  trade  in  Haverhill.  A 
series  of  strong  advertisements  is  being  run  in  both 
local  papers. 

The  retail  business  of  Haverhill  is  done  in  a  com- 
paratively small  area.  The  bulk  of  the  business  is 
still  done  on  one  street  and  in  less  than  five  city 
blocks,  although  it  is  gradually  spreading  out,  due 
in  the  last  few  years  to  rising  rentals  and  lack  of 
space,  and  as  is  usual  in  small  cities,  the  business  is 
confined  mainly  to  street  floors. 

No  large  fortunes  have  been  made  in  Haverhill 
in  the  retail  business  and  on  the  other  hand  failures 
have  been  comparatively  few.  On  the  whole  the 
merchants  of  Haverhill  are  a  hard  working,  serious- 
minded  and  optimistic  lot  of  men  as  you  will  find 
anywhere  and  are  willing  and  able  and  ready  to  do 
their  share  toward  any  good  work,  and  are  satisfied 
to  take  a  modest  share  of  reward  for  their  labor  and 
for  the  capital  invested  in  their  business. 


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HAVERHILL  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


By  John  G.  Moulton,  Librarian 


THE  Haverhill  Public  Library  was  founded  in 
1873  by  the  Hon.  E.  J.  M.  Hale,  who  offered 
the  land  for  the  site  and  $30,000  on  condition 
that,  if  the  city  accepted  the  gift,  a  board  of  trustees 
should  be  appointed  by  the  Mayor  and  City  Council, 
a  further  sum  of  $30,000  should  be  given  by  friends 
of  the  library  and  the  city  government  should  pay 
the  current  expenses.  The  city  accepted  the  propo- 
sition and  the  sum  of  $37,155.55  was  raised  by  public 
subscription. 


wholly  supporting  the  library  and  has  paid  only  a 
part  of  the  current  expenses.  The  city  has  never 
spent  anything  for  books,  periodicals  and  pictures, 
all  of  these  being  paid  for  from  the  income  from  the 
endowment. 

Now,  in  1918,  the  library  has  108,000  volumes 
and  is  eighth  in  size  among  free  city  libraries  in  the 
state,  being  surpassed  (in  the  order  named)  by  the 
libraries  of  Boston,  Worcester,  Springfield,  North- 
ampton,  New    Bedford,   Cambridge   and    Somerville. 


THE    H.WKKHILL,    PUBLIC    LIBR.ARV,  SUMMKR    STREET 


Edward  Capen,  the  first  librarian  of  the  Boston 
Public  Library,  was  appointed  librarian.  The  build- 
ing was  opened  to  the  public  Nov.  18,  1875  with  20,- 
962  volumes  bought  at  a  cost  of  $17,583.34.  The  cost 
of  the  building  was  about  $50,000  and  the  value  of 
the  library,  including  site,  about  $80,000.  Haverhill 
at  that  time  had  a  population  of  only  about  15,000. 

Mr.  Hale  made  annual  gifts  to  the  library  until 
his  death  in  1881.  He  left  the  library  a  legacy  of 
$100,000,  half  the  income  from  which  was  to  be  spent 
for  books  and  half  used  for  current  expenses.  Other 
bequests  have  been  received  from  James  E.  Gale, 
Mrs.  Caroline  G.  Ordway,  Herbert  L  Ordway,  James 
H.  Carleton,  Nathaniel  E.  Noyes,  Matilda  T.  Elliott, 
Jonathan  E.  Pecker  and  Elizabeth  C.  Ames,  and  the 
total  endowment  is  now  $157,829.72.  From  the  be- 
ginning the  city  has  been  relieved  of  the  burden  of 


It  is  the  largest  public  library  in  New  England  north 
of  metropolitan  Boston,  and,  with  the  exception  of 
Northampton,  is  the  largest  public  library  in  the 
United  States  in  cities  the  size  of  Haverhill. 

Haverhill  has  unsurpassed  Jibrary  facilities.  Be- 
sides the  main  library  and  reading-room  with  about 
270  current  periodicals,  trade  papers,  and  newspapers 
on  file  there  are  two  branch  libraries,  each  with  a 
large  standard  collection  of  books  and  a  reading  room 
with  33  periodicals  and  newspapers  on  file.  There 
are  in  addition  six  stations  with  collections  of  books 
and  129  school-rooms  through  which  books  are  dis- 
tributed. In  1916  the  home  circulation  of  books  was 
202,059  volumes,  or  3.9  per  capita,  which  is  a  high 
average. 

About  5,000  volumes  are  added  each  year  and 
about  $5,500.00  are  spent  annually  for  books,  periodi- 


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cals,  and  pictures.  The  rules  of  the  library  are  lib- 
eral and  every  encouragement  is  given  in  the  use  of 
books.  Borrowers  may  take  as  many  books  at  a 
time  as  they  wish,  provided  that  only  one  of  these  is 
new  fiction.    They  may  keep  the  books  eight  weeks. 

The  library  is  both  a  popular  and  a  students'  li- 
brary. It  is  particularly  rich  in  the  fine  arts,  Amer- 
ican history,  genealogy  and  town  history,  having  spe- 
cial funds  for  the  purchase  of  expensive  books  in 
those  classes.  It  has  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
used  collections  of  mounted  pictures  of  any  library 
in  the  country  outside  of  New  York,  Boston,  and 
Newark.  The  collections  of  books  on  the  sciences, 
useful  arts,  education,  vocation,  and  the  trades  are 
large.  Every  oportunity  for  self -education  is  given 
the  student  and  working-man. 

The  library  has  a  memorial  collection  of  first  edi- 


tions of  John  G.  Whittier  and  books  about  him  that 
is  probably  the  largest  and  most  valuable  Whittier 
collection  in  any  public  library. 

It  has  many  valuable  art  treasures  in  both  books 
and  prints.  It  has  a  lecture-hall  and  art  gallery 
where  the  pictures  are  frequently  displayed.  The 
lecture-hall  is  free  for  the  use  of  clubs  and  societies. 

The  library  co-operates  closely  with  the  schools 
and  sends  books  to  the  greater  number  of  school- 
rooms in  the  city.  Ten  travelling  libraries  circulate 
among  the  schools  in  the  country  districts. 

As  a  people's  university  the  library  offers  the 
best.  It  is  unsurpassed  by  the  libraries  in  the  larg- 
est cities  in  its  opportunities  for  self-education.  It 
offers  the  additional  desirable  feature  of  being  able 
to  give  personal  attention  when  needed,  and  is  a  liv- 
ing personality  and  not  a  mere  institution. 


A  VISION  OF  HAVERHILL'S  FUTURE 

By  Robert  A.  Jordan,  Chairman  of  City  Planning  Board 


HAVERHILL  is  emerging  from  a  country  vil- 
lage, and  is  becoming  a  city  "standing  with 
reluctant  feet,  where  the  brook  and  river 
meet,"  the  old  with  its  more  or  less  narrow  puritan- 
ism,  the  new  with  the  broad  outlook  of  all  its  citi- 
zens, its  progress  and  its  desire  to  learn  new  and 
better  ways,  and  above  all  the  development  of  public 
spirit.  Haverhill  is  saying  goodbye  to  the  old  with 
gratitude  for  all  the  work  it  has  done,  which  ac- 
cording to  its  lights  was  good.  Haverhill  is  wel- 
coming the  new  with  hopes  for  a  great  and  glorious 
future. 

It  is  in  this  changing  time  that  the  Planning 
Board  has  begun  its  duties,  with  the  handicap  of  the 
old,  but  with  the  spur  of  the  new,  that  may  be  per- 
haps of  benefit  to  our  community.  During  its  first 
few  months  it  has  been  engaged  in  studying  condi- 
tions, the  wants  and  the  needs  of  the  city.  It  has 
not  as  yet  been  able  to  advocate  all  that  it  wishes 
to  do.  It  brought  to  a  successful  conclusion  its  agi- 
tation for  home  gardening;  it  has  recommended  uni- 
formity and  non-duplication  in  the  names  of  streets 
and  several  other  matters  of  minor  importance.  The 
more  important  questions  in  the  planning  for  a  city 
of  double  our  population,  a  city  fifty  years  from  now, 
a  city  that  we  may  not  live  to  see,  requires  that 
study  and  care  that  the  twig  be  not  bent,  so  that  the 
tree  may  rise  erect  to  lofty  heights. 

The  Planning  Board  is  now  considering  the  utili- 
zation of  waste  products,  the  sanitary  needs  of  the 
community,  the  cleanliness  of  alleys  and  reduction 
of  fire  hazards,  the  establishment  of  a  civic  center, 
proper  streets  to  remove  the  congestion  now  existing 
on  our  main  streets,  the  question  of  water  supply, 
the  necessity  for  proper  playgrounds,  skating  and 


bathing  for  the  youth,  the  city's  finances,  a  central 
hospital  with  one  overhead  charge  instead  of  five  in- 
stitutions with  ever  increasing  expenses,  the  surren- 
der of  a  lake  by  the  water  board  not  necessary  for 
drinking  water,  to  supply  the  youth  with  skating 
and  bathing;  these  are  all  matters  of  study  and  are 
all  in  some  form  under  consideration  by  the  Board. 

Every  city  has  its  slackers  and  these  are  the 
men  who  are  lacking  in  public  spirit;  the  men  who 
are  for  self  first  and  city  last,  who  retard  the  new 
and  cling  to  the  old.  These  men  are  fast  disap- 
pearing, but  still  their  influence  to  a  certain  extent 
is  felt  in  the  work  of  the  Planning  Board.  The 
Planning  Board  hopes  that  the  citizens  of  Haverhill 
will  all  put  the  city  above  selfish  interests  and  then 
we  will  progress. 

Haverhill's  future  is  bright.  The  Merrimack 
River  must  be,  and  will  be,  dredged  to  the  sea.  The 
development  of  cities  removed  a  short  distance  from 
the  sea  coast  on  rivers  has  been  shown  from  expe- 
rience to  be  more  advantageously  located  than"  those 
upon  the  sea  coast.  With  good  train  and  transpor- 
tation service,  surrounded  by  fertile  fields,  with 
large  manufacturing  plants  and  a  delightful  climate, 
Haverhill  can  look  to  the  future  without  fear.  With 
a  channel  to  the  sea  our  future  is  boundless  in  its 
possibilities. 

Its  chief  advantage,  however,  lies  in  its  citizenry, 
a  strong,  sturdy  stock  of  manhood,  not  only  drawn 
from  the  skilled  artizans  of  other  countries  and 
cities,  but  coming  likewise  from  the  New  Hampshire 
foot  hills  and  our  neighboring  towns,  a  strong  set  of 
Americans  who  will  progress,  and  who  will  find  in 
Haverhill  their  ideal  .for  business  endeavor,  and 
above  all  a  happy  home. 


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HAVERHILL  BANKS  AND  THEIR  GROWTH 

By  Cliarles  E.  Dole,  President  First  National  Bank 


AMONG  the  many  institutions  that  are  serving 
the  city  well  we  must  not  overlook  its  banks. 
There  are  at  the  present  time  four  national, 
three  savings,  two  co-operative  banks  and  a  trust 
company;  two  national  banks  having  been  liquidateii, 
the  Second  National  being  merged  with  the  Haverhill 
Trust  Company  in  1906,  and  the  Merchants  National 
consolidating  with  the  Haverhill  National  in  1916. 

The  combined  deposits  of  the  commercial  banks 
at  the  present  time  are  $11,757,000,  while  the  savings 
banks  have  on  deposit  $13,912,000. 

In  every  growing  community  the  banlver,  very 
largely,  assumes  the  burden  of  deciding  upon  the 
course  of  its  future  development.  He  is  the  one  to 
determine  the  relative  value  of  one  enterprise  as 
compared  with  another  and  he  naturally  gives  his 
support  to  the  one  that  promises  the  highest  utility 
and  therefore  the  most  certain  profits. 

Therefore,  the  banker  assumes  the  position  of 
trustee  of  his  community  for  he  is  the  custodian  of 
the  funds  of  others  as  well  as  his  own,  and  he  must 
be  vigilant  and  consider  carefully  the  wants  of  all 
new  enterprises  and  make  them  prove  their  worth 
before  lending  them  the  money  of  his  depositors. 

It  may  truly  be  said  that  the  liberality  of  the 
Haverhill  banks,  with  their  customers,  in  no  small 
degree,  has  assisted  in  the  growth  and  up-building 
of  the  city,  for  the  financial  and  industrial  interests 
must  work  hand  in  hand  to  achieve  the  best  and 
most  satisfactory  results.  In  the  matter  of  small 
loans  the  banks  are  very  generous  and  stand  ready 
to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  the  young  man  who  has 
shown  himself  worthy. 

Merrimack  National  Bank. 

The  Merrimack  Bank  was  incorporated  in  1814 
and  is  the  oldest  banking  institution  in  the  city.  It 
was  originally  located  on  Water  street.  Later  it 
moved  to  Merrimack  street,  about  opposite  the  foot 
of  Pecker  street,  where  it  remained  until  it  pur- 
chased the  property,  in  1879,  where  it  is  located  at 
present.  About  four  years  ago  it  entirely  remod- 
eled its  banking  rooms,  and  now  has  very  comfort- 
able and  beautiful   quarters. 

First  National   Hank. 

The  First  National  Bank  was  originally  the 
Union  Bank,  a  state  bank,  and  was  organized  July 
25,  1849.  On  July  17,  1864,  after  the  National  Bank 
Act  was  passed,  the  bank  entered  the  national  sys- 
tem, being  the  first  bank  in  Haverhill  to  obtain  a 
national  charter.     This  institution  was  originally  lo- 


cated on  Merrimack  street,  about  opposite  the  foot 
of  Pecker  street,  but  moved  westward  with  the  shoe 
industry  to  Washington  street  in  1880  to  better  ac- 
comodate its  patrons.  In  1914,  owing  to  constantly 
increasing  business  the  bank  provided  large  and 
comfortable  quarters  at  Nos.  73  to  79  Washington 
street,  where  it  is  now  located. 

Haverhill  National  Bank. 
The  Haverhill  National  Bank  was  incorporated  in 
1836  and  was  located  on  Main  street,  near  Court 
street.  Later  it  moved  to  Merrimack  street  in  the 
building  located  at  No.  83.  It  remained  here  until 
1880,  when  additional  room  was  needed  and  it  moved 
into  the  building  known  as  the  Masonic  Temple  and 
located  at  No.  117  Merrimack  street.  In  June,  1915, 
the  bank  moved  into  its  present  new  office  building  at 
the  comer  of  Merrimack  and  Emerson  streets, 
where  very  much  larger  quarters  were  provided.    In 

1916  the  business  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank 
was  taken  over  by  the  Haverhill  National,  the  con- 
solidation taking  place  in  August  of  that  year. 

Essex  National  Bank. 

The  Essex  National  Bank  was  organized  as  a 
state  bank  in  1851  and  was  located  at  No.  7  Merri- 
mack street  until  it  moved  into  its  present  quarters 
at  No.  24  Merrimack  street  a  few  years  later.  It 
has,  from  time  to  time,  improved  its  rooms  and 
equipment  as  the  demands  of  its  growing  business 
has  seemed  wise.  This  institution  is  serving  the 
retail  section  of  the  city. 

Haverhill  Trust  Company. 

The  HaverliiU  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company, 
now  the  Haverhill  Trust  Company,  commenced  busi- 
ness March  24,  1891,  but  did  not  have  any  perma- 
nent location  until  1892  when  it  moved  into  its  pres- 
ent quarters  at  the  corner  of  Merrimack  and  West 
streets  on  the  completion  of  its  own  building.  In 
1906  the  Second  National  Bank,  which  was  then  on 
Washington  street,  was  merged  with  this  Company. 

The  growth  of  the  commercial  banks  is  shown 
below  and  is  remarkable  in  that  the  increase  in  de- 
posits is  about  400  per  cent,  in  the  last  seventeen 
years: 

Capital  Total 

Surplus  &  Profits   Deposits  Loans  Assets 

1870  1,082,000  461,000         961,000      2,213,000 

1880  1,230,000  698,000      1,440,000      2,657,000 

1890  1,.505,000       2,003,000      2,712,000      3,788,000 

1900  1,533,000       3,178,000      3,365,000      5,298,000 

1910  2,183,000       6,474,000      5,813,000      9,280,000 

1917  2,247,000     11,757,000      9,550,000    14,570,000 


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Pentucket  Savings   Bank. 

The  Pentucket  Savings  Bank  received  its  ciiarter 
on  March  17,  1891  and  started  business  across  the 
street  from  its  present  location,  in  the  rooms  with 
the  Second  National  Bank.  On  October  31,  1892  it 
had  713  depositors  with  $89,136  to  their  credit.  The 
statement  of  the  bank  on  February  1,  1917,  showed 
that  there  were  4768  depositors  and  the  amount  on 
deposit  had  increased  to  $2,314,558.14. 

City  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank. 

The  City  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank  was  organized 
in  March,  1870,  and  at  the  close  of  the  year,  on  De- 
cember 31st,  there  were  on  deposit  $139,942.97.  This 
institution,  which  accepts  as  little  as  five  cents  on 
deposit,  has  met  a  demand  of  the  small  depositor,  as 
is  shown  by  the  large  number  of  customers  and  the 
constantly  increasing  deposits,  there  being,  on  Jan- 
uary 2,  1917,  13,533  depositors  with  $3,696,269.27  to 
their  credit. 

Haverhill   Savings  Bank. 

The  Haverhill  Savings  Bank  was  the  first  savings 
bank  to  be  established  in  the  city  and  it  received  its 
charter  February  8,  1828.  The  bank  opened  for  de- 
posits on  October  21,  1829  and  on  the  first  day  $818 
was  received  from  eight  depositors.  From  this 
meagre  start  the  institution  has  grown  until  on 
.January  17,  1917,  there  were  17,239  depositors  with 
total  deposits  of  $7,901,242.04. 

The  following  table  shows  the  growth  of  the 
Savings  Banks  since  the  year  1880: 


No.  of 
Depositors 
1880  11,998 

1890  17,203 

1900  23,747 

1910  29,917 

1917  35,553 


Guaranty  Fund 

Deposits  &    Surplus 

$3,663,000  $37,000 

5,392,000  210,000 

8,001,000  418,000 

10,091,000  852,000 

13,912,000  1,170,000 


The   two   co-operative   banks   are   assisting   very 
materially  in  the  up-building  of  the  city  by  making 
loans  to  the  owners  of  their  own  homes. 
Citizens  Co-Operative  Bank. 

The  Citizens  Co-Operative  Bank  was  organized 
August  11,  1887.  George  H.  Carleton  was  the  first 
president  and  still  holds  that  office.  James  W.  Good- 
win, the  treasurer,  has  also  held  office  since  the  in- 
corporation of  the  bank. 

This  bank  has  had  a  steady  growth  and  now  the 
dues  capital,  which  is  the  amount  due  to  share- 
holders, is  $535,826. 

Haverhill  Co-Operative  Bank. 

The  Haverhill  Co-Operative  Bank  was  the  second 
bank  of  its  kind  to  receive  a  charter  in  Massachu- 
setts. This  was  granted  on  August  20,  1877.  This  in- 
situation  is  located  at  present  on  Emerson  street  in 
the  Haverhill  National  Bank  building.  The  dues  cap- 
ital, which  was  $229,047  in  1890,  is  now  $1,100,837. 

Below  is  a  comparative  statement  of  the  growth 
of  the  co-operative  banks: 

Dues   Capital       1890  1900         1910  1917 

$264,080  $477,928  $750,535  $1,636,663 


A  TRIBUTE  TO   THE  PRESS   OF   HAVERHILL 
By  George  B.  Houston,  Editor  Haverhill  Gazette 


'"T~'HE  last  decade  has  seen  enormous  advances  in 
I  the  growth  and  influence  of  the  Press  in  Ha- 
verhill.  News  gathering  and  distribution 
have  been  perfected  to  a  high  degree..  Mechanical 
production  has  advanced  with  great  strides;  illustra- 
tion has  progressed  to  a  point  never  before  dreamed 
of;  special  features  have  been  developed;  department 
pages  have  been  established,  and  the  editorial  pages 
still  maintain  soundness  of  thought  and  vigor  of  ex- 
pression. In  every  way  the  newspaper  of  today  is  a 
marked  advance  upon  its  forerunner  of  ten  years  ago. 
One  familiar  with  conditions  hardly  feels  it  nec- 
essary to  record  the  fact  that  both  The  Gazette  and 
The  Record  are  and  have  been  good  newspapers. 
They  have  led  the  way  in  every  movement  for  a  bet- 
ter, busier  and  bigger  Haverhill.  Their  pages  are 
filled  with  a  spirit  of  independence  and  intelligent 
curiosity.  This  is  what  makes  newspapers  worth 
while.  Both  have  honorable  records,  worth  more  than 
all  the  dollars  they  will  ever  see.  They  have  the  cour- 
age of  their  convictions,  pursue  consistent  policies 
and  hold  to  settled  ideals  marked  by  consistent  effort 
to  say  and  do  what  they  believe  to  be  best  for  the 
community,    the    commonwealth    and    the    country. 


They  have  sought  positions  of  honor  by  force  of 
character  and  persistent  enterprise. 

The  press  of  Haverhill  is  today  more  than  ever  a 
factor  in  directing  public  thought  into  right  channels, 
in  teaching  honest  citizenship,  in  pointing  out  the 
dangers  to  public  interests  and  in  illuminating  the 
proper  course. 

The  Record  has  always  given  its  best  to  the  ser- 
vice of  the  people.  It  is  a  bright  mirror  of  the  Ha- 
verhill of  today — one  of  the  real  assets  of  the  com- 
munity. It  admirably  covers  the  extensive  field  in 
which  it  circulates. 

The  Gazette  still  clings  to  the  lofty  ideals  mark- 
ing more  than  a  century  of  existence  and  its  deter- 
mination to  be  of  positive  benefit  to  the  people  of  its 
day  and  generation.  The  spirit  of  the  square  deal 
which  controlled  its  conduct  under  the  ownership  of 
John  B.  Wright  has  been  safely  reposited  in  the 
Wright  family  of  which  the  present  publisher  is  a 
member. 

May  those  who  control  the  destinies  of  both  jour- 
nals in  the  future  have  the  foresight  and  the  cour- 
age to  control  them  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  as 
did  those  of  the  past. 


59 


THE  MEMBERSHIP 


OF  THE 


HAVERHILL  CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE 


APRIL  FIRST,  1918 


A.  B.  S.  Cement  &  Rubber  Co., 

Abbott,  I.  A., 

Abrams,   Warren   F., 

Academy  of  Music, 

Albertson,  M.  H.,  Leather  Co., 

Allen,   C.   F., 

Allen,    Edgar   L., 

Alter,  S., 

Alter,  Maurice  B.  Co.,  Inc., 

Amazeen,  A.  H., 

American  Shoe  Trimming  Co., 

Anthony,  Dr.  F.  W., 

Anderson,  Carl  A., 

Appleton  Counter  Co., 

Apteker,  Nathan, 

Archibald,  F.,  &  Co., 

Archambault,  A.  J., 

Arlington   Shoe   Co., 

Arniitage,   Francis, 

Arnold,  T.  M.,  and  Son, 

Arnold,  Charles  W.  Co.  Inc., 

Atherton    Furniture    Co., 

Atvvood,  E.  S., 

Atwood  Bros., 

Ayer,   George   H.,   &    Co., 

Ayer  &  Webster, 

Babcock,  Frank  D., 

Bailey,  George  S., 

Bancroft-Walker    Co., 

Barker-Hines  Company, 

Barrett,  Richard  H., 

Barry,   Edward  H., 

Barry,  Thomas  F., 

Barry,  T.  E., 

Bartlett,  James  C, 

Bartlett  Hotel, 

Bates,  J.  W., 

Bayley,  Warren  C, 

Bay  State  Leather  Remnant  Co., 

Bay  State  Street  Railway  Co., 

Bay    State   Toplift   Co., 

Beach  Soap  Co., 

Beal  Bros., 

Bean,  D.  B.  &  Co., 

Beauvais,  Henry  I.,  &  Co., 

Belanger,   Frederick   M., 

Bennett  &  Co., 


Cement  &  Rubber, 

Lawyer, 

Florist, 

Theatre, 

Leather, 

United  Shoe  Machinery  Co., 

Contractor-Teaming, 

Grocer, 

Tanners, 

Hill  Top  Farm, 

Shoe   Trimmings, 

Physician, 

Plumber, 

Counters, 

Wholesale  Shoe  Jobber, 

Women's   Cut   Soles, 

Tailors, 

Shoe   Manufacturers, 

Electrical    Contractor, 

Union  Leather  Soles, 

Soles  &   Leather, 

P'urniture, 

Granite    &    Marble    Works, 

Grocers, 

Shoe  Trimming  Manufacturers, 

Box   Board, 

Reporter  for  Banker  &  Tradesman, 

Bakery, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Druggists, 

Cigar  Manufacturer, 

Retail    Liquors, 

Heels, 

Fish, 

Slipper  Manufacturer, 

Hotel, 

Bradford  Charcoal  Co., 

Real  Estate, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Garfield   S.   Chase,   Sup't., 

Harold   W.   Winchester,   Mgr., 

Soap  Manufacturers, 

Dye  House, 

Coal  &  Wood, 

Liquor  Dealer, 

Malt  Liquors, 

Retail  Shoe  Store, 


7  Railroad  Avenue,  Brad  Dist. 

83   Merrimack   Street 

19  Proctor  Street 

103  Merrimack  Street 

47   Washington   Street 

145  Esse.x  Street 

33  Kingsbury  Ave.,  Brad.  Dist. 

364  Washington  Street 

19  Railroad  Square 

King  Street,  Groveland,  Mass. 

18  Phoenix  Row 

50   Merrimack   Street 

140  Essex  Street 
Bradford  District 

73  River  Street 

60    Phoenix    Row 

154    Merrimack   Street 

62   Washington   Street 

40  Essex   Street 

85  Essex  Street 

18  Wingate  Street 

15  Washington  Square 

51  Main  Street 

24   Main   Street 

59    Washington    Street 

Bradford    District 

22   Nichols   Street 

87  Water  Street 

141  Essex   Street 
67  Main  St.,  B.  D.;   117  Wash.  St. 

41 1/2  Locust  Street 

28  Water  Street 

59  Washington  Street 

143   Washington   Street 

128   Washington   Street 

59  Main  Street 

Railroad   Ave.,   Brad.   Dist. 

196  Merrimack  Street 

74   Phoenix   Row 

3   Water   Street 

62  Washington  Street 

Water  Street,  Cor.  Mill  Street 

116   Merrimack   Street 

1981/2    Merrimack    Street 

29  Lafayette  Square 

68  Lafayette  Square 

18  Merrimack  Street 


60 


Bennett,  0.  F., 
Benoit,  Louis  J.  A., 
Benson,  Dr.  Charles  S., 
Beverley,  J.  A., 
Bickum,  C.  I.   Co.,  Inc., 
Bickum,  C.  I., 
Bixby,  George  H., 
Bixby,  William  E., 
Blake-Curtis    Co., 
Blake,  C.  E., 
Blake,  J.  P.,  &  Son, 
Bodwell  Counter  Co., 
Bollard  &  Bailey, 
Boland,    William    P., 
Bon  Ton  Cafe, 
Bornstein's    Men's    Shop, 
Boston  Beef  Co., 
Boston  Credit  Co., 
Boston  &  Haverhill  Express, 
Boucher,  E.  A., 
Bourque  &  Sears, 
Brackett,  Karl   S., 
Bradford  Market, 
Bradley   Shoe   Company, 
Bradstreet  Heel  Co., 
Bragdon,  John  H., 
Brasseur,   S.  J., 
Bray,  W.  S.,  &  Son,  Inc., 
Brickett,  James  E., 
BrigRs,  George  W., 
Brief,  Benjamin, 
Brissette,  A.  J., 
Brittain   &    Co., 
Broadwalk   Shoe   Co., 
Brody,  M.,  &  Son, 
Bromis  &  Boucouvalas, 
Brooks,  F.  K., 
Brosnan,  John  B., 
Brown  &  Hutchison, 
Brown,  Everett  L., 
Brown,  M.  L.,  Leather  Co., 
Browne,  Willard   W., 
Bryant,  E.  E.,  &  Co., 
Bryant,  Dr.  J.  E., 
Bunker,  Dr.  George  M., 
Burke,  Patrick, 
Busfield  Machine  Co., 
Busfield,  John  A., 
Butler  &  Haseltine, 
Butler  &  Holmes, 
Butler,  John  P., 
Butler,  W.  Fred, 
Butrick,  Arthur  W., 
Cahill,  E.  L.  &  Co., 
Campbell,  H.  B.  Co., 
Campbell,  L.  L., 
Canarie,   Dr.    Martin   C, 
Cappabianca,    Antonio, 
Carbone,  August, 


Plumber, 

Painter, 

Physician  and  Surgeon, 

Electrical  Contractor, 

Druggists, 

Automobiles, 

Cut  Straw,  Leather  Board, 

Leather  Board, 

Wholesale   Grocers, 

Real  Estate, 

Plasterers, 

Counters, 

Leather, 

Signwriter, 

A.   P.   Elion,   Proprietor, 

Men's   Clothing, 

Provisions, 

Men's  Clothing, 

Express, 

Tailor, 

Boot  &  Shoe  Patterns, 
Florist, 

Provisions, 

Shoe    Manufacturers, 
A.  H.  Bradstreet,  Mgr., 

Restaurant, 

Retail  Shoe  Dealer, 

Counters, 

Real  Estate, 

Troy  Laundry, 

The  Brief  System   Printing, 

Real  Estate, 

Retail   Groceries, 

Shoe    Manufacturers, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Custom  Tailors, 

Merrimack  Laundry, 

Foreman, 

Shoe  Patterns, 

Soles  &  Taps, 

Leather, 

Grocer, 

Hardware  &   Painting, 

Physician, 

Dentist, 

Liquors, 

Machinery, 

Agent  Texas  Oil  Co., 

Slipper  Manufacturers, 

Retail  Shoe  Dealers, 

Plumbing-Heating, 

Pork  Shop, 

Farmer, 

Liquor  Dealers, 

Wholesale  Produce, 

Real  Estate, 

Dentist, 

Fruit  &  Confectionery, 

Fruit  &  Confectionery, 


38  Emerson  Street 
57   Water   Street 
50  Merrimack  Street 
9  How  Street 
7  Water  Street 
73   Water   Street 
56  Essex  Street 
56  Essex  .Street 
262  Winter  Street 
4  Lexington  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 
87   Portland   Street 
Granite  &  Essex  Streets 
29    Wingate    Street 
Rear  104  Merrimack  Street 
47  Essex  Street 
130   Washington   Street 
159  Washington  Street 
139    Merrimack   Street 
31   Wingate   Street 
Hilldale  Avenue 
G4  Wingate  Street 
38  Winter  Street 
39   Main   Street,  Brad.   Dist. 
115  Essex  Street 
40  Granite  Street 
11  Railroad  Square 
13  Essex  Street 
42  Phoenix  Row 
154  Merrimack  Street 
64  Essex  Street 
109  River  Street 
30  Tenth  Avenue 
5   Main   Street,  Brad.   Dist. 
Bradford   District 
40    Granite    Street 
40  Orchard   Street 
14   Washington   Street 
3  Fernwood  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 
120   Washington   Street 
95   Washington    .Street 
118   Phoenix   Row 
8  Emerson   Street 
51   Main   Street,  Brad.  Dist. 
50   Merrimack   Street 
174   Merrimack   Street 
257    Winter   Street 
84  Washington  Street 
84  Washington  Street 
145  Essex  Street 
35  Merrimack  .Street 
68   Winter   Street 
12   Fleet   Street 
789  Broadway 
48  Locust  Street 
203   Essex  Street 
162    Merrimack   Street 
81  Winter  Street 
117  Lafayette  Square 
5   Water   Street 


61 


Carbone  Bros., 

Carleton,  George  F.  &  Co., 

Carleton,  O.  J., 

Carlisle  &  Holt, 

Carriga',  J-  J., 

Carroll,  T.  F., 

Carter,   Dr.   Elmer   W., 

Carter  Co., 

Carter-Russell  &  Co., 

Carter's  Transfer  Co., 

Casey  &  Sheehan, 

Cass,  Samuel  E.. 

Caswell,  Dr.  G.  E., 

Chadwick,  J.  T., 

Chadwick,  W.  B., 

Chagachbanian,    K.    M., 

Chapman,  J.  W., 

Chase  Press,  Inc., 

Chase,  A.  T., 

Chase  &  Laubham, 

Chase  &  Richardson, 

Chase,  D.  D.,  Lumber  Co., 

Chase,  F.  S., 

Chashoudian,  Gregory  H., 

Chesley,  B.  A., 

Chicago  Market, 

Child,  A.  M., 

Chooljian  Bros., 

Citizens   Co-operative  Bank, 

City  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank, 

Clam  Shell,  The 

Clancey,  Charles  W., 

Clarke,  Clifton  A., 

Clarke,  Greenleaf, 

Clarke,  Dr.  I.  J., 

Clough,  Leroy  H., 

Coakley,  Dennis  X., 

Coddaire,  J.  W., 

Coddaire,  William  H., 

Colby,  J.  A., 

Colcord,  Arthur  T., 

Cole,  B.  E.  Co.,  Inc. 

Cole,  N.  S.  &  Son  Co., 

Collins  &  Johnson, 

Collins,  H.  S., 

Collins  Market, 

Collins,  A.  G.,  Shoe  Co., 

Colonial  Alleys, 

Colonial  Lunch, 

Colonial  Theatre, 

Comeau,  William  J., 

Connell,  .lohn, 

Conway  Die  Co., 

Cook,  J.  D.,  &   Son, 

Cook,  Christopher  C, 

Cook,  Charles  Potter, 

Cooke,  Dr.  William  H., 

Cooke,  Thomas  M., 

Cordopatis,  Christos, 


Fruit, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Lawyer, 

Grocers, 

Star  Laundry, 

Liquors, 

Osteopathic  Physician, 

Men's  Clothing, 

Express, 

Express, 

Retail  Liquors, 

Garage, 

Optometrist, 

Produce, 

Dirigo   Cream, 

Shoe  Store  &  Shoe  Rep'g., 

Die  Manufacturer, 

Printers  &  Stationers, 

Accountant, 

Real  Estate  Owners, 

Groceries  &   Provisions, 

Lumber, 

Shoe   Manufacturer, 

Custom  Tailor, 

Grocer, 

Meats  &  Groceries, 

Sec.  Hav.  Shoe  Mfgrs.  Ass'n., 

Fruit  &    Confectionery, 

James  W.  Goodwin,  Treasurer, 

George  W.  Noyes,  Treas., 

Restaurant, 

Mgr.  Trolley  Guide  Pub.  Co., 

Insurance, 

Real  Estate, 

Physician, 

Builder, 

Inspector  of  Plumbing, 

Groceries, 

Globe  Market, 

Real  Estate, 

Contractor, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Carpenter  &  Builder, 

Auto  Repairing, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Groceries, 

Shoe   Manufacturers, 

Bowling, 

Restaurant, 

James  A.   Sayer,  Manager, 

Undertaker, 

Coal, 

James  J.   O'Donnell,  Manager, 

Contractors, 

Builder, 

Sup't  W.  &  V.  O.  Kimball  Co., 

Chiropodist, 

Shoe  Counters, 

Restaurant, 


11  Washington  Square 

22  Phoenix  Row 

83   Merrimack   Street 

9o   Main   Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

Washington   Square 

2   Wingate   Street 

72  White  Street 

19  Washington  Square 

23  Hale  Street 

Rear  76  Merrimack   Street 

14   West    Street 

30  Ashland  Street 

9  Merrimack  Street 

West  Boxford,   Mass. 

19    Eleventh    Avenue 

291   Washington   Street 

Rear  44  Washington  Street 

87  Essex  Street 

54  Summer  Street 

1  Essex  Street 

1.59  Winter  Street 

9  Washington  Avenue 

.59  Wingate  Street 

1-3%    White   Street 

313   Washington   Street 

175  Merrimack  Street 

58  Washington  Street 

121  Winter  Street 

81  Merrimack  Street 
48  Washington  Street 
9  Washington  Square 

196  Winter  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

50   Merrimack   Street 

112  Emerson  Street 

39  Byron  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

Board  of  Health,  City  Hall 

82  Lafayette   Square 

52   Fifth   Avenue 

3  Water  Street 

37   Wellington   Avenue 

16  Walnut  Street 

18  Central  Street,  Brad.   Dist. 

12  Lafayette  Square 

145  Essex   Street 

71   Main   Street,  Brad.   Dist. 

112   Washington   Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

189  Merrimack  Street 

Merrimack    Street 

80  Lafayette  Square 

105   Prospect  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

40  Granite  Street 

28  West  Street 

3  Byron   Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

4  Walnut  Street 

72   Merrimack   Street 

45  Wingate  Street 

25   Locke   Street 


62 


Costarides  &  Stavropoulos, 
Costello  &  Shanahan, 
Coucouvitis,  Nicholas  K., 
Courteau,  Oscar  A., 
Courtney,  Thomas  A., 
Cowan,   Robert, 
Cox,  Herbert  W., 
Crafts,  Albert  M., 
Crane  Drug-  Store, 
Crepeau,  Charles  O., 
Cross,   Charles  E., 
Cross,  John  H., 
Croston,  Dr.  John  F., 
Crovvell,  Frank. 
Crowley,  Daniel  J., 
Crystal  Lunch, 
Currier,  George  D.  &  Co., 
Curtin,  J.  F., 
Cushman  &  Hebert, 
Dagiannis,  Nicholas, 
Dalryniple-Pulsifer  Co., 
Dalton,  A.,  Co., 
Danulian,   A., 
Davis,  B.  W., 
Davis,  B.  C.  &  Co., 
Davis,  Frank  E., 
Davis,  George  I., 
Davis,  James  R., 
Davis,    H.,   &    Co., 
Day,  Lewis  A., 
Dean,  Chase  Co., 
Dearborn.  John  H., 
Delisle,  Dr.  Joseph  D., 
Delva,  A., 

Dempsey,  Clarence  H., 
Desmond,  J.  T., 
Desmond,    William   J., 
Dillon,  P.  J., 
Dinsmore,  A.  S., 
Dinsmore  &  Landers, 
Dole,  Charles  E., 
Dole  &   Childs, 
Donahue  &  Co., 
Donahue,  Dr.  Hugh, 
Donovan,  Dennis, 
Donovan,  John  R,. 
Doucette,  Nory, 
Dorion,  Dr.  Louis  P.  A., 
Dow,  Moses  H., 
Downs  Commercial  School, 
Drewett,  William, 
Drinkwater,  James, 
Drolet,  Philip, 
Dudley,  D.  T.  &  Co., 
Dudley,  L.  B.   &   Co., 
Duffee.  William  F., 
Duffy,    Charles, 
Dugan,  Timothy, 
Dupre,  Ferdinand, 


Retail  Liquors, 

Undertakers, 

Insurance, 

Dry  Goods, 

Heel  Manufacturer, 

Drug-gist, 

Milkman, 

Drug-gist, 

George  E.   Crane,   M.   D., 

Grocer, 

Retired, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Physician, 

Bakery, 

Grocer, 

Vastos  &  Mallis, 

Upper  Leather  &  Shoe  Trimmings, 

Shoe  Threads, 

Shoe  Manufacturei's, 

Meats,  Groceries,  Fruit, 

Slipper  Bows, 

Paper  Boxes, 

Bakery, 

With  A.  Kimball  Shoe  Co.,  Law'ce, 

Top  Lifts, 

Retired, 

Lawyer. 

Steward  Wachusctt   Club, 

Hardware, 

Mgr.  Hav.  Construction  Co., 

Shoe   Mfg.    Goods, 

Power  Plant, 

Physician, 

Fruit  &  Confectionery, 

Sup't  of  Schools, 

Civil  Engineer, 

Retail  Shoe  Dealer, 

Liquors, 

Liquors, 

Liquors, 

Pres.  First  National  Bank, 

Undertakers, 

Liquors, 

Physician, 

Real  Estate, 

Retail  Butter,  Eggs  &  Coffee, 

Pool  &  Billiards, 

Druggist  &  Physician, 

Shoe   Manufacturers    Goods, 

Business  College, 

Liquors, 

Real  Estate, 

Manager,  Simpson  Bros., 

Slipper  Trimmings, 

Little  Folks'  Shoes, 

Contractor  &  Builder, 

Machinist, 

Lunch  Room, 

Real  Estate, 


32  Locke  Street 

210  Winter  Streeet 

4  Primrose  Street 

18  Lafayette  Square 

91   Hale  Street 

40.5  Washington  Street 

39  Prospect  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

22  Main  Street 

198  Merrimack  Street 

20  Laurel  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

62  Oak  Street 

260  River  Street 

83  Emerson  Street 

651/2   Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

470   Washington   Street 

23  Merrimack  Street 

118  Phoenix  Row 

82   Washington   Street 

356  River  Street 

40  Locust  Street 

88   Washington   Street 

50   Phoenix   Row 

99  River  Street 

Georgetown,  Mass. 

23  Locust  Street 

22   Summit  Avenue 

83  Merrimack  Street 

43   Merrimack   Street 

11  Water  Street 

191   Merrimack   Street 

13  Railroad  Square 

8  Phoenix  Row 

S8  Locust  Street 

32  Winter  Street 

City  Hall 

91  Merrimack  Street 

4  Main  Street 

124  Washington  Street 

21  Water  Street 

17  Water  Street 

77  Washington  Street 

39  Main  Street 

2  Harrison  Street 

21  White  Street 

73   Merrimack   Street 

132  Winter  Street 

24  Water  Street 

42  Lafayette  Square 

81    Washington    Street 

191   Merrimack   Street 

36  Fleet  Street 

191   Merrimack   Street 

85  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

66  Washington  Street 

1.53  Essex  Street 

82   Locust   Street 

53  Wingate  Street 

4   Granite   Street 

15   Emerson   Street 


63 


Durgin,  A.  F. 
Durkee  Counter  Co., 
Durkee,  E.  L.  Leather  Co., 
Duston  Dye  House, 
Dutra  Tobacco  Co., 
Eastman,  Harry  L., 
Eaton,  Willis  F., 
Edgerly,   Elwin    A., 
Edgerly,  John  H., 
Elliott,  Perry  E.  &  Co., 
Ellis-Eddy  Co., 
VAVis,  W.  EuR'ene  Co., 
Ellis  &  Hussey, 
Ellis,  Warren  M., 
Ellison,  J.  O.,  &  Co., 
Emerson,  Charles  &  Sons, 
Emerson,  E.  A., 
Emerson   Street  Bakery, 
Emery  &  Marshall  Co., 
Emmons  Bros.  Co., 
Eno,  L.  J., 

Enterprise  Shoe  Store, 
Essex  Brewery, 
Essex   National   Bank, 
Essex  Sign  Co., 
Essex  Wood  Heel  Co., 
Estabrook,  Archibald  M., 
Evans,  George  H., 
Factor,  Max, 
Falvey   &   Foley, 
Faneuil  Market  Co.,  Inc., 
Fantini,  S., 
Farnsworth,   S.  P., 
Farrell,  J.  W.  Emerson, 
Farrington,  Helen  G., 
Feinberg,  Meyer  J., 
Fellows  Hardware  Co., 
Ferrin,  Dr.  W.  W., 
Fibre   Leather   Co., 
Fielden,  Robert  S., 
First  National   Bank, 
Fitts,  E.  A., 
Fitzgerald,  M.  J., 
Fitzgerald,  P.  J., 
Fitzgerald,   M.   P., 
Fitzgerald,  J.  H., 
Flynn,  Milton  F., 
Follansbee,  Somerby  C, 
Forbes  Bros., 
Foss,  H.  L., 
Fowler,  M.  J., 
Fox,  Charles  K.,  Inc., 
Fox,   Daniel   G., 
Fox  Bros., 
Frankle  &  Tilton, 
Freeman,   Frank, 
Fred's  Poultry  Place, 
Frost,  Henry, 
Frost,  O.  C.  &  Co., 


Shoe   Manufacturers, 

Shoe  Counters, 

Counters,   Soles,  Etc., 

Thomas  M.  Duston,  Mgr., 

A.   P.  Wadleigh,  Mgr., 

Grocer, 

Hav.  Rose  Conservatory, 

With  E.  H.  Moulton, 

Druggist, 

Plumbers, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Mfgs.  Boot  &  Shoe  Findings, 

Cut  Soles  &  Leather, 

Foreman,  W.  &  V.  O.  Kimball  Co., 

Coal,  Wood,  Grain  &  Hay, 

China  &  Glass  Ware, 

Milk, 

Nehemiah  Jackson, 

Shoe    Manufacturers, 

Hat  Manufacturers, 

Jeweler, 

Retail    Shoe   Dealers, 

Geo.  W.  Smith,  Mgr., 

Charles   A.   Pingree,   Pres., 

Thomas  H.  Boland,  Mgr., 

Wood  Heels, 

Wood  Heels, 

Liquor   Dealer, 

Ladies'  Tailor  &  Furrier, 

Liquors, 

Hilay  Berger, 

Baker, 

Retired, 

Undertaker, 

Manicuring-Hairdressing, 

Soles,  Taps, 

Hardware, 

Physician, 

Fibre  Leather, 

Salad   Dressing   Mfr., 

Charles  E.  Dole,  Pres., 

Insurance  Agent, 

Sup't  of  Moth  Dep't., 

Cut  Soles  &  Leather, 

Groceries  &  Provisions, 

Flexible  Innersoles, 

Real   Estate  Owner,  Insurance, 

Leather  Dealer, 

Building  Movers, 

Box  Mfr., 

Optician  &  Optometrist, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Electrician, 

New.s  Dealer, 

Insurance, 

Jewelry   Store, 

Poultry  &  Pets, 

Sup't  of  Parks, 

Top  Lifts, 


54  Washington  Street 

118  Phoenix  Row 

40  Phoenix  Row 

58  Fleet  Street 

29  Washington  Street 

Ayers  Village 

North  Main  Street 

132  Essex  Street 

363  Washington  Street 

17  West  Street 

12  Duncan  Street 

139    Merrimack   Street 

8  Wingate  Street 

4  Walnut  Street 

9   Merrimack   Street,  Brad.   Dist. 

38  Main  Street 

260  North  Broadway 

32  Emerson  Street 

Rear  2-20  Washington  Street 

Railroad    Avenue,   Brad.    Dist. 

67   Merrimack    Street 

133  Merrimack  Street 

Bradford    District 

24  Merrimack  Street 

Rear   104  Merrimack   Street 

40  Wingate  Street 

194  Essex  Street 

6  Essex  Street 

118  Merrimack  Street 

5  Fleet  Street 

45  Merrimack  Street 

65   Beach    Street 

95  Winter  Street 

41  Main  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

33   Railroad  Square 

31   Merrimack   Street 

77   Emerson   Street 

250  River  Street 

31  Prospect  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

77  Washington  Street 

103  Merrimack  Street 

200  Kenoza  Avenue 

28   Washington   Street 

232  Winter  Street 

45  Wingate  Street 

139   Merrimack   Street 

76  Washington  Street 

29  Hale   Street 

22  Phoenix  Row 

171  Merrimack  Street 

35  Duncan  Street 

103  Washington  Street 

200   Merrimack   Street 

151  Merrimack  Street 

183  Merrimack  Street 

Water  Street 

11  Bradford  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

118  Phoenix  Row 


64 


Frothinghani,  E.  G., 

Gage,  Frank  S., 

Gage,  H.  H., 

Gale  Shoe  Manufacturing  Co., 

Galvin,  James   P., 

Gammon,   Arthur   H., 

Garbelnick,  Max, 

Gardella  Bros., 

Gardella,  Joseph  &  Son, 

Gardella,  Joseph  W.  &  Co., 

Gardner,  Ralph  E., 

Gardner,  S.  Porter, 

George,  Albert  B.,  Co., 

George,  Dr.   Arthur  P., 

George,  E.  H., 

George,  S.  W., 

George,  T.  H., 

Gerrish,  Samuel  J., 

Gianowkos  &  Co., 

Giles,  Lewis  H., 

Gilman,  B.  B.  &  Co., 

Gitterman,  Henry,  &  Co., 

Gleason,   Chauncey, 

Glines  Wood  Heel  Co., 

Globe   Counter   Co., 

Glover,  C.  F., 

Gofstein,  Alexander, 

Goodrich,  Hazcn  B.  &  Co., 

Goodsell,  J.   W., 

Goodwin,  E.  J.,  &  Co., 

Goodwin,  J.  W., 

Goodwin  &   Cavan, 

Gordon,  J.  B., 

Gordon,  F.  G.  R., 

Gorman  Shoe  Co., 

Gosselin,  Allen  M., 

Gould  &  Balch, 

Grad  Cloak  &  Suit  Co., 

Graham,  Rev.  Fr.  John  J., 

Granite  State  Spring  Water  Co., 

Grant,  W.  T.   Co., 

Graves,  Rufus  E.,  General, 

Grechevsky,  Louis, 

Greeley,  A.  W., 

Greenleaf,  H.  Earle, 

Greenstein,   M.   &   Co., 

Grover,  Charles  H., 

Grover,  F.   S.  C, 

Gulf  Refining  Co., 

Gulezian,   George   0., 

Gulezian,  M.  H., 

Gulezian,  S.  H., 

Guptil,  H.  E., 

Hale,  B.  C, 

Hall,  E.  B.  Shoe  Co., 

Ham,  Leslie  C, 

Hamel,  C.  A., 

Hamlin,  Frank  S., 

Hanna  Co.,  The 


Care  of  Real  Estate, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

With  J.  H.  Winchell  &  Co., 

Shoe   Manufacturers, 

Shoe    Manufacturer, 

Druggist, 

Soles,  Taps, 

Fruit, 

Insurance, 

Liquors, 

Lawyer, 

Pres.  City  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank, 

Specialty  Chemists, 

Physician, 

Contractor, 

Writer, 

Tailor, 

Manager  Liggett  &  Co., 

Groceries, 

Treas.  Haverhill  Trust  Co., 

Straw,  Leather, 

Shoe  Goods,  A.  A.  Balch,  Mgr., 

Milk. 

Wood    Heels, 

Manufacturer  of  Soles, 

Real  Estate  Dealer, 

Leather, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Meat  &   Provisions, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Lawyer, 

Lawyers, 

Chief  of  Fire  Dept., 

Writer, 

Mrs.  M.  A.  Feehan,  Pres., 

General  Agent  B.  &  M.  R.  R. 

Insurance  Agents, 

Ladies'  Specialty  Store, 

Pastor  St.  James'  Church, 

Soda  Water,  Tonics, 

25  Cent  Department  Store, 

Hotels, 

Merchant  Tailor, 

Slipper  Manufacturer, 

Toplifts,    Shanks    &    Soles, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Men's  Clothing  Store, 

Counter  Manufacturer, 

Oil,  Eric  Halverson,  Mgr., 

Fruit, 

Variety  Store, 

Groceries  &  Real  Estate, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Druggist, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Hardware, 

Hamel   Shoe  Machinery  Co., 

Insurance  Agent, 

Ladies'  Specialty  Store, 


3  Washington  Square 

92    Essex    Street 

17  Locust  Street 

24-34  Duncan  Street 

39   Wingate   Street 

1    Washington    Square 

Rear  54  Wingate  Street 

6  Main  Street 

73   Merrimack   Street 

88  River  Street 

3  Water  Street 

212  Mill  Street 

80  Phoenix  Row 

143  Main  Street 

Groveland,   Mass. 

45   Highland   Avenue 

32   Locust   Street 

143  Merrimack  Street 

9  Duncan  Street 

163    Merrimack   Street 

82  Wingate  Street 

86  Wingate  Street 

419   East   Broadway 

112  Phoenix  Row 
40    Granite    Street 

3  Orchard  Street 

44    Granite    Street 

70  Washington  Street 

66  Essex  Street 

14   Walnut   Street 

81  Merrimack  Street 

91  Merrimack  Street 

115  Webster  Street 

278     Main  Street 

96  Washington  Street 

Hale  Street 

103    Merrimack   Street 

117  Merrimack  Street 

Cottage    Street 

Atkinson   Depot,   N.   H. 

152   Merrimack   Street 

13  Columbia  Park 

18  Water   Street 

49  Washington  Street 

Rear  196  Essex  Street 

100  Washington  Street 

85  Merrimack  Street 

60   Phoenix   Row 

Mill   Street,  Brad.   Dist. 

354  Washington  Street 

219  Washington  Street 

2  Gulezian   Place 

Winter  Street 

52  Winter  Street 

348  River  Street 

23  Water  Street 

113  Essex  Street 
212  Merrimack  Street 
105  Merrimack  Street 


05 


Hammond  Machine  Co., 
Hanscom,  P.  W., 
Hanscom  Hardware  Co., 
Hanscom,  Willis  H., 
Harding,  Albert  G., 
Harmon  Bros., 
Harrison,  John  M., 
Harris,  J.  W., 
Hartman,  David, 
Haseltine  &  Colby  Shoe  Co., 
Haselton,  C.  W.  Co., 
Haseltine,  E.  A., 


Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 
Haverhil 


Blacking  Co., 
Box  Board  Co., 
Building  Trust, 
Business  College, 


Hav.  Carpet  Rem.  &  Uphol.  Co., 
Haverhill  Cement  Stone  Co., 
Haverhill    Co-operative    Bank, 
Haverhill  Electric  Co., 
Haverhill   Gaslight  Co., 
Haverhill  Gazette  Co.. 
Haverhill   Grocery, 
Haverhill  House  Heating  Co., 
Haverhill  Last  Works, 
Haverhill  Leather  Remnant  Co., 
Haverhill  Leather  Scrap  Co., 
Haverhill  Mercantile  Co., 
Haverhill   Milling   Co., 
Haverhill  Motor  Mart, 
Haverhill  National  Bank, 
Haverhill  Rubber  Co., 
Haverhill  Savings  Bank, 
Haverhill  Shoe  Stock  Co., 
Haverhill  Sign  Co., 
Haverhill  Tallow  Co., 
Haverhill  Tire  Shop, 
Haverhill  Transportation  Co., 
Haverhill  Trust  Co., 
Haverhill  Wood  Heel  Co., 
Hayden,  S.  H., 
Hayes,  C.  H.,  Corp., 
Hayes,  B.  W.,  &  Co., 
Haynes,  Albert  S., 
Hazen  Brown  Co., 
Heath,  A.  P., 
Hewett,  R.  E., 
Hilliard  &  Tabor, 
High  Street  Market, 
Hill,  T.  R., 
Hillson  &  Gerber, 
Hines,  P.,  West  End  Market, 
Hobson,  J.  L., 
Holbrook,  Dr.  Charles  A., 
Holder,   William    P., 
Holmes  Bakery, 
Hood,  Ralph  D., 
Hooker-Howe   Costume   Co., 
Hooke,  Fred  V., 


Machinery, 

Counters,  Taps, 

Hardware, 

Counter  Manufacturer, 

Insurance, 

Pictures  &  Frames, 

Christian  Scientist, 

Pres.  Hav.  Co-operative  Bank, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

I  eather  Remnants, 

Electrical   Construction, 

Blacking  Mfrs., 

Box  Board  Mfrs., 

Real  Estate  Owners, 

W.  P.  Mcintosh,  Prin., 

A.  W.  Wells,  Prop., 

Builders, 

James  G.  Page,  Treas., 

Frank  L.  Ball,  Mgr., 

Frank  M.  Roberts,  Mgr., 

Daily  Newspaper, 

Angel  Colocousis, 

Plumbers, 

Branch  United  Last  Co., 

Leather  Remnants, 

Everett  Mitchell, 

Collection   .\gents. 

Hay,  Grain,  etc., 

Garage,  F.  H.  Gallup,  Mgr., 

Henry  H.  Gilman,  Pres., 

Rubber  Goods, 

W.  W.  Spaulding,  Pres., 

Shoe  Trimmings, 

Arthur  &  William  West, 

Collection  Station, 

J.  H.  Langevin, 

S.  R.  Dobbie,  Prop., 

Louis  H.  Giles,  Treas., 

Wood  Heels, 

Broker  at  Boston, 

Box  Manufacturers, 

Real  Estate  &  Railroad  Tickets, 

Rep.  N.  E.  Telephone  Co., 

Shoe  Cement, 

Photographers'  Supplies, 

Liquors, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

John   Coppala,   Mgr., 

Top  Lifts,  Heels,  Counters, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Groceries  &  Provisions, 

Vice-Pres.  Merrimack  Nat'l  Bank, 

Physician, 

Barber, 

L.  M.  Holmes,  Prop., 

Civil  Eng.  Mass.  N.  E.  St.  Ry., 

Theatrical   Costumes, 

Printer, 


End  Hale  Street 

59   Wingate   Street 

30  Main  Street 

77   Washington    Street 

12  Water  Street 

28  Main  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

13  Sixth  Avenue 

37  Wingate  Street 
113  Essex  Street 
196  Essex  Street 

117  Winter  Street 

39   Wingate   Street 

Bradford   District 

99   Washington  St,  Boston,  Mass. 

72  Merrimack  Street 

60  Fleet  Street 

Bradford  District 

9  Emerson  Street 

121   Merrimack   Street 

28-30    Washington    Square 

179  Merrimack  Street 

33-35  Locke  Street 

97  Washington  Street 

50  Wingate  Street 

66  Phoenix  Row 

5  Potter  Street 

3  WasMUgton  Square 

190  Essex  Street 

Merrill's    Court 

191   Merrimack   Street 

13  Merrimack  Street 

153  Merrimack  Street 

50  Wingate  Street 

11   Merrimack   Street 

72  Hale  Street 

119  Lafayette  Square 

33   Hale   Street 

168   Merrimack   Street 

Island  Park,  Bradford  District 

30  Westland  Terrace 

36  Granite  Street 

Railroad  Square 

9  Fifth  Avenue 

31  Wingate  Street 

78   Merrimack   Street 

164  Washington  Street 

Rear  262  Winter  Street 

911/2    High   Street 

38  Wingate  Street 
50   Wingate   Street 

246  Essex  Street 

8  Maple  Avenue 

50   Merrimack   Street 

7  Merrimack  Street 

170  Salem  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

3  Hawthorne  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

30  Main   Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

188  Merrimack  Street 


66 


Hopkins  &  Ellis, 

Home,  Charles  H., 

Hovey,  L.  R., 

How,  William  E., 

Howard,  John  P., 

Howe,  H.  S., 

Howe  &  Fenlon, 

Howes,  Enoch  H., 

Hoyt,  Charles  M., 

Hoyt,  Charles  N.,  &  Son, 

Hoyt,  George  H.,  &  Son, 

Hoyt,  George  O., 

Hui)bell,  Dr.  Adelbert  M., 

Hunkins,  W.  O.,  &  Co., 

Hurd,  F.  E., 

Hynes,  E.  F., 

Ideal  Cloak  Co., 

Island  Box  Co., 

Jacobs,  Arthur  T., 

Jacques,  J.  H., 

Jaques  &  Potter  Power  Plant, 

Jennings  &  Marble, 

Jones,  Byron  Howard, 

Jonas,  Joseph  &  Co., 

Jones,  Boyd  B., 

Jordan,  Samuel  A., 

Kaffin  Bros., 

Kalnewitz,  A.  E., 

Kaplovitch,   Dr.   Henry, 

Karelis  Shoe  Co., 

Karelitz,  Morris, 

Kaulbach,  C.  H., 

Kearney,  Dr.  J.  J., 

Keaveny,  Michael, 

Keeler,  Harley  G., 

Keighley,  Norman, 

Keith,  Irving  L., 

Kelleher,   Michael   J., 

Kelleher,  P.  J., 

Kelleher,  Rev.  Fr.  John  F., 

Kelleher,  T.  J., 

Kelly  Bros., 

Kelly,  C.  O., 

Kelly,  George  J.,  Co., 

Kelly,  P.  J., 

Kempton,  E.  J.,  Co., 

Kennedy  &  Co., 

Kenney,  D.  J., 

King  Hat  Store, 

Kimball,  George  E., 

Kimball,  Herbert  W., 

Kimball,  Hall  &  Loomis, 

Kimball,  Leonard  H., 

Kimball,  L.,  &  Son, 

Kimball,  W.  &  V.  O., 

King  Toy  Low, 

King,  Dr.  J.   S., 

Knights-Allen  Co.,  Inc., 

Knipe  Bros.,  Inc., 


Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Soles,  Leather, 

Haverhill  Record, 

Stationer, 

Mfr.  of  Condiments, 

Real  Estate, 

Leather, 

Insurance, 

Alderman, 

Real  Estate  &  Lumber, 

Paper  Box  Mfrs., 

Real  Estate, 

Physician, 

Slipper  Manufacturers, 

Grocer, 

Liquors, 

Cloaks,  Suits, 

Wood  Boxes, 

City  Treasurer  &  Tax  Collector, 

Jeweler, 

Power, 

Bradford  Wet  Wash, 

Electrical  Contractor, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Lawyer, 

With  Fred  W.  Peabody, 

Stitching  Room, 

Restaurant, 

Physician, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Real  Estate  &  Rug  Manufacturer, 

Florist, 

Dentist, 

Grocer, 

Heel  Manufacturer, 

Jeweler, 

Shoe  Findings, 

Plasterer, 

Bakery, 

Pastor  Sacred  Hearts'  Church, 

Billiards  &  Pool, 

Contractors    &    Builders, 

Insurance  Agent, 

Heels,  Paste  &  Leather, 

Upholsterer, 

Men's  Clothing, 

Butter  Cheese  &  Eggs, 

Ladies'   Specialty   Store, 

Gaston  H.  Roberts,  Mgr., 

Real  Estate  &  Insurance, 

Electrician, 

Undertakers, 

Milk, 

Jewelers, 

Shoe   Manufacturers, 

Chinese  Restaurant, 

Dentist, 

Shoe    Manufacturers, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 


Rear  98  Washington  Street 

Essex  Street 

25  Locust  Street 

27   Washington    Sq'iare 

21  Kingsbury  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

8  Fernwood  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

52   Washington   Street 

98  Webster  Street 

218  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

723  Main  Street 

250  River  Street 

20  Edwards  Street 

22   Merrimack    Street 

143  Essex  Street 

97  Cedar  Street 

57  Merrimack   Street 

17   Washington    Street 

Island  Park,  Bradford  District 

City  Hall 

17  Essex   Street 

67   Washington   Street 

Rear  196  Essex  Street 

146  Washington  St.,  So.  Groveland 

16   Washington    Street 

530  Exchange  Bldg..  Boston,  Mass. 

7  Washington  Square 

41   Washington   Street 

43  Washington  Street 

50   Merrimack   Street 

1  Beach  Street 

102  Pilling  Street 

28  Main  Street 

91    Merrimack    Street 

210  Primrose  Street 

56  Essex  Street 

1  Railroad  Square 

92-94   Washington    Street 

142  Main  Street 

154  Winter  Street 

6  Carleton  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

29  Washington  Square 

30  Pleasant  Street 

103   Merrimack   Street 

48  Phoenix  Row 

97  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

97  Merrimack  Street 

140  Merrimack  Street 

22  Merrimack  Street 

123   Merrimack   Street 

37   Merrimack   Street 

13  Main  Street 

69  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

East  Haverhill 

79  Merrimack  Street 

4  Walnut  Street 

63   Merrimack   Street 

6  Emerson  Street 

141  Essex  Street 

Ward  Hill 


67 


Knowles,  L.  L., 

Kostas   Shoe  Trimming  Co., 

Kritter,  E.  R., 

Lafayette  Square  Pharmacy, 

Lagasse,  Emil, 

Lahey,  Thos.  H., 

Laing,  John  L., 

Lamond,  Thomas, 

Lancy,  John,  Jr., 

Lane,  J.  C, 

Larkin,  Dr.  Richard  B., 

Lawton,  Louis  C, 

Lea,  L, 

Leach,  Arthur  E., 

Leary,  John  C, 

Leavitt,  George  B., 

Leavitt,  Louis  M., 

Leavitt,  P.  E.  &  Co., 

LeBosquet,  Moore  Co., 

Lefebvre,   George   E., 

Legare,   Francois   X., 

LeGro,   Dr.   L.   B., 

Leighton,  B.  F.,  &  Co., 

Leighton,  Harold  D., 

Leighton,  Harry  W., 

Leith,  Frank,  &  Son., 

Lennox,  Joseph  L., 

Lennox  &  Briggs  Co.,  Inc., 

Leonard,  Dr.  John  B., 

Leslie  Dry  Goods  Co., 

Levis,  S.  J., 

Lewis,  H.  E., 

Libcrty-Durgin,    Inc., 

Littlcfield,   Walter  D.,  &   Co., 

Loose-Wiles    Biscuit    Co., 

Lougee,  Edwin  A., 

Lynch,  John  A.  Co., 

Maehling,   Albert   C, 

McDougall,  Dr.  D., 

MacKinnon,  Dr.  F.  A., 

MacManus,  James  J., 

Mahoney,  C.  C, 

Majestic  Theatre, 

Malbon  Shoe  Co.,  Inc., 

Manhattan  Market, 

Manning,  E.  A., 

Manning,  J.  A.,  Shoe  Mfg.  Co., 

Manikus,  Socrates  H., 

Marin,  J.,  &  Co., 

Marshall  Bros., 

Martin,  George  Willard, 

Martin,  Howard  E., 

Martin,  O.  A., 

Martin,  O.  L., 

Mason,  Geo.  F., 

Mass.  Baking  Co., 

Mass.  N.  E.  Street  Railway  Co., 

Mazer,  Hyman, 

McAree  Bros., 


Grocer, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Antiques, 

Frank  H.  Simard, 

Grocer, 

Granite  Contractor, 

Individual   Family   Laundry, 

Plumbing  &  Heating, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Grocer, 

Dental  Surgeon, 

City  Engineer, 

Shirt  Manufacturer, 

City  Auditor, 

G.  B.  Leavitt  Co.,  Shoe  Mfrs., 

G.   B.   Leavitt  Co.,   Shoe   Mfrs., 

Builder  &  Contractor, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Horse  Shoeing, 

Horse  Shoeing, 

Dentist  &   Physician, 

Wholesale  Groceries, 

Salesman, 

Retail  Shoe  Dealer, 

Florists, 

Lennox-Nagle    Leather    Co., 

Morocco  Mfrs., 

Dentist, 

Department  Store, 

Groceries  &  Provisions, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Manufacturers    Gov't    Equipment, 

Job  Printers, 

C.  J.  Gardner,  Manager, 

Shoe  Repairing, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Barber, 

Physician  &  Surgeon, 

Dentist, 

Blacksmith, 

Liquors, 

Theatre, 

Jacob  Bloomfield, 

Groceries  &  Meats, 

Cigar  Manufacturer, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Groceries  &   Provisions, 

Coal  &  Grain, 

Contracting  Masons, 

Insurance, 

Electrical  Supplies, 

Wood  Heels, 

Salesman, 

Fitz  Bros.   Co., 

George  &  Joseph  St.  Pierre, 

Franklin  Woodman,  Gen.  Mgr., 

Tailor  &  Furrier, 

Plumbers, 


30   Emerson   Street 

15-17    Railroad    Square 

28-32  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

37  Lafayette  Square 

Cor.  High  &  Central  Streets 

42   Kenoza   Avenue 

Kimball  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

53  Kingsbury  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

153  Essex  Street 

122  Emerson  Street 

22  Merrimack  Street 

City  Hall 

15  Main  Street 

City    Hall 

20  Duncan  Street 

20  Duncan  Street 

59  Pilling  Street 

153   Essex  Street 

Rear  37   Washington   Street 

22  Walnut  Street 

Hale  Street 

50    Merrimack    Street 

Batchelder    Street 

18  Granite  Street 

160  Merrimack  Street 

648  Primrose  Street 

Berwick,  Maine 

24   Duncan   Street 

3  Washington  Square 

28-40  Merrimack  Street 

59-61    Franklin    Street 

14  Walnut  Street 

21  Hale  Street 

112  Washington  Street 

30  Ferry  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

42   Emerson   Street 

61  Wingate  Street 

9  Washington  Street 

131  Main  Street 

103  Merrimack  Street 

20   Fleet   Street 

28  Locust  Street 

61  Washington  Street 

27  Essex  Street 

16   Emerson   Street 

59  Merrimack  Street 

145  Essex  Street 

40  Locke  Street 

Rear  262  Winter  Street 

1  Euclid  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

115  Merrimack  Street 

60  Fleet  Street 

145   Essex  Street 

Webster  Street 

Auburn,  Maine 

8  Lafayette  Square 

50  Merrimack  Street 

26  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

89  Washington  Street 


US 


McAree,  Dr.  Doniinick  J., 
McCann  Furniture  Co., 
McCarthy,  M.  H.,  &  Co., 
McCarthy  &  Malcolm, 
McComiick,  Perry  Shoe  Co., 
McCuen,  Dr.  Charles  N., 
McDonald,  A.   S., 
McDonald,  William  J., 
McFee,  Dr.  W.  D., 
,  McGregor,  Fred  D., 
Mclnnis,  George  A., 
McKeen,  Archie  S., 
McKeen,  Edwin  E., 
McKeigue,  William  J., 
McLaughlin,  Dr.  Arthur  O., 
McLaughlin,   Misses 
McNamara,  L.  F., 
McNeill,  James  A., 
Mears,  Fred  W.,  Heel  Co., 
Melvin,   A.   A., 
Mencis,  A., 
Mencis,    Benjamin, 
Mercille,  Dr.  Joseph  M., 
Merrimack  National  Bank, 
Merryman,  Walter  R., 
Middleton,  Ernest, 
Milhendler,  William, 
Miller,  E.  C, 
Miller  &  Busfield, 
Miller,  Max, 
Mills,  Roscoe  S., 
Mills  &  McClintock, 
Misak  &   Moses  Co., 
Mitchell,   Robert 
Mitchell  &  Co., 
Mitchell,  John  H., 
Mitchell,  Thomas  W., 
Moberley,  William  R., 
Mohican  Co., 

Monfils  &  Murphy  Machine  Co., 
Moore,  R.  Forrest, 
Moran,  James  E., 
Moriarty,  Bartholomew  J., 
Morse,  H.  F., 
Morse,  C.  0., 
Morse  &  Proctor, 
Morse,  Silas  L., 
Motor  Car  Supply  Co., 
Mosher,  Fred  L., 
Moulton,  E.  H., 
Moulton,  John  G., 
Moxcey   &   Johnson, 
Murphy,   E.   H.,   &    Co., 
Murphy,  John  E., 
Murray  Bros.  Co., 
Murray,  Horace  W.,  &  Co., 
Murray  &  Dugdale, 
Mysel,  Dr.  Hymen  A., 
Nash,  Dr.  A.  W., 


Dentist, 

Furniture, 

Groceries, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Physician  &   Surgeon, 

Stamp  Business, 

Lawyer, 

Physician, 

Retail  Shoe  Dealer, 

Real  Estate, 

Photographer, 

Soles,  Toplifts, 

Express, 

Physician, 

Haverhill  Laundry, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Blacksmith, 

Wood  Heels, 

Baker, 

Innersoles  &  Taps, 

Meats  &  Groceries, 

Dentist, 

Arthur  P.  Tenney,  Cashier, 

Photographer, 

Plumber, 

Leather   Remnants, 

F.  M.  Hodgdon   Stitching  Room, 

Restaurant, 

Shoe  Trimmings, 

Real  Estate, 

Plumbing  &  Heating, 

Fruit, 

Salesman,  Haverhill  Boxboard  Co., 

Department  Store, 

Druggist, 

With   Mitchell  &   Co., 

Bootblack,  Prof.   Bill, 

Groceries  &  Meats, 

Machinists, 

With  Wilson  &  Co., 

Business   Mgr.   Haverhill  Gazette, 

Tailor, 

Pictures  &  Frames, 

Furniture, 

Soles  &  Taps, 

Probation  Officer, 

Hugo  A.  Ramberg,  Mgr., 

Electrical  Contractor, 

Wholesale  Beef  &  Provisions, 

Librarian  Public  Library, 

Wall  Paper  &  Painting, 

Plumbers, 

Undertaker, 

Wholesale  Grocers, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Plumbers, 

Physician, 

Dentist, 


:57  Merrimack  Street 

01  Merrimack  Street 

63  Essex  Street 

357  River   Street 

260    River    Street 

7   Main   Street 

206   Merrimack   Street 

103   Merrimack   Street 

3  Washington  Square 

18  Washington  Square 

174   Merrimack   Street 

66  Merrimack  Street 

47  Wingate  Street 
173  Salem  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

120    Emerson    Street 

55  Main  Street 

85  Essex   Street 

52  Fleet  Street 

18  Granite  Street 

61   White   Street 

25  Railroad  Square 

30   How  Street 

191    Merrimack    Street 

20  Washington  Street 

21  Kensington  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 

161    Washington    Street 

33  Railroad  Square 

14  Walnut  Street 

53  Essex  Street 

98  Phoenix  Row 

103    Merrimack   Street 

22  Main  Street 

54  Emerson   Street 

49   Main  Street,  Brad.   Dist. 

76-82  Merrimack  Street 

194  Winter  Street 

78   Merrimack   Street 

116   Washington    Street 

149  Merrimack  Street 

48  Wingate  Street 
201   Essex  Street 

179  Merrimack  Street 

21   Emerson   Street 

44  Emerson  Street 

40  Locust  Street 

29   Granite   Street 

7  Bartlett  Street 

23  Emerson  Street 

Essex    Street 

132  Essex   Street 

14   Mt.   Vernon   Street 

32  Main  Street 

51  White  Street 

16  Primrose   Street 

Stevens   Street 

208   River   Street 

29  Water  Street 

310  Washington  Street 

50  Merrimack  Street 


69 


Nason,  Alfred  K., 

Nason,  A.  L., 

Nason    &    Phillips, 

Natho,  Gustav, 

National  Butter  Co., 

National  Innersole  Co., 

National  Window  Cleaning, 

National  Wood  Heel  Co., 

Nealley,  George  P., 

Nelson  Bros. 

Nelson,  F.  E.,  &  Co., 

Newcomb,  Charles  R., 

Newton,  S.  H., 

Newburg  Shoe  Co.,  Inc., 

New  Eng.  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co., 

N.  E.  Wood  Heel  &  Unit'd  Lea.  Co., 

New  York  Confectionery  Co., 

Nichols,  George   (2nd) 

Nichols,  George  P., 

Nichols  &  Gilpin, 

Nichols  &  Morse, 

Nickett   &   Vallicaro, 

Noble,  Charles  B., 

Noonan,  Edward  J., 

Norwood,  Granville  M., 

Nott,  Edward  E., 

Noyes,  George  W., 

Noyes,  Horace  N.,  Inc., 

Noyes  Paper  Co., 

Noyes,  Ray  N., 

Noyes,  Raymond 

O'Connell,  George,  &  Co., 

Odiorne,  John  W., 

O'Leary,  Michael, 

Olenick,  Sam, 

O'Neill,   Cornelius  J., 

Oriental   Restaurant, 

Ornsteen,  M.  T.  Leather  Co., 

Orpheum  Theatre, 

O'Shea,  John  J., 

O'Toole,  Dr.  John  L., 

Owens,  John,  &  Co., 

Owen,  E.  C,  &  Son, 

P.  &  Q.  Shop, 

Page,  Benjamin  I., 

Page,  James  G., 

Painchaud,  P.  J.  Alfred,  &  Son, 

Palmer,  Charles  A., 

Palmer,  George  W., 

Parent,  Arthur  C, 

Parks,  J.  Edwards, 

Parshley,  Arthur  F., 

Patterson,  James  &  Co., 

Payson,  George  W., 

Pazzanese,  Joseph, 

Peabody,  Fred  W., 

Pearlmutter,  Simon, 

Peaslee,  Edson  E., 

Peel,  David  Wilson, 


Automobiles,  Trucks,  Painting, 

Representative  General  Court, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Baker, 

Butter,  Eggs,  etc., 

Innersoles, 

Cleaning, 

Bertha  H.  Emery,  Prop., 

Insurance  Agent, 

Groceries  &  Meats, 

Department  Store, 

Real  Estate, 

Grocer, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

F.  G.  Bennett,  Mgr., 

Louis  Gorevitz,  Prop., 

John  Kyriax,  Mgr., 

Merrimack  Ice  Co., 

Candy  &  Ice  Cream, 

Leather, 

Men's  Clothing, 

Furniture  Dealers, 

Shoe  Crimping, 

Plasterer, 

Insurance, 

Shoe  Factory  Foreman, 

Treas,  City  Five  Cent  Sav.  Bank, 

Jewelry  &  Pianos, 

Stationery, 

Carpenter, 

Treas.  Haverhill  Savings  Bank, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Groceries, 

Liquors, 

Inner  Soles, 

Insurance  &  Real  Estate, 

Chinese  Restaurant, 

Shoe  Trimmings, 
Theatre, 
Stock  Leather, 
Physician, 

Wood  &  Paper  Boxes, 
Plumbing  &  Heating, 

F.  J.  Santry,  Mgr.,  Clothing  Store, 

Cashier  Hav.  National  Bank, 

Insurance, 

Liquors, 

Photographer, 

Agent, 

Meat  &  Groceries, 

Lunch  Carts, 

Shoe  Contractor, 

Fruit  Dealer, 

Custom  Shoes, 

Custom  Tailor, 

Music  Store, 

Dry  Goods, 

Saw  Mill, 

Optician  &  Optometrist, 


West   Boxford,   Mass. 
65  Laurel  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 
260  River  Street 
9  Curtis  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 
90   Merrimack   Street 
365  River  Street 
33  Main  Street 
32  Locke   Street 
66   Merrimack   Street 
2  Water  Street 
176  Merrimack  Street 
50   Merrimack   Street 
149  Elm   Street,  Brad.  Dist. 
258  River  street 
14  How  Streeet 
365  River  Street 
144   Merrimack   Street 
22  Washington  Street 
183  Merrimack  Street 
28  Wingate  Street 
56-62  Merrimack  Street 
12  Pecker  Street 
25   Washington   Street 
13  Union   Street 
3   Washington   Square 
3  Vine  Street 
48   Washington   Street 
71   Merrimack   Street 
64  Washington  Street 
53  Howard  Street 
153   Merrimack   Street 
98  Phoenix  Row 
74  White  Street 
12   How   Street 
365  River  Street 
191    Merrimack   Street 
194  Merrimack  Street 
76  Phoenix  Row 
7-9  Essex  Street 
2  Phoenix  Row 
112  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 
348  River   Street 
53   Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 
109  Merrimack  Street 
191  Merrimack  Street 
9    Emerson    Street 
216-218  Essex   Street 
Saunders  Hill 
47  Salem  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 
137  Lafayette  Square 
7  Carleton  Avenue,  Brad.  Dist. 
Rear  22  Washington   Street 
Essex  &  Granite  Sts. 
20   Emerson   Street 
79   Main  Street,  Brad.   Dist. 
Washington  Square 
51   River  Street 
150   North   Avenue 
26   Merrimack   Street 


70 


Pentucket  Shoe  Store, 

Pentucket  Mills, 

Peoples  House  Furnishing  Co., 

People's  Coal  Co., 

Perkins,  Dr.  Harry  B., 

Perkins,  James  A., 

Perry,  Austin  H.,  Co., 

Pesprikos,  James, 

Peters,  Cole,  Magison  &  Barrett, 

Pethybridge,  H.  M., 

Pettigrew,  Bright  &  Co., 

Pettengill,  Ernest  E., 

Philbrick,  L.  0., 

Pickard,  B.  T.,  Co., 

Pierce,  Dr.  F.  B., 

Pingree,  Ransom  C, 

Pitcher,  Dr.  H.  F., 

Pleasant  St.  Bowling  Alleys, 

Plumstead,  H.  T., 

Poore  &  Abbott, 

Poore,  Charles  Herbert, 

Poor,  Isaac, 

Popoff,  Dr.  Constantine, 

Porell,  Dr.  William  I., 

Porter,  Charles  B., 

Portors,  Frank  W., 

Powers,  Gardner  L., 

Prescott,  E.  C,  &  Co., 

Primack,  Bennie, 

Priest,  A.  Franklin, 

Pure  Food  Bakery, 

Puritan  Lunch  Co., 

Quality  Saw  Co., 

Quality  Shoe  Store, 

Quality  Press,  The 

Quality  Wood  Heel  Co., 

Quincy  Market, 

Railroad  Square   Smoke  Shop, 

Rand,  F.  N., 

Rand,  Howard  B., 

Ray  Dollar  Store, 

Ray,  Dr.  John  Z., 

Raymond,  Fred  O., 

Rayisian,  Harry, 

Red  Dragon  Cigar  Co., 

Redman,  C.  E., 

Reed,  Melvin  H., 

Regan's  Auto  Supply  Shop, 

Renton  Motor  Car  Co., 

Rich,  William  R., 

Richard,  Alfred, 

Richey  Drug  Store, 

Rickard  Shoe  Co.,  The 

Riker-Jaynes  Co., 

Riley,  A.  E., 

Rines,  C.  E., 

Roberts,  Alexander,  Jr., 

Roberts,  L.  H., 

Roberts,   W.   W., 


Shoe  Dealers, 

M.  T.  Stevens  &   Sons  Co., 

Furniture, 

Coal, 

Physician, 

Architect, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Fruit, 

Lawyers, 

Sole  Leather, 

Brokers, 

Jewelry  &  Cameras, 

Manager   Shoe   Finding   Store, 

Ice  Cream  &  Confectionery, 

Physician, 

Lawyer, 

Physician, 

John  A.  C.  McKay,  Mgr., 

Boot-Shoe  Patterns, 

Lawyers, 

Dairyman, 

Member  Water  Board, 

Physician, 

Dentist, 

Upholsterer, 

Blacksmith. 

Salesman, 

Upper  Leather, 

Groceries   &   Provisions, 

Clerk,  Cent.  Dist.  Court,  No.  Essex 

J.  J.  Thompson, 

Restaurant, 

Saw   Mfrs., 

Max  Stolzberg,  Prop., 

Chas.  H.  Potter,  Mgr.,  Printers, 

Walter  J.  O'Brien,  Mgr., 

David  Salovitch,  Prop., 

Haverhill  Taxicab  Co., 

Real  Estate  &  Insurance, 

Lawyer, 

Dry  Goods, 

Dentist, 

Deputy  Sheriff, 

Fruit  Dealer, 

Fred  W.  Burrill,  Mgr., 

News  Dealer, 

Harness  Maker, 

Edward  D.  Regan, 

Agents  for  Vim  Trucks, 

Circulation  Mgr.  Haverhill  Record 

Groceries,  Meats, 

Druggists, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Druggists, 

Wet  Wash, 

Bakery, 

Junk  Dealer, 

Automobiles, 

City  Clerk, 


15   Washington   Street 

J.  A.  Currier,  Supt.,   Winter  Street 

6-12  Merrimack  Street 

142  Washington  Street 

125   Main   Street 

47  Merrimack  Street 

280  River  Street 

73  Essex  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

.53  Washington  Street 

25  Washington  Square 

19    Merrimack    Street 

108  Washington  Street 

20  Winter  Street 

132  Main  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

50   Merrimack   Street 

8    Pleasant    Street 

110  Washington  Street 

50  Merrimack  Street 

Box  3,  Bradford  District 

40  Salem  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

158   Main   Street 

3  Washington  Square 

46  Winter  Street 

144  Lafayette  Square 

81    Washington    Street 

35  Railroad  Square 

27  Kenoza  Avenue 

36  Main  Street 

35  Locust  Street 

214   Merrimack   Street 

91   Hale   Street 

137   Merrimack   Street 

69  Merrimack  Street 

210   River   Street 

38  Water  Street 

Rear  108  Merrimack  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

191   Merrimack   Street 

85  Merrimack  Street 

88   Merrimack   Street 

191    Merrimack   Street 

2  Lafayette  Square 

4  Locust  Street 

1  Water  Street 

29   Main   Street 

Walnut  Street 

32  Elm  Street 

62   Lowell  Avenue 

222   Essex    Street 

124  Winter  Street 

113  Essex  Street 

1   Merrimack   Street 

210  River  Street 

941/2   Main  Street 

43  Hale  Street 

3V2   White  Street 

City  Hall 


71 


Roche,  James  E., 

Root,  William  Henry, 

Rosengard  &  Cook, 

Rosengard  Furniture  Co., 

Ross  &  Baker  Wood  Heel  Co., 

Royal  Shoe  Store, 

Rowe  &  Emerson  Co., 

Ruddock   Shoe   Co., 

Ruel,  Dr.  Joseph  A., 

Russ,  John  W., 

Russ,  F.  H., 

Ryan,  John  J., 

S.  &  S.  Shoe  Co., 

Sadowitz,  Morris, 

Saltz,  David  J., 

Sansoucie,  George, 

Sargent,  Charles  B., 

Sample  Saving  System,  Inc., 

Savage,  L.  D., 

Sawyer,  Herbert  R., 

Sawyer,  J.  B., 

Sayward,  J.  H., 

Schlafman,  Moses  H., 

Schreiber,  Dr.  Eugene, 

Seale,  Thomas  H., 

Seavey,  C.  H., 

Seavey,  George  E., 

Sederquist,  D.  N., 

Segal  Finishing  Co., 

Senno,  Emilo, 

Servetnick,  S., 

Shannon,  E.  F., 

Shannon,  C.  E., 

Shattuck,  A.  L., 

Shaw,  Robert, 

Sheridan   Bros., 

Shevenell,  John  L., 

Shevenell,  Prosper, 

Shohet,  Dr.  David, 

Short,  J.  M., 

Shugrue  Market, 

Shute,  Percy  Harold, 

Silver  Leaf  Baking  Co., 

Silverman,  Jacob, 

Simas  Drug  Co., 

Simonds  &  Adams, 

Simons,  James, 

Singer  Sewing  Machine  Co., 

Sinotte,  Louis  J., 

Slipper  City  Toplift  Co., 

Slipper  City  Wood  Heel  Co., 

Slavitt,  Max  S., 

Slocomb  &  Greenlay  Co., 

Small,  Harry  F., 

Smart,   Harris   A., 

Smith  Bros.  Printing  Co., 

Smith,  Forrest  V., 

Smith,  Fred  A., 

Smith,  W.  B.  &  L,  &  Co., 


Groceries   &   Provisions, 

W.  A.  &  H.  A.  Root,  Inc.,    Cont'rs. 

Shoes  &  Shoe  Trimmings, 

Furniture, 

Wood  Heels, 

Retail  Shoes,  H.  L.  Platz,  Mgr. 

Men's  Clothing, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Physician, 

Real  Estate, 

Real  Estate, 

Lawyer, 

S.  Shapiro,  Mgr., 

Lawyer, 

Real  Estate, 

Meats  &  Groceries, 

Contractor, 

Manufacturers   Mounted   Samples, 

Sup't  City  Farm, 

Auto  Supplies, 

Milk, 

Hardware, 

News  Dealer, 

Physician, 

Lunch  Cart, 

Bicycles  &  Phonographs, 

Bicycles  &  Phonographs, 

Photographer, 

Finishing  Leather, 

Liquors, 

Shoe  Trimmings,  Innersoles,  Taps, 

Contractor  &   Builder, 

Fish  Market, 

Confectionery, 

Liquors, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Counters, 

Counters, 

Dentist, 

Merchant  Tailor, 

Meats  &   Groceries, 

Puritan   Lunch, 

Bread, 

Real   Estate, 

T.   E.  Lynch,  Mgr., 

Department  Store, 

Wall   Paper-Paints-Painting, 

Machinery,  Perley  C.  Blake,  Mgr., 

Druggist, 

Ernest  Dumas,  Mgr., 

James   S.   Moore,  Prop., 

Real  Estate, 

Shoe  Supplies, 

Electrical   Inspector, 

Shoe   Manufacturer, 

Printers, 

Lawyer, 

Shoe    Counter   Manufacturer, 

Department  Store, 


42  Primrose  Street 

1  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

25  Railroad  Square 

208  Merrimack  Street 

63  Fleet  Street 

1891/2   Merrimack  Street 

68  Merrimack  Street 

143  Essex  Street 

14  Main  Street 
130  Broadway 

71  Emerson  Street 

165   Merrimack   Street 

365  River  Street 

25  Washington  Square 

94   Emerson   Street 

236  Essex  Street 

35  Auburn  Street 

159  Essex  Street 

City  Farm 

18  Fleet  Street 

571  Salem  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

21   Washington   Street 

45  Washington  Street 

15  How  Street 
17  Chadwick  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

35   Washington   Street 

50  Emerson  Streeet 

154  Merrimack  Street 

Vila  Street 

lOG  Washington  Street 

33  Railroad  Square 

80  Howard  Street 

14  Fleet  Street 

39  Nichols  Street 

7  Washington  Street 

95  Essex  Street 

151   Essex   Street 

151   Essex   Street 

210  Merrimack  Street 

174   Merrimack   Street 

195  Elm  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

Railroad  Square 

Kimball   Street,   Brad.   Dist. 

348  Washington  Street 

Main  St.,  cor  of  White  Street 

42-54    Merrimack    Street 

173  Washington  Street 

153   Essex  Street 

81  Essex  Street 

184  River  Street 

12    Duncan    Street 

89  Emerson  Street 

12  Walnut  Street 

City  Hall 

69  Washington  Street 

104  Washington  Street 

83  Merrimack  Street 

35  Granite  Street 

94-98    Merrimack    Street 


72 


Smith,  W.  C, 

Smith,  Fred  R., 

Smith,  H.  W., 

Smith  &  Norman, 

Smith  &  Palmer, 

Snelling,  H.  S., 

Snow  White  Family  Laundry, 

Sonoma  Stables, 

Spaulding,  W.  W., 

Splaine,  R.  A.,  Co., 

Sproull,  Dr.  John, 

Stanford,  James, 

Stansfield,  Bram, 

Stansfield,   Dr.   Howarth, 

Starensier,  S., 

Stevens,  Charles  L.  &   Co., 

Stevens  &  Dow, 

Stickney,  Albert  E., 

Stiles,  Franklin  P., 

Stiles,  George  B., 

Stockbridge  Shoe  Co., 

Stone,  Dr.  T.  N., 

Stover,  J.  M., 

St.  Onge,  Arthur  R., 

Strand  Theatre, 

Sullivan,  E.  E.,  &  Co., 

Sullivan,  Edward  F., 

Sullivan,  Dr.  F.  A., 

Sullivan,  J.  J., 

Sumner  Counter  Co., 

Swartz  Bros., 

Swett,  Fred  F., 

Swett,  M.  E., 

Swett,  P.  C, 

Tabor,  John  E., 

Tabor,  M.  E., 

Tapin,  W.  Homer, 

Tapley,  I.  W., 

Taylor-Goodwin  Co., 

Taylor,  E.  W.  B., 

Taylor,  H.  L.,  &  Co., 

Taylor,  William  B., 

Teichman,  Albert  F., 

Temple,  Charles  L., 

Tessier  &  Bowdoin, 

Tenney,  M.  G.,  Co., 

Thom    Hat   Co., 

Thompson,  Avard  G., 

Thompson,  F.  J.,  Inc., 

Thompson  &  Randall, 

Thorndike  Hotel, 

Thurston,  G.  H., 

Thurston,  Ralph  M., 

Tilton,  Sawyer  &  Cogswell, 

Tozier,  N.  C,  &  Co., 

Tracy,  Edward  M., 

Trask,  Robert  D., 

Tremblay,  M.  J., 

Triedman,  L., 


Jeweler, 

Insurance, 

Grocer, 

Fish  Dealers, 

Retail   Meats,  Etc., 

Agent  American  Express  Co., 

Laundry, 

S.  D.  Collins, 

Pres.  Haverhill  Savings  Bank, 

Liquors, 

Physician  &  Surgeon, 

Laundry, 

Pentucket   Laundry, 

Dentist, 

Leather  Remnants, 

Cut  Soles,  Leather, 

Druggists, 

Milk, 

Printer, 

Plumbing  &  Heating, 

Slipper  Manufacturers, 

Physician, 

Retired, 

Men's  Clothing, 

Theatre, 

Slipper  Manufacturers, 

Liquors, 

Physician, 

Plumber, 

Counters, 

Leather  Dealers, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Toplifts  &  Leather, 

Real  Estate   Owner, 

Milk, 

Groceries  &  Provisions, 

Plumber, 

Wood  &  Paper  Boxes, 

Coal,  Wood  &  Lumber, 

Real  Estate, 

Coal, 

Clothes  Cleaning  &  Shoe  Shining, 

Barber, 

Furniture, 

Shoe  Contractors, 

Shoe  Trimmings, 

Hat  Manufacturers, 

Carpenters, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Retail  Bakery, 

Hotel, 

Groceries  &  Provisions, 

Meats  &  Provisions, 

Lawyers, 

Druggists, 

Cigars,  Pool, 

Lawyer, 

Retail  Groceries, 

Baker, 


91  Merrimack  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

420  Water  Street 

11  Court  Street 

61  Locust  Street 

113  Washington  Street 

611/2  White  Street 

Locust  Street 

54   Park  Street 

32  Fleet  Street 

50  Merrimack  Street 

150  Winter  Street 

Bridge  Street 

70  Merrimack  Street 

21   Railroad  Square 

115    Essex    Street 

Locust  &   Winter   Streets 

73   North   Broadway 

91  Washington  Street 

Groveland,  Mass. 

18   Granite   Street 

27  White  Street 

120  Broadway 

25  Essex  Street 

135  Merrimack  Street 

16  Walnut  Street 

71  Essex  Street 

3  Washington  Square 

140  Winter  Street 

78  Wingate  Street 

100   Phoenix   Row 

34  Duncan  Street 

321/2   Locke  Street 

39  Summer  Street 

547  Main  Street 

48  Winter  Street 

64  White  Street 

191  Merrimack  Street 

Bradford  District 

46  Summer  Street 

201  Water  Street 

12  Winter  Street 

70   Washington    Street 

155  Winter  Street 

50  Phoenix  Row 

59   Washington   Street 

270  River  Street 

45  Rutherford  Avenue 

46-48  Essex  Street 

61   Emerson   Street 

2-12    Washington    Street 

2  Merrimack  Street 

Main  &  Bridge  Streets 

191  Merrimack  Street 

138  Washington  Street 

40  Winter  Street 

3    Washington    Square 

64   Lafayette   Square 

388  Washington  Street 


73 


Tuck,  William  0., 

Tucker,  F.  E.,  &  Son., 

Ty  0  La  Products, 

Tyrie,  W.  G., 

Union  Clothing  Co., 

United  Cigar  Stores  Co., 

United  Die  Block  Co., 

United  Shoe  Machinery  Co., 

Varney  Studio, 

Vaughn,  Harry  S., 

Veasey,  Arthur  Hale, 

Veasey,  A.  D., 

Villeneuve,  I.  M.,  &  Co., 

Villeneuve,  Joseph, 

Vovulis  Bros., 

W.   &   M.   Innersoles    Co., 

Wade,  A.  R.,  &  Co., 

Wade  Printing  Concern, 

Waldron,  T.  F., 

Wales,  A.  L., 

Walker,  Clarence,  &  Co., 

Walker,  Alonzo  B., 

Walker,  Arthur  W., 

Walker,  C.  L., 

Ward  Hill  Garage, 

Wason,  George  M., 

Watson,  F.  E., 

Watnick,  Louis, 

Webber  Shoe  Co., 

Webster,  George  H., 

Webster,  Ira  J.,  Co.,  Inc., 

Webster,  Willard  P., 

Weiners'  Fur  Store, 

Weinstein,  Meyer, 

Welsh,  Patrick  T., 

Welch   Press,  The 

Wells  &  Hale, 

Wentworth,  E.  C, 

Wentworth-Swett  Co., 

West,  T.  H., 

West,  W.  H., 

W.  H.  &  Webster  Jones  Co., 

White,  Charles  D., 

White  &  Durgin, 

Whittier,  Henry,  &  Son, 

Whittier,   Henry   B., 

Whittemore,  I.  B., 

Wiggin,  Fred  L., 

Wildes,  C.  M., 

Wilson,  F.  C,  Co., 

Wilson,  James  W., 

Winchell,  J.  H.,  &  Co.,  Inc., 

Winchester,  H.  W.   Co., 

Wineburg,  Charles, 

Wingate  Shoe  Corporation, 

Winn  &  Mitchell, 

Winn  &  Bailey, 

Winter,  Ernest  H., 

Witham,  A.  C, 


Art  Goods,  Stationer, 

Furniture, 

Metal  Stamping, 

Plumber, 

Clothiers, 

Cigars, 

Die  Blocks  &  Wood  Heels, 

Machinery,  A.  E.  Smith,  Mgr., 

John  C.  Varney, 

Upholstering, 

Woolen  Manufacturer, 

Groveland    Woolen    Mills, 

Groceries, 

Groceries  &  Provisions, 

Tailors, 

Innersoles, 

Wood  Heels, 

Printers, 

Fibre  Counters, 

Contractor, 

Soles,  Counters,  etc., 

With  C.  K.  Pox  Co., 

Shoe   Contractor, 

Meats  &  Groceries, 

M.  A.  Jaffarian, 

Wood  Heels, 

Real  Estate  &  Insurance, 

Innersoles, 

Howard  L.  Webber, 

Soles  &   Counter  Mfr., 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Gold  &  Silver  Leaf  Stamping, 

Furs, 

The  Quality  Shop,  Ladies'  Spec.  Store, 

Lunch  Cart, 

Printers, 

Lavi^rers, 

Gen.  Mgr.  C.  H.  Hayes  Corp., 

Shoe  Manufacturers. 

Cider  Manufacturer, 

Shoe   Contractor, 

Storage  Batteries. 

Architect, 

Garage, 

Grocers, 

Grocer, 

Produce, 

Caterer,   Ice   Cream, 

Wood  Heels, 

Groceries, 

Roofer, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Toplifts, 

Innersoles, 

Shoe  Manufacturers, 

Lawyers, 

Auto  Repairing, 

Painter, 

Wood  Heels, 


67  Merrimack  Street 

168   Merrimack   Street 

63   Fleet   Street 

28  How  Street 

184   Merrimack   Street 

1  Main  Street 

20  Locke  Street 

145   Essex    Street 

69  Merrimack  Street 

64  Fleet  Street 

4  Windsor   Street 

4  Windsor  Avenue 

26  Lafayette  Square 

295  River  Stret 

57  White  Street 

Vila  Street 

86  Washington  Street 

31  Washington  Street 

54  Wingate  Street 
16  King   Street,   Groveland 

8  Phoenix  Row 

44  Highland  Avenue 

153  Essex  Street 

181  Washington  Street 

Ward  Hill 

112  Phoenix  Row 
73   Merrimack   Street 

7  Potter  Place 

113  Essex   Etreet 
153    Essex   Street 

Vila  Street 

104  Washington  Street 

134   Merrimack   Street 

102  Merrimack  Street 

9  Grant  Street 

Rear   108   Merrimack   Street 

50  Merrimack  Street 

36  Granite  Street 

23  Locust  Street 

85  Millvale  Road 

12  Phoenix  Row 

Auburn  Street 

125   Merrimack   Street 

81  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

69  Water  Street 

277  Groveland   Street 

189  Essex  Street 

6  Pleasant  Street 

64  Wingate  Street 

53  Merrimack  Street 

30  Pleasant  Street 

17  Locust  Street 

62  Washington  Street 

40-44  Granite  Street 

23  Locust  Street 

115  Merrimack  Street 

Central  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

Rear  59  Main  Street 

55  Wingate  Street 


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Witham,  B.  N., 
Witham,  Carleton  C, 
Witherell  &  Dobbins, 
Woo:i,  Fred  A., 
Wood,  Roswell  L., 
Wood,  W.  H.,  Sons, 
Wood-Dunnells  Co., 
Woodbury,  Chester  T., 
Woodbury  &  McLeod, 
Woodcock  &  Shute, 
Woolworth,  F.  W.,  &  Co., 
Worcester,  H.  D.,  &  Co., 
Wright,  Robert  L., 
Wyer,  B.  P.,  &  Co., 
Young,  Frank  E., 
Young,  Lewis  J., 
Young,  M.  P., 
Young,  Charles  F., 


Wood  Heels, 

Contractor  <&  Builder, 

Shoe  Manufacturer, 

Shoe  Repairing, 

Alderman, 

Ice  &  Furniture  Moving,  Real  Est., 

Soda   &    Mineral   Waters. 

Attomey-at-Law, 

Jewelers, 

Restaurant, 

Department  Store, 

Toplifts, 

Treas,  Haverhill  Gazette, 

Druggists, 

Soles,  Taps, 

Willett's  Restaurant, 

Ice  Cream  &  Confectionery, 

Auto  Repairing  &  Painting, 


70  Phoenix  Row 

Merrimac,  Mass. 

145  Essex   Street 

39  Water  Street 

14  Stage   Street 

60  Coffin  Ave.,  &  3  Washington  Sq. 

71  Locust  Street 

191   Merrimack   Street 

47  Merrimack  Street 

8  Essex  Street 

74  Merrimack  Street 

18  Granite  Street 

179   Merrimack   Street 

49  Main  Street,  Brad.  Dist. 

62  Fleet  Stret 

12  Main  Street 

7  White  Street 

496  Main  Street 


BRADFORD  ACADEMY 


BR.\DFORD    ACADEMY,    PREPARATORY    SCHOOL    FOR   Y'OUNG   LADIES 


There  is  no  institution  in  which  Haverhill  takes 
more  pride,  or  which  has  reflected  more  credit  upon 
the  city,  that  the  Bradford  Academy.  It  is  the  oldest 
institution  in  New  England  for  the  higher  education 
of  women,  and  was  established  in  1803  by  parishon- 
ers  of  the  Congregational  church  of  Bradford,  and 
until  1836  was  co-educational.  In  its  beginning  it 
was  a  local  institution  and  intended  to  satisfy  the 
demand  of  the  little  town  of  Bradford.  Its  unusual 
advantages  early  drew  students  from  all  over  New 
England  and  for  many  decades  the  patronage  has 
been  national.  More  than  7000  students  have  at- 
tended the  school,  and  throughout  its  history  it  has 
been  fortunate  in  having  on  its  Board  of  Trustees 


men  and  women  of  unusual  capacity  and  devotion 
to  the  interests  of  Bradford.  Miss  Laura  A.  Knott, 
A.  M.,  is  now  principal  of  the  Academy.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  Board  of  Trustees  are: 

Rev.  Raymond  Calkins,  D.  D.,  President;  Her- 
bert W.  Mason,  A.  B.,  Secretary;  Lewis  Kennedy 
Morse,  A.  B.,  Treasurer;  Cornelia  Warren,  Rev. 
Charles  W.  Huntington,  D.  D.,  Doane  Cogswell,  A. 
M.,  Herbert  J.  Brown,  A.  B.,  George  Herbert  Palmer, 
LL.  D.,  John  Wells  Morss,  A.  M.,  Mary  Barstow 
Ward,  James  S.  Allen,  A.  B.,  Kate  Anderson  Ells- 
worth, B.  S.,  Florence  M.  Gushing,  A.  B.,  Caroline 
Louise  Humphrey,  A.  B.,  Laura  A.  Knott,  A.  M.  (ex- 
officio.) 


WHAT  THE  BAY  STATE  STREET  RAILWAY 
MEANS  TO  HAVERHILL 


We  all  realize  that  Haverhill  could  not  be  the 
fine  city  it  is  if  it  were  not  for  its  street  railway  sys- 
tem. Haverhill  is  thus  not  only  a  city  of  manufac- 
turing- plants,  but  a  city  of  homes.  Instead  of  being- 
compelled  to  live  in  the  congested  quarters  people 
are  enabled  to  live  in  the  outskirts  where  there  are 
fresh  air  and  sunshine  and  where  they  can  cultivate 
their  own  gardens  and  live  as  men  and  women  and 
children  should  live  everywhere. 

Many  changes  have  taken  place  in  the  street  rail- 
way business  since  the  Haverhill  and  Groveland 
Horse  Railway  built  its  first  line  from  the  Haverhill 
depot  to  Mill  Street  in  1877,  a  distance  of  one  and 
one-half  miles.  This  line  was  later  extended  to 
Groveland,  a  distance  of  three  miles,  with  an  equip- 
ment of  four  cars  and  eight  horses,  carrying-  daily 
about  four  hundred  passengers.  The  capital  stock 
was  only  $24,000.  In  those  days  the  cars  cost  an 
averag:e  of  about  $600.  Now  the  cost  of  a  car  is 
$8000.  Then  straw  was  spread  on  the  floor  of  the 
car  to  keep  the  feet  of  the  passengers  warm.  Now 
a  most  expensive  electrical  equipment  performs  that 
duty. 

In  1890  the  company  boasted  of  fourteen  miles 
of  track  with  an  equipment  of  38  cars  and  S.'j  horses, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $144,000. 

Then  came  the  greatest  change  of  all.  A  fran- 
chise was  issued  in  1892  to  operate  cars  with  electri- 
city as  a  motive  power.  This  was  the  commence- 
ment of  the  development  which  resulted  in  the  pres- 
ent 6!)  miles  of  track,  comprising  the  Haverhill  di- 
vision. 

Local  interests  were  bought  out  in  1893  by  the 
Lowell,  Lawrence  and  Haverhill  Street  Railway 
Company;  and  in  that  year  the  tracks  were  extended 
from  Chick's  factory  to  Lawrence,  where  connections 
could  be  made  through  to  Lowell,  which  afforded  a 
beautiful  ride  along-  the  banks  of  the  Merrimack 
River. 

Not  wishing-  that  their  neighbors  to  the  west 
should  have  all  the  good  things,  the  people  who  lived 
east  of  Haverhill  demanded  street  railway  service, 
so  in  1895  the  construction  of  the  Haverhill,  George- 
town &  Danvers  Street  Railway  was  begun.  This 
was  extended  in  1900  through  to  Newburyport  and 
Ipswich  via  Dummer  Academy. 

Through   service  from   Haverhill   to   Newburyport 
was  given  in  1898,  when  the  Groveland  line  was  ex- 


tended through  West  Newbury  to  Newburyport 
Plains,  connecting  with  the  Citizens'  Street  Railway 
Company.  This  line  g:ave  connections  to  other  lines 
running-  to  the  beaches  along  the  coast. 

In  1902  the  Haverhill  &  Andover  line  was  built 
from  Ward  Hill  to  Andover  Square,  making-  possible 
through  connections  between  Haverhill  and  Salem, 
Lynn  and  Boston. 

Three  years  later,  in  190.5,  all  the  lines  which 
comprised  the  Haverhill  division  were  consolidated 
under  the  name  of  the  Boston  and  Northern  Street 
Railway  Company,  which,  in  1911  was  consolidated 
with  the  Old  Colony  Street  Railway  Company  under 
the  name  of  the  Bay  State  Street  Railway  Company. 

The  company  maintains  a  beautiful  natural 
grove.  The  Pines,  in  Groveland,  where  there  are 
many  park  facilities  together  with  an  outdoor  the- 
atre where  there  are  performances  daily  during  the 
summer  season. 

At  the  present  time  the  company  operates  in  the 
City  of  Haverhill  26.16  miles  of  tracks,  with  an 
equipment  of  41  open  cars  and  55  box  cars.  Also  16 
snow  plows  which  includes  a  large  rotary  plow,  used 
to  clear  the  tracks  of  ice  and  snow.  The  average 
number  of  passengers  hauled  daily  is  about  17,000. 

The  local  offices  of  this  company  are  situated  in 
the  same  building  as  those  of  the  original  company 
in  1877. 

Of  course,  the  history  of  a  company  is  interest- 
ing but  its  ideals  are  even  more  interesting.  Of  spe- 
cial importance  to  the  citizens  of  Haverhill  and 
vicinity  are  the  ideals  of  the  management  of  the  Bay 
State  Street  Railway  Company.  The  only  right  this 
company  asks  is  the  right  to  be  useful  in  the  most 
efficient  way.  It  realizes  the  scientific  truth  of  the 
statement  "He  profits  most  who  serves  best." 

The  Bay  State  Street  Railway  Company,  there- 
fore, desires  to  give  such  service  to  the  people  of 
Haverhill  that  they  will  be  enabled  to  build  a  city 
that  is  even  greater  than  the  Haverhill  that  exists 
today.  In  building  such  a  city  transportation  is  one 
of  the  greatest  essentials. 

To  furnish  satisfactory  transportation  at  a  reas- 
onable cost  and  to  win  and  hold  the  friendship  and 
co-operation  of  the  citizen  is  the  ideal  of  the  present 
management  of  the  Bay  State  Street  Railway  Com- 
pany. 


7a 


THE  PICTURESQUE  PAST  AND  THE  PRACTICAL 
PRESENT  IN  SHOEMAKING 


No  industry  shows,  as  vividly  as  does  the  shoe 
industry,  the  contrast  of  a  picturesque  past 
and  a  practical  present.  In  no  industry  has 
there  been  so  complete  a  chanRe  from  a  handicraft 
to  a  finely  orRanized  and  co-ordinated  industry  where 
to  all  intents  and  purposes  every  operation  is  per- 
formed by  machinery. 

The  change  was  long  in  coming,  but  it  came  with 
a  rush  and  was  completed  in  not  much  more  than 
half  a  century.  In  18.50  the  machines  used  in  the 
manufacture  of  shoes  were  few  in  number,  rudimen- 
tal  in  design  and  crude  in  output.     Today  there  are 


In  the  hurry  of  things  today,  in  the  rush  for  re- 
sults, past  methods  and  their  picturesqueness  are 
seldom  thought  of.  Dead  and  gone  as  they  may  be, 
they  served  the  centuries  well,  and  deserve  respect- 
ful recollection.  And  it  is  interesting  and  illuminat- 
ing occasionally  to  "think  on  these  things"  from  his- 
torical and  comparative  points  of  view.  And  the  stu- 
dent is  at  once  amazed  at  the  similarity  of  methods 
employed  by  shoemakers  from  the  time  of  the  Pha- 
raohs almost  to  our  own  day. 

The  earlist  known  representation  of  a  shoemaker 
at   work   is   a   painting   discovered   on   the   walls   of 


A    I'Al.NTI.NC    UN    THIC    WALLS    UF  'I-HIOIIIOS 


hundreds  of  machines,  essential  and  auxiliary,  used 
in  making  the  many  kinds  of  footwear.  There  are  one 
hundred  and  forty  distinct  operations  in  the  making 
of  a  Goodyear  welt  shoe,  for  instance,  the  greater 
number  of  which  are  performed  by  machinery. 

What  a  contrast,  the  present-day  machine-made 
product,  and  the  boots  and  shoes  of  our  forefathers 
laboriously  and  patiently  fashioned  by  one  pair — or 
at  best  two  or  three  pairs — of  hands,  with  tools  and 
aids  that  had  changed  but  little  throughout  the  cen- 
turies. Industrial  history  presents  no  sharper  con- 
trast, nor  completer. 


ancient  Thebes  which  has  withstood  the  wear  of  time 
since  the  fifteenth  century  before  the  beginning  of 
the  Christian  era.  These  Egyptian  sandal  makers 
are  seated  on  low  stools,  and  their  primitive  imple- 
ments are  strongly  suggestive  of  those  in  use 
throughout  the  many  centuries  intervening  before 
machinery  so  completely  supplanted  the  handicrafts- 
man. 

An  equally  picturesque  record  conies  from  Greece. 
An  ancient  vase  picture  shows  a  shoemaker  at  his 
work  in  Athens  between  the  years  600  and  400  B.  C. 
The  similarity  of  the  methods  of  the  ancient  Athen- 


77 


ian  to  those  of  modern  times  is  very  noticeable,  and 
taken  as  a  whole  the  scene  suggests  in  many  details 
the  shop  of  the  New  England  cobbler.  This  shoe- 
maker of  Athens  is  seated  on  a  low  stool  before  his 
work-table  or  bench.  With  his  left  hand  he  is  hold- 
ing a  piece  of  leather  stretched  over  a  block  or  board 
of  hard  wood,  and  with  his  right  he  is  cutting  the 
leather  with  a  curved  knife  which  resembles  the 
familiar  meat-chopper  of  the  present  day.  On  the 
wall  hang  another  knife,  some  finished  shoes,  a  ham- 
mer, and  strips  of  leather. 

Another  interesting  vase  picture  presents  a  maid 
of  Athens  being  measured  for  a  pair  of  sandals  or 
shoes  about  500  B.  C.  She  is  standing  on  a  table,  so 
that  a  bearded  workman,  who  is  sitting  in  front  of 
it,  can  mark  the  outline  of  her  foot  on  the  leather  on 
which  she  is  standing.  In  his  right  hand  he  holds 
his  crescent,  a  knife  with  a  curved  blade  which  also 


mender  of  shoes,  was  guide,  philosopher  and  friend 
to  his  neighbors,  and  a  conscientious  craftsman.  His 
little  shop  was  the  local  forum,  from  "the  good  old 
Colony  times"  until  but  a  few  decades  ago.  Here 
he  sat  on  his  leather-covered  bench,  a  patient,  pic- 
turesque, village  institution,  with  few  tools  and  no 
machinery,  and  cut  and  hammered  and  stitched  hour 
after  hour  until  the  boot  or  shoe  was  completed. 

Compared  with  the  many  and  intricate  machines 
now  used  universally  in  the  manufacture  of  footwear, 
the  equipment  to  which  the  cobbler  was  restricted 
seems  almost  impossibly  primitive.  Yet  he  lived  and 
thrived  and  served  his  day  and  generation  well.  The 
awl,  lapstone  and  hammer  come  first  to  mind,  and 
the  long  low  bench  fringed  with  tools,  with  the  leath- 
er-bottomed seat  at  the  left  end. 

Important  among  his  implements  and  supplies 
were:  knives,  skivers,  awls  and  hammers;  lapstone, 


.\  SHOEMAKER  OF  ANCIENT  ATHENS 


resembles  the  familiar  meat-chopper.  An  apprentice 
is  holding  a  piece  of  leather  bent  together,  probably 
destined  to  be  used  for  the  upper  part  of  the  shoes. 
Tools,  lasts,  strips  of  leather,  etc.,  hang  on  the  wall. 
Thus  were  ladies'  shoes  made  in  Ancient  Athens! 

These  early  methods  of  course  were  varied  and 
improved  as  time  went  on,  but  still  the  making  of 
footwear  for  the  divers  peoples  of  the  earth  contin- 
ued to  be  a  handicraft  requiring  laborious  eff'ort, 
painstaking  care,  and  much  time  for  the  production 
of  each  pair  of  sandals,  slippers,  shoes,  high  boots, — 
whatever  the  requirements  of  country  or  century 
called  for — almost  to  the  present  time.  And  our  own 
eager  craftsmen  to  fashion  footwear,  and  for  years 
at  his  bench  was  one  of  the  picturesque  figures  in 
our  history.  He  is  entitled  to  a  moment's  sympa- 
thetic consideration  here. 

The   village   cobbler,   the    olden-time   maker   and 


shoulder  stick,  straps  and  lasts;  shoe  thread,  wooden 
pegs,  bristles,  wax,  heelball,  blacking  pot;  head 
block,  moulding  block  and  mallet,  skiving  board,  shop 
tub,  with  the  old-time  air-tight  stove  as  the  central 
figure  in  the  little  room. 

Thus  equipped  and  surrounded,  with  an  appren- 
tice or  two  at  near-by  benches,  the  village  cobbler 
made  custom  boots  and  shoes  with  infinite  patience 
and  skill.  He  loved  his  work.  Had  you  lived  during 
the  years  of  his  supremacy,  he  would  have  drawn 
the  outline  of  your  foot  on  paper  with  chalk  or  char- 
coal, taken  careful  measurements  over  the  instep  and 
elsewhere,  and  made  your  footwear  entirely  by  la- 
borious and  time-taking  hand  work. 

So  much,  then,  in  the  way  of  brief  glimpses  into 
the  picturesque  past  of  the  art  of  shoemaking,  the 
far-sung  "gentle  art  of  Saint  Crispin."  It  was  in- 
deed picturesque,  it  changed  little  through  many  cen- 


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turies,  and  was  sufficient  unto  itself.  But  it  has  be- 
come a  very  dead  past,  and  in  a  very  few  years,  com- 
paratively. 

It  was  not  until  about  the  middle  of  the  nine- 
teenth century  that  the  beginning  of  a  peaceful  revo- 
lution in  the  manner  of  shoemaking  dawned,  a  revo- 
lution by  which  machinery  supplanted  one  of  the  fa- 
mous handicrafts  of  history.  It  is  doubtful  if  so 
complete  and  far-reaching  a  change  has  taken  place 
elsewhere  in  the  realm  of  industry.  Since  then  the 
era  of  machinery,  speed,  system,  and  service  has 
triumphed,  made  necessary  to  save  time,  labor,  and 
expense,  and  to  meet  the  enormous  increase  in  the 
demand  of  the  wide,  wide  world  for  footwear. 

The  efficiency  of  modem  shoemaking  in  this 
country  which  has  enabled  the  manufacturers  to  meet 


all  the  people,  and  not  only  to  the  people  of  this 
country,  but  to  all  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

The  story  of  the  inventors  who  primarily  made 
all  this  possible  is  old,  and  yet  ever  new,  and  a  brief 
summary  here,  even  if  in  the  nature  of  a  repetition 
and  familiar  to  many  citizens  of  Haverhill,  is  not 
amiss. 

The  beginning  of  effective  shoe  machineryy  dates 
with  the  invention  of  the  sewing  machine  in  1846  by 
Elias  Howe,  a  native  of  Spencer,  Massachusetts. 
About  the  year  1852  .lohn  Brooks  Nichols,  a  Lynn 
shoemaker,  adapted  the  Howe  sewing  machine  to  sew 
the  uppers  of  shoes.  Using  Howe's  revolutionary  in- 
vention as  a  basis,  in  1858  Lyman  R.  Blake,  a  native 
of  Abington,  Massachusetts,  invented  a  machine 
which  sewed  the  soles  of  shoes  to  the  uppers.     This 


^'<A^la.  u&3l^.i. 


A  MASSACHUSETTS   SHOE  SHOP  OF   1860 


the  demands  upon  them, — unprecedented  in  extent  in 
recent  months — has  been  due  to  a  great  degree  to  the 
fact  that  machinery  has  been  perfected  for  practical- 
ly every  shoemaking  process.  Today  a  machine  per- 
forms each  of  the  early  processes  with  great  accu- 
racy, rapidity  and  economy,  and  many  new  processes. 
The  startling  growth  of  the  shoe  industry  in  the 
United  States,  and  especially  the  success  and  pros- 
perity of  the  small  shoe  manufacturer,  has  been  made 
possible  very  largely  through  the  machinery  which 
has  been  available  in  recent  years.  This  standard- 
ization of  shoe  machinery  has  lowered  the  cost  of 
manufacture,  simplified  the  problems  and  facilitated 
the  business  of  every  manufacturer  and  retailer  and 
helped  to  bring  the  best  shoes  within  the  reach   of 


invention  was  financed  and  improved  and  made  a 
commercial  success  in  1862  by  Gordon  McKay,  a  na- 
tive of  Pittsfield,  Massachusetts. 

Auguste  Destouy  of  New  York  in  1862  invented 
a  machine  with  a  curved  needle  to  sew  turn  shoes 
which  was  improved  by  Daniel  Mills  in  1869  and  later 
still  further  perfected  by  Charles  Goodyear,  who  in 
1871  and  1875  obtained  patents  for  machines  which 
were  the  beginning  of  the  famous  Goodyear  welt  sys- 
tem of  manufacturing  shoes. 

As  machine  after  machine  appeared,  however, 
shoe  workers  held  to  the  belief  that  it  would  always 
be  impossible  to  last  shoes  by  machinery,  but  even 
this  problem  was  solved  in  due  time.  Jan  Ernest 
Matzeliger,  living  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  invented 


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a  hand  method  lasting  machine  in  1883,  and  the  prin- 
ciple of  his  machine  has  remained  during  all  sub- 
sequent improvements. 

Many  other  inventors  participated  in  the  devel- 
opment of  shoe  machinery  during  the  last  half  of  the 
last  century  and  are  entitled  to  their  share  of  credit. 
Those  here  mentioned,  however,  show  the  important 
part  which  inventive  genius  played  in  developing  an 
industry  which  today  is  one  of  the  industrial  marvels 
of  the  country,  an  industry  which  has  proved  itself 
in  the  last  three  years  able  to  respond  to  a  world- 
wide  cry  for  help. 

To  meet  present-day  demands,  the  up-to-date 
shoe  factory  is  planned  for  practical  results,  is 
equipped  for  these  results,  and  they  are  forthcoming. 
Picturesqueness   is  not  thought  of  or  desired.    Stand- 


the  manufacture  of  all  kinds  and  grades  of  boots 
and  shoes.  So  systematized  and  standardized  has 
the  industry  become  in  recent  years  that  over  one 
million  pairs  of  shoes  are  turned  out  in  American 
factories  each  working  day.  And  it  was  but  yes- 
terday that  the  patient  cobbler  spent  days  in  fash- 
ioning a  pair  of  high  boots  for  the  village  squire. 

Of  the  many  machines  used  in  this  practical  era, 
mention  may  be  made  of  three,  by  way  of  illustra- 
tion. They  are  among  the  most  important  and  most 
intricate,  and  emphasize  the  triumph  of  mechanical 
skill  over  the  hand  processes  of  former  days.  The 
Rex  pulling-over  machine,  which  pulls  the  upper  of 
a  shoe  over  the  last,  has  been  called  the  machine 
with  human  fingers,  and  deserves  first  place.  Many 
years  of  effort  have  been  devoted  to  its  perfection 


.\    FLOOR  IN  A   MODICKN   .SHOE  KACTOltY 


ardization  of  machines,  co-ordinated  departments, 
and  factory  buildings  so  constructed  and  arranged 
that  operations  and  processes  follow  without  appre- 
ciable loss  of  time  or  interruption  of  labor,  these  are 
among  the  leading  changes  in  recent  years.  Each 
floor  is  clean,  well  lighted,  scientifically  arranged, 
and  run  to  schedule.  Sentiment  is  wholly  lacking, 
system  and  precision  everywhere  prevail. 

The  necessary  machines  and  processes  in  the 
modern  shoe  factory  vary,  of  course,  with  the  class 
or  type  of  shoe.  And  it  will  surprise  even  some  of 
those  who  live  in  such  a  big  shoe  city  as  Haverhill  to 
learn  that  at  the  Beverly  factories  of  the  United 
Shoe  Machinery  Company  there  are  made  more  than 
five  hundred  and  fifty  different  machines  for  use  in 


at  an  expense  of  approximately  one  million  dollars. 
The  Goodyear  welter,  which  attaches  the  inner  sole 
to  the  upper  and  to  the  welt,  and  the  Goodyear 
stitcher,  which  attaches  the  outer  sole  to  the  welt, 
stand  high  in  the  shoe  machinery  list,  for  to  them 
are  largely  due  those  qualities  to  be  found  in  a 
Goodyear  welt  shoe  which  make  a  shoe  most  dur- 
able, comfortable  and  attractive. 

This  brief  review  of  the  march  of  industrial  prog- 
ress from  the  hand-made  to  the  machine-made  shoe, 
from  the  cobbler's  bench  to  the  modern  factory,  from 
a  picturesque  past  to  an  intensely  practical  present, 
should  be  full  of  interest  to  the  people  of  Haverhill, 
the  city  which  leads  the  country  in  the  number  of 
shoe  factories. 


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THE  HAVERHILL  ELECTRIC  COMPANY 


The  Haverhill  Electric  Co.,  one  of  the  city's  most 
important  industrial  concerns,  furnishes  electric 
light,  heat  and  power,  in  Haverhill,  and  many  ad- 
joining towns.  Since  its  establishment  in  1888,  the 
company  has  pursued  a  progressive  policy  and  has 
given  such  satisfactory  service  that  during  the  agi- 
tation for  municipal  ownership  of  public  service  cor- 
porations  in   Haverhill,  several   years  ago,  the  pro- 


1904  1917 

Number  of  Customers,   480  5009 

H.  P.  Capacity  of  Plant, 2,770  11,950 

Miles  of  street  occupied  by  wire,  .  .39.4  91.6 

Miles  of  underground  system,  .  .  .  .none  5.19 

Annual  Taxes,   $3,473.94       $32,071.79 

During  this  same  period  the  maximum   lighting 
rate  has  been  reduced  from  20c  to  lie  per  kilowatt 


OFFICE  BUILDING  OF  THE  H.WBRHILL  ELECTRIC  COMPANY 


position  to  take  over  the  plant  was  put  before  the 
people  and  rejected  by  an  overwhelming  vote. 

In  October,  1904,  Charles  H.  Tenney  and  his  as- 
sociates assumed  the  management  of  the  Haverhill 
Electric  Company.  At  that  time  the  service  was  far 
below  the  present  high  standard,  customers  were 
few,  and  rates  were  high.  The  following  table  indi- 
cates what  has  been  accomplished  in  ten  years: 


hour,  a  reduction  of  45  per  cent.,  while  the  service 
has  been  extended  and  improved  until  today  it  stands 
second  to  none. 

By  its  low  rates  for  electricity  for  light  and  pow- 
er, the  company  has  assisted,  in  a  constructive  man- 
ner, the  growth  and  progress  of  the  city.     Co-oper- 
ating with  the  Haverhill  Advertising  Club  in  1912, 
Continued  onj^age  82 


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MASS.  NORTHEASTERN  STREET  RAILWAY  COMPANY 


The  Massachusetts  Northeastern  Street  Railway 
Company  operates,  in  all,  128.31  miles  of  single 
track,  82.44  being  within  Massachusetts  and  45.87 
within  New  Hampshire.  The  system  extends  along 
the  northern  boundary  of  Massachusetts  and  the 
southern  boundary  of  New  Hampshire,  from  Lowell 
on  the  west  to  Newburyport  on  the  east,  crossing 
the  state  line  at  nine  different  points  and  parrallel- 
ing  in  a  general  way  the  course  of  the  Merrimack 
River.  In  Massachusetts  the  company  operates  in 
the  cities  of  Haverhill,  Lawrence  and  Newburyport, 
and  in  the  towns  of  Amesbury,  Dracut,  Merrimac, 
Methuen,    Newbury    and    Salisbury,    its    cars    being 


carried  into  Lowell  from  a  connecting  point  at  the 
Lowell-Dracut  line.  In  New  Hampshire  the  city 
of  Nashua  and  the  towns  of  Hudson,  Pelham,  Salem, 
Plaistow,   Newton   and   Seabrook   are   served. 

The  company  operates  a  recreation  park  known 
as  Canobie  Lake  Park  in  the  town  of  Salem,  N.  H., 
and  its  lines  extend  to  Hampton  and  Salisbury 
beaches  and  Plum  Island,  affording  a  shore  ride  of 
approximately  14  miles. 

Special  provisions  are  made  for  parties  desiring 
to  travel  by  chartered  cars.     Rates  for  this  class  of 
service  may  be  obtained  at  any  office  of  the  com- 
pany. 
General  Office,     50  Merrimack  St.,     Haverhill,  Mass. 


F.  W.  MEARS  HEEL  CO. 

The  F.  W.  Mears  Heel  Co.,  manufacturers  of 
wooden  heels  of  every  description,  was  established 
in  1907,  and  is  now  engaged  in  business  at  18  Granite 
Street.  The  firm  is  one  of  the  most  important  en- 
gaged in  this  business  and   occupies   20,000   square 


FRKD    W.    MIO.\RS. 

feet  of  floor  space,  and  employs  135  men  and  women. 
The  capacity  of  the  Haverhill  factory  is  1000  dozen 
pairs  daily.  To  meet  the  increasing  demand  for  the 
company's  product,  a  branch  factory,  known  as  the 
Maple  Heel  Co.,  with  a  capacity  of  700  dozen  pairs 
daily,  has  been  established  in  Newburyport. 


Fred  Warren  Mears,  founder  and  present  head  of 
the  concern,  was  bom  in  Essex,  Massachusetts,  in 
1880.  He  became  a  resident  of  Haverhill  when  he 
was  18  years  of  age  and  has  since  resided  here.  He 
is  married  and  has  four  children. 


Haverhill  is  the  trading  centre  of  a  population  of 
over  eighty-five  thousand  people,  and  the  terminus 
of  eight  trolley  lines. 


Haverhill  has  an  area  of  thirty-two  square  miles, 
on  both  sides  of  the  Merrimack  River. 


THE  HAVERHILL  ELECTRIC  CO. 

Continued  from  ^dge  8i 

the  company  planned  and  arranged  the  system  of 
decorative  street  lighting  with  which  the  principal 
streets  of  Haverhill  are  now  adorned.  The  office 
is  located  in  the  company's  building,  situated  at  the 
corner  of  How  street,  at  131  Merrimack  street,  one 
of  the  finest  business  structures  in  the  city,  which 
was  opened  in  1916.  The  plant  is  located  at  161 
Water  street,  and  is  both  extensive  and  modern. 
The  executives  office  is  at  201  Devonshire  street, 
Boston. 

The  company's  policy  of  expansion  has  resulted 
in  extending  its  trade  territory  beyond  the  city  lim- 
its to  Groveland  and  Georgetown,  and  to  the  New 
Hampshire  towns  of  Plaistow  and  Salem.  The  offi- 
cers of  the  company  are:  Charles  H.  Tenney,  pres- 
ident; H.  T.  Sands,  first  vice-president;  F.  L.  Ball, 
manager;  George  W.  Hum,  acting  manager;  E.  A. 
Bradley,  treasurer;  H.  A.  Gidney,  assistant  treasurer 
and  auditor;  H.  P.  Wood,  clerk;  Charles  H.  Tenney, 
Howard  T.  Sands,  H.  P.  Wood,  Samuel  A.  York,  H. 
C.  Warren,  Edward  M.  Bradley,  B.  E.  Hilme,  Ben- 
jamin Howe  and  F.  S.  Smith,  directors. 


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The    Central   Ninth    School,   formerly  the  High  School,  Crescent  Place, 
opposite  City  Hall  Park. 


The  Haverhill  Fire  Department  is  now  completely  motorized  and  is  as  up-to-date  and  effi- 
cient as  any  in  the  country.  This  picture  shows  only  a  part  of  the  apparatus.  (City  Hall  and 
First   Methodist  Episcopal   Church   in  the  background.) 

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WITHERELL  &  DOBBINS  CO. 


EDWARD    A.    WITHERELL. 

Established  October  1,  1907,  Witherell  &  Dob- 
bins Co.,  a  corporation,  has  become  one  of  the  lead- 
ing firms  engaged  in  shoe  manufacturing  in  Haver- 
hill. The  business  was  started  by  George  W.  Dob- 
bins and  E.  A.  Witherell,  and  in  the  first  year  of 
manufacturing  the  total  business  was  valued  at 
$35,000.  Each  succeeding  year  the  volume  of  busi- 
ness has  grown  steadily,  and  in  the  year  ending 
July  1,  1916,  the  volume  of  business  reached  the 
tremendous  total  of  $1,200,000.  The  trade  territory 
of  this  enterprising  firm  is  the  entire  United  States. 
The  firm  is  located  at  14.5  Essex  street,  in  the  Bur- 
gess cement  building,  and  occupies  the  fourth,  fifth 
and  sixth  floors.  The  business  of  the  firm  is  the 
manufacture  of  welts  and  turns  in  low  and  high  cut 
novelties.     The  firm  was  incorporated  July  1,  1912, 


and  the  present  officers  are:  E.  A.  Witherell,  Presi- 
dent; George  W.  Dobbins,  Treasurer;  Phil  English, 
Jr.,  Vice-President;  Morton  C.  Witherell,  Clerk; 
Napoleon  Theriault,  director. 

Edward  A.  Witherell,  who  resides  at  80  Hamilton 
avenue,  was  born  in  Fremont,  N.  H.,  July  27,  1859, 
and  received  a  high  school  education.  He  is  married 
and  has  a  son,  Morton  C,  who  is  a  member  of  the 
corporation.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club. 

George  W.  Dobbins,  was  born  in  Newton,  N.  J., 
August  10.  1862,  and  received  a  common  school  edu- 
cation interspersed  with  hard  labor  on  the  farm. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club  and  the  Port- 
land Street  Baptist  church.  He  is  married  and  has 
one  son,  Stanwood  F.  He  resides  at  38  Columbia 
park. 


GEORGE  W.  DOBBINS. 


BUSINESS  DEMOCRACY. 

"Democracy,"  says  the  Special  News  Service  of 
the  Texas  Commercial  Secretaries  and  Business 
Men's  Association,  "is  the  slogan  of  the  Young  Men's 
Business  League  of  Austin,  Texas.  It  is  proposed 
to  make  every  man  in  Austin,  no  matter  what  his  oc- 
cupation, feel  that  he  must  contribute  his  personal 
effort  toward  achieving  the  upbuilding  and  develop- 
ment of  the  city." 

The  policy  of  development  of  Austin  is  a  pretty 
good  one,  and  that  is  why  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of 


Commerce  has  maintained  the  policy  of  no  initiation 
fee  and  low  dues,  so  that  it  is  an  organization  to 
which  every  man  in  Haverhill,  wage-earner,  salaried 
man,  business  man  and  banker  may  belong.  Unfor- 
tunately, there  are  several  who  do  not  yet  belong, 
but  they  have  the  opportunity  without  any  large 
financial  burden. 


Haverhill  is  located  on  the  Western  Division  of 
the  Boston  and  Maine  Railroad,  thirty-three  miles 
from  Boston,  with  sixty  trains  daily. 


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H.  B.  CAMPBELL  COMPANY 


MA.IuU    HAKUY    B.    CAMPBKLL. 

The  H.  B.  Campbell  Co.  deals  in  wholesale  pro- 
duce and  coal.  Major  Harry  B.  Campbell,  is  presi- 
dent and  treasurer  of  the  firm  and  Marshall  G.  Nich- 
ols is  assistant  treasurer  and  manager.  The  trade 
territory  includes  Haverhill  and  the  surrounding 
towns,  and  the  plant  is  located  at  203  Essex  street. 

Major  Campbell,  president  of  the  firm,  was  born 
in  Dexter,  Me.,  Nov.  19,  1870.  He  was  educated  in 
the  Dexter  High  school  and  Comer's  Commercial  col- 
lege, Boston.  On  April  1,  1902,  he  bought  the  busi- 
ness of  Charles  F.  Meader  and  conducted  it  himself 
until  April  1,  1916,  when  it  was  incorporated.  He 
is  a  member  of  Saggahew  lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Ha- 
verhill lodge  of  Elks,  Agawam  club  and  Rotary  club. 
He  is  married.     He  is  one  of  the  foremost  military 


men  in  this  section  of  the  state,  and  was  captain  of 
Company  F,  Eighth  regiment,  Massachusetts  Na- 
tional Guard,  for  several  years,  and  was  later  elect- 
ed major.  He  accompanied  the  regiment  to  the 
Mexican  border  in  191G  and  when  was  was  declared 
with  Germany  encamped  at  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  and 
later  at  Westfield,  where  the  regiment  was  reorgan- 
ized. Major  Campbell  being  given  important  as- 
signment immediately.  He  is  now  in  France  with 
the  American  Expeditionary  Forces. 

Marshall  G.  Nichols  was  boni  Dec.  27,  1883,  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  and  was  educated  in  the  Haverhill 
public  schools.  He  is  married  and  has  one  son.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Rotary  club.  Commercial  Trav- 
elers and  Junior  Order  of  American  Mechanics. 


lL.\KtiHALL    G.    NICHOLS. 


F=r.. 


There  is  a  general  misconception  of  the  work  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  The  popular  idea  is  that 
it  should  bring  a  new  factory  into  the  city  two  or 
three  times  a  year.  Established  business  concerns 
are  not  often  moving  from  city  to  city,  at  least  not 
the  desirable  ones.  There  are  many  "wild  cat" 
schemes  and  stock-selling  propositions  in  every  mail 
that  comes  into  the  city  of  Haverhill.  It  is  just  as 
much  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  to  keep  these  catch-penny  and  semi- 
swindling  schemes  away  as  it  is  to  get  desirable  bus- 
iness into  the  city.    This  work  is  constantly  going  on. 


In  the  course  of  a  year,  the  Chamber  keeps  thous- 
ands of  dollars  in  Haverhill  that  would  otherwise  be 
taken  away  in  bad  investments. 


The  Chamber  of  Commerce  is  advertising  Haver- 
hill everywhere.  In  the  daily  press,  in  national  mag- 
azines, in  trade  papers,  by  special  articles  and  de- 
scriptive stories,  with  circulars  and  letters,  Haver- 
hill is  being  placed  in  the  lime-light  of  favorable 
publicity.  The  Chamber  believes  that  by  making  Ha- 
verhill a  better  place  in  which  to  live  and  do  business 
more  business  can  be  attracted. 


86 


PERLEY  LESLIE  AND  THE  LESLIE  DRY  GOODS  CO. 


PKRLEY    LKSLIB 

Perley  Leslie  is  a  name  that  stands  out  promi- 
nently in  Haverhill's  retail  business  world;  it  is  the 
name  of  the  founder,  president  and  treasurer  of  one 
of  the  city's  greatest  stores.  Bom  in  Waterville, 
Me.,  April  5,  1858,  Perley  Leslie  was  educated  at 
the  Coburn  Classical  Institute,  Waterville,  Me.  He 
established  the  dry  goods  business  in  Haverhill  in 
1888,  at  5  Water  street.  As  years  passed  and  the 
city  grew,  the  store  flourished  proportionately  until 
it  has  reached  its  present  highly  successful  condi- 
tion. Today  the  Leslie  Dry  Goods  Co.  occupies  four 
floors  in  the  building  extending  from  28  to  40  Merri- 
mack street.  Mr.  Leslie  is  president  and  treasurer; 
Charles  H.  Rogers  is  vice-president,  and  John  R. 
Whittier  is  assistent  treasurer.  The  store  carries 
everything  pertaining  to  dry  goods  and  ready-to- 
wear  garments  for  ladies,  misses  and  children.  It 
caters  to  Haverhill  and  to  all  the  suburban  towns 
and  has  established  an  enviable  reputation  for  qual- 
ity and  fair  dealing.  Despite  the  fact  that  he  has, 
for  30  years,  given  the  closest  personal  attention  to 
the  company,  Mr.  Leslie  has  also  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  the  general  commercial  and  social  develop- 
ment of  the  city.  He  is  vice-president  of  the  Essex 
National  bank,  a  trustee  of  the  City  Five  Cent  Sav- 
ings bank,  treasurer  of  the  Haverhill  Branch,  Amer- 
ican Red  Cross,  a  trustee  of  the  Linwood  Cemetery 
Corporation,  a  trustee  of  the  Young  Women's  Chris- 
tian Association  and  president  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.     He 


is  a  32  degree  Mason,  and  is  prominent  in  the  order, 
being  affiliated  with  Saggahew  lodge,  the  Knights 
Templar,  the  Massachusetts  Consistory,  Scottish 
Rite.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club, 
Redmen,  Jr.  O.  U.  A.  M.,  Knights  of  Malta,  and 
United  Order  of  the  Golden  Cross.     He  is  married. 


The  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce  is  affiliated 
with  the  Essex  County  Associated  Boards  of  Trade, 
the  Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Trade,  the  New 
England  Association  of  Commercial  Executives,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  United  States,  the  At- 
lantic Deeper  Waterways  Association  and  the  Na- 
tional Rivers  and  Harbors'  Congress.  Delegates 
from  the  Chamber  attend  practically  all  the  confer- 
ences of  these  organizations. 


WILLIAM  H.  PAGE  &  SON 

Wm.  H.  Page  &  Son,  engaged  in  a  general  in- 
surance business,  is  a  well-known  Haverhill  firm. 
This  concern  has  acquired  a  wide  reputation,  not 
alone  in  Haverhill,  but  throughout  the  surrounding 
cities  and  towns.  James  G.  Page  conducts  the  busi- 
ness and  the  office  is  located  at  9  Emerson  Street. 
William  H.  Page  was  the  founder  of  the  firm,  estab- 
lishing the  business  in  1881.  Later  the  firm  became 
Wm.  H.  Page  &  Son,  and  the  business  has  been  con- 
ducted under  the  same  name  since  William  H.  Page's 
death. 


JAMES    G.    PAGE 


86 


HON.  EDWIN  HERBERT  MOULTON 


CHAS.  EMERSON  &  SONS 


Hon.  Edwin  Herbert  Moulton  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  in  Haverhill's  civic  and  commercial 
life.  He  was  an  alderman  in  1895-96  and  97,  and  in 
the  last  year  became  mayor,  and  served  in  that  of- 
fice until  1898.  He  then  became  a  member  of  the 
Haverhill  Water  board,  serving  until  1909,  and,  in 
the  meantime,  also  served  as  a  member  of  the  com- 
mission directing  the  work  of  building  the  new  high 
schooll.  In  1909,  after  the  commission  form  of  gov- 
ernment had  been  adopted,  he  was  again  selected 
as  mayor  and  served  for  three  terms,  six  consecu- 
tive years.  He  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Sept.  19,  1860, 
and   was   educated   in   the   Haverhill   public   schools. 


Chas.  Emerson  &  Sons  is  one  of  Haverhill's  his- 
torical business  houses,  as  it  has  been  established 
over  half  a  century.  It  was  founded  September  1, 
1866,  and  deals  in  fine  china  and  glass,  retailing  fine 
imported  and  domestic  wares.  The  trade  territory 
of  the  firm  extends  throughout  New  England.  It  is 
one  of  Haverhill's  oldest  retail  establishments,  and 
is  the  only  china  store  of  its  kind  in  this  section  of 
the  country,  being  considered  the  leading  china  shop 
of  New  England.  The  store  is  located  at  38  Main 
Street.  William  Wells  Emerson,  who  is  head  of  the 
concern,  was  bom  in  Haverhill,  March  9,  1872,  and 
was   educated   in   the   Haverhill   public   schools.     He 


KDWIN   HERBERT  MOULTON 


WILLIAM    WELL.S    EMERSON 


He  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club.  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Saggahew  lodge  of  Masons,  Elks,  Moose, 
and  Rotary  club.  He  is  president  of  the  Morris  Plan 
Co.,  in  Haverhill,  and  a  director  of  the  Haverhill 
National  bank.  His  wife  is  Anna  Belle  Moulton, 
and  he  has  two  children.  Miss  G.  Pauline,  and  Edwin 
L.  He  is  the  treasurer  of  the  Edwin  H.  Moulton  Co., 
the  city's  most  important  wholesale  provision  house. 
The  plant  is  located  at  132  Essex  street,  and  the  firm 
deals  in  beef,  pork,  lamb,  butter,  eggs,  cheese,  can- 
ned goods,  and  produce  of  all  kinds.  The  trade  ter- 
ritory is  Haverhill  and  the  surrounding  towns.  The 
firm  was  incorporated  in  1909  when  Elwin  A.  Edger- 
ly  was  chasen  president. 


has  been  prominent  in  civic  aff'airs  and  has  been 
president  of  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  is  married,  his  wife  before  her  marriage  being 
Martha  C.  Emerson.     They  have  one  child,  Ruth  L. 


The  Traffic  Bureau  of  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of 
Commerce  is  a  member  of  the  National  Industrial 
Traffic  League,  an  organization  concerned  with  the 
traffic  interests  of  shippers  and  receivers,  recognized 
officially  as  such  by  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission, and  comprising  in  its  membership  a  great 
many  of  the  chambers  of  commerce  and  of  the  lead- 
ing industrial  corporations  throughout  the  country. 
By  this  affiliation  the  Chamber  gets  the  benefit  of 
organized  effort. 


87 


THE  HAVERHILL  MILLING  COMPANY 


Few  men  in  Haverhill  have  lived  lives  of  wider 
activity  than  Charles  C.  Chase,  president  of  the  Ha- 
verhill Chamber  of  Commerce.  A  native  of  Haver- 
hill, and  an  alumnus  of  the  Haverhill  public  schools, 
every  chapter  of  his  life  story  is  laid  in  the  city. 
His  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  that  the  city  boasts 
of,  and  it  has  been  prominently  connected  with  Ha- 
verhill, almost  from  the  settlement  of  the  village  of 
Pentucket.  For  generations,  the  Chases  have  been 
leaders  in  the  commercial  life  of  Haverhill,  and 
Charles  C.  Chase  has  admirably  maintained  the  best 
family  traditions.  His  election  to  the  presidency  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  was  a  recognition  of  his 
personal  achievements.  Equipped  with  a  remark- 
able business  instinct,  he  has  alslo  acquired  an  un- 
equalled reputation  for  fairness,  generosity  and  pub- 
lic spirit. 

He  has  been  a  leader  in  all  the  recent  important 
movements  for  civic  betterment.  Lending  the  in- 
fluence of  his  commercial  connections,  he  was  one  of 
the  most  potent  forces  in  the  campaign  of  the  Ha- 
verhill Advertising  club  to  secure  the  modern  street 
lights  for  the  city.  He  has  been  a  consistent  worker 
for  river  development.  He  has  aided  in  building  the 
city  also,  for  he  gathered  a  group  of  associates  about 
him  and  erected  the  Wingate  Associate  factory,  that 
modern  equipment  might  be  available  for  new  manu- 
facturing concerns. 

He  was  born  in  Haverhill,  May  11,  1871.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Haverhill  Trust  Co.,  treasurer  and 
manager  of  the  Haverhill  Milling  Co.,  a  member  of 
various  Masonic  bodies,  Haverhill  lodge  of  Elks,  Pen- 
tucket club,  Rotary  club  and  Wachusett  club.  He  is 
married  and  has  one  son. 

The  Haverhill  Milling  Co.,  which  is  given  the 
benefit  of  his  personal  supervision,  conducts  a  coal, 
grain,  feed,  poultry  supplies,  hay  and  straw  retail 
business  at  170  to  190  Essex  street.     Its  trade  terri- 


tory extends  from  Haverhill  and  its  environs,  to 
southern  New  Hampshire  and  Western  Maine.  The 
company  possesses  the  finest  facilities  for  unloading 


CHARLES  C.  CHASE, 

Real  Estate. 

President    Haverhill    Milling    Co. 


coal  and  grain  in  large  quantities.  The  officers  of 
the  company,  in  addition  to  Mr.  Chase,  are:  George 
W.  Lennox,  president,  and  Jessie  Bourneuf,  director. 


The  Traffic  Bureau  of  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of 
Commerce  has  made  a  good  start.  Seventy-eight 
out  of  103  subscribers  have  used  it,  to  a  greater  or 
less  extent,  and  expressions  of  satisfaction  have 
come  from  quite  a  few  of  those  who  have  taken  the 
trouble  to  learn  what  the  Bureau  can  do.  The  only 
important  difficulty  is  that  more  do  not  seek  the  aid 
of  the  Bureau;  and  yet  this  is  being  overcome  grad- 
ually. The  manager's  practice  is  to  make  routine 
calls  upon  subscribers,  especially  upon  those  from 
whom  he  hears  the  least,  for  the  purpose  of  arousing 
interest  and  securing  patronage. 


MILL.  \V.\REHOUSES  .A.ND  COAL  POCKETS  OK  THIO 
HAVERHILL   MILLING   COMPANT,  ESSEX  STREET 


The  traffic  manager,  in  his  official  capacity,  is  a 
member  of  the  Traffic  Club  of  New  England;  also  a 
member  of  the  Boston  Association  of  Railroad  and 
Steamboat  Agents,  a  similar  organization  but  more 
restricted  as  to  membership. 


88 


GEORGE   B,   LEAVITT 


GEORGE  B.  LEAVITT  &  GOMPANY 


George  B.  Leavitt  &  Co.,  manufacturers  of  shoes, 
is  a  partnership  consisting  of  John  C.  Leary  and 
George  B.  Leavitt.  This  firm  has  been  established 
18  years,  and  has  steadily  progressed  until  it  is  now 
one  of  the  leading  Haverhill  shoe  companies.  The 
factory  of  the  concern  is  located  at  12  Duncan  Street, 
and  the  firm  manufactures  women's  McKay  shoes. 


Both  members  of  the  firm  are  life-long  citizens  of 
Haverhill,  and  by  close  application  to  business,  and 
ability  both  as  manufacturers  and  salesmen,  have 
succeeded  in  developing  their  concern  until  it  now 
possesses  a  prominent  place  in  the  shoe  industry. 

Both  Mr.  Leary  and  Mr.  Leavitt  are  married,  and 
the  former  has  a  daughter. 


Birthplace  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  the  Quaker  Poet,  at  East  Haverhill. 
Preserved  by  the  John  G.  Whittier  Association  and  open  daily  to  the  public. 


89 


KELLY  BROTHERS,  CONTRACTORS  AND  BUILDERS 


Foremost  among  Haverhill  builders  and  contrac- 
tors is  the  firm  of  Kelly  Bros.,  the  members  of  which 
are  George  L.  A.  Kelly  and  Charles  N.  Kelly.  The 
firm  was  established  in  1 880  and  since  that  time  has 
done  business  in  Haverhill.  Early  in  its  history  the 
firm  established  a  reputation  of  ability  and  effi- 
ciency, and  throughout  its  life  has  retained  it.  Not 
alone  in  Haverhill,  where  the  majority  of  the  im- 
portant buildings  has  been  directed  by  the  concern, 
but  throughout  this  section  of  the  country,  there  has 
been  a  steady  and  increasing  patronage.  In  addition 
to  their  business  as  contractors  the  firm  is  also  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  bricks  and  has  success- 
fully conducted  this  enterprise,  thereby  retaining  an 
industry  which  has  been  for  generations  one  of  the 
many  important  businesses  in  Haverhill.  At  pres- 
ent, the  firm  is  located  at  30  Pleasant  Street. 

Charles  N.  Kelly  was  born  in  Salem,  N.  H.,  July 
24,  1854,  and  received  a  common  school  education. 
He  has  been  prominent  in  public  life  in  Haverhill, 
having  served  as  a  member  of  the  common  council, 
board  of  aldermen,  and  as  a  water  commissioner. 
He  is  a  member  of  all  the  local  Masonic  orders,  and 
the  Pentucket  and  Rotary  clubs.  He  is  married  and 
has  five  children. 


CHARLES  N.  KELLY, 
Pre.sident  Haverhill  Chambei"  of  Commerce,   I'JIS 


FIRST    UNIVERS.'VLIST    (.'HURt'H,    KENOZ.\  AVENUE 

90 


CHARLES  KILBURN  FOX 


CHARLES   KILBURN  FOX 

Charles  Kilbum  Fox,  who  died  July  31st,  1912, 
was  recognized  as  one  of  Haverhill's  leading  citizens 
and  business  men.  His  career  as  a  shoe  manufactur- 
er, marked  by  the  organization  and  development  of 
one  of  the  city's  largest  firms,  was  proof  of  the  ex- 
ceptional ability  which  he  possessed.  But  he  also 
became  widely  known  because  of  his  philanthropy 
and  welfare  work.  He  led  the  way  in  bridging  the 
gap  between  employer  and  employe  and  inaugurated 
several  movements  which  brought  workman  and 
manufacturer  into  closer  communion.  Industrial  in- 
surance for  his  workers,  get-together  dinners  and 
summer  outings  when  he  and  his  humblest  worker 
met  on  an  equal  basis,  were  some  of  the  splendid 
movements  he  originated,  each  of  which  had  a  per- 
manent effect  on  industrial  conditions  in  Haverhill. 
He  was  born  January  2.5,  1851,  in  Roxbury,  Maine, 
and  in  his  early  life,  was  a  printer.  Later  he  be- 
came interested  in  the  manufacture  of  shoes  an;l 
continued  in  this  business  until  his  death.  Although 
he,  himself,  had  no  inclination  to  assume  public  office, 
he  assented  to  the  request  of  the  municipal  authori- 
ties when  the  new  high  school  was  being  erected 
and  acted  as  a  member  of  the  building  commission. 
He  also  worked  zealously  for  efficient  municipal 
service.  He  was  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Co.  of  Massachusetts,  a  di- 


rector of  the  Merchants  Bank,  a  trustee  of  the  Ha- 
verhill Five  Cent  Savings  Bank,  and  a  trustee  of  the 
General  Insurance  Guaranty  Fund  of  Massachusetts. 
He  left  a  wife  and  one  daughter. 


The  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade  urged  the  commis- 
sion form  of  government  and  helped  make  Haverhill 
the  first  city  in  the  East  to  adopt  this  plan  of  gov- 
ernment where  it  has  worked  out  with  great  success. 


WARREN  EMERSON 

Warren  Emerson,  who  played  an  important  part 
in  the  commercial  growth  of  Haverhill,  was  born 
December  27,  1853,  in  Salem,  N.  H.,  and  died  in  Ha- 
verhill, May  1,  1913.  He  was  educated  in  the  Salem 
public  schools  and  at  Pinkerton  Academy,  Derry,  N. 
H.  He  founded  the  clothing  house  of  Warren  Emer- 
son, which,  for  years,  was  one  of  the  principal  retail 
businesses  in  the  city.  His  business  ability  and 
acumen  were  widely  recognized  and  he  was  made 
president  of  the  Essex  National  Bank.  The  wisdom 
and  strength  of  his  financial  policies  was  reflected 
in  the  growth  and  extension  of  the  bank  under  his 
direction.  He  aspired  to  no  public  office  during  his 
lifetime,  being  content  with  his  close  attention  to 
his  varied  business  enterprises,  all  of  which  were 
very  successful.  He  was  identified  with  the  Knights 
Templar,  the  Merrimack  lodge  of  Masons,  which  he 
joined  in  1881,  Eagle  Encampment,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  Pentucket  club.  He  was 
married  and  his  widow  survives. 


W.^RREN  EMERSON 


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WILLIAM    J.    PORELL 

IDEAL  VOGUE  SHOE  CO. 

Today  the  Ideal  Vogue  Shoe  Co.  is  one  of  the 
leading-  firms  of  Haverhill's  boot  and  shoe  world. 
The  progress  of  the  concern  is  remarkable  because 
it  was  established  only  on  January  1,  1917.  The 
firm  manufactures  women's  welt  shoes,  and  the  offi- 
cers  of  the  corporation  are: — 

President — Percy   C.   Griest. 

Vice-president — William   J.   Porell. 

Treasurer — John  J.  Sullivan. 

The  factory  is  located  at  115  Essex  Street,  and 
the  goods  manufactured  by  the  firm  are  sold  in  ev- 
ery state  of  the  union.  William  J.  Porell,  the  vice- 
president,  is  also  manager  of  the  company's  factory. 
He  was  born  in  Island  Pond,  Vermont,  February  1, 
1868.     He  is  married  and  has  two  sons. 


THE  BLAKE-CURTIS  COMPANY 

Formed  14  years  ago,  when  a  team  and  a  single 
man  were  employed,  the  Blake-Curtis  Company,  a 
Massachusetts  corporation,  dealing  exclusively  in 
wholesale  groceries  and  supplies,  has  become  one  of 
the  leading  businesses  of  Haverhill,  with  an  annual 
trade  valued  at  over  a  million  dollars,  and  requiring 
the  employment  of  six  salesmen  to  look  after  the  ex- 
tensive trade  territory  which  reaches  to  Rochester, 
N.  H.,  on  the  north,  Lawrence  on  the  west,  Amesbury 
and  Newburyport  on  the  east,  and  Danvers  on  the 
south.    Joseph  Irving  Curtis  is  president  of  the  cor- 


poration and  treasurer.  The  directors  are  Herbert 
A.  Curtis,  Herbert  Atwood,  Frederick  E.  Hurd,  Jos- 
eph I.  Curtis  and  George  F.  Carleton.  The  head- 
quarters of  the  company  is  located  at  262  Winter 
street,  and  the  firm  deals  in  a  complete  line  of  groc- 
eries and  specialties;  flour,  sugar,  beans,  cheese,  etc. 
Joseph  I.  Curtis,  the  president  and  treasurer,  was 
born  in  Norwell,  Mass.,  June  14,  1875.  He  was  grad- 
uated from  the  Abington  High  school  and  Record  & 
Bradford's  Commercial  school.  He  is  a  trustee  of 
the  Pentucket  Savings  Bank,  Universalist  church  so- 
ciety, and  Haverhill  Boys'  Club;  a  director  of  the 
Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Athletic 
F'ield  Association;  and  a  member  of  the  Universalist 
.society,  Pentucket  club,  Saggahew  lodge  of  Masons, 
Commercial  Travelers,  Knights  of  the  Ancient  Es- 
senic  Order,  and  the  Universalist  Men's  club.  Lillian 
Maud  Curtis  is  his  wife,  and  his  daughters  are  the 
Misses  Doris  and  Ruth  Curtis. 


The  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce  has  worked 
unremittingly  for  the  Merrimack  river  improvement 
with  the  Merrimack  Valley  Waterway  Board  and  the 
Federal  Government  officials.  The  Board  has  col- 
lected statistics,  tabulated  facts  and  disseminated  in- 
formation to  further  the  development.  When  the 
boat  line  ran  in  1902,  the  Boston  and  Maine  reduced 
their  rates  from  two  to  four  cents  per  hundred 
weight.  Developed  for  navigation,  the  river  will  ma- 
terially promote  the  growth  and  advancement  of  the 
communities  along  its  banks. 


JOSEPH   IRVING   CURTIS 


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THE  RUDDOCK  SHOE  COMPANY 


AL'.S'I'IX     K.     UL'DUOl'lv 

The  Ruddock  Shoe  Co.,  located  in  the  Burgess 
Buildinff  at  143  Essex  street,  was  incorporated  in 
1909,  and  the  present  officers  are:  Arthur  W.  Bra;l- 
ley,  president;  Henry  S.  Bouve,  vice-president,  and 
Austin  E.  Ruddock,  treasurer.  The  firm  manufac- 
tures women's  McKay  specialties  for  the  jobbing 
trade.  Arthur  W.  Bradley,  president  of  the  firm, 
was  born  July  23,  1877,  in  Lynn.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  in  Bradford.  He  married  Elizabeth 
W.  Judge  in  1903,  and  has  two  children,  son  and 
daughter,  Arthur  Gerhard  and  Kathleen  Elizabeth. 
Austin  Edwards  Ruddock,  treasurer  of  the  corpora- 
tion, was  born  in  West  Newbury,  October  7,  1863, 
and  was  educated  in  the  Haverhill  public  schools, 
having  graduated  from  the  Haverhill  High  school  in 
1882.  He  started  in  business  with  his  father,  the  late 
Thomas  S.  Ruddock,  in  1884,  as  T.  S.  Ruddock  & 
Son,  and  the  firm  name  was  continued  after  his 
father's  death  in  1898  until  1909  when  the  Ruddock 
Shoe  Co.  was  incorporated.  The  name  of  Ruddock 
has  been  associated  with  the  shoe  industry  in  this 
section  since  1875,  when  the  late  Thomas  S.  Ruddock 
started  the  manufacture  of  shoes  in  West  Newbury. 
Austin  E.  Ruddock  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket 
club,  and  the  Boston  City  club.  He  married  Miss 
Claretta  Webster  in  1888.  and  has  two  daughters, 
Katherine  and  Dorothy  W. 


SIX  REASONS  WHY  THE  CHAMBER  OF 

COMMERCE    SHOULD    BE    SUPPORTED. 

FIRST:  Because  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  has 
worked,  is  working  and  will  work  to  forward  the 
manufacturing,  mercantile,  professional  and  finan- 
cial interests  of  Haverhill. 

SECOND:  Because  every  live  city  has  a  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce,  which  is  doing  the  work  in  behalf 
of  all  the  citizens,  which  our  organization  is  endeav- 
oring to  do  in  Haverhill. 

THIRD:  Because  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  is 
representative  of  all  our  citizens — of  all  classes  of 
the  community  banded  together  for  mutual  protec- 
tion and  benefit. 

FOURTH:  Because  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
is  a  non-partisan,  non-political,  non-sectarian  organ- 
ization which  is  not  interested  in  anyone's  race,  re- 
ligion or  politics,  but  asks  co-operation  in  the  inter- 
ests of  a  bigger,  brighter  and  busier  Haverhill. 

FIFTH:  Because  every  city  needs  an  organiza- 
tion which  can  express  the  best  thought  of  the  com- 
munity on  any  given  public  question  before  the  prop- 
er authorities  with  the  prestige  which  all  live  organ- 
izations have  over  individual  effort. 

SIXTH:  Because  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
without  cordial  support  can  do  very  little  for  Haver- 
hill; but  with  the  co-operation  of  its  members  and 
friends  there  is  nothing  within  reason  which  can- 
not be  done  for  this  city. 


ARTHUR  W.    BRADLEY 


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HIKAM    K.    Pl;i:SC(]-l-  I 

B.  F.  LEIGHTON  COMPANY 

B.  F.  Leighton  &  Co.  is  one  of  the  important 
produce  firms  of  the  city.  Hiram  E.  Prescott  is  the 
sole  owner.  The  firm  was  established  in  1876,  and 
is  located  on  Batchelder's  court.  The  business  is 
that  of  wholesale  groceries  and  a  general  line  of 
groceries  is  carried.  The  firm  because  of  its  repu- 
tation is  known  as  "The  Quality  House."  Eastern 
Massachusetts  and  southern  New  Hampshire  is  the 
trade  territory.  Some  of  the  leading  specialties  car- 
ried are  Comer  Stone  Flour,  Silver  Spray  Flour, 
Green  Mountain  brand  canned  goods,  Clicquot  Club 
beverages  and  private  label  teas  and  coffees. 

Hiram  E.  Prescott,  the  owner,  was  born  in  Ken- 
sington, N.  H.,  January  24,  1867.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  in  Kensington,  Exeter  academy  and 
Comers'  Commercial  college,  Boston.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  First  Universalist  church  Men's  club, 
Merrimack  lodge  of  Masons,  Pentucket  lodge.  Royal 
Arch  Masons,  Haverhill  lodge  of  Elks,  Haverhill  Ro- 
tary club  and  Pentucket  club.  He  is  married  and 
has  four  children,  two  daughters,  Pauline  and  Elea- 
nor; and  two  sons,  Percy  L.,  and  Clarence  D.,  who 
are  connected  with  B.  F.  Leighton  &  Co. 


THE  GOODELL  AGENCY 

George  Willard  Martin,  owner  and  manager  of 
The  Goodell  Agency,  the  city's  oldest  insurance 
agency,  has  had  an  interesting  and  versatile  career. 
He  was  born   in   North   Stonington,   Conn.,  Jan.   17, 


1863  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  in 
Rhode  Island  cities.  In  1878,  when  he  was  15  years 
of  age,  he  became  a  clerk  in  a  drug  store.  In  the 
following  year,  he  took  a  similar  position  in  a  sta- 
tionery store  and  when  another  year  had  passed,  ac- 
cepted a  clerkship  in  a  dry  goods  store.  It  was  only 
after  13  years  had  passed  that  he  began  his  life 
work,  accepting  his  first  position  in  the  insurance 
business,  in  1893.  Having  had  so  wide  an  experience 
in  various  lines  of  business,  he  was  able  to  apply 
himself  with  unusual  diligence  to  his  new  profession 
with  the  result  that  he  succeeded  the  owner  in  1905. 
He  has  continued  as  manager  and  owner  of  The 
Goodell  Agency  and  his  success  has  been  proved. 
He  has  been  president  of  the  Haverhill  Board  of  Un- 
derwriters and  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club 
and  the  Haverhill  Rotary  club. 

The  Goodell  Agency  writes  insurance  of  every 
description  and  has  an  extensive  clientele  in  Haver- 
hill and  vicinity.  It  was  established  in  1852  and  the 
present  office  is  at  128  Merrimack  street.  When  or- 
ganized, the  office  territory  extended  from  Lawrence 
to  Newburyport,  with  offices  in  Lawrence  and  Ha- 
verhill. In  the  great  Haverhill  fire  in  1882,  this 
agency  paid  out  over  $750,000.  It  represents  the 
oldest  and  strongest  companies  and  stands  for  relia- 
bility and  service. 


Haverhill  has  the  largest  number  of  individual 
home-owners,  pro  rata  of  population,  of  any  city  in 
the  country, — proving  stability  and  permanent 
growth. 


GEOHGl;;    \V1LL.\KD    MARTIN 


94 


F.  N.  ARCHIBALD  COMPANY 


FKEELON  N.  ARCHIBALD 

F.  N.  Archibald  Co.,  is  a  IMassachusetts  corpora- 
tion, located  at  60  Phoenix  row,  and  ensjag'ed  in  the 
manufacture  of  cut  soles.  It  was  incorporated  in  June, 
1915.  The  officers  are:  Freelon  N.  Archibald,  presi- 
dent and  treasurer;  George  H.  Marquette,  vice- 
president  and  manager,  and  Wallace  Archibald,  sec- 
retary. Freelon  N.  Archibald,  the  president  of  the 
corporation,  was  born  in  Poland,  Me.,  December  2, 
1854,  and  received  a  common  school  education.  In 
1902  and  1903,  he  served  as  alderman  in  Haverhill, 
being  president  of  the  board  in  the  latter  year.  He 
came  to  Haverhill  in  1879  and  engaged  in  business, 
and  his  progress  since  has  been  steady  and  uninter- 
rupted.    He  is  married  and  has  two  sons. 

George  Henry  Marquette,  vice-president  and 
manager  of  the  company,  was  born  in  Haverhill, 
March  10,  1883,  and  was  educated  in  the  Haverhill 
grammar  schools.  Before  becoming  identified  with 
the  Archibald  company,  he  was  with  C.  W.  Arnold  & 
Co.,  as  salesman,  for  13  years.  He  is  married  and 
has  one  child,  and  is  a  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the 
Agawam  club  and  United  Commercial  Travelers. 


A    MONUMENT   TO    CIVIC    ENTERPRISE— THE 
HIGH  SCHOOL  STADIUM. 

HAVERHILL    has    the    best   high    school    stad- 
ium east  of  the  Mississippi  River.     It  came 
into  being  through  the  enterprise  of  a  group 
of  Haverhill  citizens  and  was  made  possible  by  the 


generosity  of  the  Haverhill  public.  Embracing  10 
acres  all  graded,  with  four  and  one-half  acres  en- 
closed with  an  eight-foot  concrete  fence  and  includ- 
ing separate  gridiron,  baseball  diamond  and  running 
track,  the  Stadium  situated  on  Lincoln  Avenue,  just 
out  of  the  heart  of  the  city  cost  about  $26,000.  An 
immense  stand,  erected  of  wood  on  cement  founda- 
tion and  posts,  accommodates  4500  people  and  there 
are  temporary  stands  used  for  either  baseball  or 
football. 

Shower  baths  and  complete  plumbing  facilities 
are  placed  beneath  the  big  stand  and  outside  the  en- 
closure there  is  ample  room  for  the  parking  of  auto- 
mobiles. The  Stadium,  or  Playstead,  was  built  in 
1916  and  Dartmouth  and  Georgetown  clashed  there 
in  October,  being  the  first  college  football  contest 
ever  staged  in  Haverhill,  Georgetown  winning  10-0. 
The  field  is  held  by  an  association  of  business  men 
and  any  profits  from  athletics  at  the  High  School 
are  turned  in  to  reduce  the  debt.  Edwin  A.  Sheri- 
dan is  president  of  the  Haverhill  High  School  Ath- 
letic Field  Association  which  controls  the  Stadium. 

All  college  men  and  others  who  have  seen  the 
field  proclaim  it  the  most  modern  of  its  kind  and 
particularly  well  equipped  for  its  size. 


Haverhill  leads  the  world  in  the  manufacture  of 
low  cut  shoes,  and  stands  third  in  the  country  in  the 
value  of  manufactured  boots  and  shoes,  turned,  Mc- 
Kay and  welts. 


GEORGE   HENRY    MARQUETTE 


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THE  HAVERHILL  NATIONAL  BANK 


The  Haverhill  National  Bank,  the  city's  third 
oldest  banking  institution,  was  granted  its  original 
charter  in  1836.  The  first  location  was  on  Main 
street,  just  above  the  present  entrance  to  the  dis- 
trict court.  Some  years  later  it  removed  to  83 
Merrimack  street  and  in  1883  occupied  the  quarters 
in  the  Masonic  building  at  117  Merrimack  street. 

By  1913  the  location  became  too  small  to  accom- 
modate the  rapidly  growing  business  of  the  bank 
and  the  property  at  the  corner  of  Merrimack  and 
Emerson    streets    was    purchased.      Here    the    bank 


Under  the  presidency  of  the  late  John  E.  Gale, 
the  bank  had  a  steady  growth  in  the  deposit  line 
and  surplus  and  profits.  With  the  leadership  of 
Henry  H.  Oilman,  who  was  associated  with  Mr. 
Gale  for  many  years  as  vice-president,  there  is 
certain    to    be    continued    progress    and    prosperity. 

Mr.  Gilman  has  associated  with  him  as  vice- 
presidents,  N.  Woodburn  Nichols  and  Herman  E. 
Lewis.  Benjamin  I.  Page  is  cashier,  and  Otis  E. 
Little  assistant  cashier.    The  board  of  directors  is: 

Hazen   B.   Goodrich,   Henry  H.   Gilman,   Herbert 


HAVERHILL    NATIONAL    BANK  BUILDING 


erected  the  present  handsome  seven-story  fireproof 
building,  furnishing  splendid  modern  offices. 

The  new  banking  quarters  were  opened  for  busi- 
ness in  June,  1915,  providing  thoroughly  up-to-date 
facilities  for  all  possible  demands. 

August  5,  1916,  the  Haverhill  National  bank 
purchased  the  business  and  good  will  of  the  Mer- 
chants National  bank,  and  the  combined  institutions 
opened  for  business  August  7.  This  gave  the  Ha- 
verhill National  a  commanding  position  among  the 
banks   of  the  city. 


E.  Gale,  Edwin  H.  Moulton,  N.  Woodburn  Nichols, 
Charles  N.  Kelly,  John  A.  Towle,  Charles  A.  Mc- 
Gregor, George  C.  Wadleigh,  Herman  E.  Lewis, 
Charles  W.  Eaton,  Nicholas  C.  Johnson,  Ransom  C. 
Pingree,  Moses  H.  Dow,  Charles  L.  Stevens,  Lament 
H.  Chick,  Dennis  T.  Kennedy,  Charles  P.  Sumner, 
Fred  D.  McGregor,  William  P.  McLaughlin,  George 
W.  Dobbins  and  Charles   Howard  Poor. 

The  capital  of  the  bank  is  $200,000,  surplus 
and  profits  over  $400,000  and  aggregate  deposits 
$3,200,000. 


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FACTORY 

CHARLES  K.  FOX,  Inc. 

Charles  K.  Fox,  Inc.,  one  of  Haverhill's  most 
prominent  shoe  manufacturing  concerns,  established 
35  years  ago  by  the  late  Charles  K.  Fox,  and  incor- 
porated in  1910,  occupies  one  of  the  city's  largest 
factory  buildings,  situated  at  35  Duncan  Street.  Mr. 
Fox  made  for  himself  an  enviable  reputation,  both 
as  a  broadminded  employer  of  labor  and  successful 
manufacturer. 

Fox  Footery  is  America's  premier  line  of  pumps 
and  slippers  and  has  a  nation-wide  reputation.  It 
has  won  its  laurels  because  it  cleverly  combines 
fashions  with  quality.  It  sells  to  an  enormous  num- 
mer  of  most  discriminating  women  of  this  and  other 
countries.  The  Fox  factories  have  the  largest 
output  of  any  firm  in  the  world  making  exclusively 
ladies'  turn  sole,  low  cut  shoes  and  trade  territory 
extends  to  practically  every  market  in  the  world. 

The  officers  of  the  corporation  are: — 

President — Lamont  H.  Chick. 

Treasurer — L.  H.  Downs. 

Directors — Lamont  H.  Chick,  L.  H.  Downs,  John 
H.  Kelso,  A.  B.  Walker,  and  Charles  D.  Howard. 


OF    CHARLES    K.    FOX,    INC. 

Mr.  Grover  is  identified  with  the  Masonic  orders, 
the  Rotary  club  and  Pentucket  club.  He  has  been 
president  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  during  the 
period  of  its  expansion,  and  it  was  largely  due  to  his 
initiative    that   the    organization    adopted    the    pro- 


CHARLES  H.  GROVER 

Charles  H.  Grover  has  been  for  many  years  prom- 
inently identified  with  the  retail  business  activities 
of  Haverhill.  He  is  president  and  treasurer  of 
Chas.  H.  Grover,  Inc.,  dealing  in  men's  retail  cloth- 
ing, furnishings  and  hats.  The  place  of  business  is  a 
modem  store  at  85  Merrimack  street. 

The  firm  was  incorporated  in  1907,  and  has  done 
a  flourishing  business  since,  dealing  in  high  grade 
standard  wearables  for  men  and  young  men. 


CH.^RLES    H.    GROVER 


gressive  policies  through  which  it  became  so  great  a 
force  for  the  betterment  of  the  city.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  important  retail  section  of  the  Chamber  and 
one  of  its  directors  at  the  present  time. 


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THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK 


The  First  National  Bank  was  organized  as  a 
state  bank  on  July  25,  1849,  under  the  name  of  the 
Union  Bank  and  continued  business  until  June  17, 
1864,  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  War,  when  the  National 
Bank  Act  was  passed  by  Congress  and  the  bank  de- 
cided to  enter  the  National  Banking  System,  being 
the  first  bank  in  Haverhill  to  join  the   system. 


by  the  great  fire  of  1882,  but  was  immediately  re- 
built. 

In  1914  the  bank  purchased  the  premises  at 
Nos.  73  to  79  Washington  street,  where  the  present 
beautiful  and  commodious  quarters  were  provided 
and  a  bank  vault  constructed  which  is  the  largest 
and  strongest  in  this  section. 


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FIRST    NATIONAL,    BANK    BUILDING,    73-79  WASHINGTON   STREET 


The  bank  was,  in  its  early  days,  located  at  No. 
94  Merrimack  street  about  opposite  what  is  now 
Pecker  street.  In  1880,  as  the  firms  engaged  in  the 
shoe  manufacturing  industry  were  moving  west- 
ward to  Washington  street,  the  First  National, 
which  was  closely  identified  with  the  shoe  and  leath- 
er business,  purchased  land  at  No.  46  Washington 
street  and  built  a  new  building.    This  was  destroyed 


The  First  National  has  ample  resources  and  an 
enviable  reputation  for  reliability  and  liberality. 

The  present  oflicers  are  Charles  E.  Dole,  Presi- 
dent; George  F.  Carleton,  Vice-President,  and  Fred 
H.  Harriman,  Cashier. 

Directors. — William  E.  Bixby,  George  F.  Carle- 
ton,  Otis  J.  Carleton,  Charles  E.  Dole,  Sylvanus  P. 
Gardner,  Fred  H.  Harriman,  John  A.  Lynch,  S.  Bur- 


98 


ton  McNamara,  Austin  H.  Perry,  William  A.  Rugg, 
William  W.  Spaulding,  Arthur  H.  Wentworth,  Ed- 
ward A.  Witherell. 

Growth   of   Deposits. 

1904 $368,000 

1907 658,000 

1910 1,274,000 

1914 1,755,000 

1917,     2,875,000 

1918 3,410,000 


ROBERT  A.  JORDAN 

The  career  of  Robert  Anson  Jordan,  attorney, 
city  planner  and  authority  on  Colonial  antiques,  is 
linked  to  both  Boston  and  Haverhill.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Boston  municipal  government  and  he 
has    held    important    offices    in    Haverhill,    being    at 


ROBERT    A.    JORDAN 

present  chairman  of  the  Haverhill  Planning  Board. 
Born  in  Boston,  August  31,  1871,  he  was  educated  in 
the  Boston  English  High  school,  Roxbury  Latin 
school,  Harvard  college,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1892,  with  an  A.  B.  degree,  and  Boston  University, 
where  he  was  given  a  B.  L.  degree  in  1894.  He  is 
actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  with  offices 
at  60  State  street,  Boston,  is  a  director  of  the  Essex 
National  Bank,  Haverhill,  and  one  of  the  city's  larg- 
est real  estate  holders.  From  1893  to  1899,  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Republican  City  Committee  of 
Boston,  and  was  an  alderman  in  that  city  from  1899 
to  1901.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Boston  Harvard 
club,  the  Boston  Press  club.   Island   club,   Agawam 


club,  Wachusett  club.  Royal  Arcanum,  Washington 
lodge  and  Mt.  Vernon  chapter,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  In 
1897  and  1898  he  was  on  Gen.  Thomas  R.  Mathews' 
Staff  of  the  First  Brigade. 

His  wife  was  Edith  Myra  Taylor,  daughter  of  ex- 
Mayor  Oliver  Taylor.  They  were  married  October 
6,  1896.  There  are  three  children,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Jordan  Forsyth,  born  October  24,  1897;  Dorothy 
Jordan,  bom  October  17,  1901,  and  Robert  Anson 
Jordan,  Jr.,  bom  May  10,  1904. 

Mr.  Jordan  is  exceedingly  interested  in  municipal 
advancement.  By  birth,  association  and  training  he 
is  closely  acquainted  with  New  England  ideals  and 
his  career  in  Haverhill  has  exemplified  them.  His 
residence  is  the  famous  Saltonstall  house,  one  of  the 
country's  perfect  Colonial  mansions,  and  his  collec- 
tion of  New  England  antiques  is  one  of  the  most 
interesting  and  complete  of  private  collections. 


MOSES  H.  DOW 

Moses  H.  Dow  conducts  one  of  the  most  important 
establishments  in  the  Haverhill  shoe  district,  deal- 
ing in  shoe  goods,  linings,  satins,  velvets,  galoons 
and  every  other  accessory  of  the  shoe  industry.  The 
business  was  established  35  years  ago  by  H.  I.  Pink- 
ham,  and  for  eighteen  years  Mr.  Dow  was  a  partner 
in  the  business.  At  the  death  of  Mr.  Pinkham,  Mr. 
Dow  purchased  the  interest  of  the  estate  of  Mr. 
Pinkham  and  continued  the  business  in  his  own 
name.  The  firm  is  located  at  81  to  87  Washington 
Street,  and  deals  with  all  the  European  nations,  with 
the  exception  of  the  Central  Powers,  with  South 
America  and  Australia,  and  with  all  the  American 
markets.  Moses  H.  Dow  is  a  prominent  Haverhill 
citizen,  and  was  bom  in  Hampstead,  N.  H.,  in  1861. 


GROVELAND  CO-OPERATIVE  BANK 

The  Groveland  Co-operative  Bank,  which  con- 
ducts a  strictly  co-operative  banking  business,  was 
established  in  November,  1895,  and  is  located  in  the 
George  building,  in  Groveland,  and  also  at  111  Mer- 
rimack street,  in  Haverhill.  The  trade  territory  of 
the  bank  is  Haverhill  and  Groveland.  The  current 
rate  of  interest  paid  to  shareholders  is  five  and  a 
half  per  cent,  per  annum.  Five  dollars  deposited  in 
this  bank  each  month  for  twelve  years,  making  a 
total  deposit  of  $720,  accumulates  interest,  at  the 
present  rate,  so  that  at  the  end  of  the  period,  the 
depositor  can  withdraw  from  the  bank  $1007. 

The  officers  of  the  bank  are:  President,  E.  H.  Par- 
ker; vice-president,  William  T.  Pike;  treasurer, 
George  Mitchell. 

Directors:  E.  H.  George,  S.  B.  George,  John  Ma- 
gee,  Allen  G.  Twombly,  Edward  McCormick,  Walter 
H.  Spofford,  Edward  L.  Sides,  Harry  W.  Vaughan, 
Albert  H.  Amazeen  and  George  Mitchell. 


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HAVERHILL  TRUST  CO. 

The  Haverhill  Trust  Co.  with  assets  of  almost 
three  millions  of  dollars,  is  one  of  the  city's  promi- 
nent banking  institutions.     It  was  established  May 


14,  1891.  The  bank  occupies  its  own  building  at  163 
Merrimack  Street,  and  has  recently  remodelled  the 
banking  rooms  to  furnish  adequate  facilities  for  its 
increasing  business.     George   W.   Lennox  is   presi- 


dent; Lewis  H.  Giles  is  vice-president  and  treasurer, 
and  Irving  L.  Keith  is  a  vice-president.  The  direc- 
tors are: — Albert  B.  Blaisdell,  Lawrence  Callaghan, 
Charles  C.  Chase,  Lester  A.  Colby,  George  H.  Dole, 
W.  Eugene  Ellis,  Lewis  H.  Giles,  Milton  A.  Gilpin, 
Daniel  C.  Hunt,  Irving  L.  Keith,  David  R.  Knipe, 
George  W.  Lennox,  George  Nichols,  2nd,  Edson  W. 
Noyes,  D.  S.  Frank  Page,  Austin  E.  Ruddock,  John 
W.  Russ,  John  J.  Ryan,  Arthur  R.  St.  Onge,  Fred  J. 
Thompson  and  Robert  L.  Wright.  The  report  of  the 
condition  of  the  company  at  the  close  of  business 
October  1,  1918,  was  as  follows: — 
Assets. 

Loans    $2,225,630.85 

Stocks  and  Bonds    261,445.26 

Due  from  Banks  and  Cash       497,276.36 
Banking    House    and    Fix- 
tures             68,110.54 

Other   Assets    1,666.09 

$3,054,129.10 
Liabilities. 

Capital   Stock    $200,000.00 

Surplus    40,000.00 

Undivided    Profits    83,950.15 

Deposits    2,729,649.39 

Other   Liabilities    529.56 


$3,054,129.10 


THE   FIRST   PARISH    (UNITARIAN)    CHURCH,    CORNER   MAIN   AND   NEWELL 
STREETS.       CENTRAL    NINTH    SCHOOL    IN     THE    BACKGROUND. 


100 


ARTHUR  R.  ST.  ONGE 

Pew  citizens  of  Haverhill  have  had  a  career  bet- 
ter illustrating  the  opportunities  awaiting  the  wide- 
awake young  man  than  Arthur  R.  St.  Onge,  who,  five 
years  after  entering  business,  is  a  member  of  the 


ARTHUR  R.  ST.  ONGE 
Board  of  Parli  Commissioners,  director  of  two  banks, 
and  one  of  the  leading  clothiers  of  the  city.  He  was 
born  in  Haverhill,  July  23,  1875,  and  was  educated  in 
the  Haverhill  public  schools.  He  has  a  wife  and  four 
children,  Victor  A.,  aged  13;  Lucien  R.,  aged  11;  Al- 
cide  R.,  aged  eight,  and  Hubert  J.,  aged  eight  months. 
The  Clever  Clothes  Shop,  of  which  he  is  the  sole 
owner,  is  one  of  Haverhill's  busiest  men's  stores, 
situated  at  25  Essex  street.  It  was  established  in 
a  small  way,  in  1907,  and  has  since  enjoyed  a  healthy 
growth,  specializing  in  Sherman- Welton-Steefel, 
Strauss  &  Connor's  "Clever  Clothes,"  and  Hick- 
ey-Freeman's  celebrated  lines.  The  novel  motto  of 
the  store  has  been  "We  Want  Your  Business,"  and  in 
pursuance  of  this  policy,  the  establishment  has  built 
up  a  remarkably  fine  trade.  Very  recently  the  store 
had  installed  the  latest  models  of  fixtures  and  show 
cases.  Mr.  St.  Onge  is  a  member  of  Haverhill  lodge, 
165,  B.  P.  0.  E.;  Haverhill  council,  K.  of  C;  St.  Jean 
Baptiste  society,  L'Orpheon  club,  of  which  he  is 
treasurer;  Haverhill  Boys'  club,  Rochambeau  club, 
Court  Napoleon  I,  Foresters  of  America,  Haverhill 
lodge,  848,  L.  O.  O.  M.;  Court  St.  Joseph,  953,  Cath- 
olic Order  of  Foresters;  Les  Patriotes  Independents, 
and  the  Haverhill  Rotary  club.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Haverhill  Trust  Co.,  Haverhill  Mor;  is  Plan  Bank 
and  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce. 


JOHN  H.  SAYWARD 

Perhaps  none  of  Haverhill's  business  men  is  more 
widely  known  than  John  H.  Sayward,  creator  of  the 
famous  slogan,  "Do  It  Now,"  and  one  of  New  Eng- 
land's most  prominent  figures  in  the  hardware  trade. 
Born  July  23,  1868,  in  Center  Harbor,  N.  H.,  he  was 
educated  at  the  New  Hampton,  N.  H.,  Business  Col- 
lege. In  December,  1882,  his  businss  career  began 
and  since  that  time  has  been  a  continued  success. 
He  conducts  a  retail  hardware,  cutlery,  paint,  varnish 
and  fishing  tackle  establishment  in  Haverhill,  is  one 
of  the  largest  stockholders  in  the  Atlantic  Coast 
Hardware  Co.  of  Boston.  His  place  in  the  business 
world  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  he  is  a  past  presi- 
dent and  chairman  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  New 
England  Retail  Hardware  Dealers'  Association,  a 
trustee  of  the  Pentucket  Savings  Bank,  a  director  of 
the  Haverhill  Co-operative  Bank,  Haverhill  Morris 
Plan  Bank  and  Atlantic  Coast  Hardware  Co.,  of  Bos- 
ton; a  member  of  the  National  Retail  Hardware 
Dealers'  Association,  Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Trade.  His  so- 
cial life  is  as  wide,  for  he  is  a  member  of  Saggehew 
lodge,  Haverhill  council  and  Pentucket  chapter,  Ma- 
sonic bodies;  Haverhill  commandery.  Knight  Tem- 
plars; Allepo  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine;  Merrimack 
Valley  lodge  of  Perfection,  Palestine  lodge,  K.  of  P.; 
Rathbone   temple,   P.   S.;   John   G.   Whittier  council. 


.TOHN    H.    SAYWARD 

Royal  Arcanum;  Burtt  lodge,  53,  A.  O.  U.  W.;  A.  O. 
U.  W.  Benefit  Association,  Haverhill  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  Pentucket  club  and  Haverhill  Rotary 
club. 


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PENTUCKET  SAVINGS  BANK 

The  Pentucket  Savings  Bank,  another  of  Haver- 
hill's savings  institutions,  was  incorporated  in  1891. 


PENTUCKET   SAVINGS   BANK 
The  bank  is  located  at  42  Washington  street.     On 
February  1,  1917,  the  total  assets  of  the  bank  were: 
$2,455,134.55.     Deposits   from    $1   to   $1000   are   re- 


ceived daily  at  the  bank  and  are  put  upon  interest 
on  the  first  day  of  February,  May,  August  and  No- 
vember. The  bank  allows  deposits  to  accumulate  to 
$2000  by  addition  of  dividends.  Dividends  are  com- 
puted February  1  and  August  1,  upon  sums  then  on 
deposit  and  which  have  been  on  deposit  for  three  or 
six  months  preceding.  Money  may  be  withdravra  on 
any  business  day.  The  banking  hours  are  from  9 
to  2  o'clock,  on  each  business  day  except  Saturday, 
when  the  hours  are  from  9  to  12.30  o'clock.  The 
officers  of  the  bank  for  1917  are: 

President,  Joseph  W.  Vittum;  vice-presidents, 
George  H.  Carleton,  Daniel  C.  Hunt. 

Trustees,  George  F.  Carleton,  George  H.  Carle- 
ton,  Willard  G.  Cogswell,  Joseph  I.  Curtis,  George 
W.  Dobbins,  Arthur  F.  Durgin,  Daniel  G.  Fox,  James 
W.  Harris,  Daniel  C.  Hunt,  Nicholas  C.  Johnson,  J. 
Frank  Nichols,  Fred  W.  Peabody,  John  H.  Sayward, 
Irving  F.   Sleeper,  Joseph  W.  Vittum. 

Board  of  investment:  George  F.  Carleton,  James 
W.  Harris,  Daniel  C.  Hunt,  Joseph  W.  Vittum. 

Auditors:  Willard  G.  Cogswell,  Daniel  C.  Hunt, 
Daniel  G.  Fox. 

Treasurer:  Henry  B.  George. 

Teller:   H.  Ivan  Hall. 


FAC'L-ul:\  UF  THE  HAVERHTLL  lUULDING  ASSOCIATION,  WALNTTT  ST., 
WHICH  STARTED  THE  BUILDING  BOOM  IN  HAVERHILL.  THE  HAVERHILL 
BOARD  OF  TRADE  WAS  RESPONSIBLE  FOR  THIS  FINE  BUILDING,  THE 
FIRST  OF  THE  MODERN   SHOE  FACTORIES  TO  BE  BUILT  HERE. 

102 


WILLIAM  EDWARD  HOW 

William  Edward  How  is  a  native  of  Haverhill, 
and  was  born  January  10,  1858.  He  was  educated 
in  the  Haverhill  common  and  high  schools,  and  was 
graduated   from    Amherst   college,    in    the    class    of 


stationery,  also  handling  specialties  in  cutlery,  fancy 
leather  goods,  fountain  pens,  typewriters  and  type- 
writer suplies,  filing  cabinets  and  loose  leaf  books. 


WILLIAM   E.    HOW 

1881.  He  is  a  stationer  on  Washington  square, 
where  he  conducts  a  model  store.  He  was  the  first 
secretary  of  the  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade,  and  when 
the  Haverhill  Advertising  club  was  formed  he  was 
elected  as  its  first  president.  This  organization  in- 
itiated the  campaign  for  the  new  White  Way  and 
succeeded  in  raising  the  major  portion  of  the  sub- 
scription. Later,  the  Haverhill  Rotary  club  was 
formed,  largely  through  Mr.  How's  efforts,  and  he 
was  named  as  its  first  president.  In  this  manner  he 
has  been  one  of  the  first  principal  officers  in  every 
association  formed  in  Haverhill  to  stimulate  indus- 
try and  civics.  Before  becoming  engaged  in  the 
business  of  stationer,  he  was  a  newspaper  worker 
and  was  editor  of  the  Haverhill  Daily  Bulletin,  the 
Lowell  Daily  Times,  the  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Daily  Her- 
ald. He  was  a  charter  member  of  Haverhill  lodge, 
165,  B.  P.  O.  E.;  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Wa- 
chsett  club.  He  is  a  Mason,  a  member  of  the  U.  O. 
G.  C,  and  a  director  of  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

Mr.  How  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  stationery  firm 
in  which  he  is  interested.  In  1897,  he  succeeded  the 
old  firm  of  C.  C.  Morse  &  Son,  which  had  been  in 
business  29  years.  The  store  is  located  at  27  Wash- 
ington square,  and  deals  in  social  and  commercial 


HON.  WILLIAM  H.  MOODY 

William  Henry  Moody,  Haverhill's  most  distin- 
guished jurist,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  Dec.  23, 
1853,  the  son  of  Henry  L.  and  Melissa  Augusta  (Em- 
erson) Moody.  He  was  graduated  at  Phillips  (An- 
doverj  Academy  1872;  A.  B.,  Harvard,  1876;  studied 
law  in  the  office  of  Richard  H.  Dana,  Boston;  (L.  L. 
D.,  Amherst  and  Tufts  Colleges,  1904;)  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1878  and  began  practice  at  Haverhill.  He 
was  City  Solicitor  1888-90;  District  Attorney  for  the 
Eastern  Dist.  of  Mass.  (Essex  County)  1890-95; 
elected  to  the  54th  Congress  to  succeed  the  late  Gen. 
William  Cogswell  for  his  unexpired  term  in  1895, 
and  was  re-elected  for  the  next  three  terms,  1897- 
1903;  resigned  from  the  57th  Congress  April  30, 
1902,  to  become  Secretary  of  the  Navy  under  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt,  holding  this  place  in  the  Cabinet 
from  May  1,  1902,  to  July  1,  1904.  He  became  At- 
torney-General of  the  United  States  July  1,  1904, 
serving  until  Dec.  16,  1906.  On  the  following  day  he 
was  appointed  associate  Justice  of  the  U.  S.  Su- 
preme Court,  where  he  served  with  distinction  and 


MR.    JUSTICE    WILLIAM    H.    MOODY 

honor  until  compelled  by  ill  health  to  retire  on  Nov. 
20,  1910. 

The  last  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  his  beau- 
tiful home  on  Saltonstall  Road  in  this  city,  where  he 
died  July  2,  1917. 


103 


MERRIMACK  NATIONAL  BANK 

The  Merrimack  National  Bank,  occupies  an  in- 
teresting place  in  Haverhill's  banking  world,  for 
having  rounded  out  a  century  of  existence,  it  is  the 
oldest  bank  in  Haverhill,  and  is  now,  after  104  years 
of  steady  progress  one  of  the  city's  strongest  and 
most  popular  financial  institutions.  The  bank  was 
established  in  1814,  and  the  banking  house  is  located 
at  20  Washington  Street,  in  a  building  which  has 
been  reconstructed  to  meet  the  demands  of  a  modern 
banking  institution. 


BUILD  AS  WELL  AS  BOOST 

Trade  in  Haverhill. 

The  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce  represents 
organized  optimism. 

The  Chamber  is  working  all  of  the  time  for  all  of 
the  people. 

One  way  to  make  money  is  to  spend  it  in  boosting 
community  business. 

When  away  from  Haverhill,  don't  be  a  back- 
slider. Write  "Haverhill"  on  the  hotel  register  as 
if  you  meant  it. 

The  close-fisted  miser  who  is  afraid  to  invest  a 
dollar  in  boosting  his  ovioi  city  should  remember  that 
shrouds  have  no  pockets. 


It 


MERRIMACK  NATIONAL  BANK 


The  Merrimack  National  Bank  has  had  a  wonder- 
ful history  because  it  has  carried  on  a  commercial 
banking  business  for  more  than  a  hundred  years 
without  a  default.  The  demands  of  its  present  pa- 
tronage are  so  great  that  three  floors  of  the  bank 
building  are  occupied,  and  on  each  of  the  three  floors, 
served  by  electric  elevators,  are  special  rooms  for 
customers. 

Charles  W.  Arnold,  a  prominent  figure  in  the 
city's  business  life,  is  president  of  the  bank,  and  as- 
sociated with  him  is  a  group  of  leading  business 
men  and  citizens,  as  follows: — 

Vice-president — John  L.  Hobson. 

Cashier — Arthur  P.  Tenney. 

Assistant  Cashier — C.  Archie  Home. 

Directors — Warren  Kimball,  John  L.  Hobson,  Al- 
fred Kimball,  Arthur  D.  Veasey,  Osman  S.  Currier, 
Charles  L.  Briggs,  Charles  H.  Davis,  Charles  W. 
Arnold,  Myron  L.  Whitcomb,  Charles  Gleason,  Ira  J. 
Webster,  Eugene  T.  Adams,  Fred  M.  Hodgdon,  Sher- 
man H.  Marshall,  Henry  L.  Taylor,  Robert  D.  Trask, 
Grant  H.  Fairbanks,  Arthur  L.  Hobson,  Charles  W. 
Arnold,  Jr.,  Arthur  H.  Veasey,  Harry  E.  Adams. 


"I  like  to  see  a  man  proud  of  the  place  in  which 
he  lives.  I  like  to  see  a  man  live  in  it  so  that  his 
place  will  be  proud  of  him.  Be  honest,  but  hate  no 
one;  overturn  a  man's  wrong-doing,  but  do  not  over- 
turn him  unless  it  must  be  done  in  overturning  the 
wrong.  Stand  with  anybody  that  stands  right.  Stand 
with  him  while  he  is  right,  and  part  with  him  when 
he  goes  wrong." — Abraham  Lincoln. 


JOHN  J.  MACK,  CITY  MARSHAL.     HEAD  OF  HAVER- 
HILL,   POLICE    FORCE    FOR    THE    PAST     12    YEARS 


104 


THE  TAYLOR-GOODWIN  COMPANY 


ESSEX  NATIONAL  BANK 


The  Taylor-Goodwin  Company  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing coal  and  lumber  yards  of  Essex  County.  The 
original  concern  was  organized  in  18  and  incor- 
porated in  1894.    Under  the  able  management  of  the 


HAROLD    M.    GOODWIN 

late  George  M.  Goodwin,  it  was  developed  into  one 
of  the  largest  enterprises  of  the  city,  and  today, 
through  its  efficient  services  to  the  public,  is  play- 
ing an  important  part  in  making  Haverhill  a  "big- 
ger, better,  and  busier  city." 

Harold  M.  Goodwin,  President  and  Treasurer,  was 
bom  in  Haverhill,  April  7,  1886.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  city  and  graduated  from 
Harvard  University  in  1908.  He  was  married  in 
1914  to  Mary  Parker  Hubbard,  also  of  Haverhill, 
and  they  have  one  son.  Mr.  Goodwin  is  a  member 
of  the  Rotary,  Monday  Evening,  Pentucket  and  Aga- 
wam  Clubs,  and  a  director  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Since  the  death  of  his  father,  George  M.  Good- 
win, in  1909,  he  has  been  actively  engaged  in  busi- 
ness and  connected  with  various  banking  institutions 
about  the  city,  including  the  Essex  National  Bank, 
Haverhill  Savings  Bank,  and  the  Haverhill  Morris 
Plan  Company.  He  is  also  administrator  of  his 
father's  estate  which  embraces  one  of  the  largest 
real  estate  holdings  in  Haverhill. 


The  Essex  National  Bank  was  formed  July  5, 
1851,  as  a  state  bank.  E.  J.  M.  Hale  was  the  first 
president.  The  bank  afterward  became  a  national 
bank  and  has  continued  in  business  in  Haverhill  un- 
interruptedly since  its  organization. 

It  has  a  Savings  Department  as  well  as  all  the 
ordinary  branches  of  a  national  bank. 

The  advance  made  by  the  bank  during  the  past 
ten  years  is  evidenced  by  the  following: 

1907  1918 

Deposits,    $220,190.47      $1,747,693.12 

Surplus,     20,000.00  100,000.00 

Undivided    Profits,    22,489.94  50,205.26 

The  Directors  are:  Charles  A.  Pingree,  President; 
Perley  Leslie,  Vice-President;  John  S.  Mason,  Har- 
old M.  Goodwin,  George  E.  Kimball,  Robert  A.  Jor- 
dan. 

The  following  constitute  the  office  force:  Fred  L. 
Tovimsend,  cashier;  James  C.  Pease,  paying  teller; 
A.  Raymond  Reed,  receiving  teller;  W.  Harold 
Whiting,  clerk;  Anna  C.  Pierce,  savings  depart- 
ment; Katherine  Palmer,  bond  department;  Maude 
E.  Dow,  Maude  H.  Murray,  bookkeepers. 

The  bank  has  worked  upon  the  policy  of  personal 
service,  giving  the  same  interest  to  small  accounts 
as  to  large  accounts,  and  always  considering  the 
interests  of  the  city  of  Haverhill. 


Save  your  dues  and  more  by  telephoning  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  for  information  about  all 
advertising  schemes. 


COMMUNITY   COMPETITION. 

Are  you  engaged  in  business? 

If  you  are,  you  know  the  meaning  of  competition. 
You  know  what  it  means  to  have  men  in  the  same 
line  of  business  seeking  out  the  trade  and  traffic  you 
desire  to  secure. 

This  is  an  age  of  competition;  an  age  of  keen 
competition  and  it  is  getting  keener.  Business  houses 
are  continually  seeking  up  and  down  the  highways 
and  byways  for  men  who  can  devise  and  execute 
ways  and  means  of  producing  more  business. 

And  as  there  is  a  competition  between  business 
houses,  so  also  is  there  a  competition  between  com- 
munities; and  quite  as  keen,  too.  Cities  and  toviTis 
are  applying  to  their  development  the  same  princi- 
ples that  successful  business  houses  are  applying  to 
theirs. 

As  the  condition  of  any  business  in  a  given  com- 
munity is  more  or  less — and  generally  more  than 
less — measured  by  the  general  conditions  in  that 
community,  community  competition  becomes  a  per- 
sonal, a  vital  matter  to  you. 

Therefore,  you  as  a  business  man  cannot  afford 
not  to  join  with  your  business  competitors  in  meet- 
ing the  competition  your  community  is  experiencing 
with  other  communities. — "The  Efficient  Citizen." 


105 


D.  D.  CHASE  LUMBER  COMPANY 

The  D.  D.  Chase  Lumber  Co.  has  been,  for  72  years, 
a  prominent  factor  in  Haverhill  commercial  life.  The 
firm  deals  in  lumber  and  other  building  materials. 
The  business  was  established  by  Abel  Chase  in  1845, 
and  was  continued  by  him  until  1850,  when  he  took 
in  partnership  his  oldest  son,  David  D.,  and  it  was 
carried  on  until  1855,  as  A.  Chase  &  Son,  at  which 
time  A.  Washington  Chase,  the  second  son  bought 
out  the  interest  of  his  father,  and  the  firm  was  car- 
ried on  as  D.  D.  &  A.  W.  Chase  until  1865,  when  it 
was  sold  to  E.  E.  Stimpson.  It  was  carried  on 
under  that  name  until  1897,  when  it  was  sold  to  the 
present  owners,  Charles  D.  Porter  and  Charles  H. 
Croy,  who  have  continued  it  under  the  title  of  The 
D.  D.  Chase  Lumber  Co.     The  firm  was  incorporated 


chaiu.es  h.  croy 

in  1905,  with  the  following  officers: — Charles  H. 
Croy,  Charles  D.  Porter,  and  Henry  L.  Stone.  The 
firm  has  an  extensive  establishment  at  9  Washing- 
ton Avenue,  where  the  office  and  lumber  yard  are 
located. 

Charles  Hudson  Croy,  president  of  the  company, 
was  bom  in  Newbum,  Shelby  County,  Ohio,  March 
26,  1858,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  He 
is  married  and  has  two  children.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Pentucket  club.  Rotary  club,  affiiliated  with 
the  Masonic  and  Odd  Fellows,  vice-president  of  the 
City  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank,  president  of  the  Hill- 
dale  Cemetery  Corporation.  He  was  elected  Mayor 
on  Dec.  3,  1918,  to  serve  the  two  year  term  of 
1919-20. 

Charles  Dudley  Porter,  treasurer  of  the  company, 


is  a  native  of  Haverhill,  was  bom  August  27,  1863. 
He  was  educated  in  the  Haverhill  schools  and  Har- 
vard College.  He  is  secretary  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Haverhill  Public  Library,  treasurer  of  Hilldale  Cem- 
etery Corporation,  a  trustee  of  the  Haverhill  Savings 
Bank,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club.  Island 
Golf  club,  Fortnightly  club,  Rotary  club  of  Haver- 
hill, the  St.  Botolph  club  and  Harvard  club  of  Boston. 


HAVERHILL  GAS  LIGHT  COMPANY 

The  Haverhill  Gas  Light  Company  is  one  of  the 
leading  public  service  corporations  in  the  Merrimack 
Valley,  being  the  only  concern  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture and  sale  of  illuminating  gas  in  Haverhill  and 
adjoining  towns.  The  office  of  the  company  is  at  30 
Washington  Square,  and  the  manufacturing  plant, 
which  is  equipped  in  a  modern  manner,  is  at  284 
Winter  Street.  The  firm  manufactures  and  dis- 
tributes gas  for  lighting,  cooking  and  heating,  and 
sells  gas  appliances  of  all  kinds.  The  trade  territory 
includes,  in  addition  to  Haverhill,  the  towns  of  Grove- 
land,  Merrimac,  and  the  Merrimacport  district. 

The  officers  of  the  company  are: — 

President — Frederick   P.    Royce. 

Vice-president — Marcy  L.  Sperry. 

Treasurer — Henry  B.  Sawyer. 

Manager — F.  M.   Roberts. 

General  Managers — Stone  &  Webster. 


HAVERHILL  BOX  BOARD  COMPANY 

The  Haverhill  Box  Board  Co.,  manufacturers  of 
box  boards  and  Calno  Wall  Board,  is  one  of  Ha- 
verhill's principal  industrial  plants,  and  the  product 
of  the  company  ranks,  in  value  of  output,  second  in 
the  city's  commerce,  being  exceeded  only  by  the 
city's  total  output  of  boots  and  shoes.  The  officers 
of  the  company  are: — 

President — Cravirford  Fairbanks. 

Secretary,  Treasurer,  and  Manager — Grant  H. 
Fairbanks. 

Superintendent — Andrew   Muirhead. 

The  company  was  established  in  1902,  and  the 
office  and  manufacturing  plant  are  located  on  Kim- 
ball Street,  Bradford  district.  The  company  manu- 
factures all  grades  of  board  for  paper  boxes,  clay 
coating,  and  lithographic  work.  The  trade  territory 
of  the  concern  extends  throughout  New  England  and 
New  York,  and  the  Calno  Wall-Board,  manufactured 
by  the  company,  is  used  in  all  countries. 

Grant  H.  Fairbanks  was  born  February  18,  1877, 
Joplin,  Missouri,  and  was  graduated  from  Princeton 
University  in  1897.  Since  completing  his  college 
course  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
paper  and  box  boards.  He  is  married  and  has  three 
children. 


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ALEXANDER  ROBERTS  COMPANY 


Alex.  Roberts  Company,  dealers  in  cotton  rags 
and  shoe  cuttings,  making  a  specialty  of  the  latter, 
began  business  in  Haverhill  nearly  forty  years  ago 
when  Alexander  Roberts  came  to  this  city  with  his 
family  from  Yorkshire,  England.  The  son  of  the 
founder  of  the  business,  Alexander  Jr.,  born  in 
Yorkshire  Feb.  26,  1868,  entered  the  company  after 
finishing  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  this 
city,  and  later  on  he  was  joined  by  his  brother, 
George,  who  was  bom  in  Lawrence  May  13,  1875, 
and  also  educated  in  this  city.  On  the  death  of  their 
father  the  sons  formed  a  company  and  continued  the 
business   under  the  present  name. 

Since  1880  the  name  of  Roberts  has  been  syn- 
onymous with  square  dealing  and  sterling  integrity 
among  their  business  associates  in  Haverhill.  From 
a  small  beginning  the  business  has  grown  to  be  one 
of  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  New  England,  until  to- 
day is  occupies  the  substantial  set  of  buildings 
shoviTi  in  the  illustration,  with  its  ovm  side-track 
and  modem  equipment. 

Alexander  Roberts  is  married,  is  a  member  of 
the  Odd  Fellows  and  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. George  Roberts  is  married  and  has  two 
children.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Order  of 
Moose. 


ALEX.    ROBERTS 


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CAPT.    FREDERICK    P.    LIBERTY 


BERNARD    L.    DURGIN 


LIBERTY-DURGIN,  INC. 


The  firm  of  Liberty-Durgin,  Inc.,  which  was  in- 
corporated Aug.  4,  1914,  had  made  a  remarkable 
success  in  the  manufacture  of  women's  turn  boots 
and  slippers,  featuring  the  "Miss  Haverhill"  line, 
when  the  United  States  entered  the  war  in  1916, 
and  the  firm  secured  large  orders  for  haversacks, 
pack  carriers   and   other  army   equipment  and  was 


among  the  first  concerns  in  this  locality  to  change 
over  its  factory  to  this  kind  of  work.  Up  to  the 
closing  of  the  year  1918  several  million  dollars  worth 
of  work  had  been  done  for  the  United  States  Anriy, 
the  product  ranking  among  the  best  furnished  to 
the  Quartermaster's  Department. 

Since  its  first  beginnings  on  Army  contracts  Lib- 


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FACTORIES    OF    HBBRTY-DUKGIN,    INC.,    HALE   STREET 

109 


also  the 
Liberty, 
William 


erty-Durgin  Inc.,  has  been  constantly  expanding 
their  business  and  now  occupy  all  of  the  two  large 
connecting  buildings  on  Duncan  street  shown  in  the 
illustration,  as  well  as  large  cutting  rooms  in  other 
factories. 

The  officers  of  the  corporation,  who  are 
principal  stockholders,  are  Capt.  Fred  P. 
treasurer;  Bernard  L.  Durgin,  president; 
Starkie,  clerk.  Since  Capt.  Liberty  won  his  com- 
mission in  the  Quartermaster's  Department,  U.  S. 
A.,  Mr.  Durgin  has  been  in  active  charge  of  the 
business  and  Mr.  Starkie  has  been  general  superin- 
tendent of  manufacturing. 

Capt.  Frederick  P.  Liberty,  treasurer  of  the  cor- 
poration, was  born  in  Renovo,  Pa.,  June  9,  188.5.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Sacred  Hearts 
College,  and  came  to  Haverhill  as  a  young  man.  He 
is  married  and  has  four  children.  He  has  recently 
purchased  a  beautiful  home  in  Merrimac,  Mass.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Agawam  and  Rotary  clubs  and 
several  other  local  organizations. 

Bernard  L.  Durgin,  president  of  the  corporation, 
was  born  in  Haverhill  June  16,  1889,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  this  city.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternities,  the  Aga- 
wam and  Rotary  clubs  of  this  city.    He  is  unmarried. 


THE  COMMERCIAL   ORGANIZATION. 

The  awakening  of  the  public  conscience  in  many 
cities  is  shown  by  the  development  of  its  commercial 
organizations  within  a  few  years.  Haverhill,  Lynn, 
Lawrence,  Taunton,  Worcester,  Brockton,  Portland, 
Maine,  all  have  greatly  increased  their  membership, 
revenue  and  efficiency  by  means  of  membership  cam- 
paigns and  have  at  the  same  time  added  to  their 
prestige  and  power. 

Business  prosperity  depends  upon  the  ability  of  a 
people  to  produce  and  earn,  so  that  they  may  buy 
and  pay.  Business  must  have  a  human  basis.  The 
grade  of  a  business  depends  upon  the  grade  of  its 
human  background.  To  build  up  the  humanity  of  a 
community  is  the  surest  way  of  building  up  the  bus- 
iness of  a  community.  This  is  what  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  primarily  does.  It  co-ordinates  the  work 
of  the  man.  It  keeps  him  busy  working  for  the 
town.  The  result  of  his  labors  is  to  make  the  town 
better, — better  for  the  people,  and,  logically,  better 
for  business. 

The  Chamber  of  Commerce  capitalizes  the  ideals 
and  the  ideas.  They  are  the  highest  product  of  man's 
handiwork.  The  high  aims  of  the  trade  board  de- 
serve the  support  of  every  patriotic  citizen.  The 
lofty  sentiments  of  its  creation  demand  your  atten- 
tion. They  call  forth  your  pride  in  your  town  and 
your  hope  for  its  growth.  If  you  are  faithful,  you 
will   enlist. 

DANIEL   N.   CASEY,   Secretary, 
Haverhill    Chamber    of    Commerce. 


FRED  R.  SMITH 

Fred  R.  Smith,  real  estate  and  insurance,  is  a 
native  of  Salem,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  bom  Feb.  14, 
1879,  coming  to  Haverhill  when  a  boy  with  his 
parents.     His  father,  John  F.  Smith,  was  for  many 


FRED   R.   .SMITH 

years  a  leading  insurance  agent  of  this  city,  estab- 
lishing an  agency  here  in  1865. 

Mr.  Smith  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Haverhill,  graduating  from  the  High  school  in  1898. 
He  entered  the  insurance  business  with  his  father  in 
1900.  He  has  been  prominent  in  athletics  both  dur- 
ing his  school  career  and  since. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  various  Masonic  bodies  in 
Haverhill,  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Pentucket  and 
Agawam  clubs.  He  is  also  first  lieutenant  of  the 
142nd  Machine  Gun  Company,  Mass.  State  Guard. 

Although  he  succeeded  his  father  in  an  extensive 
business,  he  has  continued  to  build  it  up  and  expand 
it  by  fair  and  honorable  dealings  to  one  of  the  larg- 
est in  the  county. 


If  you  are  not  a  member  of  the  Haverhill 
Chamber  of  Commerce  you  are  missing  one 
of  the  greatest  opportunities  for  SERVICE  in 


your  city. 


110 


MATTHEW  J.  FOWLER 

Matthew  J.  Fowler,  the  leading  optometrist  and 
optician  in  this  city,  began  business  in  Haverhill  in 
March,  1907,  and  since  then  has  built  up  a  fine  and 
constantly  broadening  clientele. 

Born  at  St.  Catherine,  Ont.,  May  31,  1879,  he 
was  educated  in  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  later  learning  under  private  instruc- 
tion lens  grinding  and  optics,  in  which  he  became  an 
expert. 

Since  coming  to  this  city  Mr.  Fowler  has  been 
prominent  in  the  social  and  business  life  of  the 
community.  He  is  now  vice  president  and  treasurer 
of  the  Haverhill  Chamber  of  Commerce,  chairman 
of  the  Mass.  State  Board  of  Optometry,  a  director  in 


MATTHEW   J.    FOWLER 

the  Haverhill  Co-operative  and  Morris  Plan  banks 
and  a  director  of  the  Haverhill  Boys  Club. 

Mr.  Fowler  is  a  member  of  Saggahew  Lodge 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  Pentucket  Chapter,  Haverhill  Com- 
mandery,  K.  T.,  Lodge  of  Perfection,  Consistory 
32nd  Degree,  Palestine  Lodge  K.  of  P.,  Haverhill 
Lodge  of  Elks,  and  the  Pentucket,  Agawam,  Rotary 
and  Merrimack  Valley  Country  Clubs. 

Mr.  Fowler  was  married  in  1907  to  Miss  Daisy 
Longley  and  lives  at  259  Main  street.  He  is  the 
sole  owner  of  the  M.  J.  Fowler,  Inc.,  incorporated 
in  1907,  which  he  founded  at  171  Merrimack  St.,  and 
is  the  only  firm  in  the  city  carrying  a  complete  stock 
of  lenses  and  an  equipment  for  grinding  any  lens 
made.  His  specialties  are  Kryptok  invisible  bifocal, 
Toric  and  all  special  ground  lenses  for  the  eyes. 


HAVERHILL  CO-OPERATIVE  BANK 

The  Haverhill  Co-operative  Bank,  the  oldest  in- 
stitution of  its  kind  in  this  vicinity,  was  incorporated 
Aug.  20,  1877,  and  has  shown  a  steady  and  pros- 
perous growth. 

Officers  and  Directors  are:  James  G.  Page, 
Treas.;  James  W.  Harris,  Pres.;  Directors:  Charles 
A.  Bodwell,  George  A.  Childs,  Charles  H.  Clark,  Ed- 
ward A.  Fitts,  Matthew  J.  Fowler,  George  E.  Frye, 
James  W.  Harris,  Eugene  J.  Kempton,  Sam  A.  Mc- 
Gregor, Benjamin  I.  Page,  James  G.  Page. 

This  bank,  which  for  many  years  was  located  in 
the  Masonic  Building,  now  occupies  fine  offices  at 
9  Emerson  Street,  in  the  Haverhill  National  Bank 
Building. 

The  following  recent  financial  statement  (Nov. 
4,  1918)  shows  the  high  standing  of  this  bank,  which 
has  helped  thousands  of  workingmen  to  build  homes 
in  Haverhill   and   vicinity: 

Assets 

Cash     $61,772.47 

Interest     10,792.00 

Fines     253.21 

Loans  on  real  estate 1,463,200.00 

Loans  on  shares   53,045.00 

Mortgages    14.00 

Liberty  Bonds   25,000.00 

$1,614,076.68 
Liabilities 

Dues    Capital    $1,320,781.00 

Forfeited  share  account  .  .  655.35 

Surplus     12,780.38 

Guaranty  fund    24,828.68 

Due  on  Uncompleted  Loans  5,575.00 

Personal  Account 500.00 

Profits     248,956.27 


$1,614,076.68 


KNOCKING. 

There  is  a  difference  between  kicking  and  knock- 
ing. The  knocker  is  out  of  place  everywhere,  but  the 
kicker  has  a  right  to  kick  about  the  weak  points  and 
mistakes  made  by  the  city,  providing  he  is  willing  to 
help  repair  the  weak  points  and  correct  the  mistakes. 

The  knocker  is  sometimes  considered  a  dangerous 
individual.  Habitual  knocking  indicates  a  diseased 
mind  of  the  individual,  who  seems  to  delight  in 
knocking  a  city  and  the  institutions  and  the  men  who 
are  devoting  their  time  for  the  upbuilding  of  the 
common  good,  but  do  not  worry. 

It  does  not  require  a  specialist  to  cure  this  kind 
of  mental  disease.  Here  is  a  recipe.  It  isn't  patent- 
ed, so  use  it  freely.  Just  quietly  ask  him,  "What 
have  you  ever  done  to  make  the  city  better  or  to 
help  any  one  but  your  selfish  self?" 


HI 


WILI.IAM    H.    BUTLER 


ERNEST    D.    HASELTINE 


BUTLER  &  HASELTINE 


There  is  no  more  interesting  association  in  Ha- 
verhill, than  the  partnership  of  William  H.  Butler 
and  Ernest  Downing  Haseltine.  The  senior  partner, 
Mr.  Butler,  has  lived  and  worked  in  Haverhill  for  29 
years,  has  always  been  one  of  the  city's  most  prom- 
inent church  workers,  an  energetic  and  conscientious 
leader  of  the  Haverhill  No-License  league,  and  in  the 
forefront  of  every  moral  movement  waged  in  Haver- 
hill during  the  past  decade,  prominent  in  which  were 
his  efforts  as  president  of  the  Haverhill  Civic  Asso- 
ciation which  secured  for  Haverhill  her  present  form 
of  city  charter.  The  junior  partner,  Mr.  Haseltine, 
is  a  Haverhill  boy,  and  when  he  reached  his  20th 
birthday,  he  was  married  and  engaged  in  manufac- 
turing. He  is  one  of  the  best  known  of  the  city's 
young  men,  is  prominent  socially  and  respected  in 
business  circles. 

The  firm  of  Butler  &  Haseltine  was  established  in 
1913,  and  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  shoes  at 
113  Essex  street,  specializing  in  the  manufacture  of 
ladies'  fine  turned  boots  and  low  cuts,  and  is  recog- 
nized as  making  the  finest  line  of  white  shoes  in  the 
country.  The  shoes  from  this  factory  are  sold 
throughout  the  United  States,  in  Canada,  Cuba,  Por- 
to Rico  and  Australia. 

William  H.  Butler  was  born  in  Weymouth,  Nova 
Scotia,  Dec.  17,  1871.  He  received  a  common  school 
education,  yet  by  personal  application  and  a  keen 
realization  of  moral  values,  he  has  steadily  risen  in 
the  business  world.  His  associates  in  the  shoe  in- 
dustry  selected  him   as   president  of  the   Haverhill 


Shoe  Manufacturers'  Association  and  he  has  also 
been  president  of  the  Haverhill  No-License  Associa- 
tion and  the  Men's  club  of  the  Portland  Street  Bap- 
tist church.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Haverhill  Mor- 
ris Plan  bank,  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club,  Miz- 
pah  lodge,  I.  0.  O.  F.,  and  Portland  Street  Baptist 
church.  For  20  years  he  was  associated  with  the 
Charles  K.  Pox  Co.  He  is  married  and  has  one 
daughter. 

Ernest  Downing  Haseltine  was  bom  in  Haverhill, 
Sept.  1,  1889.  He  received  a  grammar  school  educa- 
tion, but  like  his  partner,  steadily  advanced  through 
his  own  energy  and  assiduity.  He  is  a  member  of 
Aleppo  temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  the  Aga- 
wam   club.     He  is  married  and  has  one  son. 


OUR  HONOR  ROLL. 

Chamber  of  Commerce  members  who  served  in 
Uncle  Sam's  Army  and  Navy  include  the  following: 
Lt.  Col.  Thorndike  D.  Howe,  Major  H.  B.  Campbell, 
Major  William  Henry  Root,  Captain  Francis  L.  Ball, 
Lieut.  Everett  Bradley,  Ensign  Chas.  W.  Arnold,  Jr., 
Sergt.  Daniel  N.  Casey,  Sergt.  John  E.  Gale,  Arthur 
P.  Abrams,  Samuel  Alter,  E.  A.  Boucher,  Clifton  A. 
Clarke,  Thomas  H.  Boland,  Edward  L.  McAree, 
Aaron  Hoyt,  Wm.  J.  McKeigue,  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Mer- 
cille,  Ernest  Middleton,  Fred  L.  Mosher,  Dr.  Wm. 
Porell,  Emile  Lagasse,  Peter  Vovulis,  M.  P.  Young, 
Harold  Winchester,  E.  A.  Haseltine,  Louis  Swartz, 
Dr.  Martin  C.  Canarie,  Dr.  Henry  Kaplovitch,  Joseph 
L.  Lennox. 


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THE  PEINTUCKET  MILLS 


The  Pentucket  Mills,  located  on  the  Little  River 
at  Winter  street,  is  one  of  the  oldest  industries  in 
the  city.  It  has  grown  steadily  since  its  establish- 
ment and  now  comprises  the  large  group  of  build- 
ings shown  in  the  accompanying  illustration,  has  its 
own  sidetracks  on  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  and 
utilizes  both  steam  and  water  for  power  and  manu- 
facturing purposes. 


Directors:  Nathaniel  Stevens,  Samuel  D.  Stevens, 
Moses  T.  Stevens,  Samuel  D.  Stevens,  Jr.,  and  Carl 
Vetter. 

John  A.  Currier  is  superintendent  of  the  local 
mills. 

The  business  was  established  in  1804  and  incor- 
porated in  1901.  For  many  years  the  late  Moses  T. 
Stevens  of  North  Andover  was  its  active  head,  and 


BIRDSETE  VIEW  OF  THE  PENTUCKET   MILLS,   WINTER  STREET 


These  mills  are  owned  by  the  M.  T.  Stevens  & 
Sons  Co.,  which  also  ovsti  mills  in  North  Andover 
and  other  Merrimack  valley  localities.  The  present 
officers  are  as  follows: 

President,  Nathaniel  Stevens. 

Treasurer,  Samuel  D.  Stevens. 

Ass't.  Treasurer,  Moses  T.  Stevens. 


BANISH  THE  BROMIDE. 

When  you  dictate  the  day's  mail,  do  not  say 
"Replying  to  your  valued  favor  of  the  'steenth,  we 
beg  to  say  that,"  etc. 

You  do  not  "reply"  to  a  letter,  but  to  an  argu- 
ment.    Use  "answer." 

Never  "beg."  Any  free-bom  American  should  be 
ashamed  to  "beg." 

Then  there's  the  time-worn,  ancient-history,  clos- 
ing phraseology,  such  as  "Trusting  to  have  your 
early  order  which  shall  have  our  earliest  attention." 

Every  one  looking  for  orders  expects  them — 
everyone  "trusts,"  so  why  not  be  different  and  use  a 
little  more  gumption  in  landing  the  order.  Any  pros- 
pect, any  patron  demands  "early  attention"  else  he 
would  not  give  you  the  order. 

"As  per  your  request"  is  stiff  stuff,  fit  for  the 
court  room  rather  than  sales  letters. 


his  descendants  today  own  and  manage  the  extensive 
mill  interests  which  he  built  up. 

The  Pentucket  Mills  for  over  a  century  has  had 
a  nation-wide  reputation  for  the  excellence  of  its 
manufactures,  which  consists  of  woolens  and  wor- 
steds. The  past  two  years  it  has  had  extensive  gov- 
ernment contracts. 


"Of  recent  date,"  is  a  bluff.  Why  not  give  the 
exact  date,  so  that  the  reader  may  call  for  the 
proper  letter  from  his  files,  or  call  the  thing  up  in 
mind? 

"Agreeable  to  your  request,"  is  improper,  even  if 
it  were  not  ear-torturing.  The  right  form  is 
"Agreeing  to  your  request,"  but  it  is  better  to  use 
something  that  is  really  agreeable  instead  of  the 
participial  form. 

"Yours  received  and  contents  noted."  Now 
there's  a  nice  lifeless  thing.  All  wrapped  up  in  un- 
dertaker's weeds. 

Just  for  a  change,  try  to  make  your  letters  hu- 
man, sparkling  with  interest  and  friendliness  and 
watch  the  result-rendering  responses. — The  Thinker. 


The  injury  of  prodigality  leads  to  this — that  he 
who  will  not  economize  will  have  to  agonize — Con- 
fusius. 


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HAVERHILL  SAVINGS  BANK 


HAVERHILL    SAVINGS    BANK,   MERRIMACK  AND  WEST   STREETS 


One  of  the  institutions  whose  progress  marks  the 
growth  of  the  city  for  almost  a  century  is  the  Ha- 
verhill Savings  Bank,  which  was  established  Febru- 
ary 8,  1828. 

This  bank  has  always  aimed  to  encourage  local 
thrift  and  seeks  local  investment  for  its  fund,  so  far 
as  is  practicable. 

It  has  over  17,000  depositors  and  assets  of  sub- 
stantially nine  millions  of  dollars. 


With  a  guaranty  fund  and  a  profit  and  loss  ac- 
count, maintained  at  the  full  amounts  permitted  by 
law,  this  bank  enjoys  high  standing. 

It  is  located  at  153  Merrimack  street.  The  offi- 
cers for  1918  are: — • 

President,  Wm.  W.  Spaulding. 

Vice-President,  Fred   D.   McGregor. 

Trustees,  John  L.  Hobson,  William  H.  Floyd,  F. 
E.  Hutchinson,  Wm.  E.  Bixby,  Isaac  Poor,  Wm.  W. 


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Spaulding,  E.  G.  Frothingham,  Fred  D.  McGregor, 
Charles  E.  Dole,  Hazen  B.  Goodrich,  Harold  M. 
Goodwin,  George  W.  Lennox,  Herman  E.  Lewis,  Ira 
A.  Abbott,  Charles  D.  Porter,  John  A.  Lynch,  Ar- 
thur  H.    Wentworth. 

Treasurer,  Raymond  Noyes. 

Clerk,  Alfred  E.  Collins. 

Investment  Committee,  Wm.  W.  Spaulding,  Fred 
D.  McGregor,  Herman  E.  Lewis. 

Auditing  Committee,  Charles  E.  Dole,  Wm.  H. 
Floyd,  Fred  D.  McGregor. 


EMERY  &  MARSHALL  CO. 

Occupying  one  of  Haverhill's  largest  factory  build- 
ings, Emery  &  Marshall  Co.,  established  in  1903,  has 
progressed  until  it  is  one  of  the  leading  manufactur- 
ing concerns  in  the  city,  being  engaged  in  making 
women's  Goodyear  welt  and  turned  footwear.  The 
seven-story  factory  building  is  located  on  the  river 
front,   in   the   rear   of  2   to   20    Washington   street. 


SHERMAN  H.  MARSHALL 

Sherman  H.  Marshall  is  president  and  treasurer  of 
the  company.  Orlando  N.  Dana  is  vice  president,  and 
Frederick  S.  Marshall  is  assistant  treasurer. 

The  company  was  incorporated  in  1913.  The  bus- 
iness of  the  company  has  constantly  increased  and 
at  present  the  trade  territory  extends  throughout 
the  United  States  and  Cuba. 

Sherman  H.  Marshall,  president  and  treasurer  of 
the  company,  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Dec.  5,  1870. 
He   was    educated   in   the    Haverhill   grammar   and 


high  schools.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club 
and  is  a  32  degree  Mason.  He  is  married  and  has 
one   son. 

A  fine  picture  of  the  Emery  &  Marshall  factory 
will  be  found  on  page  28. 


SIMONDS  &  ADAMS 

Both  the  city  dweller  of  Haverhill  and  the  subur- 
ban visitor  who  does  his  trading  here,  appreciate 
the  fact  that  there  are  in  the  retail  district  depart- 
ment stores  of  metropolitan  excellence.  Few  cities 
of  Haverhill's  size  offer  the  purchaser  so  extended  a 
variety  at  such  reasonable  prices. 

Occupying  a  high  place  in  the  retail  business  life 
of  the  city  is  the  firm  of  Simonds  &  Adams.  It  has 
been  an  institution  in  Haverhill  for  years  and  is 
known  wherever  the  city's  trading  district  extends. 
It  is  one  of  the  largest  and  most  completely  stocked 
department  stores  in  New  England. 

The  firm  owns  the  large  building,  42  to  54  Mer- 
rimack street,  the  street  and  basement  floors  of 
which  are  occupied  exclusively  by  the  company.  The 
remainder  of  the  structure  is  devoted  to  offices  and 
is  one  of  the  finest  office  buildings  in  the  city. 

E.  T.  Adams  and  J.  F.  Ring  are  the  members  of 
the  firm.     The  company  was  established  in  1888. 


DALRYMPLE-PULSIFER  CO. 

In  building  up  the  industry  which  won  world 
fame  for  Haverhill,  The  Dalrymple-Pulsifer  Co.  has 
played  a  prominent  part,  for  the  firm  is  knovro  wher- 
ever shoes  are  made. 

The  present  company  is  the  successor  of  J.  A. 
Dalrymple  &  Co.,  continuing  in  the  lines  in  which  the 
original  concern  was  so  successful,  designing  and 
manufacturing  artistic  shoe  bows  and  ornaments. 

The  firm  of  J.  A.  Dalrymple  &  Co.  was  estab- 
lished January  1,  1889,  and  was  incorporated  as  the 
Dalrymple-Pulsifer  Co.  29  years  later,  on  January  1, 
1918. 

The  place  of  business  is  at  88  Washington  street. 
The  firm  has  established  a  world-wide  reputation 
and  does  business  throughout  the  United  States  and 
in  foreign  countries. 

The  officers  of  the  corporation  are:  J.  A.  Dal- 
rymple, president  and  treasurer;  G.  Herman  Pulsifer, 
vice-president;  L.  H.  Ordway,  secretary;  and  George 
E.  Dalrymple,  son  of  the  founder  of  the  business. 


Did  you  ever  notice  that  the  big  man  in  a  big 
business  has  to  use  a  lot  of  time  in  settling  the  rows 
of  those  under  him  ? 

There  is  a  heavy  overhead  charge  to  every  row. 

So  it  is  well  for  those  of  us  who  feel  inclined  to 
row  to  consider  this  overhead  and  compromise;  oth- 
erwise it  is  going  to  take  the  time  and  effort  of  a 
bigger  man  to  settle  it. 


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CtLVRLIDS  H.  HAYES 


lODMUND  C.    VVliiNT  WORTH 


C.^H.  HAYES  CORPOKATION 

The  C.  H.  Hayes  Corporation  is  one  of  the  most 
extensive  business  enterprises  in  Haverhill,  control- 
ling large  shoe  factory  buildings,  several  box  fac- 
tories, and,  in  addition,  owning  extended  areas  of 
woodland  throughout  New  England  where  the  raw 
materials  for  the  boxes  is  secured. 

The  firm  was  established  in  1870  by  the  late 
Charles  H.  Hayes,  who  was,  during  his  lifetime,  one 
of  the  leaders  in  the  city's  business  growth.  He  was 
president  of  the  old  Board  of  Trade  when  the  big 
Haverhill  Boxboard  Co.  promoters  were  induced  to 
locate  here  and  was  largely  instrumental  in  starting 
the  first  large  building  boom. 

The  company  was  incorporated  in  1902.  The  offi- 
cers of  the  corporation  are  Nellie  M.  Hayes,  widow 
of  the  founder,  Adelaide  H.  Blaisdell,  a  daughter,  and 
Edmund  C.  Wentworth. 

The  offices  and  paper  box  factory,  shown  in  the 
illustration,  are  located  at  36  Granite  street,  and  the 
wooden  box  and  shook  factory  is  at  2  and  3  Hale 
street. 

The  trade  territory  of  the  company  includes 
New  England,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania 
and  Delaware. 

Edmund  Clark  Wentworth,  treasurer  and  general 
manager  of  the  corporation,  was  born  in  Plaistow, 
February  27,  1877.  He  was  educated  in  the  Haver- 
hill schools.  In  1916  he  was  president  of  the  Haver- 
hill Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
several  Masonic  fraternities,  the  Pentucket,  Rotary 
and  Agawam  clubs.    He  is  married  and  has  two  sons, 


FACTORY  OF  C.  H.  HAYES  CORPORATION 

one  of  whom  is  a  student  at  Dummer  academy  and 
the  other  a  student  in  the  Haverhill  schools. 


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CITY  FIVE  CENTS  SAVINGS  BANK 


The  City  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank  viras  organized 
on  April  29,  1870,  and  commenced  business  May, 
1870,  in  the  office  of  the  First  National  Bank,  which 
was  at  that  time  located  on  Merrimack  street,  oppo- 
site what  is  now  the  Daggett  Building. 

Warner  R.  Whittier,  who  was  then  Mayor  of  the 
city,  was  chosen  its  first  president,  and  Elbridge  G. 
Wood,  who  was  cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank, 
was  electred  as  treasurer.  Mr.  Wood  continued  to 
hold  the  office  of  treasurer  until  September,  1876, 
when  he  resigned  and  Mr.  Noyes,  the  present  treas- 
urer, was  elected  to  that  office,  which  he  has  held  to 
the   present  time. 

Mr.   Whittier  resigned   as   president   in   August, 


vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Hopkinson.  Mr. 
Gardner  continued  as  president  until  November, 
1917,  and  Mr.  George  Nichols,  2nd,  son  of  former 
President  John  B.  Nichols,  was  chosen  to  succeed  Mr. 
Gardner  as  president,  which  office  he  still  holds. 

The  following  table  will  indicate  the  growth  of 
the  Bank: 


Deposits 

Nov.    1,    1880 $751,623. 

Nov.    1,    1890 1,134,443. 

Nov.    1,    1900 1,816,143. 

Nov.    1,    1910 2,641,354. 

Nov.    1,    1918 3,689,654. 


Guaranty 

Profit  & 

Fund 

Loss 

$2,500. 

$0. 

38,000. 

12,681. 

90,600. 

11,635. 

129,000. 

42,957. 

185,412. 

138,081. 

CITY  FIVE  CENTS  SAVINGS  BANK,   WASHINGTON    ST. 


1877,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Samuel  W.  Hopkin- 
son, who  served  in  that  capacity  until  1881,  when  he 
declined  a  re-election  on  account  of  his  removal  to 
Taunton.  John  B.  Nichols  succeeded  Mr.  Hopkinson 
as  president  and  continued  to  hold  that  office  until 
1896,  when  he  declined  a  re-election  and  John  E. 
Gale  was  chosen  to  succeed  Mr.  Nichols. 

On  July  1,  1904,  when  the  law  providing  that  no 
president  of  a  National  Bank  should  serve  as  presi- 
dent of  a  Savings  Bank  went  into  effect,  Mr  Gale 
relinquished  his  duties  as  president  of  the  Savings 
Bank,  and  Mr.  Hopkinson,  having  returned  from 
Taunton,  was  again  elected  as  president  and  con- 
tinued to  serve  in  that  capacity  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  June,  1911. 

Mr.  Sylvanus  P.  Gardner  was  chosen  to  fill  the 


The  officers  of  the  Bank  are: — 

President,  George  Nichols,  2nd. 

Vice-presidents,  Philip  C.  Swett,  Charles  H.  Croy. 

Trustees,  George  H.  Bixby,  Charles  L.  Briggs, 
Otis  J.  Carlton,  Charles  H.  Croy,  Sylvanus  P.  Gard- 
ner, Harlan  F.  Hussey,  Perley  Leslie,  George 
Nichols,  2nd,  Geroge  W.  Noyes,  Charles  A.  Pingree, 
George  H.  Bixby. 

Board  of  Investment,  Charles  L.  Briggs,  Charles 
H.  Croy,  Sylvanus  P.  Gardner,  George  Nichols,  2nd, 
Philip  C.  Swett. 

Auditing  Committee,  George  Nichols,  2nd,  Charles 
A.  Pingree,  George  H.  Bixby. 

Treasurer,  George  W.  Noyes. 

Clerk  of  Corporation,  Leonard  H.  Noyes. 

Clerks,  Anna  Sollenberger,  Charles  R.  Hussey. 


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HAZEN  B.  GOODRICH  CO.  AND 
THE  BRADLEY  SHOE  CO. 


Frank  J.  Bradley  is  today  one  of  the  important 
figures  in  Haverhill's  shoe  world,  for  he  directs  two 
important  manufacturing  firms,  Hazen  B.  Goodrich 
&  Company  and  The  Bradley  Shoe  Company. 

The  firm  of  Hazen  B.  Goodrich  &  Company  has 
had  an  interesting  history,  being  one  of  Haverhill's 
oldest  shoe  manufacturing  concerns.  It  was  estab- 
lished in  1887,  succeeding  the  firm  of  Goodrich  & 
Porter. 

The  original  firm  was  founded  in  1860  by  the 
late  Daniel  Goodrich  and  Dudley  Porter,  and  through 


Battery  A,  of  the  102d   Regiment,  Field  Artillery. 
He  is  still  serving  his  country  in  France. 

Frank  J.  Bradley  was  bom  in  Methuen  February 
25,  1859.  He  was  graduated  from  Lawrence  High 
school.  He  was  an  alderman  and  a  member  of  the 
city  council  in  this  city,  for  one  term  in  each  body. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  club,  Island  Golf 
club,  North  Andover  Country  club,  Boston  City  club 
and  Boot  and  Shoe  Trades  club.  He  was  married  in 
1888  and  has  two  children,  Lieut.  Everett  Bradley 
and  Mrs.  George  W.  Langdon. 


ONE  OF  THE  THREE  MODERN  CEMENT  AND  STEEI^  FACTORIES  OF  THE 
HAVERHILL  BUILDING  TRU.ST  ON  ES.SEX  ST.  THE  BRADLEY  SHOE  COM- 
PANY  OCCUPY  THE   TOP   FLOOR   OF   THIS    BUILDING. 


its  successors,  the  firm  has  continued  since  until  the 
trade-slogan  of  the  firm  has  become  "58  Years  of 
Goodrich  Footwear." 

From  1885  to  1887  the  business  was  conducted  by 
Hazen  B.  Goodrich  alone.  In  the  latter  year  the 
present  company  was  organized. 

The  place  of  business  is  70  Washington  street, 
and  the  firm  manufactures  fine  turns  for  the  retail 
trade. 

The  Bradley  Shoe  Company  is  an  auxiliary  of  the 
Goodrich  firm,  and  was  established  in  November, 
1916,  vdth  a  place  of  business  at  115  Essex  street. 
Specialties  in  turned  shoes  are  manufactured. 

Lieut.  Everett  Bradley  is  associated  with  his 
father  in  this  concern,  his  active  connection  being 
temporarily   closed   when   he   went  to   France   with 


THE  SERVICE  CLUB 

The  problem  of  properly  welcoming  and  caring 
for  the  wants  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  great 
war  upon  their  return  home  is  being  efficiently  solved 
by  the  municipal  officials,  The  Haverhill  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  The  Rotary  Club  and  scores  of  public- 
spirited  men  and  women. 

A  Service  Club  was  opened  in  December,  1918,  at 
138  Merrimack  St.,  and  has  already  proved  a  val- 
uable aid  in  caring  for  the  men  as  they  return. 
Money  is  being  raised  and  plans  laid  for  a  perma- 
nent club  house  as  a  memorial  to  those  who  fought 
for  the  freedom  of  the  world  in  France  in  1917-1918. 

In  all  the  activities  of  the  war  the  Haverhill 
Chamber  of  Commerce  has  taken  a  leading  part. 


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GEORGE    W,    lUKjw.N 


JOHN    HUTCHINSON 


BROWN  &  HUTCHINSON 


Brown  &  Hutchinson,  a  firm  engaged  in  design- 
ing, drafting  and  making  shoe  patterns,  has  devel- 
oped a  business  that  has  steadily  grown  until  the 
trade  territory  extends  throughout  the  United  States, 
Canada  and   South   America. 

The  members  of  the  firm  are  George  W.  Brown 
and  John  Hutchison.  The  firm  was  established  Octo- 
ber 1,  1909,  and  the  place  of  business  is  120  Wash- 
ington street. 

George  W.  Brown  was  bom  in  Newburyport, 
August  31,  1875,  and  was  graduated  from  the  New- 
buryport High  school.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Aga- 


wam  club,  and  previous  to  entering  business  had  been 
for  21  years  an  expert  designer  and  draughtsman  of 
shoe  patterns. 

John  Hutchinson  was  bom  in  Philadelphia  Feb. 
9,  1882.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Agawam 
club,  and  is  married  and  has  five  children. 

Previous  to  the  formation  of  this  firm,  he  had  been 
engaged  for  18  years  in  making  shoe  patterns,  be- 
ginning in  the  day  when  the  process  was  exclusively 
hand  work  and  continuing  until  modem  machinerj' 
had  been  successfully  introduced. 


SELLING  GOODS  OR  TALK. 

Two  business  men  were  talking  about  a  saleman 
who  had  made  a  record. 

"Yes,"  said  one,  "he  has  made  big  sales  this  year, 
but  I  wonder  how  long  he  can  continue  doing  the 
work." 

"Why?" 

"Because  he  makes  people  buy  instead  of  making 
them  want  to  buy." 

In  that  last  sentence  is  a  whole  book  of  wisdom 
for  every  salesman. 

Every  salesman  should  ask  himself,  "Am  I  mak- 
ing them  buy  my  goods,  or  am  I  making  them  want 
to  buy  my  goods?" 

It  is  one  thing  to  cram  goods  down  the  throat  of 


the  customer.  It  is  another  thing  to  handle  him  so 
that  he  will  reach  for  the  goods  himself. — The  Vag- 
abond. 


A   ROUND  OF  GOOD. 

A  little  work,  a  little  play 

To  keep  us  going — and  so  good  day. 

A  little  warmth,  a  little  light 

Of  love's  bestowing — and  so  good  night. 

A  little  fun  tO'  match  the  sorrow 

Of  each   day's   growing — and   so   good   morrow. 

A  little  trust  that  when  we  die 

We  reap  our  sovsdng — and  so  good-bye. 


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CUSHMAN  &  HEBERT 


In  the  expansion  of  the  shoe  industry  of  Haver- 
hill during  the  past  ten  years  no  firm  has  played  a 
more  prominent  part  than  Cushman  &  Hebert. 

The  firm  was  established  in  1898  and  came  to 
Haverhill  later,  moving  from  Lynn. 


States,  and  large  quantities  of  shoes  are  exported 
also. 

George  Herbert  Cushman  was  bom  in  Lynn  Aug- 
ust 21,  1854,  and  was  educated  in  that  city.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  B.  A.  A.  of  Boston,  and  the  Pentucket 


CUSHMAN    &   HEBERT   FACTORY,    RIVER   STREET 


Manufacturing  women's  McKays,  the  company  is 
a  large  employer  of  labor  and  does  an  extensive  busi- 
ness. G.  H.  Cushman  and  Placide  Hebert  are  the 
members  of  the  firm. 

The  factory  is  located  at  414  River  street,  and  the 
trade   territory  includes   all   sections   of  the  United 


and  Island  Golf  clubs  of  this  city.     He  is  married 
and  has  two  children. 

Placide  Hebert  was  bom  July  27,  1857,  in  New 
Brunswick.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pentucket  and 
Island  Golf  clubs  of  this  city  and  the  Oxford  club  of 
Lynn.    He  is  married  and  has  seven  children. 


THE  BLESSINGS  OF  DEFEAT 


The  Purgatory  is  passed.  Four  years  have  we 
suffered  and  sacrificed  and  out  of  the  chastening 
comes  a  visible  reward. 

It  was  defeat — the  debacle  in  the  Appenines — 
that  unified  Italy.  It  was  the  suffering  through 
defeat  that  glorified  France  and  woke  in  her  people 
their  death-daring  spirit.  It  was  the  surrender  on 
the  Tigris,  the  pitiable  failure  at  Gallipoli,  the  break 
at  Cambrai  that  woke  Britain  to  a  full-found 
strength.  It  was  the  mistakes,  the  blunders,  the 
tremendous  wastage  that  roused  America  from  her 
muddled  dreams  and  brought  her  to  a  realization  of 
her  need   for  an   efficient  participation. 

Out  of  the  years  of  standing  still  in  shame  at 
futile  effort,  out  of  the  years  of  deadlock  and  de- 
feat,  came   the   flanking   wedge  that  broke   up   the 


Marne,  then  the  leveling  of  the  lines  in  Picardy,  next 
the  flanking  of  the  great  Line.  Now,  while  the 
Winter  closes  in  we  continue  our  forward  march, 
we  are  out  of  the  shadow  of  defeat  and  Victory  is 
with   us. 

That  great  pulpit  orator,  Henry  Ward  Beecher, 
sounded  the  blessings  of  defeat,  in:  "It  is  defeat 
that  turns  bone  to  flint  and  gristle  to  muscle,  and 
makes  a  man  invincible.  It  is  defeat  that  forms 
those  heroic  natures  that  are  now  in  ascendancy  in 
the  world.  Man  is  never  so  near  to  ultimate  victory 
as  when  defeated  in  a  good  cause." 

Defeat  developed  Diaz.  Defeat  found  a  Foch  for 
France.  Defeat  handed  Haig  his  baton.  Defeat  has 
brought  us  to  Victory.  Be  of  good  cheer,  we  won! 
—The  Thinker. 


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THE  HAVERHILL  GAZETTE 


The  Haverhill  Evening  Gazette,  the  only  daily 
newspaper  published  in  Haverhill,  and  one  of  the 
oldest  established  newspapers  in  New  England,  oc- 
cupies the  two  modem  fireproof  buildings  shown  in 
the  accompanying  illustration, — a  three-story  office 
building  on  Merrimack  St.  and  a  model  mechanical 
plant  in  the  rear  on  Merrill's  Court.  It  is  published 
every  day  except  Sundays  and  legal  holidays  and 
has  a  sworn  circulation  in  Haverhill  and  contribu- 
tory territory  of  13,500  copies. 

The  Gazette  is  published  by  a  corporation,  with 
Robert  L.  Wright  as  treasurer  and  publisher.  It 
was  built  up  to  its  present  high  standard  and  pros- 


news  service  exclusively  in  its  territory,  and  covers 
thoroughly  with  a  large  editorial  and  reportorial 
staff  the  city  and  all  nearby  towns.  Its  advertising 
columns  are  a  directory  of  the  business  interests  of 
the  city. 

IRA  J.  WEBSTER. 

Ira  J.  Webster,  one  of  Haverhill's  largest  and 
most  prominent  shoe  manufacturers,  was  bom  in 
Haverhill  on  January  16,  1854,  and  was  educated  in 
the  Haverhill  public  schools  and  was  graduated  from 
the  Haverhill  high  school. 

In   1883  he  founded  the  firm  of  Ira  J.  Webster 


HOME  OF  THE  HAVERHILL  EVENING   GAZETTE 


perous  condition  by  the  late  John  B.  Wright,  father 
of  Robert  L.,  who  was  one  of  the  best  known  editors 
in  the  United  States. 

The  Gazette  has  always  prided  itself  on  being 
thoroughly  independent,  and  has  printed  at  the  head 
of  the  editorial  columns  these  words: 

"THE  GAZETTE  IS  A  FAIR  FIGHTER." 

"It  aims  to  be  a  real  friend  to  the  common  people 
and  believes  in  the  masses  more  than  the  classes.  It 
espouses  every  deserving  cause  and  cares  nothing 
for  so-called  party  obligations  if  the  people  be  the 
gainer  by  advocating  an  independent  policy." 

The    Gazette  carries    the    full    Associated  Press 


Company  and  conducted  it  for  two  years,  when  the 
firm  of  Webster  &  Tabor  was  formed  and  continued 
16  years.  From  that  time  until  1913  Mr.  Webster 
conducted  his  business  independently  and  the  Ira  J. 
Webster  Co.  was  incorporated  in  that  year. 

Mr.  Webster  started  business  in  Phoenix  Row 
and  later  built  one  of  the  city's  largest  factories  on 
Vila  street,  illustrated  on  page  26. 

The  firm  makes  women's  McKay  shoes,  and  the 
trade  territory  is  largely  confined  to  the  United 
States. 

Mr.  Webster  is  married  and  has  four  children. 
He  is  a  member  of  Haverhill  grange,  P.  of  H. 


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RECORD  PUBLISHING  COMPANY. 

The  Record  Publishing  Company,  a  Massachu- 
setts corporation,  publishes  the  "Sunday  Record" 
and  conducts  a  general  printing  business  at  17  and 
21  West  street,  occupying'  the  entire  ground  floor 
and  basement  of  its  own  building,  with  a  new  and 
up-to-date  pressroom  in  a  building  directly  in  the 
rear.  It  has  a  modern  newspaper  and  job  printing 
plant,  including  a  24-page  Hoe  perfecting  press  and 
Linotype  machines.  Lewis  R.  Hovey  is  treasurer 
and  manager  of  the  company. 

The  "Sunday  Record"  was  established  by  Mr. 
Hovey  at  No.  4  Main  street  in  1903  in  partnership 
with  Dennis  A.  Long  of  Lowell.  Mr.  Long  soon  sold 
out  his  interest  and  the  business  was  incorporated. 


LEWIS    R.    HOVEY, 
Treasurer  Record   Publishing   Co. 

being  later  located  sucessively  in  increasingly  larger 
quarters  in  the  rear  of  108  Merrimack  St.,  1.5  West 
St.  and  24  Locust  St.  As  a  newspaper  it  has 
been  a  success  from  its  start  and  has  shown  a  steady 
growth  in  circulation  and  advertising  patronage, 
being  the  only  Sunday  newspaper  in  its  territory. 
It  is  decidedly  independent  in  its  editorial  policies, 
always  fighting  for  a  larger  and  better  Haverhill. 

"The  Record  Press,"  the  imprint  used  by  the  job 
printing  department,  has  the  largest  and  most  com- 
pletely equipped  printing  plant  in  northern  Essex. 
Its  trade  slogan  is  "Anything  from  a  visiting  card 
to  a  newspaper." 


CITIZENS'  CO-OPERATIVE  BANK. 

The  Citizens'  Co-operative  Bank,  with  headquar- 
ters at  81  Merrimack  street,  is  one  of  the  city's  most 
popular  financial  institutions.  On  March,  1919,  the 
balance  sheet  showed  that  $706,102  had  been  lent  on 
real  estate  loans.  This  institution  not  only  has  pro- 
moted the  principle  of  thrift  and  saving,  but  it  has 
aided  in  the  building  of  the  city  through  the  assist- 
ance it  has  rendered  its  patrons  in  the  erection  of 
homes. 

The  officers  of  the  bank  are: — 

President,  Philip  C.  Swett. 

Vice-President,  William  W.  Spaulding. 

Security  Committee,  James  W.  Goodwin,  Charles 
A.  Pingree  and  Herman  E.  Lewis. 

Directors,  J.  W.  Goodwin,  H.  M.  Goodwin,  H.  E. 
Lewis,  C.  A.  Pingree,  W.  W.  Spaulding,  P.  C.  Swett 
and  E.  W.  B.  Taylor. 

The  purpose  of  the  bank  is  to  promote  regular 
and  systematic  savings,  especially  by  persons  of 
moderate  circumstances;  to  help  people  to  own  their 
own  homes,  build  or  buy  homes,  or  pay  off  existing 
mortgages;  or  to  accumulate  a  fund  for  future  ne- 
cessities. The  bank  provides  a  plan  by  which  such 
indebtedness  may  be  paid  in  small  monthly  pay- 
ments. 


E.    C.    PRESCOTT 

E.  C.  PRESOOTT  &  COMPANY. 

Ernest  C.  Prescott,  proprietor  of  E.  C.  Prescott 
&  Co.,  dealers  in  upper  leather  at  140  Washington 
street,  was  born  August  22,  1869,  in  Salem,  N.  H., 


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and  was  educated  in  the  Salem,  N.  H.,  Methuen  and 
Haverhill  public  schools. 

He  is  a  member  of  Merrimack  lodge,  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.,  and  all  the  local  York  rite  bodies  including  the 
Knights  Templar,  also  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is 
married  and  has  one  child. 

Mr.  Prescott  started  in  business  for  himself  when 
18  years  of  age  and  has  continued  in  business  since. 
For  two  years  he  was  established  in  South  Carolina 
and  for  seven  years  in  California. 

The  E.  C.  Prescott  &  Co.  firm  is  the  largest  in 
Haverhill  dealing  in  upper  leather,  and  the  trade 
territory  covers  New  England. 


JOHN  J.  RYAN. 


John  J.  Ryan,  one  of  Haverhill's  most  prominent 
attorneys,  is  a  native  of  this  city,  a  graduate  of  the 
Haverhill  grammar  and  high  schools,  Holy  Cross 
college  and  Boston  University  Law  School. 

Upon  his  graduation  from  law  school  he  entered 


JOHN    J.    RYAN 

the  law  office  of  the  late  Mellen  A.  Pingree  and  upon 
the  latter's  death  continued  the  established  practice, 
becoming  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Massachu- 
setts. 

He  was  for  an  extended  period  Associate  Justice 
of  the  Central  District  Court  of  Northern  Essex, 
succeeding  to  the  chief  justiceship  which  he  re- 
signed to  devote  his  time  to  his  private  practice. 

He  is  one  of  the  leading  figures  in  the  democratic 
party  in  Massachusetts  and  has  been  chairman  of 
state   and   county   conventions.      He   was   a   charter 


member  of  the  Pr.  Mathew  Society,  and  the  first 
grand  knight  of  Haverhill  Council,  No.  202,  Knights 
of  Columbus. 

He  is  married  and  has  a  son  and  a  daughter. 


BLACKBURN  &   HASELTINE. 

Blackburn  &  Hazeltine,  manufacturers  of  high 
grade  women's  turn  slippers  for  domestic  trade  ex- 
clusively, are  engaged  in  business  at  62  Washington 
street.  The  firm  was  established  in  1919,  and  the 
members  are  Sherman  Chase  Haseltine  and  Edwin 
L.   Blackburn. 

Mr.  Haseltine  was  born  in  Haverhill  Dec.  8,  1887, 
attended  the  grammar  schools  and  was  a  high  school 
student  for  a  year.  Determined  to  secure  the  neces- 
sary foundation  for  a  thorough  business  training  he 
attended  evening  schools  for  three  years.  He  is 
married  and  has  one  child,  and  is  a  member  of  many 
organizations,  including  the  Agawam  club,  and  th« 
following  Masonic  orders: — Saggahew  lodge.  A.  F. 
&  A.  M.,  Pentucket  chapter,  Haverhill  council,  Ha- 
verhill Commandery,  Merrimack  lodge  of  Perfection, 
Mt.  Olivet  chapter.  Rose  Croix,  Gyles  F.  Yates  coun- 
cil. Princes  Jerusalem,  Massachusetts  consistory,  S. 
P.  R.  S.,  32d;  and  Aleppo  temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S. 

Mr.  Blackburn  was  born  in  Groveland  in  1889  and 
was  educated  in  the  Groveland  grammar  and  high 
schools.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Agawam  club  and 
is  married  and  has  three  daughters  and  one  son. 


IRVING    L.   KEITH. 

Irving  L.  Keith,  one  of  the  largest  manufacturers 
of  and  dealers  in  shoe  findings  in  the  country,  estab- 
lished at  92-94  Washington  street,  is  one  of  the 
city's  most  enterprising  and  successful  business 
men.  He  succeeded  to  the  business  of  C.  P.  Bullen, 
established  in  1850,  which  he  bought  in  1902. 

Mr.  Keith  is  a  vice-president  of  the  Haverhill 
Morris  Plan  Co.,  and  the  Haverhill  Trust  Co.  He  is 
a  Mason,  and  has  a  wife  and  one  daughter. 


SIMPLY  SMILE! 

You  and  I  and  all  of  us 

Feel  often  out  of  trim ; 
Life  gets  us  by  the  throat  somehow 

And  prospects  seem  but  dim. 
Work's  just  a  burden  or  a  bore. 

No  efl^ort  seems  worth  while. 
Until  a  comrade  comes  along 

And  whispers,  "Simply  smile!" 

Aye!    that's  the  tonic  that  we  need 

When  Life's  a  hollow  game; 
Aye!    that's  the  charm  that  never  fails 

And   everything's  the  same. 
When  drab  and  grey  the  days  creep  by 

Our  dullness  to  beguile — 
The   whispered   word   from    one   we   love — 

"Come,   honey,   simply   smile!" 


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DOLE  AND  CHILDS 


The  partnership  of  Dole  &  Childs,  undertakers, 
was  formed  in  1893,  and  since  then  the  firm  has 
become  established  as  a  Haverhill  institution. 

With  an  office  at  39  Main  street,  and  modem 
garage  at  34  Stage  street,  the  firm  is  one  of  the 
best  equipped  in  the  state.     The  equipment  has  been 


Grecian  lodge,  K.  of  P.,  Haverhill  lodge,  B.  P.  O.  E., 
the  Pentucket  and  Wachusett  clubs.  He  resides  at 
35  Mt.  Vernon  street,  and  has  a  son  who  is  a  student 
at  Dumnier  academy. 

George  H.  Dole  was  bom  in  Byfleld,  and  during 
his  residence   in   Haverhill   has   played  a   prominent 


GEORGE   H.    DOLE 

fully  motorized,  the  automobiles  replacing  36  horses, 
and  the  garage  accommodates  50  cars. 

George  A.  Childs  is  active  manager  of  the  firm 
and  has  personal  supervision  of  the  business.  He 
was  bom  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  February  18,  1865,  and 
was  educated  in  that  town.  He  is  a  member  of  Miz- 
pah  lodge,  I.   0.   O.   F.,   Burtt  lodge,  A.   O.   U.   W., 


GEORGE   A.    CHILDS 

part  in  civic  and  business  affairs.  He  has  been  pres- 
ident of  the  city  council  and  for  four  years  occupied 
the  position  of  city  marshal.  He  is  a  32nd  degree 
Mason,  a  Knight  Templar,  charter  member  of  Ha- 
verhill lodge,  No.  165,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and  a  member  of 
Mutual  Relief  lodge,  I.  O.  0.  F,  and  the  Pentucket 
club. 


A  THOUGHT  FOR  THE  COMING  YEAR. 

The  common  problem,  yours,  mine,  every  one's. 
Is  not  to  fancy  what  were  fair  in  life 
Provided  it  could  be — but  finding  first 
What  may  be,  then  find  how  to  make  it  fair 
Up  to   our  means — a   very   different  thing. 

— Browning. 


That  books  are  of  prime  importance  is  proved  by 
the  result  which  followed  their  withdrawal  from  cir- 
culation for  a  period  of  a  thousand  years.  In  the 
fifth  century  of  our  era  two  causes  combined  to  de- 
prive the  world  of  books.    There  was  a  failure  of  the 


supply  of  papyrus,  necessitating  the  use  of  expen- 
sive parchment,  and  to  this  catastrophe  was  added 
the  ecclesiastical  narrowness  which  forbade  the  cir- 
culation of  pagan  literature.  Homer  and  Plato  were 
interdicted  and  a  glorious  company  with  them.  The 
lay  population  had  a  choice  of  reading  theological 
commentaries  and  sermons  or  of  ceasing  to  read, 
with  the  result  that  it  became  unprofitable  either  to 
make  or  write  any  books  other  than  those  necessarily 
used  by  the  priesthood.  Ceasing  to  read,  the  Euro- 
peans ceased  to  think  progressively.  The  Classic 
literature,  arts,  luxuries  and  sanitation  were  for- 
gotten and  the  Dark  Ages  intervened. — Henry  Lewis 
Bullen  in  The  Printing  Art. 


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HARRY  T.  PLUM  STEAD. 

Harry  T.  Plumstead,  manufacturer  of  women's 
shoe  patterns,  and  one  of  the  prominent  figures  in 
Haverhill  shoe  circles,  was  bom  in  Lynn,  and  was 
educated  in  the  Lynn  public  schools. 


HARRY  T.    PLUMSTEAD 

His  place  of  business  is  in  the  shoe  district  at 
110  Washington  street.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Odd 
Fellows  and  Haverhill  lodge,  No.  165,  B.  P.  0.  E. 


THOMAS  F.  COOKE  &  SON. 

Thomas  F.  Cooke  &  Son,  dealers  in  counters, 
originally,  but  now  dealing  exclusively  in  women's 
soles,  are  located  at  45  Wingate  street.  The  product 
of  the  concern  is  sold  largely  outside  of  New  Eng- 
land, although  an  extensive  business  with  New  Eng- 
land  manufacturers   is   done. 

The  members  of  the  firm  are  Thomas  F.  Cooke 
and  his  son,  Harold  T.  Cooke.  The  former  was  bom 
in  the  suburbs  of  Haverhill  and  has  been  a  life-long 
resident  of  the  city.  The  latter  is  a  native  of  the 
city,  is  married  and  has  one  child. 


There  is  an  inherent  something  in  every  success- 
ful man  that  singles  him  out  and  sets  him  apart. 
He  has  ideas  of  his  ovsm,  and  in  those  ideas  he  has 
faith  so  supreme  that  nothing  can  shake  it. 


through  the  use  of  advertising,  you  are  able  to  pro- 
vide yourself  with  myriad  voices,  and  you  can  tell 
your  story  everywhere  to  people  whom  you  never 
think  of  approaching.  This  factor  of  advertising  and 
publicity  in  its  broadest  sense,  is  the  strongest  force 
that  is  now  at  work  in  our  national  life." 


THE  HAMEL  SHOE  MACHINERY  COMPANY. 

The  Hamel  Shoe  Machinery  Company  has  grown 
in  a  few  years  from  a  comparatively  small  concern 
to  a  commanding  place  in  the  shoe  industry. 

In  1911  the  Duplessis  Machinery  Company  be- 
came part  of  the  firm,  being  followed  in  June,  1915, 
by  the  C.  K.  Fox  Machine  Works,  Inc.,  and  the 
Haverhill  Shoe  Machinery  Company. 

The  business  has  steadily  expanded,  increasing 
space  being  acquired,  until  in  April,  1919,  the  entire 
manufacturing  establishment  and  the  executive 
offices  were  removed  to  a  new  plant  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  where  four  large  floors  are  devoted  to  the 
manufacture  of  high-grade  machinery  for  the  mak- 
ing of  welt  and  turn  shoes. 


"Advertising  is  a  voice,"  says  Ivy  L.  Lee.  "As 
a  solicitor  you  can  speak  to  one  man  and  tell  your 
story  personally.    Through  the  use  of  printer's  ink, 


ESSEX    ASSOCIATES-    BUILDING 

The  company  maintains,  at  its  old  location  in 
Haverhill,  a  complete  service  station  with  a  staff  of 
expert  mechanics  and  a  liberal  supply  of  repair 
parts,  and  from  this  station  are  furnished  agents 
and  supplies  for  the  users  of  Hamel  machinery  in 
Haverhill  and  vicinity. 


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ABRAM  W.  COLBY. 

Abram  Weston  Colby,  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Haseltine  &  Colby  at  113  Essex  street,  was  bom 
Nov.   3,   1870,   and    graduated    from     the   grammar 


ABRAM    W.    COLBV 

school  into  the  shoe  factory.  He  is  one  of  the  best 
known  shoe  manufacturing  experts  in  the  city,  hav- 
ing charge  of  the  production  end  of  many  well 
known  concerns  before  entering  business  for  himself. 
Mr.  Colby  is  now  senior  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Colby  &  Borden,  manufacturers  of  wood  heels,  with 
a  modern-equipped  factory  at  9  Stage  street. 


McINTOSH'S  HAVERHILL  BUSINESS  COLLEGE. 

W.  P.  Mcintosh,  Principal  of  Mcintosh's  Haver- 
hill Business  College,  is  well  and  favorably  known 
by  upward  of  five  thousand  past  students  of  Haver- 
hill and  vicinity.  He  is  just  as  well  known  to  the 
local  business  firms,  because  he  has  been  supplying 
them  with  efficient  bookkeepers,  stenographers  and 
clerks  for  the  past  twenty-three  years. 

When  the  first  successful  business  school  of 
Haverhill  was  established  in  February,  1896,  W.  P. 
Mcintosh  came  to  Haverhill  as  head  teacher  in  the 
Bookkeeping  Department.  A  few  months  later  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  J.  C.  McTavish  and  pur- 
chased the  College  from  Bliss  Brothers,  the  found- 
ers of  the  school. 


In  his  chosen  profession  Principal  Mcintosh  is 
known  throughout  the  New  England  States  as  a 
leader.  He  is  an  ex-president  and  also  an  ex-secre- 
tary of  the  New  England  Business  College  Associa- 
tion. In  Masonic  circles  he  is  well  known  to  the 
craft,  having  been  for  four  years  secretary  of  Sag- 
gahew  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

The  College  has  been  popular  from  the  start  be- 
cause it  rendered  a  valuable  service  to  business  men 
and  young  people  starting  out  in  business  life.  It 
has  outgrown  its  quarters  several  times  and  the 
school  rooms  now  occupy  the  entire  third  floor,  100 
feet  long,  in  the  Hunking  Building,  72  Merrimack 
street.  The  offices  of  the  College  are  located  on  the 
second  floor  and  are  in  the  centre  of  the  retail  busi- 
ness district. 

The  College  aims  to  give  a  thorough  up-to-date 
training  for  business,  secretarial  and  civil  service 
positions,  and  its  graduates  are  in  such  constant  de- 
mand that  only  a  fraction  of  the  vacancies  offered 
can  be  filled. 

The  College  has  a  yearly  enrollment  of  nearly 
200  pupils  in  day  and  evening  classes. 


W.   P    McINTOSH 


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A  LIVE  ORGANIZATION. 


ERRATA  AND  ADDENDA. 


The  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade,  predecessor  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  built  the  Walnut  Street  shoe 
factories,  a  picture  of  which  appears  on  page 
102.  This  marked  the  inception  of  the  modern 
factory-building  era.  Such  a  progressive  advance, 
at  a  time  when  floor  space  was  absolutely  unavail- 
able, stamped  the  organization  with  a  mark  of  ap- 
proval that  amply  justifies  its  existence.  The  Board 
showed  the  sound  business  policy  in  the  erection  of 
such  buildings,  and  local  capitalists,  together  with 
others  who  saw  the  opportunity,  have  built  steadily 
each  year,  following  the  e.xcellent  start  made  by  the 
Board  of  Trade  in  1906. 

The  Chamber  of  Commerce  has  a  widely  used  ad- 
vertising agreement  whereby  valueless  programme 
advertising  has  been  greatly  diminished  and  the  num- 
ber of  programs  issued  has  notably  decreased.  Con- 
servatively estimated,  this  has  saved  $5,000  a  year 
and  has  permitted  at  least  this  amount  to  be  diverted 
to  more  useful  channels.  The  Chamber  has  also 
eliminated  trading  stamps. 

Through  a  live  and  efficient  legislative  committee 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  watches  legislation,  aid- 
ing those  intrusted  with  the  forming  of  our  laws  to 
make  wise  laws,  not  prejudicial  to  business,  but  such 
as  will  preserve  to  the  people  at  large  all  of  the 
rights  and  protection  which  such  a  government  as 
ours  promises. 

In  1909,  the  Haverhill  Board  of  Trade  made  such 
a  strenuous  fight  against  the  establishment  of  a  cen- 
tral station  connected  with  the  sprinkler  factories  at 
heavy  initial  expense,  and  several  times  the  present 
cost  of  maintenance,  that  the  proposition  was  defeat- 
ed and  thousands  of  dollars  saved  the  factory  owners. 


OTHERS  ARE  THINKING 

One  of  the  greatest  bankers  in  this  country,  who 
died  recently,  said  before  he  died: 

"I  don't  like  publicity.  I  never  shall  like  it.  I 
wasn't  brought  up  to  it — when  I  was  young  business 
methods  were  very  different.  But  it  has  come  to 
stay.  We  might  as  well  act  accordingly.  I  don't 
mean  that  we  have  got  to  open  our  books  but  we 
have  got  to  take  the  public  into  our  confidence  on  the 
things  concerning  which  it  has  a  right  to  know." 


It  is  true  of  a  human  life  that  it  finds  its  highest 
enjoyment  in  the  consciousness  of  progress.  Our 
times  of  greatest  pleasure  are  when  we  have  won 
some  higher  peak  of  difficulty,  trodden  under  foot 
some  evil,  refused  some  pleasant  temptation  for 
truth's  sake,  been  swept  out  of  ourselves  by  love, 
and  felt  day  by  day  in  such  high  labours  so  sure  a 
growth  of  moral  strength  within  us,  that  we  cannot^ 
conceive  of  an  end  of  growth. — Stopford  Brooke. 


The  publication  of  the  Haverhill  Book  has  been 
delayed  by  war  conditions  and  illness  of  the  editor, 
so  that  several  corrections  and  additions  are  neces- 
sary. The  volume  was  finished  in  December,  1919, 
when  President  Charles  N.  Kelly  was  closing  his 
second  term  of  office  and  Nathaniel  H.  Stackpole 
had  succeeded  Daniel  N.  Casey  as  secretary  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Mr.  Casey  going  to  Penn- 
sylvania in  the  fall  as  field  secretary  of  the  state 
Chamber  of  Commerce. 

The  membership  roll  of  the  Chamber  has  changed 
since  the  first  of  April,  1918,  and  now  contains  850 
members.  A  general  plan  of  reorganization,  with 
dues  based  on  a  unit  system,  with  a  minimum  of 
$25  per  year,  is  under  consideration  at  the  close  of 
1919. 

Mr.  Edward  A.  Witherell  (see  page  84)  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Witherell  &  Dobibns  to  take  up  war 
work.  Mr.  Dobbins  is  head  of  the  company  operat- 
ing under  the  old  name. 

Mr.  Arthur  W.  Bradley  (see  page  93)  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Austin  Ruddock  Company  in  1919 
and  engaged  in  business  for  himself. 

Mr.  Freelon  N.  Archibald  (see  page  95)  passed 
away  in  the  early  fall  of  1919,  the  business  being 
continued  by  his  sons.  Mr.  Geo.  H.  Marquette,  who 
had  retired  from  F.  N.  Archibald  &  Co.  in  1918,  is 
now  engared  in  the  manufacture  of  cut  soles  as 
G.  H.  Marquette  &  Co.  at  280  River  street. 

Liberty-Durgin  Inc.,  (see  page  109)  returned  to 
the  manufacture  of  ladies  fine  shoes  shortly  after 
the  close  of  the  war  and  have  greatly  increased  their 
pre-war  business.  Mr.  Liberty  is  also  interested  in 
Cooper-Liberty-Thompson,  Inc.,  on  River  street,  and 
other  shoe  manufacturing  enterprises. 

The  firm  of  Butler  &  Haseltine  see  (page  112) 
was  dissolved  early  in  1919,  each  continuing  in  bus- 
iness individually  in  the  same  building  they  occupied 
as  a  firm. 


Men  most  familiar  with  any  given  task  may  be 
blind  to  its  defects.  Their  work  becomes  a  matter 
of  routine.  They  think  they  know  it  thoroughly,  and 
so  do  not  analyse  to  discover  whether  they  are  get- 
ting from  it  all  they  should.  It  is  the  outside  frame 
of  mind,  as  existing  in  the  trained  investigators,  that 
detects  many  of  these  incongruities  at  a  glance. — 
"Successful  Banking." 


A  youth  can  now  enter  business  and  preserve  his 
soul  clean.  The  salesman  need  no  longer  be  a  liar. 
The  clerk  behind  the  counter  need  no  longer  practice 
deception. — B.  C.   Forbes,  in  "Forbes'  Magazine." 


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