{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3031", "width": "2194", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "filass-\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "2744", "width": "2012", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2744", "width": "2012", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2827", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "ct\\nCONCORD\\nAMI I IS\\nPOINTS OF INTEREST.\\nBY GEO. F. BACON.\\nI L L LI S r R A r E D\\nCONCORD, N. H.\\nPUKl.ISHED liV THE\\nCONCORD COMMERCIAL CLUB.\\n1 890.", "height": "2827", "width": "2002", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "COPTKIGHT.\\nMEKCANTILB PDBLIBHING CO.\\n1890.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "^4 3-)\\nINTRODUCTORY.\\nThe history of Concord as a city dates from 1853, for it was on\\nthe tenth of March in that year that the city charter was adopted, it\\nhaving been granted July 6, 1849, and rejected three times by popu-\\nlar vote, finally being accepted by a majority of 269 in a total vote of 1387.\\nThe history of the parish and town is of deep interest but does not properly\\ncome within the scope of the present work, which deals especially with the\\nConcord of today and may be considered as a sort of appendix to the com-\\nplete, authoritative and admirable history of Concord from 1725 to 1853, written by the Rev. Nathaniel\\nBouton and published in 1856. This is a standard work whose value steadily increases with the\\npassage of time, and we wish here to express our obligations to it for many of the facts presented in\\n^he introductory sketch, which by summarizing Concord s development in the past may lead to a more\\n-complete understanding of her^ probable growth in the future. The -History of Merrimack and\\nBelknap Counties, published by J. W. Lewis Co., of Philadelphia, in 1885, has also been of great\\nservice by reason of its clear presentation of facts concerning Concord s later history, and it is to be\\nregretted that the necessarily high cost of that handsomely and substantially gotten up volume of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0nearly 1000 pages should prevent a copy of it from being owned by every family in the large and\\nimportant section of which it treats so interestingly and accurately.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST\\nTHE KIRST SETTLEMENT.\\nWhere once tlie savage Penacook\\nTook deadly aim at beast and bird,\\nAnd all the silent valley heard\\nHis whizzing arrow, where to-day\\nWliistles the engine on its way.\\nThe first settlers of New England found it inhabited by five distinct Indian nations, among these-\\nbeing the Pawtucketts, concerning whom Daniel Gookin wrote in 1674 as follows Their country-\\nlieth north and northeast from the Massachusetts, whose dominion reaches so far as the English\\njurisdiction or colony of the Massachusetts doth now extend and had under theiu several othei-\\nsmaller sagamores as the Pennakooks, Agowaraes, Naamkeeks, Pascataways, Accomintas, and others.\\nThey were a considerable people heretofore, about three thousand men, and held amity with the-\\npeople of Massachusetts. But they were almost totally destroyed by the great sickness that prevailed\\namong the Indians, so that at this day they are not above two hundred and fifty men, beside women\\nand children. This country is now inhabited by the English, under the government of Massachusetts.\\nTlie Pennakooks, or Penacooks, to use the accepted style of spelling, occupied the tract of land\\non which Concord is located, and are said to have taken their name from the erratic course pursued by\\nthe Merrimack river in flowing through the township, Penacook meaning the crooked place. When.\\nfirst known to the English their chief was Passaconaway, who had a great reputation as a sorcerer,\\nand was credited with the ability to turn water into ice in the heat of summer and do many other\\nwonderful things. In spite of the superstitious awe with which he was regarded, even by the English,,\\nhe foresaw that armed opposition to them would result in the ruin of his people, and hence was as\\nfriendly as circumstances would allow. Passaconaway was induced to embrace Christianity by the\\napostle Eliot, in 1(348, and when the great chief died some twenty years later, at the age of more than\\none hundred, his farewell command to his son Wonolancet, who succeeded him in the leadership of the\\nPenacooks, was, Never be enemies to the English but love them and love their God also, because\\nthe God of the English is the true God and greater than the Indian gods. This command was-\\nfaithfully obeyed, for although Wonolancet suffered many privations and finally lost all his property\\nby reason of unjust suspicions, he never injured the English by word or deed, but on the contrary\\ninterposed several times to save them from attack.\\nThe last sagamore of the Penacooks was Kancamagus, a grandson of Passaconaway, but totally\\nunlike him in character. Kancamagus was concerned in the attack upon Dover, in 1689, and was-\\namong the six eastern Indian enemy, sagamores who signed a treaty of peace with the Massachu-\\nsetts government, November 29, 1690. The power of the Penacooks as a tribe was then at an end,,\\nand such as were hostile to the English joined other tribes, the rest remaining in the vicinity of\\nPenacook and rendering valuable aid to the early settlers by supplying them with food in winter and\\ndoing them other services.\\nThe first petition for a grant of land in a place which is called Pennecooke, was presented in\\n1659, but this and several others which followed amounted to nothing, for although the grants were\\nmade they were forfeited on account of breach of conditions, and it was not until June 17, 1725, that\\nthe decisive petition was presented to the authorities of Massachusetts Bay Province. This was-\\ngranted January 17, the petitioners being given a tract to contain seven miles square upon certain\\nconditions, among which were the building of a meeting-house within three years, the cutting of a\\nroad through the wilderness to the plantation, and the division of the land into one hundred and three\\nequal parts or shares, of which one hundred were to be given to one hundred desirable persons or\\nfamilies on the payment of five pounds for each lot, the remaining three shares being reserved one\\nfor the first settled minister, one for a parsonage, and one for the use of the school forever.\\nThe land having been duly surveyed and apportioned to the settlers, they set actively to work to-\\nfulfill the other conditions and by 1728 had erected a meeting-house and made arrangements for", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 5\\nbuilding a saw mill, a grist mill, and for establishing a ferry. In 1730 the proprietors petitioned the\\nGeneral Court to be given the rights and privileges of a town, but the result was not altogether\\nsatisfactory, and in December, 1732, another petition was presented, by the granting of which the\\ninhabitants of Penacook were enabled to hold legal meetings for the choice of officers and the raising\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of money for town purposes. But the General Court appointed the moderator of these meetings and\\nit was not until February 27, 1733, that the bill was passed which made the plantation of Penacook\\nthe town of Rumford. Why this name was chosen is not definitely known, but probably it was\\nbecause some of the proprietors came from the English parish of that title. In 1740 the town was\\ngreatly excited by the terms of the settlement of the long-disputed question as to the division line\\nbetween Massachusetts and New Hampshire, for the decision arrived at had the eifect of placing\\nRumford under New Hampshire s jurisdiction, whereas both sentimental and practical considerations\\nattached the townspeople to the Massachusetts government. Every effort was made to bring about\\nThe Meehimack River from Blupb s.\\n5i continuance of the existing condition of affairs, but without avail, and the passage of what was called\\nthe District Act by New Hampshire, made Rumford a district and subjected her to the indignity\\nand expense of taxation without representation.\\nFrom 1742 to 1754 Indian warfare very seriously interfered with the development of New\\nEngland frontier settlements, and before these troubles were over Rumford became involved in legal\\n-complications with the town of Bow, so that between the two opposing forces her very existence was\\nimperilled. The tract of land granted by Massachusetts in 1725 was covered in part by a grant made\\nby New Hampshire in 1727, this latter grant conveying eighty-one square miles of territory to one\\nhundred and seven proprietors and their associates and forming a town corporate by the name of\\nBow. In November, 1 750, an action of ejectment was brought against Dea. John Merrill, one of the\\nRumford proprietors, by the Bow proprietors, this being the first of a series of similar actions against\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0different parties. The Rumford proprietors combined to defend these suits, but every case brought to\\ntrial in New Hampshire was decided against them, and only a firm belief in the justice of their cause\\ngave ihem faith to continue the apparently hopeless struggle. Agents were sent to England to present", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nthe points at issue before His Majesty in Council, and the result was that the adverse judgment wa\u00c2\u00bb\\nreversed and the position of the Rumford proprietors endorsed. This was in 1762, but it was not\\nuntil 1772 that the controversy was finally terminated.\\nIn May, 1705, the parish of Concord was created, the name being given in commemoration or\\nthe concord of action which had characterized the residents of Penacook and Rumford from the\\nvery beginning. The territory was known as a parish until January, 17P4, when a small portion of\\nCanterbury and London was annexed, and it was enacted that the parish of Concord be henceforth\\ncalled the town of Concord, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.\\nThe town steadily grew and prospered, and in 1790 had become of such importance that it became-\\nneces .ary to provide a house for the accommodation of the General Court, and the sum of five hundred\\nand fifty-five dollars was raised by private subscription, one hundred pounds additional being afterward\\nappropriated by the town for the purpose. The structure was known as the Town House and was-\\nutilized by the General Court until the completion of the State House in 1819, which year is also\\nmemorable as the date of the appearance of the first steamboat on the river at Concord. It was-\\ndesigned to tow loaded boats up the river but lacked the power necessary to overcome the rapids and\\nhence the company by whom it was controlled had to depend upon the primitive methods of sails^\\noars, and setting-poles. The first boat arrived at Concord in the fall of 1814, but it carried only a.\\nsmall cargo as the river-locks were not then completed. The first boat, with regular freight from.\\nBoston to Concord, through the Middlesex Canal, arrived June 23, 1815. The rates for freight from.\\nBoston to Concord during the first four years, were $12 per ton of 2,240 pounds the rate from,\\nConcord to Boston being $8 for the same weight. The charges were gradually reduced and in 1841-42-\\nhad fallen to $4 per ton of 2,000 pounds, whether carried up or down the river. The largest business-\\ndone in any one year was in 1839, the receipts being $38,169. The average receipts were about\\n$25,000 per annum, the company doing a very profitable business until the opening of the Concord\\nrailroad in the fall of 1842.\\nThe first train from Boston to Concord arrived at quarter of seven, Tuesday evening, September-\\nsixth, and consisted of three passenger cars drawn by the Amoskeag. Such an arrival was an event\\nindeed, and the whole town turned out to honor the occasion. Amid shouting, cheering and the-\\nthunder of cannon the train came to a stop, and when it was announced that such as could be accom-\\nmodated would be given a free ride, a tremendous rush was made and every available inch of\\nsitting and standing room was occupied. A regular service of two passenger trains per day was.\\ninaugurated, and the following week three trains per day were run.\\nThe first omnibus to run in Concord was owned by George Dame, of the Pavilion Hotel, and\\nbegan its trips between the north end of Main street and the depot in 1852. It was gorgeously\\npainted and upon the panels were views of the State House, depot and Main street, and a likeness of\\nFranklin Pierce.\\nBy this time Concord had become a wealthy and populous town, the United States census of 1850\\ngiving the valuation of real estate as $3,015,286, and of personal estate as $573,624, making a total\\nvaluation of $3,588,910. The population was 8,584, having increased to that figure from 4,903 in 1840^\\nAlthough many disliked to abandon the system of government which had served so well in the past^,\\nthe great number of voters rendered some change imperative, and the popular conviction of this fact\\nfinally overcame all opposition and secured the adoption of a city charter, March 10, 1853. The first\\nelection under this charter occurred March 26, 1853, but no choice of mayor was made, there being\\nthree candidates and the most popular receiving twenty-one less votes than his two opponents. At a.\\nsecond election, held April 5th, he was elected by 192 majority out of a total vote of 1,466, and th\\nfollowing day the city government was formally organized by the induction to office of the mayor-\\nelect and the two branches of the city council, the following gentlemen having been chosen\\nMayor Joseph Low.\\nAldermen Ward 1, John Batchelder ward 2, John L. Tallant ward 3, Joseph Eastman;,\\nward 4, Robert Davis ward 5, Edson Hill ward 6, Matthew Harvey ward 7, Josiah Stevens.\\nCommon Council Ward 1, Jeremiah S. Durgin, Eben F. Elliot; ward 2, Samuel B. Larkin,.\\nHeman Sanborn ward 3, George W. Biown, Moses Humphrey ward 4, Ezra Carter, George Minot\\nward 5, William H. H. Bailey, Cyrus Barton ward 6, Ebenezer G. Moore, Thomas Bailey ward 7\u00c2\u00bb\\nMoses Sluite, Giles W. Oidw.Tv.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 7\\nAnd now, having sketched Concord s history from the time when the territory was but a savage\\n-wilderness until it became Penacook Plantation, Rumford town, Rumfonl district. Concord parish,\\nConcord town, and finally Concord city, let us proceed without further preface to a consideration of\\nthe Concord of to-day, and see how far it has fulfilled the hopes of its founders and what are the\\nopportunities held out to the manufacturer, the merchant, the workingman and all the members of\\nthat wonderfullv intricate and interdependent body known as society.\\nTHE CONCORD OK TO=DAY.\\nSuc}i Concord is but who may see\\nA vision of the town to be?\\nConcord is located in the southern central part of Merrimack County, and is bounded on the\\nnorth by Webster, Boscawen, and Canterbury on the east by London, Chichester, and Pembroke\\non the south by Pembroke and Bow; on the west by Dunbarton and Hopkinton.\\nIt is the capital of the State of New Hampshire and the county-seat of Merrimack County, and is\\nalso a very important manufacturing and mercantile centre; its representative products being well and\\nfavorably known throughout the United States and in many foreign countries, while the enterprise and the\\nadvantages of position possessed by Concord merchants have made the city the purchasing centre for\\nall the country adjacent. Many of its products are shipped to Boston for export and for domestic\\ndistribution, that city being but seventy miles distant, and the railway facilities for the transportation\\nof freight and passengers being excellent. Concord is directly on the line of communication between\\nthe representative industrial and commercial centres of the East and the important and rapidly\\ndeveloping market in the great Northwest, and the remarkable prosperity of the city s manufacturing\\nenterprises during the past five years, affords an indication of what may reasonably be expected in\\nthe near future, and has had the effect of calling the attention of capitalists and practical manufact-\\nurers to the opportunities here presented for the profitable establishment of extensive manufacturing\\nplants. In spite of the immense amount of water power now in use in Concord, there are undeveloped\\nprivileges having sufficient capacity to supply power for the driving of machinery, the direction of\\nwhich would necessitate the employment of thousands of operatives and it may be added that the\\npolicy of the city concerning the establishment of new industries is very liberal, and will be referred\\nto more in detail under the head of The Commercial and Industrial Outlook.\\nBy the United States census of 1880, Merrimack County is given a population of 46,300, that of\\nConcord being stated as 13,845. The valuation of the county, April 1, 1879, was \u00c2\u00a724,882,550, and the\\nvaluation of the city the same year was $10,604,465.\\nThe census of 1890 will show a very marked increase over these figures, especially those relating\\nparticularly to Concord, for the growth of that city is very steady and permanent, as the great majority\\nof those who take up their abode within its limits come to stay, all the conditions being favorable\\nto the development of an intelligent, public-spirited, and law-abiding population.\\nThe opportunities for remunerative employment are many and varied, and the cost of living is\\nmoderate, especially when the industrial, mercantile, educational, and social advantages available are\\ntaken into consideration. Houses and tenements may be rented at reasonable rates, the most of them\\nbeing in excellent condition and having pleasant, healthful, and convenient locations. During the\\npast three years more than one hundred and seventy houses have been erected, including several\\npalatial private residences, but the constant growth of the city creates a steady demand for desirable\\ntenements, and those built to rent at from $8 to $14 per month are especially popular and prove a\\nvery safe and profitable investment.\\nThe stores of the city are generally large, well lighted, finely equipped, and neat and attractive\\nin appearance within and without, but what is of more interest to purchasers is the fact that", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nunsurpassed advantages are offered to retail and wholesale buyers. The markets contain a full\\nassortment of seasonable food products at all times of the year, and in the line of country produce\\noffer inducements which very few cities can parallel, for Concord is in the midst of a region which\\nproduces an abundant supply of vegetables, fruits, grains, eggs, butter, cheese, etc., and under\\nexisting arrangements these commodities are furnished to consumers in a very fresh and appetizing\\ncondition. Wood and coal are obtainable at reasonable rates, the former coming from the surround-\\ning country, which also supplies large quantities of hay, corn and feed in general, much of the\\nmoney received for these and other products being paid out to Concord merchants for farming tools,\\nhardware, clothing, dry goods and the many other commodities they are prepared to furnish at\\nespecially favorable rates. An extensive wholesale trade is also carried on, as the country merchants\\nfor miles around obtain the bulk of their supplies in this city.\\nThe State Capitol Building at Concord.\\nEDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.\\nUnder existing conditions a good common school education is practically indispensable to success\\nin business life, and the excellent opportunities Concord offers for obtaining such, deserve prominent\\nmention in even a brief summary of the advantages of the city as a place of residence. It is true\\nthat many men have won distinction as inventors, as manufacturers, or as merchants, in spite of an\\nalmost total lack of early educational advantages, but they were enabled to do so by the possession\\nof great natural ability, indomitable perseverance and the favoring conditions which prevailed before\\ncompetition had raised the standard in every field of effort and materially narrowed the chances for\\nindividual success. Parents owe it to their children to see that they are equipped at all points for the\\nstruggle of life, and a good general education is of no less importance than sound health and sound\\nmorals. It is the fashion of the day to judge schools by the practical results they attain, and not by\\nthe claims they make or the magnitude of the field they essay to cover, and certainly the results\\nattained by the Concord schools justify us in giving them a leading place among New England\\neducational institutions. The graduates of the grammar schools have a good, sound English\\neducation, fitting them to take places in offices, stores, and factories, with minds prepared to receive\\nknowledge relating to the special duties they have entered upon to reason logically, and in short to gain", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 9\\nthat practical education to which a school education is merely preparatory. The high school\\ngraduates who enter colleges, or other institutions of learning, make records and assume positions in their\\nclasses which conclusively prove that their preparatory training has been intelligent, faithful, and\\nvaluable. By their fruits ye shall know them, and the knowledge the citizens of Concord possess\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of what their schools have done and are doing, compensates them for their liberal expenditure of time\\nand money for their support.\\nThe pioneer school of Concord was established in 1731, its support being assumed by the town in\\n1733. For more than thirty years it was kept in four sections of the town East Concord, West\\nConcord, Hopkinton road and Main street but after 1766 a winter school was maintained at each of\\nthese places. The first school house was built in 1742, and at the beginning of the Nineteenth\\ncentury there were about nine school houses in the town s possession. These were all small and rude\\nstructures, and no better method could be devised to gain an adequate idea of the enormous increase\\nin the wealth and culture of the community since their erection, than to compare the best of them\\nwith the poorest school building Concord has to-day.\\nIn 1807 the town was divided into sixteen school districts, and in 1818 the first visiting\\ncommittee was appointed but the act which had by far the most beneficial effect upon local schools\\nwas the establishment of the Union School District, in 1853, for from that date the improvement in\\nschools, school buildings and systems of instruction and supervision has been rapid and continuous.\\nA Board of Education was appointed in 1859, nine representative citizens, elected September tenth of\\nthat year, constituting it. As the population of city increased and the questions to be considered\\nmultiplied in number and importance, the duties of the Board became too exacting to be performed\\nsatisfactorily under existing arrangements, and the result was the passage, in 1874, of an act\\nauthorizing the appointment of a Superintendent of Schools. The original incumbent was Daniel C.\\nAllen, and he and his successors deserve a good share of the credit for the marked improvement in\\nthe efficiency of the school system which has since been brought about.\\nDuring the years 1888 and 1889 the city expended about $140,000 for new school buildings, the\\nHigh, Franklin, and Kimball school houses being erected during that period. These are model\\nstructures for the purposes for which they are utilized, both in design and construction, being\\n5ommo dious, excellently lighted and heated, thoroughly ventilated and very conveniently arranged.\\nOther school buildings are the Tahanto, Walker, Chandler, Rumford, and Bow Brook. The Tahanto\\nand Walker houses have recently been thoroughly renovated and equipped with improved ventilating\\nappliances, and it is within the bounds of truth to say that, taken as a whole, the school buildings\\nof Concord will now compare favorably, as regards heathfulness and convenience, with those of any\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2other New England city.\\nLiberal appropriations are regularly made for the support of the school system there is none of\\nthat overcrowding so common in most of the larger cities, but every child of suitable age is given\\nabundant opportunity to gain a good education under favorable conditions, and is supplied with all\\nnecessary text books free of expense.\\nThere are various private schools in the city, prominent among them being St. Mary s day and\\nboarding school for young ladies, but by far the most important of these institutions is St. Paul s\\nSchool, which, like St. Mary s, is conducted under the auspices of the Episcopal church. This is one\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of the best-known church classical schools in the world, for although of recent origin when compared\\nwith other famous institutions of a similar character, its management has been such as to have given\\nit wide and honorable celebrity, and to have rendered frequent and extensive enlargement of its\\nfacilities absolutely necessary.\\nThe school is located at Millville a suburb of Concord and is about two miles from the centre\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of the city, on the borders of a pretty little lake, in a beautiful valley with high hills on every side.\\nThe institution was founded by George Cheyne Shattuck, M. D., a wealthy resident of Boston, and\\nthe original school building was the country-seat of the founder. The school was first opened in 1856,\\nand this building continued to be used for school purposes until its destruction by fire in 1878. It was\\nreplaced by a structure known as The School, and pronounced by expert judges to be one of the\\nmost complete buildings of the kind to be found in the country. Long before this, however, it had", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nbecome necessary to provide greatly increased accommodations, and these were furnished by the\\nerection of the Upper School, a handsome three-story granite building built in 1S69 the Lower\\nSchool, in 1870 the Rectory, in 1871 a large school house, in 1873, and the Infirmary or Sanita-\\nrium, in 1877. The school opened in 1856 with five pupils there are now nearly two hundred and\\nfifty, and so anxious are some parents that their sons should profit by the advantages here offered,\\nthat they enter their names five and six years before they are old enough to be admitted. As the\\nReverend Hall Harrison has said, in writing of the institution, after eulogizing the personal\\ncharacteristics and paying tribute to the efliciency of the methods pursued by those having its.\\ninterests in charge\\nBut after making all due allowance for these personal qualifications, which it might indeed be\\ndifiicult to replace, it is quite certain that if anything like the wise judgment and unselfish labor of\\nthe past quarter of a century shall mark the administration of Dr. Colt s successors, St. Paul s,\\nGovernment Building, Concord.\\nConcord, will more and more take a leading rank among those noted places of education which\\nafter all, are the true glory of our country, because they are the best security that we have for\\nthe cultivation of those virtues which lie at the foundation of the safety, honor, and welfare of our\\npeople.\\nThe complete course of study covers seven years, and students are prepared to enter the\\nfreshman and sophomore classes of any American college, but many enter business life directly from\\nthis institution.\\nSchools and libraries are closely related, and in the Fowler Free Libi-ary Concord has an\\ninstitution of which she may well feel proud, and which is destined to increase steadily in value and\\nimportance. The building was erected by William P. and Clara M. Fowler, in memory of their\\nparents, and was dedicated in 1889. It is a handsome and substantial structure and is sufliciently-\\ncommodious to provide for all probable demands upon its facilities for a long time to come. The-\\nseveral Shakespeare clubs of the city have a fine room allotted to them in this building.\\nThere are a number of excellent private and semi-private libraries in Concord, the most\\nimportant of them being that of the New Hampshire Historical Society, which was formed at", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OP INTEREST. 11\\nPortsmouth in 1823, for the purpose of discovering, procuring, and preserving matter relating to the\\nnatural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general, and the State of New-\\nHampshire in particular. The society celebrated its semi-centennial anniversary May 22, 1873, a.\\nfeature of the occasion being the dedication of its newly fitted-up building. There have been som\\nten volumes of valuable historical matter published by this association, whose library now comprise*\\nabout 9,000 volumes, more than 12,000 pamphlets, over 100,000 newspapers, an extensive and\\nvaluable collection of manuscripts, together with many ancient and curious articles, some of which\\nare associated with the most noted personages and decisive events in American history.\\nTHE PRESS.\\nThe newspaper press of Concord comprises two dailies and three weeklies the former being the\\nConcord Monitor and the People and Patriot the latter the Indepindent Statesman, People and\\nPatriot, and Concord Tribune. The 3Ionitor has the distinction of being the first permanent daily\\npaper established in Concord, for although a number of efforts had previously been made in this-\\ndirection all had ultimately failed. The Monitor made its initial appearance May 23, 1864, the\\npublishers being Cogswell and Sturtevant. At that time the attention of the Northern people was of\\ncourse concentrated upon the actions and fortunes of their soldiers in the South, and as the Monitor\\nnot only published full telegraphic reports but made a specialty of news concerning New Hampshire\\ntroops in the field, it made an instant and decided hit. But the expenses of publication were heavy,\\nand as no part of the subscribed guaranty fund of $3,000 was ever turned over to the publishers (who\\nhad contracted to print and publish the paper at a fixed compensation, without editorial responsibility),,\\nand as a large sum was owing to them, the paper and its accounts were given to them in part payment\\nof their claim. This was in August, 1865, and Cogswell Sturtevant continued the editorial and\\nbusiness management of the Monitor until January 2, 1867, when the Mo7iitor and Independent\\nDemocrat offices were combined and the Independent Press Association formed. The Republican\\nPress Association was organized October 1, 1871, and purchased the papers and the business of the\\nIndependent Association and of the Eepublican Statesmen, merging the two enterprises into one.\\nFrom this time the 3Ionitor has been solidly and steadily prosperous it has been enlarged several\\ntimes, is constantly gaining in circulation, advertising patronage and influence, and is a monitor\\nwhose admonitions concerning municipal affairs are worthy of the most respectful consideration, and\\nhave saved tax payers many a dollar and wisely guided the expending of many more.\\nThe Peo2jle and Patriot was established by the Democratic Press Association in 1885, and ha\u00c2\u00bb\\nsince very ably represented the principles of the democratic party as applied to municipal, state and\\nnational politics. Although the paper as now published is of comparatively recent origin, a full\\naccount of what may be called its pre-natal history would have to go back nearly half a century to\\ntrace its origin, for the first number of the Dally Patriot was issued June 2, 1841. The first\\nprospectus for a daily paper in Concord was sent out by William P. and John M. Hill, in May, 1841,\\nbut the first number of their paper, Hiirs Daily Patriot, did not appear until June third one day\\nlater than the appearance of the Daily Patriot, which was published by Barton Carroll. Both\\nthese papers were issued only during the sessions of the Legislature, and HiWs Daily Patriot\\nsuspended publication at the close of the second volume, in 1842. The publication of the Daily\\nPatriot steadily continued in spite of various changes in ownership, and January 3, 1868, it began to\\nbe issued regularly throughout the year, so continuing until November 1, 1877, when it was stopped.\\nCharles C. Pearson Co. had commenced the publication of a legislative paper, called the Daily\\nPeople, in June, 1870, and it was continued until the completion of the ninth volume, in 1878. The\\nfollowing year Mr. Pearson began the publication of the People and Patriot, issuing it daily during\\nthe legislative session of 1879. December first of that year he resumed its publication, sending out\\nsix issues a week, and September 3, 1881, the enterprise was abandoned, but as before stated was\\nrevived by the Democratic Press Association in 1885. The People and Patriot now has a large\\ncirculation and a good amount of advertising patronage, fairly sharing honors with the Monitor.\\nBoth papers are ably conducted and although looking at many things from different points of view.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nboth unquestionably have the best interests of the city, state and nation at heart. The People and\\nPatriot publishes a weekly edition and one is also issued from the Monitor oiBce, known as the\\nIndependent Statesman these have an especially large out-of-town circulation. Another weekly is\\nthe Concord Iribnne, the successor of the Weekly Blade, which succeeded the Concord Daily Blade,\\nestablished September 1, 1880. The Tribune occupies a field of its own and appeals successfully to\\nthe support of a large and important class of readers.\\nTHE WATER SUPPLY.\\nThe water supply of a city has so important a bearing upon its healthfulness, upon the cost of\\nmanufacturing, and upon the probable fire losses and consequently the insurance rates, that there is\\nno other single advantage offered by Concord as a city to live and do business in, which will outweigh\\nits magnificent water service. Magnificent is a pretentious word and may perhaps be legitimately\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0objected to from a literary point of view when used in this connection, but it seems to describe, as no\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2other word can, a service which, although not perfect, is doubtless as nearly so as that enjoyed by any\\nNew England city. Concord has expended about half a million of dollars on her water works, and the\\nsystem is so arranged as to enable a heavy increase in the present consumption to be provided for at\\ncomparatively small cost.\\nThe great fire of 1851 caused an awakening of the people to the imperative need of an additional\\nwater supply, and earnest efforts were made to provide such, but little or no progi-ess was made, for\\nall available money was needed in the development of private business interests, and the people\\nobjected strongly to material increase in the rate of taxation. Finally a committee was appointed to\\ninvestigate the matter, and in a report dated December 16, 1859, it is stated\\nOur population is at present supplied in part from wells and in part by several aqueduct\\noompanies, the two principal of which are the Torrent Aqueduct Association and that of Nathaniel\\nWhite. In addition to these are several others of more limited capacities, each supplying from one\\nor two to forty families.\\nThe Committee examined five different sources of supply, comprising Merrimack River, Horse-\\nshoe Pond, Ash Brook, Little Pond, and Long Pond, and very wisely gave their preference to the last\\non the list, summarizing its advantages and the attending conditions as follows Long Pond is\\ndistant three and one-half miles from the State House, has an area of two hundred and sixty-five\\nacres, and is, in some places, seventy-five feet deep. Several small brooks enter it, but it is fed\\nprincipally by springs. The land about it is of a granite formation, and rises pretty rapidly to a\\nbeight of from three hundred to four hundred feet, and is mostly cleared. The Pond is surrounded\\nby a water-shed of some 3,000 acres in extent. Its bottom is of white sand, overstrewn with granite\\nboulders, and is free from sediment and aquatic weeds. There are no boggy meadows on its shores.\\nIts water is soft, pure, perfectly transparent, and abundant in quantity.\\nAlthough issued thirty years and more ago, this report is a faithful description of the Long Pond,\\nor rather the Lake Penacook of to-day, for no changes have occurred such as would exert a\\noontaininating influence on the water. The outbreak of the Rebellion put aside all thoughts of\\nexpensive local improvements, and for some years after its close no decisive steps were taken\\nooncerning the water supply, but at a mass meeting of citizens held October 1, 1870, it was\\n-Resolved, that the safety, health, prosperity, and growth of our city absolutely demand a greater\\nand better supply of water than it now has.\\nA committee was appointed to vigorously push the matter, and in August, 1871, they reported\\nthat they had obtained from the Legislature An Act to authorize the city of Concord to establish\\nwater-works in said city. A Board of Water Commissioners was appointed in January, 1872, and\\nthe work of preparation and construction was very vigorously pushed. The right to draw water\\nfrom the pond was bought of the owners of the water power at West Concord, for $60,000, and\\ncontracts were made with the American Gas and Water Pipe Company for the construction of the\\nmain line, distributing branches, and the furnishing and setting up of gates, hydrants, elc, at a total", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nIS\\ncost of about $144,000. The stock of the Torrent Aqueduct Association, and the water rights of\\nNathaniel White were bought for $20,000, and a little more than $16,000 was paid for other rights\\nand for land damages. The contractors put a large force to work and hurried matters along so-\\nsuccessfully that water was admitted to the pipes only eight months after the beginning of operations,\\nor January 14, 1873.\\nAlthough done hurriedly, the work was done very thoroughly and has given excellent satisfaction\\nfrom the first. In fact its very perfection soon made an extension of the delivery facilities imperative,\\nfor as the knowledge of the convenience and reliability of the service became more general, there\\nwas a constantly growing demand for water and the consumption reached a point where the fourtecD\\ninch main was unable to supply an adequate amount to the higher portions of the territory covered.\\nThe result was the laying of a second main, eighteen inches in diameter the work being completed\\nin the summer of 1882, the total construction account being thus brought up to $492,000.\\nCoNCOKD FROM State House Cupola, looking South.\\nImprovements have been made from time to time as circumstances required, and nearly every\\ndwelling in the city is now supplied with an abundance of pure water, it having a good head in\\nthe pipes, as Penacook Lake is one hundred and twenty feet above Main street in front of the\\nState House.\\nTHE FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.\\nA city having suuh a water service should have a fire department to correspond, and certainly\\nConcord pursues a consistent policy in the matter, her fire department being as efficient as any in the\\nState. Its mechanical equipment is generally modern in style and is liaMdle l by some two hundred\\ntrained firemen, who know their business and are commendably prompt and fearless in the discharge\\nof their duty. On many occasions they have shown their ability to cope with all ordinary conflagra-\\ntions, and although, in the light of recent experiences at Lynn and Boston, it would be presumptuous\\nto claim that a disastrous fire in Concord is impossible, still it should be remembered that the character\\nof local buildings and their contents, and the absence of the narrow streets, high walls and other", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nconditions unfavorable to fire-fighting, which greatly aided to increase the loss at the cities named, all\\ntend to justify the confidence which manufacturers, merchants, insurance companies and the citizens\\ngeneral repose in the Concord fire department.\\nAt the Central station there are two second-class Araoskeag steamers and two first-class Amoskeag\\nhose carriages all these pieces of apparatus being drawn by horses, of which six are always imme-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2diately available. There is also a hook and ladder wagon, manned by twenty men. At the north end\\nis the Alert Hose, and at the south end the Good Will Hose, the former company using a\\nmodern department wagon and the latter a four-wheel Araoskeag carriage. Each house is equipped\\nwith a swinging harness, and horses are constantly in readiness in adjoining stables.\\nIn Penacook there is a fourth-class Silsby steamer and a second-class Amoskeag hose carriage\\nhorses are available, but the steamer may be- drawn by hand should circumstances require. At East\\nConcord, is the Old Fort hand engine and hose company, and in West Concord is a similar\\norganiaztion known as the Cataract Company. The electric fire-alarm service is wide spread and\\nreliable, and a large number of hydrants are distributed throughout the city.\\nNew Hampshire State s Prison at Concord.\\nConcord s Police Department is worthy to be classed with the Fire Department, for although\\nhappily there is no occasion for it being maintained on anything like so large a scale, still it is amply\\nsufficient to meet all demands upon it, and for a city of its population and amount of territory to be\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0covered. Concord is remarkably free from disorder and from crimes against persons and property.\\nThe efficiency of any police force depends in a great measure upon the public sentiment behind it,\\nand as the citizens of Concord, as a whole, are firm believers in the principle Order is heaven s first\\nlaw, they will not tolerate disorder, and are ready to lend financial and, if necessary, physical aid\\nto the police in their efforts to repress it. It is this consciousness of popular support that makes\\nConcord s policemen courteous in their dealings with the public, but prompt and fearless in preserving\\norder when force is necessary while on the other hand those who have a disposition to break the\\nlaw are in many cases restrained by the conviction that they are in a hopeless minority, and by the\\nknowledge that the police have only to ask aid in order to get it instantly. A new Police Station of\\nbrick and stone is now in course of erection at an expense of about $20,000.\\nHOTELS.\\nBeing the State Capital, as well as an important mercantile and manufacturing city, it is natural\\nthat the hotel accommodations of Concord should be at times heavily drawn upon, and should be\\nsuperior to those available in almost all other cities of no greater population. Among the local\\nhotels are the American House, Elm House, Commercial House, and the hotel of the Eagle and\\nPhenix Hotel Co. The last named house is located opposite the State House yard, and is a very", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 15\\ncommodious and finely equipped structure, it having been rebuilt and newly furnished in 1890 at a\\ncost of more than 835,000. It has one hundred and forty rooms, is supplied with elevators, electrical\\nappliances and other conveniences, and is a worthy representative of Concord hospitality. All the\\nfcotels are well managed, and as a whole cater successfully to all classes of trade so it is not claiming\\ntoo much to say that they have done their full share towards building up the favorable sentiment\\nwith which the city is regarded elsewhere.\\nCHURCH, BENEVOLENT, AND FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.\\nAlthough the temporal needs of Concord s residents are excellently provided for, their spiritual\\nmeeds have by no means been neglected, for the city and suburbs contain many church societies,\\nrepresenting all the leading denominations and worshipping in edifices which, with scarcely an\\n\u00c2\u00abxception, are commodious and beautiful, while many have large and convenient chapels connected.\\nAmong societies in the city proper are the First and South Congregational the First Methodist\\nEpiscopal, and the Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal the First Baptist, Pleasant street Baptist,\\nand Free-Will Baptist the Universalist the Unitarian the Episcopal the Advent and St.\\nJohn s, Roman Catholic. In East Concord there are the Congregational Church and the Episcopal\\nMission in West Concord, the Congregational Church and in Penacook, the Baptist Church,\\nSt. John s Catholic Church, and the Episcopal Chapel. There are many regular church-goers among\\nConcord s population, and as strangers are cordially welcomed, there is usually a good attendance at\\ndivine service.\\nThere are many fraternal and benevolent societies in the city, and the good-natured rivalry\\n-which exists between some of them is distinctly beneficial in its effects, as it is never carried to\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acxcess, and does much to stimulate interest in and to increase the membership of organizations which\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2depend upon such increase for the means to carry out their helpful aims.\\nThe Odd Fellows have a very large membership here, and in 1890 dedicated a handsome and\\ncommodious building erected at a cost of about $.38,000. The Masonic orders also have beautiful\\nrooms, and are in a most flourishing condition, while the Grand Army of the Republic is very strong\\nand influential here, as would naturally be imagined by those familiar with Concord s record during\\nthe Rebellion. E. E. Sturtevant Po.st, No. 2, has its headquarters in the city proper William I.\\nBrown Post, No. 31, at Penacook, and Davis Post, No. 44, at West Concord.\\nThe Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Ancient Order\\nof Hibernians, and other prominent secret societies, are all well represented.\\nThe temperance movement has received no little aid from local organizations, for Concord has\\nnumbered many enthusiastic advocates of temperance among its residents from a very early period\\nin its history, and the home societies now number about a dozen, and are very alert and efficient.\\nAmong those organizations whose membership is limited to professional men, may be mentioned\\nthe New Hampshire Medical Society, the New Hampshire HomcEopathic Medical Society, the Centre\\nDistrict Medical Society, the New Hampshire Dental Society, and the New Hampshire Pharmaceu-\\ntical Association.\\nThere is a Young Men s Christian Association in Concord and another at Penacook.\\nThe oldest benevolent society in the city is the Concord Female Charitable Society, established\\nin 1812. The Concord Female Benevolent Association was organized in 1835, and in 1852 the Rolfe\\nand Rumford Asylum for destitute native female children of Concord was founded by the Countess\\nof Rumford, it being opened for the reception of inmates in January, 1880. There is an Orphan s\\nHome near Millville, and the Odd Fellows Home is situated upon the street leading to that beautiful\\nsuburb. The New Hampshire Centennial Home for the aged, is another institution which is\\naccomplishing great good in its chosen field, and its location is on Pleasant street, opposite the\\ngrounds of the New Hampshire Asylum.\\nThere are several Mutual Relief Associations in the city, and there is also the French Canadian\\nSociety, St. Patrick s Benevolent Society, and other helpful organizations, so that no person,\\nwhatever his nativity or creed may be, need lack sympathetic help when circumstances render aid\\nof some kind essential.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nPUBLIC BUILDINGS.\\nAmong Concord s more prominent public buildings, the first which should be mentioned is, of\\ncourse, the State House, which was first occupied by the Leg.slature at the June session in 1819,\\nalthough the building was not entirely completed. Many improvements have been made in it since\\nthat date, and about a quarter of a century ago it was enlarged at an expense of nearly |200,000, the-\\ntotal cost of the work being paid by the city. The structure is massive and handsome in design and\\nstands in the midst of spacious grounds containing many beautiful shade trees. It is built of the\\nfamous Concord granite, the stone being obtained from the^ quarries a little more than a mile\\ndistant, on the line of the Concord Electric Railway.\\nr -^^f^f^^n^ t^wm\\nCoKCOED FROM State House Cupola, looking Northeast.\\nThe New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane was opened for the reception of patients in the\\nlatter part of 1842, and during the first seven months seventy-six patients were admitted, the original\\nstructure being capable of accommodating only ninety-six. New buildings have been added and old\\nones enlarged and improved, until now more than three hundred and fifty patients can be cared for\\nwithout the least crowding. The institution is located in tiie heart of the city, the grounds having an\\narea of about one hundred and twenty-five acres and being very highly improved. Special care is-\\ntaken to make the surroundings and conditions as homelike as possible, and this has long ranked high\\namong the model insane asylums of this country. From 1857 to ISSr! it was in charge of Dr. Jesse P.\\nBancroft, and on his resignation the duties of superintendent were taken up by his son. Dr. Charles P.\\nBancroft, who has met with gratifying success in maintaining the high standing of the institution.\\nThere has been a City Hospital in Concord since October, 1884, and the facilities offered have\\nbeen of great public benefit, although the location and arrangement of the premises utilized have\\ninterfered somewhat with the efliciency of the service. This condition of affairs, however, will soon\\nbe a thing of the past, for, thanks to the generosity of George A. Pillsbury and his wife, Margaret,\\nConcord will speedily possess a hospital building worthy of being classed with the best of her other\\npublic edifices. Mr. Pillsbury is a member of the great milling firm so famous throughout the", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n17\\ncountry, and is a resident of Minneapolis, of which city he has been mayor. But he has also been\\nmayor of Concord, and he has not allowed his later honors to banish the deep interest he has always\\nshown in our city s welfare, a recent proof of this interest being the giving of $30,000 for the erection\\nof a city hospital.\\nThe United States Court House and Post Office building was completed in 1888 at a cost of\\n$300,000, and is a very handsome and commodious structure, occupying a most eligible site and being\\nvery conveniently arranged for the accommodation of the post office. United States courts, pension\\nagency, etc. The mail facilities of the city are excellent, the service being frequent, prompt and\\nreliable. A very large amount of all classes of mail matter is handled monthly, and the reliability\\nand general efficiency of the carrier service are of great benefit to the community in general and\\nespecially to manufacturers and other business men.\\nThe Board of Trade Building was completed in 1873, and is now as ever an ornament to the city\\nand a monument to the energy, enterprise and foresight of those who provided the money for its\\nChase s Block, North Matn Street.\\nerection. Although the board of trade, as an organized body, did not erect the building, nearly all\\nthe subscribers to the stock were members of the board, and the completion of the structure was\\ncelebrated by a social festival, held October 20, 1873, under the auspices of that organization.\\nWhite s Opera House is a very popular resort among those seeking diversion in the mimic life\\nof the stage, for many prominent dramatic and musical combinations appear here during the\\nseason. The house is conveniently appointed and has seating capacity for nearly one thousand.\\nThere are other public halls, convenient in location and arrangement, among them being Grand\\nArmy Hall, Phoenix Hall and Chase s Hall.\\nCONVENIENCES.\\nThe city is lighted by both gas and electricity, both being furnished by the Concord Gas Light\\nCompany, which was incorporated in 1854 and has a capital of $125,000. Some twenty miles of main\\npipe have been laid and gas is furnished to from 1,200 to 1,500 consumers several hundred street\\nlamps also being supplied. Electricity is also used for both exterior and interior illumination, and\\nthe stores along the principal streets present a brilliant appearance after night fall, as nearly all of\\nthem have great plate-glass show windows, and certainly the goods displayed in them do not suffer\\nfrom lack of abundant light.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nAnother and most important application of electricity here has to do with the running of street\\ncars, for what was the Concord Horse Railroad can claim that title no longer, the cars now being\\nrun by the Thompson-Houston system of electrical appliances a system which has satisfactorily\\nsolved the famous liorse-car problem in Boston, where it has been adopted by the only street\\nrailway company and applied to hundreds of cars. The system is even more satisfactory in Concord,\\nwhere the streets are less crowded and the danger of accident greatly lessened, and as rapid transit\\nis now an accomplished fact, the outlying districts on the company s line may be expected to increase\\nin population and wealth more rapidly than ever. This road began running in April, 1881, and has\\nconsiderably more than doubled its rolling stock since that time. The line runs from South Main\\nstreet, or the South End, through West Concord to Penacook.\\nDRAINAGE.\\nMany and important as are the hygienic advantages arising from an abundant supply of pure\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0water, they are robbed of much of their effect unless reinforced by a comprehensive and efficient\\nsystem of drainage, and the location of Concord together with the character of the soil is distinctly\\nfavorable to the easy and wholesome disposition of waste.\\nA large amount has been judiciously expended upon sewers and drains, and the present condition\\nof the sewerage system is good, the drainage of the city being very efficiently accomplished; but\\nfurther facilities have been rendered necessary by the growth of the community, and as the citizens\\nrealize that it is most economical to spend money freely in such a cause as this, and to provide for the\\nfuture as well as the present, the city government will undoubtedly provide seasonably for the\\nextension and general improvement of the sewerage system as may be required.\\nThe streets of the city are as a rule, broad, well arranged, and well kept, notably Main street, in\\nwhich the citizens are fully justified in taking pride, for it is the unanimous verdict of strangers, as\\nwell as residents, that this is without exception the finest business street in New England. It was\\nlaid out in 1785, and those who defined its limits must have had some conception of the probable\\ngrowth of the community, for the street is of very generous width, even in the heart of the city,\\nand can accommodate an enormous amount of traffic without crowding. It is paved, concreted or\\nmacadamized from end to end and is bordered by an abundance of shade trees, some of them being\\nelms of magnificent proportions.\\nConcord s sidewalks are on a par with her streets, for they are of exceptionally fine quality,\\nnearly all being concreted, as the city is the home of this industry. It is everywhere admitted that\\na first-class concrete walk is far superior to one made of any other material, and the concrete work\\nemployed in this city is equal to the best noticeable anywhere. The roads about Concord are\\nmaintained in generally excellent condition, and help materially to make the many picturesque drives\\nthoroughly enjoyable. The country adjacent contains many attractive bits of scenery, and some of\\nthe views are justly entitled to rank among the most pleasant prospects in New England. The towns\\nof Dunbarton, Hopkinton, Bow, Pembroke, and others that might be named, are within easy drive,\\nand each has a reputation for natural beauty which is added to by the comments of every fresh visitor.\\nTHE BANKING FACILITIES.\\nThe magnitude and character of the banking facilities enjoyed by a community form a\\nconvenient standard by which its position as a mercantile and manufacturing centre may be\\ndetermined, and as a general rule an intelligent judgment made on such a basis is extremely accurate,\\nfor although in exceptional cases the banks are unworthy of the community, or the community is\\nunworthy of the banks, still these exceptions but prove the rule, for on close investigation it will\\nbe found that they result from forced and unnatural conditions. The banks as truly re])resent the\\nbusiness methods and the mercantile standing of the people on whom they depend for patronage, as\\ndo the newspapers their intellectual and moral standing, and a people who support first-class\\nfinancial institutions may, as a whole, invariably be depended upon to do business on sound principles", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n19\\nand to be enterprising and intelligent in developing natural resources. Hence the high standing of\\nJoncord s banks, although gratifying and commendable, is the necessary consequence of the\\n-conditions which gave them birth and which have attended their development to the present time.\\nIt is nearly eighty-five years since the first banking institution in this city was incorporated, and\\n-of course that was long before a city charter was ever thought of, for it was in 1806 only twenty-\\ntwo years after Concord had changed from a parish to a full Hedged town. But, although only\\na town, it had its conflicting interests as truly as the largest city has, and in spite of the well-earned\\nreputation for concord of action which had given it its name, its residents showed that they\\n-could oppose one another as vigorously and stubbornly as they, united, had fought the Bow\\nproprietors.\\nMain Street, Concord, looking North.\\nThere was a North End interest and there was a South End interest, and after Timothy\\nWalker, William A. Kent, and others, were incorporated by the name of the President, Directors\\nand Company of the Concord Bank, trouble at once arose in consequence of questions of location\\nand management.\\nHon. Timothy Walker was the champion of the Northenders, and Colonel William A. Kent\\n-of the Southenders and as no agreement could be arrived at, each side claiming that its position\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was clearly the just one, the upshot of the matter was the opening of two banks under the same\\ncharter, the Upper Bank and the Lower Bank, each of which claimed to be the only and original\\nSimon-pure Concord Bank, and denounced the other as a base and fraudulent imitation.\\nThe consequence of their not being able to even agree to disagree was ceaseless trouble and\\nconstant loss to both, for the competition was keen and incessant, and neither institution was very\\ndelicate in its choice of methods to overcome the other. At one time the Upper Bank forced a run\\nupon the Lower, by demanding the redemption in specie of a large number of their bills, of which\\nthe former institution had secured possession. The Lower Bank kept the ball rolling by instituting\\nsuits against its rival for issuing bills without legal warrant, the result of this action being a long\\ndrawn out legal battle to decide which was the lawful Concord Bank. The lawyers profited by the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0contention if nobody else did, and among those who got a fee out of it was the early and famous legal", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nantagonist of Daniel Webster, Jeremiah Mason. He was retained as cousel for Nehemiah Jones\\nwho had brought suit against Timothy Walker, the indictment in the case containing more than one\\nhundred counts, being a sort of drag-net affair, covering all the points in dispute and designed\\nto surely catch Walker in some of its many ingeniously contrived meshes. So able a lawyer as Masoa\\nat once perceived the hopelessness of settling the matter in Court and endeavored to effect a\\ncompromise. Those at all familiar with his career know that he did not mince his words when,\\ncircumstances made plain-speaking advisable, and hence will readily accept the tradition which credits\\nhim with saying, when his client objected to the expense of the proposed settlement As you have-\\ngot into gentlemen s company, you must expect to pay a gentleman s price.\\nAfter the banks ceased persecuting one another, they naturally rose in the esteem and confidence\\nof the public, and both did a generally profitable business under the one charter until twenty years-\\nhad expired, when the Upper Bank secured a new charter under the name of the Merrimack\\nCounty Bank. The Lower Bank had its charter altered and extended in 1826, and continued\\nbusiness until its failure in 1840.\\nSuch a demoralizing and foolish conflict as that between these two banks would be impossible in\\nthe Concord of to-day, for although the interests involved are now vastly greater, and the prize so-\\nmuch the more worth the winning, our financiers, as well as our merchants and manufacturers, rigidly\\ndiscriminate between competition and opposition, and recognize the fact that mutual aid confined to\\nlegitimate limits is the best policy to be followed by all parties concerned.\\nAt the present time there are three National and four Savings Banks in Concord, all of which\\nare in a sound and prosperous condition, while some among them are exceptionally strong, even ia\\ncomparison with other leading financial institutions throughout the country.\\nAs would be supposed from its name, the First National Bank was the pioneer Concord institu-\\ntion organized under the national banking laws, although the other two National banks in the city\\nhad been carried on under State charters for many\\nyears before the organization of the First\\nNational Bank in March, 1864. Asa Fowler was.\\nthe first president, he being succeeded in 1867 by\\nGeorge A. Pillsbury, who resigned in 1878 and\\nwent West, where he was destined to win fame-\\nand fortune as a member of the great milling firm,,\\nnow known throughout this country and England.\\nHe has had worthy successors in the office of pres-\\nident of the bank, and as the directors have also-\\nalways been men of ability, it is easy to account,\\nfor the exceptional prosperity the institution has-\\nenjoyed from the start. It has a capital of $150,000\\nand an extremely large surplus so exceptionally\\nlarge in fact that the bank has been reported by\\nthe comptroller of the currency to have the highest,\\nper cent, surplus of any New Hampshire bank.\\nThe National State Capital Bank was not long-\\nbehind the First National in beginning operations\\nunder a national charter, for it was re-organized\\nunder national banking laws, January 2, 1865, or\\nonly about ten months after the other institution.\\nIts origin as a State bank dates back to 1853, the\\nState Capital Bank having been organized January\\n26th of that year. The original capital stock was\\n$100,000, and this amount was increased one-half\\nin 1854, reduced to $120,000 in 1862, and a year\\nlater reduced to $100,000.\\nFirst National Bank.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n21\\nAfter the obtaining of a national charter the capital stock remained at 1100,000 only a little\\nmore than three months it being increased to $150,000 April 17, 1865. A further increase to $200,000\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was made May 31, 1872 the bonds and right of circulation of Carroll County National Bank, of\\nSandwich, having been purchased. The National State Capital Bank is worthy of its name and\\nfltands high in the financial and general business world, by reason of the wise conservatism of its\\nmanagement and the efficiency of its service.\\nLoan and Trust Savings Bank Building.\\nThe Mechanicks National Bank was organized January 3, 1880, but from one point of view may\\nbe considered the oldest established bank of discount and deposit in the city, for as the Mechanicks\\nBank it was first incorporated July 5, 1834. The original capital was $100,000, and the charter was\\nextended June 22, 1853 the bank closing up its affairs in 18(35. At the time business was stopped,\\nJosiah Minot acted as president and Charles Minot as cashier, so that when these gentlemen began\\noperations as a private banking firm under the style of Minot Co., in January, 1866, it was in one\\nsense a revival of the Mechanicks business, and it steadily continued until its re-organization as\\nthe Mechanicks National Bank in 1880. Josiah Minot was the first president of the new institution, and\\nwas associated on the Board of Directors with John Kimball, John M. Hill, B. A. Kimball, Joseph", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nB. Wallicr and other icpresenlative citizens. This-\\nbank has a capital of $350,000, is very strong^\\nfinancially and enjoys a goodly share of the\\npatronage and the confidence of resident business-\\nmen.\\nIt is asserted by not a few eminent students\\nof public affairs, that the number, importance,\\nand condition of the Savings Banks in any given\\nsection of the country afford an accurate barom-\\neter of the state of industry and trade, besides\\ngiving valuable hints relating to the personal\\nhabits of members of the community, and the\\nresidents of Concord have certainly no reason to\\nshrink from the application of such a test for\\nwere not their industries and mercantile enter-\\nprises generally prosperous, and the community\\nas a whole industrious, thrifty, and profitably-\\nemployed, the local savings banks could never\\nhave reached their present development, and\\nwould not be able to safely challenge coraparisoa\\nwith a like number of similar institutions any-\\nwhere, catering to no greater population.\\nOf the four Concord savings banks the New-\\nHampshire Savings Bank is by far the oldest, it\\nhaving been incorporated away back in 3 830.\\nThe institution was organized July 21st, of that\\nyear, and during its sixty years of existence has\\npaid its depositors more than one million and a\\nhalf of dollars in regular dividends, and about\\n$200,000 in extra dividends the rate of interest\\nthus far having averaged about four and a half\\nper cent. a very remardable showing considering^\\nthe pains the management have always taken to-\\nensure the absolute safety of funds placed with\\nthem for investment.\\nThe Merrimack County Savings Bank was incorporated 1867, but was not organized until May 3,\\n1870, the first deposit being made June first. Lyman D. Stevens has been president of this bank from\\nthe beginning, and John Kimball has been treasurer for a like period. The record of this institution\\nduring the past five years goes far to establish the claim that savings banks accurately indicate the\\ndegree of prosperity a community is enjoying, for it is an open secret that Concord s representative\\nindustries have prospered remarkably since 1885, and during that time the deposits in and surplus of\\nthe Merrimack County Savings Bank have more that doubled, the amount now due depositors\\nconsiderably exceeding a million and a half of dollars, and the surplus approximating $120,000.\\nThe Loan and Trust Savings Bank was incorporated in June, 1872, and has proved a valuable\\naddition to the savings institutions of the city and the State. The amount due depositors lias\\nincreased to the extent of more than $700,000 during the last five years, and at present approxi-\\nmates two and a quarter millions of dollars. The guarantee fund amounts to $100,000 and the\\nundivided profits considerably exceed that sum.\\nThe Union Guaranty Savings Bank is by far the youngest institution of the kind in the city, it\\nhaving been incorporated in 1887, but it is already firmly established in the confidence of the\\ncommunity, as it is managed in connection with one of the strongest of New England s financial\\ninstitutions by men of ability an 1 ripe experience. It has a pL rpetual guarantee fund of $50,000, has\\nM\\nwffB\\nmm\\nijfeg^^^.,.^,^\\n\u00c2\u00ab!\u00c2\u00ab^P^-^\\ntsi^tftfflttl\\nBoard of Trade Building, North\\nMain^ Street.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n23\\nalready accumulated a surplus of about one-fifth that amount, and now holds deposits amounting\\nto about half a million dollars.\\nThe facilities afforded by the National and the Savings banks of the city are supplemented by\\nthe admirable service offered by such representative financial houses as those of Crippen, Lawrence\\nCo., E. 11. Rollins Son, the American Trust Company and others, so that as regards opportunities\\nfor investment and the many other advantasres arising from a comprehensive and ably conducted\\nbanking service, Concord stands high among New England cities.\\nNew Hampshire Asylum foe Insane, Concord.\\nTHE GRANITE BUSINESS.\\nA consideration of Concord s natural advantages must of necessity include the many valuable\\ngranite quarries there located, for these have long been a very important source of wealth, and yield\\nstone of a quality which has made Concord granite the standard by which that from other localities is\\njudged.\\nThe local supply is almost inexhaustible, the large eminence known as Rattlesnake Hill being\\ncomposed almost entirely of granite, while Oak Hill merits a similar description. A large amount\\nof capital and many men are employed in the quarrying and working of the stone, and the most\\nimproved appliances and tools have been universally adopted, reducing the expenses of production\\nto a minimum and enabling outside competition to be easily met. The exceptionally comprehensive\\nUnited States census of 1880 included a close investigation by experts of the existing condition and\\nfuture prospects of the quarrying industry, and the results arrived at concerning Concord granite\\nare in the highest degree favorable, as will be seen from the necessarily limited quotations from the\\nreports of the government agents which follow.\\nFrom a scientific point of view, the sort of stone found in this vicinity is U massive, gray,\\nbiotite muscovite granite. In spite of this formidable description we are told that it is a\\ngood, safe, free stone to work and takes a high polish.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nFor commercial purposes it is divided into four classes No. 1, the best, for monumental work\\nNo. 2, for general building purposes No. 3, for underpinning, capping, etc.; No. 4, for foundation\\nBtones.\\nThe Census Commissioners went very deeply into the subject of the durability of granite, and the\\nseveral varieties were closely tested and compared. Granite buildings and monuments throughout the\\ncountry were minutely examined, and from the report made on those located in the City of New York\\nwe take the following:\\nIn the fine-grained granite from Concord, N. H., employed in the building on the southeast\\ncorner of 23d street and 6th avenue, many of the blocks are set on edge, but the only change yet seen\\nis that of discoloration by street dust and iron-oxide from the elevated railway.\\n31ai Stkeet, luoking Suutii vvMy\\\\ ()i i;i!a House.\\nA complete list of the granite structures throughout the country is given, and a notable proportion\\nof these are built of the Concord stone, among such being the Charter Oak Insurance Building,\\nHartford, Ct.; many New York structures, and numerous Boston edifices, as for instance the Security\\nBank, the Masonic Temple, the Herald building, the Life Insurance Building, the Germania Savings\\nBank, the City Hall, Horticultural Hall and others. The monument to the discoverer of anoesthetics\u00c2\u00bb\\nin the Boston Public Garden, is also of Concord granite, as is the Soldiers Monument at Concord,\\nMass., the Cadet Monument in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, and the Soldiers Monument in\\nManchester, N. II.\\nOf late years granite has become exceedingly popular as a monumental stone, and nearly all\\nfirst-class cemetery work is now made from this material, a use to which the better grades\\nof Concord granite is particularly adapted. The demand for it as a building stone is also\\nincreasing as the country gains in wealth and culture, and the importance of the question of the\\npermanence of this demand justifies the giving of space for the answer as it is stated by the\\ndistinguished scientist, Prof. N. S. Shaler, in the Census Reports of 1880. The report is headed\\nGeneral Relations of New England Building Stones to the Markets of the United States, and, after\\nBtaling in detail tlie important advantages possessed by New England quarries by reason of their\\nnearness to tide-water and the effect of the glacial action, which stripped off the cap of decayed rock found\\nencumbering leposits of crystalline rocks in other sections of the country, the report reads as follows", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\n25\\nThese two advantages the neighborhood_2of^the crystalline rocks to the sea, and the absence\\nof any worthless, decayed, upper part will always give the New England rocks of the granitic group\\na very great advantage over those of any other part of the eastern United States. It should\\nalso be noticed that the cost of quarrying granite of good quality is perhaps less than that of any\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0other work of the same general utility, certainly much less than the cost of our other principal\\nbuilding stones, so that, for all large structures where rude strength is the only need, quarries of this\\n\u00c2\u00abtone are always likely to be at a great advantage in production. There are no other sources\\nof supply of granite that are ever likely to compete with this stone district of New England.\\nProf. Shaler sums up the whole matter as follows\\nIt is quite clear, therefore, that the position of the New England granite quarries is particularly\\nfavorable, and that they are likely to command the market for a great while in the future.\\n.Main .Stkebt, Concorh, at the N(. ktii Knd.\\nMANUFACTURING INTERESTS.\\nMost prominent cities, like most prominent men, are many-sided in character that is to say they\\nare dependent upon no one feature for the maintenance of their importance, as that is the result of\\na harmonious combination of characteristics, all of which contribute to the sum total and afford a com-\\nmon but striking example of one of our main principles of government, in union is strength.\\nConcord, for instance, is best known to some as the capital of the State to others, as a great\\npurchasing centre where supplies may be bought to the best possil)le advantage, and to still others as\\nthe source from which come various manufactured articles, proved by practical test to be the best in\\nthe market. It is in the last-named capacity as a leading manufacturing centre that the city is best\\nknown outside the limits of New Hampshire, and it is a noteworthy fact of which every public-spirited\\ncitizen may well be proud, that the representative products of Concord owe their popularity to their\\nquality rather than to their cheapness for it has long been, and is today, the policy of prominent\\nlocal manufacturers to cater to tlie most intelligent trade, and, while giving unsurpassed value for the\\nmoney received, to have that value represented by quality, not by quantity. Name a few of our lead-\\ning products, and see what associations are connected with the list Concord Coaches, Concord\\nAxles, Concord Harness, what is it that has made these goods well and favorably known through-", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 CONCORD ASD ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\nout the civilized world Not cheapness, but uniform and unequalled excellence. The makers of tbent\\nhave the experience, the ability, the capital, the mechanical facilities and the skilled assistants neces-\\nsary to enable them to attain the best possible i-esults, and to easily meet all honorable competition j\\nthat they accomplish both these ends, the reputation of and the demand for their products abundantly\\nprove.\\nThe immense business now carried on by the Abbott-Downing Company was founded many years-\\nago, and would have developed even more rapidly than it did had not the founder refused to turn out\\nmore work than he could personally supervise the construction of. Nowadays, when the magnitude\\nand variety of the interests involved make it absolutely necessary to entrust the carrying out of details-\\nto subordinates, such a policy as that may seem provincial and old-fashioned, but it indicates a sturdy\\nhonesty worthy of emulation in any age, and goes far to explain the world-wide fame of the Concord\\nCoach, a fame as well deserved now as ever. The present company utilize a most elaborate plant\\nand employ an extensive force of help in the manufacture of light and heavy vehicles; the goods-\\nbeing shipped to all parts of the world.\\nThe Concord Axle Company was incorporated in 1880, with a capital of $50,000, to manufac-\\nture the original Concord Axle, and kindred articles. Those having the direction of the company s-\\naffairs have been identified with the production of the goods in question since 186.3, and we need\\nhardly add that the reputation of the Concord Axle has been fully maintained. The factory is-\\nlocated in Penacook, and about seven hundred tons of wagon axles are turned out in the course of a\\nyear, besides three hundred tons of castings, and other articles.\\nIt is fitting that a city producing first-class coaches, wagons and carriages, should also produce-\\nfirst-class harness, and the fame of the Concord Harness is on a par with that of the Concord\\nCoaches and Axles. This harness is now made by the James R. Plill Harness Company, and is known\\nand prized throughout the civilized world. Far from depending on past reputation, the present company-\\nspare no pains to keep the quality of the product fully up to the standard, while offering many new and\\nattractive styles, and the result is to be seen in the steadily growing demand for the goods in this\\ncountry and abroad. James R. Hill, the founder of this business, was a man of great force of char-\\nacter and distinguished ability, and literally worked his way up until he reached a leading position\\namong New England manufacturers. The first shipment of harness to California from the east was\\nmade by Mr. Plill in 1849, and his enterprise in seeking out foreign markets, even at that early day, is-\\nshown by his having made a shipment to Chili in 1853. He had many things to contend with during^\\nhis early business career, and met with serious loss by fire, but he had that ability and perseverance\\nwhich command success, and as his capital increased he became interested in various enterprises which\\nhad such claims upon his attention that he found it inexpedient to retain sole control of his harness\\nbusiness, and hence in 1865 the firm of James R. Hill Co. was formed, and the enterprise continuedi\\nunder that management until the organization of the present company.\\nA representative Concord industry, which, although of quite recent origin when compared with\\nthat carried on by the James R. Hill Harness Company, has still some eighteen years of prosperity to\\nlook back upon, is that conducted by the Page Belting Company, incorporated in 1872. This business\\nwas originally located in Franklin, where it was established by Page Brothers in 1868, and since its\\nremoval to Concord it has developed with a steadiness and rapidity which indicate that the claims-\\nmade for this city as a most advantageous point at which to establish important manufacturing\\nenterprises, are fully justified by the facts.\\nWhen the company began operations here in 18V2, it had a paid-in capital of $75,000. In 18T3 it\\nwas increased to $125,000; in 1878 to $200,000 and in 1887 to $250,000 figures which tell their\\nown story of the skillful utilization of favorable conditions. The company is authorized to have a\\ncapital of half a million, and present indications are that that amount will be reached before many\\nyears, as the demand for the product is apparently unlimited customers being found throughout th\\nUnited States, and an extensive export business being done. Leather belting and lacing are the chief\\nproductions, an exceptionally complete line being manufactured. The plant covers an area of some\\nten acres, and has sufficient cajpacity to turn out 750 hides for belting and 1,200 sides of lace leather\\nper week, employment being given to about 175 men.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 27\\nThere are various other prominent manufacturing enterprises which deserve careful consideration^\\nbut which, owing to the limitation of space, must be dismissed with mere mention. Among these are\\nthose conducted by the Holden Manufacturing Company, producing flannels and woolen dress goods\\nthe Haley Manufacturing Company, making curtain fixtures, skates and other articles the Concord\\nCarriage Company, producing vehicles of standard excellence W. S. Davis Son, manufacturers of\\nwagons, hose trucks and carriages the New England Granite Company, doing stone-work for\\nmonumental and building purposes C. M. A. W. Rolfe, makers of doors, sash, blinds,\\netc.; the Prescott Organ Company, producing instruments having a national reputation; Ford\\nKimball and Clapp \u00c2\u00abfc Co., brass and iron founders the Concord Manufacturing Com-\\npany, located at West Concord, and very extensively engaged in the production of all-wool\\nflannels and heavy twilled goods William B. Durgin, manufacturer of solid silverware the Contoo-\\ncook Manufacturing and Mechanic Company, located at Penacook, and producing an immense amount\\nof print cloths the Penacook Mill, carrying on the same business on a still more extensive scale\\nStratton, Merrill Co., located at Penacook, and operating the only Patent Roller Process flour mill\\nin New England and C. H. Amsden Co., also of Penacook, and proprietor of the largest furniture\\nfactory in New England, they using about a quarter of a million feet of lumber per month.\\nThe above list is by no means complete, and yet it gives some idea of the variety, magnitude andi\\nstanding of Concord s industries, and their distribution throughout the city and suburbs.\\nThe Concord Montreal and Northern Railroads both have well-equipped shops here, at which a\\ngreat deal of repairing and constructing is done.\\nTHE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.\\nThe outlook for the various industries located within the city limits is at this time most\\nencouraging. For many years the establishments producing the world-famed Concord carriages and\\ncoaches, and the equally well known Concord harnesses, have given employment to many men.\\nThese concerns have deservedly won strong positions in the business world, and they have gradually\\ngrown from small beginnings into large and prosperous enterprises, yielding good profits to their\\nowners,, and continuous and remunerative employment to their very large numbers of employees. And\\nwhat may be thus said of these two representative establishments, may with equal justice be applied\\nto nearly, if not quite, all the manufactories within the borders of the city, including the most varied\\nindustries. Although not distinctively a manufacturing city, it produces very considerable quanti-\\nties of flannels, cotton and woolen goods, furniture, carriages, leather belting, axles, pianos and organs,,\\nhubs and wheels, shoes, fire hose, brick, hammered and polished granite, wood-working machinery,\\nchurns, silverware, lumber, and other standard products.\\nDuring the past five years there has been a decided and noticeable increase in the volume of\\nbusiness, and many of the articles produced by the skilled vt^orkmen of Concord, find a ready and\\nextensive sale throughout the United States and in many foreign countries. This is especially so of\\nthe goods produced by the Concord Axle Co., the Abbot-Downing Co., the James R. Hill Co., and\\nthe Page Belting Co., which are known all over the world.\\nThe railroad facilities are such as to offer great advantages to Concord as a business and manu-\\nfacturing center, as it is directly on the line of travel between the great Northwest and the commer-\\ncial and manufacturing centres of the East, and only two hours ride from Boston. The expenses of\\nliving are moderate, rents are very reasonable for the accommodations afforded, and the mechanic, the-\\nartisan and the day laborer secure all the advantages of the larger cities, with but few of the drawbacks.\\nThe policy of the city is very favorable to new industries, and toward a reasonable exemptioi*\\nfrom taxation for a term of years, for such enterprises as desire location and would give to the com-\\nmercial and manufacturing forces of the city such additions as to make them desirable acquisitions.\\nThere are still remaining in Concord undeveloped water privileges that aro capable of supplying^\\npower for the employment of thousands of workmen when they shall be utilized by the erection of\\nthe proper manufacturing plants. But one by one the various mill-sites have been occupied on the-\\nContoocook river, in that part of Concord known as Penacook, and the recent erection of the massive\\nstone dam for the use of the woolen mill, now in process of construction in that village, reduces the", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "S8\\nCONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST.\\navailable sites there remaining so as naturally to turn attention to the Merrimack river. Here\\nthere are two most excellent water powers, the one at Garvin s Falls being partially developed while\\nthat at Sewall s Falls will probably be developed at an early day. The Sewall s Falls water power,\\nwith its adjacent land, is situated only about four miles from the center of the city, and entirely\\nwithin the city limits. It is capable of development so as to readily sustain a population of from\\nfifteen to twenty thousand. Contiguous to the Falls there is a large area of land owned by the Water\\nPower Company, favorably situated for the erection of manufacturing establishments, and hav-\\ning equally favorable location for building the residences and houses of the hundreds finding employ-\\nment within the establishments erected to utilize the power of the falls. The land has already been\\nsurveyed and is ready to be staked out for a village which will be one of the most delightfully\\nNew Dam on the Contoocock River at Penacook.\\nsituated and healthful in New England. It will have all the advantages of cheap homes, cheap power,\\nexcellent drainage, and the innumerable advantages which result from such an admirable location.\\nNot only can the power at Sewall s Falls be used for the neighboring manufactories, but the recent\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2discoveries in the transmission of power by electricity will make it possible to furnish power at a very\\nlow rate in the central part of the city. The possible advantages of the unused power at Sewall s\\nFalls can scarcely be overestimated, and at no distant day this power is to be utilized, and when\\nemployed it will bring increase in population, in manufacturing, and in commerce, with all the\\nadvantages that result from the regular distribution of large sums of money in compensation for\\nproductive labor.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "CONCORD AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. 3\u00c2\u00bb\\nThe preparation of this brief statement of facts bearing upon Concord s past, present and future,\\nhas been no easy task, for its very brevity added much to the difficulty of the work by necessitating\\ncareful selection and close condensation of the immense amount of material available. That the sketch\\nas it now stands will give universal satisfaction is not for a moment to be expected, and indeed no one-\\ncan appreciate more clearly than the writer that it falls far short of perfection and would have been\\nmore ably done had its preparation been entrusted to abler hands. But he did his best, and asks credit\\nfor honesty of intention, whatever may have been his errors of judgment.\\nThis book is assured a very large circulation. It will be read even more generally outside the city\\nthan it will be in it, and in this hurrying age the systematic condensation which has been practiced in\\nits compilation materially adds to its value by ensuring a much more thorough and general reading\\nthan it would otherwise have received. Primarily intended for business men, it is written from a\\nbusiness point of view, and contains much valuable information concerning one of the most enterprising\\ncities in New England. The information is valuable, however faulty may be its presentation, and not\\nonly those living in other sections of the country but many residents of Concord may profit by a\\nperusal of the story of New Hampshire s capital.\\nMen are prone to close their eyes to opportunities near at hand, and there is not a city in New\\nEngland but what has suffered from this fact. We New Englanders build up the West, the South\\nand the Northwest we spend money like water to develop the resources of other sections we take\\ndesperate risks in constructing railroads over and through mountain ranges, across miles of uninhabited\\nprairie and over broad rivers, that the productions of some far-off city or town may find a market we\\nsink shafts thousands of feet through the solid rock on the bare chance of extracting paying quantities\\nof precious metals in short, in a hundred ways we maintain our world-wide reputation for magnificent\\nenterprise and business audacity, and meantime we neglect dear old New England, that kind and\\nlavish, if stern-appearing, old mother who gave us birth, who cherishes our friends and our homes, and\\nwho gives us the enormous sums we so freely spend elsewhere.\\nThis should not be. Boom New England, is a good motto if a new one, and its sound sense is\\nlatterly being appreciated by many of those heavy investors who have enriched other sections without\\nprofit and often at a serious loss to themselves. The future of New Hampshire in general, and of\\nConcord in particular, never looked brighter than now. The brief sketch headed The Commercial\\nand Industrial Outlook, should afford food, not only for thought, but also for congratulation, for it\\nsets forth, despite the narrow limits to which it is confined, some of the things which have been and\\nare being done to further develop local interests. Its reference to the possibilities offered by the\\nelectrical transmission of power, opens up a wide field of speculation, for truly, with that wonderful\\nagent, No man knows what a day may bring forth.\\nConcord has vast water powers undeveloped, besides those long and profitably utilized she has\\npronounced advantages of position, a healthful location, an industrious and law-abiding population,\\nnumbering nearly 17,000 by the census of 1890, a disposition to cordially welcome and aid deserving\\nnew enterprises, and an international reputation as a manufacturing center. Surely the development\\nso auspiciously begun is but an earnest of what may be expected in the near future, and every man\\nliving or working, within the broad territory under Concord s jurisdiction owes it to his city, his fam-\\nily, and himself to do all he honorably can to hasten that development and keep Concord in the front\\nrank of New England ciiies.\\nAnd thus shall our beloved town,\\nAdd to its wealth of old renown\\nA name for strength and sterling wortli,\\nBorne, like her coaclies, round the earth.", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Concord Commercial Club,\\nORGANIZED-SEPTEMBER i8, 1889.\\nOfficers and Committees\\nHOWARD A. DODGE,\\nFRANK W. ROLLINS,\\nPAUL R. HOLDEN,\\nPRESIDENT.\\nHon. EDGAR H. WOODMAN.\\nVICE-PRESIDENT.\\nGEORGE F. PAGE.\\nSECOND VICE-PRESIDENT.\\nCHARLES H. AMSDEN.\\nTHIRD VICE-PRESIDENT.\\nJAMES H. CHASE.\\nTREASURER.\\nJOSIAH E. FERNALD.\\nSECRETARY.\\nAUGUST P. REIN.\\nDIRECTORS.\\nWILL M. MASON,\\nEDSON J. HILL,\\nARTHUR C. SANBORN,\\nJAMES C. NORRIS,\\nCHARLES E. FOOTE,\\nGILES WHEELER.\\nStanding Committees.\\nGEORGE F. PAGE,\\nWILLIAM F. THAYER,\\nFRANK W. ROLLINS,\\nHENRY W. STEVENS,\\nEDSON J. HILL,\\nON NEW INDUSTRIES.\\nGEORGE W. ABBOTT.\\nON CITY LMPROVEMENT.S.\\nWILLIS D. THOMPSON,\\nWILLIAM E. HOOD,\\nFERDINAND A. STILLINGS,\\nAI B. THOMPSON,\\nEDMUND H. BROW^N.\\nON ENTERTAINMENT.\\nEDWARD N. PEARSON.\\nSOLON A. CARTER,", "height": "2868", "width": "2095", "jp2-path": "concorditspoints00baco_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "CONCORD COMMERCIAL CLUB.\\n31\\nMembers of Concord Commercial Club.\\nSTILLMAN HUMPHREY,\\nSAMUEL C. EASTMAN,\\nOEORGE F. PAGE,\\nGRANVILLE P. CONN,\\nGEO. D. B. PRESCOTT,\\nWARREN K. DAY,\\nEDWARD A. JENKS,\\nCHARLES S. PARKER,\\nLYMAN JACKMAN,\\nEDSON J. STILL,\\nGEORGE MAIN,\\nJAMES H. CHASE,\\nFRED K S. CRAWFORD,\\nEDWARD N. PEARSON,\\nBENJAMIN C. WHITE,\\nARTHUR C. SANBORN,\\nGEORGE H. EMERY,\\nWILLIAM F. 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