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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Parks for the People, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876 Author: Various Release Date: July 17, 2008 [EBook #26084] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARKS FOR THE PEOPLE *** Produced by Betsie Bush, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan's Making of America collection.) PARKS FOR THE PEOPLE. PROCEEDINGS OF A PUBLIC MEETING HELD AT FANEUIL HALL, JUNE 7, 1876. BOSTON: FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, & CO. 1876. CONTENTS. ORGANIZATION OF MEETING 5 SPEECH OF MR. JOSEPH S. ROPES 7 " " MR. GEORGE B. CHASE 10 " " MR. RICHARD H. DANA, JUN. 11 " " DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 20 " " REV. ROLLIN H. NEALE, D.D. 26 " " REV. J. P. BODFISH 27 " " COL. CHARLES W. WILDER 31 " " MR. JOSEPH F. PAUL 33 " " HON. P. A. COLLINS 36 LETTER OF DR. EDWARD H. CLARKE 38 COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED 45 FANEUIL HALL MEETING IN FAVOR OF PUBLIC PARKS. Pursuant to a call published in all the daily papers, and signed by a large number of prominent citizens and tax-payers of Boston, a public meeting was convened in Faneuil Hall on the evening of Wednesday, the 7th of June, 1876, to take action on the recommendations contained in the Report of the Park Commissioners. The hall was crowded by an intelligent and enthusiastic audience; and the proceedings as reported _verbatim_ in the columns of the "Boston Morning Journal," were as follows:-- The meeting was called to order at eight o'clock by Mr. JOHN W. CANDLER, who said,-- GENTLEMEN,--As Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, I have been requested to call this meeting to order. It is usually the case, that, when a mass meeting of citizens is to be held, a great deal of labor has to be performe
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