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city park of Lowell, Lawrence, Andover and Nashua.

Eventually will come the realization of the long delayed project for zoological gardens worthy of the name which Boston has among the cities of the United States. An admirable site on the southern exposure of the Fells has been selected by the Massachusetts Zoological Society as appropriate to its scheme. There is abundance of never failing water-a very important consideration. Old quarries on the hillsides invite the construction of

ably situated. They would never suffer for want of popular appreciation. The longing that the city at the head of Massachusetts Bay has for animals was shown shortly after there was started, some years ago at the reservation headquarters in the Fells, a little nucleus of a zoo. of a zoo. In comparison with the big animal gardens of other cities it was, of course, a meagre though interesting collection, gathered at the personal expense of the superintendent and consisting of a few native animals and birds.

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CITY HALL SQUARE, NEW BEDFORD

NEW BEDFORD

The wonderful growth of a Massachusetts cotton manufacturing city which has acquired the leading habit.

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By W. H. B. REMINGTON

EW BEDFORD has acquired cloth every minute of the working day. the leading habit.

The time was, and not so very long ago, when every encyclopedia and every geography used in the public schools referred to New Bedford as, "The Whaling City," and emphasized the fact that while New Bedford was somewhat interested in the manufacture of fine cotton goods, it led the world in the whaling industry.

While it is true that New Bedford still leads the world in point of whaling tonnage locally owned, the New Bedford man of the present generation chooses to forget it, and when anybody asks him what claim New Bedford has to distinguish it from other cities, he proudly says that New Bedford leads the country in country in the manufacture of fine cotton goods. When he adds that New Bedford makes, of fine cotton cloth, a mile a minute, the listener commences to wonder, and to figure the miles on miles of yarn which must be spun to give New Bedford such a reputation. As a matter of fact, New Bedford makes a mile and an eighth of cotton

A few years ago the calamity howlers who delight to portray the decadence of New England, and, thank goodness, they are growing beautifully less as the years go on,-declared that the lapse of but a few years would see New Bedford's cotton manufacturing industry transplanted to the Sunny South, near the source of supply

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of the raw materials, cotton and coal, following the pathway of the departed iron industry which once flourished in this section.

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New Bedford mill men heard the prediction and inwardly smiled. Instead of throwing their cotton mill stocks upon the market before the crash came, they watched and waited. And while they were waiting, they bought new machinery and built new mills. They are buying new machinery and building new mills to-day. While the South is undoubtedly a factor in cotton manufacture, New Bedford, with a conservatism which is proverbial, continues on its way, making, each day, more and more of the finest cotton cloth woven

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in this country, and fearing little in the line of Southern competition.

There is a reason for New Bedford's supremacy in the manufacture of fine cotton goods; indeed, there are several reasons. In the first place, the climatic conditions are favorable. The moisture which the combination of sun and sea produces, on this favored arm of Buzzards Bay, creates a condition of humidity which makes possible the spinning of the finest cotton yarns at the least expense. Then, again, the pioneers of New Bedford's cotton mill business determined upon the manufacture of the finest quality of cotton

goods. While other cotton manufacturers put their money into print cloth mills, looking for the profits which followed along that line, New Bedford's capitalists maintained a steady course, turning out fine fabrics. In the history of the New Bedford cotton mills, but one mill out of the many now in existence was built for the particular purpose of making print cloths, and that mill, to-day, is transformed into a fine-goods mill. The wisdom of the pioneers of New Bedford's cotton mill is proven. The fine work, at the start, attracted an intelligent class of operatives, and the skill of the New Bed

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