File:Massachusetts of today - a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. (1892) (14577362667).jpg

Identifier: massachusettsoft00toom (find matches)
Title: Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Toomey, Daniel P Massachusetts Board of Managers, World's Fair, 1893 Quinn, Thomas Charles, 1864-
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Massachusetts -- Biography
Publisher: Boston : Columbia Publishing Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
nowledge. The legalization of one day in a year as Labor Day was another act of recognitionof the dignity of labor. With free text-books in the schools and evening schools for any and all who would join them, and with free libraries andand towns, opportunities forare at the command of even theof this wise appreciation of theMassachusetts mechanic andthan his father before him, thatand, when they do occur, areof Arbitration, and that thetion, now numbering over fourchiefly foreign-born or of for-sympathy with American insti- One need not travel farwith what comforts the factoryself. In any one of a hundredafforded of colonies of attractiveor in process of full ownershipchanics. It is a striking com-Massachusetts library system —sixty-nine free libraries, con-dred and sixty-nine thousandabout one fifth of all the libra-excellent c i t i z e n-makers areearners and their children.Mr. Dickens would marveldid at the blue - stockings of The statistics of manu-chief source of the wealth of
Text Appearing After Image:
.WASHINGTON ELM.(Cambridge) ...reading-rooms in all the citiesmental and moral improvementlowliest. It is in conse(;uenceneeds of the masses that thelaborer is a better spiritual manlabor troubles are so infrequent,cpiickly settled by a State Boardentire manufacturing popula-hundred thousand persons,eign extraction, is in completetutions and principles,through the State to witnessemploye has surrounded him-factory towns the spectacle iscottages, either owned outrightby sober and industrious nie-mentary u))on the efificacy of thethe State has five hundred andtaining three million five hun-and eighty-five volumes, orries in the country — that thesepatronized chiefly by wage-Here is a phenomenon whereatprobably even more than hethe Lowell factory,facturing show that it is thethe State. The invested capital approximates §600,000,000, with twenty-four thousand firms and corporations, and four hundred and twenty thousandoperatives. The wages paid aggregates J?i88,ooo,ooo; the value of the p

Note About Images