. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . sts of the Citizens on Gloucester Day,August 4th, 1909, on the occasion of a Festival in honour of WilUam Howard Taft, Presi-dent of the United States; and I also thank you for the separate invitation sent to mepersonally. ... I am quite sure the Members of the Council would verv much like toattend the Festival and that they would be specially interested in the Pageant and PlayThe Canterbury Pilgrims, though they would needno such inducement to visit Glouces-ter, Mass., if able to do so, as they are mindful of the friendship which
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . sts of the Citizens on Gloucester Day,August 4th, 1909, on the occasion of a Festival in honour of WilUam Howard Taft, Presi-dent of the United States; and I also thank you for the separate invitation sent to mepersonally. ... I am quite sure the Members of the Council would verv much like toattend the Festival and that they would be specially interested in the Pageant and PlayThe Canterbury Pilgrims, though they would needno such inducement to visit Glouces-ter, Mass., if able to do so, as they are mindful of the friendship which has so long existedbetween the two Cities and the very cordial welcome which has been extended to some oldGloucestrians who have visited your City. On behah of the Members of the Council and my fellow citizens, I heartily thank youfor your very kind invitation, and I sincerely hope that the visit of the President of theUnited States and the success of your Pageant and Play may cause Gloucester Day,1909, to be long remembered as a red-letter day in your Pholographed jOT the St<iU Street Trust Company by The Phdps Slu . Kindness Allen F. Grant, Esq. PORTUGUESE CHURCH, GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, called Our Lady of Good Voyage. The Virgin Mary is holding in her arm a Gloucester fishing the door is shown another model of a vessel. Once a year a service is held here known as TheCromiing, which is described in the 136 GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS Trusting that some Members of the Council may be able to visit your City on somefuture occasion, and with the assurance that any of your Citizens will ever receive a cordialwelcome in this City, I am Yours verj faithfully,Fred W. Tibbetts, Esq., James Bruton, Mayor. Secretary Gloucester Day Committee,Gloucester, Mass. In 1915, John J. Somes, Esq., the present City Clerk of our Gloucester, gladlyaccepted the offer of Hon. W. J. Johnston-Vaughan, an ex-MaN-or of Glouces-ter, England, to send to our city a bell made in
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