. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . aps,before him, of theincreasing practiceof adulteration, butMr. Moody not onlytalked up the matteramong the mer-chants, but carriedhis ideas to BeaconHill, urged themupon the law-makers,framed a bill of hisown, and finally se-cured the enactmentof the law,—boththe idea and the lan-guage of which arepractically his. Thelife of Charles Eck-ley Moody, could itbe told in all itsdetails here, wouldbe good read-ing for the boys ofthe present in Bath, Me
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . aps,before him, of theincreasing practiceof adulteration, butMr. Moody not onlytalked up the matteramong the mer-chants, but carriedhis ideas to BeaconHill, urged themupon the law-makers,framed a bill of hisown, and finally se-cured the enactmentof the law,—boththe idea and the lan-guage of which arepractically his. Thelife of Charles Eck-ley Moody, could itbe told in all itsdetails here, wouldbe good read-ing for the boys ofthe present in Bath, Me.,the son of JohnMinot and Mary(Boynton) Moody, he came to Boston to make his own way when he wasbut fifteen years of age. Two weeks after his arrivalhere, he obtained employment, unaided, in the store ofSilas Peirce & Co., on Elm Street. The same devotionto the work at hand which later found fruition in thecontest against impure foods, was characteristic of himas a boy, and after years of appreciated ser\ice, he wasadmitted as a member of the firm of -Silas Peirce & he continued until 1868, when, withdrawins; from. the firm, he established the house of Charles E. Moody& Co. on the site where it now stands. No. 77 Com-mercial Street. Of Mr. Moodys business methods andsuccess since then, the standing of his firm to-day is itsown report. Mr. Moody, until a few years ago, wasinterested in the sugar trade, as well as in his owngrocery house, and in this connection an incident illus-trative of his business practices may be told. Duringthe last week of each year, Mr. Moodys creditors always received letters ask-ing that their bills besubmitted at once,these requests by mailbeing supplementedby personal calls incases where the cred-itors did not respondpromptly. Then onNew Years Eve ofeach year, and his part-ner met, and beforeleaving the officethat night every pos-sible claim againstthe firm had beenliquidated. A manof wide sympathiesand unostentatiouscharity, Mr.
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