Tarry at home travels . s been calledto manage the academic college in Clark Univer-sity, which Stanley Hall launched and Salisbury, one of Worcesters public-spiritedcitizens, died a few months ago. He has by theprincely bequests in his will given a firm founda-tion to what will be one of the finest galleries ofpainting and sculpture in the country. And fromWorcester, if you look at any map of thatcounty, you will see that there extend sixspider-webs of railroads, which will take youanywhere. It is the Worcester from which dearSenator Hoa» started whenever he went toWashington. Whe
Tarry at home travels . s been calledto manage the academic college in Clark Univer-sity, which Stanley Hall launched and Salisbury, one of Worcesters public-spiritedcitizens, died a few months ago. He has by theprincely bequests in his will given a firm founda-tion to what will be one of the finest galleries ofpainting and sculpture in the country. And fromWorcester, if you look at any map of thatcounty, you will see that there extend sixspider-webs of railroads, which will take youanywhere. It is the Worcester from which dearSenator Hoa» started whenever he went toWashington. When I lived in Worcester, we used to laughabout the street corner below Brinley Hall. Weused to say that if the Chief Justice of the UnitedStates died, a few of the Worcester men would gettogether on that corner and determine who was hisproper successor from the leaders of the CountyBar. Dr. Samuel Haven, one of our modeststudents of histoiy, used to have his joke in sayingthat Timothy Ruggles, of Worcester County, would. 187 MASSACHUSETTS 189 have been the proper mihtary chief in the Revolu-tion if by misfortune he had not been a Toryattached to King George. We took ArtemasWard of Shrewsbury. To this hour those Worcester County people havea fashion of thinking a good deal for themselves. Itwas my lousiness in 1888, analyzing the vote ofWorcester County after the election of the youngerHarrison, to find, to the confusion of people whodistrust universal suffrage and think we ought tohave a property qualification, and all that youknow, the somewhat interesting fact that therewere more landholders in the territorial boundaryof the city of Worcester than there were voters inthat critical election. A young fellow walks into abank parlor in Worcester, shows them his new in-vention in wood or in horsehair, in wool, in ivory,in steel, or in copper, and the Worcester banker seesthat the young fellow does not drink, nor playcards, nor swear, and he gives him a discount be-cause he was bor
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