. Centennial of the Bulfinch State House. Exercises before the Massachusetts legislature, January 11, 1898. SAMUEL PHILLIPS. ADDRESS BY ALFRED SEELYE ROE. 45 destroyed, so that no man may see jnst wherewe met for the sittings of that year, and thenthey come back to this old hall, hereafter to beknown as the Senate Chamber. Truly they haveknown the State House during its transitionalperiod. For the nonce, however, let us fancy ourselvesin the old chamber, hallowed by its century ofassociations, and see, if we can, the room as itmust have appeared when, headed by SamuelPhillips, the Senators of
. Centennial of the Bulfinch State House. Exercises before the Massachusetts legislature, January 11, 1898. SAMUEL PHILLIPS. ADDRESS BY ALFRED SEELYE ROE. 45 destroyed, so that no man may see jnst wherewe met for the sittings of that year, and thenthey come back to this old hall, hereafter to beknown as the Senate Chamber. Truly they haveknown the State House during its transitionalperiod. For the nonce, however, let us fancy ourselvesin the old chamber, hallowed by its century ofassociations, and see, if we can, the room as itmust have appeared when, headed by SamuelPhillips, the Senators of 1798 filed into theirnew positions. Powdered hair, cues with eel-skin ties, gaudy waistcoats and knee breeches,all terminating in enormous silver shoe buckles,were then quite in vogue. The President* wasa gentleman of the old school, of the same stockwhich gave us so many distinguished men, him-self the benefactor and organizer of the famousPhillips Academy at Andover. For fifteen years > Samuel Phillips, the fifth Samuel in the direct descent from the Rev. GeorgePhillips of Watertown, was born in A
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