. The New England magazine . nt and equally quick to rejectunsatisfactory results, eager for intellec-tual advancement, but maintaining alwaysa sturdy, moral vigor. This is Lynnas we find it to-day, after its more thantwo and a half centuries of history. Whatever else it may be, Lynn is neverdull or slothful. Through sharp conflicts,which inevitably arise in a city whereevery man has his own positive convic-tions, it passes bright and smiling, theparties to the struggle emerge from theencounter with wits sharpened and anew page added to the education ofexperience. Sufficient unity is alwaysmai
. The New England magazine . nt and equally quick to rejectunsatisfactory results, eager for intellec-tual advancement, but maintaining alwaysa sturdy, moral vigor. This is Lynnas we find it to-day, after its more thantwo and a half centuries of history. Whatever else it may be, Lynn is neverdull or slothful. Through sharp conflicts,which inevitably arise in a city whereevery man has his own positive convic-tions, it passes bright and smiling, theparties to the struggle emerge from theencounter with wits sharpened and anew page added to the education ofexperience. Sufficient unity is alwaysmaintained to keep Lynn at the forefrontin every public work and municipal im-provement. Fortunate in its situation onbreezy shores beside the shining sea,fortunate in the manhood and the woman-hood it has produced, and that make itwhat it is to-day, Lynn has asked nothingof fate, but has taken what it would, meet-ing misfortunes cheerfully and turningthem into the brightest of good is the largest city in New England. THE CITY OF LYNN. 499 east of Boston, and its citizens claim itwill yet become the second city in popu-lation in New England. Upon this city, at a little before mid-day on the 26th of November, 1S89, fellthe demon of fire. Beginning in a woodenbuilding on Almont Street, the fire swepteastward toward the sea, covering thirtyacres of land in the business centre ofthe city with smoking ruins. It raged formore than seven hours, and destroyedproperty aggregating in value nearly fivemillion dollars, including thirty-two brickbuildings, in which were some of thefinest shoe factories of the city, onehundred and fifty-eight wooden manufac-turing and mercantile buildings, onehundred and twenty-nine dwelling houses,and a church. Eighty-seven shoe firmswere burned out, and onehundred and sixty-two fam-ilies were rendered home-less. Terrible as the blowwas, Lynn faced it withYankee pluck, and in twen-ty-four hours fromthe time of thegreat disaster itwas known,wherever
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