. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. e gift of the nation. Aninteresting woman who resided here was Eliza Farrer, a writerfor children. She had had many experiences in various partsof the world and wrote about them in a book, which she calledRecollection of Seventy Years. Two men who had a very wide reputation were the editors,Samuel Bowles and Josiah Gilbert Holland. Doctor Hollandwrote many books, of which his Letters to Young Peoplewere practical and popular. He wrote Bay Path, a
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. e gift of the nation. Aninteresting woman who resided here was Eliza Farrer, a writerfor children. She had had many experiences in various partsof the world and wrote about them in a book, which she calledRecollection of Seventy Years. Two men who had a very wide reputation were the editors,Samuel Bowles and Josiah Gilbert Holland. Doctor Hollandwrote many books, of which his Letters to Young Peoplewere practical and popular. He wrote Bay Path, an his-torical novel about Mary Pynchon, and started the Centurymagazine. There is a fine profile of his face on his monumentin the old cemetery, made by St. Gaudens, the famous sculptorof the statue in honor of Deacon Chapin on Merrick Bowles, the second in the line of four journalists ofthat name, was one of the founders of modern was once unjustly imprisoned in another state for tellingthe truth about a man who did much evil; for he believedthat his journal should be outspoken when the public interestswere at CHAPTER X. A LOOK BACKWARDS—THE SPANISH WAR.—THETWENTIETH CENTURY. 4^^^ N THE year 1886, Springfield celebrated the twohundred and fiftieth anniversary of the quarter of a millennium had gone by and peoplelooked back and compared the then present withthe past. There was an oration and a great pro-cession, including an historical pageant in whichmany boys and girls took part. The times of WilliamPynchon were illustrated in costume by those inthe procession. The chief marshal was WilliamPynchon, seventh in descent from the founder. It is when looking back from one of these viewpoints that we realize how great has been theprogress of the city in this long period. In this last chapterit will be well to select two examples and see how the moderntimes differ from the old. One of these examples shall be themeans of putting out
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