New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . by thecity barely suffices for salaries and other expenses. Within this elegant building, on a large marble tablet, we readthis noble testimony : This tablet comnieinonites the enlightened liberality of Sylvia Ann bestowed upon the city of New Bedford the sum of two hundred thousand dol-lars; one hundred thousand to aid in suiiplying- the city with pure water: and onehundred thousand as a fund for the promotion of liberal education by the enlarge-nient of the Free Public Library, and by extending t
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . by thecity barely suffices for salaries and other expenses. Within this elegant building, on a large marble tablet, we readthis noble testimony : This tablet comnieinonites the enlightened liberality of Sylvia Ann bestowed upon the city of New Bedford the sum of two hundred thousand dol-lars; one hundred thousand to aid in suiiplying- the city with pure water: and onehundred thousand as a fund for the promotion of liberal education by the enlarge-nient of the Free Public Library, and by extending to the children and youth of thecity the means of a wider and more generous culture. She died in 1865. In one of the ante-rooms are a number of photographs of thehandsome residences of the city and also several portraits, amongthem a rude unfinished picture of William Rotch, to whom a largeshare of New Bedfords business prosperity is due, by an artist namedRuckley. In the main library room hang portraits of George How-land, Jr., by Wilson, and of James B. Congdon by Eaton. There. ,«,
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