The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . iew. As thecity developed in that direction, the estate has been divided into smallertracts, and building encouraged as helps in the permanent growth of thatpart of the city. His estate now comprises about fifteen acres, which he hasgreatly beautifiedand improved through the exercise of his good taste and sound judgment inadapting artificial and external adornments to the natural features of theland, his natural fondness for tree and plant life and great familiarity withthe kinds indigenous to this climate being particularl
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . iew. As thecity developed in that direction, the estate has been divided into smallertracts, and building encouraged as helps in the permanent growth of thatpart of the city. His estate now comprises about fifteen acres, which he hasgreatly beautifiedand improved through the exercise of his good taste and sound judgment inadapting artificial and external adornments to the natural features of theland, his natural fondness for tree and plant life and great familiarity withthe kinds indigenous to this climate being particularly helpful in thisdirection. With the purpose of developing the region where he lives, hewas one of the originators and constructors of the Worcester & Shrewsburyrailroad, the second narrow gauge track in this country, which has recentlybeen leased to the Consolidated Street Railway Company. Mr. Drapers tendencies and abilities have brought him into many positions•of prominence and usefulness among his fellow citizens, and although never 6oS The Worcester of i!. JAMES DRAPER. scilicitDUs (if [)ub!ic office, he has felt it to-l)e a duty to render his native city sueliservice as he was able in the lines ofwiirk that his education and e.\i)erienceha\e especially fitted him for. He hasserved in the apprtjpriate capacities ofmember of the School Board three years,Overseers of the Poor nine years, andsince 1886 as one of the Commissioners ofthe Public Parks. His services in thedevelopment of the parks-system, and inthe planting and care of the shade-trees ofthe city, have been invaluable, the manyimprovements and changes in the greatLake park and in East and Cromptonparks having been very largely the resultof his able and forceful direction andhcl])ful assistance. He has been an active member of the Agricultural andHiirticultural Societies for over twenty-five years, and the special judge inthe fruit department of the Horticultural .Society for fifteen consecutiveyears; also a trust
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