. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. John M. Stebbins. Edwin W. Ladd, a practical builder, and a good one, took the city gov-ernment over into the camp of the Democracy, from Repyblicanism, whenhe was made mayor; but the whirligig of time brought about such reverses, AVNGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. 45. that it was hard to tell, before his year of earnest and faithful service was over, just where his politics were to be found. Henry M. Phillips, the present father of the city, though with a very large city family on his hands, is s
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. John M. Stebbins. Edwin W. Ladd, a practical builder, and a good one, took the city gov-ernment over into the camp of the Democracy, from Repyblicanism, whenhe was made mayor; but the whirligig of time brought about such reverses, AVNGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. 45. that it was hard to tell, before his year of earnest and faithful service was over, just where his politics were to be found. Henry M. Phillips, the present father of the city, though with a very large city family on his hands, is still far from round-shouldered from the weight of official cares, and makes a dignified, doting, and dutiful city father. He, like all of his predecessors, including his father-in-law Henry Alexander, takes great pride and pleasure in saying, at all times and in all places, that his home is in Spring-field, and that there is no place like home. The town, while vet a town, had grown up such a diversity of interests, — to such a reach of area and number of population, — that its governmental functions and its vital interests suffered much from the unwieldiness of its administra-tive machinery, which was speedily put into good working-order when once it fairly became a city. Andthat machinery, having beenkept well oiled, and quite gen-erally driven by comp
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