New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . CHAPTER V. A DIVERSITY OF LL that has been said of New Bedford, of its his-tory, its attractions, its industries, itssocial, religious, and benevolent activ-ities, fails to exhaust the theme. Thesons and daughters of this pleasant andhappy city on the shore of the placid/ I ^^\ Mc Acushnet, wherever they may be scat- L J \\ jn j ^\ ^^ tered throughout the world, will with 1,JI^^3^ one voice testify that no word in herJ\fll im praise is too glowing, and that the__ picture of her charms is not half the
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . CHAPTER V. A DIVERSITY OF LL that has been said of New Bedford, of its his-tory, its attractions, its industries, itssocial, religious, and benevolent activ-ities, fails to exhaust the theme. Thesons and daughters of this pleasant andhappy city on the shore of the placid/ I ^^\ Mc Acushnet, wherever they may be scat- L J \\ jn j ^\ ^^ tered throughout the world, will with 1,JI^^3^ one voice testify that no word in herJ\fll im praise is too glowing, and that the__ picture of her charms is not half the Wis reality. But the bounds of this vol-ume are nearly reached, and all that can now be added must belimited to the plain statement of plain facts, for which no appropriateplace has been found in the preceding pages. In this chapter, there-fore, are gathered various scraps of information, not closely related,but all having some important bearing on the interests or the condi-tion of New Bedford. The financial standing of the municipality is indicated by thefollowing tabular statement of the city debt: â, , ^ , â
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