. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . hasbeen one of its mostactive and progres-sive citizens. H ehas been either theprompter of, or hadan influential handin directing, thelargest public i m -provements of lateyears in that beauti-ful town. The con-st r u c t i o n of theRiverdale Park be-tween Brookline andBoston, which is to beone of the finest pro-ductions of that typeon the continent, isdue mainly to energyand skill in sur-mounting legal andpractical was three t
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . hasbeen one of its mostactive and progres-sive citizens. H ehas been either theprompter of, or hadan influential handin directing, thelargest public i m -provements of lateyears in that beauti-ful town. The con-st r u c t i o n of theRiverdale Park be-tween Brookline andBoston, which is to beone of the finest pro-ductions of that typeon the continent, isdue mainly to energyand skill in sur-mounting legal andpractical was three timeselected chairman ofthe Selectmen, of theSurveyors of High-ways, of the Board ofHealth, and of theOverseers of the Poor, in Brookline, and was a trusteeof the Brookline Public Library three years. He is amember of the .\merican Bar Association, the BostonBar Association, the University Club, and the ExchangeClub, of Boston. He has held no political office, butin February, 1892, was elected president of the Brook-line Republican Club. Mr. Chandler was married inBrookline, Dec. 27, 1882, to Mary Merrill Poor, andhas four ALFRED D. CHANDLER BOSTON. 199 ^ WILLIAM McKINLEV OSBORNE, member ofthe Board of Police for the city of Boston, isidentified with the attempt, on the part of the Massachu-setts Legislature, to make the police of the capital of theState independent of partisan municipal politics, andthereby to increase its general efficiency. The theoryof the law creating this board was to make a thoroughlynon-partisan organization. The members of the com-mission— three in number—are appointed by the gov-ernor, with theconsent of his Coun-cil, from the twogreat political par-ties. It was arguedthat the board, thusappointed and re-sponsible to theexecutive depart-ment of the State,would not be ham-pered by questionsof local policy, andalso that a betterclass of men would belikely to be so far as thischange has tended totake the police outof the local pol
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