New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . Each of them has thenews service of the Associated Press, furnished by private telegraphwires terminating in their editorial rooms, and each has an activeand etficient corps of local reporters and correspondents. Severalattempts to establish other papers have been made, but they haVeuniformly been unsuccessful. The Whalemens Shipping List and MerchantsTranscript enjoysthe distinction of being the only paper of its kind in the world. Ithas been noticed elsewhere in this volume. The old gentleman also brought to
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . Each of them has thenews service of the Associated Press, furnished by private telegraphwires terminating in their editorial rooms, and each has an activeand etficient corps of local reporters and correspondents. Severalattempts to establish other papers have been made, but they haVeuniformly been unsuccessful. The Whalemens Shipping List and MerchantsTranscript enjoysthe distinction of being the only paper of its kind in the world. Ithas been noticed elsewhere in this volume. The old gentleman also brought to the notice of his friends themany organizations of philanthropy and reform, such as the WomensReform and Relief Society, which maintains a temporary home atthe corner of Merrimac and Pleasant streets ; the Orphans Home, onFrench avenue, at the corner of Cove street, which was organized in1842 and maintains about thirty inmates ; the Day Nursery, whichcares for children whose parents are compelled to relinquish theircare during the working hours of the day; the Young Mens Chris-. RESIDENCE OF EDWARD D. MANDELL. SEEING THE SIGHTS. 117 tian Association and Womens Auxiliary; the Womens ChristianAssociation ; the Port Society, with its Ladies Branch, maintaining ahome and church for seamen ; the Ladies City Mission Society;the Association for the Relief of Aged Women, and the Union forGood Works. This latter is a noble institution, not only because itcares for the poor, but because it aids them to be self-reliant and self-supporting by tiding over times of need. It provides sewing or otherwoik for needy women ; it maintains a sales-room for the handiworkof the indigent or the gentlewoman reduced in circumstances, whetherthe work be preserves, needle-work, or anything that is salable ; ithas a large reception-room well stocked with the best papers, period-icals, and magazines, books, all the parlor games, etc. ; it providesthroughout the winter season a series of popular entertainmen
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