. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. DAVEXrOKT SCHOOL amazed at their number and size, and their evident cost, just formanufacturing purposes. Where are more imposing buildings than the Post Office andthe B. M. C. Durfee High School? The Library and StateArmory? The Academy of Music, the Notre Dame, and churches, each costing a million or more? The GraniteBlock, and City Hall? The Congregational and AscensionChurches? The Mellen House, the Hudner Building, DunnsBlock and Campbell Building? The Lincoln school and otherschool
. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. DAVEXrOKT SCHOOL amazed at their number and size, and their evident cost, just formanufacturing purposes. Where are more imposing buildings than the Post Office andthe B. M. C. Durfee High School? The Library and StateArmory? The Academy of Music, the Notre Dame, and churches, each costing a million or more? The GraniteBlock, and City Hall? The Congregational and AscensionChurches? The Mellen House, the Hudner Building, DunnsBlock and Campbell Building? The Lincoln school and otherschools, St. Marys Church, and Bishops Home, the Globe News-paper Block, the Charlton Block, the Boys Club, the QuequechanClub, the City Hospital and Old Peoples Home, St. VincentsOrphanage, and so many others that space does not permit toname? Yet all of these are the outgrowth of Fall Rivers homeindustries and success. 64. uaaaniiiaiiiwiMaSiS Y. M. C. A. BUILDING SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES. Fall River has a free public library of 70,000 volumes or more,housed in a new and handsome building erected for the has also a Y. M. C. A. building and library and law library,furnished to the Bar Association, but open to the free use of citi-zens. Here, too, is located the most complete and progressiveBoys Club in the country, in a most beautiful building, the gift ofM. C. D. Borden, Esq., who has also recently erected an additionalbuilding as a club and resort for men and boys, for games, or ex-ercise, for their advantage and improvement and to counteractthe tendency to resorts of doubtful character. Fall River pos-sesses the B. M. C. Durfee High School, the gift of Mrs. MaryB. Young, in memory of her son, and probably the handsomest 65 buildino: of its kind in America. Also a Textile School for the ^te use of those who aspire to become proficient, and even scientificin the knowledge of textiles and their ma
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