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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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at Massachusettscan. We in Fall River want to build up our city, he said, wewant to see our merchants prosper, our freight rates lowered, andwe want to be connected up with Boston. We want to see greatindustries all along the route of this canal, and the smoke fromtheir chimneys ascending to high heaven, testifying to all theworld that our people are prosperous and happy. It has always been claimed that the cities located on the coastor rivers were the most prosperous, and in Europe that argumentis proven. Here, however, we seem to have allowed the inlandcities to get an advantage. We have here the opportunity to putan end to the greed of commerce, which causes the sending outof men in coffin ships to end their days, and Massachusetts shouldstand in the vanguard, and it is up to you, gentlemen of the com-mittee, to take the first step to bring about this result. Those present at the hearing were Ex-Mayor John W. Coughlin,City Solicitor Hanify, A. Homer Skinner, County Commissioner 106
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A < <-n x X QI—< X ;3 ■Chace, Representatives Willetts, Parks, Harrington, Gifford andBooth, Dr. R. Thompson, Alderman C. A. MacDonald, Harry P.Brown, Jas. N. Buffinton, Warren Barker, representing MerchantsAssociation; F. M. Hunter and B. R. Acornley, representing theFall River Trade and Industry Association. Senator J. Turner,Representatives D. P. Keefe and F. Mulveny were absent on com-mittee work, but endorsed the project. As a result of the above hearing the following resolution wasadopted by the Harbors and Public Lands committees and readin the senate: Harbors and Public Lands—A resolve on the recommendationof Governor Foss that the governor, with the consent of the coun-cil, shall appoint a commission of seven persons within 30 daysafter the passage of this act, one of whom he shall designate as■chairman, to consider how best the commonwealth may cooperatewith the federal government in the construction of a ship canalfree and open to the commerce of the world,

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