The American Missionary. Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894

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Various. The American Missionary. Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894

ANNUAL MEETING

LOWELL

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

CAPITAL AND LABOR

OUR ALASKA MISSION

HON. A.C. BARSTOW

REV. GEORGE S. SMITH

THE SOUTH

THE WALDENSES AT VALDESE, N.C

NOTES FROM THE MOUNTAINS

"NOLICHUCKY JACK'S" DESCENDANTS

PROMISING OPENINGS FOR SCHOOL AND CHURCH

SOUTHERN FIELD NOTES

CAPPAHOSIC'S SIXTH COMMENCEMENT

A PRAYERFUL AND INDUSTRIOUS FAMILY

A VISIT TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

THE INDIANS

MISSION SERVICES AT TWO KETTLE VILLAGE

INDIAN MISSION COLLECTIONS

THE CHINESE

"THE PRESENT DISTRESS."

BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK

ANNUAL MEETING

WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS

MAINE

NEW HAMPSHIRE

VERMONT

MASS. AND R.I

CONNECTICUT

NEW YORK

NEW JERSEY

PENNSYLVANIA

OHIO

INDIANA

ILLINOIS

IOWA

MICHIGAN

WISCONSIN

MINNESOTA

NORTH DAKOTA

SOUTH DAKOTA

NEBRASKA

MONTANA

MISSOURI

KANSAS

OREGON

WASHINGTON

CALIFORNIA

NEVADA

INDIAN TERRITORY

MEW MEXICO

LOUISIANA

MISSISSIPPI

ALABAMA

FLORIDA

TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY AND ARKANSAS

COLORADO

WYOMING

OKLAHOMA

UTAH, (Including Southern Idaho)

NORTH CAROLINA

TEXAS

GEORGIA

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1894

THE DANIEL HAND FUND

CURRENT

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The city of Lowell has long enjoyed a national, even world-wide reputation, as the leading center for the manufacture of cotton fabrics. And, while this industry offers employment to something like 25,000 men, women and children, there are also enterprises in great variety that do not use cotton fibre in any way, yet find work for ten to fifteen thousand more toilers. The principal corporations are the Lawrence, Tremont and Suffolk, Merrimack, Boott, Massachusetts, Hamilton and Appleton, beside the Middlesex, where shawls are made, and the carpet mills, where the famous Lowell carpets are woven. While the city is a veritable beehive of industry, yet the people find time for recreation, and have wisely provided breathing places in different parts of the city, where they can recuperate mind and body. The prominent pleasure resorts are Fort Hill park, the North and South commons, Park Garden, the boulevard—extending three miles along the bank of the Merrimack River—and Lakeview, an attractive watering-place some five miles out from the center. This latter place is reached by means of the Lowell and Suburban Street Railway, an electric line, which also connects the neighboring villages of North Chelmsford, Dracut, North Billerica and Chelmsford Center. A ride to any one of these places costs but twenty cents for the round trip, and the Lakeview line is especially interesting at its terminal.

The city's moral and educational interests are also well provided for, as evidenced by the following: 30 churches, 47 primary schools, 10 grammar and 1 high school, besides a training school for teachers, and a manual training-school for boys; also a prospective State normal school. We also have three or four hospitals, an old ladies' home, and a home for young women and children. The police protection consists of a chief, his deputies, captains and sergeants, and about one hundred patrolmen. The fire system of the city is excelled by none in the country, and is well worthy a careful inspection.

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The population of Lowell is probably about 80,000, and excepting in specially hard times there are few persons to be found in want of a situation. These are only a few of Lowell's salient points, but enough is here given to convey to the visitor a very fair idea of the city's make-up.

As soon as the colony was established and the people were felling the forests and building their humble homes, they applied to us for assistance for the support of the pastor and teacher. The colonists themselves made large sacrifices, and only asked us to assist them in the support of their religious and educational leaders.

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