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I IMOBmow■o'B^B O 1 ■ofB°SIO■onB-?SS:o i SOS*S-BOHso | o ■oikO,o*OBK'?aoBOBofo*C°Ro»0E3B^BGOS®°aG HO 3«0*BOS«2nK°HO■oO I■oJfB':' f!obobWhat glorious errand for a golden landNow gleams an aureole 'round the fifty years, Since on to sunset bounded that young band, Swift to behold the glint of saffron strand,O'er wave and prairie sped the pioneers.Grand was the onset for the glittering ore,That In those days, now half a century old, Suffused with glow of life Pacific's shore.And to the mine, the mount, the meadow, bore New England’s mettle sterling manhood's gold.IBB B flBOB■°R°momThe Society of California Pioneers of New England met at the Vnited States Hotel. Boston, today and commemorated in an appropriate manner the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of gold in California. The business meeting was called to order by President Dole, and the reports of Secretary Foster and Treasurer Josiah Hayward were presented.The following new members were admitted to membership: Simeon Mulligan of Natick. George W.Wood of Farmington. N. H., Isaac Lampson of Lakeville, Mass., and Richmond P. Everett of Providence. The dinner was a most enjoyable feature of the reunion. The outside of the menu was headed “Golden Jubilee.” At the head of the table sat the officers of the society as follows: President Charles A.Dole of East Somerville. First Vice-President Richard Harrington of Salem. Second Vice-President Isaac Spear of rambridge, and Secretary S. W. Foster of Boston, together with members of the board of directors as follows: John Conness, Dorchester: Fred Pease. East Boston: E. D. Wadsworth. Milton; James D. McAvoy, Hyde Park; David S. Boynton. Lynn; Simeon Mitchell, Campello; Albert H. Breed. Lynn: A. H. Richardson, Mansfield; Fred K. Ballou, Dorchester; Charles A. Jordan, Newton: George H. Frost. Dorchester: Albion Ohlpman. Cambridge; William A. Pierce. Dorchester; Willard E. Sibley, Waltham: Henry A. Phelan, West Springfield: Roscoe G. Smith. Cornish. Me.; George H. Pettis, Providence; Alfred Bailey. Cambridge; Charles H. Fifleld, Salem: Hon. Gorham D. Gilman, Boston; Charles T. Stumicke. Boston; William H. Browne. Boston: Edward O. Carpenter, New York: George II. Stearns. Cambridge: Israel Waterhouse, Wollaston; Walter S. Dickson, Salem; Cyrus Greely. Lewiston, Me.; Thomas H. Robinson, Dorchester; William H. Pierce, Lynn; Henry W. Bowen, Roslindale; Florimel B. Mower, Lynn; Leander D. Cogswell, Henniker, N. H.; Albert Perry, Beverly; James Burdick. Providence; James C. Gleason, East Warren, Vt.The speakers included Hon. John Conness of Dorchester. Hon. Henry J. Wells of Cambridge, Hon. Gorham D. Gilman of Boston. President Dole and other members of the society.The New England Associated California Pioneers of *49 met at the Revere House this noon. Nearly every member of the association has passed the age of three score and ten. Samuel Snow, president of the association, presided at the dinner.A feature of the celebration was the presence of the woman who saw and held in her hands thefirst nuggets of gold which were discovered In California by Marshall at Sutter’s Mill, In Coloma. onJanuary 24, 1S48. She is Mrs. Mary Sinclair Davis of 18 St. James street, Roxbury, and* she briefly told the story of when and how she saw the nuggets.Mrs. Davis went across the plains in 1843. She was then a girl of 14 years. She was the first whitewoman married under the Spanish laws in what Is now' California. She was also the mother of thefirst white child born In that same country. She lived with her husband on Rancho del Paso (the ford of the river), fourteen miles from Fort Sutter. Her husband was alcalde of the district.When Marshall discovered the gold in the sluiceway of the sawmill at Coloma he took the nuggets and started for Fort Sutter, twenty miles away. His road took him past the ranch of the Sinclairs and there he exhibited his new-found treasures. Both Mrs. Sinclair and her husband saw’ the nuggets and handled them.Letters were read from Chief Marshal Morse and J. T. Parsons, chairman of the executive committeeof the San Francisco celebration.Oaf■*BO■o«me*oXi o ■o«+9?BOBboboB0Bmomotheir i pleasir ! tions o The i up by | that h; j partmt j welfani two pa resen ti f inspecl, spectln Ing ih« i ture ol arrest the actJ ing-trcThe milk c , a doze girls i tumes, of pur trayed ing. Tl at the statior float, of theBCBo■c.■3[flOfl-s-boboBCBB°B: oBoBB°BOBCBa men cisco, board of lablt; domnei The divisio include cial Tr depend rtges. muster bear! n I travelcHOWThe Ficb^hmcr3 fl BB BBOBGB0BflOfloB0flfl°BOmobb °im s °m b-m 1°b b-b* b°^ b°b cb°b °h° b °b° mm °b° b °b° b°b b° °umn. the companies instantly assumed their positions in the different battalions and awaited the command tobuildings. Telescopes, globes and other scientific apparatus were disposed here and there throughout the scene, andmary School, Buena Vista Primaryf„alrrun' Prlmitr- school. All along the line of march the mni.A msection dlvisioi Three j lean c lowed a bann May I omittd Italian mediat Then c one of tics of hues, ; nese b public fully ] ters.Two
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Tue, Jan 25, 1898
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