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PARKS FOR THE PEOPLE.

PROCEEDINGS OF A PUBLIC MEETING
HELD AT FANEUIL HALL,

JUNE 7, 1876.

BOSTON:
FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, & CO.
1876.




CONTENTS.

ORGANIZATION OF MEETING                    5

SPEECH OF MR. JOSEPH S. ROPES              7

  "    "  MR. GEORGE B. CHASE             10

  "    "  MR. RICHARD H. DANA, JUN.       11

  "    "  DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES       20

  "    "  REV. ROLLIN H. NEALE, D.D.      26

  "    "  REV. J. P. BODFISH              27

  "    "  COL. CHARLES W. WILDER          31

  "    "  MR. JOSEPH F. PAUL              33

  "    "  HON. P. A. COLLINS              36

LETTER OF DR. EDWARD H. CLARKE            