the children! Time has passed and a few of those boys have met again.

I want to say in this connection that before this Association was organized I was appointed chairman of the committee, and we talked of having an entertainment. I expressed the wish that nothing intoxicating should be provided, and here we are on this sixth anniversary, and you can judge how much I enjoy seeing so many grown men who can abstain from intoxicating drink. It is to me a great satisfaction. I am glad to see so many here on this occasion. It indicates an increasing interest, and I hope it will continue to go on.

The President:

I will now call upon Mr. Henry

B. Metcalf, of the Wells School.

Mr. Metcalf said:

The hour is too

This is an unexpected honor. late for a speech, and I have not thought of saying a word. Once or twice in the course of my experience I have been induced to serve on School Committees. I had a little experience when taking a trip across the ocean on business. Entering into conversation with a very intelligent young clergyman of the English Church, he asked me about the range of studies which were available to American children, and with a good deal of pleasure, I told him. I happened to be posted on that, but I am just as sure as I am of my existence that that clergyman believed that I lied. He acted as if he was

thinking, "What a pity it is that such a respect

able-looking gentleman as that should be such a liar!" But I took just as much satisfaction, for all that.

Let me tell you, Old Boston boys, that if any of you have occasion to move away from Boston (as I had, for business reasons, rather more than a dozen years ago), you will always think of your early Boston days as among the pleasantest you ever enjoyed. It has been my fortune to travel around our country considerably, and I had business in the city of Cincinnati, which kept me there much of the time for three or four years. They have some men there who have been very generous in public enterprises, and at that time they were building a very fine Music Hall, and were going to put into it a big organ, which they said would "knock spots out of the Boston organ. I said, "Go ahead; as long as you have to go to Boston to get your organ built, and have to get a Boston man to play it, I think we can stand it."

Mr. T. J. Allen said: There has been a good deal said about the North End and Fort Hill boys. I happen to be a Fort Hiller. I think the Mayor has taken care of the Fort Hill boys pretty well, but I believe I am a little ahead of him in time. We used to have a few lines of doggerel which perhaps the Mayor never heard. They ran thus:

A white cockade and peacock feather,

Fort Hill boys will fight forever.

If that is true, they are fighting still, and the North Enders are not yet victors. There are a good many

Fort Hillers sitting around me, some of them distinguished men. I feel rather proud to think that that school has furnished a Mayor to the City of Boston. I would be glad to know how many Fort Hill boys are here to-night, if you will be kind enough, Mr. President, to ask them to rise. [Twelve gentlemen rose.] I think we can lick the North Enders!

When Mr. Allen took his seat, twenty-three gentlemen rose, in response to a call, who represented the Eliot and Hancock Schools, at the North End.

Mr. George H. Allen, of the Franklin School, said: As there seems to be a moment to spare, .I would like to relate a little incident, suggested by the remarks of the gentleman who spoke of the incident in State Street. He referred to the nearness with which some of our members approached the days of the Revolution. In the year 1848, I was standing in the garden of Mr. Joseph Lovering, who lived on Washington Street near the head of Castle Street, and he said to me: "I went with your father to the carpenter's shop in which the men disguised themselves as Indians, and I accompanied them to the Tea-party." He told me "that ten Mohawks went from that carpenter's shop; five went from a house directly opposite Hollis Street on Tremont Street, and five more from the Bradlee house near by."

Allow me to say before I take my seat that I am very happy to be with you. I have enjoyed myself here tonight, and I hope to be with you on future.

occasions.

Let me offer a sentiment from the pathe

tic ballad of "John Gilpin," slightly altered:

Long live the King,

And Williams, long live he;
And when he next presides

May we all be there to see.

Mr. Barbour.

I want to say that the gentleman

who took my arm and walked up State Street with me, was Mr. Joseph Lovering.

The last verse of Mr. Baldwin's song was then sung, and the company separated.

VAL

SEVENTH REUNION.

THE annual meeting was held at the Hotel Vendome, Nov. 16, 1886, President Thomas J. Allen in the chair. The Nominating Committee reported the following names for officers for the coming year of 1886-1887, and they were elected:

GEORGE O. CARPENTER, President.
JAMES M. BURGESS, Vice-President.

WILLIAM C. LAWRENCE, Sec'y and Treas.

Directors: William H. Leatherbee, Jarvis D. Braman, Albert Betteley, Ezekiel R. Jones, John Souther, Edward H. Dunn, James M. Shute, Levi L. Willcutt, Charles A. Morss.

At the banquet the President greeted the company, and called upon Rev. Eber R. Butler to ask a blessing. At the close of the dinner the President made the following address:

Fellow Schoolmates: It is a good thing for us to be here, to meet old friends, to revive old associations, and for the time to be boys again, even if rather old boys. As I look around on these hoary-headed gentlemen I ask myself, Are these the boys that struggled with Lindley Murray, worked over Colburn's First Lessons, and took such pains to read Pierpont's beautiful work, "The American First Class Book"?