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Excerpt from Dedication of Stark Park: By the City of Manchester, N. H
Pursuant to a vote of the city government, a committee consisting of Mayor E. J. Knowlton, Aldermen James Lightbody and Richard J. Barry, Councilmen Joseph Tait, -george E. Fellows, and Ludger E. Desrochers, and Park Commissioners George H. Stearns, Leonard P. Reynolds, and Horace P. Simpson was appointed in May to make all the necessary arrangements for the exercises, and under their direction and that of the board of fire engineers, who ordered the annual parade of the fire department for the same day, the various details of the program were carried out.
The morning dawned with lowering skies and a drizzling rain, which later in the day developed into a driving storm. Despite this inhospitable outlook it was determined to carry out the event in full in accordance with previous arrangements, and at 10 o'clock A. M. One of the grandest civic and military processions that has ever been seen in New Hampshire was moving through Elm street north ward to the park. Conspicuous in the parade were the Amoskeag Veterans, of Manchester, Worcester Continent als, of Worcester, Mass., and Putnam Phalanx, of Hart ford, Conn., these commands comprising the only Contineutal organizations in this country. Uniformed after the' manner of the Continentals of Revolutionary days, there seemed an especial appropriateness in their presence.
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