Excerpt from Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Naming of Worcester: October 14 and 15, 1884 After the action of the City Council authorizing the print ing of an account of the celebration with historical 'and statistical notes, a sub-committee was appointed by the Mayor to take charge of the publication. This committee, consisting of nathaniel paine, henry M. Smith and ellery B. Crane, have had the immediate charge of the preparation and printing of the matter contained in these pages. The account of the procession, the decorations and the various exercises of the occasion, has been compiled from the daily papers of the city, and the historical, statistical and biblio graphical notes have been prepared by members of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.