Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the City Hall: In the City of Baltimore, on Tuesday, October 18th, 1867 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the City Hall: In the City of Baltimore, on Tuesday, October 18th, 1867

Collector and his clerks. The Water Department had still more limited accommodations. The City Commissioner was stowed away in a third story, and the Park Commission was indebted to the Mayor's hospitality for a place in which to meet.

As for the Legislative Department, the First Branch held its sessions in what was formerly the very modest picture gallery of Peale's Museum, and the Second Branch succeeded a collection of stuffed animals in an adjacent room. Neither apartment was capable of being adapted to the uses to which it was put.

So long as there was no hope of change, a decent pride kept us silent in regard to what was, in truth, humiliating but now that a day of better things is dawning, we may, without hesitation, allude to the past, and congratulate ourselves that in the building whose corner - stone we are about to lay, the municipal authorities will have escaped from such quarters as we have described.

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