Parks for the People / Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876

Pursuant to a call published in all the daily papers, and signed by a large number of prominent citizens and tax-payers of Boston, a public meeting was convened in Faneuil Hall on the evening of Wednesday, the 7th of June, 1876, to take action on the recommendations contained in the Report of the Park Commissioners. The hall was crowded by an intelligent and enthusiastic audience; and the proceedings as reported verbatim in the columns of the Boston Morning Journal, were as follows:—
The meeting was called to order at eight o'clock by Mr. John W. Candler, who said,—
It is not my duty, gentlemen, to make a speech. You have here this evening to address you, the representatives of every class, the best that can be afforded in any city, the leading men of the city of Boston in the different professions. It is only necessary, in the discharge of my duty, that I should read to you the names of the gentlemen whom you will be asked to elect as the officers of this meeting. They are as follows:—
PRESIDENT. The Hon. JOSEPH S. ROPES. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Charles Francis Adams, William Amory, Richard Frothingham, Peter C. Brooks, Martin Brimmer, George C. Richardson, Benjamin F. Thomas, Edward S. Rand, Henry P. Kidder, Thomas J. Gargan, Eben D. Jordan, C. A. Richards, John C. Crowley, William B. Bacon, Aaron D. Williams, Charles F. Donnelly, Wm. W. Clapp, Benjamin Deane, Richard Olney, William Atherton, Thomas Gobin, William Endicott, jun., Albert Bowker, Daniel J. Sweeney, Patrick T. Jackson, R. M. Pulsifer, Roland Worthington, John G. Blake, M.D., J. H. Chadwick, Lewis Coleman. SECRETARIES. HAMILTON A. HILL. WILLIAM E. PERKINS.
The list of names was unanimously approved; and the announcement of the election of the gentlemen named therein was received with applause.

Mr. Candler continued, I have the honor of introducing to you Joseph S. Ropes, Esq., a merchant of Boston, who has been called to fill a great many places of trust, and who has always been found able in the discharge of every duty, and faithful in every trust committed to him.