his cows grazed undisturbed by traffic the estate created by the wealthy china trader occupied a site on the first high hill west of boston within its confines were a conservatory and fourteen greenhouses a stable and artificial lake spectacular gardens and sweeping lawns the centerpiece of the estate was its fifty room mansion the wealth and influence of mr cushing substantially further the effort to create a new town when incorporated in march eight hundred fifty nine the town took its name from belmont the cushing estate but omitted one of the els belmont is primarily a farming community it is not in a dos triode community where we want to protect ourselves by having our own form of government and our own school system thank you very much celebration we have here the adding machine that they used in belmont gardens until it closed in one nine hundred fifty four we have here the bulls that the length family used have agreed to moderate this meeting i am afraid i shouldn't have said that because i have to be very impartial however we have a little  twenty six thousand or one in fifteen dollars to religious societies one meeting house built in the past year two like it appalls two stores for railroad stations to post offices a female seminary of high water and a collection of ice houses to which a branch of real way has long extended and more freight is annually received upon the of the commonwealth of massachusetts vote to create the new town to be called belmont made up made out for part of watertown part of west cambridge and part of need it would be big gray and jonas generally of the committee for incorporation once again we are before you with the plea for the corporation of a new town to be called belm have appeared before your illustrious board each year since eight hundred fifty four we have listened to the arguments against incorporation and have done all within our power to resolve these issues we now have a church of our own in name the first church in belmont we have a public call in waverley to successful stores to post offices three real roads stations and i  waverley station since then our population has grown to eleven hundred people on the verge of a few years ago three hundred twenty five school children that must be educated the cry you asian of real and spirit are in any of the social and domestic qualities which contribute to make a community respectable and respected i've never yet needed electric amplification and i will not take advantage of it now my dear ladies and gentlemen of west cambridge walther and watch the town we have heard a right pretty speech and indeed who could not be moved by the plight of the well to do gentleman before you whose wards in charlestown like groaning under the weight of opiates and july tolls and othe in specially to influence the stomach's if not the votes of all those assembled here this tale of woe notwithstanding the true policy of this state ought to be that no new town should be incorporated a less an extraordinary case should be may well sir as some of these proceedings i confess have been extraordinary if only in the extraordinary pack of nonsense that we would be expected to swallow and with far less appetite for the doing than for the aforementioned prose and desert enough they tell us that belmont is increasing very rapidly in population i ask you where are the institutions that serve established their country states there is no one they wish to keep closer at hand than those who roost upon their treasures but to stores do they wish us to understand that they have two stores in operation upon this entire territory oh true there are two buildings directed for that purpose but the one at waverly has been closed for years oh and the other little store at wellington hill of ruby credit it deals  previous speaker i am perfectly aware of the wealth of belmont has been frequently used in with considerable effect sometimes against this measure the gentleman from middlesex affected to sneer at the rich farmers of belmont their wealth sir is the rich reward of per serving industry early and late in the burning heat of summer and the dreary cold of winter they have plied their incessant toil they supply us with the first vegetables and fruits of spring and summer and the richer spruit survive in our storehouse and our storehouses growed than eat the crop of ice harvested in the winter don't want sir is above the abundantly process of all of the important elements necessary to make up a town and we hope that the legislature will agree we have many distinguished citizens here this evening and it is my pleasure to present mr john perkins perkins questioning who has made his money in the china trade and is a very very  offered to carpenter's a lot of land which they refused because there were no school accommodations but service i would refer you to the notice in the daily papers this very morning for a house of wellington hill for sale or to let with good schools quite near so it seems that when mr hit major and mr generally have land to sell they have good schools quite near but when they come in here and ask for special legislation why didn't the schools all disappear further in regard to roads they have got just as much reason to complain of their roads as of their schools and that amounts to just no reason at all i have no hesitation in making the statement and it meant so prove that there is not a town in this commonwealth that can boast a better or more convenient roads than this territory that will be a cold one to was should this petition for the incorporation of belmont be granted to these wealthy gentles who have demonstrated no civic energy in the development of the necessary institutions in one hundred fifty years we will have given the commonwealth the town of crumbling roads crumbling schools and accommodations are too dear in price for humble men such as you and i i have no doubt that you will do in this matter all that is required to avoid such a fate and that is simply com s i grew up in belmont is a daughter of colonel juice and wellington and i lived in the sights of the the wellington homestead with with twelve other brothers and sisters we always had a crowd and so we know how to prepare for always famous for good evening my name is senator gideon haynes and i represent the middlesex district and i was here tonight to speak against the incorporation of the town of belmont which would have a devastating effect on the communities of watertown all salmon was cambridge which i represent the proponents have said that they do not have sufficient schools and roads and five course field that of the roads in this area some of the finest to be had in the entire commonwealth and the schools seem to you know the legislative voted this was the third time it was taken up and cause we believe in the body by the world majority and i wish the new community of belmont all the very best highway here and evening a several pictures of it presently in the book that i'm talking about and also one display tonight be of some historic photos of the belmont spring