Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

To the benefactors there mentioned must be added CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, President of the Society, who, in the summer of 1895, bought a lot of land on the Fenway (3,000 square feet), with a view of adding it to the lot bought by the Society, in case the latter should prove too small. When the plans for the new building were drawn, it was found to be desirable to make some change in the lines of the Society's estate, and the lot bought by the President was conveyed to the Society, with a verbal understanding that he should receive for it an equal quantity of land on Boylston Street. In February, 1901, a portion of unoccupied land on Boylston Street (2,622 square feet) was sold to indemnify the President for the land conveyed by him to the Society. The difference ($3,000) between the sum paid by the President ($15,000) and the amount received for the land sold ($12,000) was an absolute gift to the Society, and to this difference must be added the interest on $15,000 from the date of the original purchase up to the date of sale of the Boylston Street land, a period of nearly six years.

The stock and bonds held by the Treasurer as investments. on account of the above-mentioned funds are as follows:

$14,000 in the five per cent mortgage bonds of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad Co., due 1921;

$1,000 in a five per cent bond of the Chicago and North Michigan Railroad Co., due 1931;

$5,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., due 1939;

$8,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., due 1921;

$2,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., due 1922;

$4,000 in the three and one-half per cent bonds of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., due 1949;

$5,000 in the five per cent gold bonds of the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Ironton Railroad Co., due 1941;

$14,500 in the four per cent mortgage bonds of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad Co., due 1995;

$9,000 in the adjustment four per cent bonds, due 1995; $3,000 in the convertible four per cent bonds, due 1995; and one hundred and fifty-eight shares of the preferred stock of the same corporation;

$13,000 in the five per cent collateral trust bonds of the Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co., due 1915;

$10,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., due 1946;

$10,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., due 1929;

$12,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Lewiston-Concord Bridge Co., due 1924;

$6,000 in the four and one half per cent bonds of the Boston and Maine Railroad Co., due 1944;

$10,000 in the four per cent bonds of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., due 1929;

$54,000 in the four per cent joint bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. and the Great Northern Railroad Co., due 1921;

$12,000 in the convertible five per cent bonds of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co., due 1913;

$6,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Long Island Railroad Co., due 1949;

$12,000 in the four per cent bonds of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co., due 1934;

$10,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Co., due 1951;

$4,500 in the seven per cent bonds of the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad Co., due 1908;

$22,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Co. in Nebraska, due 1910;

$2,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad Co., due 1946;

$9,000 in the four per cent bonds of the Fitchburg Railroad Co., due 1927;

$3,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railroad Co., due 1925;

$2,000 in the five per cent bonds of the Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill Street Railway Co., due 1923;

$6,000 in the four per cent bonds of the West End Street Railway Co., due 1915;

$25,000 in the six per cent mortgage notes of G. St. L. Abbott, Trustee ;

$3,500 in the mortgage note of A. & C. F. Ammand, guaranteed by Charles F. Adams;

$2,400 in the mortgage note of J. H. & M. M. Annis, guaranteed by Charles F. Adams;

Fifty shares in the Merchants' National Bank of Boston;

Fifty shares in the State National Bank of Boston;

Fifty shares in the National Bank of Commerce of Boston;
Fifty shares in the National Union Bank of Boston;

Fifty shares in the Second National Bank of Boston;

Twenty-five shares in the National Shawmut Bank of Boston;
Thirty-five shares in the Boston and Albany Railroad Co.;
Twenty-five shares in the Old Colony Railroad Co.;

Twenty-five shares in the preferred stock of the Fitchburg Railroad Co.;

One hundred and fifty shares in the preferred stock of the Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Co.;

Two hundred and fifty shares in the preferred stock of the American Smelting and Refining Co.;

Three hundred and two shares in the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.; Ten shares in the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co., received in exchange for five shares in the Cincinnati Gas-Light and Coke Co.;

Six shares in the Boston Real Estate Trust (of the par value of $1,000); Five shares in the State Street Exchange; and

Three shares in the Pacific Mills (of the par value of $1,000).

The net cost of these securities is $434,080.89; but their market value is much higher.

The following abstracts and the trial balance show the present condition of the several accounts: