":...After the unveiling, Mr. Floyd introduced the artist Mr. Cobb, who happily addressed the audience. He spoke with the great help Mrs. Frost had been to him in making suggestions that resulted in a much finer portraiture, and that in painting the picture, the outlines had strongly spoken to him of the character of the man represented...

...Mr. Frost’s widow was present and expressed her entire satisfaction with the portrait. complementary comments of its lifelike appearance, and its artistic excellence evidenced the wisdom of the Library, trusting, and selecting Mr. Darius, an artist of national repute, to do the work. Mr. Cobb and his twin brother, Cyrus Cobb, the noted sculpture, are uncles of our townsman Albert Cobb, the architect..."

...Tonight we are gather not only to unveil before your eyes, but to leave in full view of the thousands who shall visit this building during the year 1900, and of the tens of thousands who shall go in and out of these rooms in the years of the 20th century a portrait of the good man in whose honor this building is named, Mr. Merrill Frost.

Mr. Frost came to Winthrop in 1886, near the close of a long, active successful business career, and many of us came to know him as a quiet, benevolent, unostentatious and pure-minded man.

The comission for the portrait was placed in the hands of an artist of national reputation, one whose previous work in portraiture and in historical paining made it certain that the characterization of the man whch were indicated in the living face of Morrill Frost would be transferred to the painted canvas of Darius Cobb.

Following this Miss Kay sang again, and as the last notes of her solor were dying away, the curtains were slowly drawn apart and the kindly features of the man, loved by everyone who knew him - Morrill Frost - were disclosed. For a moment the audience remained perfectly silent, each one gazing on the pictured face, and then with one impulse the building shook with a mighty burst of appaulse. Of the picture itself little cam be said. It is very true to life and natural, and can be appreciated by those who were intimate with Mr. Frost during his life.

After the unveiling, the artist, Mr. Darius Cobb, gave a short speech. He said that we was glad to be able to pay tribute to Mr. Frost's virtues as a man, and that his only endeavor in painting the portait had been to put on the canvas an expression of those traits for which his subject was noted. A great deal of credir was due to Mrs Frost, the widow, for the many hours she had sat in the artist's studio helping him by here suggestions relative to the work. The work, said Mr. Cobb, had been one steady onward movement and nothing had to be undone during the entire time he was occupied on the picture...