THE SCI? ANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING-, JANUARY 30, 1807. QUARTER OF ft CENTURY OLD Important Event Board of Trade A NOTABLE GATHERING About tlio Tables Were Gathered a Large Number of the Representa tive Citizens of the City Toasts Were Responded to by Rev. Dr. Warfield, Charles Emory Smith, E, B. Sturges, Roy. Dr. C. M. Gif ien and Captain . A. May, Presi dent of the Board City Solicitor James H. Torrey Was Toastmaster. m 4S&. w h) v vii"' v. all y htlft ( . is U ' 0i.?S iK81t A- EM U'v.l , V.V.W V& W 'Hl.W'W vj-' w I a A "V m , I s&&'s CAPTAIN V. A. HAY, liesiilent ot the lioaiil. Twenty-five yeais ago, 01 moie, oor re'ily speaking, un Fobruuiy 5, 1871, the Soiunton bouid of Undo was incoi poll uted. Last night the twenty-filth an nivetsary of that event was eolebiated at the Hotel Jeiniyn in a banquet that was conspicuous for Its business spiilt ami continual lemeinbiaiiee of the com iueieinl pluck and entei prise that has evohed the meat Scianton of today fioin the little mining- town of thiee decades ago. The banquet had a dual purpose. It not only commemoiated the boaid's twenty-fifth annlvei!aiy, but it was In pait a celebiation of the appioachlng occupancy of the elegantly appointed looms in the new boaid of trade build in?; on Linden street which have been fully descilbed in the columns of this paper. A public Inspection of the looms will take place this evening between the limns of 7 and 10 o'clock. Ger "00 persons sUt down to a most delightful event and after pat taking ol an elaboiate menu, weie privileged to listen to a lound of speeches by such noted after-dinner men as Chillies llin oi Smith, editor of the Philadelphia liess, Hev. Dr. 15. D. "Win Held, piesi dent of Lafayette college, James H. Toiiey, the toastmustei ; Captain AV. A. May, the now llve-teiin piesldent of the boaid of tiade; He. Dr. C. M. Glflln, the blight and spaikllng oiator and pastor of Klin Paik chuich, and H. B. Stuiges, and fitting repiebentntlve of the honest and feailess business ele ment which has been paitlculuily In etiuniental In making possible the pres ent Scianton. D. 13. Atheiton, the aleit secretary of lie boaid, occupied a seat at the lelt of he speakers' table. He is the Indlvid lal to whose assiduous efforts and ush are due as much as to any one ouice the ieat advancement and unooth running of the boaid's projects n the last thiee yeais. He has borne the brunt of the actual labor of the recent achievements and last night was foiced to listen to more than one encomium upon his faithfulness and labor delivered by the speakeis and duilng the leceptlon period that pie ceded the banquet proper. THE FEAST STARTS. It was S.30 o'clock when, after a pe tiod of sociability In and about the hotel parlois, the banqueters filed Into the dining loom to an accompanying match played by Baud's oichestia of ten pieces situated In the bieaktast loom. Hev. Dr. Glllln Invoked a bless ing and the feast was begun. It was a feast radically different from the boaid of tiade banquets In the past. They in their time weie of no little moment, but that of last night would In Its ar rangement, numbeis and piesent day spirit have caused the ghosts of former leasts to become even paler. Plainly It marked an epoch In the city's busi ness hlstoiy and was a piecuisor of bio.ider things to come. No effort had been made, and w isely, too, to decoiate the beautiful dining apartments over which a sea of light was shed by the scores of Incandescent lights from the ceiling and Moorish globes. A depai tuie was made by using small tables. Theio weie foity of them, each seating six or eight persons. At the head of the room on the Spiuce stieet side was the speakers table at which the seating aisangcmeiit was as follows: Mm a a o s q a i - 8 g H rf 'J L " S si j 3 1 U ; w Q S & H H o o a a h i I i). n. Atherton Each table was beautllled with cut or potted (lowers, loses, carnations, tulips and other vailetle.s appealing in pro fusion, while about the plllais and in the niches and along the walls were palms and other tropical gieen plants. Dr. AVarlleld did not reach the city from Easton until nemly 9 o'clock, and It was llfteen or moie minutes after that hour befote he appeared In the banquet hall and was conducted to his seat by President May. Fiom beginning to end the banquet stamped Itself us an event of magni tude, not numeilcally alone, but as romothlng lellective of the city's con stantly growing repute and prestige. Repiesented at the tables were Serau tou'a major wealth, Its professional sinew and the ever-striving, pushing, Celebrated by the at Hotel Jermyn. btalny business clement which has made the city what it Is. That fact was plainly revealed by the petsonnel of the banquetteis. THOSE PRESENT. The boaid of tiade members present w eie: Anderson, II. J. Keir, S (3 Aubrey, Thomus. Kinsley, C It liiuker, F. S. Kramer, L. N. Uelln, Heniy, jr. Lebeok, Samuel, Bo.ver, W. D. Levy, Joseph. Eioolis, II. O. Levy, N. B. Blown, George D. Luce, 11. W. Blown, M. Mattes, 1 T Caluccl, Prank. Matthews, Walter. Cntey, A. J Megaigel, I. I' t'lnlstlan, V, P. Menlmnn, K L. Cluisty. A. II. Moffat; .1. C. Clink, B. A. Moses, B. Connell, C. H. JleAiiulti, J. S. Coumyi, V. P. li Clave, William v-uursen, i.. u. Cinne, P. L. Cobb, (3. II. Xettleton, A. C. Oakfoid, J. W. O'BiIen. Hlchard Dale, T II. Paiiu, II. 11. D.i Idson, C. P. Pattei.son, B. H. Davis, B. 11. Puyne, L T. Davis, W. J. Phillips, F. L. Dean, J P. Piatt, F. B. Dibble, T. N. Pickens, David. Dickson, A. W. Pleiee, W. II. Dunn, Ales., 1r. Pond, C. 11 Bverharl, J. M. Poiter, J T. Jones, Stephen. Pieston, A. D. I'"Iorey, C. 1. Pioitd, John. Koote, A. U. Ilelllv, D. M. Foster, B J. Wee, W. A. Filtz, Q. W. Richmond, V. II. Fuller, II. L. Bliss, C.ooige II. Pullei, t3. A. Banitci, Samuel Fulton, C. W. Handel son, (Seal go. Goldsmith, M. Sundo, M. F. Goldsmith, Sol, Sohlagei, Chailes Gueinsey, J. W. Schioedei, C. Gunster, J. II. Srott, C. E. Hallstead, W. P. Scianton. It. M. Mnnd, Alfied. Shafei, II. C. Ilenshaw, Fianklln Simpson, C. D. Henwood, Charles Smith, W. T. Ilenwood, W. L. Spauldlug, II. C. Hill, B. A. Steel, J. II. Hill, G. B. TaMoi, J. James. Hitchcock. F. L. Thayui, W. E. Holgate, M. II. Von Stolen. T. C. How ai th, J. V. Warinan, A B. Jadwln, C. P, Wan en, Major B Jeiinyn, John. Watklns,, T. 11, Jessup, W. II. Watson, W. W. Jones, C. D. Watts, F D. Jones, M. L. Whltlenioie, C P. Jones, Stephen. Wldmaei, P. J. Kellei, Oeoige. Williams, Bbenczer. Keller, Luthei. Wllllamt, B. S. Kelley, T. J. Woolwoith, C. S. Kemmeier, John Yost, D T Kennedy, W. D. Zehndei, C. 11. SCRANTON GUESTS. The following fiom Scianton, attend ed as guests of membeis of the boaid: Alexandei, Jos., jr. H.illej, Mayor J. G. Baiker. II C. Baiiowman Thos. Bogai t, G Blown, Isaac. Casey, P. J. Coleman, W. S. Conley, H. W. Coiln, Aithur. Claw foul, J. li. Ciosman, B N. DlmmleU, J. B Fllteiott. Thomas. Fostei, J. M. Foster, T. J. Ple, Di. C L Fullei, G. S. Gaidnet, J. T. Gieen, C. W Ilaight, A. S. Inglls, W W. Jadwln, O. A. Kemmeier, J. L. Kemmeier, W. A. Law, A. F. Law, John H. Matthews, C. P. Mollis, P J. Munav, Dr. McClae, W. R. JIcKunnn, Hobt, jr. Paike, W. G Phillips, G. W. Pi.oi, C. B. Reynolds, II B. Bice, Max. Hobei tson, N. G. Sandeison, C. B. Slioup, Otto G. Stllwell, S. B. Thotnton, Di. C. E. Ti acej , F K Vandllng, P. M Von Stoich, C. II. Williams, J. D. Williams, R. B. Williams, R H. Williams, W. C. Wood in If, C S. Woiden, E. G. Fiom out of town thpie weie piesent: Asher Miner, president W1lke-Baiie boaid of tiade; L. B, Jones, seeienry Wllkes-Bane boaid of tiade; W. H .Ma lla, secietaiy PIttston bonid ot ti.ule; Benjamlng Balding, piesldtnt PIttston boaid of trade; George B. Smith, piesl dent, and A. D. Blacklngton, chief engi neer, Erie and Wyoming Valley Rallioad company; John W. Altken, Caibondale; J. T. Gaidnei, New Yoik city, vlce-pi evi dent of the Hillside Coal and lion com pany; C E. Spencer, Honesdale; L. C. Holden. New Yoik city, the uichttect ot the new Bouid of Tiade buliilding, F. M. Kliby, of Wllkes-Bane; John Ban chette, Italian consul at Seranton. E. L. Fuller was chairman and E. G. Couisen, T. C. Von Stoich, Chailes Schlager and C. H. Pond, other mem bers of the banquet committee, whoso active agent Secretaiy Atheiton has been. That the committee's eftoit was seconded by the Hotel Jeimn's able management was evidenced by the splendid quality of the menu, served w 1th great e'llciency by an augmented coips of walteis. In point of vaiiety and geneial excellence the menu was the best that has been furnished In le cent yeais In Seranton at a semi-public banquet. MERCHANT AND MINISTER. No better choice pould have been made than that of Dr. Glllln to lespond to the toast, "The Merchant and the Minister." That chaiacter Is some thing bettor than cash, was the nub of his talk. He agieeably disappointed those who had heaid him on two'recent occasions and expected to hear a set lea of llppllng story loie; he told the sto lles, but did not lose the oppoi Utility to lemind the business element that good ness and gold must go hand in hand. He was not at ull mild In insinuating that the business element oould be ben efited by getting acquainted with the mlnlstty. The wife and piearher can not guniantee a ticket to paiadlse, but a good many men will have a welcome within the golden gate on the giound that the applicant's wife was known to the clergy. "The New Building" was the toast of Mr. Stuiges. He was brief, but vivid In his eompailson of the little town of twenty-live veins ago with the Seran ton of today. In his lemarks he poi trayed In n leallstlc mannei the city's gieut stlldes. After Mr. Torrey had finished his In troduction of Chuiles Emory Smith, whose toast was "Reciprocity," Mr. Smith aiose, but was foiced to post pone a beginning on account of the longapplaube that gieeted him. It was fully a minute before he was allowed to pioceed. Eveiyone piesent, appar ently, recognized In him the most 1m lioi tunt speaker and showed It by con tinued plaudit. When he had oppoi -tunlty he began. He said: I congratulate you on this billllant occasion. This annlveisniy maiks an auspicious epoch In the hlstoiy of the boaid of trade and of the city of Seran ton. The giowth and development of this enterpilslng and tlulfty city Is one ol tho glories of Pennsylvania. Its vast In dustrial establishments, Its stately Htrue iircs, Its vailed anil progi esiilve enter pilbes constitute u mutter of pildo to oveiy citizen of the commonwealth. The progiess of the city has been tho ad vance of your great organization. The march of the ono has kept pace with the murch of the other. And tonight as you celebrate your twenty-fifth nnnlversary amid these Imposing stti foundings you make a broader commemoration of the niaiveloua development of this metropolis of Northeastern Pennsylvania. You lmo Invited mo to speak on lecl pioclty. It is a biond and Inspiring theme 'too broad to bo treated with any degreo of adequacy within tho compass of un nfter-dluner speech. It marks the line of our national development and un- denies the aspiration or commeiclal ex pansion. For thirty years, since Appo mntox nssured and gloillled n preset ved union, we have devoted ourselves to tho upbuilding of an unrl ailed home empire. Wo have consecrated our energies to tho development of our own Internal le sourccs and to the mastery ot our own mighty domain. With this mntohless movement and maiket nmong out selves we have given little thought to any acqui sitions oi possibilities beyond. Under this tietneiulous Impulse we huve had a giowth which has never been equalled In ull history. EUROPE THE COMPETITOR What shall we do with the surplus? What shall be Its outlet? Whole are tho lealms of our commeiclal conquests? Eu rope loqulies some of our food and cotton and takes some of our Industilal products But with hei long stait, her cheap labor, her accummulatod wealth, and her elab oiate equipment, she has In many direc tions a sin plus of her own. What Is the uient stake for which wo should plav? The nations routh of us on this continent have a population of nearly 70,000,000 and a foreign trade of 1,01)0,000,000. Except In cereals and chlei lv In wheat, theie Is no competition be tween us Their staples me for the most pint pioducts which we do not grow. Our pioducts aio commodities which they do not make. We nted the fiult of their soil, they need 'the fnbilcs of om looms and foiges. Natuie has allied us without gen eiathig nnv ilvuliy. She has given us the unbounded human eneigles of the tempo ate zone. She has given them the uuboiinilid natural richness of the tioplcs We furnish a maiket for the sugar, col fee, hides and hemp they glow on ijielr bioad, feitile ucies. They ought to-fui-nlsli a maiket for the products of our teeming mills and furnaces. Providence has united us on the same continent with a bond of natuial Inteichanges, whv should not the statesmanship of man complete and crown the offeied oppor tunity of natuie? CUBA AND THE LATINS Cuba lies at our veiy dooi. She Is deo lati d today with a ciuel and desti active wai which we hope soon to see ended In the establishment' ol her complete In dependence. This wai has inteiruptod our tiade lekitious, but with Its lennl natkin we shall e.poct to see them le sinned and bioadened Whv should wo take nine-tmtlis ot all her ovpoits, as we wne doing, iiuil furnish only one-thiid of all hei Impoits? Biazll is not fai bejond out bolder. Is It leuBoimhle to continue a condition under which we sell her only onc-ilth as much an we buv from her, while she ciosses the teas to bus fiom England twice as much as she sells to that powoi ' The South American nations unnualh send nhioacl l"ib,li)U,li0ii In value and we take $10J,0JU,U00 of It, the buy In ntiiin $ICJ,0(J0,IHi0, and we sell only $33, 00),iXM ot the amount. We thcli greatest puieliaseis and, taking continent against continent, theii smallest stlleis. How shall we leetlfy this iceibal of the na tuial i elation'' The tine key which unlocks this piob leni Is lecipioelty and the conditions which go wfth It Tiade Is not a matter of sentiment. If wo would secuie what ilghtfully belongs to us we must take the piacticnl measures We must establish illiect lines of communication. We must develop our mei chant mailne. We must enter Into leclpiocnl agreements founded on mutual Intel ests. Wo must cleave the continent, wed the oocans, unite our now divided wholes and halve the commeiclal loutcs of the western hemisphere by the conbti notion of the NIoaiagua canal. And that canal when const! noted must be un der unchallenged Ameiicjli oontiol. We CITY SOLICITOR JAMES H. TORREY, The Toastmaster. have no aggiesslve spiilt; wo want no terrltoilal acquisitions; wo aie ready to neutiallzo the canal and give lull fiee dom to the commeice of the world: but If we do not want to use It ngalnst others, nelher do wo piopose that It shall ever bo used against us, and we shall make suio of thut by Insisting upon unques tioned Ameileau supiemacy. RECIPROCITY THE REFUGE. Reciprocity Is tho sequence and supple ment of piotectlon, Piotectiou devclopes our Internal lesouices, leclproolty pio vides lor the suiplus, Piotectlon Is de fense, icclpioclty Is conquest. Piotectlon builds up nnd secures the home maiket; leclproolty tenches out and eaptuies lor elgn mqikets Our great supremo field Is the Amoilcan continent. But with leclproclty wo can also compel some teinis with the powers of Europe. This pollc) of lecipioelty, with Its eon ciment and associated Ides, Is the belt conception of Ameileau statesmanship In thl i later generation, and the Ameileau people ought to die Ish with undying honor the precious memoiy ot the true, pntilotle Auieiican leader who was its toiemost champion It Is In full haimony with all tho other elements of a bioad Ameileau delensve and expaiifclve policy. Our doeilne Ih clear and direct. Just and leasonablo piotectlon foi what we oui selves pioduoe, flee admission tor tho necessailes of life, which we do not pro duce, but fair tiade Is fair plav, and when we open our gieat maiket to othois they must in turn open their mnikots to us. when we make concessions, they must lespond with reclpioeal concessions. That Is reclpiocity, the twin sister of piotectlon, and we Inscilbe the two side by side upon our banner as tho blended key nottM of homo development and com mercial c xpauslon, The time Is llpe and tho conditions aie favorable for the application of a distinct American homo and continental policy. Wo have had experience which empha sizes the plain mandates of reason. We Iiave Ktiuck down the bulwarks of our domestic defense and have biifreiod de pression and disaster; we have oor thiovvn the measure of commercial ex pansion which weie Inuuuritcd si ycai.i ago and have seen opening ad vantages wither and vanish. Wo come now to a new turning point which can be made the beginning of a new nnd glori ous epoch. Vh want a statesmanship which shall leullze the noble mission and the high destiny of tho lepubllc, HAND IN HAND, We want tho protection which first of all concerns Itself with the Inteiests and the welfnie of our own people. Wo wont the reclpiocity which brings our sister nations of the Ameileau continent nay, moie, the nations of rtio Otlent and Occi dent to our doom In tho exchanges of mutual 'uterest. We want the ui titra tion wh'ch shall submit dispute a to tho ar bl tt anient of law and justice, rather than of the swoid, but which shall not com- f- 1 W T $ isV if promise tiny great pilnclple of national light Here is the open Held for our ripest mid lollies! statesmanship which shall reiillzu the broad destiny of the lo publlc when our pilmaey of the American continent shall stand undisputed, when our ling shall llo.it on eveiy sea, when :ui oommcieo shall roach every port nnd when the (laming torch of American lib el ty. legulated by inw, shall bo tho en kindling beacon for humanity. The weight qf what Mr. Smith said Is In Its repioduetlon somewhat lost when It Is considered the way In which ho snld It. Always forceful, earnest and eloquent In tho extreme, ho was last night at his best and never for a second did tho Interest ot hts two hundred hearers lag. Repeatedly he was Inter tupted by applause, and when he had finished it was the common veidlet (in -5 M vs. "fv!! D. B ATHERTON, The Boaid's Aleit Secietary, that ho had not said half enough to satisfy Ills atldltots. When he lefeiied to Culm voices as well as hands entered Into Hie plaudits, and the loom rung with cheeis. The same was true of his leferenee to the Nlcaiagua canal and whatever suggestions he made of pro tection and leclproolty weie not le crlved as pai tlsanshlp; they weie le celved on paitlotlo giounds, the same on which they weie uttered. It wus a lew moments after 1 o'clock when Mr Smith concluded, and in a few woids Mr. Tot ley announced the banquet ended. MR. TORREY'S OPENING. Two and a halt bonis weie occupied In the discussion of the menu and It was 11 o'clock befoie James H. Toney, the toastmaster, aiose and in his Inimit ably diy nnd humorous way opened the ball, as he expiessed It,, with a i-eiles of stoiles which caued a. llpple of laughter to peipetually pievall tlnougli out the room. He finally arilved at a lefeience to the vaudeville pait of the programme which would be omitted. He apologized lor the committee for this disappointment and lemaiked up on Tieasurer A. W. Dickson's and E. B Stuiges' pait In the alt'alr. During Mr. To i ley's lecltal the speaker's table ev en lost Its decorum and became con vulsed with the lest of the auditory In apin eolation of the toastmastei's witty elluit. Captain May, piesldent of the board, spoke In a seilous tone concerning Scianton fiom 1S71 to 1SDC. His address was icplete with food tor the lelleetlou of the Scianton business man. Ap plause f l equontly Intel l upted him. He said: ' For this evening I am glad that I am not In exact phiase a business 'man ol Seran ton but one of u tilbe half business and half piofebiounl becoming so laige In this counti. It gives me a greater fieedom In sa ing w hat 1 have a l luht to say to the ci edit of the busings meVi of this clt, but which I shouldMiesitate to say If 1 could be pioperly Clnised with them. In Older to falily leply to the toast as signed me 1 'patiently lead the minutes of the boaid lor the twent eais succeel Ing Its legal bit til In 1S71, or so much ot these minutes as 1 could llnd. I supposed the task would be ot a "dry as dust oh u aeter," to use an expiessiou ot Thomas Cai lv le's, but 1 found It just the opposite. That which stiuck me the most loicibly was the evidence of development fiom an oiganlzatlon foimed for mutual piotec tlon against loss when giving ciedlt in cai lying on their business, which was mostly of a letall chaiacter, and the pio cuilng of moie advantageous Height lates fiom the lallioads entering the city, to a body of men whose scope was far wider and more unselfish and whose aim was not only theli own betteiment, but that of eveiy one In tho community. Fiom the selfishness which Mil rounds much of business was developed the higher selfishness (It you will allow me thus to call It) or piide and Interest In the city's growth In all dlioctlons, whether material, Intellectual or moral. To best piotect themselves they found they had to piotect the other fellow, and that Is getlng veiy near to phllanthtopy, If It Is not the love or man Itself. The tnud times of U73 to 1S7S may have had to do with the bioadenlng out piocess, as immediate ) succeeding that time the question of diversified industries became prominent In the tiansactlons of the boaid. The mem beis dlscoveicd that It was unwise to depend upon one lndustiy tor the wellaie of the community and that something In addition to coal mining must be had to round out the Industilal situation. In this dliectlon the boaid has done much work, and dullness In the coal tiade doe3 not now mi an complete piostiatlon, as in days gone by. THE CULM QUESTION. Later In the career of tho board the question of the piolltablo use of our gieat piles of culm became a piosslng one. Seveial ways ot piolltably using thee banks have aheaily been dlseovoied, but it seems to me we aie just on the eve of discovering the most linpoitaut way of utilising these gieat mounds which to sti angei s sw m such n blot upon our seeneiy. When om friends, neaily all menibeis of the boaid, succeed In generat ing gas at a cost per thousand loot much less than It can be produced fiom any other bouioe, we shall have taken Horn these black heaps the gems they contain. The necessity also of getting many in diibtiles to take the place of the mining of coal which in time would cense because ot the exhaustion of the mlnetal, caused the board to be dcslious of bringing other industries here, bo that the vast popula tion which we hope will make up Scian ton In the rutin o could be suppoited, and make them moie .solicitous and enerKutlc In the dliectlon ot the establishment ot fdctorles and worl's. With thet-e gieat questions vital to the perpetuity and the giowth ot the town, which occupied the time of the board, here weie Intel mingled the question of pi.vlng the stieets, ot advertising the ad vantages of the city, the agitation tor parks, the building of bridges, the cieatton of this county ami many otheis. I be lieve I cm ttuthiulty say Horn the ie oi ds Hint no advancement hus been made unless it was through the eftoita of the boaid or thiough the Inspliutlon given by It If that Is the lecoid of the past 1 have gie.it hopes foi the rutin o. I hopo wd believe that you v.ill not lose jour Intel est In the welfnie and development of ho vallej In every dliectlon, The assistance of the boaid gave the city the public II braiy. Its encouragement staited the movement foi the paiks, to It tho town Is Indebted for the paved stieets we have, If you have done this in the past may wo not ask much ot you In the futuie? GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE. And what of the lutuie of the city? It I should leave my Imagination urn riot and say whut Is possible In the lutuie you would cull it ovei-vviought enthulasm, the dream of a di earner, the vagurles of a theorist, and yet the impossibilities of the past aie the facto of today. Who twenty tlve yeais ago, would bavo dnied to have said that tonight we would banquet In an hotel as magnlllcent us this on this site? It became u fact thiough the taltn of one tnati, and I give him honor tonight. Who would have dreamed Hint whole our scorplaiy's flog oichestia save nlghtlv conceits In his boyhood days, Would stand the Moms building, Republican building, the postcfllee, the court house, the. boaid ot tinde odlllce nnd Elm Park ehuichj that lots theio would sell for l,200 per front foot and not vpiy horizontally r.t that? To parallel these In tho futuro 1 could predict, without fear of being thought a wild dienmer, a park system, large, well-kept and celebrated a park system, I say, and not ono paik consist ing of a. waterfall almost dry In summer and a policeman always dry; a market place, a model of Its kind, to which would come the dwellers of farms sixty und sev enty miles avvny, our surrounding country upon which would rest our piosperlty, be ing the fertile Holds of Susquehanna, Btadford and Columbia counties, the dts tnnco being mnde much less by lmpioved means or locomotion nnd tho excellent roads, the agitation for which has already begun, so that, by leaving home eatly In the morning, they would be ready for tho maikets when the people of the city would be leady to go to them; the Lackawanna aiched over upon which would bo the mntkot place; every stieet In the city paved and kept clean (heaven hasten the day I); railway to Bald Mount, In the nelghboihood of which our wealthy resi dents would have summer homes; a tiunk line from Scianton to Pittsbuig und the south-west, passing through hole to Boston nnd the northeast, matching the Delaware, Lackawanna nnd Western run ning In the other direction, both more than piosperous because of the Immense Industrial establishments of every char acter established hcie thiough tho eneigy of the citizens of the town, encouiaged and supplemented by the work of this boaid, together with tho gieat advantage of cheap light and heat. I mention these as a few things that may be In the lutuie; what the rest may be I, leave lor your conjuring. ' THERE IS WORK TO DO. It would be folly for us to deny that what natuial advantage we have upon which to build nn Industrial center Is ot shoit life when compiled with the life ot a town or state. The coal will be gone beforo the city scaicely begins to be, If It lb to leach the ago ol Damascus, Jerusa lem or Rome, but such a bliet lite of a natuial advantage will not be a drawbirk to men of energy and of power. This ad vantage gave us a beginning which our own wisdom, eneigy and lndustiy ought to peipetu.ite. 1 think It will be a spur to send you farther and faster In the direc tion of the development ot this town and valley than If we knew our natuial wealth would last thiough ages. I think you are not afraid of haul work and heavy exer tion, und these, after all, aie the seciets of gieat developments, not only In work-o-day entei prises, but the higher enter, prises leading to the development of the Intellect and of the soul. Dante says: For not on downy bods, nor under shaJe Of canopj leposlng, fame Is won, Without which whoever consumes his years, Leaveth such vestige of himself on eai th As smoke In air, or foam upon the wave. And whilst I think a veil few ot you are looking for fame, yet what you have done and will do will bring that which we know by that name. I have; said moie than I anticipated, but the wellare or the city is deal to me, It is home; and It Is a very small man who does not wish the greatest things foi that which Is dear to him; and tor her advancement, growth and prosperity In the futuie as It has been In the past, theio is no gi enter factor than the board of rnde, and what she will be depend upon vnm effoits as -an oiganl.atlou, 'Rev Dr. Warfield, of Eafavette col lege. Immediately eaptuied the wiapt attention of his heaiers in his easy and fluent opening which began his response to the toast "Cbllege Men in Business." His lemarks were as follows: COLBEGE LIFE. , Thoie are two views of college educa tion, each equully lalse, which aio veiy popular. Tho one legards It as a sol t ot white magic. Tho piofessois and stu dents mumble a few sentences of ancient languages, woik a few problems with oc cult .signs, und the huppy youths como out of colleges transloimed, piodlgles of learning, git ted with mliaculous povvuis. The college pioTessor, who In his post pi andlal nlghtmaie laboied feai fully In a vain endeavoi to extract lih) son Horn beneath the squat o loot sign, lllustiates the lmuglnuiy luhois of the ancient peda gogue. TJio other uccepts the language of the" college bong, which blithely li totes that "In fieshman year wo come to college To till out heads with useless knowl edge." Our colleges are the caiefully planned and wisely wrought out manufactories of men. Their faults are not due to their defective maehlnoiy, but to the Inferior law material too often sent them. They can only guuiantee satisfaction or letuin the boy. They cannot change the patuie of the boys by the wave ot a wand and a piesto, change' Tho man who .said he did not piopose to put a thousand dollar cHlucatlou on a ten-cent boy was doubt loss light. For the college man must bo of good enough metal to bear the dollar mark, with no discount for political pui poses. Tho college has not found the phllsopher's stone. It only undertakes to coin the good metal sent It. As tho logicians say, theio cannot bo moi e In the conclusion than theie Is In the piemlses. The boy takes Into college certain powers, uptltudes, and capabili ties. Tho college undertakes to develop these. It gauges Its woik on average men. The genius and the crank, tho dull aid and the drone, aio all out of placo In college. Tho college bends Itself to mako men out of boys. It feeds their minds, if exeicbes their Intellects, It In sphos Jhelr moral nature, it no longer, If It ever did. shuts In ine man to a few linguistic nnd mathematical exercises. It tenches him languago and the value of self-expression. It teaches him tho story of man In history and in nature, it le veals to him the woild of physical, chemi cal and mechanical Ideas, and gives him bomo conception of life, and his own le latlon to the life of his time. In doing 'this It teaches him to think and to act, to test old meithods and to devbe new. It gives him experience of his own. capacity and it leveals to him the Infinite activi ties or the woild about him. hen such a man steps out of college, lie Is as gieen for business as a boy of iitieen. nut u ne nas any natuial ca pacltj for business) he Is In a position to make uipld progress. He will not only loam moie In a year than the bov could leain In, two, but he has capacities that tho pi entice lad Is not likely ever to ile velope. His judgment has been enlaiged, his outlook bioudnened. He knows few things In detail, but he knows the broad lelntlons of ninny things, ONE DIFFICULTY. The one great dllllculty with a college training for business In my own experi ence Is, that men who Intend to enter upon a business life make thut pm pose an excuse ,for neglecting college tasks. They think Greek Is good for a cleigy man, nnd mathematics for an eugliuer, und blologj for a phslclan, and hlstoiy lor a lawyer, but the only thing that Is i cany useful for a piospectlve business man Is the muiiagcishlp ot an athletic team. A very able lawyer und tiustee of a gieat New England university once told inn gravely that u cot tain young man wus doing well In college, for though not much of u scholar und no athlete, he was a gloat otganlzer of athletics, und wan going Into business anyhow. It Is tho mastery of tusks that makes tho man, not the dodging of them, 'mo one genu Ino leproach to modern college iiie Is that the ovei-multlpllcatlou of elective studies has enabled Bomo men to elect only a lite of Idleness und ease, und sow tho teeds of dlbslpatlon and disaster. .Mr. Carnegie's famous attack on tho colleges was based on the false assump tion that colleges adveitlse to supply InalnB as well as training, So far as f know, no college gives hypodermic Injec tions of tho extract of brain. Not only brains, but Immense lndustiy, and other rate qualities aio needed to make a great captain of Industry, Nature ulouo gives such gifts, and b1u gives them with no lavish hand, Not only Is this so, but we mny often be glad that our college men nie content vv'ith a meliorate degree of success In business-. Theie nie many things better thnli n irrent fortune, nnn huge factory, or a series of shutp.'Shiewd, snnmeiui hiock munlptilntlons. Tho col lege man who has been ti allied to nourish Idenls of a higher kind, holds tho happy homo life, not out ot sound of tho call of the chutch, not but of itouch with the stored up knowledge of many ages, not out of sympathy with the fieeds of his fellow-inou, hot entirely iipuit from tin active oftott for tiucr citizenship, better than heaped tip millions untouched by contentment, unstamped with love. If tho college docs not undcrtako to supply, the graduato with n magic spell by which all things nro transmuted into gold, It does supply blm with a tialnlug by which his business enreer Is trans formed. What I want to know In study ing tho career of business moil Is; Aro they mpro Intelligent, moio upright, mote generous, more charitable, moie useful, more contente.d, from having had a col lego training? Is tho college broil ninn the business man who shaves notes too closely, who cuts wages too keenly, who wrings itho wltheis of the poor7 I think not. Is tho college bred man the business man who, when ho gets rich, does not know how to spend his money, to whom books and art galleries aie alike closed, whose only g6ds me gold and his belly V Suiely not. it Is surely wise not to' put all your eggs in the same basket. To have nil you possess In the bank or tho mill, Is not so wise as to have trcasuips of knowledge In the mind, and of love In the heart. It Is well for ull men to be wise and gentlo and easy to be entieated. SOME EXAMPLES. Our college bred business men nro not so line as Is usually supposed, Men IIko Depew and Seth Low ale not bad sam ples. John W. Goriett sat In n Lafayette class-room, ns did our honoied piesl dent. in the Lafayette boaid of trustees among twenty college hied men, I count two bank piesldens, n governor, a mem ber of eongiess, four men who have mnde their reputations bv the management of huge coucci ns, two huge city lnanufac- """W -? x v- l&Z&ijit i i rAi ru?1 E. B. STURGES, A Representative or, the Business Ele ment. Hirers, the superintendent of ono of the bngest steel plants In the woild, a laigo coal oiioi ator; tho otheis inu men of niaik as lawyers, physicians or cleigy inrn. Eveiv one of these men Is not only an able and successful business mini, but a useful public seivant, nnd has u home where life has mole than one side nnd moie than ono aspliatlon. Indeed, the veiy highest testimony to the public ef ficiency ot colleges Is found In the men who bit In their boauls of tiustees. Such men aio not flguie head3. They do a gieat deal moie voile than is usually Imagined. They do not limit their activ ity to cheeks upon the piesldent and checks upon the banks. They work, and they woik wisely. They make our col leges piugiessive, and they feuaiantee the piactlcul value of the college output. The boaids of Hade's first president was Lewis Pughe. Following his leg lme the piesldents and their teims have been as follows. 1S72-P.-1, George Fisher; 1S7G-G. C. A. Fullei; 1877-8-9-S0, Lewis Pughe; 1SS1, William T. Smith; 1SSJ-3, Thomas II. Dale; 1SS4-5-G, J. A. Price; 1S:7, Wil liam Connell, 1S80-90, William T. Smith; lSai-Ii, J. M. Kemmerer; 1893-1-5 G-7, Captain W. A. May. Of the piesidentn, thiee aie dead, Lewis Pughe, George Fisher and J. A. Price. The present olllceis of tho board aie: Captain W. A. May, president, Luther Keller, vice president; A. W. Dickson, tieasiuer; D. B. Atheiton, secictuiy. AKCIU5ALD. The first public installation ot tho ofllcei.s of St. Thomas' bianch, No. 101, Catholic Mutual Benefit association, of this r'nee, nay conducted In Caw ley's hall on Thursday evening and the cere monies connected with It were of such a character that It will long bo lemem beied with pleasuie by such as were foi tunate enough to have been present. The hall was neatly decorated with American Hags and bunting and the agieeablu elfect of this combination was gi eatly enhanced by the beautiful costumes of the ladles who were pres ent. The ceiemony of Installation was veiy brief. It was conducted by Grand Deputy John F. Collins, of Caibondale, who was assisted by Hon. A. V. Me Nulty In the absence of 'Assistant Depu ty M. J. Donahue, of Scianton. The exercises being over the newly installed piesldent, M, J Kearney, then made a brief addiess In which he referred to the good work of the older and particu laily of Aichbald branch which wus oiganlzed only a few yeais ngo. "We had," he said, "only twenty-five mom beih then but owing to the eneigy of our membeis we have Ineieased the membeishlp to seventv-Ilve and there is every piospoct of continued success ahead. He favoied the new feature of public installations because It would bring the memboi.s clobet together In the hand of fellowship and give an ex ample that inny be of profit to otheis Alter expiesblng a hope that everyone would cast formality aside and enjoy an evening of pleasme, he introduced Hon. A. F. MeNulty, who officiated as chairman of the entei talnment that lol low ed. .Miles J. MoAndiew spoke of "The Tiess" with his chaiacteilstle ability and foice. Attei dwelling at some length on Us gieat achievements In the past ns a civilizing and educating medi um he predicted for It greater power In the futuie und urired It as the duty uf every patriotic citizen to assist it in Its great offott for the elevation and Im pioveinent of man. Mr. MeNulty was In his happiest mood ill talklim about "The Ladles." His icimuks bristled with wit and kept the audience In veiy good humor during his ten-minute talk. Becoming moie beiious he told of the many good things done by the ladies and the piomlslng prosperity that opens befoie their sex at the dawn of the twentieth ceiituiy. Grand Deputy Collins made a brief addret's on the good of the older and indicated many ways In which Its use fulness may be Ineieased. Mis. T. J. Klelty, pietident of the Ladles' Catho lic Mutual Benevolent asbqclallon, spoke foi her society of the zeal nnd enterprise ot Its menibeis. She traced the history of the ladles' society since Its oranlza tlon, nnd predicted success for It In the year to come. Mrs. T. V. Wells, chan cellor of tho ladles' society, spoko of the ladies' mder in gesittial, and uiged the ladles of the town to be em oiled In Its uinks. Miss Maiy Coicoran, iccorder of the ladles' blanch, spoke effectively of the social leatuies of tho ladles' bianch and Miss Mar) Klelty called at tention to other features that imitieu- M 1 VFf larly appealed to the ladles. John A. Foote Hindu a brief address spniklliig with lils usual brilliancy and wit. Brief lemarks weie made by others present and the apeeehmaklng was ended. Tho vocal niuT Instrumental features nl nn entertainment were not neglected. OIlrdy'R orchestra played Its sweetest music and there were vocal nnd Instiu mental selections by Misses Mary Foote, Jennie O'Boyle, Llzzlu White, Cecelia Swift, Mis. Hannah Cnvaiinugh, Messis. 1'. J. O'Boyle, P. H. Swift, U. Rupp, John Jeano and the Aeolian trio consist ing of J. A. Foote, A. J. Cawley and J. A. Keninoy. A veiy elaboiate lunch was served by Caterer M. J. Kelly, of Seranton. Danc ing was an Impottniit feature of tho piogramme and young and old moved In giaceful measures to the entranc ing music of GUroy's otchestra until the assembly dispersed. Btanch 103 of the Catholic Mutual Benefit association was organized five years ago with a membership of twen-ty-Ilve. It Includes many of the most prominent citizens of this boiough and Its cnieer since Its formation has been attended with steady success. The af fairs of the Aichbald bianch has been managed with lemarkable caie and conservatism and to this principally Its gieat success Is due. Last night's In stallation wus the first of a series of an nual publlu Installations which tho branch pioposes to hold, and If the suc ceedlngs ones be as successful us the (list they will always be looked forward to with pleasant anticipation. It was the universal opinion that the affair ot last evening was the most enjoyable of Its kind ever held In this boiough. The ulllceis of the bianch for the coming year nre: Piesldent, M. J. Kearney; Hist vice president, Mails Price; second vice president, J. J. Biognn; recoiillng secietury, M. J. Andrews; assistant le coullng secietary, J. J. Banett; ilnan cial secietaty, J. J. Kearney; tieasuter, Chniles McDonnell; Mnishul, James P. Mack; guaiil, Thomas J. Hanlson; tiustees, Thomas T. Mullen, Michael Rupp and E. F. Munley. Tho old building known as "Dan O'Haia's" at the foot of Hill street was destroyed by Hie at an early hour yes teiday morning. It was occupied up stairs by P. H. Swift and a restaurant was conducted on the giound floor, air. and Mis. Swift were at the Catholic Mutual Benefit association banquet when the alaim was suunded. They do not know what caused the lire, as ev eiy thing was In good order when they left home a few hours before. The hose company wus piompt In reaching the building and soon had a stream of wa ter playing on It. The lire was in tho gairet of the building and wus so hard to leach that the roof and the celling of the upper lloor were destroyed before the Homes were quenched. Mr. Swift's household goods were all damaged or destioyed and the building Is ruinetl beyond repair. The building and house hold goods weio not heavily Inbuied. The building was one of the oldest In town and was a favorite resort of the older geneiatlon of our people, befoie und during the civil war. It was owned by the J. W. Peck estate. Archbuld Hose company will meet at 1 o'clock tomoirovv afternoon. OLYPIIANT. The district convention of the Loyal Knltshts of America was held In Odd Fellows' hall on Lackawanna street, Thuibday evening. Large delegations weie piesent from the Franklin lodge, Caibondale; Rose of the Lackawanna lodge, Jermyn, and Gai;lleld lodge, Piov idence. At the conclusion of the regular business ot the older. National Giand Master Campbell conducted the Instal lation of the ofTlceis of the Eureka lodge for the ensuing term, which were as fol low s: Worthy master, John Penman; woithy deputy master, John W. James; assistant lecoidlng becretary, Enoch. Thomas; conductor, Benjamin Williams- assistant conductor, Henry J. Williams; chaplain, John S. Jones; in side tyler, Sylvester E. AVUllams; out side tvier, Arthur L. Davis. After tho installation sei vices were completed. Chairman S. J. Matthews gave an ad diess of welcome. W. II. Priest also nddie.ssed the assemblage, his subject being "Llbei ty of Conscience." At the conclusion of an iiitetestlng programme cf music and bong lefieshments weie seivetl. The next district meeting will be held In Caibondale on Feb. 2fi. Piofes.sor Swayze, of the Olyphant Business college, hat resigned. Iiofes sor Kramer, of Seranton, will be his successor. Miss Madso Tucker, supported by a company of clever comedians, presented "The Dangeis of a Great City" beforo a crow ded house last night. A matinco will be given this afternoon entitled, "i wo Orphans." Tonight "The Scout" v 111 be seen. A. M. Atherton is spending a few days In New York. William Jeffieys and Henry AVilliams, of Wyoming, visited at T. L. AVilliams', on Susquehanna stteet, yesterday. On account of the steam heating ap paratus being disabled at the Susque hanna Street Baptist chuich, the usual sei vices will be held in the Central school building. Mr. and Mis FianU Farrell have re tuineti fiom their wedding trip. On AA'ednesday night the Republicans of the Thlitl ward nominnted Frank Edwruds for council and AA'llllam Cia ven for school till ector. Thui sday night the Democrats of the Fouith waid made the following nominations: Coun cil, John Keegan, Judge of election, AVIlllam P. Lawler; Inspector, John O'Nell. Richaid Pettigiew, the Re publican nominee for school dli ector, was indorsed at the meeting. The funeral of the late Thomas B. Harris occ lined Thursday afternoon f i om the family lesidonce on Gravity stieet. Seivlces weie conducted at the house, after which the temalns weie conveyed to Union cemetery, vv here they were Intoned. l'KCKVILLK. Mr. and Mis. AAMlllam Budd are visit ing at Niagara, Pa. v A tegular meeting of the Blakely board of health will be held at the coun cil looms this evening. Miss Agnes AVilliams and Richard Reese, of this place, attended the AVH-Uanis-Coleman wedding In Seranton on Wednesday evening. Setvices tomotiow ns usual In the Methodist Episcopal church. Pleach ing at 10.30 a. m. und 7.30 p. m. by the pastor, Hev. S. C. Slmpklns. Theme foi morning, "The Essentials of True Religion;" evening, "Christ's Self-sacrificing Cai e for Us." Sunday school at U 30, unci Epwoith League at G p. m. A coidlal Invitation Is extended to all Miss Eliza Qulntln, of Eufaula, Indian teultory, will speak In the Baptist chutch on Sunday at 7 o'clock p. in. A collection will be taken for the benefit of home missions. Miss Qulntln is a native of Ariel, AVayne county, a giad uute of Keystone Academy an 1 the Chicago Tialnlug school, and has been fur live yeais a inlsslonaiy among the Cteek, Sefrilnole and Cherokee Indians, Any peisous wishing to ask queHtlom will please write the same upon a slip of paper and It dropped In the collection box they will be pioiuptly unsweicd by the speake'1
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