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.
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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:
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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-
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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
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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-
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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-
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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