E 3
HUMBOLDT.
(Continued from liirot Pige.)
ing to the stone, tried it and said: Right
o n
Mter; I find this corner
stone h
le p vel, and as that the craftsmen have
worked well.
• The D. D. G. M. then said to the War
dens : Brothers: .You will proceed to the
stone while the laborers and bearers are
laying it in proper position at the corth•
east angle of the fouhdation. Yon will
try it with the Piumb, Level and Square,
and report to us if it is well and duly pre-
tiered.
The stone was lowered to its bed and
tried by the officers, who returned to
their stations, when the Senior Warden
reported to the D. D. G. M. that the
stone was placed due East and West, and
was ready to be laid.
The choir now sang the
Crawl Halleluiah thorns,
After which the Senior and Junior Dea
cons proceeded to the stone with the
trowel and gavel. The D. D. G. M., pre
ceded by the Deacons, .followed to the '
stone, and taing the trowel from the
Junior put on k some cement and placed it
beneath the atone.. Then taking the
gavel from the Senior he struck the atone
three times. Returning to the station he
said: Whereas. Richard Vans, Grand
Master of:Free acid Accepted Masons in
Pennsylvania, and Masonic jurisdiction
thereunto belonging. has by his tiedintua
potestatem, under his hand and seal, to
me directed, authbrizing end empower
ing me to lay this corner atone, I, A. M.
Pollock, District Deputy Grans Master
for. this Masonic, district, declare this
corner stone to be plumb. level and
.square, and so duly laid according to the
ancient usages. customs and landmarks
of Free Masonry. and may the Great
Architect of Heaven and Earth bless the
work here begun, and make it memora
ble to the latest generations.
The choir followed -with an anthem
oommencing:
".146w the corner stone it led. ,
upon the conclusion of which the Stew
ards proceeded to the stone bearing cups
filled with oil and. wine, and a cornu
copia filled with corn. The officers ad•
vanced to the stone, and the D.' D. G. M.
taking the cornucopia, sprinkled some of
the corn - on- the stone, saying at the
same time, "May plenty be showered
down on the people of this ancient Com
monwealth. and may the labors of the
craft be refreshed • by the Great Giver of
every good and perfect , gift.
The Senior Warden took the cup con
taining the wine, and pouring the eon.
tents on the stone, said: - )lay the health
of'the craftsmen employed in erecting
this monument he preserved to them,
and may the Supreme Architect bless'
and prosper their labors.
The Janior Warden next took the cup
containing 'oil, and, pouring the contents
(intim. stone, said: May the Supreme
Rqlep for the world: - ,vouchsafe unity,
pence strid , prosperity to the people of
Pennsylvania, and to the nations of the
earth; preserve and protect the fraterni
ty of Free Masons; make , the virtues of
the craft a - lesson to the , world, and the
labors of craftsmen - easy and their
burdens light.
Thaefficers then returned to their po.
sitions, and after the choir had sung the
hynnivMunencing
"Come; lather otthe poor,lo earth;:"
Marshal Finlay again commanded ?i
-leum, and made the following 811-
nouncetnent: Brethren, take notice that
the R. W. D. D. G. iii., Bro. A. IL Pol
lock,.). D. G.-M. of F. and A. Masons in
;
this: District, has this day,sat-' this place
laid the Corner Stoneof tnie,Montimene._
undetind by 'virtue of the power vested
in hisci-by.R. W. Richard Vann; G. M. of
Malone in Philadelphia.
The elqir then sang the - anthem coin
mencing:••;:. - -
"With one consent let all the earth."
After, which ' the Masonic ceremonies
- were concluded with the benediction by
Chaplain Mclllyar.
At the conclusion of the Masonic cere
monies. which occupied , about an hour,
a passage was cleared through the crowd.
thns,affording a full view of the monu
ment. A photograph was, then taken of
thd scene, the Men standing with uncov
ered heads, the ladies lowering their par
asols, and the members of ,the Matenic
Order; in full regalia, occupying promi
nent positions around, the corner stone
whichliad just been laid.
THE ORATIONS.
The Masonid Ceremonies being over,
the next exercise on the programme was
the address of Dr. bieinerthazen, the
German ()rater Of the day. The speaker
made an impressive and eloquent ad
dress, reviewing the times and , life of
Humboldt, his great work in the ad
_vancement of knowledge,. the influence
which it was now having and would have
in the hereafter, and closed ,by a touch=
ing perorapri on the character of the
departed genius to whose memory they
had been doing honor.
Dr. Ehrhardt was: the next speaker,
who addressed the audience at some
length, and was frequently applauded by
his German hearers. •
Gen: F. H. Collier next introduced
Mr. Wm. D. Moore, who- had been ap.
pointed to deliver the Englhth oration.
The following is -
ADDUESS OP wm. ta 3100E3, ESQ.
,
To the student of science, id - the lover
of letters, to the friend of humanity, no
spectacle could he presented more wel
come and cheering than that which we
to-day look uponCnd of which we form
a part. From the ,workshop has come the
artizan, front big Counting room. the
merchant;' from hls;study, the scholar;
man from his is bcir, And women from her
love; and children 'from their play.
Leaving the tool* upon the bench; the
merohandizs upon the counter; the
books. upon the shelves, labor, and
wealth and learning, and beauty, and in
nocence, have gathered together to-day
to lay the fottndationsof a monument to.
and scatter dowses upon the grave of one
who IsknoWn to us only as a name, for al•
wale. roaming
.with a _- hungry heart;
whose 'lineage 1 and kindred are
strange - to us, and—who sleeps in
everlasting peace under the sol
emn::pines of Tem% unconscious , of
out love and, heedless of our prayers;
separated from us and all our material
'environments and interests by the space
of half - the'eattkand iftwaste or watere.
The period in which he lived was one of
g amest world-wide tumult and convul
sloe; His yontlifilVeyes looked upon
Frederick he Great, and recalled the
biriktif the Prosaism Monarchy, and the
httroiliatlon of, the house of Hapsburg.
His oath caught from afar the opening
, .gens of out own great conflict. He be—
field the stormy fury of the French Ref*
°tutted!, - and f heard the trampling hosts
of Napoleon and Weilinron, - from , thS
san de o f , rgypt to the bloodv soder w a t,.;
erlocal Empires Ind Kitigdouni rose and, .
Yalu' the "hole litcie: of lurnian aoctoty . , , ,
uo lletwOmt . .,*ride rtranefortnations; au
old - • x - erder - f 0 10 . 4, •' ',pe r rid Pew.o d Pew. wax
*wit - And -' in 110 „.. of time
kettliteralived•a more Illustrious coin
patir Of great 410 ilftemien, yet the no.,
holdtriof this or• hat. draw% are for
: gogenrthe -bloody her+ of tb 4iff that
"- --- 100 4 0 01;Jlitief ' _e. is rethethbered;
4
• sr at $ll,- , w th SOM , limn, akin to dlifghst.
‘ICIOOOIII-tillOO,CteOPO,llo.to,ll lii
the. firWdltateribeihaleogokand the. arca
of •Froderlidt? the4gilitiu,s fltiisp9Arpi.
_
the persistency, 01 Wellington, the craft
'of Metternich, the subtlety of Talley
rand, the lamp,. the-splendor and sensu
ous delights of Sans Bonet and Versailles,
all have gone or are swiftly going down
to the depths of Lethe—to fade more and
more from man's remembrance; to be
mme less and leas worthy of -man's re
embrane° until merciful oblivion cover
all the craft -cruelty. pride and blood of
warriors, tyrants and their, parasites for
ever.
How does it happen then that to Alex
ander Humboldt a happierlothas fallen:
that whilst so many have perished and
are forgotten, he, a lonely and solitary
student poring over, books—wandering
in tropic forests—Climbing the bights of
far off mountains and floating on the
waves of sea—like rivers far away from
human hearts, has steadily grown with
the passing years in the love and admi
ration of man, his renown ev,br widening ,
his fame ever brightening —as from the
storm and darkness of roaring waves,
the lonely tower rises whose unfailing
light and steady brightness give hope
and guidance to those who'o down into
the the great (leep?—as from he bosom of
I
night and silence, the sun comes forth
tipping with crimson ' and ld the float
pi
ing clouds and mountain p ke—steadily
rising to the zenith and ring a flood
of glory down into every darkened
criavice and mountain fastness,—till
bicoming noway', and singing bird, and
waving forest -and rippling river are
bright with his life giving splendor-4
"The Ideal of his iife. ,,
The answer to , this question is alike
honoring to him and to us. To justify
the homae which we render to his mem
-1
y, by unfolding g the record of his ong
and laborious life-eportraying the work
of his magnificently endowed intellect,
and delineating the graces of his good
and noble character is to give fresh
power and hope to every, struggling
heart in all the , generations of men which
seek after knowledge'as for hid treasure,
and prizes wisdom above the price of
rubies. The homage paid to Alex. Von
Humboldt, is the homage paid by. the
senses to the soul—by the wealth and
power of the world to the butter riches
and the mightier power of the intellect,
and so by the earthly and perishable to
the eternal and divine. For the ideal of
his life was one which took no account
of ease, 'of station, of enjoyment. of
pomp or power. From his earliest days
when his- mother found him "pour
ing over a ponderous quarto filled
with colored prints of strange plants
and animals," his curiosity grew into
passionate desire to know; he hungered
and thirsted after wisdom: in his letters
to Varnhagen Von %nee, he says: "Man
must will the great "and good and leave
the rest to fate." The same spirit ap
pears sadly in the evening of his life
when writing to another friend, he says:
"I live joyless in my eighty-ninth year,
because, of the mach for which I have
striven from my early youth, so little
has been accomplished. He was born
a noble—his companions were Kings and
Princes. High position in the State and
in society were within his reach—offices
of trust and power were his for the &ek
ing, but he renounced them all for the
love of letters - and the pursuit of science;
'a life of selfish. ease, indulgence and
pleasure were before him, and he chose
hardship, danger, privation and pain in
stead; wealth to satisfy cupidity itself he
inherited, yet he expended it all in the
publication of his works, and lived in his
old age upon the pension of his King. In
the morning of his life Wisdom met him
and her voice cried aloud to him in the
streets, and by her side. as by the sideof
1 religion itself, stood the angel of renun
-1 elation, with sad and - tearful, yet W-
I umptiant eyes, who demanded, and not
in vain, of him, 4 •Sell all that thou haat,
;-and give it to the poor;" "Leave father
and mother, and wife and child, and
' come and be -the disciple of truth."
There is a religion in Science, and she
' has, too, her noble army of martyrs and
confessors; if there be one among them
whose devotion was Tutor end worrier
than his, the world has not discovered it;
if there be one who has taken upon him
with more cheerful spirit, the bitter
cross of poverty and toil let him come
forth, and wear the crown. liClOl7Ce
has , her battles and warfare, her sot
,diers, -her patriots—victims and ' her
conquering' beroete, If there be one
who has with: more unfaltering spi
rit, though hungry and weary and ,
eore-breasted, marched to her conflicts, , 1
or with braver hearts borne her banners
against the hosts of ignorance, let him
approach and take the laurel from 'his
honored brow. In his consecration to.
the ideal of his life no difficulty arrested
and no danger appalled -him; over the
seas, running the gauntlet of the enemy's
ships; over ground shaken by earth
quakes; through forests tenanted by save
age beasts and Yenbmenons reptiles;
amid the pestiferous jungles of the Ama
zon and Orinoco; 'through sleet and rain
in the dreadful pass of Quindia; up the
narrow steep of Chimborazo, ordered
with precipices. on ground crumbling at
every step and literally tracking his way
with his blood—this man never forget the
vows which had passed his lips and was
graven on his heart to lova and to seek
knowledge, "to will the great and the
good, let destiny bring what it might"
—and so, once more, ehtivred to us, by
contrast, how Mean and trivial and tran
sient are all earthly and material things,
and how great and noble and imperish
-able—breath of God's breath and light of
God's light-is tho immortal spirit of
man.
Second. His faculty of persistent labor.
But genius is chiefly such by virtue of its
faculty of persistent labor, and however
high a man's ideal, however opulent his
gifts, the necessity of toil to-realize the
former and to make the latter available,
stilluemains. Old and true' le the max- -
im, without great labor. there is no ex
cellence, and the life of Huutholbt illus
trates and exemplifies the maxim. His
travels were not the sannts of. afpleasure
seeking tourist --they - were only made
after careful study and preparation: they
involved' every , sort of hardship, danger
and toll; the descent into mines; the ford
ing of rivers; the • weary tramping on
foot through beat and cold, through rain , 1
and hail and snow—manifold observe-
hone, 'requiring the most (tied: and skill-'
fat nee of the best inetrumente,'.of the at
mosphere, of the eat Ofthe earth, of the 1
stars, the collection of minerals, plantei
epd , animals, and the transportation of
them for thousands of miles; intricate
and: difficult calculations; drawings and
'stretches when the objects themselves
could not be preserved—he was in fact
the father of ecientific travel—the. fbre
runntif of Barth and. Livingehme acid
Franklin, and of 'all our moderrescien
title esplorations, with their marvelous
additional° the domain of human know).-
edge. These travels occupied at least,
taken altogether after their beginning in
1789, a third of his life and carried him
-Over the bights of th e Andes and the
-steppes of 'Asia.. The preparation. and
pliblictittleu of these stores of knledge .
'beettnied overy moment of h is are - '
life, not Aitken Up ,by his
:duties as Directors of Mines and , of Ed
etctititteli Of as. Ambassador, Ohlunberlain •
and Privy Counselor ; so that weary not
surprised that in the last year of his life
• Sven he worked steadily for ilfteen hours
4 day.';Sp Axonal, or. lain or money
was sparedie make these works worthy ,
of himself, _arid' of the world's accept
ance, not less thans2oo,o oo haying- been
INAS" bYl!ltil on Antic publication
n untatratino. , .1.0 fact, his fortune and
4 ft i t lie.were ettiminderkt that lingradity.
PrrTSBITEGII IGAZE'TTEj :tiVEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1889.
might be richer. lie tolled Its they only
can toil who hear the solemn admonition
of divine voices. "Work while it is day,
for the night oometh in which no man
can work." '
,Third, The univereality. of ,hie gifts
and - acquirements. We hate' said that
Humboldt lived through • a period
prolific ofgreat men.. Except the ages of
Pericles and of Shakspeare, perhaps
there has been no other so rich in intel
lectual greatness - and achievement.
Humboldt'a teachers were Camps,Gich
nth, Werner, Heyne, Blumenbac, Von
tinch, and Wildenow and Forster. His
companions and fellow laborers it would
weary me to name and you to hear of,
but they number among them Goethe,
Schiller, r ,
Ds
Thorwals
den, Schlegel. Ds Steel, Nat, Lus
sac, Arage. Berthollett, La Place,
Bonpland, Vanquelin Rose, Ehre
berg, Agassiz Pitt, scott, Beethoven,
De Candolle and Brown. Doubtless
among these men were many who,
in his special department surpass
ed him, but no one who in all depart
ments of human science had attained
like eminence, not one to whom the
whole domain of science was so familiar. .
To name hie works, so original and so
all embracing, is to relieve me of any
charge of extravagance. His published
works number tot less than tseventy
volumes, many of them folios( and quar
tos, and their subjects are astronomy,
geography, botany, mineralogy, geology,
meteorology, political economy, history,
statieticts,,ethnologY,'4nguage, chemis
try, magnetism. electricity, laws, cus
toms and manners of various nations,
pictures of travels, volcanoes, earth
quakes, comparative anatomy and
zoology. His originality of isiti ew on, not -was
equal to his faculty of acqu
content wth gathering anew what others
has collect i ed, he labored successfully to
contribute of his own store. .
He has surveyed the whole field of his
man knowledge, saw plearly all its limi
tations, and indicated the to new
and precious deyelopments. Physical
geography owes its being to him. The
geography and distribution of plants
and animals was by him first solentiti
cately iestigated. The concordance of
the geo nv logy of the old and new conti
nents was first seriously attempted by
him. The' great school of comparative
anatomy and physiology, of modern
times, owes much to hie sagacity. He
gave new impulse to the study of meteo
rology and elevated it to the ranks of a
science. To every student of his works
many other instances will suggest them
selves of his universal and prophetic in
sight, so that we are not surprised
to hear the poet who alone stands
side by side with Homer, Shaks
pease and Million—himself one of the
most gifted and richly cultured men of
any age or nation, speak in this wise of
Humboldt: "Alexander von Humboldt
has passed some hours with me this
morning," said Goethe. "What a man
he is. Long as I have known him he is
continually astonishing me anew. I may
say be has not his equal in knowledge,
in living wisdom, and such many-sided
ness I have found nowhere else. Wher
ever you call upon him, you find him at
home, everywhere ready to lavish upon
you the intellectual treasures he has
amassed. He is like a fountain with
many pipes, you need only to get a ves
sel to hold under it;- on any side refresh.
lug streams flow at a mere touch. He,
is to stay some days, and I shall feel,
when ho goes away, as If I had lived
years during his stay."
If we further remark, that to all these
solid acquirements, original discoveries
and happy suggestions, Humboldt added
the charm of an exquisite style and
"touched nothing which he did not
adorn," we can easily account for the
spell which be exercised over his own
generation and which be still exercises
and will continue to exercise eo lon as
genius and knowledge are hon ored
among men. Perhaps in the whole
range of literary labor, ancient and mod
ern, there are no books of travel which
are so truly pictures—no record of sci
entific investigatssis which so vividly
reproduces, as if living and moving bs
fore us, all the scenes through which he
journeyed, or so charm and constrain
our attention even to abstruse specula
tions upon the facts which he recounts.
I may be pardoned if - I specify out of
multitudes the description of the phos
phorescence of tropic seas—the singu
larly acute explanation of the unceasing
murmurowa sound in tropic forests at
noonaley—the magnificent portraiture
of zone upon zone and climate upon
climate, with all varieties of season and
production, rising from tropic plains of
palm, and arbarescent fern, and orange
glove; through forests of oak and grassy
terraces, and waving pine and brown
lichen on the rock to the ev etlatting
snow and ice of eternal winter, on the
peaks of the Cordilleras, a picture which
reminds one of that famous wizard, who
"To a T orthern King. at Christmas tide.
such wondrous Wass did show, • •
That Milo' one whitlow mea beheld the %mina'.
And brough nuother saw th Summer glow;
And through a third beheld the inilted vines a
row,
Wilily still unheard, but fn its wonted war,
Piped the dresr wind o 4 thot Du ember day"
Fourth , His Creative Faculty. The
crowning intellectual gift of Alexander
von Humboldt was, however, his crea
tive faculty. Ile was essenti ally a poet.
His tine imagination is apparent in
his works, but it first appears with the
creative -power which comblands all
thearts, in that whih he himself styles
the'work Of his life, c 4 •The Kosmos." In
that inarnortal wo'rk, which "had floated
before him as an undefined • vision from
his youth,"' he makes the attempt to co
ordinate, and bringinto one harmonious
unity, all the phenomena of, earth and
heaven, cognizant, or as yet calculable
by manr to show t h e from the simplest
cell in the humblest organism tothe vast
universe of worlds in the farthest heav
ens,: and from the simplest mot, , ement
which can be called lite up to tha sweet
est song;of: the poet and the flutist ores
tion of the painter and sculptor-;41 1 are
bound by, a connection as eleseic,cantin
nous and enduring as the thought of
God by which they live and meve and
have their being; they are not %elated—
not independent, but interdependent and
one. Humboldt soars °vet' every
field oh umans wledge and or 'spoon
'talon; with what a sweep as of angelic
wings he rises to the highest heavens;
with what an bumble Patience be plods
in, darksome caverns; with what fall
nine of knowledge; with what keenness
of 'insiht; with what rofunty of
thought and all c omprehending po di wer of
reason, he gathers up all-the fruit of •his
toilsome life to lay it upon the altar of
his faith, in the divine power, unity and
glory of nature, I cannot tell you of this.
It can only be learned from his mita lips;
it must be traced In the pages Waist
work, which ts in fact, a grand Mo-e
poem of the universe. But I can tell you
that this faculty is tbe highest atid'
i• blest in man. That he possessed it Juan
extraordinary degree, and thereby' beo
came not simply a laborer in the qualrYt
but a builder end • architoot,',,who has
taken the hewed stones and the •
•caryed
marble lying scattered and, lifeless, and
built them into a fair and stately tel l le.
whose foundations are on the earth, ut •
whose pin are in the sky. Let him
who is so gifted ' se in diligent tuid rev
erent fear hill high endowments, even
though no•other reward be .his than the
"rapture of Kepler, when he had solved .
the mystery of the stars, and felt tunes
brought nearer. to On, DivinitZt it! whom'
he cried; 61 0, Almighty God I think thy
thoughts after Thee."
Fifth. His personal character. The
most exalted intellectual cannot
and ought not,' however, al o ne,, secure
the unreserved admiration of men. Uni
ted with a depraved heart they become
more or less a curse to their possessor
and to the world. A bad man is not re.
deemable by talents, and gifts do not
save from the Curse of sin. Bat Hum.
boldt was a good man as well as a great
man. We have already noted his lavish
expenditure in the publication of his
works; but France aria Germany are full
to-day of living witnesses to his large
hearted liberality in aiding every strug
gling student who applied to him, and
in encouraging and stimulating • merit
and laudable ambition; genial and cour
teoua in society, and keenly rel
ishing Its pleasures, he never be
came the ave of its vices or the
victim of it s follies; unaffected, kindly
free from all ostentation, cursed by no
mean jealousy or spite, he made many
friends and lost none: his home relatioha
to father, mother and brother are tender
and beautiful, as that of Charles Lamb,
and his afflicted s, with no such
dreadful sorrow si as ter fell but
to their lot on
earth. His relations to his fatherland
and people are quite as beautiful and im.
pressive; spending much of his life in
the atmosphere of courts, often the com
panion of - Kings; and occupying a palace
for years, he never abated one jot of his
sturdy republicanism and never ceased
to love. with a true, human, sitanly love,
and note fawning demagogue's; the strug
gling people, and labored on all fit oc
casions to advance the cause of liberal
opinion and free institutions. He , lay
upon his dying bed and as through the
opened windows the sun's li poured
in, he said', "How glorions ght
are . tnose
rays; they] seem to beckon earth to
heaven"—brief, unconscious expression
of the aim and purpose of his whole lice.
No wonder that when the white haired
old man walked under the lindens In the
evening gloaming, all Berlin followed
him with love and reverence, and that
when they bore his lifeless form from
the Dom Church back to the green
slopes of Tegel to sleep once more by
stood uncoveride, monarch and people
d and weeping, nor that
to-day, in all lands, where genius and
goodness are honored, where knowledge
and wisdom aro prized, where freedom
and manliness are cherished—we should
forget that we are English, or French, or
German, and remember, only, in hnor.
log Alexander von Hu m bo ld t that o
we
are members of that great Free Masonry
of humanity, in which he was not only a
fellow-craftsman and master-workman,
but a most noble and worshipful High
Priest, who sublimely realized his own
belief "That man must will the great and
good, and to destiny leave all the rest."
ELECTRIC GREETING 3.
While the ceremonies were in progress
Capt B. L. Fuliwood, of the Western
Union Teleg ce raph Line, having establish
ed coromunication by a branch li with
the main wires and the speakers' stand,
was engaged in sending off and receiv
ing congratulatory greetings, of which
the following are copies:
(cxra.r. DISPATCH.)
Baron Von Liebig, Munich:
Twenty thousand citizens, engaged in
laying the corner stone of the Humboldt
Monument, send Greetings.
B. S. WARUCO.
Allegheny City.
ALLEGHENY CITY, PA.
Twenty thousand citizens, present at
the laying of the corner stone of the
Humboldt Monument, seed to you their
greetings. Siumv Daum,
Mayor City of Allegheny.
At Oakley . Hall, Mayor of New York.
PITTBIWBOTI, Pa., Sept. 14, '69.
Richard Vaux, G. hi, Grand !Lodge, A.
Y. M., of Pa., Philadelphia.]
g With all the imposing rites of your
rand order, the corner stone of the
Humboldt Monument has been put in
place. It is a festival day for Pittsburgh,
and a jubilee in which all nations have a
share. Accept our hearty welcome.
A. M. PoLt,Qcs, D. D. G. Id.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 14, liSdif.
Prof. S. Agasalz,Cambridge Mass:—
The corner stone of the Humb oldt Mon
ument is laid amidst the enthusiasm of
thousands of citizens. Great men have
no nationality. The world claims them
for . its own. We bid you welcome in
spirit, in the midst 'of these imposing
ceremonies. Josias
HUMBOLDT MONUMENT PLACE, CITY
OF AistsonssiY—To Dr. - Francis Lathier,
President of the Humboldt Association,
New York:—Twenty thousand American
citizens assembled around the corner
stone of the Humboldt Monument send
greetings to you as one of the most dis
tinguished compatriots of Humboldt on
this side of the Atlantic, and to those en
gaged in celebrating the memory of the
great patriarch of Science in New 'York
City. -lAatzs PARK, Jn..
President Park Com. of the City of Al
legheny.
General Anson Stager, Sup erintondent
Western Union Telegraph Company,
Chlcagoc.
• Twenty thousand entrails and a thou
sand ladies assembled around; the toun
, dation stone of the Humboldt Monu
ment, send you the leading spirit in
Western IthlegraPhle enterprise, this
greeting. C. D. Bitioaent,
In behalf of Citizens.
Prorrsnuiton, September H.
TO E. C. Detwold, Chairman Humboldt
Monument, New York:
The corner stone of the Humboldt .
DiOnurcent has just been laid. with Ma
sonic ceremonies. Twenty thousand
people -are present. I send you this
greeting over a wiraconnected with our
platform. Cnas. METua . er
Chairman of Monument.
Mr. Cresson,. Chief Engineer, Fahlrbollt
Park Philadelphia:
Twenty thousand of our citizens are
now witnessing the laying of a corner
stone for Baron Von Humboldt's me
morial in our Park, and send you, the
custodian of your beautiful park inz
provements, their greetings.
CHARLES Davis,
Engineer Allegheny Park.
The following replies were received
during the proceedings, and later in the
day:
Cammon. September 14th, 1889.
C. D. Brigham, Humboldt blonument
Celebration:
All honor to the Great Father of• Sol
once. Future gerierations will delight
in revering his memory, and the monu
ment yon 'muse:wide to-day will - fitly
mark • the oceasion of his neaten:wiry
birth-day.
Aigt3ol( STA,IIO 3 .
To B. W. District Deputy Pollock, and,
Brethern of Pittaburgn: •
PHILADELPHIA, - September 14.—Your
telegram has been received. Let me, in
reply to its salutation, give you this sen
timent: The works of genius are tress
ureS which the, ages preserve for man
kind. We honor ono of •the laborers,
Humboldt, When we preserve his labors
for the genetation that come alter us.
Most respectfully, • -
MUSD Vaux, G. M. of :Pennsylvania.
PffirannLyitta, Sept., 14, 1889. •
Charles Davis, ChietEngineSr, Allegheny
GOottnis from Monnateit.
legheny Park, are cordially reciprocated.
from the aite of the Humboldt memorial
in Fairmount Park. May the memory of
the author of Coamas be ever fresh as
the green sward in our Parks.
J.No. C. CRES&N.
Chief Engineer.
Received at 4 P. 31.1
NEW YORE, Sept. 14, 1869.
To Hon. Simon Drum, Mayor rf Alle
gheny :
The streets of the Metropolla are crow.
ded with those honoring the memory of
him who wrote his autograph upon every
surface of the physical -world. Indeed,
the purely scientific jubilee rivals any of
recent political or historiPal import.
A. OAICEY HALL.
Received atB r. nt.]
THE WOODLAND FESTIVITIES
Immediately upon the laying of the
corner-stone and the conclusion of. the
accompanying ceremonies, the line re
formed and returned to Pi ttsburs b , w here
trains, gaily decorated with flags and
evergreens as for a festal day, were wait
ing to convey the vast company to the
grove where the Volksfest war in pro
gress. The trains during the remainder
of the day conveyed thousands of persons
to the scene, where the woodland festivi
ties afforded pleasure and enjoyment to
all. It was estimated there were fully
eight thousand people on the grounds
at the time General Grant, arrived,
and the distinguished visitor received a
welcome which must have satisfied him
of the hearty 'hospitality of the piople
with whom he had consented to
spend ere t
Although so many
people were together and the excitement
was so intense, there was no accident or
rowdyism of any kind. The Volksfest,
as the other ceremonies, passed off har
monlotisly. All enjoyed themselves and
will have reason to remember with pleas
ant recollections the Volksfest which
called them to Friendship Grove.
INCIDENTS cite.
Among the pleasant incidents which
marked the occasion, was the presenta
tion of a handsome Bilk flag to the
Turner Cadets by Mr. John W. Pittock.
The presentation occured before the
procession started in the morning. Mr.
W. D. Moore tended the gift in behalf of
Mr. Pittock, and Mr. Wilson King re
ceived it in behalf of the Cadets.
During the time the photograph was
being taken, and the addresses delivered,
a salute was fired from Seminary ML -
A road had been cut up the hill on Mon
day in order that the cannon might be
hauled up.
Both cities were surprisingly quiet
throughout the entire day; We did not
hear of a single arrest being made for
disturbance of any kind. The day seemed
to have been improved by .811 as one of
relaxation and mirth, of festivity and
rejoicing, and , none were found willing
to mar the general happiness.
And so the Humboldt Centennial,
freighted with all its exciting but pleas
ant and memorable associations, has
passed into history.
CHICAGO, Septernber 14.—The one
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Baron Von Humboldt was appropriately
celebrated to-day In thliFcity, and at
Springfield, Quincy and Aurora. Not
withstanding the rain which has pre
vailed, the ceremonies were largely par
ticipated in.
Ar.sksiy, September 14.—The Ger Man
military and civic societies to-day cele
brated the Humboldt Centennial Atini-,
versary with a procession, orations 'And
music.
MAIICH CHUN/I, PA., September 14.
The Humboldt centennial was celebra
ted here to-day.
Seventh Ward Nominations.
The Republicans of the Seventh Witrd
met at the Franklin school house last '
evening, and suggested candidates for
Council and Ward officers, as follows:
Select CS:runoff—Job Rebman,
Jobrt
Wilson, and Davidlimed—one tobe nom
inated.
Common Council—i David L. Fleminsr,
E. D Brush, Charles Jeremy, Joseph H.
Roush, John R. Niebaum, R. R. Bulger
—tbree to nominate. • •
School Director —James D. Kelly, A.
Wallace, A. J. Lee, John Marshall—One
to nominate.
.Tudge of Election --Joseph A. Butler.
Inspector—John Lowry.
.Return Inspectors—Fetter Sprier, John
M. Foster.
Constable—W. J. Logan.
It was resolved that the list remain
open until Saturday, 18th inst., the nom
inations to be made by ballot on the fol
lowing Saturday, 25th, between the hours
of three and seven o'clock r. ar., Samuel
McEiheny to act an Judge. and George
Gillespie•and M. AlleerWray as Inspec
tors. The following were, on motion, ap
pointed a piitittng com mittee: D. L.
Fleming,. James Onalow and James Bone
break.
Register, Regi‘ter, Register is the Cry.
Politiciansure••urging every one enti
.
titled to a vote to get Registered before
the election. Now a word to those per
sons, why don't they use as much energy
in hunting up those of their friends seek
ing homes and have them call at the
Real Estate Office cf Croft & Phillips,
No. 139 Fourth avenue, and • get the
"Pittsburgh Real Estate Register," they
would find in it suelr a vast selection of
Farms, Mills. Stores, Rouses, Lots, City
and Suburban. property in such a great
variety that they cannot fail to get suited
in a home. Come, every one , and get
Registered, at No., 139 Fourth avenue.
The "Register" will be given away
Gratis or sent by mail - free to any—ad
dress.
Quarter Sessions—Judge Mellon.
TRIAL LIST Pon WEDNESDAY.
j 4 61. Commonwealth vs. Geo. Har
rison.
68. Commonwealth vs. Clara
W
(I 46. Commonwealth vs. Frederick
•-pp ' Weir.
36. Commonweslth vs. Apiary A.
a 415. Voemmaodnewr.ealth vs. John A.
• Goetz.
" 396. Commonwealth vs. Stephen
Albright.'
The Viral United Presbiteritu Church.
at Wheeling, having lust been fully com
pleted, religious - services were held in
the main audience chamber for, the first
time on Sunday .last. Rev. Dr. Pressly
of the First. U. P. Church, Allegheny
City, occupied the pulpit at the `
•morning
services, and Rev. Dr. D. It. Kerr, of
the United Presbytericm, preached in the
evening.
Reslgne&—George Altwes. -Esq., who
for a number of year* has tilled the posi.
Lion of Pr,esident of the Boller Sav - ings
Bank, his resigned, the resignation to
take effect. October let, 1869, and Mr.
James Henderson has bs)en chosen his
successes.
Shipped.—One hundred muskets and
aecoutrement,a iron shipped on Monday
from Harrisb p urg, by the Adjutant
General's Daartnaent, to Cat. avid
Campbell, of the Duquesne Grpeys, D
Pitts.
bur. h.
Wool *bawls long and Kuno, fancy
Arabs, of all virleties, at Bates a Bell's.
The Isir Knights of Pittsburgh Coma
mandery No. 1, will meet this afternoon - '-
at 23 o'clock, to escort Right Eminent
Grand Commander Hopkins to the
Union Perot, where all will embark for
Greensburg. The procession will be '
headed by the Great Western Brass
Band.
Be Beautiful.
If you desire beauty you should use
Hagan's Magnolia Balm.
It gives a soft, refined, satin•like tex- 1 ,
Lure to the Complexion, removes . Rough
ness, Redness, Blotches, Sunburn, Tan,
ttc., and adds a tinge of Pearly Bloom to
the plainest features. It brings the
Bloom of Youthto the fading cheek and
changes the rustic Country Girl into a
Fashionable City Belle.
In the use of the Magnolia Balm Heti
the true secret of Beauty. No Lady
need complain of her Complexion who
will invest . 75 cents in this delightful ar
ticle.
Lyon's Kathairon is the best Hair
Dressing use. atarpF.
Chapped Hands,' face and all rough
nem of the skin, certainly cured by
using the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Caswell, Hazard dc Co., New York. It
surpassesall other remedies as it will pre
vent roughness of the skin if used du
ring. cold weather. It is easily applied,
avoiding all the trouble of the greasy
compounds now in use. It can be used
by ladies with the most tender skin,
without irritation or minomaking it soft
and clear. Sold by the druggillW gener
ally.
Country Flannels and blan_keta--new
goods—at Bates & Bell's.
Lots : Lots : Lotsi Lots ! Lots:—Grand
Auction sale of lots this day (Wednes
day) at 3 o'clock, at City View, on the
Run Road to Perrysville, one mile front
Allegheny Diamond. See advertisement
on the 7th page, by A.-Leggate, Anct.
Black Silks, evening silks, white al.
paCa3, and evening dress goods of all
kinds at Bates k Bell's.
Bare Chance.—A partner that is re
sponsible for $15,000, in a good established
business in the central part of the city.
Will pay fifty per cent. Address M.,
GAZETTE Office. 3T.
Blact Alpacas and mourningigoods at
Bites it Bell's. •
Real Estate.—See advertisement of
McClung dt Rainbow, Real Estate and
Insurance Ageuts, 195, 197 and 199 Ce
ti
-
tre avenue.
New Goods and new styles at Bates dg
Bell's.
—The excursion party' from St. Louis
and other points, ter Celebrate the on
ing of the 'Missouri Pacific Railroa d to
Atchison, arrived at the end of the Cen
tral branch of the Union Pacific road,
four hundred and fifty miles from St.
Louis, yesterday afternoon, after a very
pleasant journey. Governor Harvey, •
Senator Pomeroy and other prominent :-
citizens of Kansas joined the party.
DIED:
ALEXANDER-4M Tuesdiv. 14th Inst., at
14.4 o'clock. Mrs. E. ALXX.A.NDEB, In the
691 a year of her age.
Funeral from the resident:a of her eon-In-law',
.1. A. Robinson,TlSlS (Wednesday) J./TSB:SOCM,
at A o'clock.
UNDERTAKIERS.
LEX . A Ilk E X J ___ IU.N FiEJEL-
AISTAXER, No. 1613 YOultTli STREET.
iin . , 7. COPY/2113 of all kinds,CRAFIZ .
GLO and c , erg dem:riga= of Funeral Fur.
lashing s ftrulshed. Rooms mom flay Y."'
niebt Carriages Ihraistlea for city funerals at
6'i.90 each.
issimanna73-13eY.Darid Kerr. D.D.. Iter.lL,
W. Jacoby!, D. D., Thomas Ewing. Rau., Javob
P Miller. Rao.
EEBLE i j IThie
C TrICIKE S
AND
WUXI' BT4I: ‘ „AM - - . •
come: &IN MISSY STRUT
AVENTIit Allegheny City. "rinse their COY
BOOMS e constantly supplied with real and
Imitation Mo./wood, MahoganY and WalTnli
Coffins, at prices s arying from, oto 11100. 80.
dies prepared for crment. Hearses and
riagee ftrnisbed: alsck ,11 sands of Mourning
Goods, if required. oMce open at &Ullman, day
and night.
:TCPREPEI PIETER & SON,
• tricrimgvrEii,
Igo. 4744 PENN STREET•
Carriages for Panora)* e2AIO Each.,
COFFINS and. all Funeral Turnlament at re-
Mined rates. au7
WATCHES, JEWELRY
4Uir
•
Having Just returned from the Has with a
splendid stock of
Watches). Jew k itsrerteare,
OPTICAL GOODS, Sce.,
I am now prepared to corer them at greatly re
duced priCii. Call and examine before per
chasing elsewhere. . .
W. G. DIIINSEATII.
Jeweller.- Ifo. 1 , 0116 Avenue,
sto3; Opposite Diasonte '
IXIdIatCiRANT TAILORS.
SEMEN G. HAUGE*
MERCHANT. TMLOR,
Corner of - Penn and Sixth Streets,
FALL AND WINTER STOCK
NOW cOMPLATE.
BRASS. FOUNDRY.
JOHN •IL COOPER & CO.,
13ell and` Brass Foundettl,
ENGINE, LOCOMOTIVE & LOLLING RILL
BRASSES
Made Promptly to order.
RABBIT'S METAL
Made•aald Dept on Hand.
Proprietors and Manufacturers of
J. M. Coopet'slmprove,4lßalanceWheel
*TEABi.
OFFICE .I.llrD FOIIXDRI",
C0r.170 and Itailroadttreets,
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