The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-28
centennial.
4 .,p
Philadelphia's Preparations for
the Year Of Jubilee.
QUAKER CITY HOUSECLEANING.
Mayor Stoksly's War on Vice and Filth
the First Move.
THE EXPOSITION BUILDINGS.
Chances at the Plans Proposed by
Forty-four Architects.
THE DESIGNS ON EXHIBITION.
Money Guarantees That the Anniver-
sary Of the Declaration Will
Be a Great Success.
POINTS OF THE GENERAL DESIGN
A Regiment Of Troops from Each State,
with Arms, Bands and Banners.
GRAND CRASH OF MUSIC.
How the Civil Societies and Labor Organize
tons Will Be Represented.
THE STATUE IDEA.
State Delegations of Departed
Great in Marble.
WHAT AN ANCIENT MIGHT THINK.
GRAND CRASH OF MUSIC.
THE STATUE IDEA.
State Delegations of Departed
Great in Marble.
WHAT AN ANCIENT MIGHT THINK

PHILADELPHIA, July 70, 1873
A great man
Select him from any sphere that you deem best
take him from any calling that you will. Let him
be one OF those colossal mOneyed men whose
gigantic speculatlOns ast0nish the world let him
be a savant in some particular branch Of science
and literature, whose noble thoughts, o'erieaping
the boundaries Of his own tongue, live as brilliant
burning diadems in others; or let his work be OF
that lowler but no less nobler order, to aid the
poor, comfort the weakhearted and, from
the slums Of vice and crime, lead q
lew timid, trustful souls unto heaven. care not
in what realm you ind him-I care not by what
external circumstances he may be surrounded
his aims, motives and conquests are forever and
eternally the same. Does he work for the PRESENT.
In the gradual developments Of his plans it at an
ephemeral satisfaction that he aims When the
issues Of the hour have been wrought Is he satis-
fed Has any human creature by any particular
act so worked upon the emotional nature OF his
countrymen that they have by unanimous popular
reclamation decreed him great and bound about
his head the laurel wreath. which, sooner later.
in earth or in heaven, must grace the brow of
every valiant soul
Ah no! The end ever crowns the endeavor, but
the distance between the labor and its reward is
very great; indeed sometimes the reward consists
simply in personal conviction that we have done
ignorant OF the heat and the agony OF the strug
gle. II we analyze the character OF the few
noblemen we around we shall discern in
them q determination to gain q certain end-a
mad desire to reach given point, which, though
far remote and finally attained after succession
OF disappontments, whose bitterness the calm
spectator cannot comprehend, still contain in
themselves the means Of personal glory and the
lulflment Of the greatest public good.
GREAT CITY IN THIS REsPEcy
Is precisely like great man. The earnest efforts
OF q corporation vary in measure from the efforts
OF an individual, for by the infusion Of healthy
spirit and by hearty cooperation in behalf OF
some clearly defined policy, many act In the same
manner as one.
When Mayor Stokeley in q single month closed
up every faro bank and policy shop in the Quaker
City; when under his direction the Board
Of Health, in answer to the earnest ap-
peals swelling up nom the heart OF suner-
ing humanity, purged the lower districts OF
their filth and disease; and when, more recently, a
number OF vagabond harlots and murderers Of the
innocent at his express wish, were arraigned be-
fore Police Court, and submitted to a final trial.
in which, from documentary evidence they must
all be condemned; and when, by a sudden flank
movement, he sent to the Penitentiary at one
time over 700 thieving, murderous souls did he act
the pique, animosty or personal qualification of
those who made complaint ALI must answer
mol When refer to- the notes scattered here be-
lore me ind that
THE GAMBLING HELLs AND LoATHsoME PLACES
WERE PURGRD
At the personal complaints Of no one; but in an
swer to specifically defined policy, established at
the onset, and which elsewhere has been shown to
be "commendably aggressive" Again, when
reflect upon the remarks which he made to me In
q recent interview, am guilty OF no false deduc-
ton when l say that the Mayor has had
steadily in view the great and glorious Cen
tennial Exposition, upon which occasion, should
the present administration continue, those who
assemble to accept for the Inequalities of
this city will ind 1t to be the cleanest purest,
most upright In the world. am urged to speak
thus, after a critical comparison drawn between
this and every other city In the country. Here in
a metropolis comprehendng q much larger area
than any other in the Union, which, from Its CEN
trail position and extensive railway eommunica-
tons aside from anv historical connection, Is most
cminenty lifted to become the scene Of
THE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL,
gambling houses, policy shops along with many
other sinful dens, which to q certain element OF
our society prove 20 attractive, and which at the
same time swell to such alarming proportions the
records OF crime, have ALI been exterminatea-
there Is not one in existence; and while l regret
to admit It, fully believe that there In no other
Large city upon the face OF the universe or which
i could say the same. The aim OF the CORPORA
ton, therefore, as said above, is like
the aim OF q great man who looks upon
present issues simply as successive steps to a bril-.
liant elimination in futurity and each nour OF the
day in respect to Its utility to produce q certain
and final result in another hour far remote. The
occasion in view just is the American Centen-
NAL Exhibition 1t is not Phiadelphias centennial:
At is not the exhibition Of any two or three associ
ated sections of our land, but the country's
1t Is Americas; the exposition Of the North, the
south, the East and the West add the corridors OF
Its temple will be open to the world 1t is OF the
developments which until this afternoon have
q To AL ,nuaiaa ion In