New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-08
THE PROSPERITY or WESTERN yEW-yoRK.
An ADDRESS CONTAINING MANY INTERESTING FACTS

AN ADDRESS CONTAINING MANY INTERESTING FACTS
DELIVERED BEFORE THE WYOMING PIONEER
ASSOCIATION.
SILVER CREEK, y. Y, Aug. 5.-The eighth
annual festival OF the Wyoming Pioneer Association
was held here today IN Pioneer Grove. The address
was delivered by Charles f. Fitch, the TOPIC being MI
grafton and Development" In the Of his remarks
Mr. Fitch sNdi
Here Is Emporium IN fapcrO. include the following
foureen counties within OF Western New York:
AlleRaDy, Cattaraugus. Cnautauqua, Erie. Geuesee,
Livingston MOnrOf Niagara On arc orleans, seneca
Wayne. Wyoming ana Yates. Perhaps eleuDeu sLou!1
also be included. within the area Indicated are 100000
inhabitants There Is city OF over JOOOO populations
another OF nearly 100000; aud -li another OF IJOOO
,er 800 and some OF them are we'll up among the
thousands, and Hre the seats Of large mercantile ana
atoms of real personal property. Tor tie year l-
we're .4j9 5le O45, ana tie aggregate taxation eXcin
Nea' or' ,,r ao.orped i,.Iv i'm the general mass
welfare Through the pUisatng arteries ot our ran"
sy-em the heart the word beats Ia the smallest ham
lst though conservatism, which great philosopher
sgVs nj memory ." 81 CHS II fais 10 near Tue re-
,n1 Mat al the coach noru wind through tie valley
Wnen we consider lie higher manifestations OF lie
the statistics equally Satisfactory. Here tAe pes
sends li,nt into every nook and corner. o daily
iourDa.- there fourteen, representing an shades OF
p0ticA opinion. o. trsVeehics there are Two, ana OF
IenUccLli,s trre OF wceAlirs there IRE lj3 and Of
monthly publications t.ere are twrnty-tw9 together
forming IL. arat IRE winch essays All Si,9rcts,
Iuns along All lines OF ation, and reveals the va
lares a. vel az the common sense OF mankind Edil-
cation IN 10, various grades, attended to ihtuIy
Mere are Az institutions which clam the rank or col
IaS and some among toe Drst cducdll0lal
forcrs ia the land Turre seventy academies
or cademca departments or unlou SCHOOLS ana three
normal school. the n-tTu On OF teachers mere Is
nj least seminary whlcu Ii the peer OF any theDioG
ca trnlug fchOO and j. probably the best supply OF
the ministry Of pOpulOu- ana the progressive denOm-
nation with which - II connected
Is with especial PRIDE uat We c0ate the nEfts re-
lntiuR u he common school-the nursery OF rreemen
and the hope OF The Republic There are 2,14o school
distrcts and about 300 licensed teachers, lhe nun.
ber OF scholars attendance, Tor the school year OF
1879 was ls33jS-a splendid army OF recruits OF tle
hat les fought against Ignorance ana IhHati
cism There were spent for The schools during the
sane year I'll -i4 $50 81 and the value OF schools ana
tier stes IS II 2O2 1873 There also 2O9 private
schoos with an attendance OF over 10000 pupils, 10
saw nuhng OF either private, university OF DINER puDc
h-nr- tn re are IN the district libraries dlOhe over
$50 900 yO umes valued at over TlOO'OOO Ihere are
g73 churches. with sittngs Tor over 4OoOOO people
nj church prouerty which IL VIGOROUSLY under estl-
mated il returned aG 7l2 900 900 Win stch par
rTers Vuarded by conscience let there ne NJ Tear lhat
mo s,irles OF lnndeity will overcome them.
Western New-YOk mas gwen 10 tue republic one freSI
dent one senator array OF Ministers to foreign
courts TO the state she bhs gwen four Governors Ve
Teutenant Governors, six Speakers o. the Assembly
VtceC hunce Or and egnJ Judges Of the Court OF AP
| neas nv election: and time would ialI us even II We
cnose t be vdiOus to recount the names Oh heT son
ono have OF shed themselves ana honoreu neI
noIitcsl and IN professional life. We may can Ihe ron
vtth mat nrlde: aud vtazIng influences INA
have heen speced may be assured OF the NlVO auu
of inc peruetuty Institutions epcereiy may We
| say that our lines east IN pleasant places