The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-06-04

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Always %sS Hn @sSe ssP P Psss
S 2sns Chat be fea e o re- xrcsp
Il was ' in Quincy that he would most have
wished to bo remembered. And ho will DO TO.
bSTe e ho h yGS sDa T sS ten Nc VIII
now long be In Quincy household word. And
l. y right That IL SHOULD be 50 for take him Tor
tributod Q the great Now England migration.
qualities OF intelligence, enorgy persistencc.
honesty. tempornnco and od-frarng morality
force it, was and tho yet creator foroe II ia
destined e be- As the most shining
hI anS ' Dropor hS &
plous hands, should stand hero by tho road
aide % S6n iSr GSmng gen
1t is more. FAR more. than monument to an in
dividual, There IL sermon TO the young IN ia
sterling. homcly qualities t1ualities which
all possess and yet SO, few know how to utiliacl
bears Bears and whose cilsy. carved By the hand q
genius looks down from its walls-the man he
Of conauests and brilliant deeds. For tho mass
OF those who shall enter its doors 1t Is better.
much 6etter than that NOT all men can , Pc
ways Of happiness, We can. however. all be
temperate we can be INDUSTRIOUS; we can By
patient and perSevering; we can cleaye TO that
which is true and honost and Of good repute:
All this Thomas Crane did and because he did
and his monument stands here to-day-the
monument OF son Of whom his birthplacs
dren will long hold in close remembrance.
TO each civilization there belongs It's special
pass out Of the gate Of San sebassno at Rome
and follow the famous Appian Way, at dts-
Of go miles Of rS ss hs f sS %
OF great blocks OF hewn stone; securely set on
vast and solid foundation. The dearly beloved
tfn sNf, Ein hnr nah
tect forever her ashes while it perpetuated the
II has stood for nearly twenty centuries; and
there to-day 1t stands. an empty memorial OF
even to the dead.
Thus much alone we know-Metella died,
The weathiest Romans wife Behold his love pride,
. Now let us turn to what Tennyson has called
the gray metropolis of the North" the an
was kirk;a- Fields. may BIO seen quaint quad
triangular building standing by itself. and known
aeSrse her o hbqspSS bo 1t Is
ter Scott. founded by the goldsmith of James l.
Of England, who in. 1903 followed his master
great wealth. Dying twenty years later. his
thoughts reverted to his native city, and. after
had he left the residue OF his fortune to found
school in which the children Of Edipburgh
tWS esntsrss and haf George Herots Hos
pital has made its founders name u household
! word In the city OF his birth.
Here in New England. fortunately for us. our
| monuments to the noted dead-the memorials
to err Their ss
George Herfo1's Hospital than OF the sferiie
majesty OF Cecilia's tomb. ,Throug hour schools.
our, libraries. our churches. and our college
| halls the dead are commemorated. In this
| very region. once known as Brantree. of which
| Quincy was part until eleven years before
| Thomas Crane was born-in this very region.
| now divided into four separate towns there
are to-day four public libraries; three seminary
| endowmcnts. and q church which perpetuate
| tho memories Of their founders or OF those in
| whose name they were founded. Being dead
| he yet speaketh." Those words should be- cut
| deep over the portal Of each of these buildings
| The mortal remains Of the founders.z.those OF
| Thomas Crane as of John Adams and Sylvanus
| Thayer-moulder in the dust. No monument.
| for aught we know or they would care protects
them, and long since they have dissolved into
| their elements. Their work goes on.
Neither can now see any reason why this
building. in itself an education in art. should
not stand here rs long as George Heriots Hos
| pita has stood or shall stand in Edinburgh.
| The lapse OF two centuries will but soften and
| lend charm to its symmetry: and can well i'm
agine that when the twenty first century \,
growing old. and Quincy a city in itself. shall
be part Of the greater city covering all
s9 shore tbs Hf the saay wealth. a ws popa
cannot imagine strangers will pause In the
crowded 1 ,S.,. :" 'o"t with dA''1h' at tina
net, vine Memorial Hall. standing by
itself against background OF trees. They
as the name Of George Heriot. the Edinburgh
goldsmith comes to us with a remote. far
centuries old-so fancy may then the name OF
| Thomas L'.ane, the Quincy stone cutter come
to them. II may speak Of a bygone civilian
ton. OF past that seems to them unreal and
Edinburgh the name Of the benefactor will be-
familiar in the mouths OF the children.