Daily globe., 1883-07-05

IT,
nest and genuine patriotism rules the
hour. The singing, the speeches., the exu-
berance of feeling shown here to-day, all
attest the love of country and the joy
which springs from manly hearts, devoted
to the welfare of nation which, for power
and for greatness, is unparalleled in the
history of the world, and at your earnest
call l cheerfully add my voice to swell the
grand anthem. So much has been said,
and so well said, that find but little left
from which to draw inspiration, and
yet, upon an occasion like this.
the very air seems to be filed with patrio-
tic spirits, who electrify the brain with
thoughts that glow and thoughts that
know of the trying days of '76 and the
more glorious days of '83.
The march of events in the United
States of America have been rapid and
grand during the past 100 years. A few
day since saw in Chicago, the first loco
motive made by Stephenson, in Europe,
| and the first locomotive made in this
| country whose estimated speed was six
teen miles per hour. Saw also the first
narrow and cramped cars. Then the eve
rested upon huge locomotive, four times
the size of the original invention, and
whose speed was 100 miles per hour, and I
entered the palace cars where the dream of
the Arabian Nights was turned to reality.
sat under the glare of thousand cleo
tric lights, while tallow candles glimmered
III the dim past. l ascended to the dome
of the exposition building in an elevat or
quicker than thought, and glided
over the heads of the audience in a car
drawn by electricity at the rate of three
quarters cf q mile in two minutes. From
the rubbish OF history CLEAN the fact that
originally there were thirteen states: now
we have thirty eight states and ten terrific
ries. Eight hundred and twenty thousand
odd square miles composed the original
thirteen states, while we now have three
millions five hundred and fifty-nine
thousand and ninety-one square miles in
this great and growing country In 1890,
or less than Zoe years ago, We had popu-
lation of three millions nine hun
dred and twenty-nine thousand three
hundred and twenty-eight OF these
nearly 100000 were then slaves. Wenow
number over 50,0OO,OOO inhabitants. and no
slave clanks his chains or treads our soil.
In 1907 Robert Fulton assembled the Hud-
son river in his first steamboat.
Look row at the gigantic strides of
steam since then, and mark the floating
palaces that adorn the ocean and our
largest rivers. The first steamboat that
| sailed on the Mississippi was launched at
Pittsburg in 1911, and now we have hun
dreds of steamers two and three hundred
feet long, with all the appurtenances of
first class hotels. AS an instance, note
the City of st. Paul, which, only a few
days ago rode at ease at our levee The
first railway was constructed in Massa-
chusetts in 1926, and the cars were drawn
by horses, and the first passenger railway
was in lS30-ffteen miles long. That
was only tifty-three years ago, and now we
! can trace our railway tracks for thou
! sands and thousands of miles, and our
cars aggregate into millions.
The introduction of what Eis known
as the cotton gin in 1794 created a great
revolution in the production of cotton, as
it separated the seed from the fibre. Be-
fore this invention the annual crop of cot
ton was about 1000 pounds, now it
is 2,000,000,000 pounds. In 1892 Morse
commenced his teIegraphic experiments.
Now, hundreds of thousands OF miles of
wire thread every part of our country. In
l71G India rubber was first discovered as
valuable toremove lead pencil marks Now.
India rubber has become almost q part of
| cur existence. Gas made its appearance
n 1925, and it Is only year since electric
ity came IN to supp!ant its use. Great as
has been the progress of all the arts and
sciences, the greatest achievement
has been that of the print
ing press, which now receives upon
its cylinder, paper four and one-half miles
in length; cuts and prints on both sides
from 10000 to $4,000 sheets in an hour, or
200 per minute. Next to this comes the
sewing machine, which first made its ap-
pearance in 1850, or only thirty three years
ago; $4O,000,000 of capital is employed in
Its manufacture, and in 1873, 100000 ma
chimes were made. Our manufacturing
interests have stepped to the front won
derfully fast, for in 1890 the annual value
of our manufactured goods was $2O.0OO,-
600; they now reach the enormous sum of
81 39,O00,000, and over 100000 persons
were employed in the factories.
But time will not allow me to continue
these figures. The greatness of
our country can be fully ap-
preciated when I state that
in the great war of the rebellion the
North had an army of 2,653,O0O men, and
the South $4,000 men. Five hundred and
eighty-one thousand soldiers were killed
or died upon the field of battle, and out
of this great revolution millions of slaves
were liberated, and America became what
she ought to have been in 1776, a truly
free and independent nation.
But whatever progress has been made in
the material elements of our country, the
fire department Of the nation has kept
pace with all its companions. The little
box engine of SIX by nine, worked by
hand, has given place to the mammoth
steam engine with its immense
| power and its immense triumph. Men of
brain and of pluck aud of alertness now
adorn the fire department, while the past,
with all its paraphernalia and Its useful
ness, has passed into history. Fires are now
put out before they commence; horses are
trained to smell the smoke, and even get
into harness ere the electric wire rings the
bell for an alarm; and when that takes
place, men move with the quickness of an
gels, and Insurance agents grow fat over
the progress of events All hail the noble
fire department, the gallant Hook and Lad
der company, the star spangled banner,
our glorious country, and the Fourth of
July, 1882
At the conclusion of Major Newson's