The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-04-25

based upon long experience as manu-.
facturer, and upon a careful study of the
idiosynerasies of the trade.
In concluding this lengthy review we
need only say that the interest to which
we refer and the gentleman who controls
it are worthy of all success. Few men
have had more to do with promoting tho
welfare of the city than has Mr.. McCready,
and full measure of well deserved praise
is certainly his due, His personal popu-
larity was years ago shown by his being
repeatedly elected Mayor of the city
once against and thrice without competi.
ton, and the sentiment of esteem thus
manifested toward him has not been for
feited.
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MIR. Henry Gallagher, of this city,
who has been connected with the Lam
bertvilie Iron Works for about thirty
three years-for twenty-one years as fore
man of the foundry-having begun as an
apprentice to LAYER s. Cowin when the
works were located in tho old foundry
building at the head of Coryell street,
closed his connection with that estab-
lishment last Saturday, on which occasion
the employees presented him with nicely
engrossed copy of the following
LAMBERTvILLE, April 81. 1888.
Mr.. Henry Gallagher, Sir..
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found sorrow aud regret that you an
ticipate leaving the active duties con-
nected with your position as Foreman
OF the Foundry Department of the Lam
bertyille Iron Works, we the operatives
and employees of the firm desire to ex-
press to you their kind regards, before
your connection with them is finally
dissolved
We, your fellow.workmen, without fear
or favor from any one, tender to you our
sincere and heartfelt wishes for your flu
ture prosperity in any business you may
embark in. In our long acquaintance
with you--with some numbering score of
years, we have always found you an up
right, honorable man in every respect,
having ut all times the welfare of your
employer as well as the employees at heart.
N
No. l, but as a true-hearted man-which
is far more priceless than workmanship
our few words that we have uttered
here ON paper and which is endorsed in
our own proper handwriting, will answer
for US.
Our relations have been such as should
be between man and man, AMI in our
years of intercourse with you, the tongue
inf hn nd IN ,,,,l
to work on. We have found your sym
pathies always to be on the side of labor,
battling for the rd-fsted sons of toll,
who are the only founders of our country's
greatness, the men who feed and cothe
the Vanderbets, the Goulds and the AS
tors who supply the rich with every
luxury they enjoy, and keep the idle from
starving by their labor who build our
railroads, tunnel our mountains, aud
bridge our rivers who build our houses
and clothe our nakedness who make our
country blossom as the rose. Without
these men. life would be but barren de-
sert. And you as a man-who sympa-
thize deeply with labor-we the laborers,
sympathize with you.
And carry it with you where ever you
go, that these resolutions are not only on
engraven on the tablets of our hearts,
from which naught but death can erase.
We hope that while losing in you a kind
foreman and true and genial friend,
our loss may be your gain, and that your
remaining journey through life may be
pleasant and happy aud that the storms
and trials, incident to the lot of man,
may be taken with serenity. In leaving
us, do not forget that you carry with you
the good will and well wishes of every
one with whom you have come in contact,
and II your future years are carried out
on the same principles as the past, we
have no fear that your posterity will
have aught to regret, or be ashamed of, and
in your declining days You may look back
to life well spent, and free from blem-
ish, and find that a true heart is far bet
ter than riches, and that clear con-
science is better than empty titles or dis
honorable fame but better than all, is
the unsullied reputation for Honesty, In
dustry and Sobrety, the three great traits
of character we find in you.
[Sigued by every workingman employ
ed in the works,