Daily globe., 1883-08-16
Men Distinguished in Learning From
All Parts Of the Country.
ADDRESSES OF HEARTY WELCOME
Mayor Ames, Gov. Hubbard and Prof.
FOlWell Extend Hearty Greeting.
INTERESTING PAPERS READ
The Topics Of General Concern to the
Public at Large.

Va OSAOAOOs SOAFcuCu az GLo SGdG0 uulV0r-
sity at 10 a. m. yesterday. The associa-
tion numbers some two thousand members
and the local committee of Minneapolis
had been given to understand that from
six to eight hundred of the membership,
including ladies, would be present and had
made arrangements accordingly, and were
consequently disappointed when total of
only about three hundred were to be pro-
vided for. The opening meeting took
place in the university chapel.
On the stage were the local committee,
headed by Hon. George A Pillsbury,
Gov. Hubbard, Mayor Ames, President
Folwell, of the university, Prof. Dawson,
president, and other officers of the asso,
citation. On the front of the stage there
was handsome display of flowers and pot
plants.
Promptly at 10 a. m. Hon. George A.
Pillsbury, chairman of the local commit
tee, called the assemblage to order, and in
few remarks, and at his request,
Bishop G. D. Foss invoked the divine
blessing. Mr.. Pillsbury then introduced
GOV. HUBBARD,
who welcomed the association to the state
IL GAO LOllOWluR Te1drhS.
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science: I trust you have already
realized that you are cordially welcome to
our midst. We assume that it is one of the
first impressions of stranger visiting our
state that he has come among a people
who are glad to greet him. Such is our
hope IN your case, ladies and gentlemen,
and it will bel a disappointment to us if it
require formal tender of our hospitality
to make you feel that it is freely yours.
We welcome you cordially on this occasion.
We feel honored by your presence here.
We recognize in you an active body of
ladies and gentlemen who are devoting
their talents and their energies to the ad-
vancenent of the greatest material inter
ests of our race, ard whose efforts should
command the largest possible recognition
and reward. The achievements of science
within generation makes an epoch in the
history Of the world. The developments have
wrought essential changes in the material
conditions of man. We but fairly reach
comprehension of the latest scientific
wonder when we become transfxed as it
were, by some new surprise. Scientific in
vestigatior has proven a most inviting
field of labor and has commanded the
brightest intellect and genius of the times.
1t has returned rich harvests to the laborer
and dispensed untold and unmeasured
benefits upon mankind. We shall expect,
gentlemen, to derive much advantage by
your presence here. This great Northwest,
no doubt offers opportunity for scientific
inquiry and can. furnish, we believe,
abundant material to illustrate your in
vestigations. We shall seek to profit by
your deliberations at this meeting
in common with the country
at large, which no doubt
will regard your proceedings with an in
terest commensurate with their import
ance,
WELCOME OF MAYOR AMEs.
The remarks of Gov. Hubbard were re-
ceived with hearty applause, at the conclu-
sion of which Mr.. Pillsbury introduced
Mayor Ames, who extended the following
welcome in behalf of the city:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science: You have honored the city of
Minneapolis by selecting it as the place for
your thirty second meeting. Our citizens
are not unmindful of the honor conferred.
On behalf of our people 1 bid you well
come and take pleasure in extending to
each of you the freedom and hospitality of
our city. You will find them as broad as
our streets, and as cordial and courteous
as our western ideas can frame them.
You must not suppose, gentlemen, in
looking our city over casually, that we are
devoid of science, that we are wholly given
up to chase of trade dollars Here in
the west we combine business with
pleasure. Many of US took Horace
Greely's advice and here we are, grown up
with the country. Our science consists of
means devised for tilling the vast and fer
tile prairies which surround US, leyeling
gigantic pines of the north, and building
mammoth mills, workshops and blocks,
and in constructing beautiful homes. You
find here no ancient castles or fortresses,
here everything wears modern air. We,
as city, have sprung into existence as if
by magic and we stand before the world
among the wonders of the nineteenth cen
tury. Within my own observation Mime
apolis has grown from wild waste inhab-
tied by Indians and wolves to be city of
hundred thousand people. Here you
have problem not solved by any
known scientific formula. 1t is
case which, Ike the
Yellowstone region, still remains to invite
the theorists of science.
Again I welcome you to our city and
homes. You will find the iatch-strings
hanging out and plenty of hospitality and
good cheer within. If, among your other
scientific researches, you will solve and
make plain to US the science of local gov
erment you will confer lasting favor;
and for your labors you shall not go unre-
warded, between your hours of researchwe
invite you to see how we have harnessed
up old st. Anthony's Falls. and utilized
the great power of the Mississippi river;
to go through our mills, manufactures and
workshops, and see the results of skilled
labor and improved machinery, to visit
our beautiful lakes and pleasure
resorts and view the most gorgeous
scenery ever spread before mortal eyes,
to see Minneapolis and her people as they
exist in their primitive sereneness. Gen
tlemen, I bid you make yourselves at home
among US.
PRESIDENT FOLwELL.
The next welcome was by Hon. W. W.
Folwell, president of the university, on
behalf of the educational interests of the
state, who spoke as follows: