Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-03-08
For Our Welsl Citizens. New |

lecllnS washington Dlrtnuay W uoiu
the annual meeting in Chickering
Hall.
The word, Eisteddtod, has come to
mean sitting down to feast of let
tiers and art. At these feasts the Welsh
tongue is conspicuous. 1t is Ian
guage in which, to foreign eyes, the
consonants and vowels seem to occur
in lunches and refuse to be mixed.
Rev. G. H. Humphrey, formerly
pastor of the Frostburg Presbyterian
church, opened the meeting with
prayer.
Rev. DR.. Parker Morgan, of New
York, presided at the morning ses-
sion, and Mr.. Charles A. Dana, editor
of the New York San, at the afternoon
session. In his opening address the
! former quoted Mr.. Gladstone as having
said of the Welsh
They are a religious people and people
deeply enamored of knowledge, and what
they have done has been done with very little
assistance.
Mr.. Morgan had also received let
ter from Hon. John P. Jones, Senator
from Nevada, in which he wrote:
The Welsh as a people are reverential and
additionally lovers of liberty, and the in
creasing interest taken in their annual gather
ings demonstrates that wherever they make
for themselves home there letters and the
arts will find enlightened patrons 1t is to
Inc, as | make no doubt it is to you, subject
of great satisfaction that while preserving
with pride the traditions and recollections of
their native land, our citizens Of Welsh birth
have learned to love with patriotism no less
genuine than that of their fatherand the in
situations and government Of the United
States.
When Mr.. Dana was introduced he
came forward and in substance
Said he was present because he wished to
show his sympathy with the purpose of the
assemblage, and not because he hoped to add
anything to the interest of the meeting 1t
had always seemed to him that the great aG-
vantage of the United States was that the
country was not developed by any one race,
but was peopled by all races of civilized men.
Here were the English, with their ideas of
liberty and self-government; the Germans,
with their mighty scientific spirit, and their
characteristic good nature; the French, with
their irresistible democratic impulse and that
love of liberty which in this country, it was
hoped, would be kept always within the linn
its of the law. These people, representing
different nationalities, brought with them
their peculiar institutions, making it imposs-
BILE for the people of the United States to be
narrow-minded. One of the most beautiful
of the institutions transplanted in this eoun-
try was that which the audience had assem-
bled to enjoy. What could be more beauti-
full or more encouraging to those who hoped
to sec the higher and nobler development of
humanity? He rejoiced in this, and, as an
American citizen, opened his arms, and his
heart to it as he would to any other manifes-
tation of national intelligence.
At the evening session Rev. Henry
Ward Beeher presided.
When the conductor announced the
singing of the Welsh national song, he
requested the audience to Join in the
following chorus:
Gwlad gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,
Ira NOR yn fur i'r bur hoff bau
o hydded ir hen iaith barhau.
Something not in the programme
was an example of old Welsh Penillion
singing by William Apmadoc, of Utica.
He said that the characteristic feature
of this style of singing is, that while
the accompanies adheres strictly to
melody, the singer wanders off through
many variations of words and time,
but manages to get back and wind up
with the player. He announced that he
would close with a stanza in which
there was not a single consonant, and
which was a description of Il cobweb.
In response to loud applause he after
ward sang Welsh song to the air of
"a Fine Old Irish Gentleman"
The meeting voted to hold another
Eisteddfod in New York next year.
Georges Greek COai-WEEKLY STA
TISTICs OF SHIPMENTs.-The record OF
shipments from the mines of the
Georges Creek coal region for the week
ending Saturday, March LIST, 1854,
closed as follows.
Total tons for week. Observation-Disclosures. 30,9a4
:" year ................. 24 ,3l5
Decrease under corresponding period
last year. Observation-Disclosures. 3O,OsG
Total tons to b. & o. railroad for week 25,S17
g year. 225,t 35
Decrease under corresponding period
last year. Observation-Disclosures. 2,Sl1
Total tons to Pa. railroad for week u. 5,107
year.. 3 so
Decrease under corresponding period
last year. Observation-Disclosures. 2, rs
Total tons shipped over c. & P rail
road for week. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. lo,406
over same for year. ................ 1883 4
Total tons shipped over G. G. & C. rail
road for week. .................. 1892
Over same for year. 26,544
The heaviest shippers for week
l, W. Va. Central. .(tons). ........ 1913
None of the other companies shipping over
5000 tons.
Shipments for year
l, W. Va. Central. (tons). ......... 59,17s
=, Consolidation. .......... 1894:
40,