Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-05-08

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A J. Beers. n Easserbrook, jr.,
| Thomas Aliing. J. F. Gilbert,
James Fairmsn, F. II. Hart,
George Sherman, Herbert Barnes
| Edward L. Clark, CLARK Peck,
Frank Potter, ". B. Goodyear,
| 81. D. Clark William B. Law,
| q. c. Rowe. William Patterson,
| T. A. Barnes. James P. Pigott,
| N. G. Osborn, Clarence Deming,
Cyrus Northrop, T r. Trowbridge. jr.,
George G 3. Martin, 5, A. " aai aTR.n'
| william Hughes, L. J. AIulford.
| c. NJ. Matthews, G. b. Ford,
| h 8 Holcomb, G. Berry Peet,
| T. H. Hooker, A. h. KeIlam,
c. s. Merslck, Major D. NJ. Reed
| B. R. English, E. A. Gilbert,
Charles Kimberly, ". R. Briggs,
| George wykes, jr., ]. B. Adriance,
l E. 8. Kimberly, T. O. Lewis,
| G. s. Barnum, Colonel Bigelow.
| T. E. Spencer, j. J. Atwater, jr.,
| r. N: Whittesey, jr., W. E. Chandler,
| Joseph T. Fitch, Joseph Porter
James English, G. W. Scranton,
| ]. P. stu5ley.
The divine blessing was asked by Prof
Cyrus Northrop. While the guests were as
sembling. and at intervals during the dinner,
| fine music was discoursed by Thomas full
| orchestra. The menu was as follows
NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
| 1894. 1884.
| BLUE POINTS.
| Mock Turtle, Bouilion
| Boiled Kennebec Salmon, HolIandaise Sauce
Pomme de terrs Parisienne.
Spring Lamb. Mint Sauce
Tender1oin of Beef, larded with Mushrooms
Sweet Breads with French Peas.
Rice Croquettes, Vanilla favor.
Philadelphia Capon, with Crosses.
| SALAD.
wine Jelly. Confectionery Nuts
Fruit, Rhubarb and Strawberry Tarts Cheese.
Neapolttsn and Vanilla Ice Cream.
Tea, Coffee
The invited guests who were present were
| Major D. M. Reed, W. R. Briggs, President
Noah Porter, E. N. Shelton, Isaac Fl. Bronl-
ley.
Mayor Lewis called the guests to order and
introduced Mr.. Norris G. Osborn as the
POSTMASTER. In few witty remarks Mr..
Osborn called upan President Porter to re-
spond to the first toast of the evening, ''The
President of the United States.''
| TALES PRESIDENT.
President Porter commended the admins
tratior of President Arthur as commanding
the admiration of the country and in
| closing the speaker offered q few pertinent
| suggestions as to the scope and sphere of
| national politics.
As Gov. Waller was unable to be present
the toast to which he was to have responded,
''The State of Connecticut, was omitted.
| HIS HONOR THE MAYOR.
Mayor Lewis spoke upon the toast 1.-THE
| city of New Haven.'' He spoke upon the
rapid growth of the city and of the long and
honorable record of our Chamber of Com
merce and the important relations of the
t'Chamber to the city's best interests. He
| paid high compliment to Mr. George A.
Butler for his work before the Silver Coinage
| committee and closed with illusions to the
| many beautiful characteristics of the city.
| PROF. CYRUS NoRTHRoP's ADDRESS.
''The East and the West" Professor North
| rop responded to this toast as follows:
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the Cham
Der of Commerce. appreciate most heartily
the kindness of your committee in assigning
| to me the duty of responding to this particu-
| lar toast. I recognize the.fact that, with a
delicate consideration for which cannot be
too grateful, they intended to afford me an
opportunity to say something here respecting
a most important decision which have re-
Gently been called upon to make and which
must in its very nature change the whole
course of my future life. And yet, sir, 1
| shrink, and if you will put yourself for a mo-
ment in my place you will understand why I
shrink, from availing myself of this opportu-
nifty so kindly offered to say anything of char
acter strictly personal to myself have lived
all my life in the East and know what and
where the East is. It is not pleasant to
leave it. Ia the nature of things it is not
possible that should know the West at pres
emit as well as know the East; for in the
first place the West is not SO definite a term
as the East. The East means practically the
10 original colonies. 1t is shut in by the At
lsntic ocean and thus prevented from going
any further east, and when you some here
you always find it, because it cannot get
away. But the West is not bound in by any
koks@ 7.
Ohio and Indiana are the West. When
YOU reach Ohio the West has
gone on ahead of you and is
now out on the banks of thsMississippi river
When you reach Chicago the West is beyond
the Mississippi somewhere in Dakota and Ne
braska Go 400 miles northwest of Chicago
to st. Paul and Minneapolis, and still you
have not caught the flying West, for now it
is in Montana, in Washington or Oregon; it
is looking back toward you from the
shores of the Pacific.
In the next place this ever moving West is
so immense and so varied in its characters.
tics that to know it we'll is more difficult
than it is to know the East But, sir, after
all that which like mirror reflects the quail
tiles and greatness of State or country is
the people, and no one, I am sure
can have spent even few months
in the most enterprising centers of the West,
without discovering that the characteristics
of the people are most favorable to speedy |
understanding of the resources and prospects |
of the country in which they live. Some of |
these characteristics are enthusiasm, frank |
ness, genuine helpfulness, the outward mani |
festations of spirit of real brotherhood. I /
myself in the few weeks that have spent |
in the West have been especially impressed |
with the large-hesrtedness of the people, |
with kind of consciousness on the part of
everybody that it is possible to live comforta-
bly, without running your nelghbor,
kind of belief on the part of
everybody that the country in which
fruitful that all men in it may hope for good
measure of prosperity without turning life
into frantic race in which most unpleas.
ant parsonage is invoked to take the hind.
most daughter and applause); and all this
mbined with most intense and effective
activity. And. sir, that western country is
20 fruitful and so rapid in its development
that the language of Edmund Burke in the
English Parliament, describing the rapid
growth of the early colonies on the Atlantic
coast, would be tame enough if applied
new to the progress of the West.
And now, sir, how delightful it is to think
hat this West, growing SO rapidly. already7
he great heart of the continent, is not separ-
tied from the East by any line of division
uch as once separated the. North from the
south! How delightful to know that in all
he essential characteristics of high clv1llz-
ton the west Is TO DC huOt4oE 4toSt, sAas 1
here is to be palingepesis, that there is to
e another New England under brighter skies
nd in more fertile fields! For tell you that
a the coming time there is to be exhibited
q this West something more than the apo
heosis of Iabor,-even though to this Il q
ravest sons and daughters of New England
nd the most enterprising fair haired sons
nd daughters of Scandinavia may have con-
ributed their utmost, GO operating here aad
mere with the chivalric Frenchman, almost
verywhere with the vigorous German and
verywhere with the omnipresent Celt. For
there is a spot on earth where labor ought
!, cease to be the end of existence, and be-
on,e means for lifting people to the pos
Utilities of higher and less sensuous life,
IS the West, large enough and fruitful
nough to- feed the world: AND md the T. west
ave for its own Improvement whatever is
est in literature, in science. in art. IN
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