The Portland daily press., 1886-07-07

state we still go forward, are our fathers
who began it never to see 1t IN ltS crystal
clearness. l think mans progress Is tne
proof of mans Immortality? L insist upon
it that the progress of nations in the eVolu-
ton of communities shows that there is to
be world without DEATH a. time without
crime, a race without corruption ana glory
without shame. Let that be the theme OF
your expectation, and let your gratitude to
Him who is above us all go as lar as tne
heavens while it glistens on the earth. zap
plause9
Ex-Mayor Libby then introduced Rev. ).
S. Elder, whom he remembered as a school
mate in the Portland High School, in the
class of IS:
Rev. MIR. ELDERS REMARKS.
Mr.. Elder said his foot was on his native
heath; that his interest in this town and In
this occasion is very largely as school boy
rather than as citizen. He never cast a
vote here when he left school heiwent to col
lege, and has not been back here for the last
thirty years but once or twice. He described
the old school house back in '46, on the cor
ner of Danforth and Tying streets, and the
Park street grammar school under Master
Jackson, and then the old school house up on
Spring street. He paid a high tribute to
Master Lyford, and of the class OF '56 OF
which he was a member with Thomas b.
Reed and J.W. Symonds. He gave number
of "reminiscences. He said when they got
through they were ambitious to have an
original Greek dialogue. Tom Reed was Ju-
piter, Joe Symonds was Neptune, he was
Pluto and Al Cross was RadamanthuS. He
thought that as far as Reed was concerned,
it was an unconscious prophecy, for
he has since taken his place among the
Olympian gods a worthy Jupiter as they had
seen today. He wished that the subject of
education might receive a fresh impetus.
The orator for the next centennial is not to
be born for fifty years to come, but we can
begin to mould the orator and the poet for
that coming event. All we can do is to do
our best for the generation we are serving
now, put into it whatever God has given us
of strength, knowledge, intelligence, wis
dom and love, and we shall find as time rolls
round that the roots and germs which will
be our pride in that hour were planted long
before.
/ Hon. Horatio King of Washington was in
troduced by Mr. Libby and spoke as follows;
HON. HoRATIo KINGS REMARKS.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Allow me to say that came to this city
from my native town of Paris, bringing my
printing establishment of the JefferSonian in
May, 1888; and continued the publication OF
my paper here until January, 1888, when l
sold out to the proprietors Of the Standard,
then edited by Mr. John +. Hartley, after
wards, for many years, an efficient officer of
the Treasury Department at Washington.
A day or two ago l sat down to recall the
names of the citizens best known to me dur
| ing that period, and it was startling to see
| how many of them had passed to the Silent
over ffty-starting with the names Of Will
| liam Pitt Preble and Ashur Ware, who Imay
| truly tsay were my foster fathers, for
| each was to me emphatically, guide, philos-
were Nathaniel Mitchell and John l.. Meg
quier. shall not detain you by reading the
| list Alas! Only here and there among the
| living can | see or hear of but very few 9TH
ers whom may claim as old acquaintences;
| VIM. Pitt Preble, Ashur Ware, J. L. Meg
| quier, Nathaniel Mitchell, Zenas Libby, j ohm
| Anderson, Gen. Fessenden, William Pitt
| Fessenden, Thos. A. Deblois, r. A. 1. Cod
man, Drs. Miles, Clark and Gilman, VIM. I'll.
Goldman, Seba Smith, Samuel Coleman, Ezra
| Holden, Charles Smith, Thomas Todd, F. o.
| J. Smith, Charles Q. Clapp, John Appleton,
| Nicholas Emery, Charles Holden, John
Neal, st. John Smith, J. B. Brown, S. B.
Beckett, Eben Steele, Abner Lowell, John
Yeaton, David Drinkwater, III. III. Body,
Luther Jewett. Nathaniel Jewett, Revs. DR..
| Nichols and Jason Whitman, William Good
enough, Nathan Winslow, James Furbush,
| Albert Smith, A. FL. Putney, III. j. Little,
| VIM. E. Edwards, Charles Goldman, Arthur
Shirley, James Brooks, Judge Potter, Gen.
John Chandler, Stephen Longfellow; over
| fifty familiar names of those among whom
was best acquainted, all gone.
In my finely illustrated card of invitation,
observing that special care had been taken
to signalize the great stride made in the post
office and mail facilities here within the last
century, took it as a hint to me, should |
be called on to say few words on the sub
ject, since twenty-five years-frem March,
life have been devoted to the service of the
post office, saying nothing of the interest
have ever since taken in its progress and i'm
proyement. | do not know whether the
Ia or, h,.il in dscfo lie
intended to represent the post office of 17S6
or not, but the mail carrier is evidently max
ing his roundabout way thither, or possibly
to some nearer, no more pretentlous
house to deliver, the mail; and nc
one can mistake his occupation nor fail
to mark the great difference between such q
building and your present substantial pos
office. Could have availed myself of re
cords have at home, might have been able
to present some interesting facts touching
the post office more than l now do. 1t is Of
record that, as early as I'LL, the mail was
carried weekly between Boston and Maine
and 1t is probable that the service was made
by horseback then and for many years after.
wards, as it appears that an act was passed
on the 18th of September, 1885, authorizing the
mail to be carried in stage coaches. | an
not prepared to say how often the mail wa:
carried to and from Falmouth in 1856
Doubtless this information may be found in
Willis's history of Portland.
| have obtained from the Post Office De
partment the following official record in re
gard tie the post office at Falmouth, CascC
Bay, showing that Samuel Freeman wa
charged with balance due the department
C. S. d..
For quarter ending Jan. 5, 1915. IA 2
Receipts same quarter. ...................2 81
For quarter ending April 5, 1875;
Receipts ...................-..
For For quarter ending July 5, 1776:
Receipts OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .........2 10 ~
Balance due. ..............2 81