Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-11
Friendship is a breathing rose

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Friendship is a breathing rose
With sweets in every fold"
AS friends meet you today in yeTFr natige
| our childhood Not only is this town your birth
place. but on this spot
"You first lifted up your eyelids
To the splendor of the morn.
| We greet YOU and yours to day, and our best
wishes and go out to you. Is must be great
ope0os TIE city YOU have done so much to
| tify and adorn, in which are standing SO many
| elegant buildings in part monuments to your skill
| as a mast er builder
Around you to-day many Of those with nth whom
ness Iife SS also ia SoUr fetal both i
Rss aho have State Served Fhs: you
rfous ways. as apprentices, as pan .ners. L kno%
| tice. When boy set out yonder orchard for
you did my best to have the young trees plant
v favor and your But Your
partner at that time put in his We (Which are
ani5y eI thone E as Your might
hope to become captain of the Woodbridge militia.
fo the en Tome IN
| warrior myself like Captain Philo Chat.
ed @y ann / RtRe
of contentment, which to me was hard one But
standing about us to present to you a simple token
our love and and pray that yog san
That you receive it not staff merely. but that
you may often bear with you some visible reminder
sembled about you this eighteenth anniverSalS
of your BIRTH
The gift was then presented Mr.. Perkins
by Mr.. Sperry. 1t was very appropriate
and fitting token of friendship-a handsome
gold headed cane.
Mr.. Sperry's address was followed by Law
yer John w. Allings, who spoke for the
family. He said:
AS member Of the family am called upon to to
respond in behalf Of Mr. Perkins who 7 reJolces TO
and he fully appreciates the kindness OF his friends
Rg only for o Th n is
orabe for Mr.: Perkins and doubly memorable for
be- rf gratefuly treasured e by the family
Mr. Perkins, especially. by his little, son
preciats this memorable gathering As he advances
in life and reads the record of thus day dolnEs
this occasion in honor Of his father Mr. Perkins
thanks you kindly for your presence here to-day
and wishes you years of plenty and peace.
Following Mr. Alling our honored towns
man, Ex-Governor English, made the follow
ing address,
Mr. Perkins. ladies and gentlemen: We are as
sembled here in the light Of this afternoons not
for the purpose OF INDUCING in noisy or useless
demonstration, but for common purpose, actuaIed
by common sentiment, to give expression 70
high sense of appreciation OF our friend MI
men; and to extend to him our sincere and hearty
on Ihs syn II sadom ot that
permitted to attain great an age, where all
things change except the laws or nature
Art fades, empires rise and fall, but nature
we are forciby reminded of the change by the
surrounding scene Of autumnal beauty ON the
iIlsdes we see the falling leaves and the varegat
ed colors of the foliage on the forest ,Es trees,
find the golden rod the sumach and the burning
bush arrayed in their autumnaI beauty, although
nipped by an early visit from Jack Frost; ana, 70
use a nautical phrase they will soon go down With
All animal and vegetable matter are doomed to
decay But if we lift our eyes TO the mountain top
we behold the stalwalt pine. towering anov. us
fellows where it.has stood for ages, buffetlag the
mers sun and the forked lightnings and always re-
naming evergreen. Our friend Mr.. p, is in the en-,
the mountain, may it continue ever green, and may
the remainder of his days be through ways OF pleas
Pq b all Ibis pans be e 81 have
may he reach that havsn at last where the winds d
is eternal rest
Following were among those present: Ex-
Gov. English and wife, Hon. N. D. Sperry
and wife, Philo Chatfeld and wife, E. s.
Kimberly and wife, Hon. L. w. Sperry and
wife, DR.. S. Fl. Chapman, George M. Grant
and wife, Austin Mansfield and wife, H. D.
Clark and wife, e.Willis M. Smith and wife,
H c. Warren and wife, Henry S. Dawson
and wife, John w. Alling, Henry Hale and
ma Clark, H. J. Morton, John
Richardson, Harry Austin, John
E. Bassett, G. S. Morehouse and wife, Rev.
E. S. Lines and wife, George Rockwell and
wife, F. A. Gilbert and wife, E. A. Chatfeld
and wife, johnson T. Platt, Augustus Parker.
Mr.. Kinney of Kinney & Phelps, jeremiah
Wolcott, all of New Haven, besides other
friends
Upon the cane presented to Mr.. Perkins
was engrossed
Presented to Stephen P Perkins by his friends,
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