Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-02
COUNCIL OF JOURNALISTS.
Their Words of Cheer and Proph-
ecy Respecting Philadelphia.

newspaper Neu Sumptuuusly stauuuetcu |
by wanamaker g. Brown, ut Their Fine
store speeches by A. *. Mcclure, Tai
colt Williams, and others.
The speeches delivered at the elegant
banquet given Monday evening week by
Wanamaker & Brown of Philadelphia to
the newspaper fraternity of that city and
vicinity were decidedly interesting. SIS
Philadelphia progressing in the same
ratio as other cities ?" was the subject OF
the remarks.
When A. X. Mcclure of the Philadel.
| pha Times arose be launched into the
| question of a New Philadelphia with the
| subject Now, what makes a New Phila.
delphia?" Then he answered it as fol-
lows 1T is just such man as the John
| Wanamaher who started in the little
! corner store and grew until he became the
cabinet officer. As the country has ad.
vanced such people have advanced The
| rural press has grown more in the last 10
| years than any other industry; but the
| city journals have grown too, and to such
an extent that during that time their issue
has increased from 100000 to half a mil
| lion day. Now, why such progress? II
is due to just such men as the Wanna
makers of Philadelphia.
"In multiplying the product they have
cheapened the cost. In cheapening the
cost they have increased the consumption.
And in doing that they have looked around
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city get to the point of employing every
possible channel for increasing their bust
ness they are increasing the progress of
Philadelphia.
"Well give you New Philadelphia yet,
because our journals, our merchants and
our professional men are getting bigger
and broader. Wen give YOU good streets
by and bye. Well give you better water
and We'll show you II city able TO take
care Of herself to sell her goods IN her
own market. Yes, We'll show YOU a
Rourse where the business of the city can
can be transacted TO our satisfaction and
yours. Well get started within year,
and when we get started We'll give you a
new Philadelphia.
But we must have a better acquaint-
ance with the country. There are great
men in the country. A city man can't
even edit a newspaper. What is the city
anyway? God didn't make IL. When
asleep don't look to the city.
There are brilliant men among them
the cleverest of men, with great talents,
but they are too much used to the city to
edit its papers. | have known some that
weren't sure whether Lancaster was or
wasn't on the other side of the mountains.
They don't know the country beyond.
: Let us, then, strike hands together, for
we need you, and while you are helping
: us well be helping YOU"
General W. w. II. Davis of the Doyles-
= town Democrat said; Commercially Phila-
delphia has gone behind. One hundred
years ago her ships entered every port, but
unfortunately they do not now What
, steps shall be taken to gain her lost posi-
ton? But, III some respects Philadelphia
, has held her own. If We could have a
, census without politics in it--poltics are
all right iDsome places--she would stand
~ number two nthe Union. Your schools
: medical colleges and other institutions
) rank first in the world. Philadelphia is D
/ city of homes. You have not such clean
streets us Paris, but | agree with Colone
$ Mcclure that they will come. A new
: Philadelphia Is coming, and hope it will
3 come soon. Philadelphia deserves to b,
i first in everything, as She is in fair women
and brave men,
: General Davis concluded with feeling
Z eulogy of the Postmaster-general II adj
. mire him." he said "lie is great man
g and-you wont let this get in the papers
II he is the heart and back bone of tina
cabinet down there "
i Talcott Williams of the PHILADELPHIA
= Press said: al had not the faintest concep
i ton OF the purport of this gathering unit
arrived on the scene. The unique menl
solved the problem--it was n meeting o
. the goose and the quill. with the news
u paper lamb lying in the caress of tn
!, newspaper lion-the advertiser. And We
~ IT is strange hatdissimilar MS our purpose
10 are how often they traverse each other
. course. 1t is the business of this bushes
" to conceal, of the newspaper TO reveal; 0
u this house to clothe people in the interest
of society, of ours to unclothe them in til
T. interests of society.
+ Philadelphia is not first in population
. in commerce, or in literature and there
y no question on the part of any inteligen
2 man but that progress is much to be d,
- sired. want 10 point out, though, tina
usah ,taftl. lat.
% as some people would have us believe. w
Il I, have beautiful city, we have good pec
~ pie for citizens, and we can give thet
homes and home comforts such rs no othe
y city can or ever will. Every family lives
70 one house--we have no sweaters, no place
" where IN earning their daily bread men
~ women and children slowly but surel
y work their lives away.
=. " one speaker has mentioned the street
y OF Parls and compared them unfnvorabl
NC with the streets of Philadelphia. III
streets Of Paris may be beautiful and H.
streets of Philadelphia may not but III
difference is all in favor of our city. Ever
zee smooth pavement in Paris is paid for /
of human lives; every boulevard over whic
ed roll the carriages of the rich is there b
of cause IN their making the poor We
lat Crowded g the tencments; their food WI
be taxed and lie made as unbcarable as Ii
ed can be. Those streets cost price Whic
sh Philadelphia has not paid and will n
n pay. letter that we have carpet On Il
~. floor of tile workingman than aspha
val streets for the carriages of the richn
hid The Rev. Charles II. Richards sale
Ell philadelphia does not pretend to CONNIE
ers with any mushroom town Of the countr
he but she stands in her place with the prin,
les pal cities of this country. New York speil
to OF Philadelphia as having cows grazing
RS, the grass that grows i'll the streets d
old even ii that is 80, isn't il better than NJ
led York, where the lambs Of Wall street d
IRE. shurn OF their ileeces, or up above Fot
ted toenth street, where you lind the tiger
IKE his lair. II certainly better to have 4 ci
on, like this than an illgoyeried one like \,
the York. When we consider the remarked
be growth of this city in the last ccntii
with population now OF over milf
and the probability of its reaching the /,
million mark before the beginning of {
nan twentieth century, when we laok at
re- Improvements anu hef illc archlteCtu
Val VIC must consider her the peer of a
,ide other city. We must look for Il New Phi
self delphia ny our own efforts. We have
the ablllty and the sagaQity TO bring it abuu
dc. lielfy X. Torbert oil the Cecit lihGL. si
lgar "a great writer once said that but ,
this man in Il million could lead an army; Il
but one man ia Il million could succt
fully conduct 4 great business. When
50 through That million we find one in
yere person Of John Wananaker.
hN "Whcn we ti5o his name as the synon
with OF Philadelphia We mean the high-tui,
mn sentcel aii-wooi and-a yard-wide Jo
I on Wauamaker. ! ain asionisAeal a, his s
a an cess iii 50 short Il period. ! should Iii
der. the old Philadelphia ought 10 be <,
nosi enough We are M better men to-,
than We're ilnse Of years tgo.n
r. CONCLUDING the nights proceed