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The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

teaching geography and history. and
the result was woodbridge and Will
lard's School Geography" and evil
lard's Histories and Chronographer, in
Guiding the Temple of Time" AS a
Psychologist she was equally successful,
and published motive Powers of Cir
culation" and Respiration and Its
Effects" which were well received by
the scientific world.
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep"
one of the finest songs in the language.
was written by Mrs. Willard during a
storm which she encountered while on a
voyage to Europe. While visiting Greece
she became deeply interested in the de-
plorable condition of the women there.
and on her return succeeded in enlist
ing the sympathies of her friends SO that
she was enabled to establish a school
there for their benefit. She donated to
this object the entire proceeds of her
"Notes of Travel" published shortly
after.
Now, after lapse of nearly twenty
years since her death, those who profited
by her influence rise up to do her honor.
About two years ago the question of
some appropriate memorial to Emma
Willard was agitated in Troy, and it
was finally agreed to erect a statue in
her honor upon the spot where now
stands the old seminary building. A
committee was formed and subscrip-
tions to the fund solicited. The statue
will be of bronze, and, with possibly
one exception, may be regarded as the
first of it's kind to be erected to a
woman in this country. Its estimated
cost is $4,000. If completed in time it
is proposed to send the statue to the
Worlds fair in Chicago, where it will
be placed in the Woman's building.
One year ago little band of comrades
met in New York city and organized
themselves into an association which
should include not only the alumn@ of
the school, but every pupil who had ever
received instruction within its walls. It
required much energy and hard work to
gather the scattered flock, but the
few determined spirits who had the
matter in hand persisted in their efforts
The result has been truly gratifying, for
the Emma Willard association now
numbers over 800 members and is an
incorporated body. Meetings are held
monthly at the house Of the president,
Mrs. Russell Sage.
A banquet, which was enjoyed by
nearly 200 members, was given at the
Plaza hotel on the 18th of October, 1891,
and this is to be repeated annually. A
graduate of 1928 was among those pres
ent and one of 1891.
Time brings many changes, and hence
forth the old seminary walls, SO long
familiar to Troy's citizens and so en-
deared to thousands as the shrine of their
alma mater, will be no more. A new
building has arisen on the south side, in
line with the board walk, to be tho
home of education in this city. And il
has been reared by the munifcence of
one citizen, Mr.. Lewis Gurley, in re-
membrance of a sister, Miss Clara Cur
ley, who was educated there, and a
brother, Mr. William Gurley, for many
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
Training the Memory.

A splendid way to improve the memory
is to begin by treating it as if it were an
other person, and then charging it, upon
penalty Of a severe upbraiding, to keen
until wanted the information, fact, date.
name or whatever is to be remembered
By this course you unconsciously do two
things-you sort out things worth while to
know, and you impress them upon the
memory in such way as to cause it to
grasp and keep them.
The latter is most important thing to
do. Half of ones forgetfulness comes from
ere to remember. Harper's Young Peonla
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

years president of the board of trustees.
1t is called Gurley Memorial hall, and
will be appropriately inscribed as the
Troy Female seminary, founded by
Emma Willard in 1891. Its cost was
about $4,000. This building will be
dedicated, with appropriate ceremonies,
on the sth of June, 1892, and immedi-
ately after the closing exercises of the
school the old building will be removed,
HELEN A. JOHNSON,
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

l'~A LILY CL1stlS S0iuiuaIys W1bu lUS long
corridors, its familiar classrooms, its
never to be forgotten schoolroom, its
dreaded examination room, it's park and
its board wall-all now, alas! crumbling
into ruins and soon to disappear before
the advancing footsteps Of progress.
When, in 1891, this famous school was
established by Mrs. Emma Willard, it
was the first and only one of it's kind in
this country, and we might say in the
world, for at that time it was not con-
sidered proper for any young woman to
receive higher education than would
fit her for the daily routine of family
life.
AS early as 1907 Mrs. Willard, then
Emma Hart, commenced teaching in
Middlebury, VT, where she married DR..
Willard. After a short reti ment, in
1914, she established boarding school
for young ladies, which she always re-
garded as the nucleus of her seminary,
afterward transferred first to Waterford,
near Troy, and finally to permanent
quarters in the heart of this city.
1t is needless to say that the seed was
already terminating in the hearts of
womankind, which. has since blossomed
into radiant flower, for hundreds of
eager young girls soon hocked to the
school where they could delve deeper
into the wealth Of literature, and imbibe
stronger drafts of science and art than
ever before.
1t was only by hard study under many
difficulties that Mrs. Willard succeeded
in preparing herself to execute what she
undertook to do-picking up her knowl-
edge Of physiology from her husband,
of geometry from a young college stu
dent, whose Euclid she purloined while
he slept, and searching libraries eager to
absorb information from every source.
After her removal to Troy she studied
at night with Professor Eaton, of the
Institute, the lessons which she was to
teach the next day.
During these early times many were
the struggles for success and the bat
ties to be fought against prejudice and
jealousy for her superior system of edu-
cation for women. She applied to the
legislature of New York for public aid
to carry on her school, but received at
first only charter granting her license
to establish an academy, but before the
close Of that same session, observing the
unprecedented success 81 the school,
they voted her portion Of the public
fund. The news of such a school spread
rapidly, and it is estimated that be-
tween the years of 1921 and 1871 there
was total attendance of 1880 pupils
from north, south, east and west. Every
state in the Union was represented.
With the increase of pupils came
demand for larger quarters, and build
ings were added making provision for a
great number of boarders, until the Troy
Female seminary reached the dimen-
sions of today. In 1888 her son and
daughter-in-law succeeded her. A por-
ton of the building is still occupied by
day school, carried on by Miss Emily
Wilcox, a relative of Miss Wizards,
but the generally deserted look of all the
upper part, the closed. blinds and dilap-
dated appearance speak volumes of de-
parted glory.
Who shall say that the influence of
Emma Willard has not been the main
spring in the great awakening all over
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
A verdict Against the LOTTERY.

Murphy J. Foster has recently been
elected governor Of Louisiana by plu-
rality of 81, 600 votes, there having been
four candidates in the field. Each party
was split into lottery and antilottery
faction, but as the Republicans, strictly
speaking, were mot in it," the contest
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

the world in behalf of women's higher
education, that it has not been instru-
mental in the foundation of the many
colleges for their benefit. and the final
opening to them Of the universities and
colleges for young men?
Mrs. Willard wrote and published sew
srsl works, which would have given her
O lasting fame aside from her school.
She remodeled the entire system of
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

MONG the butter
nut bait alions
t h a t shouldered
their way along
the dusty pike be
tween Cashtown
q ind Gettysburg,
on July 1, 1868,
was a band of $40
tall lank North
Carolinians, one of
the freshest and
jolliest musters in
Lees entire army.
n orth Carolina
regiments consti-
tuted several hr;-
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
Especial Correspondence

TROY, N. Y, May 1o.-"The good that
men do lives after them" This saying
has perhaps never been more happily
sxemplified than in the results which
have followed the life work of Mrs.
Emma Willard. How many thousands
of women's hearts all over this broad
land must thrill with the memory of the
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

All the mechanics in the world can
not make two town clocks that will keep
time for one day, one hour, one minute
exactly alike. --.------ -.---.-.--.--t..
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

was really between Judge McEnery, the
candidate in favor of rechartering the
lottery, and Mr. Foster. The latter has
long been active among the conservative
politicians of Louisiana, representing St.
Mary's parish in the state senate. His
election puts an end to the famous lot.
terry at no distant date.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21

The highest clouds, the cirrus and cir
rostratus, sometimes rise to an altitude
OF ~ 900 feet, or six miles above the
earth's surface
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
FAIR CHICAGO WIVES.
Beauties Whose Husbands Are Garden
City Millionaires.

The Unions Are All Of Recent Dste and
Have Proven Exceptionally Happy.
intellectual and Social Accom- pIisl-
ments of the Brides.
copyright, 1892, by American Press Associa-
toni
There are two things to which ordi-
nary mankind pay the homage of envy
money and beauty. A combination of
the two naturally attracts extra atten-
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
GOOD FOR POWDER. /"
How the Twenty.Sizth North Caro-.
lima Caught Hot Bullets.

A Pet Regiment That Never Knew
When to Quit and Practically Fought
ON It's stumps After Being Shot All to
Pieces.
Copyright, 1882 by American Press Associa-
ton. Book rights reseryed.l
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
A POLITICAL WAaHoRsE.

He Is Also Possible Democratic Nomi-
men for the Presidency.
Among the possible nominees OF the
Democratic party for the presidency Of
the United States is Ex-Governor Gray,
OF Indiana. He has had an active career,
and is self made man.
The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
A PIONEER TEACHER.
How the Memory Of Emma Willard
is Perpetuatsd.

Her Devoted Pupils Propose to Erect a
Statue In Troy-She Founded the First
Female Seminary and Wrote Rocked
in the Cradle of the Deep.''
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IN THE SHADOWS.
fHarper's Weekly

[Harper's Weekly.J
As the shadows filed the room with peace,
We spoke of our absent friends
How some were dead and some were sped
To the far-away earth ends.
And by some magic of yearning hearts,
The lost seemed warm and near;
Yea, loved SO much we could almost touch
Their hands and feel them here.
And when the lamps were lit, and speech
Waxed merrier, yet the place
Eel trangely bare. and each one there
Missed some beloved face.
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PATIENCE.
from N. K. Magazine.I

TFrOm N. Z. MaBAZIne.I
When one Is loved and loves, and all's confessed,
18th cheek to cheek and throbbing heart to
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That sweet. ead.eyed divinity thou art,
Which brings us Peace for eg, mt of the breas at
While friends and kin mistakenly protest
Against our choosing, till the salt tears
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Which teaches us to play sunny part,
And smile at grief when grief Is bitterest
Seen through thy glass each dun cloud parts in
twain
And shows the blue sky of a future year;
Content we have Of thee hen fearful ewes
Look std farewells endurance for each pain
Love quick would lang .ish, shouldst thou
disappear;
Art thou not Love itself in other guise?
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
EAST PROVIDENCE.

The Rev. T.. c. Webster returned from
New York yesterday.
Ii. s. Babcock has received the nomina-
tion on the Democratic ticket for school
committee in place of j. II. McKenna,
who declined the nomination.
The ballots have been printed n are
now in the hands of the town clerk and
Wednesday, April 6, will see a large ma
jority of them filled with good Republi-
can votes.
The fire in d. S. Rays warehouse
which was thought by some to be the
work Of an incendiary, is now supposed to
have caught by sparks from a locomotive,
as the railroad track is very near the
meeting.
A love feast will be held at the Haven
NJ. 4. Church tomorrow evening.
Sunday is Temple day at the Second
Baptist Church.
At tho First Universalist Church the
Rev. +. Waldron Evans of Tufts College
will supply the pulpit Sunday.
Netop Council No. Z, o. u. A. NJ. held a
pleasant meeting last night in Grand
Army Hall, Councillor i. II. Carpenter
presiding, Jr. Ex-Councillor WE. Marcy
Of Liberty Council No. IL OF Providence
visited the meeting during the evening. A
large number Of the members were pres
ent and this was by far the most interest
ing meeting held in a long time.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
AUBURN.

A vestry meeting will be held at the
Church of the Ascension tonight after
the Lenten service.
A series of special meetings to be held at
the Free Baptist Church in the near
future are being talked OF.
The approaches TO the Park avenue rail
road bridge, which are an almost incessant
source of trouble, are in a dangerous con
dition again. A few loads of dirt here
would be a good thing.
William Is. Streeter, the contractor, Is
having his house on Beckwith street
painted.
Joseph l.. Lake is intending to build a
cottage house on lots next to w. +.
Whites new residence on the east side of
the railroads.
The boys guild met last evening with
Mrs. Arthur Reeve. the members being i'm
full attendance. The badges for the new
organization were received and distrib-
uted. A debate will occur at the next
meeting, the subject being, (Which Does
the Church Need First. a Clock or "A Bell?"
Under the present highway system pol
tics enters more into the work performed
by the commissioners than should be the
case. In the case of u own highway
commissioners IL is very plain what party
he espouses by the in which our
highway appropriation has been spent.
For instance, last summer water pipes
were laid on n certain street in this viii
Iage. The contamination or idiocy who
bossed the job allowed the shovelers to
throw back the soil with the sand on the
surface. A heavy team now sinks to its
hubs on that strip of highway, and the
graveled part OF the highway is so narrow
that two teams cannot pass each other
without sinking into the sand. However,
on this same street there lives one man,
who is "a good man aud true" aud a per-
sonal friend of the highway commissioner.
After the water pipes were laid there were
several loads of gravel spread before this
gentleman's lots; but, when requested TO
continue the good work for several hun
dred feet further, the COMMISSIONS re-
piled that "he would If his money held
out" The money didn't hold out.
As far as can he seen our share OF the
highway appropriation this year has done
very little real good. The work on We'll
hngton street has probably been the best
piece of work performed, but even that
Will do no lasting good. The street IL
washing into Mashapaug brook about as
fast rs IL Fan. The work on Station street
was carried just far enough 10 make a
very dangerous passway that may at any
time cause the Town heavy damages. And
ms for the " macadamized" portion of
Pontiac road. on which something over
two thousand dollars was spent, that
would make MacAdam die OF fright could
he see 10.
The plan has been suggested that we
issue W bonds and thus create n sinking
fund Tor the repairing aud maintenance
OF the highways.
III we are going to create a large fund for
the purpose OF road building, for heavens
a let US get somebody 10 do the work
who knows how.
To macadamize roads, or TO make even
good rolled roads, we need n stone crusher.
There IS no oub OF that, and the best
thing the people OF Cranston ear do Mt the
coming financial meetings. TO vote To buy
one. IL Is ALSO utely useless TO use a steam
roller on round stones.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
ASHAWAY.

The Prohibitionists held quite an enthu-
siastic rally at the Ashaway Hall Tues
day evening. March %. The speakers were
the Rev. e.. A. Conibeer of Westerly, and
the Rev. Mr.. Hudson OF New York. The
former seemed To be laboring under a
heavy pressure OF some kind. What you
might call a mortal reservation" He
a~pologized for being caught at "a political
rally. He didn't understand, when in
vited, that IL was a political meeting. He
would lift up his voice" for temperance
at a Republican temperance meeting, or
even at "A Democratic temperance meeting.
But he didn't seem to think that he really
ought 10 have been caught at a Prohibi
ton rally. The question to day is, what's
the matter with the Rev. Mr.. Conibeerl
IL he had been personally acquainted
with som of that party that was on tho
stage with him, his feeling would have
been something akin To agony. q, Conf
beer, how could youi
The Rev. Mr.. Hudson was evidently la.
boring under a mental hallucination.
Somebody must have stuffed" him.
His first attempt, so he said, at earning a
living was in "A WOODEN mill. He Intended
TO make a manufactures, but after a few
months In the cutting room, where he
spoiled three or four hundred yards Of
goods, his employer did not think that he
was a success and discharged him. He
then tried his hand In n basket factory,
where he vas assigUDd 90 the boiler-rooni.
lie there showed bic supreme indifference
60 his future welf0e by drawing the
water all out of the boiler and putting n
rousing fire underneath IL. For some
reason the proprietor didu't care TO have
SO hot u ire uneer just those circum-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
BRISTOL.

The pupils in the grammar department
OF the middle district school gave a very
pleasing entertainment yesterday after
noon, consisting OF lesson recitations,
Dialogues, singing, calesthenics.
The board OF governors of the Country
Club held a meeting last evening at the
court house and the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Prcsi.
dent, William D. DeWolf. vice pretident,
msnd n. Perry and G. Ii. Harris; treas
urer, N. y. Cole; secretary, DR.. Preston
X. Day. Numerous other committees
were elected. Operations will be COM
menced to-day In building and making n
track. All the plans connected with this
organization are now perfected and il re-
mains for the various committees TO see
that the plans are put into operation. Tho
work will he pushed and completed so that
the hotel by the middle of the month. It
will be O gala day when they open up, as
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
WOONSOCKET,

At the annual election of Woonsocket
Typographical Union, No. 245, the follow
ing officers were chosen: President,
Charles G. Gauvin; vice-president,
Stephen 4. Gahan; treasurer, Irving j.
Sturdy recording and financial secre-
tary, j. r. Haley executive committee,
S. +. Gahan, Charles Gobeille, Henri w.
Leblanc delegate to the International
convention, Timothy f. Curran.
Mayor Pond has ~reappointed William
j. Mowry as a member of the Board of
License Commissioners for three years.
The Home Mission Circle connected
with the Universalist Church gave a very
successful sale and tea Yesterday after
noon and evening, followed by a literary
and musical entertainment. A good sum
was netted. The sale was held in the
Universalist Church parlors.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-01
PORTSMOUTH,.

The NEWS is for sale each night mt
Bristol Ferry. on the arrival OF the 5:3f
train. by Master Frank Wheeler, son of
the station agent also at the post office
by A. G. Manchester and at the store of
e.. {. & G. n. Chase.
Clinton Sproat OF Fall River has been
at his summer cottage at Bristol Ferry
for two or three days.
There are three stations besides a flag
station in this town on the Old Colony
Railroad - Bristol Ferry, Portsmouth
Grove and Coal Miners. A petition is
being circulated to have the name of the
last changed to Portsmouth.
Mrs. Beckwith arrived AT Mrs. Burke's,
her usual boarding place for the season,
on "Wednesday.
William Alny has moved to the Oliver
Braman farm, lately purchased by. the
Heywards of Newport, OF which he is TO
take charge.
George Anthony has begun housekeep-
Ing in the Field homestead.
Albert Walker IL quite sick with the
grip. Archie Chase, Son OF Mr.. &. g..
Chase, is recovering from an attack Of
the same.
Miss Mary r.. Ward OF Newport is the
guest OF Mrs. Alfred Sisson at the Bristol
Ferry Hotel.
Miss Emma Brayton is spending a fort
Bight in Seckonk.
Mrs. Wilbur Whe.ler Of Bristol Perry
has been for n fortnight in Fitchburg, the
guest OF her mother, Mrs. Bellows, and
her sister, Mrs. Herbert Page. Miss Lena
Popple was housekeeper during her alb
sencc
Mrs-Ann- Popptc is spending n few
days in New Bedford with Mrs. Abbie
Snow.
The bristol Ferry School will give an
entertainment nj Eureka Hall. April IL,
10 raiEe fuuds to procure an organ.