Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-05
THE NEW JOHNSTOWN
Now Just Recovered to the Point of
Her 0ld-Time Prosperity,
YIELDS TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE.
Dill Acquitted, Which Pleases Houtzdale
but Not Clearfeld.
NEYSY NOTES FROM NEARBY TOWNS
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. J

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPkrcH.l
JoHNsTowN, Feb 1.-Two important
events commemorative of the Johnstown
food took place in this city to-day. The
place was thronged with distinguished Wis
itors Members of the Flood Commission,
the Relief Committee and other organiza-
;ions were present.
The first event was the dedication and
throwing open of the Conemaugh Valley
Memorial Hospital This edifce has been
built out of the balance of the food relief
funds left in the hands of the Relief Com
mittee. The building and equipments cost
$50, 1927. The gr9und cost 1900, making a
total Of S62, 599 %. With the deed of the
hospital to the Hospital Association the
committee were also able to hand over a re-
manning cash balance of 81 126 25.
The address was made by General D. H.
Hastings, who spoke of the transfer as the
final act of the great drama of death and
resurrection. Addresses were also made by
James B. Scott, of Pittsburg, Chairman of
the Building Committee and prominent in
the relief work; Mayor Rose, Judge Barker
and others.
In the evening a large mass meeting OF
citizens was held for the purpose of having
maugh Valley publicly acknowledge their
gratitude and appreciation to that world
which was friend in their need
The Resolutions of Gratitude.
At this mass meeting II. W. Storey, Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade and Chairman
OF the Committee on Resolutions, presented
the following
WHEREAS. on the 3lst day of May, 1889. this city
OF Johnstown and the valley of the Conemaugh
suffered a sudden calamity so exceptional in its
character and so terrible in its consequences that
il challenged the instant attention of the civilized
world. The dreadful news burdening the telegraph
wires and filling the columns of the public press
carried Il thrill of anguish to the universal human
heart, and the wretched survivors of the great
catastrophe. hudded upon the hillsides and gazing
upon the wrecks of their homes, where fires ragged
among the ruins of the flood had not to wait long
for relief Thev became the wards of mankind.
Everywhere there was the instant impulse
guqrfer came heroic men and women. struggling
with such obstacles as ruined railroad lines and
6rideeless streams bringing clothing and shelter
and enduring hardships and privations in most
horrible surroundings, TO give medical attention 10
-he sick ana wounded, burial to the dead and cour-
age 10 the survivors and those who could not come
in person contributed aid in a fashion which the
W"ild mas never seeh tltes ano NlIlaees, chuTcnes
and associations newspapers, factories, schools
auJourfed i'm the aggregate to millions of money
and promptly forwarded every form OF material
Whereas Without this generosity that part of
The Valley of the Conemaugh swept by the flood
would for the most part have remained waste.
while with il the region has been; in great meas
are restored its business re-establshed its homes
rebuilt and on all sides may be seen the evidences
OF renewed prosperity; and
hereas. No public acknowledgements OF lne
word's beneiaction TO Johnstown has heretofore
been made.
,JoIlnstown,s Thanks Formally offered
Resolved. BY the people of Johnstown and the
Conemangh Valley, in mass meeting assembled,
shat 10 those who by their contributions gave us
rhc aid which fed us when we were hungry clotheo
Ms when we were naked ministered TO all our needs
and belped rs TO re-establish our homes, and to
those who left their business and families and
came 10 encourage US when IN despair. VINO
with sympathrtic hearts and kindly ha nds, gath
cred ont Of the tangled wreck our dead ana gave
-Hen burial and who. day by day stood Dy 10 serve
rs when we surrounded by desolatlon- we
.yy,. olr thanks with gratefulness that cannot be
EXPRESSED in words: and we invoke Tor theln as
their reward greater than any earthly olessing.
Resolved. That appropriate ana enduring
memorial of the worlds charity TO Johnstown,
she -e,nle Of the Conemaugh Valley. lis corpora
lions firms and individuals, VIII contribute their
r,ss,-c5fye income earnings, wages or profits for
- L..st one dav selecting the 3lst day of May,
LOO. to fund TO be spent by proper rsprese1Ia ,1I
s,4-,re Of y group of statuary by an American
suiptlr which will htly symbolic and express the
,-i5T,.b viii stand as an inspiration TO good deeds
curing coming centuries OF time.
The rorulation of Johnstown is about
where it II was before the flood Its savings
hank deposits are little greater. the turn
1o1. the better having commenced in Octo-
Der These facts, together with business
aud building operations, encourage the peo-
71le to bel eve that new era OF prosperity
i beginning for the Conemaugh Nalley. na Inc
} ew Carnegie Library building, costing S6O,-
90. is to be opened and dedicated on Febru-
AIRY - The individual members OF tne lam
lria Iron Company have subscribed So4,OOo
toward a permanent lund Tor H.