Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-21
THE WORLD CELEBRATED.

THE WORLD CELEBRATED. Meetings Held in Many Places in This Couutry and Even in Great Britain in Honor of the Ninetieth Birthday Of General Neal Dow Tribute From England.
 PORTLAND, Me-, March 20.-City hall was packed to the doors to night in cele- bration of General Dow's birthday. The W. O. T. U. arranged the meeting and decorated the hall for the occasion. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president of the Maine W. 0. T. U., called the meeting to order and presented Mayor Baxter as chairman. He spoke briefly being followed by Gen. eral Selden Connor, Rev. Mott 8. Hughes and John w. Hutchinson, the only sur vivor of the "Hutehinson family" of
 singers. An oil portrait of General Dow,
 to be hung on the state house walls,
 was presented by Hannah J. Bailey, which
 was accepted by Governor Cleaves. Tele. grams of congratulstion were read from the meetings in London, Chicago and Bos-
 ton. Angus McDonald of Edinburg pre-
 sented the greetings of the Scottish tenn
 persnce societies and Mise Clara O. Heffer-
 man of Missouri spoke, olassing General Dow with the great reformers.
 Then General Dow was presented, and as he came forward with firm and elastic step he received a tremendous ovation.
 Despite the arduous duties of the dsy he showed few signs of fatigue. His voice
 was clear and his gestures animated. He
 began with the classic quotation: "I who am about to die, salute you," and his re.
 marks which followed were devoted to the prohibition cause and the evils of the rum trafic, being sipgularly impersensl in their trend.
 BOSTON, March 20.-General Neal Dow
 was honored this afternoon by 6 number of Boston speakers who from the pulpit of Kings chapel talked to the big gathering
 assembled there at the birthday of "this
 grand old hero of the prohibition cause,"
 as Rev. L. A. Banks, D. D., called him.
 It vas 6 representative Boston audience,
 comprising in It's ranks many we'll known
 faces. The program was a long one, con- sistipg of number of addresses and also vocal and ir str umental music. Mrs. Susan s. Fassen presided and the devotional ser vice was conducted by Mrs, A. J. Gordon. Rev. L. A. Banks was the first speaker, and addresses were also delivered in eulogy ! of the great temperance reformer by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, Rev. Alfred Noonan and Hon. J. D. Long.
 NASHUA, N. H, March 20.-Anniver- l sary exercises in honor of the ninetieth | birthday of General Dow were held at the Baptist church tonight and were largely attended. Rev. J. O. White presided, Rev. O J. Richsrdson delivering prayer, and interesting remarks were made by Rev. F..
 A. Gray.
 To day the ninetieth birthday of the noted
 temperance advocate General Dow has | been observed with appropriate exercises
 by the Birmingham organization of the
 W. c. T. U. This afternoon a meeting
 was we'll attended at Grace church, with an appropriate address by Mrs. Rolfe oi Concord and other services. This evening
 Mrs. Helen G. Rice of Boston, state super.
 intendent of juvenile work in the w. O.
 T. U., gave an interesting address and
 there was singing. and readings.
 LONDON, March 20.-The tempersnct
 societies throughout England to day cele
 brated the ninetieth birthday of Genera
 Neal Dow, the American temperance ad
 vocate, and o-night Lady Somerset pre-
 sided over . meeting in his honor in Exetel
 hall. In various parts of the kingdom up
 wards of 200 meetings were held during l the day and evening. Numerous te!egramI | of congratulations have been forwarded t.
 General Dow in Portland, Me. Pictures O General Dow were displayed at all thu meetings. The Exeter hall meeting unde l | xr -k ~l- kh
 following address to the great tenperanc reformer was sdoptsd:
 ! We are profoundly grateful for tn character that illustrates the spotless pur ity of life, for . career devoted to tn emancipation of the slaves, cause of tots ' abstinence and the enfrsnchisement of wo man and for the courage that dared to b in the right with two or three and hell stssdfastly on its way till crowned by tn ! action of that great majority which gay \ prohibition to the state of Maine. W, pray that your ninety beneacent years b ' rounded to . hundred, and that you ms 7 tarry with us until the mother country en ables her people to put the liquor trafi under the ban of the law, and make hom protection the watchword of her politics \ We feel sure that birthday was never g 4 universally observed without distinotio ' of nation, sect or party, and we argu \ from this indication of the cosmopolita character of the temperance reform il | universal conquest when "the race out ( childhood has grown"
 The dispatch cabled to General Do . from the Exeter hall meeting signed | N Lady Somerset, Miss Frances Willard, 8 Wilfred Lawssn and Nessrs. Price -Hughe Ht Ormiston, Chant and others to be read [ to-dsy's celebration at Portland, Ne, VI
 as follows:
 ssTo General Dow-A mighty throng gatl
 cred in Exeter hall to crown your ninel \ banefcent years with love and gratitud for you can truly ray when the ear hsa, \ me, then 1t blessed me; and whom the c, saw me 1t gave witness to me. Because ' delivered the poor that cried and the < therless and him that had none to he
 him. The blessing of Him who was reas A to perish came upon me, and caus the widows heart to sing with joy. A put on righteousness and It cloth