The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-10-11
THE UNITED TYPOTHETAE
OF AMERICA.

OF AMERICA.
The Eighth Annual Convention of
the United Typotheta of America, held
at Philadelphia, proved in every way
one of the most profitable and enjoyable
in the history of that organization.
The session was opened Tuesday
morning, September 18th, in the banquet
hall at the Hotel Metropole with large
attendance of delegates from every
section of the country. representing
every branch of the printer art. More
than 200 were present, and all the officers
of the national body were on hand,
together with nearly all of the former
officers.
President John R. McFetridge pre-
sided, and few minutes before 10
o'clock announced that the Convention
was formally opened. He then intro
duced Stephen Greene, the Chairman
OF the Executive Committee of the
Philadelphia Typothea, who delivered
the address of welcome to the delegates.
In part Mr.. Greene said:
The morning is dark and gloomy, but
soon shall the glorious sun dispense the
| clouds which overhang the sky, even as
the advent of your art brought into the
world new light, dispelling darkness
and ignorance from the intellectual
horizon.
To our First Vice President, who has
the respect, admiration and love of our
local organization and, indeed, all who
know him, would belong the honor Of
giving you an affectionate greeting.
His unavoidable and much regretted
absence from the city, however, prevents
us from enjoying his gracious smile,
and Of hearing the kind, wise and
eloquent words he would speak.
Next to him our talented, active and
brilliant Second Vice President should
tell you in the choicest language that
the doors are wide open for your enjoy
ment of the warmest and best hospital
ity of the Quaker City. 1t has been
my pleasant duty to express to the
delegates to the Eighth Annual Con-
vention of the United Typotheta of
America the cordial welcome of the
Typotheta of Philadelphia. And l do
this the more cheerfully, mindful of the
fine object lesson given on that memo
rable Sunday morning, when the young
printer, afterwards philosopher, states
man and sage, and now adopted as our
patron, walked our streets, eating one
roll of bread and carrying two other
rolls under his arme, to give to the first
hungry person he should meet. The
lesson has been well learned by the
printers, and the citizens of Philadel-
phia have ever emulated their example.
In the name and memory of a hospi-
tally that would share the last loaf of
bread, l welcome you to the City Of
Brotherly Love. We welcome you to
this representative American city-a
city covering 1919 square miles, contain
ing over 225,OOO homes and growing at
the rate of $1,000 every year; to it's
temples of science, arts and letters,
whose existence has been made posi-
BILE and which have been fostered and
developed by the art which you repre-
sent; to its vast manufactures, work
shops and shipyards, whose products
of iron and steel, wooden and worsted,
locomotives and steamships, are found
in every part of the world. And now,
again welcome noble men engaged in
the pursuit of your high vocation, the
results of whose achievements and
work shall endure while time shall last,
the grand channel and article of univer-
sal education, handmade of religion,
and welcome to you fair women,
sharers in mans tolls and triumphs,
whose grace and loneliness set the ideal
for all pure art, and whose smiles adorn
with roses the laurels worn by our
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