The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-28
FAIR FORMALLY OPENED
Sheridan Monument Association Has
Good First Night.
PROMINENT CITIZENS SPEAK
Judge Guuster for the County. Mayor
Conuell for tho City and Colonel
Ripple for Old Soldiers, Deliver
Addresses Who Arc in Charge.

For the coming month Music Hall
will be the Mecca of pleasure seekers.
On Saturday night the Phil. Sheridan
fair was formally opened there With
speeches ard music in the presence of a
big crow'dl representing all sections OF
the city and many neighboring towns.
The exercises We're opened with a
promenade concert by Lawrence band
after which Senator j. c. Vaughn,
chairman of the Monument associa-
tfon, introduced Judge T.. w. Gunster.
The judge spoke eloquenitly and in
very appropriate terms, first reviewing
the late war and its effects. then paying
a glowing tribute to 'Tthe sceptered
sovereignS who rule us from their
urns." and concluding With the fol-
lowing:
TT is fitting and proper that monu-
ments should be raised to such men,
and their monuments cannot be too
grand. Monumer'ts are object lessons.
They appeal not only to the eye, but to
the memory and to the heart. The
child on it's way ito school may pass
such "a tribute ito a mans worth, day
after day, in thoughtlessness and play,
tut at some time, some day when the
in private life or in public affairs, when
the hour of troulble comes, whether 1t be
the child has grown to youth and the
youth Ito manhood, the cold and ST.
lent monument on the square will kim
die in him tdhe sparks of patriotism
transmitted to us from Bunker Hill and
Gettysburg, and nerve him to emulate
the example of the men who fought
and died under the leadership of Grant
and Sherman and Sheridan"
Life of Phil. Sheridan.
Next Colonel tE. III. Ripple gave an
interesting sketch of the life Of Sher-
fdan, characteriZing him as one than
whom no other was more deserving of
recognition, after which Mayor w. L.
Connell dn neat speech declared the
fair formally opened.
The crowd then turned its atten-
thon to the objects Of interest to be
seen in the prettily decorated hall,
while the omnjpresent and persistent
canvasser gathered i'm the money. Those
who have charge of the booths are:
Miss NJ. A. Early. central city. fore
lady; assistants. Mrs. H. j. Flaherty, Mrs.
G. T. Burke, Mrs. p. J .Vetter and Misses
Margaret Jordan. Geary. Logan. Hag-
Kirby.
Miss Agnes Charles, candy booth. fore
lady; assistants, Misses Helen Charles
Agnes Ormes, Name Conway, Maggie
Foin and Agnes Callahan.
Mrs. Frank Johnson, Hyde Park, fore
lady; assistants, Misses B. Gibbons, Bes-
sic Grant. Anna O'Malley, Anna Cooper,
Nellie Flynn, Name Lally, Sadie Durkin.
Emma Faust, Anna Haggerty, Kate
Flynn, Jennie Jones. Clara Ross. Mamie
Kelly, Mamie OeMalley. Cecil johnson,
Name Morgan.
From tho Bellevue District.
Mrs. Grady, Bellevue. forelady; assist
ants. Misses Alice Gerrity, Lizzie Welsh,
Mary Rush. Katie Duffy, Mary A. Hoban,
Annie Madigan, Anna Shields, Alice May.
Name Keating, Bernette Kelley. Katie
Mullen, Anna Lynn, Mary INLAND. Della
inland, Maggie Lally, Maggie Cannon,
Mamie Russell and Nellie Kealey.
Miss Lizzie Boyle. South Side, forelady;
assistants Misses Kate McGerrlty. Anna
Walsh, Lizzie Healey, Katie Welsh, Katie
McCue. Anna O'Hara, Coleman, Joyce,
Anna Judge, Kate Lavelle, Ella O'Boyle,
Sarah Burke, Nellie Shea, Name Moran,
Margaret Murphy.
Miss May Kearney, Providence, fore
lady; assistants, Misses Kelley, Nellie
Haggerty, Nellie O'Hara, Mary Grady.
Mrs. John McTague, Nellie Ormes. Han
nah Bell, May O'Malley, Mary O'Boyle,
Name Flynn.
Mrs. M. d. Roche, Pine Brook, fore
lady: assistants, Miss Mary Mitchell, Mrs.
James Hicks, the Misses Della Callaghan,
Lizzie Reedy, Maggie McAndrews, Jennie
Burnett Sarah Walsh. Name Callagha n,
Alice Murphy. Agatha Quinn, Ellal Walsh,
Katie McCracken, Mary j. McAndrews.