The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-05
WEST SIDE EVENTS.
Party Rendered to Thomas q. Evans in
Honor Of Ills Twenty
first Birthday.

Thomas G. Evans, teller of the West
Side bank, was twenty-one years old
yesterday. and In honor of the event
several of his friends assembled in the
evening at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Evans. of l722
Washburn street, and passed u pleasant
time.
Those present We're the Misses Joseph,
Matte Jones. Margaret Phillips, Miss
Phillips. Lillian Reynolds. Jennie Price.
Grace Acker, Margaret Hutton, Edith
Evans. VIII Hutton, VIII John. Albert
Carson. Il. q. Jones, Beverly Reynolds,
David Davis, Lewis A. Howell, David
Owens, Walter Jones and Bert Fern.
FROM COAL MINE TO COLLEGE.
Rev. Rhys A. Lloyd. former West
Slider. is honored by the following
sketch published in the Pittsburg
Chronlcle-Telegraph Of last Saturdays
issue:
From q coal mine to a. professors chair
Is the almost unparalleled leap that was
taken by Rev. Rhys r.. Lloyd, who u
years ago was working with pick AMI
shovel in the depths of "a Delaware. Lack
awanna and Western mine at Scranton
and who today Is professor of Greek, the
cific Theological seminary in Oakland,
Cal. 1t can be conceived how a poor boy
can become a millionaire in this country
of possibilities. but how a man can start
in the race for education with "a handicap
of twenty-three years and outstrip many
competitors in the short term of seven
teen years. is marvellous to contemplate.
Professor Lloyd was born in Wales about
forty years ago, and was one of a family
of several children. His father was II
coal miner. wretchedly poor, and when
young Rhys was but years old he had
to go into the shaft as a helper. At in
intervals ha attended night school and
eagerly grasped the crumbs which fell
from the scantily set educational table.
When he was IA. his parents emigrated
to America and Went to Scranton. There
he toiled as he had in Wales, eager for
knowledge, but with no opportunity for
acquiring 1t. In 1870 there was great
ness by attending school. In three months
he finished three grades, in which ordi-
nary scholars spent six months. His
progress astonished his teachers, but
back into the mines. 1t was not until
he was % that he left the mines for good.
He had been married three years before,
and when he entered the academy at Mari
etta, o.. he had a son year old. In one
and one-half years he had graduated from
the classical course, supporting himself
and family meantime by acting as Jani-
tor. He Immediately entered the college
1t Marietta, and after four years gradu-
ated second in IL class of eighty, having
won every rhetorical and OratOrical prize
After a summer spent in preaching in
southeastern Ohio, young Lloyd entered
the Chicago Theological seminary, where
he spent three years. For the next four
years he preached In O prosperous West
Side Chicago church, but his sermons
grew too learned, and he was advised to
become n professor He took the advice
and when he was offered the position OF
the chair Of Greek, at oakland, he ac-
cepted.
Many on the West Side remember Mr.
Lloyd. He was assisted in his studies
by the Welsh Philosophical society
which conducted a concert for his BEN
eft. Mrs. Lloyd Is a daughter Of the
late Evan =. Davis. who is we'll known
for his scholarly ability.
LEAP YEAR PARTY.
A Leap year party was rendered Miss