Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-06-04
Our Normal School!
THE DEDICATION G IRCMONlES
A GRAND SUCCESS.
Judge Beatty's Grafton.
The Street Parade the Finest Ever
Seen IN the City Many DIS
tlngulshed Visitors.

The Normal School dedication
was one of the most important III
the history of Lewiston, The up
building OF lhis institution for the
promotion of higher education has
long been our hope, and it is now
a fact. One of the best schools in
the Northwest is established in our
midst, and the building dedicated
is an honor to our city. The peo-
pie entered INTO the celebration of
the event with earnestness born of
LOYALTY to noble cause. For a
week before the day deep interest
in the celebration mas manifest by
the stir i'll the city. Visitors had
been arriving all the week, and on
Tuesday the governor and staff and
gnard consisting of the cadets from
the University arrived. \ military
air prevailed from that time till
the close Of the exercises. The
First Regimental Band received
the visiting military companies
and escorted them to the camp
ground.
Wednesday morning the pro-
cession formed at the school house
and marched to the Normal School
ground. The parade was the
grandest display of the kind ever
witnessed in Lewiston. 1t was two
miles long and was in order, as
follows: Marshal of the Day, Col i.
McConville and his assistants:
First Regimental Band; G.. A. r.
post; Company B. of Lewiston;
Company I, of Genesee; University
Band from Moscow; University
Cadets; Artillery; Lewiston Public
School Pupils; Normal School
Students; Lapwai Indian Band;
Indian Industrial School Students;
Canton of Odd Fellows; Uniform
Rank Knights of Pythias; Orator
of the Day and President of the
Normal School; Governor and
Staff; Normal Faculty; Board of
Regents of Normal School and
Citizens in Carriages.
Seats sufficient to accommodate
nearly the entire concourse of peo-
pie were arrayed upon the campus,
in front of the Normal building,
facing large stand which was
embowered i'll green boughs. AS
soon as the audience became quiet
alter abe march up the hill the Ger
emonies began. After a prayer by
Rev. J. ID. McConkey and the an
them Mr.. Reid, the president of the
BOARD OF regents, stepped to the
front and made an eloquent speech
introducing Judge J. II. Beatty,
the speaker OF the day. The ora
ton was grand effort. After
some introductory remarks he
Spoke as follows:
IN Is century, so near its unclonded
sohset, has developed upon this con
'ileht the anomaly of the world s
.NiiZailon. True, in u much shorter
'nie, The MacedOnians reached those
cohfIn where Alexander wept for
"'hef worlds to conquer; Rome carried
ner iiiNllcihle arms wherever she
l"uhd worthy foe; Napclean over
,urhen the thrones of Europe and his
nh'pefIal legions became the wonder OF
,he nations. But such triumphs
Drought only martial glory, while
shioking ruins and the desolation of
war We're the only monuments to
marx the track of the cOnqueror. Ours
me triumph of peace, whose monu-
h'ents are enduring.
At the beginning of the century
we We're poor and almost unknown
reopie occupying the bleak Atlantic
oasl-oy ITS close, our dominion has
iA'tiided IN to the flowery shore of the
a.iiie. At no prior period have so
many people risen so rapidly, pros
l"'ea ;" greatly, or have equal rights
s, men SO well maintained with SO little
1n;,n,i.tary restraint. We have estab-
n n'ea liberty with law and govern
h;e. hent without oppression When the
's"ry "i this locality shall be writ
"a, .le faithful scribe, following the
fae,i Unread ot truth, will collect
r..a. III 'he hazy past Il fascinating story,
M Mig more like romance than truth.
Nearly one hundred years ago the
asa sn. canoe of the merry hearted voy-
tIs tIsuas Heated along your rivers
iush these mountain passes the
w explorers tOiled their weary
Az rom lofty peaks their signal fire,
,han hsneo their warning light. Nor,
nit generation since, the pioneer
isnhas, iaers OF Idaho, in quest of gold, first
ana t upon the banks at our feet
rara htfe Your first inhabitants lon.
f,n,u IN the yellow sands gathered
''"hl these mountains.
So,.n An outsider may we'll doubt youi
in .ia protes1atiops that you believ,
iliaI 10 10 II, when all your first fam
1rsfe Mere such gold bugs
tn ,ts ms country must ever he sacrec
e gallant path finders VIII,