The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-25


cent defeat for the mayoralty nomina.
ton. He said the committee had sug.
gested another toast for him and he
had studied 1t very carefully for six
months, but he proably was not well
enough informed on the subject which
had been taken from him-it was 1.-THE
City Of Scranton" Captain Moir re-
ferred to Paul Jones, Patrick Henry
and Alexander Hamilton as early pa
triots given by Scotland to America.
and urged that their inspiration and
love for liberty should be perpetuated
by their progeny.
DIR. James Stein. in his response to
"The Medical Profession" referred to
many Scots whose prominence as ply
sicians and surgeons in this and their
native country had helped to establish
the prestige acquired by Scotsmen in
all professions by their profound learn
ing and invited emulation by the pres
ent generation.
Third Chieftain Rankin sang Mary
Of Argyle" q sweet Scotch melody.
Alderman Millsr's Response.
Alderman Millar in his response to
"The City of Scranton" made some
very emphatic statements concern
ing the failure Of citizens to
build an armory fer the Thir-
teenth regiment. After remark
ing upon the rapid and miraculous
growth of the city from q little mining
hal1!et to its present commercial and
geographical proportions, he said:
Twenty-Five years ago / occupied posi-
tion which was to the public then and Is
today source Of comfort and joy-that Of
a train newsboy on the Lackawanna road
from New York to BinghamtOn. The boy
who ran on alternate days was a Scran-
ton lad. Our trains passed at Strouds-
burg where he once said TO me: Billy.
you ought to stop off at Scranton some
day and invest in real estate; you can
buy good building lots for $50 each
concluded to help boom Scranton and be-
come q millionaire. 50 ! stopped Off one
day in this city. where ] found the lots
In question to be q mass of rocks and
indentatons and thought 1t all a scheme
of sharp real estate agents. j left the
city In disgust and without purchasing.
Today those lots in the Seventeenth ward
are occupied by some of the handsomest
residences I'm the city.
A few years later l was one Of four
young men who helped the postmaster con-
duct the city's United States mail busi-
ness. which today occupies the attention
of postmaster, an assistant postmaster
and fifty of sixty employees.
After an interesting reference to the
city's new bridges. handsome business
structures. government, county and
city buildings and the enterprise which
made them possible, Alderman Millar
said:
wish to seriously call your attention to
one blind mistake, the city's guilty mis-
take In Its failure to provide suitable
armory for its citizen soldery. l fear We
do not fully realize its Importance. Our
magnificent Thirteenth regiment, whose
official record is the very best In Pennsyl-
vania and which is the peer OF any in
the United States. is entitled to more con-
sideration than it has received; 1t has
been shamefully treated, but the same
cannot be said of even inferior regiments
in other cities. Probably not more than
10 per cent of Scranton's citizens realize
that we are on record at Harrisburg as
having the best regiment in the state.
am no alarmist, but l say emphatically
and sincerely as one who has had nineteen
years experience with the regiment, that
unless a new armory Is soon Forthcoming
it means the disbandment of the peerless
Thirteenth. A new armory will not wholly
pay for the metal. talent and sacrifice OF
time Of the splendid young men who COM
pose the splendid organization.
Alderman Millar closed his address
with complimentary reference to the
municipal government.
Tho Other Addresses.
c. Ben johnson, of the Sunday News,
made a very apt effort in his-response
to the toast THE Press" Solos were
then sung by Mr.. Morgan and Mrs.
Ballantine Louis A. Osborne, late Of
New York city. but now of Scranton,
responded to THE Lassies." A flute
solo by Mr.. Coyne terminated the pro-
gramme and the banquet ended with
the singing Of "Auld Lang Syne" in
concert.
The accompanist for all the musical
numbers was Mrs. Nellie Moses
Thomas.
The officers Of the Scranton Gale
domains are: Chief. w. Scott Collins;
first chieftain. DR.. James Stein; second
chieftain. Robert Bushnell; third chief
tain, r. w. Rankin; fourth chieftain,
James Jeffrey; trustees, Captain Jas.
Moir: John Pirie and Thomas jeffrey.
Chief Collins read during the evening
circular letter from James w. X. Col
lins, of Philadelphia, relative to the
statue of Highland Mary which II is
proposed to erect at Dunoon, Scotland,
in July, as memorial to Burns her
oins.