The morning times., 1896-09-13
Copyright, 1861

New York, Sept. 12.-Past the squalid
puriieus of Jersey City. where green
scun,med mud stands in the vacant lots
and where astbn,atic and hay fevered loco
motives. putting and sneezing as they
move about arm in arm with trolley
cars. criss-cross the desolate landscape;
past the great salt meadows, where the
MOSQUITOES are credibly averred to darken
the descending sun Of evening; past the
slopes of rural Jersey, where the red and
yellow Of the ripening peaches and apples
dot the green orchards, and where the dis
tant blue of the Orange Mountains first
begins. to peep above the foreground.
faster still through the great plain Of
central New Jersey, the fattest aud fair
est farming land. perhaps. in all the East
ern States, the express train speeds.
Princeton Junction, where one ahgb1
and sees the train speed on toward Phila-
delphia until it is out Of sight aud hear
ing. seems, in the sudden bush which
succeeds the clatter and roar OF the en-
gine, almost the quietest place on earth.
A little shuttle train OF couple Of cars
and an engine running back and forth,
up and down the steep grade into the
foothills to the north. presently conveys
the visitor, however, to quieter one-a
beautiful college village in the long vaca-
ton, three miles from the main railway
and four times as many from any great
town soiled by the smoke of the big
chimneys. Here In the sunny days the
most beautiful college campus In the
United States seems asleep, waiting to
open its drowsy eyes with the noise of
the coming students a week hence.
The awakening Will be complete and
emphatic this year, for 1t Ii the
Princeton year of jubilee, the great ses-
quicentennial celebration. the completion
of the 150th year Of the life Of the
college. For this event the most thorough
preparations have been made. The great
days of the celebration will be October
20, 81, and 20. swarms of Princetonians
from all over the world will be present,
some filling the hotels and boarding
houses of the town, some conveyed by
special trains at night to Trenton and
even to Newark, Philadelphia, and New
York, returning each morning with the
true Princetonian enthusiasm to the ac-
n Il1
which mark the requirement of culture
upon the college plan. There will be on
the morning OF the first OF these three
days q commemorative service with a
discourse by President Patton, in the after
noou a reception, in the evening probably
. classical concert. Prof. Woodrow Will
son, 10, who is rapidly coming to the
front as one of the chief American writer's
upon historical subjects, will deliver an
grafton representing the American Wing
Society, while the Rev. DR.. Van Dyke,
'73. will read a poem for the Cliosopbic
Society A reception by DR.. and Mrs.
Patton at Prospect, the beautiful seat of
the president, and a unique torcblight
parade in the evening, reviewed in front
of Nassau Hall by an assemblage Of nota-
bles, which it is now expected will in
clude President Cleveland. who, as an
ardent Presbyterian, is deeply interested
In the success of the college, will close a
day full of excitement. Somewhere in
the cbinks between these exercises wi. be
slowed Il series of athletic games by the
undergraduates, addresses from the steps
of Nassau Hail. and students songs until
all who can sing them, old and young
alike are as boarse as fog horns
The third day is the actual sesquicen-
tennial day, in memory of the charter
granted by New Jersey .'in good, old colony