The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-30


of one man, and give him honor tonight.
Who would have dreamed that where our
secretary's frog orchestra gave nightly
concerts in his boyhood days. would stand
the Mears building, Republican building,
the postcffice, the court house, the board
of trade edifiee and Elm Park church;
that lots there would sell for 81 200 per
front foot and not very horizontally at
that? To parallel these in the future /
could predict, without fear of being
thought a wild dreamer a park system,
large, well-kept and celebrated-a park
system, l say, and not one park consist
ing of waterfall almost dry in summer
and policeman always dry; a market
place, a model of its kind, to which would
come the dwellers of farms sixty and sew
enty miles away, our surrounding country
upon which would rest our prosperity, be-
ing the fertile fields of Susuuehanna
Bradford and Columbia counties, the dis
tance being made much less by improved
means of locomotion and the excellent
roads, the agitation for which has already
begun, so that, by leaving home early in
the morning, they would be ready for the
markets when the people of the city would
be ready to go to them; the Lackawanna
arched over upon which would be the
market place; every street in the city
paved and kept clean theaven hasten the
dayD: railway to Bald Mount, in the
neighborhood of which our wealthy resi-
dents would have summer homes; a
trunk line from Scranton to Pittsburg and
the southwest, passing through here to
Boston and the northeast, matching the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western run
ming in the other direction, both more
than prosperous because of the immense
industrial establishments of every char
acter established here through the energy
of the citizens of the town, encouraged
and supplemented by the work of this
board, together with the great advantage
of cheap light and heat. | mention these
as few things that may be in the future;
what the rest may be !. leave for your
conjurng.
THERE IS WORK TO DO.
1t would be folly for us to deny that
what natural advantage we have upon
which to build an industrial center is of
short life when compared with the life Of
a town or state. The coal will be gone
before the city scarcely begins to be, If it
is to reach the age of Damascus, Jerusa-
lem or Rome, but such brief life of u
natural advantage will not be a drawback
to men of energy and of power. This ad-
vantage gave US beginning which our
own wisdom, energy and industry ought
to perpetuate / think it will be a spur to
send you farther and faster In the direc-
ton of the development of this town and
valley than if we knew our natural wealth
would last through ages. l think you are
not afraid of hard work and heavy eXer-
ton, and these, after all, are the secrets
of great developments, not only in work
a-day enterprises but the higher enter
prises leading to the development of the
intellect and of the soul. Dante says
For not on downy beds, nor under shade
OF canopy reposng, fame is won,
Without which whoever consumes his
years.
Leaveth such vestige of himself on earth
AS smoke in air, or foam upon the wave.
looking for fame, yet what you have done
and will do will bring that which we know
by that name.
| have said more than l anticipated,
but the welfare of the city is dear to me,
1t is home; and it is a very small man
who does not wish the greatest things
for that which Is dear to him; and for her
advancement, growth and prosperity in
the future as it has been in the past, there
is no greater factor than the board of
trade, and what she will be depend upon
your efforts as an organization.
Rev. DR.. Warlield, of Lafayette col
lege Immediately captured the wrapt
attention of his hearers in his easy and
to the toast college Men in Business"
His remarks We're as follows:
COLLEGE LIFE.
There are two views of college educa-
ton, each equally false, which are very
popular. The one regards it as sort
of white magic. The professors and stu
dents humble a few sentences of ancient
languages, work few problems with oc-
f.i,r
out of colleges transformed, prodigies of
learning, gifted with miraculous powers.
The college professor, who in his post
prandial nightmare labored fearfully in
vain endeavor to extract his son from
beneath the square root sign, illustrates
the imaginary labors of the ancient peda-
gogue The other accepts the language
of the college song, which blithely re-
lates that
"ln freshman year we come to college
To fill our heads with useless llnowl-
edge"
Our colleges are the carefully planned
and wisely wrought out manufacturers of
men. Their faults are not due to their
defective machinery, but to the inferior
raw material too often sent them. They
can only guarantee satisfaction or return
the boy. They cannot change the nature
of the boys by the wave of a wand and
a presto, change. The man who said he
did not propose to put thousand dollar
education on a ten-cent boy was doubt
less right For the college man must be
of good enough metal to bear the dollar
mark with no discount for political pur-
poses. The college has not found the
Philosophers stone. 1t only undertakes to
coin the good metal sent it.
AS the logicians say, there cannot be
more in the conclusion than there is in
the premises The boy takes into college
certain powers, aptitudes, and capabili-
ties The college undertakes 10 develop
these. 1t gauges its work on average
men. The genius and the crank, the dull
ard and the drone, are all out of place
in college. The college bends itself to
make men out of boys. 1t feeds their
minds, it exercises their intellects, it in
spires their moral nature. 1t no longer,
If it ever did, shuts in rne man to a few
linguistic and mathematical exercises. 1t
teaches him language and the value of
self-eXpression. 1t teaches him the story
of man in history and in nature, it re-
veals to him the world of physical chemi-
cal and mechanical ideas, and gives him
some conception of life and his own re-
lation to the life of his time. In doing
this it teaches him to think and to act,
to test old methods and to devise new. 1t
gives him experience of his own capacity
and it reveals TO him the infinite activi-
ties of the world about him.
When such Il man steps out of college
he is as green for business as a boy OF
fifteen. But if he has any natural ca
pacity for business he is in position to
make rapid progress. He will not only
learn more in year than the boy could
learn in two, but he has capacities that
the prentice lad is not likely ever to de-
veope, His judgment has been enlarged
his outlook broadnened. He knows few
things in detail, but he knows the broad
relations of many things
ONE DIFFICULTY.