The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-07-17
DULUTH-SUPERIOR BRIDGE.
Opened to the Public "Wednesday
Last With Appropriate
Ceremonies.



The long looked for completion and
opening of the great steel draw bridge
. between this city and Duluth took place
on Tuesday afternoon last, amid the
booming of oratorical guns, the music OF
bands, and the applause of the assem-
bled multitude.
The proceedings were exceedingly in
presided, and Rev. DR.. {. G. Salter, of
the same place, made the invocation.
/ The two mayors read the words that
made the two cities one, and then,
after few appropriate words by the
chairman, made eloquent speeches.
Mayor Starkweather was particularly
eloquent. He said:
"FELLow CITIZENS: The marriage of
| Helen of Troy was not more pregnant
with gorgeous possibilities than the ole
we now and here celebrate. Amid all
| this pomp and circumstance, let the
| ceremony which shall Join our two cities
be made complete. To my right the
bride deckcd in the glitterin. garlands
of young sisterhood, with her eight
systems Of railroad, her steel plant, her
steel shipyard, her thirty-six miles of
paved streets, her magnificent system
of sewerage, her unsurpassed elevator
capacity, her unconquered and unconq
cradle spirit OF progress, push and pro-
ficlency, her Touring mills whose daily
output is greater than Egypt's seven
years of plenty, her Sawmllls running
night and day proclaiming to the great
| northwest that from her munifCent en-
| dOwment shall come homes to harbor
the parties prolific progeny. Aye, see
the Queen of Destiny as she rides upon
the sea of this busy, restless century of
| ours. See her church spires piercing
the cerulean blue OF Gods overhanging
heavens. Sing hozannas to Christianity
triumphant!
Her newspapers are public spirited,
| fearless and indeDendent. Her Normal
! scnOol, ward schools and two High
schools testify that the lamp of science
| is always burning, that her Parthenon
| is always open to the advancement Of
learning and cultivation of the arts.
Her two hospitals, representing an ex
penditure OF nearly two hundred thous-
and dollars, speak, trumpet-tOngued,
OF her charity, her mercy and her hui
name humanity. And then her mag
nifcent veOmanry! What pen can pic
ture. what tongue can syllable a fit
apOtheosls of SuDerior's magnificent
manhood Young, ardent, sanguine,
| honest, liberal, enlightened; no caste,
no blgOtry, no petty spirit or politics.
| Generous without prodigality, thrifty
without righteousness. magnanimous
without ostentation-I love them.
| To the left the groom, Eho, from his
castle in the clouds, comes to meet the
| hi 10 10 -, l. NIL,
| Peerless in his Advancement, born IN
the lap of fame, and baptised in the
scroll of futurityduring the reign Of Proc
| tor Knott the First, we welcome thee
to the head of the table in the family Of
! Greater Superior, the worlds greatest
unsalted sea- A gift to us from the
hand of centuries, it rivals the Indies.
! Commerce sweeps over its broad ex-
panse in solemn and majestiC splendor.
At this festive hour it beams on us like
| a vision of promise; locked in the arms
of a continent canOpied by the ever
changing sky, whose sunlight, stars and
storm clouds 1t mirrors in its laughing
dimples, it bids US forward to the zenith
of our destiny, great metropolis, one
IN two; great seaport whose sails shall
Whl.en every sea; great depot whittier
| shall come and from whence shall 90
| cargOes Tor the millions; a great SAM
! tarium, where hay fever victims, nerv-
Gus, despoiIed constitutions, rheumatic
wrecks, and those from whom Hope
! has fled and upon whom Melancholy,
With its fearful brow, has seized, NAV
come and be healed; an Athens, where,
/ during the vigor conducting sunshine of
our summer seasons, learning and art,
! philosophy and invention shall come to
! DO homage TO our acadeinies-we, the
/ last, the best Of modern cities, without
walls, without ornaments, with the
/ shield OF honor and the sword oil Justice,
shall stand as the enduring monument
( of civilization S most perfect handiwOrk
in the creation of clties. Citizens of
/ Duluth and Superior, do Ue really COM
I prehend what 1t signifies to lie the seat
of emplre-the throne Of commerce?
I Commerce, who, with the lamp of adj
venture, the cross of charity, fithomed
the vastnesses of unknown seas, broke
down the barriers of superstition and
ignorance, drove savagery from the rich
mines of the Orient and made the des-
ert to blossom like the rose. Commerce,
who waved the wand OF discovery over
turbulant barbarlty and brought forth
smiling peace. Commerce, which hath
/ brought many Captives home to Rome,
whose ransoms did our Golfers fill.
! Commerce, which has made possible
the fulfllment of Gods prophecy to
man, that His word wouid be preached
to all men, even to the uttermost corner
: of the earth.
Commerce, with its beDefactions is
not silent. 1t tells Us that grandeur and
greatness are not the children ofinertia.
1t commands that We heed history and
the past. The past points at Us her
warning finger. She bids us throw
awav petty jeaiousies; she counsels us
TO be fair, one to the other; she COM
mends to our daily life the virtue OF
rendering unto Caesar the things which
are Caesars; she tells Us. III no unmean-
ing terms, that, commercially we have
a rival in every other municipality: that
here, at Natures Great Wharf, the
golden grain should all he marketed.
not part Of it; that with our free cities,
our cheapest coal, our industries and
peaceful labor, and no discrimination
by railroads, that cities two hundred
miles away inland cannot compete with
Us in the flour markets Of the world;
that united people, though in two
commOnwealths, We should patiently
AID pe-sis:e1.ly forge onward toward