The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27

pleasure than to make out that check
for $4,000 for President Sperry.
But before we start out on our long
journey let me, by way of reminis
cenee, mention one incident from per-
sonal experience. In 1851 my wife and
I took our first trip to the west
Our destination was GAINESVILLE, Wis.
We passed through Michigan on a
strap rail, and Travelled to Elgin, Ill.,
which was the terminus of the railroad
and there we took mud wagon to our
destination. We passed through Be
lott. We travelled through cold and
mud-rich mud, too-and we got to
Beloit. where there was a river. Our
horses had to swim the river, and We
had to stand on the seats to get
through. We drove up TO little wood
en- tavern and rested. Beloit was but a
small hamlet then. When we started
for GAINESVILLE one of those big, burly
rough fellows who get into the new
country, climbed into the wagon for a
ride AS we passed by the campus of
Beloit college we saw a brick building
and l asked, the man, What are they
doing here?' Why, there are some
Yankee cranks building a college, he
answered. And that rather hit me-
When they call me a Yankee I take off
my hat and bow. and when 1 am called
an old Puritan ! make three bows. On
the way to GAINESVILLE he cursed every
thing that was good, and I stood up for
Christian education the best ! knew
how. When we got to GAINESVILLE / shook
my fist in his face and said, Old fell
low, 1 am going west and in a few
years [ am going 80 get rich, and when
/ do l am going to help lift up these
colleges that these Yankee cranSs"
are building up l had my eye on Be
lott at that time
Cline went on, and my 70 years
rolled by. and nine years ago I COM
menced. The first proposition I made
to Beloit College was this: I will give
you $1O0,O if you viii raise $10O, 0O0 l
make everybody work a little, and that
is the right way to do it. In six weeks
theytraised that 100000, and l had to
DRAW my check. That pleased me very
much / was so well pleased, and the
institution was such a character-such
a grand character-b building institution
that I went to work and built them
science hall, the finest in the west.
1t cost me $50 600 in cash. But / WASH t
quite satisfied with that and the next
year ] saw that the boys had to play
was too much, so | built them a DOR
mitory costing $25,000 Now the boys
can live on 81 so a week. ] wasn't quite
satisfied with that for they were good
fellows. So / said: Look here you
haven't got quite money enough, you
want more endowment. you want bet
ter professors, and you need more en-
dowment Now, you raise $3.50, 900 and
viii give you another $50, 600 So last
commencement the president stepped
in and said. Here is $150,000 cash-not
Kansas mortgages, no sand dunes, no
swamp lands-but cash So l gave
him my check for $4,000, and that
closed that deal
They established co-education, and
that pleased me. They were going to
have the girls come in, but they had
no cage TO put tA,em in. So / said
Get to work and build the finest build
ing you can for 70 girls, and be sure
you get a good many Mary Lyons and
Frances Wizards among them and I
built them a beautiful S25 900 dormi-
tory, and it is now occupied by s. young
ladies. That was a very pleasant thing
to do, and ] am rather proud of It'll
like it, You needn,ttell me u am good
fellow know l am.
Nine years ago there We're about 80
students in Beloit College, and about
100 in the academy and now they have