The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-30
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"T an epoch SO strikiugiy sim
W gsli3r as the present, what
sensations crowd upon the
rejecting mind and how
forcfbly occur the questions
What was the situation OF this country.
this day. one hundred years ago7 And
what is II now7 Where the deep silence
Of the woods was disturbed by no sound
but from the dread savage and the woif
fields now smile under the plastic hand
Of the cultivator and the groves renly In
glad responses. Long may this happy
procession continue. ana may the COM
mencement OF the next century witness n
greater advance to virtue, power and
glory than even the last" From the
Baltimore Federal Gazette, January /.
1901.
1t was the same then as now. when
the eighteenth century was about TO
die as the nineteenth is now doing, all
America prepared 10 usher In its sue
cessor--as We are doing even now. The
good citizen OF 1891 celebrated. as the
more or less good citizen Of 1901 IS about
to do. WatehniEht meetings, dinners,
gatherings OF all kinds. fireworks, iiluui-
nations and the like ushered In the new
century. that Is now l0i years old III we
may judge from tho publications of that
time the citizens OF America a century
ago celebrated In much the Same spirit.
IL with a vastly different view. as the
Americans Of today,
New York was not as pre-emiuent then
as II is now. and the principal events
took place in Boston and Philadelphia.
The latter place. erronaouslv yclept
sleepy" must have been a fairly wide
awake town from certain accounts print
ed In the Aurora" According 10 this au-
thorlty. on Saturday, January 3 isoi the
staid citizens met at the home az Citizen
Miller at the Sign Of the Green Tree. in
North Fourth street. TO celebrate the "fa-
yorable commencement OF the nineteenth
century" DIR. Reynolds presided and
after the dinner had had it's mellowins
effects, sundry and various toasts were
proposed. The principal one was. 'Hrhe
world-Our Country--Man. Our Fellow
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES our Religion.
Other toasts we're 70 Thomas Jefferson.
just elected president 60 Aaron Burr, ats
unsuccessful rival named for vice preai-
dent: Universal Toieratian," THE Con-
stitution.'' BENJAMIN Franklin" and
last, 'Ireiandi May she rise like Antaeus
from her fail and crush the dcspots who
exult in her mlseries."
The celebration lasted until early dawn
and Philadelphia was considerably
shocked at the erratic pcregrinations OF
her staid citizens while on their way
home. The Aurora" added 20 the Raiety
eighteenth century.
At Lancaster, Pa, tremendous oeie-
hration was held in the large hnfi OF
Franklin college. All the town turned
out. honfres were lighted, pistols shot
of and Rs much noise made as possible.
A great transparency. eight feet high and
twice as long. bearing the legend. ''fiber-
~ and the Constitution" adorned the
. lower end of the hall. Speeches predicting
a glorious future for the new century
we're made. and then bullock was
roasted
The Philadelphia German Society also
celebrated, rs did tho prominent citi-
Gems Of Easton. Pa. who assembled at
the house of Mr. Hickman TO watch the
old century out and the new one In.
In New York city. the people being
more cosmopolitan there Was less ceie-
brating. Watchnight services were held
in the various churches. ana In some OF