The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-31
MENTION OF
Men OF HOUR

men OF HOUR
REV. WARREN q. PARTR1D1E,
d. D., IS IN THE CITY.
He Was Formerly Pastor of the Penn
Avenue Baptist Church--C. z. Rog-
ers Has Resigned the Position of
Manager of the DR.. Hand Con-
densed Milk Company to Engage
in Cattle Business-Hon. T. v.
Powderly on the immigration
Question---Man from the Tar East.
Rev. Warren q. Partridge, ID. d.,
pastor of the Penn avenue church from
1890 to 1895. but now of Cincinnati. O.'
is in this city renewing old acduaiht-
ances. DR.. Partridge Is now the pas
tor of the largest Protestant church IN
the state of Ohioard the second largest
in the country. the Ninth Street Bap-
tist church. of Cincinnati. This church
has a membership of LOO and Il sun
day school with an enrolment of 5000
scholars.
1t is an institutional church and has
no less than seven chapels for mission
work in various parts of the city. Con-
nected with these are seven industrial
schools, in which 100 girls receive in
dustrial training. Among the other
features of the church work are Il daily
free kindergarten. Il Chinese sunday
school, an employment bureau. boys
brigade and literary societies. galore.
In the church proper and the seven
missions there are conducted every
week no less than eighty services.
DR.. Partridge has under him three
ordained clergymen and small army
OF lay assistants. He is bringing to
this greatwork the rare executive abil-
ity. the resstless energy and the true
spirit of Christianity which character
lied his labors in this city. He is a
firm believer in the practical side of
christianity and says he is convinced
that merely delivering two sermons Il
week and doing nothing else is not fol-
lowing the precepts of ,the lowly NaZ-
crime
The news of the resigna ton and
coming departure from the city of c.
IL. Rogers. general manager of the Dr.
Hand Condensed Milk company. will
Ie received with the keenest regret by
his many friends. Mr.. Rogers was as
sociate'l with milk and cattle business
from his early boyhood days and came
to this city in April. 1898, from Detroit.
to erect the condensory of the Scranton
Dairy company at LaPlume. When
this was completed he vas offered and
accepted the position of general mana
ger of the company.
Upon the reorganization of the DR..
Hand Condensed Milk company some
six months ago. lac became general
manager and the company is already
doing a paying business. He goes
from here to Manitoba. Canada. in
the interests of number OF we'll
known American and Canadian capi-
talists to develope what promises to be
one of the largest stock raising and
milk producing combinations in the
western hemisphere His friends will
with one accord wish him success in
his new field of action and that ne will
succeed is beyond question because
he is possessed of rare executive abil-
ity coupled with Il thorough knowledge
of his particular business
Hon. r. V. Powcerly. of this city,
commissioner general OF immigration,
in yesterdays New York Herald. con-
;ributcd an article to the symposium
on the Twentieth century. He dwell
upon the way the It'd" of immigration
will ebb and flow during the coming
years of the century. His article fol-
lows:
The century has witnessed OF the mosi
maikabo movements uf population in the history
If the world The first official records of the al.
rivals nj alien passengers in the United States
wcra kept in the year lSa0. when they numbered
only $3.50. II is csima,ed that the total number
as aliens who had arrived .rom the foundation ~
the government 10 tina, date 2in.O0O and ii
has hecn estimated that about rs per cent. OF the
alien arrivals immigrants On this bass
i, is reasonable TO suppose that ihc Immigrants
during the first wear OF the preceut century mum.
hcrcd about iiyn thousand. During the last fiscal
Year Of the century they numbered 1852. and
tho total number OF immigrants since the iounda.
t"n OF the government estimating that os per
cent. of the alien arrivals prior 10 1851 i'm.
migrants would foot up .O5is, iol
Will the idc continue TO flow tor the next
rn ion to answer. As the country becomes NOR"
fckly populated it is reasonable to suppose that
Tho proportion of immigrants to the total popn-
lalion will fall, even ii there is material
.;uction in the actual number Of immigrants. 1t
may be, too. that the congress will deem il wise
at some time in the future to impose restrictions
immigration that will tend to still further re-.
tard il.
The probability is that the twentieth century
Will the tide of immigration still flowing il,
considerable volume toward the shores nj the
United States. but that it will sci still stronger
in other directions possibly toward the temper
ate regions of South America and Africa AMI
toward the great island continent OF Australia,
where the population is sill very small in pro.
pori to the nj valuable land.
There is little room In Porto Rico Tor addit onal
population, hut there is unoccupicd land in
Hawaii and the Philippines capable Of sustaining
much dcnscr population than they have at pres.
rni. In these islands The inhabitants OF the east
will have an opportunity 10 find refuge under our