New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-13
SONS OF PENNSYLVANIA DINE
Bishop Potter Presides at tho Feast-Coai
Holds as Souvenirs.

,-, .+, animal dinner CT the Pennsylvania So
cietv OF New-York was held in the graho par ool
Of the Waldorf-Astoria last night. me od - -,
WAS decorated with evergreens. ana eooNe
,,a-, ,ab,a picture Of William Penn was
draped with an American flag. Pennsyivanla' u,
electric letters also was conspicuousis ui'p-"'
above the picture 49, AN, hods
Souvenirs of the dinner miniature coal nous
ens ,., ,,,stat,on coal Bishop Potter. president
t ~. society was toastrnaster- He spoke osiiS IL
few moments on the valor OF PehfiS! i''iiii 49,
and +be record made by the State In war ai'u -
Flags presented to the society were Droue"s ~
ord the ptver was announced by the Bishop. i'o
them proposed the health or the soGie'' ~
President OF the United States s-,.,
The Right Rev. DR.. Alexander Macha' " 49,
r,.hop Coadjutor of Pennsylvania, spoke on A.
State of Pennsylvania. BE SAID the ~ 49,
pbuasenbia were the most beautiful OF aii INC
,+I. IN the world bu. that Philadelphians oio NOT
hlo1v their own horn. Every Pennsylvania iooAsu
upon the city as an earthiy pat I' a.
the country hoped 10 live there some Gay
.cnrran the people Of this nation" ne continued.
-. &C. thousand coal cars to move they
Ia ,non pennsylvania; and when they wanleo
ou sbIns for the navy they called upon fhi1A
delphia-" ~ Senator from
Michigan, said in part: o
res1,ze Bishop Potter has been recently mar
ried and presume that accounts ,i ,o ne of the
spgecs Allied barns Of Michigan but with our pros,
perity out there every man in Mchlgan iog Pannav
s the foremost state in every war and In
the forming Of Industrial rights
George F Baer. president of the PhilaoeiPhlh
and Reading Railroad. was introduced as the man
who could talk about the coal ho'
Baer said in part:
We have the liberty Of Pennsylvania, and now
we are going to have the liberty OF labor c Won
der with t ans ever Comes to New-York Penn
sylvania is a good place to make money H. anu
Sew~York a good place to spend 1t IN -
The first trust ever formed In America w, was s, an
Indian tF baa te origin and headquarters in New
York Though its home was In New opk ee PIE PIE
indans in Pennsylvania. and when the latter SOLD
lands to W aaeare geP the t fndans there had
no title to the lands they had SOLO ~. t'er -o me
trust Indians fopna and 1e is requisite in trust
forming to join the right party
.rrt "a IN tribute to this old theory, continued
Mr. Raer 1T believe, that Pennsylvanians come 10
Ne1y-York to spend their money-as sort or triO-
A,a q few months ago, 1 wondered and was
astonished In wondering. on what basis CERTAIN
neopIe In New-York expected to connscate Fenii
svIvania lands. It must have been on tie oiu
claim, of the Six Nations" daughter and applause
THE sneaker went on to say that In d certain
mort ~ the SchuyIkill region certain Indian hVed
who afterward came to New-York ana Decahe d
saint His was Tam1nany, ano MI 6dei su
that even after q time or CIVIC hySPFPsiar III" '
ries still have the sway
pennsylvania history is part OF the history
of fine whole nation" said Mr.. Baer. Independence
was always In Pennsylvania. Valley Forge ana
Gettysburg are in Pennsylvania. They are abiding
monuments of Pennsylvania devotion to human
freedom"
Mr. Baer. in closing. said:
Ali men this country are born alike, , nave lid I'D
ertv and have the right to defend themselves from
noVerty This right enables the workingman OF
today to be the captain of tomorrow. rover Oh
mental principle of personal liberty No outs t61
nan GOVERN the affairs of Pennsylvania as they
ebnuI9 he governed Protect the man who wants
work and is interfered with in the fulhlment OF
he desire 1Shouts of 'Right.'D cannot speak
as I might this evening, but man should De ape
to sell his products as he peases ana at II any ono