Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-05-21

HUNDREDTH
BIRTHDAY

Clair, governor of the Northwest Ter
ritory. and today he was almost will
ling to attest the statement that he
| saw that honest, indomitable and
most irascible man-who was as
saulted by a mob in that very house
for opposing the statehood movement
standing in the doorway and gazing
in wonder at the flags and bunting
and triumphal arches and other out
ward signs of the great celebration OF
the Tooth anniversary of Ohio's ad-
mission to the Union.
However this may be. 1t is quite
certain that today's contribution to
| the centennial celebration was of such
| a nature as to cause the shades OF
Tiiiin, Worthington and the other he
roic advocates of statehood to hover
over this staid old town. where the
great state of Ohio was born and
| struggled upwards through the first
years of its existence. The celebra-
tion was more than enough to inter
est and entertain the hundreds of
strangers gathered to assist in the OBJ
servance of the century birthday.
lut tloWu tAttNutu Niit tNp'ttd
tions of all concerned. During the
early morning hours. large delega-
items arrived from Columbus. Toledo
Cincinnati. Cleveland and other cities
of the state, and even New York sent
a distinguished party of Buckeye sons,
while the country hereabouts, up and
down the picturesque Sciota valley
and for miles in every direction, pour
ed scores of visitors into the town.
At six o'clock this evening, amid
the reverberating boom of cannon,
the shriets of steam whistles. and
the changing of bells, the centennial
anniversary was ushered in. Such
concert of noises was never before
heard in the town. The dull boom of
the guns broke in at intervals. and
counted one by one the years of the
century. The town was freely dec
GRATED with bunting and flags, and
about the court house square there
| were arches and other tastefully ar
ranged embellishments. Business
houses and residences were alike be-
decked in colors. The people were ad-
dressed in holiday attire and business
was generally suspended in order to
| permit clerks and workmen to parti-
cipate in the days festivities.
The arrival of the visiting notables
was the principal incident of the early
morning hours. Before the day was
many hours old the streets were
thronged. Statesmen, journalists,
military men and other distinguished
sons of the Buckeye state were to be
encountered at every turn. Columbus
sent party of prominent public men
together with the governor and other
state officials and the educational in
stitutions from the lake to the Ohio
river were noticeably well represent
ed Patriotic organizations and his
torical Societies were also well repre-
sented.
| AS a curtain raiser to the more
spectacular features of the days pro-
gram there was an interesting little
ceremony in the court house at 8
o'clock, when a plaster medallion of
Governor Edward Tihin. Ohio's first
governor. was formally presented to
Ross county. Judge j. G. Douglass
presided and the tablet was unveiled
by Miss Anna Cook, greatgrand-
daughter of Governor Tifiin.
Promptly at 10 o'clock the celebra-
tion proper commenced in the audi
torium in the City park The pro
gram was a long one. but the speak
ers were men of eloquence and their
addresses were so replete with inter
est that the vast audience was held
spellbound from the moment that
Governor Nash raped the meeting to
order until the mornings program
was concluded with the rendition of
the Star Spangled Banner" by the
famous Fourth Regiment band Of Co
lumbus. After brief Introductory
address by the governor and an in
vocation by the Rev. A. NJ. Courtenay
the visitors were cordially greeted by
Mayor w. d. Yaple. To the mayors s
address response was made in behalf
of the Ohio Historical and Archaeo
logical society by General j. Warren
from the first settlement at Marietta to
inaries concluded the assemblage lis
tened to an interesting address on the
history of the Northwest Territory
by Hon. Judson Harmon Of Cincinnati
the organization of the state, delivered
Hon. Judson Harmon of Cincinnati
Judge Harmon was followed by Judge
Rish II. Sloane of Sandusky, who tool
as his subject THE Date of the Ad
mission OF Ohio Into the Union ant
the Great Seal of the State"
This afternoon and evening the
, speakers include many public men o
national prominence. The program o
the speakers and the subjects Of thel
, addresses Is as follows: THE Mill
tary History of Ohio Including thu
E ing the War of 1872" General Thorn
! as Anderson, U. S. A., Sandusky
"The Military History Of Ohio from
| the War of 1872. Including the Civi
War and Spanish.American War,
, General J. Warren Keifer. Spring
field. ohio in the Navy" Hor
Murat Halstead, Cincinnati: 9Th
: Governors Of Ohio Under the Firs
Constiti0n." Hon. David Meade MAJ