Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-08
tor A. B. Kittredge. Senator J. P. Dolli
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Mr.. R. Ross Perry's Speech.

Mr.. B. Ross Perry's Speech.
| and paid fiattering tribute to Mr.. Noyes
tn presenting the beautiful loving cup to
| him. He referred to his long career. to the
| fact that he was born during the admins
| tration of James Monroe and had closely
| followed the fortunes of the country, wit
Messing many of its great events and meet
Ing so many Of its foremost citizens whose
names have become famous.
| He was frequently applauded, and. when
he uncovered the beautiful loving cup and
| Mr.. Noyes arose, the latter was given
ovation. esz,-
| Mr.. Perry said:
| : The great English laureate of the last
century found a fine phrase when he spoke
| OF the happy autumn fields. Among all
| of the dear domestic festivals of the race
| there Is none so significant or so truly
| religious that of the Harvest Home.
| Our friend. love and high regard for whom
bring US here tonight, has had the good
| look upon happy autumn fields which are
| his own: to take part in a festival of
| Harvest Home which rejoices over the
| rich sheaves gathered in from. his own
| hopeful planting Of spring-time. his ow!
| untiring and watchful care during the
| teeming summers heat, his own reaping
when the mellow autumn has put natures
| final touch of gold upon the years work.
Better than this. while these fields are his
| own. the fruit of them has not been selfish:
| while the labor was his own. its inspiration
| and sustaining strength were high and
generous: and so the Harvest Home has
| come amidst the smiles Of good will and
| the hand-shakes of affection from all who
| know Crosby S. Noyes. Was the great
Athenian altogether right when he said:
Call 40 man happy before he dies?"
Have we not done a good thing In gain
| ering here to hold this rejoicing festival?
Too often man is left to go down into his
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| dull. cold of death is soothed with fla:-
| terry. 1t is healthy sign of the times
| that we are each day thinking more and
more of life and less and less of death.
Of Ills no, whereof our are ssant
More life and fuller that want"
On every hand and in many ways we are
getting closer to nature and to her album
dant vitality. We are thinking less and
less of the past and of the future, and we
are living in the present
Our schools and our universities are Civ
Ing increasing attention to those games and
struggles which not only develop virility.
but which give the present palm to the
victor of today. We have even a great ma
tional game in which the whole public is
ell Enthusiastically nteres ed. All these things
go to prove that learning how in
tel sely praise following close upon success
in manly and honorable effort inspires and
stimulates not only him who has we'll run
the race, but also the young on-lookerS,
who will soon make their own start. There
fore. l say that it is good. a kindly and
healthy thing from every Point of view to
tell friend that we have watched his
life work with admiring sympathy, that we
rejoice In his signal success and that We
wish him in his remaining years that high
content which follows from honor, love and
troops of friends. 4
What wonderful period in the history of
human progress Mr.. Noyes' life has COW
cred. When he was born. in 1925 John
Quincy Adams was President and these
limited States QiScOr02nt
communities bound together by a constitu-
ton which few then regarded as anything
stronger than rope of sand Tonight as
he approaches four score years, his pa
triotic heart rejoces as he sees the vision
of the prophet realized: "A little one shall
become a thousand, and a small one
strong nation" What memories must come
quick thronging to him of those intense
years from 1880 to 1S65-the days of An
drew Jackson. of Henry Clay. of Daniel
Webster of John c. Calhoun-those days
of distrust and then of discomfort and then
of hatred and then of blood-those dark.
dark days, when 1t seemed that the sun
and the light and the moon and the stars
were darkened; and then the new day and
the new birth of the nation: and now, af-
ter a century of exolution-this grand unit
ed American people set in the forefront of
of the nations.
Turning from the political aspect, his life
has seen the birth and rapid growth OF
steam and its wonders, of electricity and its
passing wonders He has watched now
science has stretched her arm from star to
star, and charmed her secret from the lat
est MOON Pain has been destroyed and
the surgeons knife has lost its agony. HUI
mainly has been born. The boundaries OF
time and space have almost melted away
and our world has well nigh become one. |
All this in the period of one life!
You would expect much from a man or
such opportunity and experience. Fortu-
nately Mr. Moves was born in the country.
and his childhood drank its fill from the
bare bosom of that kindest mother, Nature.
How could our anaemic cities live without
the constant infusion of country blood?
More fortunately still, he was born poor
he had to think, to act, to toll for himself. |
The survival of the fittest is a hard law, |
but its processes are beneficent-when a |
man does survive an acute struggle he Is
no weakling When Mr.. Noyes came to |
this CITY, in 1S47,, he did not bring much |
external baggage. His headpiece was the |
most valuable thing he had. He was only |
twenty-five years of age. Doubtless, as is
common to that age, he dreamed many |
day dreams of his future. But let him |
have been the widest dreamer of visions |
among them all, we may well doubt IL the |
Washington of 1S47 could have suggested |
to him as possibility this beautiful city |
of today. And when his thoughts turned to |
himself could he have anticipated career
more useful, more honorable, more distin.
guished than that which the future actually