The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-10
WHENREUBEN COMES TO TOWN
SIMEON FORD on IMMIGRATION
FROM BRADFORD COUNTY.
Big White spot on Map Of Pennsylvania
at Dinner to Congressman Iilley
Decline OF the Antique Farmer-Both
sides Of the Trade In Gold Bricks.

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nut In the city OF New York. About i6C
de.prters from thut territory who are now
engaged in making comfortable livings il
th- city gathered in the Hotel Aston to eat
their associations second annual dinner
and sound the praises of their native stamp
Ing ground.
They did it with a vim Bradford county
men are just as loyal to the place OF their
birth a. are the members of the many
county societies in the State Of New York
and they declared that the present pros
perity of this city is due TO them and their
fellow em grants just "a all the members
Of the other county societies do once year.
liston l.. Lewis the toastmaster. adj
mttcd that lot Of New Workers didn u
know where Bradford county was and.
e. inform them. Ne called attention to the
front page Of the menu card. which bore
map Of the State OF Pennsylvania and
an outlined area about a third the size
of the whole labelled Bradford county.
The map showed that the former home
of the diners is in the northern part OF
the State bordering on Chemung and Tioga
counties of this State
The dinner was in honor Of Congressman
Ma +. Llley. whom Bradford county
helped send to Washington at the last cleo
ton. Mr. Lilley was a popular man with
the diners. They greeted him with n yell
when he rose to make his speech and yelled
louder than ever when another speaker
assured him that he was to remain in Wash
ington for ten or twenty terms. Mr. Liey
showed his appreciation by promising
every one Of the diners or their relatives
postmasterships when he got down TO
business.
Then he made plea for -the little fellow
that is left back in the country" This
city he said, is going ahead and Brad
ford county men are helping, but the old
towns out in the country are standing
still He asked the diners not to forget
their debt TO their old homes and then
confessed that the country isn't what II
used to be.
The good old fashioned farmer he
said, the man who gets up regularly with
the sun seven days in the week. lives fri-
gally. is God fearing and honest as the day
Is long: the man whose word is IA good az
his bond who works hard six DAYS in the
week and washes up and greases his boots
and goes to church regularly every Sun
day -there aren't 40 many of them now.
Congressman Lilley also took a crack AT
New York fnanciers and promoters Some
Of the officers Of the society arc officials in
financial institutions
Il believe, he said. that the laws against
food aduteration are good laws And |
believe that similar laws against the adul-
iteration Of stocks and bonds that you New
Workers come down and sell us would be
just as good II you'd squeeze the water
out of the securities that have been sold
In Bradford county. we'd be able 10 build
our own public Libraries wish YOU would
get hold OF some of the promoters who come
down and swindle us-gTab them by the
collars and keep en- right here
Simeon Ford was also a talking guest
When the POSTMASTER introduced him he
reminded his hearers Of the signs they used |
70 see N the railroad crossings readf,p |
-Stop-Look Listen and then turned Mr. !
Ford loose on the subject when Reuben |
Coined 10 Town In part Mr.. Ford re-
marked
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, When your
president Mr. Reuben Pomeroy, who is too |
modest 20 st up here among us waXworks |
and turks down below among the bank |
president, and other hoi polloi invited me |
~ come and partake of this simple and |
nutritious banquet. he told me that the |
society was made up Of more than 100 Rubes. !
who are sitting up daily doing business and /
e.ery one else in the city II New York
I noticed on the letterhead Of the paper
on which he wrote the names Of the men I
CONFUSING the officers and the committees
aud saw that, almost without exception,
tA"y We're bank presidents, men connected
with trust companies or other members
NJ the criminal classes. From which /
inferred that. having served your appren-
tir'-mp al buying gold bricks, you are now
Promoting the same
j arm trying to avoid making any public
sl'eohe- nowadays on account of the I'M
pleasant notorety. It's terrible thing
TO rei reputation as a joker. People
con 20 my hotel and run up bills for weeks
board and then skip and think that their
conduct VIII appeal to my sense Of humor.
They chuckie 10 think that they have got the
hugn on me. hate practical jokes of this
nature appreciate a touch OF humor.
tu' the man who touches my pocketbook
touches n sore spot with me Pm giving
pointer Hereafter. any one registering at
my hotel from anywhere in Bradford county,
Pa will have 10 give a deposit.
-Pomeroy has pull with me- and that's
why ! came He's third mate Of Trust
company downtown-so called because 10
Trusts neither God nor man. Its motto -:
he who enters here leaves collateral be-
nlnd' I've got bunch of junk in hook
Gown there that | hope to see when the
robins most again, and, pending my re-
union with the same, ! am currying favor
|th and fawning on Pomeroy. SO when
ne said Come birdie. come / came
he toast that has been assigned 20
me When Reuben Comes to Town ap-
Tea'ed 20 me. I'm something Of a Reuben
myself I'm sorry didn' I come from Brad
lord county. but had nothing TO say about
\ I'm a Hoosier by birth. a Connecticut
Yankee by education. and | served seven
years al hard labor in Brooklyn. 80 | cal
Cnate I'm about one-half Rube one-half
lap with a strain Of Gazaboo mixed in.
And ! do business in the very centre
ana hothed Of the Rube district. All dav
long p he Rpbes dust out Of the Grand Central
station with whiskcrs flying, carpet bags
waving, ewes glistening with the lust Of
greed milk on their boots and n general
ar Of Innocence and fertilizer mixed Tia
NE IRISH hour in Rubes with US all day
iheY come in like lambs to the slaughter
and are greeted enthusiastically by men
VINO wear red waistcoats and big black
mu-aches who initiate EN- into the mys- I
teIle- Of the gold brick. And when it's
All over the lambs come 10 me and try TO Z
make a touch for carfare home After I
TWO or three viSi'4 they 90 home for good
and spend tho autumn of their lives in the
poorhou-e !
But there il another class Of Rubes g
'na' come here because they are full Of .
ambition and can't make living AZ home !
lhoy come chock full Of enthusiasm and =
lla and doughnuts and tackle tho frat '
,hng That comes along Necessity i the !