The Newtown bee., 1907-06-21
NEW MILFORD
 BI=CENTENNIAL. Celebration A Great
 Success. TOWN BRILLIANTLY ILLUMI-
 MATED. . Notable Addresses by Gov Woodruff, Judge Simeon E. Baldwin
 and Others. WEATHER MAN SMILES ON THE CELEBRATION.
BRILLIANTLY
 MATED.


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 f Syne," then led the way to the flag
 pole opposite the Park View House.
 when the flag was hauled to the top of
 the pole by those popular Civil War vet erans, Chief Marshal Samuel R. Hill and Lewis Moshier As the flag reached the top of the pole. cannon The young men of St Johns Cadets were drawn up on the Green south of the flag pole. They presented fine appearance and Rev MT Plumb. and their captain were repeatedly compli- mented.
 THE SUNDAY AFTERNOON OPEN l AIR SERVICE.
 The union service on the Green at 3 o'clock. Sunday afternoon. was an at l tractive and beautiful one in every way. Rev F. A. Johnson presided. Prayer was offered by Bev J. F. Plumb and the Scripture read by Rev Stephen Heacock. The singing of the chours. of mixed voices, under the di- rection of Prof E. G. Clemence. was greatly enjoyed. Gortland's Tenth Reg
 iment band furnishing the accompani- ment Had it not been on Sunday the singers would have received repeat
 ed encores. The number of people on and about the stand was estimated at 625O. Rev Frederick A. Wright. a New Milford boy, captivated the audience by his splendid of-hand address. The address of Rev Charles J. Ryder, D. D., also delighted his hearers. Rev Mir Wright spoke as follows: It is pleas ure to me to address you. both because 1 count it an honor to speak to this au
 dience and because feel it a privilege to speak on this occasion. My ances- tors both on my mothers side and on my fathers side have been identiied- with this town for six generations, so that I feel a sort of intimate kinship with the very fields, and mountains and this soil is in double sense, my
 mother earth And just as Anteaus. | the child of earth, gained ten-fold strength every time he stretched his | length upon the grass, so, wearied with the rush and crowding of the city and the sorrows of its poor and 'the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin, 'I come here and find refresh | ment and repose. The large city has | certain great attractions and in some respects life in it is far broader and greater than it can be elsewhere. That is the reason that went to New York. other advantages and it is by those that my love of this place is kindIed. And so on this birthday of New Mil ford, I want to speak of those quali- ties which l prize so highly in this place. And first on the list comes | | England had fifty million people in it, mostly fools. We'll when you have an enormously big city. there are so many l fools gathered together there that it is not feasible and practicable for the sensible people to be free. You must not carry pistol because there are so | many gumps that cannot be trusted | with firearms. You cannot let people walk on the grass or they will destroy the foliage. It is all paternalism. The l 1rxr t11r >fx ,,<>f let people take their children into the park on a sled, they might get hurt. A cordon of police guard the ice on the part of the lake that is not safe. If l they did not some idiot would skate in to the water. I resent being protected
 Where freedom is, there is my coun- try. Another good treasure you have is simplicity. Life here is less com plex. There are so many things in city life that demand attention, that l our energies get scattered, and our at tention diverted and our ways conven- l tional and artificial. It is hard to ex- press just what I mean. But life up
 here is less confused and more elemen-
 tai and natural and real. That is good thing. Then you have the sun shine and the air and the open fields. You have what people who come up here from the Bowery call "lonli-
 ness-'' It is aloofness. One can with draw here, can get away. can get out
 of sight, can have that still small peace of Nature-can flee as a bird to the mountains. . One idea of holi- ness is that which is set apart. Your landscape has holiness which is not shared by shorn lawns, punctuated by statuary Our national emblem is the eagle and there is an eagle spirit in the American people which likes the cliffs and the forests better than the
 boulevards and the parks. Then there are not so many of you but that you can
 each other and help each other. The
 so-called philanthrophy which Is more
 interested in institutions than it is in
 the individuals is bad thing. What this world with it's suffering and sin
 and error needs is not more brown
 stones laboratories and patent book
 shelves and institutes for the uplift of the masses and the glorifcation of the | millionaire rascals that endowed them {;
 what the world needs is men that are
 interested in the individuals that sur
 round them I have not 1925, GOO to give
 away. but if I had I would pick out a
 worthy family that needed it and give
 it to them. I would endow trades
 man and not a trade school Now con-
 ditions here are good because of the
 human interest that you take in each other. If there were 800, GOO of you such personal interest would be impos-
 sible. Try to take a personal interest in l %, 900 people. You cannot do it. The personal relations of employee and employer of neighbors and friends in
 a village are priceless blessing. All these are characteristic of this place. , Beside this it has it's own history, its beautiful street,its scenery so excep- tionally sweet and lovely. It is for these things we celebrate it's birthday. ? But there may well be some of you
 that go beyond such matters; some who } have lived here, who have spent their 7 childhood here, to whom all these l scenes are bathed as in the light of some far celestial morning The ] dreams of childhood still haunt these : scenes, like the genii of the place, f half vanishing in beckoning wreaths
 of mist turing them away from the re 2 alities of the world to the reality o1 p s ome fairer existence till their hear