The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-28
AT FARVIEW SATURDAY.
Laying of the State Hospital Corner
Stone,

Saturday last, Notwithstanding
the moody appearance of the wealth
er, at sunrise, blossomed out early
as cool and pleasant day-just the
sort of weather for a large public
gathering, and the cornerstone of
the State Asylum for the criminal
insane at Farview was laid with
impressive ceremonies, which were
witnessed by a large gathering,
Lackawanna and Wayne sending the
largest delegations.
Governor Stuart was announced
to be present, but, owing to the
serious illness of a member of his
family, he was unable to attend
Other representative men of the
State were there, however, among
whom were former Speaker Henry
F. Walton and wife, of Philadel-
phia; Judge and Mrs. James B.
Holland, Mrs. Elice Walton Hill,
Henry j. Walton, Jr., all of Phila-
delphia; William c. Sproul, of
Chester; w. L. Heald, of Chester,
DR.. E. B. Gleason, of Philadelphia;
H. S. Ashmead, of Chester; G. F.
Wright, of Susquehanna, and j. c..
NJ. Shirk, of Philadelphia.
The party, which remained
over night at Scranton, was there
joined by DR.. Thos. c. Fitzsimmons,
of Wilkes-Barre, member of the
State Commission having the erec-
| tion of the asylum in charge.
The Carbondale reception COM
mittee, headed by E. D. Lathrope,
chairman, and including such well
known citizens as Mayor A. l..
Sahm, Hon. ]. j. O'Neill, Hon. S.
S. Jones, Marcus Frieder, Thos. R.
Durfee, John J. Simpson, Frank E.
Burr, L. A. Bassett, Frank E. Den
mis-, P. F. Coogan, Frank Kelly,
George J. Benton, R. A. Jadwin, A.
P. Trautwein, S. A. McMullen, j.
P. Doftus, C. A. Stuart, B. A.
Kelly, and others met the party at
the Delaware and Hudson station
in Scranton and accompanied the
special rain to Farview.
Here the Honesdale special train
bearing many people and a recep-
!
Scranton and proceeded to the asy-
lum grounds where large shelter
tent was placed for their accommo-
dation, but which was not needed
because of the fine weather that
, followed the rain. The HoneSdale
committee comprised the following
w. H. Dimmick, chairman; Hon
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F. Haines, H. z. Russell, L. j
Dorfinger, J. d. Weston, NJ. ]
Hanlon, Hon. Leopold Fuerth, Hon
George S. Purdy, H. T. Menner
Hon. E. B. Hardenbergh, H. j
Conger, Hon. Joel G. Hill, A. T
Searle, Hon. T. J. Ham, NJ. e
Simons, Hon. John Kuhbach, w. f
Suydam, Hon. c. A. McCarty, R.
NJ. Stocker, Hon. w. NJ. Nelson
Hon. E. P. Kimble, H. Scott Sal
mon, E. w. Gammell, Andrew
Thompson, NJ. B. Allen, Alex Voigt
E. A. Penniman, n. j. Spencer,
Hon. Henry Wilson, Hon. Perry A
Clark, o. L. Rowland, Homer
Greene, w. w. Wood, Hon. j. c.
Birdsall, w. H. Lee, Jacob Katz
George P. Ross, w. F. Reifler, NJ
Lee Braman, P. r. Murray, Ed
Deitzer.
The exercises attending the lay
ing of the cornerstone, and in
which was placed various State pa.
pers and documents relating to the
establishment of the asylum, and
copies of local newspapers, were
carried out promptly, opening with
invocation by Rev. Charles Lee, OF
the Carbondale Presbyterian
church. He was followed with an
address by Hon. Henry F. Walton
of Philadelphia, president of the
Hospital commission, after which
the address of the day was made
by DR.. John B. Wagner, of Bing-
hamton, N. Y, the head of the New
York State Hospital at that place
and who is one of the noted alien,
lists of the country.
DR.. Wagner began his remarks
with a review of the subject of in.
sanity. Went back to Bible times
when insane people were supposed
to be possessed of "evil spirits,
and the drastic, inhuman treatment
which was visited upon the un-
fortunates in those ancient days
Said that insanity had no recognized
status as a disease until the coming
of Hippocrates ''the Father OF
Medicine" With his advent, 400
B. c., we behold the first physician
who recognized the brain as the
organ of the mind and mental de-
rangement as the result of brain
disease thereby beginning-as
President White, of Cornell Univer-
sity, says in his warfare of Science
and Religion" a development of
truth and mercy which lasted nearly
thousand years. Hippocrates was
the creator of mental medicine.
He urged the abandonment of ex-
orcisms and incantations and the