The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-12
HEARTS WARM TO
DR.. BRADFORD At
MON1CLA|R DINNER
Well=Loved Pastor Toasted in
Glowing Words by His Fell
fslt low Citizens.
f7tEnn ~
SPEAKS ON HISTORY AND
GROWTH OF THE TOWN
Gives Warning Against Dangers
of Consolidation and Praises
Leading Citizens.

Ah0
the Rev. DR.. Amory H. Bradford, pas
tor Of the First Congregational Church,
Montclair, in Club Hall, that town, lasr
night, by the citizens of Montclair, will
long be remembered as the greatest
tribute ever paid to a citizen of the
town. High and low, rich and poor, all
cali DR.. Bradford friend, and three hun.
dred and ~thirty-seven of h towns
leading men and women sat down to do
him honor at the banquet. and at its
close the doors were opened and only
the, capacity of the hall kept hundreds
outside. The banquet was given TO
celebrate DR.. Bradford's return to good
health, after a period of two years.
during which he had been unable to
preach to his congregation.
John B. Wight was POSTMASTER.
This is not a congregational dinner.
nor a Civic Association dinner " said he.
"but a citizens dinner. 1t is given in
honor of one we all are proud to honor.
to show our appreciation of his services
to the town of Montclair. while he IS
yet with us"
W. L. 1iflCplA StdditS iCdo AChNCiS VI
regret and greeting from the Rev. DR..
Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York:
Edward P. Mitchell, of Glen Ridge, who
is chief editorial writer of the New
York Sun; Professor Edward Howard
Griggs, of Montclair; Governor Fort,
the Rev. DIR. Washington GLADDEN., OF
Columbus, O.; the Rev. DR.. Hugh Black.
of Upper Montelair, who is at present
In Indiana, and Julius H. Pratt, of
Mentciair. All these letters were highly
complimentary to DR.. Bradford's life
work in Montelair.
a. His own Medicine.
aDr: Bradford" said Mr.. Adams. has
been saying nice things of almost every
one in Montelair for years. and tonight
he will have to take some of his own
medicine"
Mayor Henry ". Crawford. the first
speaker, answered to the toast, mont
clair Citizenship
aIf I attempted to name the men,,
said the mayor who made the town OF
Montclair what it is, L should fail; but
If / spoke. of the man who did most. /
could not go far wrong. I would say
DR.. Bradford. To him we many
things. We w much to the ministers.
The churches and our schools. l doubt
IL there is another owl in the state,
outside of Montc1air, where a man could
be elected five times to the Town Coun-
Gil and twice as mayor, without spend
ing a single cent. or having made a
single promise. 1t is easy for Mont
clair to have a good government, be-
-oa-f1 1-o bach ~ - aud "a
port the laws"
Montciair.s Grand Old Man.
Philip Doremns. known as the grand
old mani of Montclair, spoke to the
toast, The Making of Montelair." I'm
my early days" said Mr.. Doremus,
this town was all farms. 1t had two
roads running north and south. and
two roads running east and west.
where now it has beautiful streets and
and is dotted all yer with sub
stantial homes. l remember when it
had only n church, one school, n
minister, one tavern, one doctor from a
neighboring own and no undertaken.
The building of Bloomfield avenu and
the Greenwood Lake railroad, by the
efforts of our townsman, julius H.
Pratt, was the cause of Motnclair's first
rapid growth. Twenty-Five years e
there was no banking institution nearer
than Newark: now We have -four banks,
with deposits of over Sc, O00, 600"
The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick
said DR.. Bradford was Montclair's fore.
most Christian minister and foremost
citizen. John r.. Howard spoke on
Good Sense; the Basis of All Good"
He said he knew just how DR.. Bradford
felt, and described it by telling a story
of the, late Henry Ward Beeeher. Mr..
Beecher had been given a banquet, and
the speakers all said nice things about
him. -IH3his reply Beecher said; You
have .analyzed me and ~eulogized me, so
that / now know how a buckwheat
pancake feels when the syrup is poured
OMIT"
The Rev. DIR. Nehemiah Boynton, of
Brpekyns spoke on THE Civic Prob
lem" He said that there was one thing
he noticed particularly in Montclair,
and that was that the ladies didn't let
their husbands out at night alone. He
said: II like a man that punches his
hits. Some ministers stay a few years
with one congregation, then a few years
more with another. but DIR. Bradford
has punched his hits and stayed in
Montclair." He spoke of the books
written by DR.. Bradford, which, the