Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-19

Misses Hennie wilkins, Jrma
Jeter, Lucie Mills.
%. vocol Trio--"Nights Shades No
Longer. .......F Mendelssohn
Mesd mes Mehinger. Lesinsky,
Parker.
Presentation Add ess .........
.............H Hon ]. w. Crawford.
T. Instrumental Duet-"Overturc
Egmont", ........I5. VanBeeth5ven.
Miss May Hudson, Mrs Von-..
Frankenberg.
). Solo and Caorus--" Beho'd the
Morn in Splendor," ...,.....Aub -.
Pine Bluff ChoTuh Soci ty.
Addl ess of Acceptance .z.-....=.-.-.
Observation-Disclosures. w. Adams.
8. Plano Solo-"Hungarian Rhap-
sodie No, g." FIR. liz.
Prof VonFrankberg.
Greegin g-From Hon. c. r.
breckenridge.
T. Down on the Suwanee River"
............ Pine Bluff Chorus Soiety.
Mr.. Breckinridge being unable to
attend, addl essed letter 10 the Pre-
sident Of the Board of Trustees which
was read and received with great APP
plause.
Aft5r the conciusi II of the prograal
Hon. W. e. Hemingway addressed the
audience briefly setting forth tat ul-
on them pended in great meas
ure, the success of the inst tuition j,
that in tn il hands was pl ced tn.
powe! to make it what they would
and urging them to work earnestly
at all times for it's advancement.
The following is Hen. J. w. Craw-
ford's speech of Presentation.
Ladies' and Gentlem; II:
heartily welcome and congratu
late you Some eighty years ago W.
Hampsh re, the man. the generor;
philanthr1pist, whose noble action ha,
caus this happy assenblage he:
tonight His father died when he wa:
quite young, and he was apprentice,
to a stern and h,rd master who CAV,
him no opportunity for literary educa
ton, other than was aft 1rded by tn
public school which then only carr.e'
the pupils t simple propo ton, or il
the language Of the day, the singh
rule of three. But he thorough
mastered the trades Of tanning ant
shoemaking and, although he say
proper later in life to CHI ng6 his voca
ton, there can be little doubt tina
sis early training to thorS ughnes
fitted him for success in business am
in life Aftel his apprenticeship hat
ended he worked at his trade a few
years in Boston, When, finding himself
weak and II bad health, he sought 4
more genial cline and finally CRIME tc
our own sunny southland and made
! lis home in Arkansas This was as
early as 1885. For II years he lived
in Little Reck, at the end of whica
time With a keen appreciation of the
people and possibilities of Pine Bluff
he cast his lot with us here, where h.
has even since lived md prospered
: That he has lealned to love well the
citizens of this, the city of his adolr
ton, we have abundant evidence her
tonight Quietly and patiently has he
titled through life, doing many al
act OF kindness with his good righ
land # which his left hand hardly
knew, and of which the world was
wholly ignorant. So we'll spent h.!
been the forty-three years of his life
in Pine Bluff that a public journa
has recently said truly of him that his
If was "blameless;" and some know
tat it was not only blameless bu
full of good and helpful action.
Scanty as were his early oppoi tuni-
ties for education, he his lived 1ont.
life of observation and thus has gain
ed many valuable lessons not known
to some of the litera,i. To him all
uatura had its language. Almost daily
lie communed with the trees of the
forest and tie flowers cf the field
and learned from them lessons Of
wisdom. Looking over the waving
/ field of grain he S W many a we'll
/ filled ear. while others were small
and ehin. To the one he said, why
are you s. vigorous, strong and well
filled While your neighbor is small
and useless9" And the good ears
answered, The soil in witch we grew
was we'll prepared, rich and we'll wa
tered and We hasked in the sunlight
: Of Heaven. Ths conditions of our
life were favoa BILE, therefore we ar
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