The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-07

| the first time he entered the harbor
of New York, the beautiful vista
opened up as he entered the lower
bay, of his first view of the Statue of
Liberty, and told of his love for
America His father, he said, had
four pictures in his study which he
taught the speaker to look to as the
best in life, Gladstone, Washington,
John Bright, and Abraham Lincoln.
He was taught to believe that the
hope Of the nations of the world lay
in the new empire of the west. But
as in other things, distance sometimes
lends enchantment to the view. He
reached this country at a time when
the merits of "Castoria'' were dis
played and pictured upon every bill
board and he was informed that chill
dren cried for it, and he wondered
why it was not given to him. He
asked an American who was chewing
tobacco what it was. ''Where are you
FROM" he was asked. From Eng
land" replied the doctor. 'We1l, by
gum, you look it." was the answer.
This was his introduction to what
he described as the most cosmopolitan
city of the world.
Movement Toward Cities.
The movement of the time, he said,
said that God made the country and
man made the city, but DR.. Cadman
reminded his hearers that God also
made the man who made the city. The
first city, he said, Of which we have
knowledge was the city raised by Cain
over the corpse of his brother whom
he had slain, and the. city of Cain, of
bloodshed, lust, corruption, is still
found with us, but it is giving away
to the city of God, the city of purity;
we are pulling down the city of Cain
and gradually building up the city of
God.
There is no end to the development
of the modern city. he said, and he
pointed out the grea. growth of some
of the modern cities, Toxic, Berlin.
Chicago, Paris, Moscow, st. Peters,
burg, London, with its 100000 of in
habitants and New York with its many
millions within sight of its city hall:
the growth of population within a
measurable correctness, Nautilus did
so 100 years ago, but there is one
thing mathematicians cannot forecast,
that is what woman's hat Will be
three months hence. There is no
limit to the luxury of dress, and all
that man can do is wait and hope.
Going on he predicted that in 100
years New York would cover all of
Long Island and that aviators coming
from England across the ocean would
be able to sight the lights of the east
time they start upon their journey.
Municipal problems are the great
problems, and writer says that there
is not in America place of SO people
which is successfully governed. Bryce
in his book, the American Common
wealth, says that the genius of the
American fails when he faces the
growth of the city.
'King of Manhattan.s
In his early days in New York DIR. |
Cadman was taken by friend to visit
at a reception given in the honor of
the king of Manhattan" DR.. Cad |
man described this king, who was all
powerful and before whom judges,
politicians, and others, those who had
and those who hoped bowed. This
king. who was not born here by the |
way. was intimately described, and |
probably many in the audience could |
have mentioned the name. Control
led the vote of the city of New York,
which controlled the vote of the state.
and the vote of the state at that time
decided the vote of the nation. DR..
Cadman looked, marvelled, and left.
Later this king left the city and coun-
try for the country's good. But the
mind is now becoming con-
centrated upon the problem of the
growth of the cities and better things
may be hoped for
At this point the speaker took his
hearers with him to London. He de-
scribed the voyage, the moods Of the
sea. the majesty of the ocean, and
declared that the English speaking
greatness has not been made by the
land but by the sea. His description
was q moving one and one OF the most