Semi-weekly herald., 1911-02-06
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

lELEuNHI ulS NLVO
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth OF Hor-
ace Greeley is being celebrated To-Day
in New York City, in Amherst, N. h.
his birthplace, and in Chappaque. N.
Y. where the old Greedy farm Is now
occupied by his daughter. Mrs. GaDrl-
ellie Greeley Clendenin. Twelve oid
residents OF Chappaqua who voted LOT
Greeley for president will dine to-
eether at the old homestead tomght
and the Chappaqua Historical society
will dedicate the site for twenty
thousand dollar Greeley monument.
Memorial exercises are being held In
a New York hall late this afternoon
and similar observances In most OF
the public schools of the city Yale
university, New York university and
Tuskegee institute, will all observe the
day.
GREELEY, Feb. 3.-All Greeley Is
today celebrating the centenary of the
birth of its founder, Horace Greeley,
editor of the New York Tribune. Dur
ing the day the school children Will
hold exercises, at which tales of the
Union colony which started the city
will be told by members of the Pho
neer society, and patriotic songs will
be sung The life and works OF Horace
Greeley will be told and read.
This evening there will be a gen
eral mass meeting in the Methodist
church. At this time Justice James
E. Garrigues, Hon. c. F. Tew, Mayor e
NJ. Huoston and others will talk. Mu-
sic will be furnished by the CONNER
cial Glee club, and the event is ex
pected to be one of the best ever held
here.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The one hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of Hor
ace Greeley. greatest of all American
journalists, was fitly observed today
by appropriate exercises in the pub
lie schools OF the state and by memo
rial gatherings under the auspices o
various historical and patriotic organ
izatioGs in nearly all the colleges ant
other Institutions of learning through
out the state. Special celebrations
were held under the auspices of tn,
City club and by Typographical uniol
No. 6, whose first president Horace
Greeley was. Large crowds visited
Greeley's old farm, at Chappaqua
Westchester county, where he livet
during the latter and most eventfu
part of his life.
Horace Greeley was born on farm
five miles from Amherst, N. H., OF
Feb. 3, 1871. His father was poor anC
Horace had little opportunity to OBJ
cation. AS a small boy Horace Gree
ley was an omnivorous reader ant
with the aid of an excellent memory ht
succeeded in acquiring not only thor
ough knowledge of the English Ian
guage, but large amount of hetero
genous information, which proved o
great value to him in later years.
| At the age of Is he entered the ofiic,
OF the Northern Spectator at Eas
Poultney. Vt, as an apprentice. III,
seemed to be born to the trade ant
soon he was the best printer in tn,
shop. 1t might also be added tha
even at that time he was better jour
nalist than the editor of that paper
During those years he sent the great
father. who had removed to a farm
near Erie, Pa.
After the Spectator had suspended
Greeley worked his way to his father
farm, earning as much as he could oil
the way by working for few week,
at time on different newsp
After few months he made his va,
to New York. He arrived there witt
but few cents in his pocket, II,
other clothes except those he wore
but eager and ambitious to become
great journalist. For eighteen month.
he worked as compositor at poorl,
paid, odd jobs, then, together with an
other young compositor he opened i;
printing office. After one o. two un
successful efforts to start newspa
per, Greeley, in 1884, undertook tn,
publication Of weekly literary jour
nal, called the New Yorker Two year.
later the paper had 1900 subscribers
The panic of the following year near
ly caused the suspension of the New
Yorker and it was on its last leg,
when In 1879 Thurlow Weel ma d,