The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-07

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landing at Liverpool, the meeting with
| the Englishman, you meet an English
man first in Liverpool, he said, q He
| brew in New York, a description OF
! this Englishman, who believes that
God is also an Englishman, made a
very entertaining few minutes. He
| then made a comparison of the Eng
lishman with the American, and the
! contrasts of the two. When an Eng
| lishman builds anything it is forever
| If an American builds a row of flats
in Harlem they fall down and the
against them. If the Englishman put
down a pavement it stays down, but II
an American puts one down next day
| he takes it up. The Englishman says
'As it was in the beginning it is now
and always will be-" The American
says, LAS it was in the beginning, is
now, and we must stop it. And before
Oyster Bay became Blue Point he
said it every morning"
London's Greatness.
The greatness of London, it's roar OF
| traffic, it's 10000 900 Of population with
more Hebrews than Jerusalem, more
| Germans than Hanover, more Irish
than Limerick, and it's other peoples
from abroad, he still described as con-
tanning IS per cent: of people born In
its limits or in England. He COM
pared it in size with American cities
it will make 20 Cincinnatis, three
Chicagos, four and one-half Philadel-
phias, five cities of the size Of St
Louis and two and one-half the size
| of Paris. He then compared the peo-
pie with those of New York. The
| the most recent bridge has been
named the Passover and some OF
| the Jews of Broadway would make
| Solomon in all Of his glory look like a
pauper from their magnifcence. But
| he paid a wonderful tribute to the
Jews of New York for their progress.
| for their interest in learning, and the
hold upon their religion, and said that
| he would be the last to seek to prose
| lyte among them until the conduct
| of the Christians of New York had
shown the Jews that the religion
which they professed had something
to offer which could replace the gran
deurs Of the religion handed down
from their fathers.
He said a brave struggle is being
made in New York for purity and edu-
cation and religion, and deprecated
the efforts to depreciate New York.
In Omaha, he said, you will find a
man wearing button boom Omaha,
but if you wore button down Broad
wav saving "boom New York" you
would be locked up as insane or for
disturbing the peace. II you ask
about the mayor, he is a rascal; about
the comptroller, thief; about the al
dermen, a fine lot of jackasses. Ana
vet with all Of this, he said, New ork
is the best behaved city of the world
of it's size, or in fact of any city winch
has a million Or more of people.
New York is the most cosmopolitan
CITY of the world and but few OF Its
inhabitants were born there Lon
don has s5 per cent. native population,
but also has a large number OF Tor
eigners among it's 100000 people.
Wrecked Rome. .AE
The speaker described an imaginary
trip of a Roman of the old empire
in modern New York, his marvel at
the great bridge, the great buildings,
but when taken through the Great
White Way among the wine bibbers,
he said, "Why this is old: This is
what wrecked Rome"
Going back again to London the
speaker took his audience to see some
of the greatness of the British capital,
the metropolis of the world. Not its
great battleship depots, which will be
useless junk in 10 years, he said, and
here the speaker disclaimed the atti-
tude of a peace at any price man, put
he pointed out the injustice of grind
ing the life from the nations to up
hold the military spirit and Kaiser
IL.
ments of the world to what are neces-
sary for policing the seas and place
disputes before the tribunal of the
Hague for arbitration A few years
ago, he said. Henry Campbell Ban
herman, then prime minister of Eng
land, told him that this drain could
not go on And he deprecated the
clamor in congress which seeks to
build huge navies and raise huge
armies. and regretted the retirement
of Tawney from congress because ne
had held the purse strings taut against
the clamor.
Fleet street, and some of the liter
airy celebrities of older days. Johnson,
Burke and the wits and poets OF their
day, the religious life Of the city, the
great religious monuments of st.
Pauls and Westminster, the political
life and history Of the city, the COM
mons, and the lords, which may not be
there on my next visit, he said. VINO
represent themselves and not anyone
else, and other features Of the life or
the great city were described, the
faults as well as the glories, the dress
of the women, and in conclusion ne
said that London with all of its faults
is bright with the promise OF Coo,
the love of religion and of mankind,
and in the future will return from
the city of Cain to be the city of God.
'sWhat Are You WOrth?"
The second speaker of yesterday af-
ternoon at the midwinter Chautauqua
was DR.. Ward Beecher Pickard Of
Cleveland, Ohio, who delighted large
audiences Saturday afternoon with
his House That Jack Built" and
many of the large audience present
Yesterday came especially to hear DR..
Pickard. They were not disappointed
as thew heard a delightful lecture. full
of good thought, brilliant wit, spark
ling humor, with a lesson conveyed in
such a manner that it could not fail to
impress itself upon the audience and
leave food for thought many days af-
ter the lecturer had passed from the
vision of the nearer. His topic as
announced in the program was what
Are You Worth 90 and the treatment
was a bringing out of what influence
we bear in this world for good or
evil. and the impression which it may
make long after we have passed into
the great beyond.
The treatment of the theme was a
revelation to many and the lesson was
put in an enhancing form, that we
should open our souls to the good and
the true and help lift up the world
toward God, so to live that what
of influence we may exert
while living shall have been for the
better life. and to leave behind us an
influence for the right
In opening his address the speaker
referred to book which had been
published a number of years ago, the
title of which was taken from Few
Ines from one of the best known
poets, "Ships that Pass in the Night
mis- little story had remarkable
e, Tho time and the author. a |