Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1912-10-16
COLUMBUS DAY IS
MEMORABLE OCCASION
Appropriate Address to the Occasion
Delivered by Paul Geary Of The
Corporation Commission.
From Tuesdays Daily

The New State Theatre was
crowded by hundreds of Prescott
,,u,cns Saturday evening to cele-
b,a,e Columbus Day. The program,
consisting OF music, songs, speech
=. and motion piteures was appre-
GATED by the crowded house. Judge
Daniel +. Parks presided, and open
Cd the meeting with an appropriate
and fitting tribute to the Great Dis
coverer After Judge Parks re-
marks were concluded, Mrs, w. NJ.
Naglc rendered vocal solo that
VA, received enthusiastically. Hon
orable w. p. Gcary, chairman Of
,he State Corporation Commission
wa, then introduced, and, spoke in
part as follows;
Four hundred and twenty years
ago today the most dauntiess mari
ner Of history opened to the posi-
bilities of Christian civilization near
" one half Of the geographical
world
-Four hundred and twenty years
ago today the paling star OF Colum-
bus hopes was famed to bright,
enduring flame: the contest OF one
man against the learning Of the
ayes. the judgment Of the most
,rudi,e cosmographers. the baneiul
warnings of the past was won.
Today thirty states OF Republic,
the grandeur of which even his
superb Imagination could not hope
to portray. celebrate his splendid
achievements and pay gentle tribute
10 the deathless glory Of his fame.
Yet. even the visionary fervor OF
his theories, his best and fondest
dreams, fell far short of reality. I'm
NJ his last faint futtering breath he
entertained the idea that he had
merely opened new road TO the
ancient heavens OF opulent com
meree, to the legendary Ophir which
had been Heretofore visited by the
ships of Solomon, and had discov-
cred some Of the wilder regions OF
the mysterious East.
What visions of splendor would
have opened to his mind could he
have known that he had found a
great continent equal to the entire
I'D world in magnitude and separ-
aied by two vast oceans from all the
earth uod by civilized men. And
how would his magpanimous spirit
as profoundly serene as an angels
flight, have been cheered and con
Solcd: how would the Affections oi
advancing years and the burdens oi
penury and want, the criminal ne
glect of frivolous public and the
harsh injustice of an ungratetul and
iaithless king, been ameliorated N
their intensity bf pain could he have
anticipated the. magnificent empires
destined to spread over the bounti'
iul land he had discovered. and the
nations. the tongues and language
which were to thrill its environ'
with his renown and revere and
bless his sacred memory to the
end oi time itself.
The early life OF Columbus wa
one long succession OF bitter dis
appointments. From the age o.
fourteen years he followed the sea
He knew the tempest and its power
he appreciated the danger OF mighty
tides and destructive storms; N
knew and fought the deep seated
supers,itions that peopled the deeI
with cruel monsters and gave nm
known terrors TO uncharied seas
he trod life's journey hampere'
and aggrievcd by the treaehery ah'
seditions of, turbulent, and worth'es
men; yet throughout his career W.
find that his imagination, instead o
exhausting itself in senseless nights
lent assistance to clear judgment am
enabled him TO form conclusions u
create theories, since shown 10 o.
scientifically accurate, at whie'
common minds eqhd not arriv
and which they failed to grasp o
perceive. even whtn pronounced D.
him and illumine4 by the star o
his mighty intellect
Whether as tPilgrim, teaeheI
philosopher or matiner, his who'
HE seemed toi have been one Q
preparation for his shbllme achieve
meni. His life was gentle and IN
clements so mixed in him that !"
Nature .mightSproudly acclaim dc
lore all the world, this was