Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-20
Celebrate BIRTH
Of SETH BOYDEN
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
Anniversary Observed at
Newark Technical School.

The one hundred and twenty-fifth
anniversary of the birth of Seth Boy
den, the great Newark inventor, was
appropriately celebrated last night in
the auditorium of the Newark Tech
meal School, in High street, by the
Newark Technical School Alumni AS
ISOLATION and students of the school.
The spacious auditorium was crowd
ed with admirers Of the inventor and
members of the Seth Boyden Council,
Jr o. II. A. NJ, We're present. The
guests of the evening were the men,
bers of Seth Boyden Council. Mayor
Jacob Haussling and A. v. Hamburg,
president of the Board of Trade. Ed
win w. Kopf, president of the Alumni
Association, presided. and introduced
President Hamburg as the first speak
er. who said in part:
Seth Boyden was born one year
before Washington became President.
His life was spent in industrial pur-
suits. The scene of action for him
vas the forge. the factory, tire labor
atory. not the strategy of battles nor
the councils of state But though
Washington was the patrician and
Boyden the workman, the one rode
on the national stage like an immor-
tai and the other walked the civic
field in modesty and seclusion. | can
read in your hearts the conviction
that they were made of Tire same
stuff.
Seth Boyden is the exponent of the
second generation of Americans. His
generation sprung from the loins Of
Revolutionary slres, and Is proven In
him to be as chivalrous, as conscien-
.tious, as slNilful, as unselflsh as the
first
Newark will never lose the impress
of the life of Seth Boyden The youth
with penetrating vision and tireless
industry became the greatest single
asset to the city. Some lives are like
the streams passing through the
meadow. They stimulate growth
wherever they touch. they carry a
stream of unconscious blessing. Seth
Boyden was pre-eminently such a
life. He was also like stream in the
variety of his services. The stream
turns the wheels, waters the mead
ows, furnishes water for cleaning
and manufactures, Stakes the thirst
of man and beast, uourishes the fish,
carries commerce, reflects the sky by
day and night. Just such stream
was Boyden. He takes the old hides
and, prestoi they come forth gloss
and sheen. and many factories and
hundreds of workmen have been busy
these many decades. He makes the
same skin do double and fourfold
work by his invention In splitting it.
Seth Boyden was q genius, but he
was also great man, IL mans
greatness Is measured by his services
TO mankind To labor for threescore
years. without self-seeking or ayarice,
enriching everything With touch
that converts dross Into gold. entities
n man to be accounted great
Archibald e. Kidd, a member of the
faculty, spoke on seth Boyden,
Student" He said In part:
There are few inventions which
have been stumbled upon by acci-
dent, so few that we may count them
as negligible. Most of the worlds
inventions have been the result of
study and an inquiring mind, and
to this class belong the productions
of Seth Boyden. It is a remarkable
fact that this prolific mind should
have left such a legacy of Ideas to
the industries of Newark Laboring
under handicap of certain lack of
technical knowledge, and with crude
he has nevertheless produced
what requires a broad knowledge of
exact science"
The other speakers were Philip c.
Walsh, jr, former president of the
Alumni Association, who spoke on
Seth Boyden and Technical Educa-
sion;" Charles A Cotton, director of
the Newark Technical School. on
"Boyden "reminiscences" and Mayor
Haussling. William ]. Wakefield,
treasurer of Seth Boyden Council,
presented the Alumni Association a
silver medal, which had been pre-
scented to Seth Boyden by the Frank
lin Institute in. Philadelphia in 1888.
The medal was presented to the coun-
Gil by Obadiah Boyden. son of the
inventor, about ten years ago. The
association has collection of many
of Boyden's inventions.