St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-05-19
PRESENTED CUP OF GOLD
Citizens of the Town Remembered
Rev. Edward L. Fairbanks
On Birthday.

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On Wednesday evening a recep-
ton was given to Rev. Edward t.
Fairbanks, d. D., at the Museum in
honor of his 18th birthday and DR..
Fairbanks was presented with a
purse of gold and a silver loving cup
suitably inscribed. The presentation
was made by Rev. Alfred Poole
Grint, Pr. D. and DR.. Fairbanks re-
| sponded. The sum of money in the
purse has since been added to and
amounts to about $1,100. 1t had
been felt for some time that such
| a free will offering as DR.. Fairbanks
/ has given ST. Johnsbury in writing
the history of the town, deserved
more recognition than a vote of
thanks. Accordingly a committee
headed by DR.. John M. Allen can
vassed the town and over 1000
names appeared on the subscription
lists. Practically all the public
school children and Academy stu
dents contributed, making it a
gift in which old and young, rich
and poor had a share.
Good Will and More Good Will
To all who had part in the good
will conspiracy that closed in on me
Wednesday evening, May the twelfth
Greeting!
They say there are more than
thousand of you; considering the
magnitude of your achievement, it
may well have been so; this only in
tensifies my wonder and amazement.
Your gifted spokesman, Rector
Grint, told me to go to sleep and
then he went on pelting his restless
victim with sayings too embarrassing
to be repeated or even remembered,
but he quite forgot to tell me what
the scripture saith-"Woe unto you
when all men shall speak well of
you! The friendliness of your do
ings and their spontaneity as report
ed, 1 deeply appreciate, but any ade-
quate reason for such doings I utterly
fail to find.
Affection, Good Will and Appre-
citation" are inscribed on the loving
cup you put in my hands. 1 give the
same back to you with double of
warmth and gratitude; they are writ |
for me on a more living tablet than
silver. A string of quaint signatures !
written by public school children
sprinkled with very well
come one cent tigurings, will be care !
fully kept by the town history man; |
you'll be glad to see them again at
the Athenaeum fifty years from now.
From this time on our invitation +
is hearty to all alike to come to the |
Sheepcote and exchange greeting |
over this shapely urn which is for
a sign betwixt US. For me, it is full
to the brim with good will from boys |
and girls, women and men, and this +
is the imperishable preciousness of
it, It's visible contents, gold pieces i
that mounted some considerable way
up toward the brim, are set apart,
the Good Will Fund, re- !
turns from which every twelfth of
May will perpetuate the spirit of good I
will and keep in fresh remembrance
the friends whose good will gifts /
created it. 1
To every one of you 1 will now say,
as old Sheikh Hassein of the indian L
desert said to me when we parted at
the gates of GAIA after four pleasant /
weeks together: f'Taiyib, Howadji, 1
Taiyib, Taiyib Kyteer'; meaning,
Good will, good friend. Good will
and a whole big lot of it, and so
again to you all l say, Taiyib, Taiyib
Hyteer!
EDWARD T. FAIRBANKS.
st. Johnsbury, May, 1915.