Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-09-03
THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST
Delivered by Hugh ii. Brown at the Banquet of
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity Convention ST.
Francis Hotel. San Francisco. Cal.
August q. 1915.


began,
Yet do | dream OF motherhood,
when man
One day at last shall look upon my
charms.
And give me cities, like children,
to my arms
So the third cry rolled out OF the
est,-made by the streams that riot
in the mountains. The wealth of the
waters. linked with the wealth of the
soil. began their miraculous, thrilling
and unbelievable work, and presently
all along that trail, from dreary seats
of desolation, Natures despised and
stunted bosom lifted to the laugh.
ing sun vast principalities of fruit and
flower and grain, as fair to look upon
as Legendary Eden
And here at the end of the trail
they have builded city. 1t is the
embodiment Of the Spirit of the West,
Its very soul and its browning
glory All the west is mrrored here
in this merry mart on the worlds
highway, where races and currents
from all climes meet and mingle, the
/ Byzantium OF the western world, mis-
tress OF lovelier Bosphorus; here
midst clustered cities, towns, and
seats of arms. and all the panoramic
sweep of the inland sea, where fuel
/ oil bubbles from the ground and
incalculable electric power tumbles
down the mountain slopes, here where
( the Golden Gate stretches beckoning
\ hands To the traffic trails of the Pa
cliic King Commerce has usurped
( the traditional seat Of King Gold.
Across the street. in Union square,
the figure Of Victory" atop the lofty
column. celebrates the booming of
newey's cannon in Manila bay. No
less does il celebrate the victor
ious spirit of this city.-the indom
table will. the yaulting faith and
courage OF men and women trium
plant over disaster. sons and daugh
tiers of the bronzed man with the axe
and the rifie.-city of the superlatiyt
optlmist-a city whose beauty is en-
nobled by scar.
Nine years ago | was here that day
when we felt the cosmic clutch al
the citys throat and when the Nesu
Wan glare in the night shadows sill
houetted the desolation Of Karnac
No city, not Nineyah, nor Rome. Lon
don nor Chicago, had seen such
! wall of fame. But no city that de
served to live ever was permanent.
destroyed by FIRE. Amidst a sea o
ashes we gave blithe goodbye AM
/ a glistening tear to the city that was
! and welcoming cheer and a moth
! ering caress to the city that was t
be
When the hosts of Xerxes move
! across the plains OF Greece, Athen
was burned and her temples dc
stroyed. At Salamis, the city-loRln
f. people began new day, The CIT
/ spirit smitten, ennobled revived, re
! turned to the ashes and rebuilt tn
. city. and then began their Golden Ag'
! century of civilizations sunburst
A midday glory in art and inteilec
a when men rose to the "Peerage of tn
[ Immortals."
!. The world has marveled for a tho
sand years that Justinian and ms a
r ehitect, Anthemois, should restoT
!. Sancta Sofia and crown her with thi
!, sky .moeking dome in the short spat
:, of six years. Yet here in the west
. troop of master builders within fe
# short years have restored VINO
!. city, reaffirming here the Periclea
!. postulate that beauty is the world
II great magnet,
= Cut and ground and tested by fir
a the city sparkles like gem, like
! vision born of Nights Arabian
:, blossom here in beauty not for
~ span, but for all time; a dream CT
a in the symmetrical reality OF ste
r. and stone and concrete,
~ James Anthony Froude said in II
Francisco. with the producing 4
ton behind you and six hundred m
n lion people in front of you, San Fra
o. cisco will become the greatest CT
y in America" Add to this Flore
tine glow of air and sky, appealing
III brain and soul and sense, people
u the open air. reveling in mounta
u forest and seashore, hospitable
II art. intellectually bouyant, optimlst
III tolerant, adventurous, pagan, satur
a eu WIN lhe spun VI INV 49, y
~ mopolilan center, a magnet Tor N
gu chants, bankers, manufacturers, tea
~ ers. lawyers philosophers, poets a
artists, whose life runs large here
list the end OF the old trail,--l say Il
ry when their sons shall bulk to the
a measure OF their environment It
nd will produce a race of giants, /
at that young titan Herbert Clarke II
yer. who went out from Stanford I
all versity twenty years ago 10 do
A. work IN the world, an engineer, sci
he ar. executive, inaneier. now head 1
itS front OF the American commission
Belgium. feeding and nurturing
he millions Of a stricken nation. lea
Il of the grandest army IN Europe.
worlds foremost unofficial diplou