Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-21
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
BY
FRANK PARKER SToCKBRDGE

FRANK PARKER STocKBRDGE '
FAIR worlds greatest
New York is going to have a
Worlds Fair in 1889. The date
will commemorate the 150th ami
versary of the beginning of our
beginning of our nation. On April
80, 1889, the first President OF the
United States, George Washington,
took the oath of office on the bal
cony of Federal Hall, at the corner
of Broad and Wall Streets, and tor
than a year he lived as Presl-
dent in New York. The national
capital was then removed to Phlla-
deIphia, where it remained until the
new city of Washington was ready
for President John Adams.
New York City is almost a per
petual Worlds Fair in itself. The
first Worlds Fair in America was
held in New York, in the Crystal
Palace, in 1854. The promoters
of the 1889 exposition promise
something grander and more inter-
esting than has ever been held.
At any rate, it will give every
body an opportunity and an excuse
to visit Americas greatest city.
MEMORIES 49,. growth
Years ago l net an old man who
claimed to have seen President
Washington. That may have been
true, for certainly there were many
men alive in my boyhood who were
born before Washington died. But
I have found hat many old people
Remember things that never hap
pened.
One old gentleman, Major George
Haven Putnam, who died at 80 :
few years ago, told me a story that
I do believe. AS a small boy hi
was walking with his father on the
Bowling Green, at the lower end Of
Broadway. They net Washington
Irving, the famous author, who wa:
born in 1888. Irving Patted the
little boy on the head, and said te
him:
"Now you are only two pats or
the head from George Washing
ton"
He had been walking with hi
own father, Irving said, at almost
the same spot, when they met Presl-
dent Washington, who patted hi
little namesake on the head.
When I hear such anecdotes ane
realize that only the span OF two
human lives lies between today ane
the beginning Of our nation, | an
always freshly amazed that we have
grown in SO short a time to the
wealthiest, most vigorous and al
most the largest nation in the
world. And l wonder how much
farther we are going.
FARADAY -. and tax
The other day a scientist in Lon
don, seated at the desk used BY
Michael Faraday, struck a match
and lighted a candle. That startee
an electrical impulse which spec
across the Atlantic and lighted {
lamp to signalize the opening of the
the new Museum of Science and In
dustry in New York.
Faraday, the blacksmith's sor
who invented the electric dynamo
could not have foreseen a miracle
like that, perhaps, though he was {
:. good prophet. When Mr.. Glad.
stone, Queen Victoria's Prime Min
lister, asked him what good his dy
namo was, Faraday replied:
Some day you can tax it"
Our whole great structure Of
public utilities is founded mainly
on Faraday's invention. And gov
ernments have certainly discovered
| that it is taxable!
ICE harvest
The biggest ice crop i n many
years is being harvested on the up.
per Hudson River and the lake.
of northern New York, and New
England. Two-foot ice is reported
from Lake Champlain, and still
freezing.
Electric refrigeration in homes
and artificial ice plants everywhere
have pretty nearly ruined what USED
to be a prosperous and profitable in
dustry. The annual ice crop usee