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At the electric light table were Mr. and Mrs. George Hoag, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Scovill, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mckinstry, Mrs. R. G. Pate, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Tripp, Mrs. W. S. Scovill, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Dalzell, Mr. and Mrs. K. Gill, Mr. and Mrs. L. H.I. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. D. Johns.
At the Trumbull county table were Mrs. Henry C. Ranney, Mr. A. E. Adams, Mrs. W. Packard, Mrs. Homer Stewart, Mrs. Mary Hutchins Cozzens, Mrs. Jane Todd Ratliff, Mrs. L. P. Gilder, Mrs. C. B. Darling, Mrs. E. P. Babbitt, Mrs. H. B. Per- kins, Miss E. H. Baldwin, Mrs. Cornelia Fuller Hammon, Mrs. B. F. Taylor, Mrs. Martha L. Hunter, Mrs. Charles Ranney, Mr. Charles Ranney, Mr. Julius Lembeck, Mr. Alfred Adams, Hon. John C. Hutchins, Mrs. John C. Hutchins, Mr. and Mrs. Homer, Mrs. Helen Teller McCurdy, Miss Olivia Hapgood, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Brett.
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Toasts SIXTEEN TO ONE
Governor Bushnell Gives a New Turn to the Expression, and in That New Sense He Says He Believes in It-A Bright Response From Ohio's Chief Executive
"Toastmistress, Your Honor, Governor Mckinley, Ladies : You see I don't include the gentlemen. This is woman's day and all you can do is to be good boys and congratulate yourselves that you are here, as I do. Ladies, I salute you. It is un- spoken bliss, and worth half a life to see a crowd like this. I take great pleasure in welcoming you to your own Western Reserve, and city of Cleveland. It is safe for me to say that Cleveland is the largest city of Ohio. (Applause.)
"It is always a delight to me to speak of Ohio, and I am going to tell you of a circumstance of which some of you may have heard.
The minister at the revival asked all those who wanted to go to heaven to rise. All except one boy arose. The minister then asked all those who wanted to go to the other place to stand. The boy didn't arise, and when the minister asked him whether he didn't care to go to either place, he replied, 'No, Ohio is good enough for me.'
"Ohio is a great and growing State, and no city is of more importance to its growth than this city. Mr. Mayor, I congrat- ulate you on the magnificence of Cleveland. Women have been an important element in advancing the interests of the State, and we may properly say that the women of Ohio are first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of their countrymen. In the love for you, ladies, there should be no limit, and that is the only thing in which I am willing to concede a ratio of 16 to 1. For the benefit of those who do not understand the comparison,
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I will explain that we should love the women sixteen times more than they do us. This is one of the most pleasant occa- sions of my life. I congratulate you on the great success of this affair, and I trust you may all have great happiness and prosperity."
THEY WERE THE PLANTERS
The Pioneers Sowed the Seed Which the People of Today Are Reaping-They Never Saw Electric Street Cars or Bicy- cles, But They Blazed the Way for the Enjoyment of These Things-Mrs. T. K. Dissette's Speech
Mrs. T. K. Dissette was next introduced. She responded to the toast "We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne." Mrs. Dissette said in part :
"The log cabin pioneer of the beginning of the century is the hero of today. And as we recall how much the early settlers suffered and accomplished; how much we have that they didn't have, we exalt them as marvels and canonize them as saints. But I think these fathers and mothers of our civilization were not unlike the frontiersmen that are found on the extremes of American civilization at the present time. They despised effem- inacy. Take one of those young men, with spike-toed shoes, fashionable garb, carefully creased trousers, immaculate shirt front, cuffs as large as a small bandbox, a collar that threatens his ears, and one of those senseless things called a cigarette in his mouth, set him down amongst those pioneers, and they would either set him up in the corn field to scare crows or would ship him to the nearest institution for imbeciles.
"The pioneer never heard of railroads, the application of electricity as a means of locomotion, the telephone, or the bicycle,
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and knew nothing of other marvelous developments the benefits of which we are now enjoying. But, after all, these things are the heritage our fathers and mothers made possible for us when they planted our civilization in the forests of the Western Re- serve. They understood well and contended earnestly for the true principles of human greatness, a pure morality, an edu- cated brain, and an industrious application of the talents of each individual to some useful department of life. These were the underlying principles of the fathers and mothers of the Western Reserve, and they have been the foundation of the marvelous achievements of the past century."
A DUAL COURTESY
Such Mrs. Annette Phelps Lincoln, President of the Ohio Feder- ation of Women's Clubs, of Lincoln, Ohio
The "Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs" was the theme upon which Mrs. Annette Phelps Lincoln addressed the guests. "In extending to me this delightful privilege, ladies," she said, "yours has been a dual courtesy. You not only make me very happy, but you recognize the organization with which I have had the pleasure to be closely connected. Are we not daily real- izing that largely through organized efforts we more easily attain the best ideals? The various associations represented here today fully attest this fact. Notable among these are the local organ- izations represented in Cleveland. This work speaks of their advanced ideas and methods. The Cleveland women are well and widely known for their intellectual and social culture. They have directly and indirectly planned and executed many noble schemes. They have in their respective orbits aided and ad-
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vanced the material wealth and prosperity of this city. Every woman has contributed her increment of power to the whole. We are glad to say, all honor to the women of Cleveland for their progressive tendencies and for their organized ef- forts. The organization which I represent is a State organi- zation. It is a conservative and dignified association of women worthy of the countenance and support of all good, broad and refining influences. It now numbers 112 clubs, with a member- ship of 4,000 women."
A DIZZY SUBJECT
Mrs. N. Coe Stewart responded next to the toast, "The Wheels of the Past and the Wheels of the Present." Mrs. Stewart preluded her remarks by saying: "Ladies and Gentle- men: I want to introduce to you the wheel of the past, and the wheels of the present."
Thereupon a spinning wheel, and a bicycle of the latest fashion, decorated with flowers, were placed on the large table immediately in front of the platform on which the speaker stood. Mrs. Stewart then said:
"Woman invented the wheel. Archaeologists tell us that the potter's wheel is the oldest form of mechanism, the pictures of which on ancient clay vessels show it to be absolutely the wheel of the present, no improvement having been made up to this time. It is the foundation of all mechanical art. What need for woman to be continually inventing when she can revo- lutionize the world by one turn of her hand? The wheels and wheels, and wheels within wheels she set in motion! The world has been 'seein' wheels go round' ever since. The innumerable mechanical wheels, from the tiny wheel of the watch to the
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enormous and awe-inspiring Ferris wheel! The wheels of in- dustry, revolving more and more rapidly and increasing as the world advances. The metaphorical wheel of fortune which, like the bicycle, is so difficult for the uninitiated to mount. The wheel of time. Poor old Father Time; what a tiresome journey he would have had without a wheel. I wonder some ambitious bicycle dealer has not claimed to have invented it. It would be such a good advertisement in the parade, for, while its staying qualities are a dead failure, it always keeps at the head of the procession, and increases its speed at the end of the race."
She was loudly applauded.
THE FUTURE CITIZEN
Mrs. J. C. Croly (Jennie June ) Tells How He Should Be Brought Up-An American Guard
"The Future Citizen" was the subject of a thoughtful talk by Mrs. J. C. Croly (Jennie June) .
"The citizen of the future is the boy in the street," she said. "He will be the voter of tomorrow. He will have to maintain the order of the city of Cleveland. The boy between ten and twenty stands second in the annals of criminals. That ought to bring serious consideration to us. What remedy can we apply to this? Is it not that we have turned the boy into the street without occupation? I think one of the answers is to organize the boys. We look at the boy, unorganized, unrelated. He is not all wicked; he drifts into wickedness. Organize him into a young American guard, that he may be taught to help instead of to injure. It is all possible. We should have in the boys of the streets a guarantee of the safety of the nation."
MRS. J. C. CROLY ("'JENNIE JUNE") 2ND PRESIDENT OF N. Y. SOROSIS
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The response to the address of welcome was made by Rev. A. A. F. Johnston, president of the Ladies' College at Oberlin. She said :
"Mrs. President: In behalf of the women of the Western Reserve I wish to thank you, and through you the women of Cleveland, for the invitation that has opened to us this festal occasion. I wish also to thank you for the hearty and gracious welcome with which you greet us. It is fitting that we meet to- gether on this memorial day that emphasizes a century of growth and progress, for the relations existing between your beautiful city and the favored region known as the Western Re- serve have always been intimate and vital. Cleveland might well be called the capital of the Western Reserve. Here in your growing city the early settler found a steady and open market for his farm product. Here also he supplied himself with agri- cultural implements and household necessities.
Not all the thought of the early settlers was spent upon the clearing of farms and the building of homes. They under- stood very well that individual prosperity is based upon public prosperity. They laid carefully and well the lines that made for public good. They organized township government, built churches, and established schools."
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton was obliged to leave before her toast was reached, at 11 P. M.
CONTENTS OF THE SILVER CASKET. Not to be Opened for 100 Years.
Relating to the Woman's Department of the Centennial:
Constitution, Treasurer's Report, Memorial History of the Women of the Western Reserve, Copy of the Addresses made on Woman's Day, Programmes for Woman's Day and for the Departments, Tickets, Invitations, Badges, Letters, Membership Roll, and Certificates.
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Official Programme, Official Gavel, Official Certification to Contents of Casket.
Centennial Album, Quarter Century Lectures on Cleveland. Reports :
Young Woman's Christian Association, Woman's Relief Corps, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Day Nursery and Free Kindergarten Association, Kindergarten Commit- tee of Public Schools, Bethany Home, Dorcas Society, Circle of Mercy, Jewish Council of Women.
History of the Charities of Cleveland.
History of Women of Cleveland and Their Work.
The Official Certificate of the First Woman Chosen to an Elective Office in Cleveland.
Programs :
The Conversational, Art and History Club, Woman's Press
Club, Sorosis, Literary Guild, Case Avenue Literary Club, Badges and Pins :
Woman's Press Club, Sorosis, Woman's Relief Corps, Daughters of the American Revolution, Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Newspapers :
Hand-Book of City of Cleveland, Map of Cleveland.
Ohio Legislative Hand-Book.
United States Flag.
Message from 1896 to 1996.
The Packing of the Casket.
The Newspapers.
. Mrs. L. A. Russell
The Official Program Mr. Wilson M. Day
Membership Roll. Mrs. T. K. Dissette History of the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve,
Constitution of the Woman's Department,
Mrs. G. V. R. Wickham
Mrs. Mary S. Bradford
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Treasurer's Report. Miss Elizabeth Blair Work of Printing Committee Mrs. H. A. Griffin Reports of the Philanthropic and Charitable Societies of Cleveland. Mrs. Charles W. Chase Programs of Literary Clubs. . Mrs. W. B. Neff Badges (Woman's Day and Others) . Mrs. M. B. Schwab History of Cleveland, (Miss Urann)
History of the Women of Cleveland, (Mrs. Ingham) and
State and City Official Hand Books, Mrs. B. F. Taylor
Centennial Album
Mrs. W. G. Rose
Correspondence. Mrs. S. P. Churchill
Account of Woman in the Industries. .. Mrs. Jane Eliot Snow
Music-"The Star Spangled Banner". The Temple Quartet Prof. Gustav Schildesheim, Accompanist An American Flag Mrs. O. J. Hodge
Map of Cleveland. Mrs. E. S. Webb Manuscript of Papers Read on Woman's Day. . Mrs. S. E. Bierce Woman's Edition of the Plain Dealer (on silk),
Mrs. W. J. Sheppard
The Gavel That Closed the Centennial, (made from Cen-
tennial Log Cabin Timber) . Mayor R. E. McKisson Official Certification to the Packing of the Casket, Mayor R. E. McKisson
THE CLOSING OF THE CASKET
To Be Opened in 100 Years
Presentation of the Casket to Mrs. W. A. Ingham, Pres-
ident of the Woman's Department .... Mrs. Elroy M. Avery Presentation of the Casket to Mr. H. C. Ranney, Pres-
ident of the Western Reserve Historical Society,
Mrs. W. A. Ingham
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Response. . Mr. H. C. Ranney Music-"America" The Temple Quartet
The Rev. H. C. Haydn Benediction .
GREATER CLEVELAND
The parade of the Republicans, October 31, 1896, was on Euclid avenue from Erie to Willson and return. Twenty-five thousand with the steps of the marching men rose and fell like waves of the sea.
The sight was magnificent when viewed its length. Here and there were banners of weird devise which divided the bat- talions or regiments. These were some of them:
"Honest money for honest labor."
"Protection against cheap English labor."
"Not coercion but cohesion."
"Protection for American labor."
"First voters."
We do not care to go back to those days, nor do we admire the pride engendered by them. It ought to make us feel humble, for no matter how much gold trimmings are on the horses, it looks old and barbarous to succeeding generations.
A city is not unlike a boy, who, arriving at his majority at twenty-one, is then able to appreciate his surroundings and measure himself with his fellows. So a city or nation in the first hundred years is uniting its suburbs, bridging its chasnis, arranging its parks, enticing to its borders, by universities and colleges, erecting for its masses its high schools, grammar and primary schools, as well as normal schools.
Believing that education is better than punishment, that an ignorant boy is an idle boy, an idle boy is a mischievous boy. If
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not given work, the city has to provide him a home and employ- ment under iron bars.
Cleveland set the glorious example of the first High School with a library and the good thing was contagious until Ohio has received full and complete education, free of cost, to its citizens, above any other state. Cleveland is beginning to be known abroad. It has sent out wise consuls in Frank Mason and J. C Covert.
It has given its refined oil to China and India. It has ships that sail the seas, second to none. Cleveland has an abundance of pure water, a warm sandy soil, intelligent and industrious citizens. Oil has been carried here in tubes from the oil regions a hundred miles. Today our steel mills rank with any in the world.
Cleveland has a great foreign population, its Yankee or na- tive element being one-tenth of the whole. But that tenth can control. It has precedence, prestige, education and the de- sire to direct the forces into useful and desirable channels.
We shall then see the automobile have its special road. The electric light dispelling shadows until there will be no more use of policemen than in broad daylight. We shall have country roads with city villas upon them and the health of cities im- proved; the slums a thing of the past. The poor man with his cottage on the country hillside, yet doing his eight hours' work in the city. Employe and capitalist alike benefited. May some one of us live to see that day.
WILLIAM G. ROSE
Mayor of Cleveland, 1878-79-Twelve Years Later, 1901-02
William Grey Rose was born in Mercer County, Pa., Sep- tember 15, 1829. His father, James Rose, came from Darling- ton, Westmoreland County; he was of English descent, tracing the Grey to the Earl of Suffolk. His mother, Martha Mckinley Rose, was of the clan of McKinleys which met in Topeka, Kans., in September 18, 1893, John A. Goodwin, Chicago, Secretary.
President McKinley's father was a double cousin of Mayor Rose. A brother of Mckinley married a Rose and a Rose mar- ried a Mckinley. The families visited each other frequently.
The president was eleven years younger and he said to him, "If you will stand aside politically, I can be governor of Ohio, and that is a stepping stone to the presidency." This he did, sending a telegram to Springfield to the nominating conven- tion that he would not accept the nomination if it was given to him. He had run on the Foraker and Rose ticket and as lieu- tenant governor was 3,000 ahead of Foraker. He satisfied his family by telling them that in some counties in southern Ohio men sold their votes to the highest bidder and it cost a fortune to be elected.
William G. Rose's boyhood was spent on a small farm; his father preferred the work of a furnace of his brother Chapman Rose in Lawrence County. His mother took charge of the farm; she had a loom for weaving, and the family braided whip-lashes. In all industry she was very successful.
When William was fourteen she gave him all he could earn with the farm to forward his education. He wore out a team of horses but could not sell the produce. The villagers of Mer-
MR. WM. G. ROSE WHEN HE WAS MAYOR THE SECOND TIME, 1901-2
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cer had out-lots and raised all they needed of vegetables, corn and oats.
He then bought a daugerian wagon and traveled from place to place. We have a picture of himself with jewelry, in gold color, to show what he could do.
In 1849 he attended the school in Austinburgh, O., and there met Edwin Cowles, afterwards editor of the Cleveland Leader. Then for three years he went to Beaver Academy, Pa. Super- intendent Jones preached very pointed sermons and said to him, "I mean you." Mr. Rose explained how he had taken care of preachers' horses, when he was a boy, and that he would wait until he could support himself before he became a preacher. Professor Jones gave him classes to teach in Latin and Mathe- matics and wanted him to go to Washington College at Bethle- hem, but instead he went to Mercer and studied law with Hon- orable William Stewart, a member of congress from that dis- trist. In a year he bought out the Mercer Democrat and made it a Free-Soil or a Republican paper. In 1858 he was sent to Harrisburg as a Representative. That year he married Martha Emily Parmelee, who was a music teacher in Mercer Female Seminary, taught by her sister Eliza. She was a graduate of Oberlin Literary Course of 1855.
When in the legislature there was a lobbyist, Owens, from Philadelphia, employed by the Sunbury & Erie R. R., and a com- mittee to redistrict the state. Some of the members that would be affected by it came to Mr. Rose to oppose the measure. On the floor of the house he asked Mr. Owens to explain the bill. He replied, "You will get it outside quicker than you want it." As the members passed out at noontime, Mr. Owens stood in the passageway and struck Mr. Rose in the face. His nose bled and he was blinded for a moment, but he returned the blow,
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sending his assailant onto an apple stand. In the confusion members interfered, and Mr. Owens was sent to the hospital.
Simon Cameron saw an account of it in the paper and sent for Mr. Rose several times, and said, "We need your courage in politics, then there would be less of this influencing of legis- lators for private gain."
Owens had threatened he would "make a yearling of him," that is, sent for only one term. But it proved false. He was offered at home anything in the gift of the people. He received the county votes for congress, but the district convention was held for three weeks. Then one delegate came to him and said, "The man who ran with you for the nomination, and out of compliment you made a delegate, is the one that is blocking your nomination. You can name a man and he will get it." So Mr. Rose named Mr. Culver, who accepted and was elected. But he was so busy with his new railroad near Titusville he was in congress but a few times.
The Civil War came on and Mr. Rose was made Cononel, but on "double quick" in the parade of the Mercer Rifles, he fell to the ground and was brought home on a stretcher. It was heart trouble. He paid the bounties of three and did not serve in the war until Pennsylvania was invaded, when every male over sixteen or less than sixty went to the front. They took the places of those who were prepared for battle. He was at Parkersburg at the time of the capture of the guerrilla Morgan. He returned home a very sick man, caused by coarse diet and exposure.
He had ten nephews in the army and when they were of- fered "a furlough to all who would enlist for three years or to the end of the war," they all enlisted. Mrs. Rose made a Sol- diers' Reception. Their house was crowded, 76 soldiers were
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present. Alas, two of his nephews on their return to the army were captured at Cold Harbor and sent to Salsbury prison. The mother of her boy Johnny refused to eat if her son had no food and died. The cruelty to them will never be forgotten.
Mercer was near the "oil country" and at a Sunday dinner Mrs. Rose asked for money for a life membership of the Bible Society. "I will give it to you if I can sell some land now of- fered me at Tidioute," he replied.
When he went to look at the land he found a party from New York glad to purchase it and returned in a few days. His profits were a multiple of the money needed for the life mem- bership, $3,000, and she received $30.00 and has used it to get Testaments or Bibles since its date, 1864. Mercer men formed a company to test the property and they put down a well and had a "gusher," but, as Mr. Rose wished to be out of debt, he offered to a merchant, who was one of the company, his share for his store bill. And when he found it but a trifle, they made him their agent in Philadelphia to sell its output. He sold on daily stock quotations. Often a well is tapped by one put down above it. And then the company is sued for false representa- tion. Some men make it their business to buy up this "rotten stock" and sue those who have sold it. His partner from Mercer sold for anything he could get, a church organ, silverware, a piano and other merchandise. When Mr. Rose moved to Cleve- land he came to him to say, "We are each sued for $250,000. It would take all I possess." He proposed to flee to Canada. Mrs. Rose said "Go East and make an offer." And they did. It was accepted; $10,000 from each of them and he gave them no trouble afterward. This is what they expect will be done when they sue a man.
In 1865 Mr. Rose and family moved to Cleveland and bought
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Mr. Sherwin's property on Fairmount street. After two years they stored their goods and went to St. Louis and then to Chi- cago, but returned to Cleveland because of its greater possibili- ties. It is in a fruit region, has plenty of good lake water and is near to coal and iron.
They had seen the beautiful homes in the suburbs of St. Louis and proposed to make a similar one on Kinsman Road. Israel Hubbard gave him eighty acres which he sold to real es- tate men, but the odors of the Standard Oil tanks prevented it from becoming a place of residence. He gave ten per cent to agents; others gave two per cent. He soon had a large amount of land to sell. He obtained the right-of-way for the N. Y. P. & O. and located Collinwood.
In 1871 he was urged by friends to run for mayor, and was elected without opposition. At once he began to study the city's assets, which were only the public market fund on Ontario street and a sinking fund from Ohio City very ably handled by its commissioners.
In his first message to the city council he said, "The canal- bed to the three-mile-lock would make a good entrance to the city for all the railroads. The Valley Road has bought it, but not a cent is paid. The contract will be void in a few months and I advise you to take it back and offer it to all the railroads and that will relieve Euclid avenue from its menace of steam cars, also the lake shore and Pelton Park of the odors of cattle and hog trains. It will add very much to the city's health and pleasure."
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