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THE DAILY EXAMINER. DECEMBER 16,1887.

Banquet te Professor Anderson.

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We regard the banquet in honor of Professor Anderson as a good sign of the As a practical

be

times in Charlottetown. token that is beginning to appreciated—even when it is exhibited by men engaged in the higher and nobler employments of life—it was an occurrence

merit

pleasing to all who are taking note of movements onward and upward. To Professor Anderson it was—it must have

been——intensely gratifying. All true artists yearn for appreciation and sympathy ; and we believe that none desire it more strongly or receive from it greater help and cheer than the class of artists who are engaged in the grand work of training young minds and influencing nascent characters. Professor Anderson has served Prince Edward Island steadily and well during the long period of & quarter of a century; and he has done good work, that is, if his work be judged in distinguished

wherever situated, reflect their Alma Mater and their Island home. Therefore, a banquet in his honor and a well filled purse in his pocket are nothing he well deserves. But it is, nevertheless, pleasing and re- assuring, if not surprising, that they were

by the results shown scholars who,

credit upon

more than

tendered. The fact will, no doubt, stimu- late Professor Anderson and all good teachers inthe Province; for it proves

that there is inthe Province a living in terest in the teachers’ work.

The speeches in response to the toasts at the banquet were, for the most part, in capital form. That of the United States Consul was particularly happy, combining with a rich vein of humor a large amount of the latest and best thought on the im- portance of education and the value of the genuine teacher's work. Professor Ander- alluded the assistance encouragement he had received from the late Sir Robert Hodgson

son in feeling terms to

and

and the “late Hon. John Longworth ; dwelt upon the necessity of keep- ing high the educativnal standard

of the Province; and strongly urged the importance of a wholesome, moral tone in the public schools. The addresses of Mr. Donald Montgomery, Mr. L. H. Davies, M. P., and the Hon. Donald Ferguson were admirable ; while the excellent senti- ments eloquently spoken by the Rev. 8. Weston-Jones were timely and appropriate, and his ingenious expression of the hope that the union of Prince of Wales College and Professor Anderson would not soon be broken was received with enthusiastic cheers.

Malcolm McLeod, Q. C., did not forget to refer briefly and tuuchingly to the schol- istic work of the late William Cundall, and tocallto mind the services rendered to education in this Province by Mr. John Kenny, at one time the popular head master of the Central Academy, but now resident in the Mother Country. The toast to Mr. Kenny’s health, which he proposed, was received with all the honors, the com- pany singing **Auld Lang Syne.”

The banquet was in one respect unique. [t is the first that has been given in honor of a public educator. It was a happy con- ception happily carried out.

Wealth of Siberia.

The Mineral

Rererrcxe to the resources of coal and iron in Siberia, a writer in one of our Eng- lish exchanges says :—

**It is one of the finest undeveloped coun- tries in the world, and it is really difficult to exaggerate the enurmous wealth of this gigan- tic region. The soil is of almost inexhaustible wealth and the crops magnificent. There is almost no limit to the production of the land. The Russians themselves have but an imper- tect idea of the immensity of their natural wealth, and other people outside Russia can- not realize it at all. Siberia, so far from being a region of desolation and of death, is a northern Australia, with larger rivers, more extensive forests, and mineral wealth not in- ferior to that of the island c-ntinent. In a very few years Siberia will be bridged from end to end with railways, and in this matter the Russian government is showing a large and wise policy. The magnificent water coin. munications—for it is irrigated from end to end with some of the largest rivers in the world, navigable for thousands of miles through fertile and richly wooded lands des. tined to be the home of millions of colohists— and acanal isnow being made between the Obi and the Yenisei, which wil! enable goods to be conveyed by water *the whole way from Tiumen to beyond Lake Baikal At Tiumen there is a railway which passes through the Ural mountains to Ekaterineburg and Perm, through the heart of the richest mining dis. trict in western Siberia.”

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~~ In Shelburne, General Laurie (Conser. vative) has been elected to the seat vacated by Mr. Thomas Robertson, (Grit) on ac- count of bribery and corruption; and in Yarmouth the majority of Mr. Lovitt, (Grit) has been reduced from 692 to 567. Truly, “the sober second thought of the country ‘s asserting itself.”

—It is reported that Congress is towards the abrogation of all the Chinese Empire, so far as they permit the coming of Chinese into the United States, and the absolute prohibitlon of the “aime €xcept as to diplomatic Consular and other officials. They will soon have to

build « Chinese wall around these blessed States |

moving treaties with

<oeeyeinmieiiaaipincapanetins an. ~The Pall Mali Gazette says that Gen. Willoughby, until recently ambassador of Madagascar in London, was convicted, on ‘8 return to Madagascar, of the embezzle- ment of £12,000, and Sentenced to im-

risOnment for gn j defini : : Rim righ f°" 8 indetinite period, Served

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| The Banquet to Prof. Anderson. was auspici-

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ously opened last evening, being the complimentary banquet tendered Prof. Anderson by his former students upon the Silver Jubilee of his assuciation with Prince of Wales College. Upwards of sixty guests were present, the greater number of whom were old College students, and who, by their words and actions, showed that there is a very large and warm corner in their hearts for their former mentor,

ide and friend. - R. Fitzgerald, Esq., presided, and James M. Sutherland, Esq., acted ss vice- Chairman. To the right of the Chairman sat the guest of the evening, Professor Anderson, and Hon. Senator Haythorne, Mr. L. H. Davies, M. P., and Hon. David Laird. To the left His Honor Lieutenant- Governor Macdonald, Hon. Mr. Ceorge, (United States Consul,) Hon. Donald Fer- guson and Hon. George W. Bentley. The other gentlemen present were M. Macleod, John Ings, Daniel Davies, Jas. D. Irving, Charles Palmer, D. Montgomery, Rev. 8. Weston Jones, Dr. Taylor, Richard Slog- gett, D. C. McLeod, D. C. Martin, F. L. Haszard, Percy Pope, L. L. Beer, George Peake, George McLeod, J. H. Bell, H. HRaszard, Dr. Warburten, W. S. Stewart, F. H. Arnaud, A. B. Warburton, F. Peters, H. J. Palmer, W. L. Cotton, C. B. Mac- neil, C. R. Smallwood, W.C. Hobkirk, AL. Bridges, H. Richardson, A. A. Macdonaid, H. C.;Macdonald, W. A. Weeks, jr.. Johu A. Longworth, Thos. May, W. C. Harris, jr., A. B. Brown, Dr. Darrach, Dr. Bag- nall, T. A. LePage, D. J. Macleod, A. E. Morrison, D. Nicholson, W. Owen, C. Schurman, W. D. McKay, H. W. Findlay, Jas. H. Good, J. P. Wickham, H. Rob- inson, F. J. Nash, George Robinson, H. Melnnis.

The large new dining room was well heated and lighted and the tables were spread in a manner which could not fail to

please the most fastidivuus of the guests. The menu was as follows :— MENU. SOUP, Meg Meriles. Ox Tail. FISH. Boiled Salmon—Tomato Sauce. ENTREES. Boudin ala Rein. ‘obster Salad. Fowl and Saratoga Chips.

Ragout of

ROAST. Sirloin of Beef and Horse Radish. Turkey— Chestnut Stuffing, Duck and Olive Sauce. Goose and Currant Jelly.

Guskin of Pork and Apple Sauce,

BOILED. Turkey and Egg Sauce. Leg of Lamb, Chicken and Bacon. Ham and Tongue. VEGETABLES. Green Peas, RELISHES, Red Cabbage Salad. Mixed Worcester Sauce. Mont- serrat and Atlanta. GAME, Prairie Chicken, Toast. PUDDING. Christmas Pudding—Brandy Sauce.

Ptatoe. Tomatoes,

Pickled Beets. Pickles, Jugged Hare. Quail on

Peach

Meringue. Coffee. Princess Pudding. Bavarian Cream. Wine Jelly. Lemon Jelly. Cup Custards,

PASTRY.

Apple Pie. Orange Tart. Raspberry and Citron.

DESSERT.

Oranges. Apples. Assorted Nuts. Bilack Basket Raisins. Green Grapes, Fruit Glace. Walnut Cake. Cocoanut

Snow Balls. Strawberries and Whipped Cream.

Celery and Rocquefort Cheese. Tea and Vienna Coffee. Silver and Ames Cake

It is, of course, needless to say that ample justice was done the good things Frovided. Letters and telegrams of regret at their inability to attend, and expressing the best wishes for the guest of the even- ing were read from Mayor Haviland, Dr. Macleod, Joseph Unsworth, W. E. Dawson, Neil Macleod, (Summerside), A. G. Laird, on bohalf of the Island students — at Dalhousie, Prof. Schurman, D. C. Ross and several others.

Just before commencing the intellectual portion of the entertainment, the Chair- man presented Professor Anderson with a purse containing three hundred dollars in gold and the following

ADDRESs:

CANADA, PROVINCE oF Prince Epwarp ISLAND, CHARLOTTETOWN.

To Alexander Anderson, Prince of Wales College : Srr,—During the past winter the idea pre-

sented itself to several of your old upils that they {should make some publie ac nowledg- ment of their personal obligation to you, the occasion of which might also serve to call at. tention to the long and eminent service rend- ered by you to the cause of education on Prince Edward Island. On mentioning this to others of their class-mates and fellow. students, they. found it to meet with warm expressions of approval and hearty promises or co-operation. It »was learned, too, that you were on thecve of completing a quarter of a century of labor in the eotien institu- tion of the Province, and this circumstance seemed to lend sanction and opportuness to the proposal. Accordingly, at a meeting held in August last, it was resolved that the idea take definite shape, of which the present gathering is the issue,

During the period referred to the advance of education on the Island has been both rapid and sure. We have to-day a highly organized and carefully administered educational: system presided over by a’pupil of your own, and worked by a body of teachers, the majority of whom have come under your care. This advance has indeed been most rapid during the last ten years, but it was during the early period of your residence here that the necessity of higher instruction and better facilities for obtaining it first assert- ed itself. When it was seen from the success which attended your students at the Univers. ity, that the material of scholarshi existed here, and that the training they had received was thorough and abreast of the times, the desire began to spread und to take root, that our elementary schools as well should be put on @ solid and adequate basis. That this c been done, and that teaching is now a ro- eognized and worthy profession, are in no small degree the effect of the influence of your work in Prince of Wales College. Your students do not forget that these results were not secured without hard labor on your par*. li re en themselves well prepared for the class-work of the University, it was he. gpuse that you, both in and out of school | hours, had not sptred yourself to secure that

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readiness. Further, they wish to testify that your interest in them was not professional merely, but personal as well,—-an interest you have not ceased to evince «during their subse- quent career.

You have given almost the whole of your working life to the cause of education in the province. Not only in the class-reom, but socially and on the public platform, you have steadily endeavored to stimulate the intellec- tual life of our people. Your many lectures, delivered from time to time, have contributed largely both in matter and in aim to raise the literary taste of your hearers.

For these reasons, not to speak of the high place that our College holds as a training school for the University, and of the goodly number ot its students who have won distinc- tion at the higher seats of learning and after- wards in professional life abroad, we have thought that this occasion should not be let pass without some grateful recognition of your work,

We trust that the Prince of Wales College will continue to receive, as under your Prin- cipalship it will deserve to receive, the sup- port of all who have the good of the Province at heart.

Offering these our heartfelt thanks for our many oblications, we would at the same time tender to you and to your partner in life, a worthy helpmate in a strange land, our best wishes for your future welfare. :

We beg you to accept the accompanying

purse as a small expression of our continued good will. (Signed ) R. R. Frrzcerarp.

D. C. Macierop, James M, SuTHERLAND. Tuomas A. LePaae. Witiiam A, Werks. Committee, December 15, 1887. Professor Anderson replied as follows :— REPLY: To R. R. Fitzgerald, Esq., President, James M. Sutiie rland, Duncan C. McLeod, Wm. A. Week, and Thomas A. Le Page, Esqs.,

, “es Comimillte,

GENTLEMeN,-- You remind me that a quar- ter of acentury has passed since first I set foot upon Prince Edward Island. The mere mention of such a lengthened period, so large a portion of one’s life, is surely enough to make me pause and attempt to recall some of

its experiences. As completely as most men, aud perhaps more so than many, I have sought to identity myself with

the Institution of which I am the head, and I can, without fear of contradiction, assert that I have succceded in doing so. My private studies, my public appearances, in fact my whole life has been devoted to the interests of the Prince ot Wales College—to secure its establishment in the affections of the students who repair to it for instruction, the confidence and respect of the people of Prince Edward Island who support it, and the disinterested esteem of eminent educators at the higher seats of learning. That I have succeeded in the first, the present auspicious occasion is an indubit- able proof, and I scarcely believe that the people of this Province would willingly part with an Iastitution where so many of their yeuth have first become cognizant of their

own powers, and [I have received that momentum which has carried so many to distinction and usefulness; whilst

every year I receive warm assurances from abroad of the respect in which students from the Prince ot Wales College are held.

But this result has only been reached after long years of incessant toil. Arduous as educational work always is, when conscienti- ously performed, it becomes still more so when there is a lack of sympathy from with- out, and but few, if any, to,lend the strength which arises from enthnsiastic support. Teachers are but men, and though they strive to have the satisfaction of an approvin conscience, they would be greatly uncouraged and strengthened for their work by the hearty *“‘God-speed” of their fellow citizens. ] must say that on all occasions I have had not only the countenance, but the support of all who had the well-being of their country at heart, while in the class-room there never has been but one feeling, that of perfect understanding, a mutual recognition of the accepted fact that we had met for earnest work, and that the know- ledge and powers of the teachcr were at the command of the students. Hence originated not only the reciprocal trust which lasted during their student career with me, but the continuance of it to after years, and the trans- formation of it to an affection both pleasant and inspiring,

When I commenced work in January, 1863, I found an impossible curriculum, a free and easy discipline under which the students had the hest of it, a total want of elementary training and no means of obtaining it. The prospect seemed hopeless; but I soon discover- ed that the material which I had to work upon was of excellent quality, and that if judicious. ly and intelligently manipulated would turn out to be of rare value. The curriculum was tacitly dropped ; in the course ot time dis- cipline improved, and the elementary instruc- tion was supplied by the College. had to learn to labor and to wait, As years passed, our position improved ; teachers educated at the College began to send up well instructed pupils, a higher work became possible, those students who had proceeded to the University began and continued that career of distinc. tion which has not yet, I ho , reached its culminating point, sak the betas of the College and real knowledge respecting it began to penetrate to quarters which before it was impossible to reach. And then came the crowning act of the educational life of Prince Edward Island—the Education Bill of 1877, and its complement of 1879, the amal- gamation of the Prince of Wales College and the Provincial Normal School. And I venture to aflirm that had it not been for tie exist- ence of the Prince of Wales College in 1877, and a considerable number of students who had been educated at it and who were ready to assume the position of teachers, the ad. vantages of that admirable act would not have been so immediately felt and realized through- out the country.

And now over 400 teachers who have been educated at the joint Institution are engaged in the schools of the Province, a former stu. dent is administering its educational affairs, and two others are associated with me in my scholastic work. And the result of this pleas- ing fact is that educational activity was never so marked as at the present moment, and the standard of excellence attained by candidates for admission to the College was never so high. This, to me, is the most satisfactory result

from the work done in the College. It is} 3

most gratifying to have to record the gac- cesses of able and deserving students who are winning distinction for their Alma Mater at distant places of learning, bat in my Opinion, it is far more hopeful for the future of the Province, when I see those who are to be the men and women of the next generation being lifted to a higher ietellenienl level by the energy, intelligence and self-devotion of its teachers.

The Act of 1879 necessarily admitted young ladies to the College to share in the privileges hitherto reserved for the other sex. This was a new departure, and one initiated not with. out fear and trembling by some of our friends, But it has succeeded perfectly as it deserved to succeed ; and the question of co-education, in this Provinze at any rate, has been solved to the satisiaction of all concerned. And as positions of emolument and trust are being

ambition of women, it is surely not unre ason-

You have been pleased to reter, in terms of encomium,to my influence upon ecdue ition and | literature outside of the class-room, in my social and public capacity. I can truly say that whenever I appeared as a lecturer, tion as a public instzuctor, and though my audience was different from that I was accus- tomod to ineet, it was no less my duty, as it was my privilege, to discourse upon what were to them also questions of supreme im-

rtance, and ‘‘ to labor to stimulate their in- tellectual life, and elevate their literary tastes.”

This spontaneous and most generous ex- pression of your ae towards me I appre- ciate as the outcome of a noble enthusiasm to recognize faithful work, long continued, and as such I accept it, and shall continue to prize it But it is more to me than a recognition of whatis past. It shall be a powerful stimulus tu further effort in the future. The courage derived from the conviction that those from whom I would expect most, my spiritual children, are on the side of a against ignorance, ranged in the army of light as opposed to that of darkness, ought to enable me to redouble my efforts in the cause of education. And be assured that I most heartily reciprocate your prayer and emphasize it, that the Prince of Wales Colleye may re- ceive the support of all true patriots in this Province in the future, as freely, and even to a greater degree, than it has experienced it in the past.

Standing, then, on the threshold of another period of my life in Priace Edward Island, wrapped in mystery as it is, come sunshine or

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gloom, tempest or calm, Mrs. Anderson and I shall never forget the very hearty terms in which you have spoken of my career in this Province, and your kind words and good wishes for our future welfare. And we most earnestly desire that every good thing may attend you; that as you have been an honor to your native land in the years that are past, may you grow to the stature of perfect men, strong in the courage of your convic- tions, ever on the side of justice and truth, the advocates of enlightement and progress, and, as you have been to me, ready, hearty and enthusiastic in your éommendation of services cheertully rendered and faithfully performed.

But you have placed me under a still great- er weight of obligation, by adding to your kind words of praise and affection a more tangible proof of your good will. The very valuable present which you have just handed to me, accentuates in ne small degree the hand- some terms of your address. And. as if it were possible to augment my emotions of gratitude and pleasure on the present occasion, you so overwhelm me with your kindness, that, whilst I feel deeply, I am conscious that my powers of expression are all too inadequate to convey to you one tithe of what 1 am keenly sensible, and therefore I must content myself with saying, from my heart I thank you,

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honors, and responded to as follows :-—

The Queen.

The Governor General -—-responded to by Lieut.-Governor Macdonald and Hon. Senator Haythorne.

The President of the United States— Hon. Mr. George.

Our Guest—Protessor Anderson.

The Educational Institutions of the Pro- vince—D. Montgomery, L. H. Davies and D. Ferguson.

The Learned Professions—.M. Macleod, F, Peters and Rey. S. Weston-Jones.

Our Alma Mater—J. M. Sutherland, J, H. Bell and D. C. Macleod.

The teachers of the Province—J. P. Wickham and D. J. Macleod.

The Press—D. Laird, W.L. Cotton and A. B. Warburton.

Absent Students—W. A. Weeks, H. C. Macdonald and W. S. Stewart.

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The proceedings were interspered with songs by Messrs. George Macleod, L. H. Davies, H. W. Findlay and J. H. Good.

The speeches were brief and witty. All present thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and it was not until almost four o’clock this morning that the proceedings were brought to a close by singing ‘Auld Lang Syne,” and giving three hearty cheers for the guest of the evening—Professor Anderson.

Previous to the banquet, Tux EXAMINER representative was shown through the spacious building, which is now almost all furnished and ready for occupation, and which, it is expected, will be open for the reception of guests by Christmas. On the first floor there are ten rooms, including dining room, reception room, reading room and gentlemen’s parlor, bedrooms, ete. The second contains the ladies’ parlor, two bathrooms and seventeen bedrooms ; the third, eighteen bedrooms and bathroom; and the fourth, twenty bedrooms and bath- room. The servants’ quarters are in a separate wing on the second floor. <A goodly number of the rooms are already furnished. The entire structure is heated by hot water, and all the rooms are fur- nished with electric bells, etc. The furni- ture is almost all new, and imported direct from the manufacturers at London, Ont. The carpenter work was done by Lowe Bros.; the painting and decorating by Stentiford & Taylor, the gasfitting by Her-

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