inary conditions in the acquirement of land are now complied with. Including the gift of twenty-three acres by the Ambler estate and ten acres by Curtiss & Ambler, all the lands needed or desired for park purposes, covering the extent of a mile and a half along Doan Brook south from Wade Park, and Euclid avenue to the Shaker lands, and comprising sixty-six acres more, have been purchased and paid for at an additional cost of $200,000, making $600,000 in all as the cost of 276 acres covering both banks of the Doan Brook valley, for an extent of three and one-half miles northward and again southeastward from Wade Park as the central point.

The city has not done this, nor the Park Board, nor the taxpayers of Cleveland; their money is not in it and will not be; but it is done. I am not here to-day to tell you that it is going to be done, but that it has been done. Mr. Bulkley clearly saw that in natural course of things the completion of these plans must be deferred for many years; that only a small section could be taken at a time; and that the improve⚫ment and beautifying of the lands bought would progress so slowly that the men and women of to-day would have little pleasure in the new parks, unless liberal financial aid could be secured from some wealthy and public-spirited citizen or citizens to supplement and enlarge upon the generous gifts of Wade and Gordon. Those noble men had given to the city lands they had long owned. But now the need was for money money to buy the lands of many small owners to be combined into a great park property before the lands became too valuable or fully preoccupied by homes and business. He found encouragement to go forward; and later, means warranting the enlargement of the area of purchase at vital points.

In the midst of these labors and hopes Mr. Bulkley suddenly passed away. Nobly and worthily had he earned the high honor in which his name will ever be held by his fellow citizens in association with the parks of Cleveland. But the work did not stop. It went steadily and rapidly forward. Plans were extended and enlarged. Funds were privately supplied. Double the money first intended and authorized has been expended in order to gain a broad and noble and satisfying effect in the development of the Doan Brook Park in its full extent of four and a half miles from the Shaker lands to Gordon Park.

Since October last the Park Board has bought none of these lands. For ten months the work has been privately conducted, and deeds are now in possession, the work of purchasing is completed, the last conveyance was delivered yesterday. So that now, on this Founder's Day of our Centennial celebration, on behalf of the Park Commissioners, I am instructed to announce to the citizens of Cleveland the offer made to them not only of the gift to the city of Cleveland for park purposes of the lands so privately purchased at a cost of $270.000, but also to replace in the treasury of the Park Board the amount of $330,000, paid by said board for Doan Brook lands before such individual purchases were undertaken, making in all a gift to the city of Cleveland of 270 acres before described, costing $600,000, upon conditions already understood and approved in part, the principal one being that the whole amount of the cost of these lands shall be expended upon said lands in improving and beautifying them, so as to make this magnificent addition to the parks of Cleveland speedily available for the use and benefit and delight of all the people. And from this hour in the honored and noble company of Wade and Gordon as benefactors of their fellow citizens and fellow men, in our hearts with gratitude and upon our lips with praise will be the name of the giver of this princely gift, Mr. John D. Rockefeller.

His modesty is equal to his liberality, and he is not here to share with us this celebration. The streams of his benevolence flow largely in hidden channels, unseen and unknown to men; but when he founds a university in Chicago or gives a beautiful park to Cleveland, with native forests and shady groves, rocky ravines, sloping hillsides and level valleys, cascades and running brook and still pools of water, all close by our homes, open and easy of access to all our people, such deeds cannot be hidthey belong to the public and to history, as the gift itself is for the people and for posterity.

Three cheers were given by the audience for Mr. Rockefeller. The following resolution, presented by L. E. Holden, was then adopted by a standing vote:

WHEREAS, John D. Rockefeller has through his friend and agent, J. G. W. Cowles, tendered to the city of Cleveland for the benefit of all the people tracts of land and money for park and boulevard purposes which could not be duplicated for a million 'dollars, therefore, mindful of this great gift which is to go down the ages as a source of health, pleasure, education, and culture not only to the citizens of Cleveland, but to all visitors, now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the people assembled on this the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city, that, deeply conscious of the value of this magnificent gift and addition to our park system and the motives and purpose under which it has been given; and moved by this sense of our appreciation of it and the generosity of the giver, we accept the gift and most cordially tender to him our vote of sincere thanks, and in accepting these lands as a part of our park system we request him to permit them to be named and known as the Rockefeller Park, so that his name may go down the ages in the hearts of the present and unborn generations as one of the great names in American history who knew how to plant money where it will be immortal in culture and character.

Governor Bushnell fulfilled the pleasant duty of welcoming the guests on behalf of the State. He said:

I regret that the day is so far spent that I cannot make a long speech. I would like to talk an hour or two. I am like the boy at the revival. The evangelist asked all

those who would like to go to
heaven to rise. All rose except
this one boy. Then all the peo-
ple who thought they would like
to go to the other place were
asked to get up. Not a soul
rose. "Boy," said the minister,
"what is the matter with you?
Don't you want to go to either
place?" No," said the boy,
Ohio is good enough for me.
(Laughter and applause.)

"

That is the way I feel about it. Ohio is good enough for me. I never tire of talking about Ohio and in talking about her I take occasion to pay my respects to the mother State. I should like to spend some time in talking about her great institutions and her great men, but I will not, for time will not permit me, and you are still to hear from one of her great men. (Here Governor Bushnell pointed to Major McKinley, and the applause was uproarious.) Gentlemen of Connecticut, in bidding you welcome I speak for the whole people of Ohio. The Mayor of Cleveland bade you welcome to this beautiful Forest City, but I bid you welcome to the entire State. From this Forest City on the lake, this Clyde of the United States, to the beautiful Queen City, on the southern borders of the State, and from old Marietta, where an Ohio community was established by forty-eight Connecticut men to Conneaut, where Moses Cleaveland first landed, the State is yours. In the name of all the people of Ohio, I extend you a most cordial welcome. Between Lake Erie and the Ohio River the intervening space is covered with beautiful growing cities and splendid farms. All these cities and farms are inhabited by loyal and patriotic people, in the name of all of whom I bid you welcome to Ohio. Whether we are Saxon, Teuton or Danish in extraction; gold or silver in sentiment, it is all the same. I extend to you the freedom of all Ohio. To you, Governor Coffin, and your executive staff, and your citizens who are with you, I offer you our commonwealth to-day. From what has been said, and what little I will have to say, you can gain some idea of the value of the State.

Over one-half of the iron ore produced in this country is mined in the Lake Superior region, and owned largely by people in Cleveland. Ohio has more farms, though perhaps not more farm land, than any other State in the Union.

I am not more cordial to you, gentlemen, than to Mrs. Coffin and Mrs. Graham, and the other ladies who are with your party. We appreciate your journey to our State in this hot summer month, and we accord you a cordial welcome. I remember well that when I first visited Cleveland there were no railroads running either in or out of the city. You can readily imagine that was not a very long time ago.

I thank you all cordially for accepting the invitation that the party, of which I was one, extended to you last winter to be present at this time. I prophesy for the future a population in Cleveland, and in Ohio at large, which will be a marvel, and all of the best people.

Chairman Hoyt then remarked: "Any occasion is made the more perfect by the presence of the President of the United States. We have had a pleasant message from the President which was read to you earlier in the morning. But we will hear one to-day who is to be the next President of the United States, our friend and neighbor who is with us to-day, Major William McKinley."

A great ovation was accorded the popular ex-governor, ending in three cheers led by Governor Bushnell. When the demonstration ceased Major McKinley spoke as follows:

Mr. President and my Fellow Citizens:

The people of Cleveland do well to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of their great and beautiful city. Its original builders are long since gone, and their mighty struggles are passing from individual recollection into the field of tradition and history. Anniversaries like this increase our pride for the men who wrought so excellently, despite their trials and hardships, from which the present generation would intuitively shrink. They recall to our minds the high character and courage, the lofty aims and great sacrifices of our sturdy ancestors, and inspire us to revere their memories and imitate their virtues. The thoughtful observance of an anniversary like this, therefore, does all who are associated with it, or who come within its influence, positive good. It unfolds the past and enlightens the present, and by emphasizing the value of the ties of family, home and country, it encourages civic pride and appeals to the highest and best sentiments of our hearts and lives. We have brought to our minds the picture of the beginning and the little we then possessed, in vivid contrast with the much that has been acquired and accomplished since. And if the lesson is rightly learned, it suggests to all of us how much we have to do to contribute our share to the progress and civilization of the future. It is a counting of the sheaves garnered in the harvest of the past, and a stimulus to higher endeavor in the future. A hundred years of effort and sacrifice, of skill and activity, of industry and economy are placed before our eyes. To-day the present generation pays its homage to Cleveland's founders, and offers in her own proud strength and beauty a generous and unqualified testimonial to their wisdom and work. (Applause.) The statistics of the population of Cleveland, and of her growth, production and wealth, do not and cannot tell the story of her greatness. We have been listening to the interesting and eloquent words of historian, poet and orator, graphically describing her rise from obscurity to prominence. They have woven into perfect and pleasing narrative the truthful and yet well established record of her advancement from an unknown frontier settlement in the western wilderness to the proud rank of eleventh city in the United States, the grandest country in the world. (Applause.) We have heard with just pride, so marvellous has been her progress, that among the greatest cities on the earth only sixtytwo now outrank Cleveland in population. Her life is as one century to twenty compared with some of that number, yet her civilization is as far advanced as that of the proudest metropolis in the world. In point of government, education, morals, and business thrift and enterprise, Cleveland may well claim recognition with the foremost, and is fairly entitled to warm congratulations and high eulogy on this her Centennial Day. Nor will any envy her people a season of self-gratulation and rejoicing. You inaugurate to-day a Centennial celebration in honor of your successful past, and its beginning is, with singular appropriateness, called Founder's Day. We have heard with interest the description of the commercial importance of this city, a port on a chain of lakes whose tonnage and commerce surpass those of any other sea or ocean on the globe. We realize the excellence and superiority of the great railroad systems which center in Cleveland. We marvel at the volume and variety of your numerous manufactories, and see about us on every hand the pleasant

evidences of your comfort and culture, not only in your beautiful and hospitable homes, but in your churches, schools, charities, factories, business houses, streets and viaducts, public parks, statues and monuments-indeed, in your conveniences, adornments and improvements of every sort, we behold all the advantages and blessings of the model modern city, worthy to be both the pride of a great State and much grander Nation. (Great applause.) This is the accomplishment of a century. Who wrought it-who made all this possible? Whence came they, and what manner of men and women were they to undertake to reclaim the wilderness from its primeval savagery? Such are the questions that come instinctively to our lips. We are told that the original band of fifty pioneers, under the leadership of Moses Cleaveland, arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga on July 22, 1796, and that they ascended the bank and beheld the beautiful plain, covered with luxuriant forests, which they properly defined as a splendid site for a city." Perhaps the historian can remember the names of a dozen, or discover among us as many of their immediate descendants as there were original settlers, but whether we can call them all or any of them by name or not, this we do know - they were men of pure lives, nobly consecrated to the good of the community. Sober, serious, even stern and austere they may have been, but grand was their mission and well did they accomplish it. (Applause.) They planted here in the wilderness, upon firm and enduring foundations, the institutions of free government. They recognized and enforced the glorious doctrines and priceless privileges of civil and religious liberty, of law and order, of the rights, dignity and independence of labor, of the rights of property, and of the inviolability of public faith and honor. (Applause.) Never were any men more zealous in patriotic devotion to free government and the Union of the States. On their long and toilsome journey from their Connecticut homes they did not forget the Fourth of July, and, though in sad straights, they celebrated it with thankfulness and joy, and unfurled to the breeze our glorious old flag, with its thirteen stars and stripes, on the Nation's natal day, on its now far distant twentieth anniversary. They believed not only in the Declaration of Independence, but in the Constitution which gave effect and force to its immortal truths; and no men anywhere struggled more bravely to sustain its great principles than some of these very settlers. Indeed, the tribute which Washington had paid but a few years before to the men who had settled at the mouth of the Muskingum may well be applied to the little band that founded the Forest City. "No colony in America," said he, was ever settled under such favorable auspices. Information, prosperity and strength will be its characteristics. There never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of any community." They were of the same ancestral stock, of like education and training, and had gained a similar high reputation for ability and energy. Their ideas of government and of the value and importance of education were drawn from the same sources, while their religious faith and sense of justice were also similar. They may frequently have been discouraged, but they were always brave and determined. Their faith was sublime. They were of the stock which gave to the world a civilization without a parallel in recorded history, and offered to the struggling races of men everywhere assurances of the realization of their best and highest aspirations. They opened the door to the oppressed in every land, and the wisdom of their foresight has been abundantly verified by the infusion into our society of those strong and sturdy foreign elements which have given to the Republic so many of its best and patriotic citizens, by whose aid this State and city have become so great. (Applause.) Every step in your advancement is but the confirmation of the wisdom of the fathers, of their foresight and keen sagacity. Your progress and prosperity is the highest testimonial, their most lasting memorial. Glorious pioneer, he made and left his impress wherever he pitched his camp or raised his cabin! His was the impress of the sturdy manhood that feared God and loved liberty. He stands as the representative of a great age and well improved opportunity, the sturdiest oak in the great forest of man. As the peak which first catches the morning light is the grand monarch of the hills, so the sturdy pioneer who struck the first blow for freedom is the grand monarch of our civilization. Let me commend you to his precious example. It is richer than titles of royalty. God grant that the fires of liberty which he kindled; that the respect for law and order which he inculcated; that the freedom of conscience and religious liberty which he taught, and which found expression in the Constitution of the United States; that the public credit and honor which he established "as the most important source of our strength and security;" and that the fervent and self-sacrificing devotion to our splendid free institutions, which were ever the animating and controlling purposes of his nature, may be as dear to the people of this and each succeeding generation as they were to him." (Continued applause.)