Show A aa R pa jap A 10 A V 3 7 V V 11 71 2 A y 31 Z r phoena bylle rl 01 ID 0 JOHH DICKINSON SHERMAN bherman N AINIE AMERICAN RICAN classic all he be told over and ami or mer again tile coming in for 1 rr tho city of brotherly loav bilts lilts nil fill exposition in ili honor of the sesquicentennial of the passing of the leelarn tion alon of independence by the second congress land and first thile visitors will doubtless be many these visitors in ili secina the city will lie he impressed hy by it collection of fillo filio hillI buildings dIngs of bilich tin tile Is a iriri groelz telli jile with 31 ll laie i cm 1111 ili lilt coltin inq it will br aary to lc 11 oll ll that it Is ig d college will for eliell benent will ho bo retold tills this dionico ave grecay Gre chY rv illIng ills iii lisull iril cravat the alie alile of if the college coI liKO you cibit come collie in sald the gate illan in in stopp lil the lir fui editor why not suid sald greeley Yo youre tire a n clergyman aliv h 1 1 I 1 aill I 1 1 cuso cuse nit me walk right rl lt in ili now sup poso out of fell rile riichi visitors one Is a lemyer aind in oil one a churchman these two tit arr likely to 0 o have ceara lio lie story certainly hy by rendon of vocation they should sot p tile the point of the lio joke joice for the other ellit pa the lie joke johe must he all of which shows that to tile lie aver nizo american girard college nunns nothing and its more than that lint lie he his has never heard of stephen Stop lien girard its foil if r ull unless I 1 lie he knows his alls dickens and hawthorne this la Is a pity for several reasons every evera good american should know of girard college to lie be sure it Is not in tile ehos who of colleges put but in its 78 years of existence it lias has been both college bollt ge and hoine to more than orphan boys ns as it Is today to more than alian 1500 its future should bo be still more useful since its original building and maintenance fund of about now amounts to about and in ili another quarter century should touch the hundred million mark and as for stephen girard its founder netlon cletion hides its abashed head at the story of hla his life lie ile was rt human enigma lie ile was waa a commercial and financial genius ile he was the rich man of his day ile ho was a public benefactor he 11 was an Anter lenn patriot patr lot lie ile saved tbt new nation by Ms fits financial aid if Step stephen lien garard with his millions j had not this Is 19 ono one of tile the great is ifs of our oui liis libi lory tory hue here Is in ili inlet brief the lie story or of the first forty years cais of stephen ards life lie ile was M is loin bom may alay 21 24 17 10 1 0 tit nt france il tile son soil of it sen sea captain sailed as is if cabin boy bo tit lit nineteen as captain find and part owner of it assil settled nettled in ili palla le bibia elp liln in ili where lie wits was al and merchant fate so fir far hall not been kind he li had kl lo 10 t the ellit sl ait of one eye ce in childhood his mother lind had died when hon lie he was tans tche and his stepmother lilt lind I 1 not lot loved bilm lie ile lind ind incurred debts ato hild aid mary I 1 uin a pretta h barefoot crofoot rl il of sl alton ton lio ito slaw nt at alir alio lle li id hec collit ln ill ille iiii fill ih hall li id put her IK in the in ill IWO ITH laic li ic lili ilk lil i only kiil child elula had been bor bom n find anil lind lid died rot dine now tarried a sn knilling illing faaee or on stephen girard A leae of 1 l linin of ff sublet i nt at it birge profit laid the foundation of lin for nitie lime 7 nat nt clinic if undrill ln drill of 0 ro OW W durilin Dur ilig mi fill insurrection in ili II 11 unitt biltl several stored their on oil two to it f ills lii ships these planters with etli every nivin member ber of their belr fai nilles were cie ma in ISSIK acrid bcd in ISIO lie ingan began the building bul ldina of ills fa famous linoir flot fleet for trade with h orient lie ile lind had Nith withdrawn drawn front from the robinn church and become i f french freethinker free thinker so lie minnied ills his first vessel esel voltaire tile the second Ilous sp m and so on the ing picture Is 13 a reproduction of n 1 kuone r once luis relief on oil tile the pedestal of the girard statue I 1 in pity city hull hall the written record pictures stephen gerard C us as a dual personality ilare Is fotiu lie personality ills his english ans ns indifferent ills forbidding appearance was that of a rough old sailor lie he was crabbed inhospitable unapproachable proa chable lie he would aid no one applying lit its his door those lie he aided must work it out oid to tile the last cent lie ai was aa frugal fairal in small watters matters lis lie was as a miser heres a limelight view of the real stephen teall e 11 C irani girard yellow fever feor scourged urged philadelphia in 1791 1793 wash ington Jeff jefferson emson and all the fedora federal CIRIS left the lie city all the inhabitants ants fled who could in august september and october died bring out your dead I 1 was the cry on every ery street every cery day girard dropped ills his busi business nesa carried out the dead and the sick performed the anost revolting services nt at the hospital find and directed ills his little group of volunteers from september 18 to november ia zafli 1 J i T i CO olford achieved achl ced national fame faine as financier in dicler and patriot if lii lie he war of 1812 when the first united hilled states briks charter expired in ili ISH 1911 girard wa nt revealed denied us the alie hargest stockholder lie ile bought the banic I 1 ink and the building for find opened the lie bank of stephen girard with a capital of banking of cf any kind hind was aa the subject of hitter bitter controversy sy tn in those hose days find and the pi avate amil was wag but girards gli aids bank prospered the war of 1812 was so fulir in now ln em annd band that secretary 5 alln tills attempt to float a loan of 16 resulted in ill loll 1011 9 of acs olin linn john ji lin jarol aloi tor and ills friend tl tools took S 2 and stephen birard staled liis his hiie 1 I e fortuno fol tulle 1 by pu guaranteeing iii ough lila lii t bank tic alk reina ining M S would tile the war w of 1812 1 have hen been von on without tint S Step stephen lien garnr d donl december 20 isil 11 leaving oil an estate est ite in excess of ills his will a most able document of about 1100 wo d nailed nei Paled led tile the maker a inan of senti rIN anil and a true lover loor of mankind lie ih loft left money for wort more nurses in the hospital where ills wire ife had lived and died for coil coal for the poor for foi the aid of the dent aind brinit dri nit for dt aresser musters masters of ships for bettor better pollee police protection for city improvements its kut but it wits waa to orphans that his heart beart turned most benee girard college ills relatives contested conte setd the will the lie long lon litigation wa cm citi i ried led to the lie supreme court daniel Wb ebster ster vainly argued that the plan of education of tile lie girard school of orp orphans lians was derogatory to the christian religion to sound morals and subversive of law websters contention was based on stephen girards direction that no ecclesiastic missionary or minister of any sect whatsoever rever should ever lie ile connected with the college creven or jeven be admitted as a visitor within the college premises hia 1119 motive was tho will set forth to leep keep the tender minds of the orphans orp lians free from the excitements excite ments of clashing doctrines and sectarian controversies and to teach them tho th purest principles of morality allty 1 I go BO that they might later adopt such religions tenets as their matured reason might enable them to profyr the letter of the will has been lived up to but many a minister r Is numbered among the graduates of girard college collece |