Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1902 — GREAT DEMONSTRATION ON AGED PHILOSOPHER’S BIRTHDAY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GREAT DEMONSTRATION ON AGED PHILOSOPHER’S BIRTHDAY.

A remarkable demonstration in hgnor of a living man’s ” was that in Symphony Hall, Boston, the other day, when thousands of friends and admirers of Edward Everett Hale, clergyman, author, philanthropist, and reformer, gathered to celebrate his eightieth anniversary. Nor was the home town of the “professor of Americanism’’ alone in doing the honors, for similar celebrations had been arranged in a number of NewEngland towns.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE.