Annual Report of the SocietyThe Society, 1909 |
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472 Broadway ALBERT ALEXANDER ALEXANDER H ALFRED ANDREW ANDREW CARNEGIE April Architectural Drafting Association N. Y. City Broadway Brother building Carnegie CHAIRMAN CHARLES CHARLES W Circulating Section classes CONOVER Crosby Street Daniel D DAVID December 18 December 31 EDWARD EDWIN EIDLITZ ex-officio February Finance Committee FINANCIAL STATEMENT-Continued FRANCIS FRANK FRED FREDERICK Free Library GEORGE GEORGE E GETTY gift HARRINGTON HENRY HILYARD HOFFMAN HOPKINS interest JACOB JAMES January January 11 JOHN H JOSEPH June KLUTE lectures LEWIS Library Committee LOUIS March MCCULLAGH Mechanical Drafting Mechanics and Tradesmen meeting membership MILLER Milt Section mortgage Mossman Museum N. Y. City November October Periodicals Books Pamphlets President Public Library RICHARD ROBERT CHRISTIE ROUILLION SCHOOL COMMITTEE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Second Vice-President Sheet Metal Drafting SINCLAIR Sinking Fund Slade Society of Mechanics STRAUCH THOMAS Total Treasurer TUCKER Vice-President and Secretary WALTER WHITENACK widows WILLIAM H Wright Pension Fund York City York Trade School
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Page 39 - My native country! thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills, .Like that above.
Page 39 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Page 31 - And it spake, with a shake of the voice, and it said : — By the driven snow-white and the living blood-red Of my bars, and their heaven of stars overhead — By the symbol conjoined of them all, skyward cast, As I float from the steeple, or flap at the mast, Or droop o'er the sod where the long grasses nod, — My name is as old as the glory of God. , , , So I came by the name of Old Glory.
Page 50 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 31 - ... know we're as common as sin! And yet it just seems like you humor us all And waft us your thanks, as we hail you and fall Into line, with you over us, waving us on Where our glorified, sanctified betters have gone. And this is the reason we're wanting to know • (And we're wanting it so! Where our own fathers went we are willing to go) Who gave you the name of Old Glory — O-ho!
Page 31 - sa tang to the spirit As salt as a tear: And seeing you fly, and the boys marching by, There's a shout in the throat and a blur in the eye, And an aching to live for you always — or die. If, dying, we still keep you waving on high. And so, by our love For you, floating above, And the scars of all wars and the sorrows thereof, Who gave you the name of Old Glory, and why Are we thrilled at the name of Old Glory?
Page 30 - We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Page 31 - Old Glory, the story we're wanting to hear Is what the plain facts of your christening were, — For your name — just to hear it, Repeat it, and cheer it, 'sa tang to the spirit As salt as a tear: And seeing you fly, and the boys marching by, There's a shout in the throat and a blur in the eye, And an aching to live for you always — or die. If, dying, we still keep you waving on high. And so, by our love For you, floating above, And the scars...
Page 38 - God to thee, Sweet land of liberty, Author of liberty, Of thee I sing: To thee we sing; Land where my fathers died, Long may our land be bright Land of the pilgrim's pride, With freedom's holy light; From every mountain side Protect us by Thy might. Let freedom ring. Great God, our King. Finale— March— "Comrades" . ..Teike en W o 33 O C/5 5 c o 3 w u.
Page 6 - Under the direction of the Literary Committee, lectures may be given from time to time before the Classes in the Schools upon subjects appertaining to the course of study. Scholarships. — To encourage young men in acquiring a practical knowledge of some useful trade, the Society maintains free scholarships in the New York Trade School. . — Any Mechanic or Tradesman, a citizen of the United States, vouched for as to his character, is eligible to membership in this Society upon the payment...