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improved it, he put bridges across the Httle streams and ravines, 

 and he put signs on those bridges which nobody would have thought 

 of except Uncle Dartt. He provided a place for the boys to fish and 

 swim, and he had a place to cut ice. We went to the park at one 

 time to see them play ball. All that he asked for the use of the park 

 was that they should use it for the purpose for which it was made. 

 He had a number of small boats on the little lake, and the last work 

 he did he put in a little steamboat, but as a financial venture it was 

 not a success. He had an eye to the welfare and comfort of the 

 public and did what he could for it. 



You have an institution over here at St. Anthony Park where 

 you are training young' men and women from Minnesota and some 

 from other states in the work that we are doing, only you are going 

 to train them to do it better. I want to tell Prof. Green if he can 

 give them, the training so that they will follow in the footsteps and 

 emulate the examples of Prof. Pendergast, Mr. Grimes and Mr. 

 Dartt he will be doing a great work. Hold these men up as ex- 

 amples for the young men to follow. If they emulate those men 

 they cannot go astray, and they will not only be useful men in the 

 line of their chosen work, but they will be an honor to their com- 

 munity and to the state. 



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C. M. LORING^ MINNEAPOLIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Something over forty 

 years ago a young man came into the store where I was engaged 

 in business, one of the finest looking, most pleasant faced men I 

 ever met in my life. My heart went out to him immediately. His 

 face was so fresh, his eye so bright, his manner so kindly that one 

 could not help but love him. For quite a good many years I knew 

 this man very ,very well. Circumstances made it necessary for 

 me to be away from the state for quite a good many years, so that 

 I did not see him again until I met him as president of this society. 

 He still had the same kindly smile, the same pleasant manner and the 

 same faculty of drawing people toward him. He had done a great 

 deal of work, he had been an educator, he had done a great deal 

 of work in horticulture, he was honored at home and all through 

 the state. During the years that we had him here as president of 

 this society, as the time of the meeting approached one of the pleas- 

 ures we looked forward to was that we should meet Mr. Pendergast. 



Last summer we had a call saying that he had passed away. 

 Quite a large number of gentlemen from the two cities went up to 

 Hutchinson to attend the funeral. We found his remains lying in 

 the casket on the' lawn that he had sown, under the trees that he 

 had planted, surrounded by the flowers which he loved so well, and 

 the man who had done so much, whose life had been so useful, went 

 to his rest surrounded bv all of his neighbors and his friends from 

 all over the country, who had come to pay a last tribute to his 

 memory. There was a gathering there of the people whom he had 



