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Institute. His reply was, as usual, brief and pointed. * I may 

 now congratulate you and myself,' he said, ' on the completion 

 of Saltaire. I have been twenty years at work, and now it is 

 complete ; and I hope it will be a satisfaction and a joy, and 

 will minister to the happiness of all my people residing here. 

 If I was eloquent, or able to make a long speech, I should try 

 to do so, but my feelings would not allow me.' An event took 

 place in the autumn of 1872 which moved him deeply; this 

 was the marriage of his eldest daughter, who had for many 

 years acted as his amanuensis and secretary, to Henry 

 Wright, Esq., J. P., London. 



On his seventieth birthday, and on the twentieth anniversary 

 of the opening of Saltaire, he had the happiness of again seeing 

 his workpeople assembled around him, to the number of 4200, 

 at Crow Nest. In reply to a congratulatory speech he said : 

 * I am exceedingly glad to see all my workpeople here to-day. 

 I like to see you about me, and to look upon your pleasant and 

 cheerful faces. I hope you will all enjoy yourselves this day, 

 and all get safely home again without accident after your day's 

 pleasure. I hope to see you many times yet, if I am spared ; 

 and I wish health, happiness, and prosperity to you all.' 



When it was proposed to erect a public statue to him in 

 Bradford, the circular bearing on the business came under his 

 notice, and, after reading it, he remarked : * So they wish to 

 make me into a pillar of Salt' In the course of a personal 

 interview which the committee had with him, he resolutely 

 refused to sanction the movement, and ultimately all he would 

 engage to do was to remain quiet and make no public 

 announcement of his disapproval. Mr. John Adams-Acton, 

 the sculptor, on receiving the order, proceeded to Carrara to 

 secure a suitable block of marble. The block weighed four- 



