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"What Mr. Wales bas said, and I have just read, will convey a full 
conception of the purposes of the structure which is formanv begun 
to-day. I feel it to be a great honor to assist in tlie commeiicenient 
of a work which will, I trust, be hastened to completion before the 
Centennial of our Independence ; liere to stand as a magnificent 
memorial of what our City has been able to accomplish under free 
institutions, and to become a part of the material resources that will 
ultimately go to the creation, around this Park, of the home of » 
National University. 
What nobler exhibitions could be given of the crowning achieve- 
ments of this municipality than those which this Museum and its sister 
institution, the Art Gallery, will affonl ? This peerless pleasure ground 
tor the people, which will proudly boast of the.se twin jewels as its 
legitimate oflFsprmg, will contain within itself in miniature the records 
ot the progress ot the country. Its wilderness siiots remain as sou- 
venirs of what the wliole tract was a few short years ago-«-hen a 
prophetic Samuel B. Ruooles saw the possibilities that are now 
accomplished facts. Its artistic decorations and its Museums of Art 
and JNatural History will show the best results of a hi-h .-ivilizBtion, 
cult °^ ^ '^"■^'Cted by the wise.st forethought and the most 
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR DIX. 
Ladies and G-entlemen : 
I did not come here with the expectation of addressing you. 
Ton may find it difficult to believe what I say when you see me pres- 
ent and my name in the pubh.shed order of exercises as a speaker. 
J^u, lean assure you, that I had no intimation from anv quarter 
a not'" .'.T''' "'^P'^'"'^ °f '^"'i knowledge"that such 
a notice had been given to the public until I saw the .rrogramme a 
seK fro r°°' t I -V to e-Lerate mv- 
afeXeZ^t ^7^"" '"^''^^ engagement and 
ins in the T '"■■'^'^"■■^tauces, deem a valid one, for respond 
I am ver T"''"^ ^""^ l'-'^"- andLrtesy 
interes; 1 I ""^ ^'^'>y<'" - - -casion of so much 
beauty and fasLuiroJ",;'"^' v?" ^'"^ ""'"'^^ 
and prosperity of ifV 'r '"""'"^ ^f'' 
J n,K..s .,nd communities are wrought out. It b pleas- 
