But it will do more than that: it will run machinery of all kinds better than steam will.

You've seen electricity running the newspaper press, and the same current has operated the big paper mills at Royal.

Here in this audience is a gentleman from Connecticut who has accepted my invitation to look over our village with a view to building a factory here, using the power I shall hereafter be able to furnish.

I am in correspondence with two other manufacturers, whom I hope to induce to locate in Millville.

(Enthusiastic cheers.) Job Fisher, who used to live at Malvern, is planning to start a lumber mill, to cut the pine just north of here; so you see we are about to arouse from our long sleep and have a great future before us if we keep wide awake.