Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-26
Gin ann County yntelllgenfe.
FESTIVAL OF THE WORCESTER LIGHT IN
PANTRY

without cessation during the forenoon, threat
ened serious interruption to the festivities !;
yet the committee prosecuted their efforts
without Encouragement, and to the great graf
ification fall present. The hall was tastefully
decorated with flags, streamers, and appropri-
ate notices. The platform was surmounted
by triumphal arch, bearing the name of the
ancient company to whose uses the hall is de-
voted, and the date of its organization, while
familiar portraits of eminent and distinguished
citizens, who are among the past members of
the company, adorned tie walls.
At one o'clock, p. M, the Infantry, with
Joslyn's Cornet Band, received their invited
guests at the Bay State Honse, and escorted
them to the new armory, where the dedicatory
dinner had been prepared, and to which abun-
dant honor was paid. Capt. Edward Lamb,
commander of the company, introduced the lit
erary exercises by referring to the compare
tive antiquity of the organization, and to the
encouraging prospects which were around and
before it. He trusted the hall now dedicated
to their use and purpose would always be
honoraby used. He happily complimented
the past commanders and members of the
company, and paid worthy tributes of regard
to those who were still living in our midst
Lieut.. J. W. Denny oficiated as toastmas-
ter. The first regular sentiment was
The City Of WorceSter-"The Heart of the
Commonwealth - her arteries of iron, the
pulses of her industry, reach the most distant
corners of the world.
His Honor Mayor Bullock, on rising to re-
spond, was received with the most cordial ap-
plause. He congratulated the company on
the suspicious circumstances which, in spite
of the storm, attended their festivities. 1t was
proper that the hall, which had so long been
dedicated to the fair and beautiful in nature
should now be dedicated to the highest style of
art. He alluded to the honorable age of the
company which to-day, in the 56th year of its
existence, threw its colors to the breeze, and
to some of the historical events in which it
had borne part. In the course of his very
eloquent address, of which we attempt no ade-
quate sketch, he presented to the commander
of the company the payroll for the year 1879
IA, preserved among the papers of the late John
W. Lincoln. He closed with the sentiment:
The Worcester Light Intdnry-Their motto
is on their record the character of the citizen
and the soldier inseparable.
The next regular sentiment was as follows
The Massachusetts Volunteer Milita-Like
Cincinnatus they are ready at moments
warning to leave their peaceful employnhents
to defend their liberties with their lives.
Adjutant General Stone was called to respond.
He produced copy of the original resolve for
organizing the corps, which passed the legisla-
ture in 1904, upon the petition of Levi Lincoln
Jr. He also read and presented to the COM
pany list of the past and present commission
ed officers of the company, accompanied with
biographical sketches of the most distinguish
ed He closed with the hope that the patriotic
spirit of the founders of the corps might ever
be remembered and cherished in its ranks
In the absence of Gen. Morse, Major Fletcher
responded to a sentiment complimentary to the
Third Division, closing with letter from his
General regretting his inability to be present.
EhaJoi 49, A. n.----~- in the absence OF brig
Gen. Leonard spoke in behalf of the Fifth
Brigade, setting the tables in a roar, as usual,
and proposing the following sentiment
The Worcester Light Iataahy-They may be
found lions in war, although in peace they are
Lambs. Their past history is their surest
pledge for their future conduct.
The next regular sentiment was
The Commonwealth of Decentralization
whose soil was shed the first blood of the war
for independence still stands faithfully by her
motto-"EnSe petit placiddm sub Hbe,tate qu,-
etem."
A letter was read from His Excellency
Gov. Banks, giving the approaching close of
the Legislature as the reason of his unwilling
absence. Col. j. H. D. Blake of Braintree for
merly of this city, and one of the Governors
staff spoke of the importance of cultivated
military system to the prosperity of free Com
monwealths.
Mr.. Jason Mann of Holden, one of the veter-
ans of the company, and ffer in its ranks when
it marched to Boston in 1913 by order of the
Commander-in-C Chief, responded to the follow
ing sentiment, giving upon the same old fife
one of the same old tunes which he played on
the way to the barracks in South Boston:
The Mann and Fife of 1S13-We honor the
former for his patriotic devotion to his country
during the war of 1872, doing service in the
Worcester Light Infantry not forgetting the
latter as the melodious instrument which in
cited patriotism in others.
Space will not permit us to follow the exer-
cises in detail Eloquent speeches were made
by Gen. George Hobbs, past commander of
the Third Division, Hon. Isaac Davis, Col.
lvers Phillips, Capt. d. w. Lincoln, Major
Calvin E. Pratt, and others, in reponse to APP
propriate sentiments. Letters were read from
Hon. Levi Lincoln and Rev. DR.. Nelson, past
members of the company from Major Gen
eral Andrews, Hon. Stephen Salisbury and
many others, in response to invitations to be
present. AT five o'clock the gathering dis
solved, and the guests were escorted to their
quarters. The affair passed without an acct
dent, or encouragement, the music was excel.
lent, the bearing of the company was dignifed
and orderly, and the exercises were generally
and nationally enjoyed.
The dinner provided by Mr.. Mars, was
abundant and in good taste.
The festivities closed with brilliant and
successful ball which continued into the MORN
ing hours.
THEATRIcALs.-Next Monday evening, ac-
cording to announcement, Mr.. George Paunce-
fort, with an excellent company, will COM
mence an engagement at the Worcester Thea
ter. He will deserve the most complete sue