Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-31
GUARpsMRE's SOCIAL INTERCHANGE.

Some time ago the City Guard of Sacra-
mento, Captain Kearney, visited Nevada
City as the guest of the Nevada Light Guard,
Captain Rapp. The excursion proved de-
lightful one. and the memory of it was So
pleasing with the City Guard, that it pre-
pared tablet in memory of the event and
forwarded it recently to the Nevada Guard.
1t was received safely at Nevada City, and at
a social gathering given by the company last
week it was presented by Judge George S.
Hupp in behalf OF the Sacramento company.
On the occasion some five hundred of the
youth and beauty of the men and women of
Nevada City were present.
About 1890 o'clock Captain Rapp ordered
the company to form line extending across
the hall, and facing the musicians stand.
Judge Hupp then stepped forward ard stated
that he had been appointed to perform most
pleasing commission. The members of the
Sacramento City Guard, who were last month
| the guests of the company he now addressed,
had requested him to present the latter with
token of their gratitude for the royal spirit
of hospitality displayed toward them by their
entertainers. The Judge delivered an elo-
quent address. rehearsing the circumstances
| of the Sacramento soldiers visit, and dwell
| ing upon the pleasures to be derived from the
mingling together of organizations between
which such strong ties of friendship existed
as were discoverable in the case of the Sacra-
mento and Nevada Guardsmen. He then
produced the testimonial, which consisted of
skiilfully letter of thanks in
closed in massive frame of bird's-eye maple
and gold, and about 30x36 inches in size.
The letter is beautiful specimen of penman-
ship. and was executed for the Guard at the
Sacramento Business College. The letter
reads as follows:
City Guard, Company A, First Artillery Regi.
ment Fourth Brigade, N G. c., to the Nevada
Light Guard, Company c, list Artil cry Regiment,
Fourth Brigade, n. u. c., commanded by Captain
]. A. Rapp:
Gentlemen and Comrades We, the members Of
the City Guard of Sacramento, filled with pleasure
BILE recoections of our visit to Nevada City, desire
to express gratitude to YOU the members Of the
Nevada Light Guard, for the unremitting attentions
and courtesies shown us during our visit in your
city, which endeared each of our members to their
kind hosts who seemed to have sacrificed their every
thought. to that of making us supremacy happy.
| From the moment the train arrived at the depot,
through the ceremony Of the reception the tar
get ground at the ball, and the last cordial hand
shake in the cars, there was exhibited care, deli
cacy and interest which can never be forgotten
and which has cemented more closely the ties OF
friendship which had heretofore existed between
And when it shall be our good fortune to receive
the soldiers of Nevada City will strive to
Der the lesson Of hospitality so pleasantly impaired
and although we cannot promise anything which
can compare with your cool and satisfying streams
| invigoratng atmosphere that your more than beau
tful mountain town affords, will, however, try
| to prove that our hearts are warm, and that the
chilling winds never make them beat otherwise
| than kindly for brothers Of the Nevada Light
Guard With great respect and unfaltering friend
ship, are pleased to subscribe ourselves m.ss SIN
cerely yours, THE CIT ooAhD:
Committee Captain F. J. Kearney, Tom L. Sto-
vail, John Hennessy, D. B. Dung@n, G. W. King, I.
]. Corrigan.
Judge Hupp regarded this as one of the
most satisfactory and delicate methods of
displaying genuine gratitude that he had ever
witnessed. The presentation speech and the
PRODUCTION of the testimonial were greeted
with rounds of applause. Captain Rapp
made a neat and appropriate speech of &C
ceptance, expressing his own and his follow
ers' qualification at being thus remembered.
He said he hoped that some time in the near
future the Light Guard would discover q
similar opportunity to display its fraternal
feelings for the donors of the beautiful token
of remembrance.