Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-05
At the Pavilion.

Never before was there a more earnest and
profoundly patriotic audience assembled at
the Pavilion than that of yesterday, and
never before were there exercises in this city
since the death Of President Lincoln which
were go peculiarly feeling or that so deeply
touched tie American heart. The proceed
ings were a miueling Of the commemorative
and the sorrowful-aa observaucs OF the ma
tons birthday and expression of sympathy
with the President in lis afficsion, coupled
with the deept st condemnation OF the assassin
who sought his life.
The Grand Marshal and his aids met at the
Golden Eagle Hotel at 10 a NJ, and or foot
escorted to the Pavilion the officers of the
day. Arrived ut the Pavilion, that spacious
structure was found 20 be filled by a large
and brilliant audience. The hail ives neatly
decorated with the coats of arms Of tie
S ates and territories, with national flags and
with notices back-of the stage, and beneath
the Stars and Stripes WAS suspended large
portrait of George Washington upon a man.
moth shield. with the eacircing words In
God We Trust" Ga either side were panels
OF white and words in blue reading
Unbroken be the glorious band
That stretches now from sea 10 sea
One flag for ages yet to be
Wave over freedoms happy iaud.
Another read:
Not, as now, in pleutuous days,
Earned our sircs the pitriots raise,
But by hard and stormy ways
Cot they Us the victory.
And another read, referring to the flag:
Beneath its folds all men are free
Here refuge neverrnore shall fail
Sweet peace and plenty shall prevail
When law locks hands with liberty.
And still another read:
God, who leds't our fathers forth
Gays't our land her second birth,
Bless these States with manly worth
Keep then. close in hsrmo y.
Also these notices in streame1s pendant :
Liberty and snion forever" Union
is s.rgngth.'
On the platform we're seated the Grand
Marsha! and his aids, the President of the
Day, the reader, chaplain, orator. citizens
meeting reader, city and county officials,
members Of the Grand Army Of the Republic,
the vocalist of The day, Marshal of the Pho
gorical characters, under escort of George
BOVINE, ag one Of the battalion of the Knights
Of Pythias, and Charles Flint standard bearer
of ths Patrons of Husbandry.
THE YOUNG LADIES
On the stage were iIptil Tile N4StHcIS NbL4-
mittee and Sacramento Grange Patrons Of
Husbandrv. They wore white dresses
and gilded crowns aud bore stats,
and recalia significant Of the charac-
ter represented The characters were
personated "a follows Goddess OF Lib
erty," Miss Clay Daken " California" Miss
Emma Kiees Commerce" Miss Mamie
Connolly: Law Miss Aboie Foley /;
Agriculture Miss Bertha Mueke ;
Literature" Miss Lizzie oBrien
Science, Miss Sonoma Klees =" Industry, =
Miss Carrie NJ Taft; Ceres, Goddess OF
the Harvest" Miss Emily A: Boyne
Pomona, Goddess of Fruit Miss May
Burgess; ''Flors, Goddess of Flowers" Miss
Annie Lucey Shepherdess. Miss Edlth
Rndford
just before the exercises began the Sacra-
mento Society Of California Pioneers, led by
a band and Marshal Van Heusen, marched
into the hall ia body.
THE EXERCISES.
The exercises opened with an overture by
the First Artillery band The Grand Mar
shal, Mike Bryte, then called the vast as
semblags to order, and introduced James /.
Felter, tho Presidento of the Day. Mr.. Felter
said:
Fellow Citizens: Under peculiar circumstances
have assembled this day u celebrate the l05th
Z anniversary o. thc ndtioHS birth. The Chiel
Magistrate OF nation lies pr, strate from the
ball of wild assassIn's pistol. The nation may
say with truthfulness is to-day in mourning The
others Of Sacramento before learning Of the ssas
siuation Of beloved Chief Magistrate, had pre-.
pared a celebration Of the military and civic soci.
cites that would have surpassed any celebration o;
a similar character that has been witnessed here for
years But, with President lying, we fear, on
his death-bed, pubic demonstration was deemed
unadvisable and our worthy Chief Executive Of the
state, Governor Perkins, Issued his proclamation
Yesterday forbidding public parade Of the Ma
/ tionaI Guard OF the State Under such circum.
stances our Chief Marshal Of the Day. after delb
crate consultation with the Executive Committee Of
the Fourth Of july celebration, decided that il
would be improper and ont of plice to make a
public parade but concluded that proper exercises
at this hall would be entirely appropriate and We
have arranged programme that we feel assured
will be appreciated under the melancholy circunl-
stances in which We, a. = nation, are nov placed
Rev. l. +. Dwinell, Chaplain of the Day,
then offered up deep and earnest prayer for
the nation. the recovery of the President. the
PRONUNCIATION Of the principles of liberty, and
the perpetuity of free institutions. So ferv-
ens was the prayer and 50 in keeping with
the emotions Of the audience that at its close