The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-24

suttt udIhcu tue pOiut at WHICH the
knights made brief halt. and the follow
Ing young misses gracefully distributed
among the visitors their favors i'm the shape
Of bouquets: Misses Louie Evans, Lizzie
Brock, Virgie Brock, Hattie Tanner, Mary
Cameron. Mary Sheppard, Irene Bodeker,
Louise Randolph, and Lillian Gillian.
AT the corner OF Sixth street the line was
turned towards Grace street, down which
the procession moved towards the Capitol
Square. As that park was entered the How
Tiers fired another salute OF thirty-eight
guns. The Knights and their escort passed
under and bv the beautiful Masonic emblems
and decorations placed on the Grace-street
entrance OF the Square. As the line passed
the Washington monument many knightly
chapeau was reverently lifted. The whole
line passed In review before Governor Holl-
day. who stood uncovered In the front porch
ofthe Executive Mansion. The soldiers, off
GERS, and Knights saluled as they passed
One Sir knight (mounted) briefly halted and
handed his Eycellency a small but exquisite
bouquet. The Knights AID their escort
proceeded to the Exchange and Ballard
Hotels by way OF Governor and Franklin
streets. The music by whatever band made
during all the while was splendid, and peo-
pie did not know which to admire the
most-the knights or their melody-pro-
ducers.
INSTALLED AT HEADQUARTERS.
Upon the arrival OF the Knights at the
Exchange Hotel Sir Knight w. o. English
thus addressed them:
Sir Knights OF De Molay and st. Johns
Communicates, You have already heard
the kind words OF welcome from Eminent
Commander Sir Thomas J. Evans.
IL only remains for me, as YOU enter this
hospitable mansion 10 partake OF some re-
freshments and to make it the place OF your
abode during your stay with Us, to add a
word, and In the name OF the Sir Knights
OF Richmond to extend to you and your la
dies most cordial welcome. and to remind
you Of those fraternaI feelings which have
so long existed between the Templars Of
Boston and Providence and those OF Rich-
mOnd.
You come not as strangers; you have
been here before. Even had you been
strangers, the greeting you have already re.
ceved would have been an earnest OF our
welcome. For what means IL that an eager
Committee OF Reception, unable to await
your coming, should start several days in
advance TO meet you in Washington that
another committee should go to-day to meet
you at Fredericksburg, where YOU were all
made prisoners OF hospitality by the Tenn
plars Of that noble old town-a town inti-
mately associated with the early days Of
Washington and his mother, that model Of
American women!
Upon your arrival here, what is the
meaning OF the roar OF artillery, which
echOing back from the seven hills OF Rich
mOnd resounds your welcome far and wide z
What mean these volunteer soldiers who
come so gladly to escort you! What the
streaming banners waving from our houses !
What the thrOnging citizens crOwding you
a. you wend your way through our streets ?
Why is il that the very air is redOlent with
interest but that we all combine to well
come you to the hospitality OF our city
THIS is the greeting am here to extend
you in the name Of all.
welcome you, the
DESCENDANTS OF WARREN,
Hancock, Adams, and Roger Williams, to
the land OF Washington, Jefferson, and
Patrick Henry; welcome you to the his.
toric associations OF our city, OF our river, on
whose banks the first American colony was
planted; welcome you TO the land OF JEFF
fersOn, who penned that great charter Of
American freedom, the Declaration OF In
dependence; | welcome you to the scene Of
the life OF Patrick Henry, the fOrest-born
DemOsthenes, who here in this city, in
old st. Johns church, on yOnder hill, uttered
those memorable words, "Give me liberty
or give me DEATH" which, echoed back
by patriotic hearts from the plains Of BOs.
ton, resounded throughout theilength and
breadth of the land, and at the summons OF
common country and a common cause
Virginia sent Washington to the plains OF
Boston to command the armies OF the
American Revolution. Thus Massachusetts,
and Virginia, the two Oldest Common
wealths, stood side by side in the great
struggle for liberty and independence. and
Bunker Hill in Mas >achusetts, and York
town in Virginia. were the Alpha and One
ga, the beginning and the end OF the Amerl-
can Revolution.
In Virgil, the most elegant OF the great
classic writers, we read that when -Eneas,
on his way from the East 10 found the Ro-
man Empire, landed at the city OF Carthage,
Queen Dido welcomed him and his weary
pilgrims to the hospitality OF her palace in
these words:
Hume laetum TpuSque diem IrOdqne
projects ESSe Ue!iS. nOStrOSqne hyuS me-
miaiSSe minoreS AdSit laet,tiae BdcchuS
ddtOr, et bona Juno.
May this be JOYFUL day both to the
Tyrans [Proydencel and to those who have
set out from Troy [BostonianS]. May Bac
chus, the giver OF JOY. and good Juno be
with US"
SO, my friends, would we now welcome
you
" Sirs. you are very welcome 10 our house;
II must appear In other WAYS than words:
Therefore sean; this breathing courtesy"
and cordially invite you, weary pilgrims, to
res. and refresh yourselves.
The Reception Last Night.
The reception last night at the Theatre
given to the lady visitors was brilliant
occasion, the Knights and their ladies being
there in full force; the former in their re-
spIendent regalia, while the latter, AT least
many OF them, looked charming in becom-
ing and costly costumes, cOnspred to make
a bright scene. None were admitted to the
Theatre but the knights, their wives, and
daughters. The evening was pleasantly spent
by all ia ntrOduct0ns, the exchange OF
greetings, and the promenade, while some
engaged in "chasing pleasure with flying
feet.v Early in the evening the Providence
band enllvened the occasion with some OF
their martial music, while later on an agree
able advertisement was the delivery OF an
original poem, entitled "The Yankee Mir
ror.v by Sir Knight Rev. w. :. StudIey, OF
Eoston. IL was lengthy and cleyerly-