New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-07
THE FRENCH VISITORS.
rur1n srcONn nay IN THE CITY.


THE DELEGATES GRATIFIED AT THEIR RECEPTION
HERE.
The French visitors to this city arose carry yes'eI
day morning Coffee served in their rooms az
o'clock. and shortly afterward they appeared III
the parlors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Japan
Macar alone was dressed in uniioril' 'no i0''
of the gentlemen were III eitileh uo''
MANY members of the Reception Comin't'eo LID" mo-
r.t;rad nm Tuesday night being in hourly expect
alton of news concerning the arrival OF the Canada
and Yesterday morning none of them appeared at
the hotel until 10 o'clock. In the meantime the
ouasts were left to entertain themselves
Some of them walked in MadisonS quare
ard inspected the apparatus used in lighting the
Park by electricity. Others stroled over
TO sixth-ave and watched the trains on the eie-
waited railway. At 10 o'clock they had all returned
to the hotel and soon appeared in full UNIFORM 'he
military representatives wearing swords ana spurs
The naval officers were also dressed I'D UNIFORM
Commandant Lichtensilin, who represents
President Grevy, wore stan UNIFORM. ne
marty was then escorted to West Twenty
thrd-st. and returned the can
Admiral Wyman United Statee Navy, on board the
Tennessee. Aftes brief call the party was trans
ferred TO the French frigate, the Magcienne, ara
was received by Admiral Halligon Luncheon mao
beep proyded and after this the party returned to
''0 RECEIVED BY TEE GOVERNOR.
Alta o'clock Governor Cornell and his staff gave
Tho visitors who we're still in full uniform. a
formal reception. The fOrmaities were sunpie'
Tho Governor welcomed them in tie name
of the State of New-YOrk. The preparations
for the review of the First Dvlsio1 OF tne
National Guard by the Governor ana the guest
were complete and the movements We're carried
ont satisfactorily. French flags were waving no.,
the stats of the Fifth Avenue hotel thS mouci
brunswick the Victoria DeiTSnlG3S n
reviewinp etard seating 500 persoCs had been
erected near tie Worth monument. which was
festooned with scarlet velvet, embroldefeh WIN
ooId while the front aud sides were concealed WIN
farce National flags, the coors OF france am I
United states dying from d an hod po'd efaeT TO guard
the entrance the stand. superintendent ai nn
and Inspector Thorne had personal charge Oh IoS
policemen to keep back bhe, cro%Ss NM
lined the avenue from Central Park to Twentieth
st. and filled all available standing room wiIhin
SIGHT of the reviewing stand.
siS9 The u First DIVISION Major-Genera Shaler COM
manding, consisting of tue bngades whc n Mere
commanded by General Ward and General Sar'ah,
in Fift,eth-st. When the line was formed tLe
French delegates Assistant Secretary OF STATE NIT
Governor Cornell and the Reception COMMITTEE were
driven in open carriages from the hotel to the Park
ard reviewed the troops who extended from thirty
eghthst. to Fiftyeighth-st Inc Iev1ewng ~
then returned and the members took their places AT
the soutL end OF the stand. Governor Cornell was
supported by the following members OF ms stan
Major General Frederick Townsend, AdlutanntI!,en
eral: Brigadier-General Robert 5; Oliver;
INSPECTOR General Brigadier-Gen Lloyd
AspnwaI EngneernnGhi s a AND DT GENERAL
MaOr-tieneral Hancock ard stan ana AallllIal r
man and staff were also present Wnen ~enTraI
Hancock alghted from his carriage ne was recel'ou
with long and loud cheering. -. 40 r,o
At 400 the parade began to cross t th9 uns
of review and agpTaISYd po 81 on bas
horses; General Shaler with six stat
officers black horses the IN Regiment nd S s b be
Sth Regiment, the Veterans of the 9TH Regiment
the 60th Regiment, the stu Reei%ent' the I9!
the the cd Si"" Regiment, the 18th Regiment,
the 18th Regiment the 9th Reglmenit dne o'h N's'-
ment and Battery X of the First DIVISION;
The weather and the occasion We're such that the
ranks of every regiment were full. There were over
eeded by its band, and :. seyera i.,se %
elected much applause Ivy suddenly breakiRg ihto
the French air. inserting several Oars OF lanheG
Doodle and as suddenly returning 10 eie "a '"r
air All the flags were furled and drapeo I'D honoI
of the late COmmandern-Cheto OF the Arihy ne
parade was three-quarters of an hour In passing the
stand after which the guests and committee re-
timed to the reception parOr in the hotel.
CALLING UPON THE VISITORS
A delegation rom the Chamber of Commerce,
consisting of Oracle King, George r. Wilson, John
Austin Stevens and Mr.. Cooper, was received by
the committee and presented to the visitors to
whom, in behalf of the Chamber, it rendered the
coureses Of that body 1t has not been decided
or a banquet; the details will be an
4Snnssd at the Ps1' TB meeting French res
dents of New-York were then represented by dele
CATION headed by Albert Leterre. the French Con
Tebenf Leon Poitevin and Adolphe Cohn, The
IafsVette Guards were represented by N. Gallot
the president. Of the society Joseph Well ell
GERS. The New-Yorl Historical Society was
represented by Messrs:. Field, and stevens.
General Shaler and his staff were also presented A
communication was received from the president
of the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Company
asking that the party accept sPecla th CO., 10
8 ann. to-day this offer and those OF the several
societies will be accepted and deferred unui the re-
turn from Yorktown.
O,e of the most important delegations was re.
ceiyed from Maryland. The chairman was Colonel
Henry L. Taylor. who, with Governor Whyte' com
poses the Congressional Committee appointed by
Maryland to receive the delegates. Colonel Taylor
was accompanied by j. 7. Veazey and ana Johl
McWiliams both members OF me Ss CoInci n 81
this Maryland Committee shall meet the
special train bearing the delegatrs g, from Niagara
Falls next Monday when il reaches Elnlra, and es
cort them to Baltimore where they Will be received
publicly on TUESDAY.
THE GUESTS PLEASED WITH THEIR RECEPTION.
In conversation last evening with TRIBUNE re-
porter one of the French officers expressed the
utmost pleasure with the general reception accorded
them by the committee, delegates from public
bodies, the press anu the ehoiio Pupi'
General Boulanger yesterday morning sent
a dispatch to the French Minister
of War, mentioning the cordial reception given,
and last night he sent another dispatch in which he
praised the citizen soldiers of the United States
tyomInandant Liehtenstein and General BoulangcI
both said that they could find nothing in the re-
view that could possibly want the slightest cr't'
c;sm They had not expected to see half as many
troops in line, and were anxious to learn how the
soldiers were equipped and how they were EN-.
ployed when not on duty. When told that
the services were voluntary, they said that they
could not understand how thousand men who had
10 work for a living, and could not drill more than
IL r. rueek cnuh be IhOrOnYhlY sOldier