Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-28
AouruxI snA Guurisr.
Wednesday, November 28, 1888,
After the Parade.

of the day previous The city military were
 at once marched to Union armory and dis
 missed The Wallingford, Meriden and Mid
 dletown companies left for home by the 6:30
 train and the two Waterbury companies left
 soon after for home. The active and veteran
 Hartford City Guard with Colts band and
 Hammond's silver drum corps arrived here
 by rail from New York at about 6 o'clock to-
 gether with the Hartford company of the
 Fifth battalion and proceeded directly on to
 Hartford. The military boys looked fatigued
 and some had severe colds owing to the rain
 and exposure, but considerable hilarity was
 manifested notwithstanding and experiences in the metropolis were narrated o'er with animated faces to inquiring friends.
 The boys said that their treatment by the New York folks was most
 hospitable and that they did all in their pow CT to make matters as comfortable as poss1- l ble. They give high. praise to their brother soldiers of the empire city. No accident oc- | cured, and Evacuation day will pass into the annals of the Second regiment as another of the most notable events in it's history. The Connecticut troops won high praise. Ths New York Sun said they were notable | feature of the procession. It said also that | there seemed to be few other than New Eng | land faces among them, barring the Fifth 1 battalion. Of the Fifth battalion it was saids Its members were mahogany colored, well | built. graceful fellows, much inclined to l laugh even when it poured the hardest. 1 The same paper said: s'The Governors Foot Guard, commanded by Major J. c. Kinney, was a fine body of men in the Brit ish uniform of one hundred years ago. The
 high shield front to their caps, the white 1 knee brooches and the leggings brought to mind the pictures of those whose departure hay hel fn Th6v dark blue overcoats bound with red. Colts band, of Hartford, marched ahead of them and played so as to win cheers from the drenched spectators. The Fourth Connecti- cut was big and we'll disciplined body. The Second regiment was as deserving of praise. "The Governors Foot Guard is said to be as unique as it is showy, and the weather | disappointed them and the public by com l polling tbem to hide their striking apparel | under big coats. They dropped out of the 1 line when they got to the Grand Central Ho- l tel, where they were lodging"
 Governor Waller covered himself with 1 glory by hsppy speech at the Chamber of l Commerce dinner at Delmonico's. Beside | various other Governors, President Arthur 1 was present, also 8 number of other distin- l guished men. He referred to Connecticut s 1 war record in the revolutionary struggle, and 1 to Connecticut's long list of representatives and descendants who have had high positions in the nation. Continuing, he said: ''While l Virginia has been the mother of presidents, | Connecticut has been the mother of States. l What I say of her emigration Is in great l measure true of the other States in the East. l So that it may with truthfulness be said that
 ancient New England has moved to the | West I do not exaggerate her record, nor | depreciate the patriotism and services of her | sister confederates, when say that no colony
 displayed more wisdom, valor and determina- tion than Connecticut in the endeavol | to found government based on the will of l an intelligent people; government that more
 than 50, OO0, 900 in the fullness of happi.
 ness, strength and prosperity tonight are 1 enjoying. Nearly 250 years ago she adopted
 the first written American constitution, the liberal principles of which are the basis oi
 all our State governments. Connecticut
 furnished in the revolutionary war larger
 ratio of soldiers than any other member ot
 the confederate union, and absolutely g
 greater number than any other, Massachu-
 setts excepted. She never had, her his
 tory tells us, more than 40,000 or 45,00C
 men fit for military service, and yet nearly
 32 GOO shouldered their muskets and went
 into the war. It was the fortunate opper,
 tunity of her soldiers to make, in the revolu
 tion, the first offensive attack, to seize the
 first British guns to capture the first British
 flag, and to first plant the standard o1
 independence in the streets of New
 York. No one, not even an English
 man, could expect me on this occasion
 to omit to make pleasant mention of the
 journey in July, '76, of his royal highness
 King George III, or his counterfeit leader
 presentment, from Bowling Green in youl
 city to Litchfeld county in the State of Con
 necticut, where Mrs. General Wolcott an6
 her patriotic neighbors. thinking his majesty
 no longer in fit condition for royalists tC
 worship, in a blazing fire on an old-fashionec
 hearth, fused him. as her diary shows, ints
 42 0S9 bullets for rebels to use"
 1 A correspondent in last evenings Hartford
 Post recounts the good time of the Grays
 City Guard and the Seventh veterans on the
 iron steamer and at Irving Hall as follows:
 l CRACKERS AND CHEESE ON A STEAMER.
 AS soon as the City Guard (actives and
 veterans) passed the reviewing stand staff
 officer appeared and guided Ethem to pier 1 al
 Bowling Green. Here there was big iron
 steamer upon which they marched. The New | Haven Grays had wheeled out of the line of 1 the Second regiment and had pre- l ceded the City Guard to the steamer About
 the Seventh regiment, N. G. s. N. Y. marched l on board, escorting the Providence Light | Infantry with the American band and
 the Newport artillery. The Albany Bur
 gess corps and the Utica Citizens corps came | soon after. They were all cheered roundly | peculiar cheer of the New Haven Grays
 was 8 noticeable feature. There were at l least 1, GOO troops aboard. They were fur. 1 nished with lunch of crackers and cheese and there had been marching enough to | make it relish well. The steamer took the 1 whole collection to the foot of Fifteenth 1 street. In disembarking the Seventh regi- l ment and it's guests marched on one side of | the street, while the Albany Burgess corps and the Utica Citizens corps--who had a 1 very effective cry beginning ''U. .. C."- marched on the other. They all went to
 Irving Hall, corner of Fifteenth street and
 Irving Place. It was raining very hard and
 the thin dress uniforms of bands and soldiers
 were completely drenched. It was pitiable l to see the men quietly taking all this as 1 something from which they could not escape | The City Guard veterans with their heavy
 army oVercoats were cause of envy. But | if all was dismal outside the scene in the hall was quite different. Here pretty much everything in the way of edibles and
 'drinkables" had been provided. Cham pagne flowed like trout-brook water, and l instead of milk stews the oysters-and such
 oysters were drowned in cream-a l 'cream' instead of 'Emilk'' stew. This
 banquet began about half past three o'clock.
 Here were the Hartford headquarters the
 rest of the day and evening. After the feast
 came of course, the flow of soul.7 Mayor l Bulkeley made short speech, in which he introduced Joseph l.. Barbour, who made re-
 marks of 8 stirring nature. He was followed by Representative-elect s. A. Hubbard. | Mayor Lewis of New Haven and the Mayor
 of Providence also spoke. The enjoyment
 of the occasion was heightened by the appear
 ance of fifteen old City Guard veterans
 now doing business in New York, who
 joined the command early in the day and l marched over the route with them. There | were also two old members who came from | Philadelphia and joined in the parade. The friends of Colonel Winchester of the Seventh
 veterans were pained to learn that he had
 tainted from over exertion on the morning
 before the procession moved and had to be
 taken home where, it was reported, he lay
 severely i'll last night. Special thanks for
 courtesies to the City Guard are due to Adju tant Freeland of the Seventh and to Captain l H. l. Hayden, formerly of Hartford and New
 Haven, who is captain of Company A, vet