The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26

J. A. Bostwick; Sentinel. John Aspinwall
Sophia, II. Osgood; Tillie, w. II. StarI
buck; Skylark, A. Z. Bateman; Rival. I'll
W; Baker; Falcon, Albert Stickney; Vista|
John I. Kennedy; Petrol, Cyrus w. Field
Jr,; Gem, William Zeigler; Corsair; StranI
ger, T.. S.. Jaffray.
Press Steamer.
Citizens Flotilla.
At IL 80 o'clock the signal gun for the cod
umn to move was fired from the DespatchI
n the great fleet slowly started up the bad
amid the booming of cannon from Forts HanI
llton and Wadsworth, the screeching of whil
ties and the cheers from the crowds on thJ
excursion boats and on shore. At 1881
o'clock the feet reached Bedloe's Island and
rounded the frigate Minnesota, whose yards
were manned and from whose ports a mad
tlonal salute was fired, then the Isere dropped
anchor and the flOtilla passed GOVERNOR
Island, Castle William salutinp i'm rovnl stvle
after which the La Floro proceeded up thI
North river and anchored off Pier /, and til
flotilla dispersed.
Previous to the breaking up of the nave
procession, Admiral Lacombo, Captain ]
Saune and the other officers OF the Frenc
ships landed at Bedloe's Island and viewe
the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Severd
French singing societies rendered Gilbert
E~nIghtening. the World arranged by Got
nod, and On the departure of the party san
Hail Columbia
Nv II MuLNT
sion from the Battery, where drawn up i
line were the military and civic organization
awaiting the landing of the reception CON
mittees and the French officers. After I'd
committees had disembarked the processio
was formed in the following order:
Mounted Police.
General Louis Fitzgerald, Commanding, an
staff.
Provisional Brigade of the Sixty-ninth Reg
Regiment, Colonel James Cavanagh.
seventy first Regiment, Colonel McAlpir
Twelfth Regiment, Lieutenant-C Colonel He]
man Dowd.
Marshal Of the Day, Colonel George D. Scot
and Aids, Mounted.
Members of Board of Aldermen and otbd
city officials in carriages.
Members of the American committee and d
the Chamber of Commerce committee
in carriages.
French Admiral Lacombe and staff, Officer
of the ship lsere, Mayor of the city
members of the committee of ar
rangements, Board of Aldermen
and officers of the First Divi-
sion, n. G. S. n. ", in
carriages.
The Garde Lafayette and Grenadiers RocI
ambelu was formed as special escort
alongside of the carriages contain
Ing the French officers. French
Societies on Foot. Detach-
ment OF Police on foot.
II IlIStS were Two abreast. The frs
one to the right of Broadway contained Ser
ator Evarts, Admiral Lacombe and Mayo
Grace, and in the one on the left h1nd sid
were President Sanger of the Board of A
dermen, Captain De Saune of the Isere an
General Stone. In the second carriage q
the right were Alderman Jaehne and til
captain and lieutenant of the La Flore. an
on the left were Alderman DeLacey an
Lieutenant Omet of the Isere. Other ca
rlageS containing committeeman and invite
guests followed two abreast, the Garde Lad
fayette and GrenadierS Rochambeau march
ing on either side as a guard of honor.
The procession then started up Broadwa
and marched to the City Hall. where 1t wa
dismissed. AS the city's guests alighted fror
their carriages, the French choral society, til
Orpheon Francois, which was stationed O
the balcony outside the governors room
sang an ode of welcome. The French officer
the committees and invited guests were the
conducted to the Aldermanic chamber, whic
was handsomely festooned with the tricold
of France and national bunting. and wa
packed with people. Mayor Grace then d.
livered the following address of welcome:
"Of the many causes which, during tn
last century, operated in awakening in tn
people of France hat burning desire for LID
erty, which was to set all Europe ablaZe, an
which finally found organized expression
the Constituent Assembly of 1899, two wei
pre-eminent; one was the literary ~influend
eXerte1 by n school of writers whose iierd
blows shook to its foundation the fabric
absolutism so strongly reared by Louis XIV
and found an echo on this side of the A
lantic in the teachings of our own Jeffe
son and Franklin: the other was the e.
ample set by the New World in their success
full struggle against the same absolutis]
which the English King sought to perpetual
over the colonies. The stories told by oJ
allies on their return of the deeds lone al
the difficulties overcome in the cause of ii
erty, were eagerly listened to, and an enth
siasin was aroused which added the point al
meaning OF practical demonstration to II
speculation Of French philosophy. Fro
that time to this the bond of syi
pathy which united the two peoples has new
weakened, Washington and Lafayette! The
names stated for all that has been highe
and noblest IN the political history of Gel
turtles. In the person of Lafayctte was eI
bodied the spirit OF revolt against the ded
systems OF government OF the past; in tn
of Washington the spirit OF hope for the f
ture-a future of freedom which was
bring peace and prosperity TO millions the
unborn; while in both We're united that lott
mess of purpose AMI unflinchinG courage
the face of difficulties which are tine indispeI
sable requisites of greatness.
the SPLENDID gift of the French people whid
You have brough. to our shores is, therefor
deeply significant. 1t is a pledge of the pre-
ent existence of these friendly ~relatioI
which mark the common history of the tV
nations in the past, and is a pleasant auGu
of their continuance in the future. As it
TO France, and through France to the Unit
States, that the spread of popular COVER
ment in Europe is largely due, so it is but a
propriate that an enduring monument
this gateway of the worlds CONNER
should remind all corners of I'll
fact. And the artist has caught the insp
alton of history. The conception Of Liber
enlightening the world is deeply poetic
cause it is deeply true and because the idea
a great one. Its grandeur demands its as
citation with the gigantic in art, which ha|
beauty of its own above and beyond I
canons of strict criticism. May it tand
an imperishable monument of the IDEAS W
which 1t is associated, which are themselJ
immortal and Interchangeable"
Mayor Grace was followed by Preside
Sanger, of the board OF aldermen, and Ere
erick X. Coudert, who made brief but fell
tous addresses, which were answered by A
miral Lacombe and the French consul, WI
thanked the American people, and the peor
OF New York in particular, in behalf
France ana themselves for the great mark
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