The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-26
BARTHOLDI STATUE.
Grand Naval and Military Demonstra-
ton in the Reception Of the
Bartholdi Statue.
MarseilIes Sung by Five Hundred Voices
on Bedloe's Misunderstanding at
the City Hall-Addresses on
the Occasions.
TIE PROCEEDINGS.

th0ldl statue Oh Liberty Enllghtenlng the
World" The shipping along the river front
and the vessels in the harbor were gayly
decorated with flags and bunting in honor
of the event. One of the most noticeable
displays was that at the pier of the French
Transatlantic Steamship Company wharf,
which was fairly covered with flags of both
France and America, gracefully entwined
The weather was warm and clear. with
cooling breeze.
Early in the morning trains brought thou
sands of strangers from the surrounding
cities, and Broadway and the streets ada
cent thereto were thronged with people in
holiday attire vending their way to points
from which good view Of the military and
civic parade attending the reception of the
statue conld be witnessed. The harbor pre-
scented beautiful appearance, studded with
the White sails of innumerable yachts and
numerous excursion boats, crowded to the
guards, awaiting the moving of the naval
procession.
Shortly after nine o'clock the Mayor, the
President of the Board of Aldermen, the
municipal officers, the members Of the re-
ception and other committees embarked on
special steamboats, and proceeded down the
bay to the Isere. Arriving along side of
the vessel they boarded her and at once
paid their respects to the commander and
officers, the Mayor acting as spokesman,
babe them a hearty welcome to New York.
The Mayor then rendered them the hospi-
talities of the city and invited them to a
formal reception at the City Hall in the
afternoon. After the interchange of few
remarks the Mayor and city officials with
drew, returning to the steamboat, which at
once swung off and took up position within
a few hundred yards of the Isere
At eleven o'clock the fort at Sandy Hook
Numbered forth a salute to the French flag
which. was shortly after followed by signal
from Commodore Chandeliers vessel notify
ing the vessels to form in line for the naval
parade. The vessels fell in as follows: The
United States steamer Dispatch with Secre-
tary Whitney and Commodore Chandler and
staff on board; United States steamer
Powhatan, Captain L. A. Beardslee;
United States steamer Omaha, United
States steamer Alliance, Lieutenant
ship La Flore, Admiral La Combe: the
French transport Isere, Commander De-
Saune; steamboat with the statue committee
on board; steamboat with the Mayor and
Aldermen.
American Steam Yacht Club, among them
Jay Gould's Atalanta, and the phenomenal
yacht Sullette. In this position the vessels
steamed slowly up the bay, receiving salutes
from the forts at the NarowS, Forts Column
bia, Castle William, Fort Wood and other
batteries in the harbor These were replied
to by the French flagship La Flore and the
United States naval vessels, while hundreds
WhiSf1nC CT off
blast. The noise at times was deafening
In arriving at her anchorage at Bedloe's
Island, the lSere received salute from the
guns of the United States training ship
Minnesota, detailed for duty at that station
This was also the signal for the breakup of
the naval parade. The officers of the French
flagship and those of the ISere were then
conducted to the island, where they made a
short inspection of the work now in progress
On the pedestal
On the landing of the French naval off
GERS at the island, the ''Marseilleis'' was
sung by over 500 voices, composed of men,
berS OF the various French societies of New
York and Brooklyn.
AT its conclusion the bands engaged for the
occasion played several French and Ameri-
can airs. Hail Columba' and 'sLlberty
Enlightening the World" composed by
Gounod, were then sung by the members
OF the singing societies, and the ceremonies
were concluded by the firing of salutes
from the forts and war vessels.
The French officers were then escorted on
board the Reception Committees steamer
and landed at the Battery, where carriages
were awaiting them, and the procession
formed as follows:
Platoon mounted police, under the COM
mand of Superintendent Murray; the Pro-
visional Brigade and Staff Regiment Band,
commanded by Brigadier General Louis
Fitzgerald; SiXty-ninth Regiment n. G. S.
N. T., Colonel Cavanaugh commanding;
Seventy-frst Regiment n. G. S. N. Y.
Colonel McAlpin commanding; Twelfth
Regiment N. G. S. N. Y, Lieutenant Dowd
commanding: Marshal of the day, Colonel
George d. Scott; Aides, Lieutenant Colonel
A. f. Schillng, Captain Henry Chauncey,
Jr., Captain j. o. johnson, of the Eighth
Regiment; Board of Aldermen, members of
the American committee in carriages; MEM
bers of the Chamber of Commerce; Fife and
Drum Corps; Wadsworth Post G. A. r.; then
followed in carriages, Admiral La Combe,
Captain De Launey, Mayor Grace, President
Sanger, of the Board of Aldermen, other
French naval officers, French Consul and
Vice Consul in New York, f1anked on either
side by the Grenadiers Rochambeau and
Guard Lafayette.
Following these came numerous carriages
containing guests and members of the COM
mittee of arrangements. Representatives
from the principal French societies of New
York and vicinity and a detachment of
police brought up the rear.
The line of march was directly up Broad
way to the City Hall Park, where the Mayor
and the French guests reviewed the process
sion. After the review, the guests were
formally welcomed in the Aldermanic Cham
Der. Speeches were made by Mayor Grace,
Mr.. Frederick r. Condert, the orator of the
day, and others.
AT the conclusion of The addresses the
French singing societies rendered several
appropriate selections, after which COLA
ton was served in the Governors room.
This ended the ceremonies of the day, which
passed off without the slightest hitch of any
kind, or anything calculated TO mar the good
feeling prevailing. The French officials ex-
press themselves as greatly pleased with the
reception.
Mayor Grace's speech to the visitors was
as follows:
Of the many causes which. during the past
century, operated in awakening the people
of France, that burning desire for liberty
which was to set all Europe ablaze, and
which finally found organized expression in
the constituent Assembly of 49, two were
pre-eminent, one was the literary inflll-
ence exhorted by school of writer's whose
fierce blood shook TO its foundation the fab
ric of absolutism so strongly reared by Louis
XIV, and found an echo on this side of the
Atlantic in the teachings of our own Jeffer-
son and franklin The other was the exam
pie set by the new world in their successful
struggle against the same absolutsm which
the English King sought TO perpetuate over
the Colonies. The stories told by our allies.
on their return, of the brave deeds and the
difficulties overcome in the cause of liberty
were eagerly listened to, and an enthusiasm
was aroused which added the point
and meaning of practical demonstration to
the speculations of French philosophy.
From that time TO this the bond of syInpa-
thy which united the two peoples has never
weakened. Washington and Lafayette
their names stand fer all that has been high
est and noblest in the political history of
centuries. In the person of Lafayette was
embodied the spirit of revolt against the
systems of government of the past: in that
OF Washington, the spirit of hope for the fu-
turc--a future OF freedom. which was to
bring peace and prosperity to millions then
unborn.
The spleudid gift of the French people
which you have brought TO our shores is
therefore deeply significant + is a pledge
OF the present existence of those friendly
relations which mark the comm. IN history of