Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-21
TO THE NEXT GOVERNOR.

his reception at the Republican League and
 it was estimated that between fifteen hun
 dred and two thousand people shook hands
 with him during the evening. The twenty
 ushers were kept extremely busy during the
 first hour. MT. Lounsbury arrived in this
 city late in the afternoon and took rooms at the New Haven House. Shortly after 2 o'clock MT. James A. HowRrth, MT. Wade H.
 Thompson and Mr. Minott E. Chatfeld, a
 committee from the Young Mems Republican | club, proceeded to the New Haven House in
 one of Barker & Ransom's carriages, to which were attached four iron grey horses handled l by Driver Wall, where they received Mir. Lounsbury and accompanied him to the In- ! surance building. On MT. Lounsbury's ar | rival at the Young Mems Republican club
 room escorted by the committee he was greeted by three rousing cheers by the nearly ' three hundred Young Republicans who had | assembled in the rooms. MT. Lounsbury was then introduced to the members of the club, after which in a | five minute speech he highly complimented l the club on the number of it's members, and said that he felt highly complimented to 1 think that he should be an honorary member of such large and fourishing club. Hand shaking and introductions followed, after 1 which the members of the club formed in | the halls and on the stairway under the charge of a committee consisting of MT. c. H. R. Mott, William H. Thomas, Frank Cor l bin, Hon. Hugh Daley and Gains s. Mer- | win, and waited until Mir. Lounsbury was | ready to proceed. When MT. Lounsbury and the committee had taken their seats in the carriage, half the mem bers of the club headed by the l American band formed in front of the car riage and the others in the rear, each mem horo O rad iOh | started down Chapel and turned into Church street the band struck up lively air and the vast crowd on the sidewalk followed the pro cession. The procession proceeded down | Church to Elm, to Orange, to Chapel, to the Republican League club house, followed by
 the large crowd which had lined the side l walks on the line of march. The front of ! the club house was gay and brilliant with Chinese lanterns. MT. Lounsbury on being escorted into the building was received by | the members of the reception committee and took his stand in the front of the recep- tion room. The crowd was then admitted and MT. Lounsbary, assisted by President Thomas R. Trowbridge, jr., and ex-Governor Bigelow, began the receiving. Although the house was crowded there was no confusion, the committee having arranged matters so that the visitors passed in one door and out of another. The entire house was thrown open to the visitors, who made free with
 
 draped the chandeliers with smilax and dec orated the mantles in the different rooms with fine potted ferns, and large Chinese lanterns hung from the front stoop. In the rear of the house light lunch was served which was presided over by MT. Bradley and
 number of walters. In the first three quarters of an hour it was estimat- ed by the ushers that over 200 people had been introduced, and that between the hours of the reception from until 10 o'clock over 2,O00 people had shaken hands with MT. Lounsbury. Later in the evening MT. Lounsbury was assisted in re- ceiving by candidates for Lieutenant Cover nor Howard, Secretary of State Hubbard, Treasurer Warner and Candidate Lewis for Congress from this district. very apropos side feature of the occasion and attracting
 much attention was a splendid large DOT trait of Gen. Grant in the reading room, loaned for the occasion by the artist H. l.
 Thompson and just finished by the artist. It
 represents General Grant as he appeared in
 the later years of his presidency, and as
 those who saw him here will best remember
 him. The artist obained the result after @
 careful study of many ikenesses and of the
 late Generals features. The portrait is pro-
 nounced by personal friends of the late Gen.
 eral an admirable likeness. It remains 8 while at the league on exhibition. Among
 those present during the evening who shook
 hands with MT. Lounsbury and the other
 gentlemen were: Professor William K.
 Townsend, Governor H. B. Harrison, MT. J.
 O. North, General Smith, MT. Arthur s.
 Osborn, Assessor Baldwin, Assessor
 win, Dr. Swain, Dr. Osborne,
 Dr. w. G.. Anderson, ex-Selectman A. Foote,
 Major H. H. Strong, Alderman Edward
 Wines, MT. Peck Sperry, General Harmon, ex-Governor c. B. Bowers, Alderman 0: B.
 Graves, Captain J. H. Wilkins, Principal L.
 OoD,r h., E Govlord Mir AD6rayv
 Wellman, Judge Pickett. superintend- General White, MT. Edward Clark, Councilman w. A. Beers, Professor Bailey,
 MT. J. G. Lewis, Selectman Feldman, MT. M. R. Durham, Selectman J. L. Treat, MT. O. s. Landers, New Britain, MT. Thomas Wallace and Mr E. N. Judd, Wallingford, Captain 0. A. Brooks, exGovernor c. B.
 Bowers, Mir O. S. Leete, Captain c. H. Townsend, MT. Benjamin J. Stone, MT. J. A. Porter of Washington, D. O.. who returns tomorrow, MT; Dwight Thomas, MT. E. c. Hill, MT. Lewis Cowles, Captain s. P. Crafts, MT. C. M Loomis, MT. N. c. Easterbrook, MT. c. P. Jordan, MT. Kendall and MT. Knox, Hartford; MT. J. A. Richardson, MT. H. L. Cannon, MT. H.. w. Foster, Professor Foster, MT. H. w. Gilbert, Rev. MT. Herriek, New Milford; MT. O. R. Dickerman, Hon. James Graham, West Haven;
 
 MT. J. M. Emmerson of the Ansonia Senti
 nel; MT. Franklin Farrell and MT. William Wallace, the noted Ansonia manufacturers, Ansonia; MT. Robert Morgan, Sergeant Bradley, Officer George L. Hyde, Captain Morse, Lieutenant Johnson, Hon. E. s. central committee; Hon. J. R. Buck, Hart
 ford; MT. Charles White, MT. Ezra D. Fogg, Professor Blake, Mr. 0. D. Nicoll, ex-Police Commissioners Sheldon and Baldwin, Police Commissioner Hart, Mir. William Stahl, MT. Frank A. Bowman, Dr. Winchell, MT. R. T. Barton, Captain Lee, MT. Belden, Dr. Jud- son, MT. Henry Covert, MT: George Hogg- Dryden Phelps, jr., MT. A. S. Terry, and Mir A. H. Bartholomew, Ansonia; Lieut. Arthur Howarth Dr. Rollin McNeil, MT. T. F. Hammer, Branford, MT. A. R. Hopkins, Mir. James Fairman, MT. Joseph Woods, MT. John M. Crampton, Dr. Stetson, MT. James MT. A. D. Balwin, MT. S. S. Thompson, MT. James Gallagher, ir., MT. w. Burhall, Colonel Leavenworth and MT. w. H. Newton of Wallingford and others. After the reception MT. Lounsbury retired to the New Haven House, where he remained until this morn ing The committees having charge of the affair were made up as follows:
 jr., Hon. H. B. Bigelow, Professor W. K. Town send, Hon. N. D. Sperry, H. E. Benton, J. D. Dew eli, General George H. Ford, N. Easterbrook, jr., %udgs sfuasy on BeffheF fsrdse
 Judge L. P; Deming; J. A, Richardson, Major H. Dr. w D. Anderson, C. W. willett, C. E. Graves T. c. Lewis. c. R: Burton, W. T. Clarkson; Edward Lawrence, H. F. Peck J. S. Fowler, Hugh Daley. W E. Chandler, F. H. Brown, R. P. Cowles, A. P. Hitchcock, H. T., Thompson, L. D. Chidseg, Rutherford Trowbrdge, E. D. Fogg, J. P. Thompson, W. W. Ward, L. W. Beecher, Hon. Thomas Wallace, Ansonia; Charles E: Trow- bridge. Milford; Hon. H. Wales Lines. Meriden; Hon. Samuel Fessenden, Stamford General H. C. Dwight, Hartford; Sheriff R. O. Gates, Derby; H. H. Peck, Waterbury; Bartlett Bent, Mddletown
 Ushers- Captain F. T. Lee, G. D. Watrous, wv. Bailey, F. H. Benton. F. A. Betts, E. A. Gessner, E. D. Hendee F. O. Bushnell B. E. Brown, John H. North, F. A. Bowman, F. E. Hum, J. T. Fitch, E. E. Graha n, F. B. Walker, J. T. Whittelsey, F. F. Mansfield J. P. Trowbridge, E. A. Hotchkiss, 0. E. Granns, J. B. Manville, J. s. Thompson.
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