Connecticut western news., 1886-11-03

| just as great, and trucks and wagons offering
 seats and points of observation at so much a
 seat stood in all the cross streets and all these
 people had collected at 8 o'clock in the morn
 Ing to see the parade at Il. They stood pa | tiently in the drenching mist, cheerful and l expectant; some with waterproofs or umbrellas, but most Of them unprotected, and when,
 hours after the gathering of the crowds, the | procession came along, the people had lost | none of their American enthusiasm. Here and | there along the avenue, where a lampless lamp | post reared its top above the crowd, a small boy
 was sure to be seated in tho cup. Every win | dow was packed and every spot where human | being could stand was occupied
 ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT. The President drove up to the grand stand | with Secretary Bayard. Capt Williams helped | the President to alight and shared the applause
 of the moment. Gen. Sheridan received the party on the stand and stood by the President during the review.
 Just before the head of the first division came along, the French guests we're presented to the President,
 To every commanding officer in the line the President raised his hat, exposing the large bald spot on his head to the falling rain When
 the colors of any regiment or body were
 dipped he saluted in the same way For tho
 rest he stood motionless. No one offered him
 an umbrella, and he stood without shelter
 throughout the two hours and more, but be-
 fore more than half the column had passed he
 put on his overcoat with tho aid of Secretary Bayard.
 As laid down above the procession was form ed embracing military and civic societies with out number; It took two hours to pass the grand stand.
 THE VOLUNTEER F1REMEN
 The remaining six divisions of the line, as originally laid down, were lost to sight in the overwhelming rush of old-time tiremen and volunteer companies from out of town. When fifty of the boys in red shirts, black trousers turned up above the mud, and big fire hats came trudging along, hauling an anticipated hand engine, the crowd cheered wildly, and the fire laddies took up the cry, ssHi, hi, hi!" as they passed the President. The leaders of the line waved their big speaking trumpets and the whole scene for the time was one of ilnre- strained joy on the part of the firemen and the crowd. The French visitors contemplated this demonstration with open-mouthed wonder. The faces of the old boys were study. Most of them wore their hair cropped close, and all of them looked robust. There were other old engines, and hose reels and hook and ladder trucks drawn by hand, useful here nowadays only as relics. Among the old ssmasheens" in the line was the "Union," built in 1911, while mouldy wreck of a hand pump worked with cranks, and carried on four-wheeled truck, was built in 176O, and looked every day of it's age. venerable color bearer of the Veteran Firemen's Association was seized with an en- thusiasm as he looked the President squareIy in the face, and waving his big banner until it u l0. he almost carried himself off his feet with it.
 THE NAVAL. PARADE.
 The log in the harbor was great that the slSht of the parade of vess Is was interfered with seriously. This would have been grand a1talr but for the fog. A report says nearly half the piers along the North River had yes sels of some kind tied along side with passen- gers on board, and these cast off as the Gedney came down. It is supposed that they fell in | n ba at anchor off the island, but there the line, if | mere w. line, became wholly demoralized. | Nearly hundred vessels of various kinds | were already there, having slghted the process slon ln order to get an anchorage near the is land, and the vessels in line made haste to get through between the men of war in order, to capture sucA water as was left. It is impossi- pie to say how many vessels gathered about within ,gunshot of the landing pier. Thirty by actual count brought to, side by side. so as 10 form lane for the Presidents launch to pass through when he should land Probably soo more of all kinds, from the huge excursion steamer with 2,0OO people on board to the nap- me launch with three men in it, massed them- serves as near by as possible, most of them an- shored, but some depending on their wheels 70 overcome the ebbing tide. Many of the people there had seen the great fleets that watched the yacht Mayflower when she whipped nc Gaieatea, but this was a throng beside winch the summer pleasure fleet sank into in- significance.
 ON BEDLoE's ISLAND.
 After the parade the invited guests assem- 1led about the statue on Bedloe's Island When UT. Storrs had made his prayer amid the salvos Gen Schofield managed to in roduce Count de Lesseps, who came briskly onward to the railing of the platform and made short address in behalf of the American ,ranco union. In closing he said Soon, gen. lemen, We Will find ourselves reunited again to ele6rate new Pacific conquest. Farewell lntll we meet at Panama where the thirty-eight tars of North America will come to float by he side of the banners of the independent 'tates of South America and will form in the eW lev, world for the good of humanity the peace ull and fruitful alliance of the Anglo-Saxon nd the Franco-Latin races
 The enthusiasm with which the venerable ] jount was greeted when he was introduced to ne audience broke out with renewed order as e closed and he was obliged to bow his hanks before the applause closed.
 senator Evarts delivered the oration, con- ludlng his speech as follows:
 , Tn the name of the citizens of the United tates who have completed the pedestal and alsed thereon the statue, and of the voluntary committee who have executed the will of their | declare in your presence and 1 the presence of these distinguished guests ] rom France, and of this august assemblage of ne honorable and honored men of our land, nd of all this countless multitude, that this { celestial and the united work of the two repub-
 
 nd T Keeping of the Government and the people the United States.
 THE PRESIDENT ACCEPTS THE GIFT. Gen. Schofield then simply said s'The Presi- i; ent of the United States" Mr. Cleveland z topped forward, and, with his left hand lean- f lS on the railing before him and the right V hrust into the breast of his frock coat went at v nee into his speech of acceptance. It was as | blows: The people of the United States accept with I ratltude from their brethren of the French V epnhlc the grand and completed work of art t. e here lnaugurate A This token of the affection and consideration [ the people of France demonstrates the kin D llp or republics, and conveys to us the assur- V nee that Tn our efforts to commend to man. q ma the excellence of a government resting f pon popular will, we still have, beyond the f merlcan continent, steadfast ally. " We are not here to-day to bow before the n presentation of fierce and warlike god, [ He'd with wrath and vengeance, but we joy c lsly contemplate instead our own deity keep u E watch and ward before the open gates of D merlca, and greater than all that have been q 'lebrated in ancient song. Instead of grasp V E Tn her hand thunderbolts of terror and of cath, she holds aloft the light which illumines le way to mans enfranchisement.
 We will not forget that liberty has here ade her home; nor shall her chosen altar be \ eglected Willing votaries will constantly 'ep alive its fires, and these shall gleam upon le shores of our sister republic in the East. effected thence and joined with answering :, ys, stream of light shall pierce the dark I ess of ignorance and mans oppression, until | berty enlightens the world. A number of the French guests spoke, and t' len Chauncey Depew delivered the commen- p 'atlve oration, and the services closed amid a " m of cannon and whistles and cheers the e ie of which was never heard before.
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