Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-01

ulelnOrdtlOn OF one great event IN the lie OF
Washington and Of the United States is well;
| but it is nothing compared with the incessant
memorial of him which the schools and col
leges of the country maintain from generation
| to generation. have mentioned sonly the pu-
pills and teachers now in school and college, but
| all the generations for hundred years have
| sounded the praise of this Virginia country
| gentleman, and countless generations to come
| will swell the loud acclaim. What reward is
Washlngtons; what an influence is his and will
| be?
One mind and will transfused by sympathetic
instruction into millions one character a
standard for millions, one life pattern for all
public men teaching what greatness is, and
what the pathway to undying fame.
OUR LITERATURE.
James Russell Lowell spoke to the toast,
''Our Literature" and said: Prosperous we
may be In other ways, contented with more
| specious success, but that nation is a mere
horde supplying figures to the census which
does not acknowledge truer prosperity and a
richer contentment N the things Of the mind.
| The literature of people should be the record
OF It's joys and sorrows, its aspirations and its
| shortcomings Its wisdom and its folly. We
| cannot say our own yet suffices us, but be-
| lleve that he who stands hundred years hence
| where am standing now, conscious that he
! speaks to the most powerful and prosperous
community ever devised or developed by man,
| Will speak of our literature with the assurance
OF one who behods what we hope for become a
| reality and possession forever"
PRESIDENT HARR1soN's SPEECH.
1.-The United States of America" was the toast
| to which President Harrison responded, and
the inspiring sentiment was as follows:
Scepters and thrones the morning realms have tried
Earth for the people kept her sunset side.
Arts manners. Greeds the teeming Orient gave;
Freedom. the gift that freghts the retiuent wave.
Pays with one priceless pearl the guerdon due.
And leaves the old World debtor TO the New.
Long as the watch towers of our crownless Queen
Front the broad oceans that she sits between,
And guard unbroken Union iengt hening chain
Union. our peaceful sovereign, she alone
Can make or keep the Western world our own!
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
As the chief executive arose to speak he ap-
peared tired out and even paler than usual
He stood with his hands on the back OF his
chair and spoke clearly and distinctly. He
said:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIZENS: I
should be unjust to myself, and, what is more
serious, should be unjust to you, if did not
! at this first and last opportunity express to you
the deep sense of obligation and thankfulness
which feel for those many personal and Off
cial courtesies which have been extended to
me since came to take part in this celebra-
ton. Applause
The official representative of the state of New
York, and OF this great city, have attended me
with the most courteous kindness, emitting no
attention that could make my stay among YOU
pleasant and gratifying. From You and at the
hands OF those who have thronged the streets
of the city to-day l have received the most cor
dial expressions of good will.
Do not, however, understand that the loud
acclalms have been in any sense appropriated
as personal tribute to myself. have realized
that there was that on this occasion and in all
these interesting incidents, which have made it
so profoundly Impressive to my mind, which
was above and greater than any living man.
[Applause.l
have realized that that tribute of cordial
interest which you have manifested was rem
dered to that great office, which by the favor of
greater people l now exercise, than to me.
Applause
memorable not only in the history of your own
city, but in the history of our country.
New York did not succeed in retaining the
seat of the national government here. though
she made liberal provisions for the assembling
OF the first Congress, in the expectation that
the Congress might find it permanent here.
But though you lost that which you coveted,
L think the representatives here of all the
states will agree that it was fortunate that the
first inauguration of Washington took place In
the state and in the city of New York for where
in our country could the centennial of the
event have been worthily celebrated as here?
What seaboGrd offered SO magnificent bay, on
which to display our merchant and naval ma
rlne.
What city offered thoroughfares SO magnifi-
cent or people SO great or generous as New
York has poured out to-day to. celebrate that
event? have receive d at the hands of the COM
nittee who have been charged with the details
onerous, exacting, and too often unthankful of
this demonstration, evidence of their conf
dence in my physical endurance. Laughter. |
l must also acknowledge still one other obli-
CATION. The committee having in charge the
exercises of this event have also given me
another evidence of their confidence which
has been accompanied with some embarrass-
ment.
As have noticed the progress of this ban
quet, 1t seemed to me that each of these speak
ers had been acquainted with his theme before
he took his seat at the banquet, and that
alone was left to make acquaintance with my
theme when sat down at the table.
L preferred to substitute for the official title,
which is upon the program, that familiar and
treside expression, ''Our Country" l con-
graduate You to-day one of the instructive and
interesting features of this occasion that these
great thoroughfares, dedicated to trade, have
closed their doors and covered up the insignias
OF commerce; that your great exchanges have
| closed and your citizens given themselves up
to the observance of the celebration in which
| we are participating. believe that patriotism
has been In enshrined in many hearts by what
We have witnessed to-day.
L believe that patriotism has been placed into
a higher and holler fame In many hearts.
The bunting with which you have covered
your walls, these patriotic inscriptions must go
down, and the wage and trade be resumed
| again. Here, may not ask you to carry those
| inscriptions that now hang on the walls into
| your homes into the schools of your city, into
| all your great institutions where children are
! gathered, and teach them that the eve of the
young and old should look upon that flag as one
of the familiar glories of every American?
| OTHER CELEBRATIONS.
Centennial celebrations were also held yester-
day in Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities
and towns in Pennsylvania; Baltimore and the
various counties in Maryland; Norfolk Staun-
| ton. Lexington, and Harrisonburg, Va Boston,
| st. Louis, Savannah, San Francisco, Birming-
ham, Ala, and other cities throughout the
country, and also in the American Presbyterian
| church in Montreal, Canada.
| CELEBRATIONS IN PARIS AND ROME.
The Washington centenary was celebrated in
all the American churches in Paris, the chief
exercises being held in the American church
in the Rue de Bevri, where Minister McLane
delivered an extempore address at the foot oil
the pulpit.
! A celebration was had also at the American
| college in Rome, where a banquet was held, al
which Mgr. Macquard made an eloquent speech
! on the superiority OF the American nation and
| its Institutions.
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