The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-31
numerou other Montanians were noticed

| 1UO IOllOWAlH dko tu0 udMeS VI tAo NAOSN<s
temple delegation who we're present at the
banquet:
New York City-George W. Millat, Mrs.
j. Shnndley, Miss Shandley, j. b. Eakins,
Il. NJ. Cooke, G. H. Davis. Joseph Clark.
Mrs John Clark, Miss Anna Clark. Dr. J.
Bryant, Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Dressler.
Mrs. g. G. Durant, Miss Bessie Durant,
Mrs. n. baylor, Mrs Emma Norton.
Brooklyn. New York-Mr. and Mrs. P. II.
Bresnan, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Smith.
W. E. Potter, James McGce, w. Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Peck.
George West. Ballston Springs, N. Y; j.
=. Dawes, Buffalo, N. Y; 4. N. Taegart.
Pouehkeepsie, n. y; Mr.. and Mrs: George
w. Robinson, DR.. and Mrs. T. X. Perry,
Albany, N. Y: DR.. E. D. Belnis. J..
s Munday, Newark, n: j.; Mr.; and
Mr.. and Mrs: A. H. Weaver, Mrs: N. W.
Prince, Mrs. Cyril Johnson, Stafford, Conn;
G. A. Grannis, Thad Beecher, w. Frisbee,
Oakland Smith, Bridgeport, Conn; Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Higgs, Miss Easton, A. T.
Kicker. DR.. J. +. Axtelle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar F. Durham and A. Dumont. Hart
ford: Conn; Mr.: and Mrs. John n: Smith,
| A. w. Allen, Z. n. Smith and j. Il. Allen,
ThompsonvIlle, Conn; II. w. Crawford,
David r. Alling, Elwood II. Smith, $. NJ.
Munson and Charles F. Root, New Haven,
Conn; g. g. Durant. Bethel, Conn; Mr..
and Mrs. +. d. Keller, Norwallk, Conn.,; Ed
Mum. Tolyoke. Mass; Or. and Mrs. A. b.
Lyman. Baltimore. Md: Delos M. johnson.
Ere, Pa: John II. Whitbeck. Chicago, ILL.,;
w. A.. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wis; MIR. and
Mrs. John W. Holland, Miss Annie Clark
and Miss L. G. hlorehead, Lakeville. N. c.;
II. L: Turner. Norfolk. Va: Mrs. X. bod
son, Miss K. Dodspn and Miss Mary Dod-
son, Richmond, Va.
by a neat arrangement every guest was
quietly assigned seat at the table accord
ing to the plan arranged by Mr.. Langley.
Caterer Meilen's efficient corps OF attend
ants attened to their duties like trained
artists, and there was little delay in dis
GUESSING the many dainty edibles with spark
ling champagne, and at time when the
party was feeling in the best of spirits that
lmnhtable toast-master, A. G. Logan, called
the assemblage to order and proposed the
toast, 'Montana's Welcome" to which
Gov. Joseph X. Toole responded happily as
follows:
Il regard it as a special privilege to have
been invited on this occasion to respond to
the toast of Welcome There are others
more intimately acquainted with the object
of your pilgrimage and more closely con-
nected with your order who might have had
this duty more appropriately assigned to
them, but to none could it have afforded
more pleasure. Our young state. so lately
joined to the union, gives You cordial
greeting and hearty welcome. We ask
YOU W lay uSldo ttll Uu0
and negative civilties of the stranger and
during your stay t. make yourself at home
in the broadcast sense of the term. Our
matchless mountain country comprises an
area OF 100000 square miles. I will not an
ticipate for you what an extended visit and
close observation will reveal. Your
own Washington Irving, a close observer
and one of the best OF men,
following the bent OF ar adventurous spir-
it, spent much of his time in travel abroad.
Upon his return to this country he declared
that nothing he had seen equalled America,
and burst ntoa graphic description Of her
mighty lakes. like oceans of liquid silver;
her mountains with their bright aerial
tints; her valleys. teeminR with wild fer
tility; her tremendous cataracts, thunder
ing in their solitudes; her boundless plains,
waving with spontaneous verdure: her
broad, deep rivers. rolling in solemn silence
to the sea: her trackless forests where veg
citation puts forth all its magnifcence; her
skies, kindling with the magic of summer
clouds and glorious sunshine.
There is no authentic record extant that
Irving stood upon our Mount Helena, where
all these visions of beauty broke upon him.
He may have been upon the highlands Of
will not venture, however, at this
late day to decide a question 80 shrouded
in doubt and sustained by authorities on
both sides, but this much will say, such q
country is within the range of vision to-
day and with rrodigal liberallty, which
sometimes chRracterizes public official in
giving away that which does not belong to
him, place it all in your keeping and at
your disposal during your sOjourn.
l will not delay your exercises.
believe in the banquet and all other So
cial advertisements where people can "meet
nor that superciliousness which sometimes
passes for dignity would suffer if. more
frequently, we would do as adversaries
do. at law. strive nightly, but eat and
drink as friends"
In this spirit join YOU most heartily,
extend again the welcome of our people and
indulge the hope that your visit may prove
the forerunner of other and more extended
pilgrimaGes to the gem of the mountain
| states"
The governor was loudly applauded and
during the interim that followed, mysteri-
Gus looking envelopes with the instructions
printed on each, mot to be opened until re-
quested," were passed around to all the la
dies. The suspense to the fair sex was sim
ply awful. and their curiosity to know what
they contained can be imagined Toast
master Logan soon relieved their curiosity,
however. having noticed that the ladies
We're uneasy. He said he noticed some OF
them had torn Il small corner of to peep in
while others held them up to the light and
duty of giving the signal for opening thu
envelopes. Mr.. Thompson wanted the
visitors to go away with pleasant memorie!
of their sojOurn in Montana and ne realizet
that the ladies would appreciate I
small souvenir and in behalf Of Algeri,
Temple he would present them with
souvenir made from native silver. Tn
signal given, the ladies eagerly opened tn
envelopes and the souvenir proved to be
silver crescent with star pendant besrin
the inscription .Mecca-Algeria 80" The
are very pretty and are designed for use
throat clasps. They we're made by 9. stein
metz of the Steinmetz Jewelry company
The ladies were of course very aRreeabt
surprised and glad to get such an approprl
ate souvenir.
Mr.. Logan then introduced Potential
Nolan in style that took that youn
mar completely by surprise and cause
him to blush. ''rhe best things come last,
said Mr.. Logan, land We have now here
young man, unmarried, with grand pros
poets for the future and he will bid Algeria
welcome to Mecca Temple" Potential
Nolan declined the invitation to stand on
chair where The girls could get look
:, him. After he recovered from the shock {
, Logan's sally, the Patrick Henry of MOI
= tana proceeded He spoke very feeling
and said words and language fail to expires
>. the pleasure it accorded the mobiles {
Algeria temple to be in position to entel
tain their brethren of Mecca ten
pie. 1t was Mecca that fri
,, founded in this country til
nobility of the Mystic Shrin
y, and this visit was like q visit from parel