Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-15
THE BASTILE.
Its Fall Celebrated at the Pavilion
Last Evening.

Last Evening.
La Belle France filled Mayor Hazards
pavilion with youth, beauty, gallantry
and talent last evening to celebrate La
Fete Rationale, the 14th of July. The
great room was decorated with an i'm
mense amount of tri-colored bunting,
dotted here and there with American
flags.
President lie Mesnager made the open
ing address in such patriotic vein as to
draw forth almost continual applause.
He was followed by Madame Marchetti,
who sang difficult cavatina from Ver-
dis Attila. Her wonderful voice thor
oughly aroused the enthusiastic Gallo
natures which it affected, and she was
forced to respond to recall after recall.
President Mesnager then introduced
Colonel W. T. Williams. The colonel
was bubbling over with eloquence and
love for France, and he let both flow in
unmeasured quantities. He forcibly
presented the ties that bind both ma
tions fraternally, and in paying high
tribute to France and Frenchmen, kept
before his audience the grand qualities
OF America and the Americans. He
closed with a peroration of patriotic
praise which brought forth a storm of
applause, and which was repeated when
fair young girl, bewilderingly decor
ated in the tri-color, came forward and
presented to the colonel an enormous
bouquet.
Doctor LIE Baron replied on the part
of his nationality to Colonel Williams's
speech, in an address full of good feeling,
closing with, "Vive la France and vive
les Etats Unis."
Madame. Marchetti sang again, and
was followed by Monsieur Jean Dupuy,
a grizz]ed hero of several campaigns,
who solemnly sang la Marseillaise,
the audience joining in the chorus. At
the beginning of the last verse the three
. colored flag was draped about him, the
audience rose to it's feet, and all joined
in the singing, which gave the affair the
gravity almost of an ecclesiastical func-
tion.
Mayor Hazard was then discovered on
the stage and was forced to the 'front.'
He said: II have been requested to say
something to you, and at first declined
but when commenced to think OF the
part France has played in our history,
in our struggles for liberty, and when l
thought that the American people pro-
pose to recognize their debt by erecting
a monument to Lafayette in Paris,
felt that l ought to say that men
of no nationality are more welcome
under the stars and stripes than French
men, and that that monument should
be built. 1 see the ball room is ready,
and in such cases the best speech is the
shortest Speech" and his honor smiled
himself into the wings and the grand
march began"
The executive committee was COM
posed of Albert Grand, president; V.
Sentous, vice-president; j. Apiou, Sec
retary; F. Clavere, treasurer; j. Fal-
landy, E. Dreyfus, j. L. Sentous, Emile
Faure, Paul Saubrion.
The dance committee consisted of A..
G.. Roques, Tadeo Molle, J. Castera,
Fills, Jules Viole, Juan Hartsorena,
Manuel Ordoqui
The committee of reception was COM
posed of Edmond Roth, E. Fleur, p.
Ganee, George Lacour, j. Amelineau,
Jean Sentous.
Among the notables who occupied
seats on the stage were: Jean Sentous,
Louis Sentous, L. Loeb, French consul !;
Charles Raskin, Belgian consul; J. B.
Lankershim, w. T. Williams, Mayor and
Mrs. Hazard, DR.. Baron, Chas. Castera,
Stanislaus, A. Beaudoin, P. Ganee,
editor of L'Union Nouyelle; j. Deler,
Charles Faure, District Attorney Frank
Kelly, Diaz Prieto, Mexican consul !;
Jules Viole, editor of LIE ProgrSs, Sidney
Lacey, Councilman Theodore Summer
land, II. Clary, and Sefor de Gutierrez.