Evening journal., 1892-09-30
DELAWARE PATRIOTISM.
Enthusiasm, Oratory and Music
at the Opera House.
AN AMERICAN FLAG PRESENTED.

can mecnAnicNf AhfohEh senator Afays
Gives TO the Custody OF the Worlds
Fair Commissioners the star spangled
Banner for the Delaware Building at
Chicago.
A large and patriotic audience wit
messed the presentation of flag at the
Grand Opera House yesterday afternoon
by Eureka Council, No. /. Jr. o. U. A. NJ,
TO the Delaware commissioners of the
Worlds Fair. Before the exercises com
menced. Eureka Council and delegations
from Philadelphia Chester, COatesville
and Middletown, with Hyatt's Military
band and the Coatesville Star band parti-
cipated in n short street parade. The
school children were invited to attend
the exercises but only the girls were ad-
mitted and they composed about two
tn rds Of the audience, while IL required
a special committee on order to preserve
silence during the afternoon. Mayor
Wiley, who presided, opened the exer-
cises. Prayer was offered by Rev J. ID.
c. Hanna at the conclusion Of which the
choir sang America, the audience join
ing. Hyatts Military band, of twenty
five pieces, then played the selection from
Wang"
Mayor Wiley Saw the Building.
Mayor Wiley made brief address in
introducing Senator Gray. He said that
only few weeks ago he had stood upon
the grounds of the great Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago and
looked about him at the great buildings
being erected there. He had seen the
handsome Delaware building a stand o
ing credit to the little Diamond State
which had erected It. The Delaware
building stood at the head of the column
of structures representing the great
states of the Union and he had admired
il and had been filled with admiration
for the sight that presented itself all
over the exhibition grounds. And now
he felt doubly. honored at being called
upon 10 preside over a meeting at which
the star spangled banner was to be pre-
sented as an adornmsnt for those expo
sition grounds on the far-off shores of
Lake Michigan, and to float over the
handsome Delaware building there
Senator Gray's EIOquence.
United States Senator George Gray
made the speech Of presentation to the
Delaware commissioners and he was
greeted with hearty applause. The
senator said that it was refreshing, in
the midst of political canvass in which
there was more or less excitement and
bad feeling between the members of the
two great parties TO come together, not
as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as
Americans representing glorious repub
lie that stands as the leader among all
other nations. Loud applause. The
flag is the ensign of our cOuntrys power
and prowess on land and sea. II stands
for American institutions. 1t stands
for that movement which first established
a country Of the people, for the people
and by the people. It stands for indiyid.
ual liberty. II means that in this coun
try there can be no privileged classes. II
means special privileges for none. II
differs from the flags Of all the Other
countries. Other flags stand for warlik,
nations with a government outside Of tn,
people no matter how dearly these en-
signs may be cherished as a symbol o.
the fatherland The American flag mean,
that liberty is the birthright of ever,
American boy and girl
He felt highly honored that this or
ganization, the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics had selected him Z,
stand before an audience of America anC
present ON behalf of that order, the stars
and stripes of the nation TO float over
Delaware home at the Worlds Colum
bian Exposition. II was an act of grea
! thoughtfulness and patriotism on the
part OF the order to see that Delaware
held aloft the banner Of the Republic
In presenting the flag TO the represen
, tative of the Worlds Fair commission
for Delaware, IL seemed especially fttinl
that Delaware, the first state TO adop
the Constitution of the Union, shoul,
, have such a flag, and Delaware will b,
/ the last to forsake it. Every star on tn
/ flag stands for self-governed state
, The stripes represent the old thirteei
/ states that made liberty for us. II is
D symbol of a great and noble country.
Senator Gray concluded by saying:
TO the gentleman who is to receiv,
{ this flag from me it may be said that thi
order asks you to take it to that far-oi
? city where IL may float as an emblem q
liberty and as an emblem of this order
5 devotion TO its country"
Mr.. Conrad Tells About the Fair.
Henry c. Conrad, Esq. who wa
warmly greeted by the school childreI
? made the speech of acceptance and hi
interesting remarks were intentl
listened TO by the vast assemblage {
; children. On behalf of the commission
ers, Mr. Conrad said, it gave him pleasur
, to receive the flag II is most appropriai
that the flag should come from an ord,
+ representing American principles Comm
T from such an order the flag will represer
P all those American ideas. This flag hs
been the national emblem for a hundre
years The number of stars has increase
in that time from thirteen representa-
a the little cluster of colonies thi
t gave us our liberty to forty fou
e The nation has grown to $4,000
II 600 people and the proudest thing the
s can say is II am an American. II Applause
Il Mr.. Conrad told of oil the worlds e.
d positions that have besn held, beginnin
e with the Crystal Palace Fair in LondC
10 and ending with the Philadelphia Ce
3 tennial, commemorating the one hui
d dreth anniversary Of American Indepei
1t dence lApplause He said that, a
a though the Crystal Palace was, at tia
time considered a magnificent structur
yet it was hardly as large as the smalle
building on the 1O3 acres of world