The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-26
THEY LEFT US 1903 YEARS AGO
PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES CELEBRATE
EVACUATION DAY.

Sons OF the Revelation Tut UP q Tablet to
the Memory OF Marinus wiIlctt-The Ola
Guard Turns Out on IT'S Annual Parade.
Tho New York Sons OF the Revolution colo
brated Evacuation Day. as has been their GUS
tom since 1893, by dinner at Delmonico's.
AT lcast $50 of the 1866 members OF tho so.
ciety were present and there were. in addi-
ton. representatives VI the sister socie-
ties In Massachusetts,. Pennsylvania. Mary
land. and the District OF Columbia.
Frederick s. Tallmalge. President OF
tho society. read the thirteen toasts
which were drunk at tho dinner given
In celebration OF the evacuation in Fraunces
tavern on the day OF its occurrence. 100 years
ago. Speeches were made 10y Gen. Floyd
GARRISON. Gen. Daniel Butterfeld. Charles W.
Darling OF Utica. and others. Among those
present were J. Blocker Miller. W. f. D.
Stokes. James NJ. Montgomery. Arthur NJ.
Hatch. Admiral Walker. Robert +. Bloodgood.
Albert Delahed. Charles 1sham Smith Ely.
Andrew s. lIamcrsley. Jr.. Asa Bird Gardiner.
the Rev. Brockholst Morgan. William CASTOR
Hamilton. and Henry W. LIE Roy.
Tho rooms of the Society OF the Daughters
Of the Revolution in the Mott Memorial Hall.
GA Madison avenue. were filled at 3 y clock in
the afternoon. when the meeting was opened
with short prayer by Dr. George X. Nande-
water Ch"rss VI DAYTON responnned to ne
tuition and bylaws were then read and
aaG nsa address, 4 ,Scs tor hs wsS
Gen: Charles ". Darling Of Utica was the
last and hs Tas th
Mrs. Edward Steers. Among others present
s soss Mrs Mr. e. Mssen' e the oc9
s.tis n'yfas E Sf~
Mrs 4. Bennett of Bny Ridge. Mrs. Leroy y.
smith. Mrs i. !. Robinson. Miss 4; NJ Heber-
%,s r. 6vst rs r sayr Ms =; FAR
United States Navy. representing the Penn;
Miss Nevins OF Washington, Patriotic songs
completed the exercises. resolution was
Sas .oes1 "E in The Yo4e t MESSING OH ss
first Monday In January.
The Sons OF tho Revolution erected bronze
tablet ut the northwest corner OF Broad and
conduct II Narinus Wiliett. who was an oiiieer
sIty: On the SPOT whcrs the tablet Is erectsi
Willett seized a lot OF musk from the British
rsc T.sn sse araps
long, 4 portrait 81 Millett in has relief: at the
top Of the Tablet is framed in circle formed
other affairs in which 10 was engaged; below
seizure Of The british guns. Under this is the
inscription and seal OF tho society.
t ocars NJ tbs Militia
wall Of III. Morris building. The Old Guard
graphs OF the tablet were distributed to guests.
Other tablets. concentrating the hight be-
the the o. #
at the foot OF laiEht street the reading 9f the
ReGIIra,iop n OF lndependssn ns in the eld osy
wrote his letter to Arnold; Fraunee's Tavern.
where Washington babe farewell to his OIL
GERS. and tho battle OF Harlem Heights will be
y, County and dignined the Old Guard. with vt
rlpysd the and Tscn
battery Of the Second %rtilery Of Fort Ham.
n Dr. rsa sa's shsp the
delivered an informal address. At the CON
f! oSnsman me i frazer wit With ~. poicemen
marched M State, street to stone street. to
kroaL street. north 70 Nassau and through
Price. Parker: and Sloane. with four o. \. pieces
Mayor Grant. With President Arnold Of the
Doard of Aldermen on his right and Alder:
ty Hail. hf e Gid Guard ses
PARK row. wheeled into the Park; marched
westto Broadway. s9untermarehed; wheeled
ton. They went by the elevated to Fifty
ninth street. thence marched down Firth ave;
nue. to their Grmory ut Fourteenth street. and
broke ranks to daily with Major MacLean's
punch.
The Anderson Zouaves and the veterans Of
tho Sxty-sec"nd Regiment marched down to
the Battery he fore sunrise and formed around
sun came over tho horizon Christophe: II.
Forbes srent gran6sonof Sergeant John Van
the Americ nag and ran it up to the top Of
the pole. Capt. John r. Norman Of the Wash
iuEton Continental Guards raised the Stars
Park at sunrise. some Of the Old Guard nd
the Veteran Louavcs OF the Farragut Assooia-
tion OF the Naval Veterans assisted in the GER
emonies.