The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-19
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peciallv outdid themselves. The former
CITY celebrated by a ball, public dinners
in the historic Faneuil hall and elsewhere,
and other attractions. Masonic iesu
val at the Federal street theatre lncluGeo
an Inappropriate ballet;' and at the Co
lumbar museum was 10 be seen me-
size figure of our first president IN the
temple of fame with the goddess OF lib
erty descending to place chapiet upon
his brow. Around him beautiful female
figures personlfied liberty, justice, peace
and plenty.
In New York equal or greater powers OF
invention were displayed in less perma-
nent form: for there beside the u uaI
features, a banquet was served at the
Tontine tavern on Broadway, for which
the center piece was a temple suggested
by sixteen columns (the number OF the
states) with a bust OF Washington IN the
center Flora crowned the Dust with a
wreath bearing the words: Who is
more worthy OF it than he?' while Fame,
holding a trum pet in one hand, with the
other extended the answering wreath OF
laurel: Gle lives and will be immortal.
With the death of Washington, there
ceased the more elaborate and general tes-
tivities, although the day has always fur
nisned favorite opportunity for public
and patriotic observance.
Immediately upon the announcement
w
passed O. resolution advising that the COM
inc birthday of 1900 be everywhere the
occasion of memorial gatherings and that
suitable sermons should be preached.
For many years press and pulpit alike
were wont to mark the day. A specimen
of the elegiac verse of that time IS taken
from long noem in the Washington
Federalist for 1902:
sSiowly TO strike the solemn s1und
Drop the pearls OF sorrow round;
Let the stabs of woe be felt,
Let the heart of iron melt;
Maidens, pour the plaintive verse,
Soldiers now your arms reverse:
Patriots, mourn the patriot dead,
Sigh the globe for virtues fed
CENTENARY BIRTHDAY.
On the centenary OF Washington s
birthday in 1882, Congress proposed TO re-
move his body to the crypt prepared Tor
it under the dome of the capitol, but
John A. Washington, then the owner OF
Mount Vernon, refused to allow 1t to be
done, and the government was obliged to
content itself with the purchase OF the
portraits by Peale and Van6erlyn, and
the commission for the well-knoWn
statue of Greenough. intended for the
rotunda. This was also the occasion for
the fortunate selection of the design Tor
the Washington monument. Divine SER
vice was held in the capitol, there was a
dinner at the famous Browns hotel
where Daniel Webster spoke for an hour,
ball .'for the gentry" a5 Carusi's
saloon, and ''another for mechanics and
tradesmen'' at the Masonic temple.
NOT A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.
Notwithstanding all the attention paid
the 22nd of February, it is not the holt
day OF the nation, but the festival of the
states
In 1s45, urged on by Mrs. Harrison
GRAY Otis, Massachusetts, led the way in
making it legal holiday throughout her
borders by legislative enactment, and
since that time all the states of the Union
except six have followed this example
the District of Columbia being included
by Congress as late as 1880. With an OBJ
yious propriety this day is marked al
over the world by our legations, ant
often by foreign governments. Thus il
1882 the United States OF Colombia tool
notice of the 1O5th anniversary of Wash
ington's birth in words which may fiji,
close this account of the spontaneou
honors paid our great hero. After testi
fying to its ssreVerent respect and pro
found admiration" the resolution
RECOMMENDS to Colombians the singula
example of eminent virtues which char
, acterizes in history the prominent figur
, of the founder of the first OF the repub
lies of the new continent.
! ANNA L. DAWES.