The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-23
The One Hundred and SiXty-secOnd
Anniversary Of His Birth.
THE SERVICES AT THE DRILL SHED.
Speeches bS c. l.. Carter, w. q. Smith
aud NJ. NJ. Scotia Large Crowd
Present in- Spite of the Heavy Rain
Storm.

The drill shed was crowded yes
terday afternoon, in spite of the
wet weather. Ample seating ac-
commodations had been arranged,
ard almost every seat in the build
ing was occupied.
The speakers platform was beau
tifully decorated with flags of Amer
lea and Hawaii, and also with ferns
and palms. A large portrait of
Washington graced the back of the
stage. Draped across the front of
the stand were two flags represent
ing the old ensign of Washington's
time, with thirteen stars. The
walls of the building were also
hung with large flags.
On the speakers platform were
DR.. J. S. McGrew, the president of
the day, the Rev. S. E. Bishop,
Prof. M. M. Scott, w. G. Smith and
G. L. Carter.
The following was the programme
of the meeting:
l. Overture. ...... Hawaiian Band
9. America. ..... Hawaiian Band
3. Prayer. Rev. S. e. Bishop
4. March ................. Hawaiian Band
5. Address. ........C. l.. Carter
Washington as a Soldier.
6. Popular Airs...... Hawaiian Band
Z. Address,. $1,000. Walter @. Smith
Washington as q Statesman.
s. Music...... ...... ...... Hawaiian Band
8. AddreSS..... --.....-...... M. NJ. Scott
Washington as Patriot.
10. Chorus...... ........ Hawaiian Band
"The Star Spangled Banner"
After the band had played the
opening selections, the meeting was
opened with a prayer by the Rev.
S. E. Bishop. The band then
played again, and G. L. Carter was
introduced. He spoke Oh Wash.
ington as soldier" as follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, Mr.. PRESIDENT,
Mr.. MINISTER, AND LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN:-Mili genius is al
ways inspiring. 1t seems to call forth
a responsive glow of enthusiasm from
every human breast. There is no man
too practical or Indifferent to shout
for soldier; no nation so devoted to
peaceful pursuits that it cannot pause
to glorify it's military heroes. From
the days of Attila and his Huns, who
scourged ancient Europe, and on
whose path it was said grass never
grew again, and Alexander, who
wept for more worlds to conquer, down
to Gordon on the SOudan and Ben
ham at Rio de Janeiro, this has been
a glorious phase of human nature.
No matter how much we may approve
the theory of universal peace, and the
idea of beating swords and spears into
plowshares and pruning hooks, man.
kind will always glory in feats of
arms and glorify its soldiers. Partic-
ularly is this true of the people of the
United States, more pointed because
of the striking contrast between those
matters which ordinarily interest
them and the art of war. The ages
will applaud the splendid heroism
with which the Pilgrim fathers laid
aside their pursuits of peace and drove
old England's mercenaries from their
shores; and again, the enthusiasm
WITH WulCu every pdlI1OI SiIuSu Oh
the armor of right in the Civil War
and pledged his life for the extinction
of slavery.
1t was as a soldier that George
Washington achieved immortal fame.
No man ever took up arms in a more
righteous cause than he did, and no
man ever took up arms against greater
odds. 1t will be of value and in
terest to observe the features of
early experience which equipped him
for the command of the Colonial
army. The early struggles in the
rigid discipline of pioneer life; the
home training in truth and honor
the games with his comrades whom
he trained into squads of boy soldiers
the surveying excursions through the
forests and his adventures in the In
dian wars, when he alone saved Brad
docks defeat from becoming a mas
sacre. All moulded the boy into the
cool, determined man of irOn-frame
and vigor, fitted to lead a ragged army
of raw, unframed, Independent pc
triots to victory over the resuscitated
squadrons under BurgOyne, Clinton
and CORVALLIS. "He was TO the Con-
federacy all in all. Without him it
would have been ten times lost. His
tory has hardly a stronger case of an
Indispensable man. 1t Is hardly pos
sible to find among the greatest cap
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