Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-27
To BattIeship Maine Formally
Presented at Portland.
Presentation Speech by His Excel
IencN Governor CIeaves.
The Reception and Banqu.t-Many Distin.
guished Guests Present.

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desired. This interfered considerably witt
the programme laid out for the forenoon
in connection with the battleship Maine, al
anchor in the lower harbor.
| At 10 o clock, a few members of the city
government went down to the big wal
vessel and were courteously entertained by
| Capt, Crowninshield and his officers, but
| the fog dampened the spirits as well as the
| coats of the party.
The party included Governor Cleaves
and staff, Mayor Baxter, members of the
city government and few city officials
They were received with honor and every
courtesy was shown them in the inspection
| of the ship.
The lunch given by Governor Cleaves al
the Falmouth to the officers of the Maine,
the national ard State judiciary and
members of the city government was an
| informal affair, and like most of informal
functions, was also most delightful one.
1t was q most fitting return for the
oourteses received on board the battleshir
but an hour before.
Colonel Prescott of the Governors staff,
met the guests from the Maine at the dock,
a few minutes before l o'clock and they
were driven to the Falmouth, where they
were received by the Governor and his
staff III the parlor.
The Governor, standing at the extreme
northern end of the parlor, with Captain
Crowninshield and Mayor Baxter on either
side, then received the other guests.
Shortly after l O. clock, the doors leading
to the small dining room were opened and
lunch was served, consisting of salads of
all kinds with the usual accomplishments,
ices, coffee and Apollinaris.
AT the head of the table was the Cover
nor, ard on either side the officers Of the
Maine, the staff, city officials and other in
vitcd guests. The following officers of the
Maine were present:
Captain A. S. Crowninshield, Lieut. G.
F. W. Holman, Ensign f. W. Jenkins,
Ensign H. H. Ward, Naval Cadet W. r..
Gherardi, Naval Cadet A. J. Wadhams,
Naval Cadet o. S. Knepper. Surgeon J.
S. Nelson, Passed Assistant Surgeon V
C. B. Means, Paymaster Il. N. White
house, Passed Assistant Engineer +. c.
Bowers, Assistant Engineer NJ. f. Trench
Naval Cadet Newton Mansfield, Chaplain
J. p. Chadwick, First Lieutenant g. g.
Long, U. S. NJ. c.
From Fort Preble there were: Captain
Rogers, Surgeon Harris and Lieutenants
Gayle and Clifford.
The Governor S staff was represented by
Col. Choate, Col. Lombard, Col. Whit
marsh, Col. Stetson. Col. Prescott and
Major Rollins. Colonies Kendall, Phil
brook and Harrington were present to
represent the State militia.
Among the other guests present were
Judge William l.. Putnam, Judge Nathan
Webb, Judge Thomas W. Haskell, Judge
Sewall c. Strout, Judge Percival Bonney,
Collector John W. Deering, Hon. W. W.
Thomas. Mayor James 2. Baxter Captain
Leary, Ex-Governor Frederick Robbie, Gen.
George l. Beal, Insurance Commissioner
Carr, Councillors Shepherd, Freeman,
Daggett, Marshall Clason and Holman,
Aldermen Randall. Dam and Little,
Councilmen Nckerson and Payson, City
Treasurer Libby, City Assessor Fox, Hon.
Arthur Sewall of Bath Payson Tucker,
General Charles p. Mattocks, Hon. Charles
+. Libby, George S. Rowell. NJ. n. Rich.
Col. Fred n. Dow, Hon. Fred f. Richards,
G, orge b. Bagley, f. B. Winslow, W. G..
Chapman, Major W. H. Green and Coun-
Gilman Snow.
The lunch was over at 2 O'Clock. The
next hour was spent in social intercourse
between hosts and guests, and the entire
party proceeded to City hall to attend the
public exercises of presentation.
Eat 3 o. clock, this afternoon, the pre-.
sentation of the christening gift took place
at City hall. A large number were pre-
b,+ ha huI xynuId bor
crowded If the day had been pleasant.
The American Cadet Band gave a concert
preceding the exercises.
When Governor Cleaves and his staff,
Mayor Baxter, Capt. Crowninsheid and
his officers, accompanied by the officer of
the LIST Regiment. came upon the plat
form, they were greeted with long con-
tinued applause
Mayor Baxter called the assemblage to
order and spoke as follows:
Commander Crowninshield and Off,
GERS OF the Battleship Maine;
"In behalf Of Portland, extend to you
hearty welcome to our city. We are
proud of our navy and Of its past achieve
ments, in which, perhaps, we have more
lively interest than people living remote
from the sea. We can but realize more
fully than they the importance to this
country of an efficient navy. One of the
earliest experiences of our people was the
destruction of their homes by foreign
ships when they had no navy for their
defence. Later it was from this port that
the enterprise sailed, under the command
OF the gallant Burrowes, to meet the
British brig Boxer in battle, waited to
success by the prayers of our citizens. And
it was here that the captured brig was
brought, with the dead commanders of
both vessels, after that ever memorable
fight. Why the scenes of that day are a.
vivid to US as they were to our ancestors
who witnessed them.
And was not Preble too one of our
own citizenss Preble whose splendid
achievements gave lustre to our navy
never to be dimmed!
Nor should forget that on the coast
OF Maine was fought the first naval battle
of the Revolution which renders the name
of Maine SO appropriate in its application
to this last addition to our navy.
There is reason then that we of Port
land and Maine should take peculiar il