The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-06-11

Of America as one of the nations of the
earth. Previous to dining and Immediately
after our return from the House of Lords
COpley invited us into his studio, and then
and there, with q bold hand and master
touch and American beart-ihe painter was
Mr.. John Singleton Copley, of Boston
attached to the ship the Stars and Stripes.
Thus, while the words of acknowledgment
were still warm from the kings lips, the late
rebel, but henceforth free colors, were dis
played in his own kingdom and within a
few rods of his own palace"
FIRST APPEARANCE IN CHINA.
The first vessel TO carry the Stars and
Stripes into the Chinese Sea was the ship
Empress, Capt Green. She sailed from New
York on the 22d of February, 17S4-Wash-
ington's birthday. "When the 13 stripes
and Stars first appeared at Canton it is said
that much curiosity was excited among the
people," says Preble. News was ciculated
that strange ship had arrived from the
further end of the world bearing flag as
beautiful as flower. Everybody went TO
see the kow-kee-cheun, or flower flag ship
This name at once established itsel f in the lam
guagc, and America is now called Kow-kee-
k0b, the flower flag country, and an Ameri-
men, Foreign names. however
unmeaning originally, when written in
Chinese acquire significance which is often
strikingly curious. Thus two Chinese char
ters, Yong-kee (Yankee), signify the flag
of the ocean, and Washington, or Wo-
shung-tung, as it would be written, signifies
rescue and glory at last"
FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
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ship Franklin, of Salem, Capt. James Dew
ereaux. He reached Japan July 10, 1899.
His log book is in The Essex Institute at
Salem.
The Stars and Stripes circumnavigated the
globe the first time in 17s9-90 on the ship
Columbia, Capt. Gray. The Columbia River
was so named for this globe-trotting ship
1t had many curious encounters, and q
them.
The Washington, Of Nantucket, Capt
George Banker, displayed the Stars and
Stripes in Spanish port the first time on
July 4, 1892, in the harbor at Cailao in Peru.
On Aug. ID, 1874, when Mr.. Monroe, as
United States Minister TO France, presented
his credentials he was received with the
"fraternal kiss" by the citizen President
and loud acclamstiOns by the audience. 1t
was decreed at this meeting that the colors
Of the French aud American Republics
should be hung at the vault of the hall as
a sign Of perpetual alliance and union" Mr..
Monroe TO do honor to this fraternal feeling
had q stand of American coiors carefully
arranged, which he presented to France in
the name of the new Republic. The cOlors,
the first ever presented to foreign nation
by the United States, were received with
the highest hOnors.
The Constitution Old Ironsides, )" lanched
on Oct. 81, 1897, was the first of the new
navy to float the flag with Is stripes and 15
stars, and she carried it to Tripoli and
planted the flag over Fortress Derne in 1905,
the first time the Stars and Stripes ever
waved above an Old World fortress.
The ship Ann, of Boston, Capt. Daniel
Sawyer, carried the first American flag into
Smyrna in 1897.
In 1887 small schooner, the name of
which has been forgotten, was lanched on
Lake Erie, the first vessel to invade the great
lake chain under the American flag.
In 1900 the George Washington, Capt