The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-20
Horace Davis and ]. R. Robinson,
Sen of Revolutionary Sol.
der, Made Addresses.
The Ladies' of Sequoia Chapter &c e..
brate With an Elaborate
Banquet.

The Sons of the American Revolution
last night celebrated the anniversary of
the battle OF Lexington IN a manner so
enthusiastic as to put the younger genera
ton to the blush.
The society held brief business session
and vote TO present United States flag
to the children OF the Ladies' Relief and
Protection Society. The society voted
also TO pa rade on Memorial day, May 80,
as the guests of George II. Thomas Post,
6. A. r.
John R. Robinson, General S. W. Backus
and Isaac Upham were ap p ointed COM
mittee to act with the committee APP
pointed by the Board of Supervisors to
make arr aneements for the celebration of
the coming Fourth of July.
Horace DAVIS made un address in honor
OF the occasion. Tersely and graph .cally
he described the raid of General Gage and
lis repulse By the loyal colonists, includ-
ing the brave and patriotic volunteers
from historic Lexington.
The paper OF the evening was by Colonel
A. ID. Cutler. 1t was read by joan r,
Robinson, and very appropriate was the
selection OF the reader, for Mr. Robinson
Is son OF a Revolutionary soldier and is
81 years and months old. His reading
was marked by force and expression and
bS was frequently interrupted WIN ap"
plause
Speaking of the Puritans Colonel Cutler
said in his paper:
The same spirit of intolerance and obstinacy
that is now common to New England people
DISTINGUISHED them then, and was doubtless
the foundation of much of their trouble. They
inherited 1t, however, from the mother coun-
try. Ii George III had granted them the free
Use OF tea and revenue stamps we m ight be
now peaceful bjects of Mrs. Guelph, wearing
our trousers turned up at all times without
criticism, and marrying our daughters TO
princelings and dukelets with impunity. As
1t was the King allowed the free dlstila ion of
rum, to which may be Attn buted much of our
Puritan success with the aborieine. While it
may be agreed with John Elliott, 30 that you
had converted some before you had slain
any," it is nevertheless true that most of the
grim old Puritans had more liking Tor an In
dian dead than alive and converted. Anyhow
the psalrnbook, rum bottle and gun went
along together trinity of forces that ulti-
mately settled both the Indians and New Eng
land
Of the glory of modern Lexington the
paper speaks of follows:
| In 1921 her committee of six reported sys-
tenn of state schools that was finally adopted
by the Legislature of Massachusetts and has
been practically in force to the present time.
and on which has been patterned most of the
school systems OF the Middle, Western and Pa
clfic States. The first normal school was es-
ia biished there in 1897 and therefrom and
on the same general basis has sprung all the
normal schools of the coun try.
The steam railroad came TO the town in
1916, gas in the seventies and public water
works and electricity n due time. To-day she
Is q beautiful old town, quiet and restful
moved to her deepest depths only occasionally
by quarterly town meetings, where the accu-
muiated local grievances are ventilated aud
fought to a finish.