The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-08
QUEEN LAvINIA'S TABLET.
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II MARKS the supposed site OF inc "nu ''"" "
or New Amsterdnm-irer""rd Ihere wv.
n spread ana Feet laureate Nhh s"ppe"
ps.a , poen-sIr Knight Chapman Abscht.
with hope flaming In each eye
They said "we'll do our best, or do
-Ero,n the DedfcdtOrv ode, BY he ioef laureate
To che Queen!
To Queen Lavinla!
To Miss Dempsey, our Queen, our queen
The Toast " the Dame " HicSensdok'
IN. Society OF tho Holland DANES is a Good Thing
-Mdpor ". L, Strong.
Queen I.avinia II. Dempsey Of the Holland
Danes OF tho New Netherlands. with the
Knights OF the Legion of the Crown, alighted
frcy1 a cable car at state and Pearl streets yes
terday at . o'clock in the afternoon. She was
handed TO the cobbles by Sir Knight 1. Froling-
huysen Reed and the Queen OF New jersey
Mrs. Fosdick. Few people OF New York knew
how stately a ceremony is the nlighting OF n
queen from a cable car or there would have been
more there to see. As 1t was. the Queen was re-
ceiyed at tho curbstono by Patrolinan william
Boss OF the New York police.
Say" he said, not at all unplcasantly, arc
you the people who are doing this =
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aorgeously decorated stand that had been
erected in front of the unoccupied saloon on the
south corner. An individual in black clothes
stepped out from behind tho Queen and put a
document into tie policeman's hand. 1t was
the permit to hold an outdoor meeting.
THAT goes said Boss, and he headed tho
procession TO the stand, which was covered with
American flags and yards of orange bunting.
The saloon behind tho stand. according to the
Information Of the Holland Danes. was on the
site Of tho original Dutch Stadhuis, or meeting
place Of tho Council OF Nineteen. The days
ceremonies were to celebrate tho marking OF
the place with a brass tablet. In the street in
front Of the stand a gray goat, with n trcmen-
dous bow Of grass green cheese cloth tied about
its horns, wandered up and down.
Officer" said the funereal.looking individ.
ual, clear the street, please
Boss shooe the goat away down Pearl street.
A tremendous voice doomed from behind the
iron shutters OF a warehouse half way down the
block:
"Hooray for the Irish!' it howled. Down
with the Orangemen!'
Derisive bowls and ~catcalls and nanny goat
bleats answered from windows all along the
street. Meanwhile the members Of the order
began to appear. They were to have assembled
at the Astor House and come down town in q
body. There was some little confusion about
the meeting because neither the Queen nor her
vassals nor the gentleman in black clothes had
informed the management Of tho Aston House
that the meeting was being held there. AS to
the gentleman in black. II seemed quite certain
in view Of his activity that he was a press agent.
He was neither knight nor invited guest. and
yet he was full to Overlooking of information
about the order and, most of all, its Queen. But
he said he was not a press agent.
why said he, should the Queen OF the
Holland Danes have q press agent
At2:l5 the Mayor arrived in a carriage, and
was escorted to the platform by the Queen and
the Rev. John Lewis Clark OF the Marble Col.
legiate Church. The street was filed with
clerks. brokers. longshoremen, and persons OF
leisure from Battery Park. The members OF
the order were mostly on the stand. Every
little while one or two of them came down and
wandered out into the street to see how the
people on the stand looked from below; then
they hurried back to their exalted place. A
gathered.
After prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Warren of Jer.
sey City the Rev. Mr.. Clark came forward 10
make the formal address OF the day. He said in
With such Dutchmen os Mayor Strong. and
tho Queen Of the Holland Danes in our midst,
to New Amsterdam. We are proud TO have
Government of this city, he has been repudiatod
by his own party. lApplause.l You ali remcm,
Ter the Dutch Admiral who conquered the
British feet and then sailed along the coast
with n broom at the masthead as "a sign that he
aad swept the channel. May we not hope-as
all Of us do hopc-that after the stirring times
OF this election the spirit OF our Dutch ancestor:
may sail around Manhattan Island to signify
that the broom OF good government has sweep,
II clean of partisan iilth and corruption. lap
plause. A Voice from the warehouse window
Murray for Paddy Glcason.']
In the name of LAvinia, Queen OF the Hol
land Danes OF New Amsterdam. and the knight:
Clark. !" unveil this tablet and put it in charge
OF the Mayor of the city OF New York"
He pulled back the curtain above the stand
and disclosed a tablet. which read thus:
.....,......
1888. 1907 A:
: ON THIS SITE STOOD II ~"STADHUIS " OF !:
NEW AMSTERDAM-ERECTED 1898. .
This tablet Is place here in loving memory {:
OF the frst Dutch settlers by the Holland &:
Danes OF the New Netherlands and .
the knights OF the Legion OF the Grown. :
lLAvlSA :
koNISGIS. .