The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-11-22


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With the Language to be- q very success.
ful professional rWde Well be- knew
where lafayeitcs grave vas said a
man from Chi,aEo with a Baltimore
bride had given him sioo 20 ana % a
week before He started 90 describe
the location bur took him right along
with me.
"rho tomb very simply inscribed.
was In a small cemetery IN one OF the
most interesting sections or disiricts Of
old Paris. Near Il was a still smaller
emetery where there had beer inter
red 800 victims OF the Reign OF Ter
ror. This was told In a few lines on a
weather beaten sign over the broken
gate. Overlooking both these burial
grounds was convent made famous
In a novel by Victor Hugo. One could
study In that vicinity for months.
May 80 was now an impracticable
date for the ceremony and we fixed up
on July 4 There was quite gather
ing. though there was no intent TO
make Il general affair. The Ameri-
cans present outnumbered the French.
We raised the stars and stripes and
fired a salute. Then my men stacked
arms and fell out. The color sergeant
laid his flag ON top OF the rifles. The
sister and niece OF NJ Lafayette, who
were dressed in black, walked over 90
| the line of arms and gently lifting a
fold of Old Glory kissed 1t reverently.
That was q superb and real tribute to
the United States-sweet and simple
and all OF us were affected
M. Lafayette's speech was success
beyond our most sanguine hopes, ex-
cepting perhaps the very last sentence
HE SPOKE OF our country and his
own; OF our immortal forefather and
Of his own great ancestor; OF our presi-
dent and his president; of Mr.. Reid and
myself and Of the occasion. Then
came his peroration and his accident
from lack OF practice with English. As
nearly as / can recall, he said:
"It is peculiarly fitting that this re-
cognition OF the worthy son OF such
thriving, busy Republic as France has
become, should be at the hands of citi
zens of that great model and time-tried
Republic, that country OF brave ans
brilliant and generous men, that coun
try OF such grand institutions and com
plete liberty, that country which lead
the entire world in the march OF scien
tifc, mechanical and intellectual-in
tellectual-ah go head"
"Of course progress was the word HI
was after The Americans represse,
their laughter and were ready will
compliments to the speaker. A few
evenings later most Of us met him at
dinner and he then told the joke OF
himself. The custom of remembarin,
, Lafayette's grave continues and hop
1t will endure indefinitely"
Afterwards Capt. Cochrane told o
, witnessing a Russian coronation an'
his recital of seeing two men guillo
toned in Paris gave. me more thrill
than several legal hangings and a hal
dozen lynchings ] saw when / was
boy in the Rocky Mountain country.
, ED T.