The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22
LOUIS KOSSUTH'S
VISIT TO AMERICA
The Hungarian Patriots Tour Of the
United States.
INTERESTING EPISODE RECALLED
Enthusiastic Welcome which lie Re.
oeivcd in New York City--Populor
Demonstrations and Dinners in His
Honor--Discussions Provoked by
His Presenec--Tbe Kossuth Mania,

Demonstrations aud Dinners in His
Honor Provoked by
His Presenec--Tbe Kossuth Mania,
Apropos of the present troubles In
Austro- Hungary with their menace of
a new agitation for Hungary's indo-
pendC zee. the following account from
the New York Sun of the visit of Hun
gary's greatest son. Louis kossuth, to
the United States in 1851 is interesting.
1t is Louis Kossuth's son who is at the
front of the new movement for Hun
garian liberation. The sun article
says:
When Kossuth was forced by treach.
cry to flee into exile he had been saved
from the wrath Of the Austrian EN-
peror, who contemplated his execution
as rebel, by the Sultan. who, under
British inspiration, gave him asylum
Constantinople. President Fillmore's
administration felt deep sympathy with
kossuth and sent the friGate Mssis-
sippi to the Dardanelles for the pur-
pose OF bringing him to the United
States. Accordingly he became the ma
tion's guest as far as the port of Mar
seilles, where he concluded to visit
England. He was there much petted
by parliament and the public. From
Southampton he sailed for New York
and had as fellow passenger another
exile in Lola MonteZ.
New York had been eagerly expect
ing Kossuth's coming. for just then
the woes of Cuban patriots were arous-
ing popular impulses, and the Euro
pean echoes of the revolutions of 1913
still fingered through New York's pos
session of Baribaldi, and Mitchell,
Meagher, and OGorman from Ireland.
There were many men in congress who
wished some kind of national interfer-
ence in behalf of Hungarian Independ-
ence. and when Kossuth arrived con-
gress became divided into non-parti-
san factions over that question. In an
ticipation of the arrival of Kossuth,
Staten Island military company and
a flank uniform company of this city,
were ready to receive him at QuaVan-
tine, and thither also went many Hun
garian residents and a committee Of
the common council, which had made
him guest of the municipality. DR..
Doane was then health officer of the
port. When the battalion of reporters
in waiting saw the exile landing from
the health officers boat attended by
wife and suite of gaily dressed Hun
garian aides they beheld a man Of
commanding height and digntied and
impressive bearing, wearing a single
breasted black velvet tunic with a
standing collar, of military cut, scov-
cred with shining black jet buttons Of
bullet shape. Over this garment was
an opened overcoat of black velvet
trimmed with broad Russian fur hav-
ing loose sleeves. They also remarked
that he had a long, dark-hued face,
showing unmistakable expression of
penetrating intellect. His thin dark
brown hair was seen beneath his pic
turesque Alpine hat, and he had a dark
UXuriant beard and heavy and luXuT-
liant mustaches. He had large blue,
magnetic eyes. A carriage and four
conveyed him to Doane's house. There
he was presented to the common cOun-
Gil committee, and in brief speech he
gracefully accepted that mysterious
freedom of the city which was lavshly
given half a century ago to distinG-
uished citizens, but always without the
olden-time gold snuffboX
GOTHAMS BIG WELCOME.
On the next day the Staten Islanders
must needs have a procession to escort
Kossuth around Clifton village. first to
large reception tent and then to the
ferryboat, and on the march appeared
Farmer William II. Vanderbilt on a
fiery horse, as one of the aids to Grand
Marshal Minthorne Tompkins. Every
body in New York who was anybody
had come over to the ferry landing in
the special boat furnished by Isaac
Newton. Kossuth was taken on a trip
around the bay and up and down both
rivers, while Fort Lafayette and that
on Governors Island furnished salutes,
and the frigates North Carolina and
Ohio fired thirty-One guns. On the
Battery fully 10000 people had gath
cred around the whole first division of
the National Guard, who in their then
diversified uniforms We're awaiting or
ders to escort the Hungarian hero un-
der floral arch erected by a corpora -
tion jobber between Battery Gate and
Bowling Green, and thence up Broad
way to Bond street into the Bowery
and down to the City Hall Park-the
then huge iron gates of which were
also arched with flowers. After land
ing Kossuth was ushered into a bar
ouche with jovial, if gouty, Mayor
Kingsland and equally jolly Morgan
Morgans, Welsh president of the Board
OF Aldermen. Then came the formation
of New York's time -honored process
sion, composed of three divisions. COM
prising the military, some 5000 strong.
carriages for officials, and pedestrians
in the rear. Decorations, Transparent
-cies, banners, and notices We're seen
all along the line of march, and AL
though the Saturday was not a legal
holiday, business places were closed
The City Hall park still showed much
Verdure, and the City Hall itself was
resplendent with bunting. The process
sion having ended, Kossuth, mounting
a horse, reviewed in company with
MaJor-General SANFORD, the military
before they We're dismissed. ana he WAS
later entertained in the governors
rcOm by the city authorities, who had
not yet lost their freedom of junket =
ing at taxpayers expenses Then Kos