Evening star., 1898-08-09

Invocation, chaplain of association, Rev.
Osborne Ingse.
Gloria in Excelsis. /" old chant. choir.
|: Prayer, Rev. David J. Beale d. ID.
| 2Festival Te Dellm, No. >. Dudley Buck
1 choir.
Introduction OF orator, Baker johnson.
Grafton, Colonel Henry Watterson.
| America 9Th Artillery Band
Original poem by Folger McKi1sey, sec
retary Key Monument Association.
Gloria Twelfth Mass. ,Moxart, choir.
| Address, Mrs. Donald Mclean
Unveiling of the monument Miss Julia
| McEienry Howard, great-grandaaughte- CT
Francis Scott Key. "Star Spansied Ban
ner, by assembiage. bands accornpanying
Salute by detail from 4th Regiment Mary
land National Guard.
Doxolegy.
Benediction, Rev. c. W. Stinespring.
BAKER. johnson was master of ceTem ,nies,
Dr. I. S. Eader and Prof. George Edward
Smith, musical directors and Major f. Y
Goidsborough chief marshal of TIC parade
Mr.. Watterson's Speech.
When Colonel Watterson was introduced
to the great assemblage by B. Johnson,
master of ceremonies, he was given a
! splendid reception, and throughout his mag
nifcent oratien storms of applause swept
over acres of humanity gathered about
the monument. He said in part:
since the Star Spangled Banner was
written nearly century has come and
| SNES- nc utuHlS dffU 'tTd9npHnES OF more
than naif Its years have passed over the
grave of Francis Scott Key. Here at last
| ne rests forever. Here at last his tomb
| is fifty made. When his eyes closed upon
| the scenes OF this life their last gaze be-
held the ensign of the republic, full high
advanced, its arms and trophies streaming
| IN their original luster, not a stripe erased
| or polluted nor a single star obscured.' If
happily they were spared the spectacle of
| a severed union, and "a land rent by civil
feud and drenChed in fraternal blood X
may be that somewhere beyond the stars
| his gentle spirit now looks down upon a
| nation awakened from its sleep of death
and restored to its greater and its better
self, and known and honored, never be-
| fcre throughout the world. Whilst Key
lived there was but a single paramount is
| sue, about which all other issues circled,
! the Constitution and the Union. The prob
| lens of the Constitution and the Union
solved, the past secure turn we to the
! future; no longer a huddle of petty SOW
ereignties, held together by rope of sand;
no longer body of mercenary shopkeep-
ers worshping rather the brand upon the
dollar than the eagle on the shield; no
longer brood of provincial laggards,
hanging with bated breath upon the move
ments of mankind, afraid to trust them
selves away from home, or to put their
principles to the test of progress and Of
arms; but a nation, and a leader of ma
tions; world power Which~durst face i'm
pcrialism upon its own ground with repub-
Ecanism and with 1t dispute the future of
civilization
1T is the will of God; let not man gainsay
Let not man ganSay until the word of
God has been carried to the Furthermore
ends of the earth; not until freedom is the
heritage of all His creatures; not until the
blessings which He has given us are
shared by His people in all lands; not un-
til Latin RIGHTEOUSNESS fostered by mod
ern wealth and culture and art has been
eXpiated by fire, and Latin corruption and
cruelty have disappeared from the govern
q
AEglo-Saxon, which, born at Runnymede
was to end neither at Yorktown nor at
Appomattox, has made, at one and the
same time another map OF Christenddm,
and new race of Christians and yeomen,
equally soldiers of the sword and of the
cross, even in Africa and Asia, as We have
made them here in America. Thus, and
thus alone and wherever the winds of hea-
ven blow, shall fly the spirit if not the
actuality of the blessed symbol we have
come here this day to glorify; ashamed of
nothing that God has sent, ready for every
thing that God may send,
1T was not a singer of the fireside, but a
hearthless wanderer who put in all hearts
the Anglo-SaXon's simple Home, Sweet
HCme.' 1t was poet, not warrior, who
gave to our Union the Anglo-American's >
homage to his flag. Even as the Prince of
Peace who came to bring eternal life, was
the Son of God, were these His ministering
angels; and, as each of US, upon his knees
serds up a prayer to heaven for Home
Sweet Home may he also murmur, and
teach his children to lisp the sublime re-
frain of Keys immortal anthem:
Ger the land Of the free and the home of
the brave"
Mrs. McLean's Address.
Mrs. Donald Mclean, daughter of the
late Judge John Ritchie of Frederick, and
regent of the New York Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution de-
livered a short address. In vivid manner
she recounted scenes Of the furious battles
about Santiago and referred to the singing
by the soldiers there of the Star Spangled
banner" and the inspiration for deeds of
valor it gave the men, concluding with
splendid tribute to the people whose genius
has made that scene on the battlefield pos
sble.
The weather was threatening during the
forenoon, but the time for the parade
approached it began to clear. SO there was
practically no interference with the pro-
ceedingS.
The work of preparing for the unveiling
ceremonies has been very great. The
sociation, through its officers and commit
tees. has been called upon to do laborious
work, which has been repaid by the COM
plete success of their arrangements. 1t
has involved the collection of Sl0,O10, and
attention to a thousand details The leSis
lature of Maryland appropriated 5000 for
the purpose, the balance being raised by
popular subscription.
Committees in Charge.
The officers and various committees of
the association ara: VIM. c. Birely, presi-
dent; Lewis A. Rice, vice president; Foiger
McKinsey, secretary; VIM. NJ. Crimmins
assistant secretary; Miss Mary C. OFT, cor
responding secretary; John C. Hardt, treas
urer.
General committee of arrangements.
A. Rice, chairman; VIM: NJ. Crimmins, sec
retary; VIM. c. Birely, DR.. Edward Nelson,
l.. S. Clingan, Cyrus F. Flock, Baker John
son, Jacob Rohrback, Henry b. Ramsours,
A L. Eader c. c. Ausherman, Rev. G.
w. Stinespring.
Program committee-Mrs. A. L. Eader,
chairman: Miss Mollie Eisenhauer, secre-
tary; Mrs. F. F. Smith, Mrs. Hy. Williams,
Mrs. Helen Schley, Mrs. l.. M. Nixdorf,
Mrs. George OFT, Maj. e. Y. Goidsborough,
Dr. T. S. Eader, Professor Geo. Edward
Smith, VIM. NJ. Crimmins, DIR. Edward Mel
son, Miss Emma j. Smith.
Finance committee-George S. Rodock,
chairman; A. r. Yeakle, secretary; Henry
B. Ramshurg.
Parade committee-Wm. NJ. Crimnlns,
chairman; Jacob b. Tyson, secretary;
George S. Rodock, Maj. E. Y. Goldsbor-
orgh, l.. A. Rice, J. Roger McSherry, John
q Har7t Miss Eliza Hardt. Miss Jennie