Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-23
W0LCOTT RECEIVES.
Many Prominent Men Pay Re-
spects to the Governor.
Large Delegation of Sons of Veterans
Call at the State House-A Little
Boys Present
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Boston, Feb 22.-The number of those
who attended the governors reception
today was not as large as usual, but the
number Of persons prominent in affairs
in attendance was larger than for many
years.
The state house was open at an early
hour, and the district police were on
duty during the hours of the reception,
which began at IL o'clock. At that
hour Gov. Wolcott was in his chamber,
surrounded by many of the members Of
his staff. There were in attendance
Adjt. Gen. Dalton, Gen. Blood, Gen. r.
H. Appleton, Gen. Guild, Coils. Chappelle,
Sears, Stevens, Robins, Frye, Jewett,
Bradley, Billings. Soutter, Locke
There was a large number of military
men in attendance upon the reception.
Gen. Matthews of the first brigade, with
his staff, consisting of Coils. Hager and
Morrison, Maj. Richardson, Maj. Brig
ham, Capt Dewey, Capt. Chase, Capt.
Glines and Capt. Henry. Capt. Eaton of
the training ship Enterprise was also
caller.
Gen. Bancroft and his second brigade
staff were also present. The staff in
cluded Col. Benyon, Col. Devine Capt.
Rantoul, Capt Barker, Capt. Bangs,
Capt. Bancroft and Sergt. Muller.
Col. w. A. Pew, Lieut. Barr, Lieut..
jenkins, Capt. Whitten, Lieut.. Langdon
and Maj Cogswen represented the
eighth regiment. The ninth was repre-
sented by Col. Began, Inspector Breen,
Quartermaster Hennessey, PaymaSter
Dobbins, Adjt. J. J. Kelley, Capt. Jou-
bert, Capt. Manning, Capt. Sullivan,
Lieut.. Desmond, Lieut.. Brines, Lieut..
Foley and Lieut.. Murphy.
The naval brigade was we'll represent
ed. There were present Capt. Weeks,
Lieut.. Commander Denney, Lieut. Com
mander Paul, Lieuts. Sweet, Carey,
Parker, Perkins, Foster, Dillaway, Por-
ter, Jones, Assistant Surgeon O'Neil and
Adjt. Dodd.
The first brigade cavalry, was repre-
sented bv Maj. Perrins, Adjt. Carr,
Capt. Young, Lieut.. Wardwell and
Lieut.. Hall. Lieut.. Weaver, U. S. A, of
the Boston public schools, was also pres
ent.
The attendance was augmented by the
arrival of a delegation from the conven-
ton Of the Sons of Veterans, led by the
officers of the state organization. There
were 400 men, in charge of Commander
Charles r, Darling, Adjt. Gen. f. e.
Bolton, Judge Advocate E. K. Gould,
Division Commander Cook, Past Com
mander-in-Chief j. B. McCabe, Past
Commander-in-Chief B. s. Weeks of
New York and minor officers.
There was a large delegation of the
representatives of foreign governments
at this port in attendance. They came
up under the lead of Mr.. B. G. Clark,
Haytian consul. They included H. N.
Fisher, consul from Chile; Duncan B.
Blanchard, French consul; Charles "
Dasey, consul Of the Netherlands; Cor
ham D. Gilman, Hawaiian consul; r.
Sumner Mansfield, Belgian consul; Gus
tav Lundberg, Danish consul; Jorg Var
gas, consul of Colombia; Charles Hall
Adams, LibeIian consul; A. P. Cushing,
Mexican consul; Charles F. Wyman,
Russian vice-consul; Gjert Lootz, con-
sui Of Sweden and Norway; D. T. Tina
yemis, Greek consul. The Spanish con-
sui at this port was not present
Among the early callers were MIR.
George H. Lyman, nominated for col
lector of the port of Boston; Superin-
tendent B. P. Eldredge of the Boston
police department; Mrs Gen. Francis
H. Appleton of Peabody, and Miss M. >.
Temple of New York, Miss e. L. Sohler
and two little nieceS, daughters OF Col.
w. D. Sohier; Transit Commissioner
Thomas ]. GaTgan, Senator Samuel b.
George of Haverhill, Bank Commission
er Warren e. Locke, Police Commls-
sioner Robert f. Clark, Charles T. Gal
lagheT, Senators Black of Taunton,
Fairbank Of Warren, and Representa-
tives Ross of Boston, Hall of Dennis,
Hemphill of Holyoke, former Senior
Vice Commander John E. Gilman of the
Massachusetts, department, G. A. R.;
ex-Mayor Cook of Gloucester, Repre-
sentative Davis of Cambridge, William
H. Baldwin of the Y. NJ. c. u, eX-
Councillor Isaac B. Allen, Mr.. Samuel
c. Jones and Mr. r. H. Briggs, Senator
J. B. Holden and Representative j. J..
Mccarthy of Boston, Capt. Kimball of
Boston, Court Officer Herter, Capt d.
F. Dolan Of Lawrence, eX-Representa-
tive c. F. Sargent of Lawrence, c. H.
Messenger of Boston, eX-Representative
Arthur B. Storey of Essex, Superintend-
ent of Mails E. A. Reed OF the Boston
post office.
A small boy as he walked through the
room handed Gov. Wolcott letter.
Within was a card bearing the name
of Roger Wolcott Mellish Harvey, five
years old" and with ihe address
Brighton
With it was a small piece of paper, a
brownish color yellow with age, on
which was written in the chirography
of a century ago, these words:
March the 81, 1883.
Value received, promise pay Roger
Wolcott shillings and pence.
Jonathan knights.
1t was an old note given more than a
century ago to one of the ancestors of
the governor.
Just before the hour for the close of
the reception, Capt ]. C. B. Adams,
sergeant-at-arns, with his state house
staff of messengers and assistants, filed
in and met the governor; then a minute
later the doors were closed, and Chief
Wade and his officers shook hands with
the governor, and the reception was at