Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-19
DELAWAREANS HERE
Legislators ofthe diamond" State
Our Guests for Two Days.
Met at Ola Point Comfort by Recop-
don Committee Address of
Welcome by ainyor Johnston at
tho Monticello.

Norfolk received within her con-
fines last night distinguished party Of
guests. the gentlemen composing the
Legislature of the State of Delaware.
The party numbers about eighty per-
sons.
They left Wilmington, Del, yesterday
at a. M. yesterday on a special train
over the New York. Philadelphia and
Norfolk and reached Cape Charles City
at 2:10 p. m. Three hours were pleasant
ly spent inspecting this thriving little
city. Cape Charles was left at 1855 and
Old Point reached at 7 p. IN. Here the
visitors were met by the Norfolk re-
ception committee. and they became the
guests OF the city.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
Norfolk was reached at p. m. and
the party was at once escorted to the
Monticello Hotel, which will be the
headquarters OF the Delawareans dur
Ing their brief stay here. AS soon as
the guests had registered they assem-
bied in the parlors on the second floor
where they were welcomed by Mayor
Johnston i'm the following cordial
words:
II extend you hearty greeting
we NirGinians arc very proud OF our
State. and it affords us great pleasure
TO receive within our borders visitors
from our sister State. that we may eX-
tend to them Virginia hospitality and
show them the wonders of our magnifi-
cent harbor; the ineXhaustible treas
uies beneath our soil, and the phenon-
cEal growth OF this. our CITY by the
Sea"
While in some respects your State
and our own are rivals. in ship-building
q n nt xsnt
common interest, that you are more
like brothers than strangers TO us, and
| gladly surrender the keys of our city
to YOU tonight. We are yours to COM
mand. yet ! think you will find those
In waiting who propose 10 effect your
capture, and convince You that our
welcome Is something that is very tan
siole; something that can he seen,
handled and tasted, aud much more
agreeable to you than any talk of mine;
therefore hid you welcome and turn
you over to the tender mercies of our
people
RESPONSE BY HON. It. F. CLARK.
Tho response was very gracefully
made by Hon. 7. L. Clark, OF Delaware
city, speaker Of the Delaware House.
lie expressed tho pleasure of the visit
ors at their cordial reception and voiced
The hope that the people OF Delaware
would have an opportunity to return
the courtcSics extended.
This was followed by n song by the
Temple quartette, OF Wilmington, Del.
The visitors then went in 10 supper. aft
er which they spent the evening in va
rious ways. retiring in good season so
as 10 enjoy the program OF entertain
ment to-day.
NORFOLK AND HARBOR.
To-day will be spent as follows:
o2O a. m.-Strect-car ride over every
route in Norfolk as the guests of Nor
folk Street Railway Company.
~ m.-rus- boat ride up and down the
harbor (stoppng at navy yard for one
hour. the guests of Capt. Twohy, OF
Norfolk.
1890 ma trip to Berkeley; recep-
ton at ferry wharf by President NJ. c.
Keeling and a committee from Berkeley
City Council, followed by a car ride
over the Berkeley street railway line rs
tho guests Of the Berkeley Street Rail-
way Company.
to IL p. m.-Welcome at the Board
of Trade and Business Mems Associa-
ton rooms.
At 10 n. m. tomorrow the visitors will
enjoy trip to Old Point and Fortress
Monroe over the Norfolk. Ocean View
and Old Point railroad as the guests OF
that road.
II " CMI LIZ S(OAh L IL l ~.
Much pleasure is afforded the Della
wareans on their present trip by the
presence with them of the Temple
Qnartct,e, one of the leading musical
organizations of that State. This
crack quartette Is composed as follows:
James " Harbert. first tenor: J. r.
Ayres, second tenor: y. S. Muhlhausen,
first bass: +. H. Mason, second bass.
They are also accompanied by AIR. A.
G. Bartlett. noted elocutionist OF
Wilmington Del.
The visitors are as fine a looking
body of men as ever visited this CITY.
and nre representatives that thnir ctntn