The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-23
Was.hl:ilngton's Life
Recalled.
NATIONS HEROES
AllWere Pledged in Pota-
a., tons of Punch.

Grouped round a generous punch
bowl members of the Worcester Con.
tineRta1s. drank pledges to the father Oh
81 their country yesterday The memory
of Washington was celebrated by
toasts and speech-making, and the
memory of the greatest of Continentals
was pledged in a punch whose recipe
dates back to the days of the revolu-
ton
But the great leader who was FIRST
IN war, first In peace, first in the
hearts of his countrymen," did not
monopolize the whole attention of the
gathering. After drinking numerous
toasts to Washington, they toasted
Dewey. Then they drank to Schley.
Sampson, Otis, Merritt. Miles, NcKin-
4 ley, King Alphonso, Lincoln, Neptune,
the treaty, the kingdom of Spain, etc.
etc. Alger and Eagan came near be-
ing the only ones in the country's cal
endar, Of heroes unhonored by having
their healths drunk in the spicy bever-
age.
At last patriotism and enthusiasm
# were reused to q. high pitch. Epigrams
and lofty sentiments fell from the lips
OF the speakers thick as snowfakes in
blizzard time. Col. William A. Gle,
fired with zeal, mounted the rostrum
and proposed sixteen toasts in rapid
succession. Responses came as fast as
shots from Dewey gun. Here are a
fey of the toasts:
TO the Immortal Washington-the
father Of his country. He aud Lafay-
cite ware a good entansfed alliance
To- our united eountry--We are glad
to be m 1T and we are glad in it to
stand by 1t:
To William IcKinley-the Abraham
LINCOLN Of this crave stand by him.
Washington had the friendship of the
French in war; Lincoln had the friend
ship Of Russia in war; Mckinley had
the friendship of Great Britain and the
support of our united nation, it's army
and navy,
To Otis and Dewey-our country's
defenders at Manila. We stand by
them.
70 our boys who were in 1t at santia-
go-We stand with them.
TO the boys who are at it from the
far west--We stand by them.
To the treaty of Paris-We stand by
It,
To Admiral Schley-He was in it at
the right time; he Is all right
To the kingdom of Spain-She won't
do so again. She remembers the
Maine.
To Neptune, god of the sea-Spain
shipped her army homo C. o. D.
TO Victoria, queen Of Great Britain
and Ireiand-God bless her.
To our cousins over the sea-They are
our first cousins.
To the late confederate states-We
are with them, and they are in the
United States to stay.
To our insurgent allies in the Philip
pines-They are learning their lesson
z from Dewey and Otis in good order.
n To Aguinaldo, king Of the jungle
a His defense is a national bungfe.
Let Dewey and Otis do to them as
a they do to Yankee Doodle Doc
Those who saw the crowds in attend
n ance yesterday would be hard to con-
vince that the Continentals are mort
bund. 1t is estimated that 300 men,
bers and guests strolled into the hall
between the hours Of 10 and l. At no
time were there less than 50 there at
once.
"a The guest of honor was Col. George
Thomas, who commanded a. Virginia
VI regiment in the civil war. He was in
troduced by Capt. D. NJ. Earle. AS a
delicate compliment to the southerner,
a Lieut. Hathaway mounted the ros-
trum, holding aloft a brimming glass
of punch and proposed the following
mortality, possessing the inheritance of
Mount Vernon, the shrine whose radi-
anee illunlines the world That was
too much for the colonel He respond
ed by toasting "The flag" giving am
pie evidence by his praise Of McKin-
"A ley and the united nation that he is
+ thoroughly reconstructed.
But the event Of the day came when
I4fent. Hathaway arose to deliver his
address on Washington. The veteran
was greeted with a tunult of applause.
The applause continued as the address
proceeded, until those in the back of
the room wereg unable to catch a syl-
liable. Then those in the rear applaud
ed, SO that those in front couldn't hear.
At the conclusion the lieutenant mod
est1y aseribed the waNAlth Of enthusi-
asm which greeted his literary effort
rather to the punch than to any merit
of his own The address was as fol-
lows:
To-day the greatest born of American
birth fills the heart Of all this great
nation with the love that grows warmer
and stronger as the years roll on.
Across the folds of the flag is written
in the invisible letters Of historical inn
mortality the name of George Wash
dngton above that Of Abraham Lincoln,
twin brothers of immortality, with one
father-God; one beloved mother-their
country. Seventy million souls Of this
broad land of As states cry All hail to
the little hamlet Of the glorious Old
Thirteen way Back in the twilight of
that April morn when the CLEANS of
freedoms dawn glorlfied the blood-red
tide of Concord's little brook hasteping
to the sea of Yorktown's GROWING vic
tory.
cover Bunker's hill, over the heights
oflQuebec. through the bloody trail of
the forests of Maine, over Valley Forge
and Grown Point. over Trenton, where
the British army slept in fancied Sc
ourIty Of the protection of the wild biz
gard of the bowling storm, while Wash
ington was facing the darkness and
driving, binding, freezing sleet him
self the army, his soul inspiring
strength a legion of attack and de-
fence that made the surprised Corn
wallis bow to the god of battle that
rode upon the whirlWind and directed
the storm over all cleaned the faint
rays of fiuttering stripes reckoning to
the stars of night for n union yet to be.
"And when the hour was ripe Wash
ington pulled the halliards firm and
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