The record-union., 1899-11-01
To Witness the Launching Of the Torpedo
Boat Shubrick.
The President Given an Enthu-
siastic Reception ON His Arrival
at the Southern City, Though
the Scheduled Parade Had to
be Postponed on Account Of q
Heavy Rainstorm.

RICHMOND (Va.), Oct. 31.-The tor
pedo boat Shubrick was launched here
to-day in the presence Of President Nc
Kinley, many members of his Cabinet,
Governor Tyler of Virginia and an i'm
mense outpouring of people. The dem
onstration was married in some Of its
features by a heavy rainstorm. The
civic carnival parade had to be aban-
doned until tomorrow. But the peo-
pie, residents as we'll as visitors from
other Virginia cities and points out
side who came to witness and see the
President, were enthusiastic.
The Presidential party arrived on
time, and as it rolled through the SUI
burbs of the city the howitzer battery
fired Presidential salute. At Elba
Station, at the West End, where the
President debarked and took a carriage,
he was formally welcomed by Mayor
Taylor, and responded with a brief
speech.
| Immediately after this ceremony the
party was driven to the Jefferson Ho-
tel and held an informal and somewhat
enforced reception in the Franklin
street lobby of the building. 1t is es-
timated that thousand persons shook
hands with him before he would per-
nit the police to clear the way for him
to go to his private apartments.
A little later luncheon was served in
the dining rooms of the hotel, some 300
persons sitting down, and then the
Presidential party was driven to the
ship yard, the President being cheered
warmly along the route. At the yard
entrance an immense crowd had assem-
bled. The President, having been in
troduced from the stand by Mayor
Taylor, spoke as follows:
Mr.. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I
am glad to meet my fellow citizens of
Richmond, and to join with them in
this interesting celebration in honor of
the launching of the torpedo boat Shu-
brick, built in this city, of American
material, by the labor of American
workingmen, for the use of the Amer
lean navy. I congratulate the builders
and workmen upon this evidence of
their skill and industry, so creditable
to the manufacturing company and so
highly commended by the officers of
the Government.
which Richmond has made to our
ship Texas with all her machinery.
boilers and engines, which were tried
and tested with entire satisfaction in
the brilliant naval engagement in the
harbor of Santiago, when that vessel
so gloriously assisted in the lestruc-
ton of Cervera's fleet, winning a mem
orable victory and fastening an honor
able and enduring peace
II heartily rejoice with the people
of this great city upon its Industrial
revival, and upon the notable prosper
ity it is feeling in all of it's business en-
terprfses You are taking advantage
of the commercial opportunities of the
hour. You are advancing in manufac-
lures, extending your markets and re-
ceiving deserved share of the world S
share.
What can be more gratifying to us
than the present condition of the coun-
try. A universal love of coun-
try and a noble national spirit animate
all the people. We are on the best of
terms with each other, and on most
cordial relations with every Power of
the earth. We have ample revenues
with which to conduct the Government.
Our credit is not menaced Money is
abundant in volume and unquestioned
in value.
Confidence in the present and faith
In the future are firm and strong and
should not be shaken or unsettled.
The people are doing business on both
principles. and should be let alone
encouraged rather than hindered in
their efforts to increase the trade of
the country and find new and profitable
markets for their products. Manu-
featuring was never so active and so
universally enjoyed throughout all
States. Work was never SO abundant
The transportation companies were
never so taxed to handle the freight
offered by the people for distribution.
The home and foreign markets contri.
butte to our prosperity. Happily, the
latter has increased without any dimin-
ution of the former. Your locomotives
go to Russia, the watch cases from my
little city of Canton to Geneva, the
bridges of Philadelphia span the Nile,
and the products of the American farm
and factory are carried upon every sea
and find welcome in most of the ports
of the world.
"In what respect would we change
these happy conditions-what promises
they give of the future? The business
activity in every part of the country,
the better rewards to labor, the wider
markets for the yield of the soil and the
shop, the increase of our shipbuilding,
not only for Government but for pur-
poses of commerce; the enormous in
crease of our export trade in manu-
features and agriculture, the great
comforts of the home and the happi-
ness of the wonderful uplifting of the
business conditions of Virginia and the
South and of the whole country, make
this not only an era of good will, but
an era of good times.
"It is a great pleasure to me to stand
in this historic Capitol and look into
the faces of my countryrfaen here as
sembled and to feel and to know that
we are all Americans standing as one
for the Government we love and mean
to uphold, united for the honor Of the
American nation and for the faithful
fulf1llneht Of every obligation which
national duty requires / cannot forget
~ would not forget in this presence