The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-10
PUTNAM PHALANX
IS IN THE CITY
All Shook Hands With Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee Last Night.
COME AMID CANNoN's ROAR.
Thousands Viewed the Procession
alon. the Line Of Marcii-Ean,ous
Drum Corps With Organization
Smoker Last Night.
COME AMID CANNoN's ROAR.
The famous Putnam Phalanx, Of Hartford.

non and the glare OF rocket anu req ii5t!t'
with the accompaniment of music and the
shouts of the multitude.
This old organization. composed OF the
best people Of Hartford, was me- at the
wharf by committees representing the
Walker Light Guard and the Richmond
Howitzers and escorted to Main and Filth
Streets. where the Walker Light GUARDS
and the Eowitzers were awaiting them,
and the entire party formed in line, headed
by the Citizens Band, and marched from
Fifth and Main Streets to Franklin and
OUT Franklin to the jefferson Hotel.
Thousands of people had consresated
along the line of march, and shouted them
selves almost hoarse as the visitors
marched by. headed by the famous Put
nam PhalanX Drum Corps. and the pyro-
technics added brilliancy 10 the scene
tha. was almost beyond description.
At the Jefferson Hotel the column drew
UP. and Colonel George Wayne Anderson
bade them welcome TO the city III the fol-
lowing words:
COL. ANDERsON's SPEECH.
Gentlemen OF the putnam Phalanx:
i have the honor to bid You welcome TO
Richmond on behalf OF the HowltZers and
the Walker Light Guard.
II this were your first visit to them and
10 our city, I would say to you that the
enviable and honorable fame OF your
corps had long preceded you. and that
every heart and every hand would gladly
extend to you the unreseIVed hospitality
OF our people. You were welcome when
you came before You are thrice welcome
now that you come again. You came as
strangers of high repute. You return as
friends with whom we have plight d faith
and for whom We have reserved q warm
place in our affections Indeed, if you
will but abandon yourselves to the tender
] shall call upon the band TO play the
military classic that rang out over the
entrenched hills CT Cuba and startled the
sentinels Of Santiago. "There'll be hot
time in the old town tonight
Whatever may have been your sentl-
ments after your former visit, and OF that
your return speaks tatteringly TO US. we
do not doubt that when you thought OF
Richmond after this visit many a heart
would tighten, and many tongue would
sing that good old song, 'NTe've all been
there before, many a time" We are glad
TO have you in Virginia again and we are
pleased that you should once more sedk
our historic city.
Here you will find monuments and
memories fit to stir the blood and swell
the heart of every patriotic all along our
lordly river You beheld to-day some of
Americas most famous homes; you have
this day seen the cradle Of the American
people.
The ruined tower at Jamestown spoke
to you with eloquent tongue Of that sturdy
band of English folks who first of all the
colonists brayed the terrors of the great
deep and the unknown dangers of an
unknown land and there founded in 1907
the illustrous Colony of Virginia
And here in our city and upon the sum-
init Of one of our loftieSt hills. in the Very
temple of the living God, You may see
the spot upon which stood Patrick
Henry when the Angel of the
Lord touched his lips and bade
him utter the everything cry of
FIRE men which thenceforth and forever
bound this Republic to the glorious prin-
ciple of Liberty of death. At our gates on
every hand lie historic fields made fam
Gus by heroic deeds. Fields once dimply
scene through mists of tears and blood,
torn by shot and shell and Uttered with
the bleeding ruins of furious war But
now the peaceful earth has drunk the
blood Of friend and foe alike-our hills
and Wales lie bathed in the broad sun
shine of a happier day-and al the grim
reminders OF that bloody time smooth
their wrinkled fronts and bid US know
ourselves as one people, of one blood and
with one destiny, both now and forever
more. All Of our treasures we lay before
YOU and TO them all we bid you hearty
WCICOulc.
REPLY BY THE MAYOR.
In reply to the welcome extended by
Colonel Anderson, General Alexander
Har5eson mayor of Hartford, replied in
q most happy vein and said that it was
with feeling OF the lighest regard for the
s2E;h and for Richmond particularly that
the Phalanx came to Richmond on its sec
ond visit Memories OF the trip 10 TINS
CITY III 1886 We're fresh in the minds OF
those who came. and SO great had been
th. praise of the former reception that
ii was with unanimity that the PhalalA
came with such pleasant memories. He
was glad in the name of ths organization
to be again in Richmond and invited the
soldiers present and the multitude OF
men. women ana children TO visit Hart
ford, when the city would be thrown open
10 them and a hospitality equal 10 that
of old Virginia would be shown them.
After this the visitors, among whom
were some seyenty-fve ladies, repaired
10 the hotel and enjoyed their dinner,
Al 9 O'Clock a smoker given BY the
visitors to the military and a numoer OF
other invited guests was gwen at the
JEFFERSON. and Tor several hours me WIS.,
tors. the local military and the invited
guests com1ningled and the hearty good
hand OF fellowship was EXTENDED amid
story and song. and the hospitality Of the
visitors We'd with that OF III local host.
About 10 o'clock Captai..e rank w. Cum
r,insham Introduced General Fitzhugh Lee
TO the visitors, and the greatest uproar OF
juhilant applause greeted the famous Viz
gir.an as he entered the hall in which he
smoker was beng held.
Captain Cunningham in a neat and APP
propriate speech introduced General Lee,
and asked the Richmond people 10 stand
back ana allow the visitors and their
ladies' to introduce the greatest man OF
the day. General Lee then received the
scores of ladies and gentlemen, who were
so anxious to greet him anu shake his
hand that they could hardly restrain them
selves in line. His greeting was cordial.
and his tw!nkling eyes ana happy smile
beamed upon each one as they passed
him ana graspei his hand.
After il was all over General Lee re-
tired and the visitors felt happy that they
had had the opportunity of shaking hands
with one OF the foremost Americans OF
modern times.
During the evening Mr.. Polk Miller, Mr.
Eugene Davis and Others and darley
uuartette entertained the visitors, and at
a late hour the smoker came TO an end
and an enjoyable evering closed.
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