The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-22
Ringing Cheers Rent the Air and
Flags Wavedin Profusion.
BANQUET AT DE SOTO HaTEL.
Reautiful Silver Vase, Three Feet High
and Elegantly Engraved Presented
to the Admiral on Behalfof City
Of #savaanah-,Ivs. Dewey
Was Entertained by
Fifty Ladies'.

SAVANNAH, GA, March 2l.--f1fty
thousand persons on the streets here TINS
afternoon gave Admiral George Dewey as
enthusiastic a welcome as was ever ac-
corded to any public man anywhere Inc
Admiral had recovered from his indispo-
sition of yesterday sufficiently for him
to take part In the military parade ana
review arranged In his honor, ana as ne
rode through the streets with Mrs. Dewey
ot his side ringing cheers rent the air
and waving colors MADE the sceie oiie
to be long remembered.
There were present and in the paraoe
five militia companies from Charleston
under command of Major Chacte; naVai
reserves from Charleston, Mt. Pheasant,
Beaufort, S. c., and Brunswick, Ga, and
military organizations from Columbia,
Pelzer, and Timmonsville. S. C., and Az
gusta, Brunswick, and Thomasville, Ga.
There were in all seventeen out-of-town
organizations. Adding the local militia
there were nearly 4,c0o men in line
The review took place in the park eN-
tension, where an admirals salute was
fired by the Chatham Artillery from
brass pieces presented to the organiza-
ton by President George Washington.
Business, public and private, was sus-
pended from noon in honor of Admiral
Dewey.
BANQUET AT THE DE SOTO.
The climax of the occasion occurred at
the banquet at the De Soto Hotel tonight.
where the Admiral was presented with
a beautiful silver vase on behalf of the
city of Savannah by Hon. FIG. Dubginon.
The vaseSis elegantly engraved and stands
nearly three feet high on a marble base.
At the banquet table, General Nelson
J A. Miles, who arrived in the city this
evening too late for the military feature,
sat next to Admiral Dewey. While the
main, function was in progress COM
nittee of fifty ladies entertained Mrs.
Dewey at a banquet in an annex adj0in-
ing the banquet hall. Upon the conclu-
sion of the dinner. the ladies were ac-
Icommcdated with chairs in the main
room that they could hear the speeches.
6 Among the speakers were Judge Emory
Speer, of the United States Court: Sur
geon-General Wyman, Congressman
Brantley, of Georgia; ex-Attorney-Gen-
eral w. o. Smith. of Hawaii, and others.
In speaking Of the toast. 'The Presi-
dent of the United States, Judge Emory
Speer said in part:
While the administration OF Presi-
dent Mckinley. more Than any other,
save that of Lincoln, will afford to the
historian material at once. to attract.
to instruct and to thrill the students and
readers Of the future, it is nevertheless
true that his Americanism. while prompt
and purposeful in conviction and de-
cisive in action, has been cautious and
concllatory at home and abroad.
"The war was inevitable; its results
have followed in inevitable sequence.
THE GROWING GLORY
..By the supreme law of the land the
Philippine Islands became the territory
Of the United States with title as clear
as that which we have to Florida or to
any foot of that marvellous empire to
{ the westward of the Mississippi acquired
] by the Louisiana purchase. or by 'treaey
with Mexico. Who will say that the
President had the power or right to ig-
more his duty TO the American people
and to mankind in the territory thus
acquired:
1.-The administration of William a1cKin-
ley and its great achievements will re-
5ceive proud reconpense. He will live in
history as the first President who directed
the energies of this nation in a great and
successful war beyond he seas. .>Greater
civic renown may yet be his, but to my
mind the crowning glory of his life will
be found in those simple words of prof
sferel kindly national recognition of the
honor due the sacred ashes Of his once in
conlpa rable foes
This peroration refers to President, Nc
Kinley's recommendation that the graves
sof the Confederate dead should be cared
for by the ma ton.