The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-22
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Annapolis, Md, May M-The initial IT. ception of the representatives q fno French republic. who are here to rsx(l
 pate in the ceremonies attendant upon IT unveiling of th4 Rochambeau monun1i6 in Washington next Friday ,tock plzcs - board the French battIeships Gaulols in Annapolis roadsya at o'clock today. 1os sides the Gaulois, there were anchored in the Severn. tho Dolphin. the dioucsolass the Indiana tho Chesapeake. the moni,sk Terrors the practice ship standish. t61 torpedo boat Gwynn and the submaz11a boat Holland. # q
 The Commissioners representing fh( United States. Col. Theo. F. HtnShan Superintendent of Public Grounds if Washington. Assistant Secretary of Gsato H. H. D. Peirce and Commandsr D. 1s| Rogers. embarked in the dispatch bc6e' Dolphin. and steamed out to meet fko| incoming Gaulois. which, with her Axnor@ ican escorts, the Olympia. Alabame m Kcarsarge. anchored ofk Greenborry Ro1of lighthouse, five miles below Annopo1iI. the American ships anchoring near bxS The 0aulois fired z-sun salute and t1p4 the United States commissioners boef4o1 her. being greeted with fifteen guns. AZ soon as the commissioners touched tna deck of the Gaulois they were elEusfveix greeted by General Brugeres Admiral FourEier and their stan officers.
 Those present as commissioners from France were as follows: General Brugeres Admiral Founier, General de Chande1ax, LIeutenant-Co Colonel Meaux Saint Maria lieutenant Colonel Hermites Conman61< Berthelot, Capitaine de Poiiloue de 1& z Mars. Capitaine Fillonau. Capitaino Len~ son, Lieutenant Commander Sauxalfo Jourdan, Lieutenant Commander de Heinr ach de Worth, Lieutenant Commandex Le Jay.
 After greetings had been exci1anxed, tho visitors were escorted to the cabin, where the brief ceremony of welcome and response at once took place. Assfafants Secretary of State H. H. D. Pierce spolk6 on behalf of the Government of the United States as follows:
 General: This commission now prez- ent has been charged by President Roose- welt to welcome you and your colleagues to the United States In his name. and to express his hope that you will enjoy your stay in our country and carry away with you an agreeable impression of the United States, it's institutions and people On behalf of our President, I bid you welcome"
 General Bruguere was nearly as briefs but no less cordial in his response. Ha said: &
 ''GentIemen: I thank you in the nams of President Loubet and the French peo- pie for the kind welcome which you have to us. It is very great pleas ure to me and my colleagues to visit you ' on such an occasion of international es- teem as the unveiling of tho Rochauibeau and am sure we will carrX back to France the most agreeable recol- { lection of our stay in your midst.
 Since our departure, one incident oe> cured which will stir the heart of every Frenchman in grateful recognition of American friendship, and this is the ir- mediate and munificent aid which was to our stricken fellow country-S men on the island of Martinique. Gen. Ilemen. I thank you for your generous 
 The American commissioners spent . pleasant half hour on the Gaulois and then returned to the Dolphin. Later In .he afternoon the French commissioners made return call upon the American on board the Dolphin, afs ter which the Dolphin returned to An- napolis.
 In the evening General Brugere and Ad- miral Fournier received at dinner Rear Admiral Higginson. Flag Lieutenant Evans and other American officers.