Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-28
FRENCH VISIT EMPIRE CITY
ROchambsau Mission Goes from West Point
to New York.
MAYOR LOW AND CITIZENS WELCOME THEN
warm words of International Friend
shIp Exchanged by the Mayor
and Cambon in Their
Addresses.

NEW YORK, May 27.-Count de Rocham-
beau and others of the party OF French
delegates, after passing most OF the day in
journeying to West Point and reviewing
the cadets there. arrived in this city
shortly before o'clock in the afternoon
They came down the Hudson on the United
States dispatch boat Dolphin. As Dolphin
steamed up to the battery three salutes
we're fred, two Of thirteen guns each for
Vice Admiral Fournier and Assistant Sec
retary Of State Peirce, and one Of seven
teen guns for Ambassador Cambon. re-
ceptiop committee awaited the party at
the Barge ONCE.
Arriving at the city hall the Frenchmen
were formally welcomed to the city by
Mayor Low and President Fornes OF the
Board of Aldermen. Besides the French
men were the presidential delegates, Colonel
T. A. Bingham, Commander Raymond P.
Rogers and their aides. Among those In
the mayors room we're Ambassador Porter,
former Secretary Of the Interior Cornelius
N. Bliss, former Mayor Robert A. Van
Wyck and a number OF city ofhcials.
While the party waited In the mayors s
ONCE for the aldermanic committee to ar
rive, the mayor called the attention Of the
Frenchmen to the writing table Of Wash
ington by saying: This is the writing ta-
BILE that Washington used when he was
first president OF the United States" The
visitors looked at 1t with great interest
Address of Welcome.
The visitors were then shown to seats
and Mayor Low began the welcoming ad-
dress. He said:
Mr.. Ambassador, and Gentlemen of the
Rochambeau Mission, Who So Worthily
Represent the Republic of France:
The mayor Of the city of New York car
ries on his official business in the presence
of the portrait of Lafayette. who repre-
sents to us Americans the generous ardor
Of the French . people for the Ideals deals Of Of
New York are glad to have the opportunity
today, in greeting your distinguished dele
cation, to acknowledge the services to this
city Of the French nation through the CO.
operation of the regular army ana naval
forces of the American colonies.
The decisive battle resulting from this
cooperation was fought at Yorktown, upon
| the soil OF Virginia but II ushered in the
city, where Washington bade farewell to
| the officers who had been his comrades IN
arms at the end of the revolutionary war.
the cooperation of France, but even the
| service of the volunteer, Lafayette, and of
army and navy do not comprise all that
\ we owe TO the generous nation whom you
| represent.
Supplied Sinews of War.
You freely supplied the American force
another form has made the French name
Of lie Bon Homme Richard as familiar
in, our ears as Yorktown itseH These
| grateful remembrance. but we do not for
| get that France itself has interpreted their
/ the people have placed in our beautiful
| harbor of Liberty enlightening the world.
Tss Is ae sbonS s1S tsr1
| the path that civilization itself must fol-
low with the procession of the sun.
France in the domain of political liberty
than we owe to her In the hne example she
sets OF freedom in in the domain o. s,Pt Of ar. art.
but the whole world goes to the French
school of the beautiful arts. but under the
france ss has become the m teacher @ OF the he na a.
| tions. For all these reasons and many
others that might be told have the honor
to welcome you in the name of the city OF
New York to our beloved city.
Ambassador CambOn Replies.
Ambassador Cambon replied to the
mayors address, saying:
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mayor and Gentle
men and Representatives of the City of
! New York: 1 thank you very much for the
Sne ner y efrPSn Wch bs yoS nave We
| the French mission. The president OF the
! French republic has sent you the most dis
tinguished representatives OF the French
army, of the French navy. OF French
| science and OF French commerce and of
| French art, because we know that France
| is represented among you by the arts and
| the sciences. We would be very glad II
we could live always with you in America.
! We are very glad to have the honor TO
! know you and the other distinguished per-
| sons whom we have met here In America.
| You know. the more We are In America the
| better we like It, (Applause.)
| 1 am sure that my countrymen, when
] they get back to France will say TO their
| countrymen in France that the Americans
| are the finest people they know of. This
| ceremony of unwilling the statue of Ro-
| chambeau is the remembrance of the two
! nations and the friendship which always
existed between Washington, Lafayette
| also will act as a remembrance to the sons
| OF France and America that the sons OF
| Rochambeau and Washington. the citizens
| OF the United States and France, are as
| Rochambeau and Washington were. the
| finest and best friends in everything In
| every way and for all time.