The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-05-28
Come Down Hudson on Dis-
 patch Boat Dolphin
MANY HAPPY SPEECHES MADE
Ambassador cambon, In Replying to Address of Welcome, Said French men Would Be Glad to Live
 With Us Always.

New York, May 27-Count de Rocham-
 beau and the 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 Dol phin. As the Dolphin steamed up to the battery she was welcomed by salutes.
 Mayor Lows secretary, with Major Greer of General Roe's staff and Alder man Willett, chairman of the aldermanic reception committee, were waiting at the barge office. Lined up on the dock were hundred blue Jackets from the Gaulois- with. their bands and about double that number of United States sailors from the Kearsarge and Alabama All carried rifles and bayonets. A large crowd stood in a pouring rain and witnessed the de- barkation. cheering the visitors as they proceeded to carriages and escorted by the milit ary and platoon of mounted po- lice, were driven to the city hall. From the sidewalks on Broadway, the party was welcomed with the cheers and &C., clamations of thousands, while the big buildings which line the thoroughfare furnished a share of the applause from hundreds stationed at the windows.
 Welcomed By Mayor Low.
 Arriving at the city hall the Frenchmep were formally welcomed to the city by Mayor Low and President Fornies of the Board of Aldermen. Mayor Low pointed out to the visitors the writing table that Washington used when he was first | President of the United States. Mayor | Low and President Fornies of the Board l of Aldermen made brief addresses of well | come, Mayor Low saying:
 | MT. Ambassador and gentlemen of the
 Rochambeau commission, who so worthi-
 ly represent the republic of France: The | Mayor of the city Of New York carries on | his official business in the presence of l the portrait of Lafayette, who represents | to us Americans the generous ardor of 1 the French people for the ideals of politi- cal liberty. The representatives of New York are glad to have the opportunity to- cay of greeting your distinguished dele cation to acknowledge the services to this city of the French nation through the cooperation of the regular army and navy with the forces of the American colonies"
 Mayor Low reviewed what France had done for the United States during the revolution, and then formally welcomed the visitors to New York.
 Ambassador Cambon replied with thanks for the reception given the French
 mission. He continued:
 Ambassador cambon Replies.
 we will be very glad if we could live always with you in Am merica. We are very glad to have the honor to know you and the other distinguished persons whom we have met here in America. You know the more we are in America the better we like 1t. (Applause).
 .I 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 unveiling the statue of Rocham beau is remembrance of the two nations and of the friendship which always existed between Washing ton, Lafayette and Rochambeau, and these ceremonies will also act as re- membrance to the sons of France and America that the sons of Rochambeau and Washington, the citizens of the Uni | ted States and France, are as Rocham- | beau and Washington were, the finest and
 best friends in everything, in every way | for all time'
 l viewing stand on the Fifth avenue side | of Madison Square Park where the par 1 ty witnessed the parade of the New York | national guard and the American and | French sailors from the warships An
 immense throng gathered in the park. l After Count Rochambeau, Vice Admiral l Fourniere Generals Brugere and de Chan | delar and Ambassador Cambon had taken 1 positions on each side of Mayor Low, | the parade began. It was an hour and
 a half in passing the stand and $500 men l took part in it.
 French Delegates Honored. New York May 27.-The French dele | gates, at the dedication of the Rocham- beau memorial, were the guests of honor tonight at a banquet given at the Wal dorf Astoria hotel by the members of the order of the Cincinnati in commemoration of the victories of the American and French armies in the war of independ- ence and of the institution of the order.
 HELPING SUGAR TRUST.