The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-15
IN KIMBALL'S HONOR
JUDGE sPEER TENDERED A BRIL-
LIANT RECEPTION.
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING.
HEARD ABLE ADDRESS IN UNITED
STATES COURT ROOM.

FraternaI Feeling and Patriotic
Sentiment characterized the As
sembIy, in Which Were Included
Distinguished Sons of Rhode ISL
and, New York and Georgia.
Daughters of the American RevO-
luton Also in Attendance-When
Addresses Had Been Heard Those
Present Were Presented to Gov.
KimbaII.
The first occasion marking the cere-
monies of national significance Incl
dent to the refinement of Gen. Greene
and his son. was the brilliant recep-
ton rendered Gov. Charles Dean Kim
ball of Rhode Island by Judge Emory
Speer in the United States Circuit
Court room yesterday morning at 1920
o'clock.
Gov. Kimball did not arrive in Sa-
vannah until 9:35 o'clock. He was met
by the reception committee and driven
Immediately to the government build
ing where a brilliant assemblage an
ticipated his arrival. Judge Speer ex-
tended the address of welcome. which
was responded to by his excellency, the
Governor of Rhode Island.
Pregnant as it was with the frater-
nal feeling and patriotic sentiment
which was distinctively characteristic
of the august occasion, Judge Speer's
address touched a responsive chord
with his cultured audience. The reply
of Gov. Kimball was in most happy
vein, voicing most appropriately the
appreciation of the chief executive and
his patriotic fellow citizens.
1t was a gathering calculated to in
spire patriotism-a judge of the Unit
ed States judiciary in the Empire State
of the South. welcoming from the lit
tie sister state of Rhode Island-the
native heath of the great general
whose remains have for a century, and
more, reposed in Georgia's soil, her
chief executive and the representatives
of her General Assembly.
Distinguished Guests There.
There were present, too, many dis
tinguishd guests from a distance.
daughters and danes of illustrious
lineage, sons whose progenitors franz
ed the constitution and welded the in
dissoluble bond of fraternity between
the American and French peoples, rep
resentatives of those who bled for their
country at Bunker Hill. and suffered
sacrifice, with Washington at Valley
Forge, and even the lineai descendants
of the great chieftain in commemora-
ton of whose valiant services to his
country, the brilliant assemblage was
intended.
At the conclusion of Gov. Kimbalrs
address the court was adjourned so
that the audience might have an op-
portunity of meeting his excellencv
and the members of the Rhode Island
LEGISLATURE. The members of the COM
mittee from the Legislature of Rhode
Island present were Senator Horace +.
Horton, Senator James E. Bannigan,
Representative Francis w. Greene,
Representative Frank T. Easton and
Representative J. s@fey Brown.
Speer to His Guests.
In his address of welcome Judge
Speer said.
Your Excellency, Ladies and Gen
tlemen: 1t gave me great happiness
to grant the order sought by patriotic
members of the bar, which has resulted
in this suspicious meeting.
Indeed, all the facilities seem to con-
spire to make the incident appropriate.
The Governor of one of the thirteen
original states with an ennobling pa
triotic mission has come to visit the
people of another. These two states
have been and are about equally de-
voted to the Union of all the states.
1t is true that along in the early COS
for about four years Georgia tried to
go out, but for about the same length
of time after the constitution was
adopted Rhode Island stayed out, and
not until long after our first President
had been inaugurated did the charm
ing little sister come reluctantly pout-
ing into the family circle of states.
But since then what a devoted little
sister she has been and how we all
love her and how happy are we to well
come her chief magistrate!
And the spot on which we stand,
marked by this exquisite structure of
that government which Rhode Island
and Georgia at least will forever up
hold is itself eloquent with memories
Of that great past which made our
nation possible.
The ID. A. Il. 1913 Years Old.
Little more than a hundred and
twenty-three years ago the Daughters
of the Revolution OF that day. the for
bears Of many now present. covering
IN cellars within the sound Of my voice.
Rugged their little one 10 their aRon-
lied hearts as the mltraille Of cannon