New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-02
FAREWELL TO THE GAULOlS
COUNT DE ROCHAMBEAU AND OTHERS.
HOWEVER, WILL EXTEND
THEIR VISIT.

Boston, June 1.-The sentiments of gratitude
and affection which developed in the hearts of
the members of the mission that was delegated
by President Loubet of France to attend the
unwilling at Washington of the statue of the
Count de Rochambeau found final expression
this afternoon on the battleship Gaulois which
conveyed to this country the members of the
Rochambeau mission and which late this after
noon left Boston to return to the fatherland of
the delegates
A dinner was served on the battleship. All
the Presidents representatives were there, in
Guiding Herbert H. D. PIERCE, Third Assistant
Secretary of State; Colonel Theodore A. Bling
ham, of the United States Army; Commander
Raymond P. Rodgers, of the United States
Navy, and Edwin Morgan, secretary of the
Presidents commission. Massachusetts, was
represented by Adjutant General Samuel Dali
ton and the city of Boston by Mayor Patrick
A Collins The United States navy yard at
Charestown represented by Commandant
Rear Admiral Mortimer Johnson and others
Rear Admiral Francis J. Higginson was also
present, together with Captain Henry W. Lyon
and his flag lieutenant of the Olympia. All who
connected with the French Embassy at
Washington, headed by Jules Cambon. were In
attendance, while the members of the mission
itself all gathered to pay a final acknowledge
ment to their American welcome
For the women there present Nine.
Cambon. the wife of the French Ambassador;
the Countess de Rochambeau, Mrs Herbert HI.
D. PIERCE. Nine. de Margerie. Nine. Vignal. Mrs.
johnson and the Misses Johnson. the wife and
daughters of the admiral; the Misses Col
Inns, daughters of the Mayor of Boston, and
others.
The afterdeck, where the dinner served.
was transformed into a bower of beauty.
Above canopy was suspended, under which
arranged the flags of the French and the
American republics. Fully two hours were con-
sumed in the repast. Eventually General Bru-
gere. who occupied a seat at the head of the
table, proposed toast Speaking in French, he
said:
the France and America of 100 years ago. but the
Ioubet Of France and 10 President RooseveIt ~
the United States.
Rear Admiral Higginson responded.
Lieutenant Colonel Meaux SaintMarc, the
personal representative of President Loubet,
testified to his great pleasure at being delegated
as member of the mission by the head of the
French Republic. 1T is an honor here to-day"
he said lin the name of the President of France
to hold my glass and drink to the President of
your country, Theodore Roosevelt"
Vice-Admiral Fournier wished he said to
give assurance of the bonds of friendship be-
tween France and America. and he pledged his
word that if any American naval officer came to
the shores of France he would receive the same
welcome that had been given here in America
to the representatives of the French Republic.
When the Gaulois steamed out OF the harbor
accompanied by the battleship Kearsarge and
the cruiser Olympia she fired the national sa-
lutte of twenty-one guns. which returned by
the Olympia Then at Boston Light. where
the escortlng squadron took leave of the French
man OF war the same cruiser fired a salute of
seventeen guns, in honor of General Brugere.
and a salute of fifteen guns, in honor of Vice
Admiral Fourier.