The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-28
VISITED WEST POINT
FRENCH VISITORS SAW MILITARY
INSTITUTE.
THEN RUSHED TO NEW YORK.
ARRIVED IN RAIN AND REVIEWED
THE CITY TROOPS.

Rather Damp Welcome They Got
at New York Battery, but Mayor
Low Was Very Cordial at the City
Hall-CaIIed Attention to Lafay-
cites Portrait in the Mayors Office
and the Table Which Washington
Used First President-Veteran
Artillery Corps of 1912 Guarded
Reviewing Stand-Parade Took an
Hour and n Half to Pass.
New York, May 27.-Count de Roch-
ambeau 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 4
O'Clock in the afternoon. They came
down the Hudson on the United States
dispatch boat Dolphin. AS the Dol
pin steamed up the Battery salutes
were fired.
Lined up on the dock were 100 blue
jackets from Gaulois with their band
and about double that number of
United States sailors from the Kear-
sarge and Alabama.
A large crowd stood in a pouring
rain and witnessed the declaration,
cheering the visitors as they proceeded
to carriages, and, escorted by the mill
tary and a platoon of police were
| driven to the city hall From the side
walks on Broadway the party was
welcomed with cheers and acclama-
lions of thousands. while the big build
lngs which line the thoroughfare fur
n1shed share of the applause from
! hundreds stationed at the windows.
Countess de Rochambeau absented her
self from the procession.
Arriving at the city hall, the French
men were formally welcomed to the
city by Mayor Low and President
Fornes of the board of aldermen.
! The Mayor called the attention of
| the Frenchmen to the writing table of
/ Washington by saying:
! This is the writing table that Wash
| ington used when he was first Presi-
| dent of the United States"
The visitors looked at it with great
interest.
The visitors were presented to the
aldermanic committee. and all adj
journed to the council chamber The
room was crowded with city officials.
President Fornes, who welcomed them
| in brief address.
Mayor Lows Address.
The visitors were then shown to seats
and Mayor Low began the welcoming
address. He said
''The Mayor of the city of New York
carries on his offcitl business in the
presence of the portrait of Lafayette
| who represents to us Americans the
| generous ardor of the French people
| for the ideals of political liberty. The
representatives of New York are glad
to have the opportunity to-day in
| greeting your distinguished delega ton,
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"
Ambassador Cambon replied briefly,
speaking of the friendship of the two
nations and paying a compliment to
the American people.
The ceremony concluded with the
address of Ambassador Cambon. Car
riages were then taken and the visitors
| and government and city officials were
driven to the reviewing stand where
they were TO witness the parade of the
New York National Guard. and the
| American and French sailors from the
| warships.
Viewed the Parade.
The reviewing stand had been erected
| in Madison Square Park. on the Fifth
avenue side 1t was prettily decorated
| and surrounding it were detachments
| of the veteran artillery corps of 1912.
An immense throng had gathered in the
| park as the detachments of sailors rom
! the French warship Gaulois, and the
vessels composing the American squad
| ron marched up Fifth avenue and took
positions facing the platform.
After Count Rochambeau Vice Ad-
miral Fourier, Gems. Brugere and de
Chalendar and Ambassador Cambon
had taken positions on each side of
Mayor Low, under the canopy at the
front of the stand, Maj. Gen. Rowe and
| his staff rode past at the head of the
head of the parade of the citizen SOL
| diery.
The parade was an hour and a half
in passing the stand and $500 men took
part in it. Count Rochambeau ex-
| pressed himself as highly pleased with
the display made by the citizen SOL