Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-28
fDENCHPARIY GREETED
Count de Rochambeau and
French Delegates Formerly
Welcomed to New York.
Mayor Low and Vice Admiral
Fournier Make the Formal
Speeches.
New York Thanks France Tor
Statue OF Liberty Enlightens
ing the World

most of the day in journeying to West
Point, and reviewing the cadets there,
arrived in the city shortly after 4
o'clock. They came down the Hudson
Dolphin. AS the Dolphin steamed up to
the battery three salutes were fired
two of thirteen guns each for NiceAd
mral Fourier and Assistant Secretary
Pierce, and one of seventeen guns for
Ambassador Cambon.
Mayor Lows secretary, w. NJ. Smith,
with Major Greer, of General Roe's
staff, and Alderman Willett, chairman
of the aldermanic reception committee.
were waiting at the barge office. Lined
up on the deck were 100 blue jackets
from the Gaulois, with their band, and
about double of that number of United
States sailors from the Kearsarge and
Alabama. All carried rifles and bayo-
nets. A large crowd stood in pouring
rain and witnessed the debarkation,
cheering the visitors as they proceeded
to carriages, and, escorted by the mill
We're driven to the city hall. From the
sidewalks on Broadway the party was
welcomed with the cheers and accla-
nations of thousands, while the big
buildings which line the thoroughfare
furnished a share of the applause from
hundreds stationed at the windows
Countess De Rochambeau absented
herself 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. Be
sides the Frenchmen there were the
presidential delegates. Col a. /. Bfng-
ham, Commander Raymond p Rogers
and their aides. Among those in the
mayors room were Ambassador Porter,
former Secretary of the Interior Cor
relius N. Bliss, and former. Mayor
Robetr a. VanWyck.
In a brief address Mayor Low well
coined the visitors, and while waiting
for the aldermanic committee to arrive,
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 president
of the United States"
The visitors looked at it with great
interest AS the aldermanic committee
came in, the visitors We're presented TO
the members of it and all adjourned to
the council chamber The room was
crowded with city officials. The French
men were presented by President -Four
nier, who cordially welcomed them in an
address in which he said:
"'rhe noble, historic event which your
soiourn in our country commentaries,
awakened a precious memory of the he
roic deeds of your kindred and country
men in the establishment of a republic
can form of government where the on
ly sovereign is the will of majority
of its citizens We representatives of
the city of New York express in it's be-
half the hope and of enduring friend
ship between the citizens of our beloved
country so that, as governments Gre
ate histories, the brighten the pages
thereof will record the blessings and
prosperity of the French and American
reublics.
May the same noble spirit which
prompted the valiant Marshal Rocham-
beau and his loyal comrades ever be
alive in the birth. growth and stability
of republican forms of government, and
the entwined flags of France and the
United States reminding us of the I'M
ion of heart and hand of Washington
and Rochambeau, be typical of the bond
of friendship and good will between the
young and vigorous republic of the old
and powerful and progressive repub-
lie Of the new world.
1--WE trust your visit to the nation
your kindred so materially helped TO in
augurate in career of greatness will
ever be the cause of pleasant mutual
recollections.
The visitors were then shown to seats
and Mayor Low began the welcoming
address. He said in part:
The representatives of New York are
glad to have the opportunity today in
greeting your distinguished delegation,
to acknowledge the services to this city
of the French nation thru the cooper
alton of the regular army and navy
with the forces of the American colon
les. The decisive battle resulting from
this cooperation was fought at York
town upon the soil of Virginia but it
ushered in the historic scene at
Frances Tavern in this city, where
Washington bade farewell to the Off
GERS who had been the comrades in
arms at the end of the revolutionary
war This fortunate result was di-
rectly due to the cooperation of the
French, but even the services of the
volunteer Lafayette and of Rocham-
beau and DeGrasse of the French army
and navy do not comprise all that we
owe to the generous nation which you
represent. You freely supplied the
American forces with the snews of
war; and your help in another form has
made the French name of lie Bon
Homme Richard as familiar in our ears
as Yorktown itself
"These things we of the city of New
York hold in grateful remembrance.
but we do not forget that France itself
has interpreted their permanent sig
nificance by the statue that the French
people have placed in our beautiful
harbor of Liberty enlightenng the
world This is the deep and interna-
tional purpose of liberty-that il
should throw light upon the path that
civilization itself might follow with
the progress of the sun.
I'VE of America do not owe more
to France in the domain of political
liberty than we owe to her in the fine
example she sets of freedom in the do