The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-15
RHODE ISLANDS DAY
VISITORS ATTENDED MANY FUNC-
TONS BESIDES GREENE REIN
TERMENT.
DINNER BY JUDGE BARROW.
IN HONOR OF GOV. KIMBALL AND
col. GARDINER.

visitors Spent the Morning at the
reception in U. S. Court, at the
OgIethOrpe Club and Cotton Ex-
chnnge-Were Allowed the Even
ing to ThemseIves-Party to Break
I'D and Start NOrthyvard To-day.
Some VIII Go Directly Home-GOv.
Kim5aII Says Reports of Rhode
Islands Efforts to Secure Re-inter-
ment of Gen. Greene in That State
Were Exaggerated.
Hon. Charles Dean Kimball Cover
nor of Rhode Island, Col. Asa Bird
Gardiner of New York, president of
the Rhode Island Society of the Gin
cinnati, and the members of the COM
mittee of the Rhode Island Legisla-
ture. visitors to Savannah for the re-
intement of the remains of Gen. Ma
thanael Greene, had a very busy
day of it yesterday.
In the morning, at 1880 o'clock they
visited the United States Court for the
reception rendered the members of the
various patriotic societies and their
guests, and at the conclusion Of this
function visited the Oglethorpe Clab
and later, the Cotton Exchange. re-
turning from the last place in time for
lunch at the De Soto.
1t was but a short time after lunch
when they entered the carriages and
Joined the parade for the unwilling of
the tablet on the vault in which Gen.
Greene's remains were found, and i'm
medately afterward were escorted to
the Greene monument in Johnson
Square, where the re-interment of the
remains took place.
After dinner at the De Soto the re-
mainder of the evening was left at the
disposal of the gentlemen, that is, there
was no set function, though many of
them were guests at informal affairs
or at the clubs. This refers only to
the members of the committee and the
guests other that his eXcellencY Gov.
Kimball and Col. Gardiner, for they
were guests of honor at a dinner
given them by Hon. Pope Barrow,
judge of the Superior Court of Chat
ham county, at his home on Jones
street, east.
The other guests at the dinner were:
Senator a. o. Bacon, Mr.. L. +. rave
nel Mr.. G.. w. Owens, Judge S. B.
Adams, Gen. w. w. Gordon, Mr.
Henry C. Cunningham and Mr.. W. G.
Charlton.
Col. Gardner and all of the Rhode
Islanders will leave the city to-day on
their trip northward. Hon. ]. Stacy
Brown will go to Chattanooga, Mr.
G.. w. G.. Carpenter will stop over in
Washington for a short visit, Capt
Charles H. Rowland Hon. James E
Bannigan and Hon. Frank T. Easton
will go via the Merchants & Miners
Line to Baltimore, while the remain
der of the party will take through
trains for home Col. Gardiner and
Senator Horton having given up theil
idea of a stop at Charleston.
Gov. Kimball was asked about the
statement that Rhode Island was dis
appointed in the fact that the remains
of the General Greene We're not giver
her for a re-interment in the hero's
native state. These statements, SAID
Gov Kimball, were very much exag.
gerated. AS a matter of fact the
state would have been very glad in.
deed to have had so famous a sor
rest in his native soil, but recognized
the fact that Georgia had the bes
claim on him and so was perfectly
willing to let the descendants of Gen
Greene settle the matter to their salts
faction.