The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-18

and that or Mrs. Rarieh8 motners Mrs. | c. Livingston Ludlow, adjoinfng, were, by means of communicating doors, l thrown into one for the better accom- modations of the guests. Both houses were elaborately decorated. palms. pink roses and smilax being used in profu- sion.
 The President. with his niece lean- ing on his arm and preceded by the bridesmaids, passed into the drawing room through an aisle of white rib- bons. held 3y the usners. Rev. Endf- cott Peabody of Groton. Mass. per- formed the marriage ceremony. using the Episcopal ritual.
 Miss Alice Roosevelt and Miss Corr rinne Robison led the bridal process sion. followed by the Misses Helen De- lano, Helen Cutten, Muriel Delano Rob- bins and Isabelle Selmes.
 Lathrop Brown was best man and took the place of J. Roosevelt, cousin of the President and half brother of the bridegroom, who was to have acted in that capacity. bat was prevented by illness.
 About 100 guests were invited to the wedding and twice that number to the reception that followed.
 The President left the Parish resi- dence at 5 o'clock to return to the home of his aunt. Mrs. James Roosevelt Elaborate police arrangements had been made and besides a squad of nine mounted men who acted as an escort. policemen lined the streets and con- trolled all crossings. After short stay in the house of his aunt the President again emerged and was driv- en through cheering crowds to Dell monico's. where he attended the annual dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. The s9th Regiment. national guard. acted as escorts.
 Within a few minutes after entering Delmonico's, the President appeared on signal for the greatest demonstration of his visit. Cheer after cheer went up from the throngs. which grew by thousands. A loud voice called for a speech from the President. His quick ear caught it and he was seen to say something, but on account of the cheer ing. what he said was lost to those in the street. The 69th regiment again took up its line of march and was re- viewed by the President as 1t passed down Fifth Avenue. the band playing Hail to the Chief. and ''The White Cockade" in his honor.
 As the President returned into the building he was again cheered.
 Mir. RoOseve1t's Speech.
 The speech of Mir. Roosevelt at the dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick was as follows:
 Long before the outbreak of the Revolution there had begun on the soil of the Colonies which afterwards be- came the United States, that mixture of races which has been and still is one of the most important features in our hiss tory as people. At the time early in the Eighteenth Century when the immigrants from Ireland began first to come in numbers to this country, the race elements in our population were time the new Irish strain was clearly distinguishable from the others. There was a peculiarity about these immi- grants who came from Ireland to the colonies during the Eighteenth Gen. tury. which has never been paralleled in the case of any other immigrants whatsoever. In all other cases. since the very first settlements. the pushing primarily to the men of native birth. But the immigrants from Ireland in the Seventeenth century pushed boldly eddreSsn ed .as as the a the conqnering civilization on the bor- ders Of the Indianhaunted wilderness. In Maine and Northern New Hampshire. North Carolina, alike this was true.
 By the time the Revolution broke out these men had begun to mix with their fellows of other stocks, and they furnished their full share of lead ership in the great struggle which made us a nation. Among their mum ber was Commodore John Barry. one of three or four officers to whom our infant navy owed most. On land they furnished generals like Montgomery. who fell so glortously at Quebec, and Sullivan, the conqueror of the IroQuols, who came of a New Hampshire family. which furnished Governors to three New England States, while the ContI- mental troops of the hardest fighter among Washington's generals Mad Anthony Wayne were recruited so largely from this stock that Light Horse Harry Lee always. referred to them as the line of Ireland" Nor must we forget that of this same stock the Revolution who afterwards became the chief American general of his time, and as President one of the pub lie men who left his impress most deeply upon our nation. old Andrew
 Played striking Part.
 "In the second great crisis of our country's history--the period of the of Irish birth or parentage was no less striking than it had been in the Revo- lution. Among the three or four great generals who led the Northern army in the war stood Phil Sheridan. Some of those whom I am now addressing served in that immortal brigade which on the fatal day of fredericksburg left its dead closest to the stone wall Wnlcn HldTkcu thc hItiiAh ehdt SOuiu hoe be overpassed even by the highest hu- man valor.
 '"rhe people who have come to this country from Ireland have contributed to the stock of our common citizenship qualities which are essential to the well fare of every great nation. They are matserful race of rugged character "a race, the qualities of whose woman hood have become proverbial while its men have the elemental, the indfspensa- ble virtues of working hard in time of peace and fighting hard in time of war. In every walk of life men of this blood have stood, and now stand. pre-eminent as statesmen and as soldiers, on the bench, at the bar. and in business. They are doing their full share toward the artistic and literary development of the country. And right here let me make a special plea to you. We Americans take just pride in the development of our great universities, and more and more we are seeking to provide for original and creative work in these universities. l hope that an earnest effort will be made to endow chairs in American universities for the study of Celtic literature and for research in years that the extraordinary wealth and beauty of the old Celtic Sagas have been fully appreciated. and we of Amer ica, who have so large Celtic strain fin our blood. cannot afford to be be- hindhand in the work of adding to mod ern scholarship by bringing within Its ken the great Celtic literature of the past.
 All Americans.
 My fellow countrymen, l have spoken tonight especially of what has been
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