The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-05
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
IN NATIONAL CONVENTION
CARDINAL GIBBONS, GUEST OF
THE DAY, SPEAKS At
WooLSEY HALE.


Studley and President Hadiey Ex-
tend Welcome to City and Yale Uni-
verslty--Center Green MagniAcentIy
Observation-Disclosures to Guests at
City Hall by City odliciais--Band Com
certs.
The opening day Of the national cen
vention and general reunion of the
knights of Columbus was most aus
picious The weather was idea and
added bouyancy to the spirit Of
the enthusiastic visitors.
The crowds began to arrive Sunday
evening, but it was not until yester-
day afternoon that they began to ar
rive in great numbers. The guest Of
the day was His Eminence James Car
dinal Gibbons, d. D., archbishop OF
Baltipaore, who arrived at Ais O'clock
Besides his party he was accompanied
by large number of delegates, one
party Of 150 from New Jersey headed
by the Letter Carriers band Of New
ark acted as part Of the cardinaIsfes-
cort.
In the evening the central green pre-
sented a veritable fairly land of cul1rs
when the electric lights were turned on.
Streamers Of vari-colored lights radi-
ated from the f1agpole and terminated
in stars of light. Other streamers were
festooned about the pole. Holtss Amer
ican band entertained the great crowds
with patriotic and popular seleotDofls.
Shortly before o'clock hosts Of
knights turned their footsteps toward
Woolsey hail, where Prof. Horatio
Parker Of Yale gave an enjoyable re-
city, which was Of the usual high or
der on the Newberry organ. Prof.
Parker's programme was:
Johann Svendsen ....Coronation March
Russell King Miller ......... ..Nocttrne
| t4oratio Parker ..."....... ToccelClna
Jacques Lemmens. Fantasia in q minor
(rhe storln.l
! Maurice Lee ....... .Gavotte Louis XIV
George Frederick Handel
-. ...... :. :. ;. Largo from XHrxes
BY 8 o'clock Prof. Parker was g1vsng
the last number. 1t was then that Car
! dinal Gibbons arrived at the hall from
the home of Rev. John d. Coy5e, where
4 he and his party had been entertained
at dinner by Fathers Coyle and Ford.
Cardinal Gibbons was escorted to the
platform on the arm Of President Had
ley. amid showers Of applause from an
audience which completely filled the
immense hall Seated on the platform
were Cardinal Gibbons, President Had-
ley, Mayor John P. Studley Bishop
Tierney Of Hartford, Bishop Bevins Of
Springfield, Mass, Bishop Michaud Of
Burlington, VT, Mgr. Madden Of
Springfield, Mass, Father Edward
Brennan,an chaplain from Charles
town, Mass, Father John D. Kennedy
of Waterbury, and DIR. ]. j. Mccoy Of
Worcester, Mass. Father OaSullivan,
Father Delaney Of New Orleans and
DIR. Smith, the supreme medical exam
iner of the order.
Supreme Knight Hearn presided and
introduced Mayor Studley as the first
speaker. Mayor studley said;
MIR. Chairman, Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Our citizens, one and all, welcome you
and bid you feel that you are with and
among friends.
1t has been your pleasure to establish
your national home within the borders
of our city, where your organization
had its origin. That honor, I assure
You, is not lost upon our citizens.
This community has many historical
interests. New Haven was settled in
$685. Our ancestors had to contend
with many hardships and encounter
many foes. From your school days you
remember the Pequot war in which
they had hand. One Of the first COM
panies to set out on the march after
the battle of Lexington was the New
Haven company of the Governors Foot
Guard. That unique organization is
' still in existence, and on occasion turns
out in regimentals of 1T76.
The patriotic spirit shown by New
g Haven citizens in the early wars was
: undiminished in those of later years.
f And in the pursuits of peace cur city
y has been fortunate. Mechanical and
= inventive ingenuity is well represented
: here. winchester and Marlin rides,
t household hardware, carriages, clocks.
y rubber goods and machinery are few
: Of our products which are sold around
g the world.
d New Haven was one of the first cities
9 to establish free schools and the first
9 in the world to have telephone ex-
o change. New Haven men have added
many bright pages to the history Of our
country. BY their able conduct Of af-
fairs they brought lasting fame to
!. themselves and great honor to the city,
= May I summon especially a few
!. names well known even to you who
8 come from the ends Of our country:
f Roger Sherman, the only one who sign
d ed both the Declaration of Independ-
d ence and the Constitution; General Da.
!. vid Humphrey, Washington's aide
e Noah Webster, the great American lex.
:. icographer; Eli Whitney, inventor ol
9 the cotton gin; Charles Goodyear, in,
i ventor of the process of vulcaniztng
: rubber; Jedadiah Morse, Americas flrst
: geographer and father OF S. F. B
Morse, who invented telegraphy; alsC
General Terry and Admirals Gregory
and Foote. The graves of these and
other eminent men may be found in The
a famous burial ground across the street
/, It has the distinction Of being the frs
:, burial ground in the world to be lait
n out in family plots.