Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-31
HONORS NAVY IN
WAR AND PEACE
VAST CROWDS FILL VENICE
AUDITORIUM
We're Godthwaite of Boston, Husband
of Ellen Beach YaW, Delivers
Grafton of Day to
Thousands
Special to The Herald.


VENICE, May 3O.-To honor the
memory Of the country's sailor and SOL
dier dead fully $4,000 persons visited
Venice today, although probably not
more than one-third that number were
able to gain entrance to the great over
sea auditorium where amid artistically
arranged decorations Of flags, shields
and flowers an assemblage that packed
the structure was thrilled by the elo-
quence of the most distinguished
gathering of Southern California patrl-
OTIS that has ever taken part in pro-
gram Of naval memorial exercises.
Seats in the center or the auditorium
were occupied by delegations from the
various military and naval organiza-
tions taking part in the exercises, while
in the boxes to the right were assem-
bled respectively the Ladies of the
Navy, the Ladies of the Army, the
wives of the speakers and a party
headed by Ellen Beach Yaw whose
singing was one of the most beautiful
features of the days exercises. The
services opened with an organ selection
by Josef Bruner, followed by the play
ing by the Venice of America band of
Paul de Longpres Memorial day
march, "The Nations Prayer and
Heroes Song" Chairman of the day,
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, who is a
graduate of Annapolis called the as
sembly to order and in address stating
the nature and importance of the oc-
casion, went back through the annals
of the nations wars at sea and on land.
setting forth the great sacrifices of life
which they had entailed.
The united friendship Of the north
and south was the burden Of an elo-
quent address by the Rev. Baker P.
Lee. Mr.. Lee, who is a southerner, said
he expressed the sentiments of the
south in stating that the bonds of love
and sympathy now existing could never
be severed and that the bonding of the
relationship was something that the
people of Dixieland have long since
come to view as having been blessing
and a merciful ending to the strife that
divided their interests and depopulated
their homes.
Gov. John L. Beveridge. representing
the Loyal Legion, and one of the rs
members of the organization present,
spoke along the lines of the nations de-
pendence on her young men to back her
in time of war. and of the grand man
ner in which they have responded to
her call in time past when national
conflicts could not be avoided.
Murphy Warmly Received
An ovation was extended to Francis
Murphy when the gray headed orator
stepped to the front of the rostrum, the
great assembly arising as one man to
pay its respects to him. In his CHAR
acteristic manner Mr.. Murphy moved
his audience from tears to laughter az
will and during his remarks at times
fairly made the auditorium rafters
yibrate with the ring of his eloquence
The grafton of the day, which was
delivered by We're Goldthwaite, Bostor
attorney who is the husband of Ellen
Beach Yaw, was most eloquently given
and was followed by the singing OF
1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner" by Miss
Yaw, which brought the auditorium
services to a most impressive and ap-
propriate close.
Goldthwaite's Speech
Mr.. Goldthwaites address follows:
aft Is fitting indeed that we should
nav this tribute of respect and love tc
the sacred memory of our naval dead
for the history of the American navy is
the brightest star that glitters in the
armament of nations.
"It is not only the history of the
unconuuersd but it is the history of the
unconquerable. -
eve celebrate not alone the memory
of the dead, but the heroism of the
living.
"Great and manifold as have been the
blessings of heroism in the past, that
of the future is none the less secure.
.'There are as many and as great
heroes in the navy today as any whose
memory we celebrate; 1t only need oc-
casion for them to show 1t.
every uniform in the service con-
tains hero and every uniform con-
tains a man. Each one, from the lowest
in,rank to the highest, stands ready anj
willing at any moment to give his life
for the holy cause of justice.
'This is courageous, and it is for this
reason that the navy of the United
States never met defeat in war nor dis
grace in peace.
realms of space.
at is as reliable as time and as
uncomfortable as destiny.
Always on Right Side
at has always been found on the side
of right, and it has reaped the grandest
victories of time.
"It has done for the sea what the
army did for the land. 1t has abolished
slavery. 1t was the first to strike the
fetter from a slave. In the days of its
infancy when England, the mistress OF
the seas was paying millions fol
tribute to the hideous pirates of the
Mediterranean, it sent the glitterine
dagger of justice square through the
heart and shield of piracy and tore the
brand of bondage from the face OF
every slave.
"The war of 1872 and that with the
Barbary states We're as much wars OF
freedom as the revolution or the re-
bellion, and to me they were the
grandest naval accomplishments of his
tory.
Nor is this all; it has contributed
so much to the success of our military
arms in every critical period of ou1
countrys history that neither the revo-
luton nor the rebellion could possibly
have terminated as they did without Its
assistance.
"As matter of fact too little atten-
tion has been paid, even by historians
to the glorious achievements and mag
nificant heroism of the officers and mer
of our matchless navy.
EVERY school boy knows about Lex
ington, Concord and Yorktown, but few
realize that yorktown would have beer
impossible and Lexington but memory
without the assistance of the Ameri'
can navy. Few know and fewer stop tc
consider that in the days of Lexington