Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-05-14
UNITED STATES NAVY.

Capt Henry G. Colby, retired
| Oficers OF the army twenty-six.
| Officers of the navy four
We are making this n Second cavalry
| night or special feature of our ban
| quet, and right nobly has the regiment
| responded to our invitation to be present.
| This regiment has been stationed here
| before and made a large number of warm
] friends In Burlington. Everyone re-
| GREETED the order for the 10th cavalry to
| leave Fort Ethan Allen and take station
| on the southern border, but when it was
| learned that the Second cavalry was to
replace 1t and old friends were to re-
turn, there were no more protests to the
change.
We hope the Second cavalry officers
and ladies will have good time to-
night, so good that all the officers eligible
for this commandery may be induced to
join. We know there are quite a num-
Der who are sons Of distinguished army
and navy officers that are eligible, and
we can assure them of a hearty welcome
IL they will come into this commandcry.
We welcome the ladies present here to-
night, and our guests one and all. | have
belonged to four different communicates
and this is the first at which the ladies'
have been admitted except in the CALLER
les, where they could look down upon their
husbands partaking of a fine dinner,
while they were left with nothing to
allay their growing hunger. In this the
Vermont commandery Is ahead of them
I all. We enjoy the presence of the ladies.
We are grateful to the Van Ness for
the fine dinner it has served US. not only
| tonight but at all of the May banquets
since the organization Of this com
mandery.
To be selected ms commander OF the
Vermont commandery is an honor
fully appreciate and for which l thank
my companions.
SECOND CAVALRY WELCOMED
General Miller called upon Mayor
James E. Burke to welcome the Off
GERS of the 2nd cavalry, who were the
guests of the Loyal Legion at the
| banquet. He said that no man had
shown our neiEhbors at Fort Ethan
Allen greater hospitality than the
mayor. Mayor Burke responded with
n speech bristling with patriotism and
burning with sentiment. He welcom-
ed not only the End cavalry but all
present and eXhorted them to a love
Of country in the future such as they
had shown in the past.
General Miller next called upon Col
onel Nicholson. In introducing him
he made mention of the colonels dis
tinguished record and also took that
opportunity to express the gratitude
OF those present to the regiment for
sending their band to provide music
during the banquet. He expressed the
wish that n number of eligible officers
among them might become members
of the Loyal Legion.
Colonel Nicholson replied in a par
ticularly graceful speech in which he
protested repeatedly that he was no
speaker, yet proved the contrary. He
told in n humorous way of his arri-
val in Burlington in the dead of WIN
ter and of the frequent assertions of
the people that spring had really
come. invariably foil lived by fall
of snow-sugar snow they insisted
upon calling it. lie spoke in very
appreciative manner of the people and
conditions here as he observed them
They were thriftier than some he had
seen and had better homes.
George F. Martin, commander Of
Stannard Post, G. A. r., was called
upon next, and spoke, with great
deal of feeling, of the war times and
the lessons of patriotism he had learn
ed then.
DIR. GRISMER'S ADDRESS.
The long address of the evening was
delivered by the Rev. c. V. Grismcr.
Or. Grismer had the stirring subject
10
Civil War" In opening, he spoke of
the lack of memorials to the women
who displayed patriotism and played
great parts in the history of the coun-
try. To almost everyone else who
came within the description of patriot.
there was some monument. But the
memorial to patriotic womanhood was
absent
DR.. Grismer told of the great serv-
Ices of women to the country in times
of need. He spoke at length of the
marvellous work of Harriet Beecher
stowe, how she stirred up the coun-
try and did as much as any other
single human agency to precipitate
the struggle which freed the slaves
He told Of the way in which the sim
pie faith of Uncle Tom moved the
cynical Heinrich Heine He told of
the work of other women: of the
nurses who went hravely to the front
ana dld their work of mercy there:
OF the work of Clara Barton, of Char
iotte Cushman. He dwclt on the in
SEPARATION given by the great battle
hymn or Julia Ward Howe. Those
were times Of noble men and women
He said that the greatest heroism of
that heroic time was not always the hero
Ism or the men who stood in the line of
battle or of the women who did spectacu-
lar work. but the women who suffered at
home with the children, with everything
to lose and battles to fight, of loneliness,
and fear for loved ones.
Dr. Grismer proposed monument to
the women of our Civil War.
After DIR. Grismer had concluded his re-
marks, Ex-Governor L. A. Woodbury. told
OF such monument which has already
Deen provided for by the national govern
ment and by private subscription.
The evenings exercises closed with the
singing of America.
THEFT MYSTERY SOLVED.