Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08

" NTGhCIdl JOitIt anu
his party, not only because the peo-
pie or this city are sincere admirers
OF this great champion of democracy
put Tor the reason that when La
fayette was in America in 1925, he
was royalty entertained in Harris
burg.
1t was on Sunday, January 80,
1925, according to the Annals of
Harrisburg" that word was received
that Lafayette and his suite were on
their way to Harrisburg, riding in
carriages by way of York and Mid
dletown. Luncheon was served them
at Middletown and about o'clock
in the evening Lafayette, his son,
George Washington Lafayette. and
his party arrived in Harrisburg.
They were met by the Dauphin Cav
airy and escorted to the Governors
Mansion, where after an informal re-
ception the guests were entertained
over night
Next day General Lafayette was
waited upon by committee of the
Legislature, addresses being made on
both sides. A reception in the eXecu-
tive chamber at the Capitol followed,
at which he met the members of the
Legislature and State officials, and a
little after 10 the members of the
Dauphin County Bar waited upon
him in a body, George Fisher MAX
ing the address of welcome.
Visited Masons Here
At 2 o'clock he returned to the
Governors mansion and at s o'clock
in the evening figured in a reception
that has come to be one of the great
events in Masonic history in Harris
burg. Lafayette was an ardent Ma
son and he was escorted to the lodge
room of Perseverance lodge. where
he remained about a quarter of an
hour fraternizing with the men,
bers.
Tuesday at noon Lafayette was
again conducted to the Capitol, es-
corted by a corps of dragons under
! command of Major Forster, and
companies of volunteers from the
counties of Cumberland, Lebanon
and Dauphin and the rifiemen OF
town. His arrival was announced
by a salute of 13 guns under the
direction of Lieutenant Weise, OF
Carlisle. He was then introduced to
the Senate and sat "at the speakers
right hand" until the Senate ad-
journed. At 1 o'clock he was ten
dered a reception by the House and
afterward addressed the students OF
Dickinson College, who had come
down to meet him.
A subscription dinner was given
the distinguished visitor at o'clock
III hdNlhtN w llSOll . llONSi. CT NhAiSi
many we'll known men, including the
Governor and members of the Leg
islature, paid their respects. He led
the assemblage in singing Hail Col
umbia," and made a speech. We'd
nesday he departed with his retenue
for York, being escorted to the out
skirts of the city by volunteers who
assembled in Market Square.
The Nations Guest
If in 1894 ne1rlV fiftV wears
after he had first come to our shores,
with his own ship manned and out
fitted at his own expense, a young en-
thusiast of twenty years aroused by
the shot that was heard around the
world" to embark his lire and his for
tunes in the cause of American lib
erty that Lafayette returned. James
Monroe, who as a young subaltern
had been wounded on the same battle
field upon which Lafayette had shed
his blood-the battle of Brandywine
was then President of the United
| States. Three of his old-time friends
| Madison, Adams, and Jefferson
were eX-Presidents. His greatest
! friend-the man in whose military
| family he had served as trusted
! and honored officer and whose menu
ory he revered to the point of hom-
age-George Washington-had pass
ed away many years before. 1t was
new nation, with almost double the
original number of States, that
greeted him-greeted him with such
an outburst of enthusiasm and long
| nent-up gratitude that he was over
whelmed with the unexpected magni-
tude of the ovation, and the uncon-
trollable tears coursed down his
cheeks upon his first landing.
AS the Nations Guest
The occasion was the dedication of
| the Bunker Hill monument. He
came as the guest of the Nation--an
honor never before accorded for
eign nobleman-in pursuance of an
unanimous resolution passed by Con-
gress in recognition of the splendid
services he had rendered to the AM
erican cause. An American warship
was rendered him by President Mon
roe to convey him from France, but
this Lafayette declined, saying that
The pre- efeTred to come as a private
citizen to meet old friends and re-
new old associations. He sailed from
Havre, France, on ship OF the line
on July IL, 1924, accompanied by his
son, George Washington Lafayette,
and his secretary, NJ. Levasseur, and
he arrived in New York on August
lis, landing at Staten Island. One of
the first to greet him was Joseph
Bonaparte, brother of the great Ma
poleon, then residing at Bordentown,
New Jersey, and the interview be-
tween the two was marked by the
warmest emotions-the years that
had rolled between these two men
since last they met were charged with
most momentous events for both of
them.
As the fleet by which Lafayette's
ship was conveyed arrived off the
Battery at New York a military line
composed of thousands of the Veter-
ans OF the Revolution was formed
and the people crowding the Battery
and all the adjacent streets, swelled
; the throng to the number of forty
thousand, and as shout after shout