The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1903. UETERANS ATTEND BIG RECEPTION AT THE PAUILION -+ g FORMALLY WELCOMES UISITORS Jvi ayorr ';:lTIIS Over the City to Joldiers. TR Bids Them Welcome in Behalf of Citizens. was ayed every arose and remained y relieved and in most cases 99 ely cured by the use of This scientific gernsicide is abso- iutely harmless:; it subdues the ation of the mucous mem- the stomach, and by re- e cause, effects a cure, rded by leading phy- ute and see that . Trial size, You can get-on without Schilling’s Best - cofiee baking powder spices favoriog extracts soda course; but why should you? Moceyback, at your grocer's. £ 2 T L LLL L . | | GEN. o Shi9 FTER IS AASE TN onerw s AR ANNA PALE S o From s, PRSI OENT VRS ef TS &.p o %, g — >~ — Commander-in-Chief Stewart of Grand Army of the Republic Addressing a Large Audience at the Pavilion T P m P P P Rm Pm Pm P P P m P P P P P P M R n Pm Rm m Pm P P R m Em P P Pm Rm Pm Pm P R n P Rm Mm Rm Pm P P R P Bm Pm e m R R Pm M THE REDIED. | : | CHANGE lies on the city's streets, its traffic waves are stilled, Yet brighter far its walks to-day, by cheering thousands filled; 3 For here besides the ocean wave, with fife and beat of drums, From lands beyond the sunrise hills, a welcome army comes. A With drooping banners dulled and torn and guns that battles knew— Old eyes look forth from ’neath the caps, gray hairs shade every brow, And steps that once were firm with youth are slow and faltering now. i HAT recks it if the battle’s fame in storied praise is_told, Or if the fight's forgotten name no written pages hold? Brave men were they who fearless went to meet the leaden fate, A Tribute to the Grand Army of the Republic at the Encampment at N army of the olden time, in lines of faded blue, And laurel crowns each whitened brow because their souls were great. OUR years of danger, toil and strife—of battles lost and won— ’Mid frozen winter’s icy blasts or blaze of summer sun. ] 'Neath haughty Europe’s scornful sneer or thoughtless kindred's blame, They saved the land our fathers gave and ended Slavery's shame. NNo lust of conquest steeled their hearts, such as the tyrant wears. But love of home and native land and Justice stern and high, And love of Freedom led them forth with faith to do and die. ¥ HEY come from where the prairie grass and golden cornfields And where New England’s forests bend beneath the winter sng:vo;w’ And these are from the rolling hills by broad Ohio’s stream, And these are from the northland where Lake Erie's waters gleam. O thirst for glory led them on, no love of war was theirs: TOROR OO KOO OO OO XY » NCE more the reveille is heard, once more the calls resound, And hearts that feel the weight of years with quickened pulses bound. Bright memory calls the past to view and lights each faded eye, VICTORS in the fiercest fight that ere on earth was made For human rights and human hopes! ybur fame can never fade: 9 And countless millions vet to live will tell the tale again— The story of the greatest war for liberty of men. And comrade meets with comrade old beneath this Western sky. ND you who stand with careless gaze and thoughtless, vacant smiles, To see the thin ranks marching past with broken, halting files— A Think not that thus they came when first they heard the bugl Upon the grass-grown battlefields of forty ycars ago. 5 e blow :' THINK not that we whose lives began long since those fateful days Can ere forget your service true or stint your well earned praise. Your presence here in army blue rolls back the gathering years, And thrills the heart with feelings full and blinds the eye with tears. F\th old-time tramp of marching feet and mock of war’s array. Take then these lines as tribute due your glorious memory, And as a welcome to the land beside the sunset sea. JOHN D. GALLOWAY, - Oakland. © M Fm P e P P R R R P R R Fm Ru R n R R Rw P ey g P e P R P P Mg P M P P PR R e P R P P R R R R @ standing until the familiar melody Was in the darkest days, un - e Stars and Sthpes. you' » : finished. Then a burst of cheers express- | | [0 % "oc B "r.’:mr.m:" s et to | ed the feelings of the patriots who were | was over vou handed to future gencitiors present. Governor Pardee was to havé | let us hope forever, the flag of & eemes ong welcomed the veterans in behalf of the | POWerful nation, strong, self-reliant, yet just State and in his absence General Shafter and generous. (Applause.) said he knew how the Governor felt to- LOYAL TO THE FLAG. ward the Grand Army. He regretted his And now, A s e Lt Skl 1t was GaayaiAbla tar- | 70U bive sotis West for vevins SNmRT. ing to iliness. He introduced Mayor Eu- ;’{mg’l;rdrendm strife, west to the farther gene E. Schmitz, who delivered the wel- ® Of our great continent, to a land where come of San Francisco to the visiting man and nature vie to give you wele 3 welcome to the homes and o the heari ar s veterans and their families. He spoke as tollows: Deople loyal and devoted to the principles for Fellow-Americans, Men and Women of the which you fought. loval to our count {o outr ":h:' lndlfllled with regard nmriyw.i,('g ove for the survivors of the 2o Grand Army of the Republic: In preserving beriy, lberty ot the republic you established an empire—an empire_over the hearts of the American peo- HESE men once stood at bay, perhaps, when burst the battle flame In Shiloh's woods, or Vicksburg's swamps, on Bull Run’s field of shame; % Maybe this rank now tramping by once heard the rebel yell i Upon the heights of Gettysburg, when ecarth was changed to hell! | ND some once drove the Southern foe across the Tennesse /4 And some once marched with Sherman’s men through Georgi. And some at Fredericksburg once passed the ri\'c‘i's ‘_flg?zsxflcfroethc izl And some at Richmend saw revolt go down to rise no more. : ROM out the great heroic past you come to us to-day San Francisco, August, 1903. XA AN YRR RN RO AR | : | v b e Ve B e b e Tl e el el T Rl e e @ of war are now of the past and forgotten and where, in one great brotherhood, the sons of the South join with those of the North. of the East and of the West in extending this welcome In token of a nation absolutély solid- ifled and a country completely reunited. (Ap- plause.) Veterans of the war and those who have come with you, the city of San Francisco 1s now yours. (Great applause.) GENERAL_STEWART REPLIES. Commander Stewart was Introduced and responded on behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic. He proved an orator of ability and his speech was listened to with deep interest by his auditors. He spoke as follows: Mr, Chairmas der the Inspiration of captain of the battery and h that time and the com der of the battery turned to him and said: “Would you ltke to use my glasses to look out over the field?* The aid replied: ‘‘Great God, no. I am scared lr;'e(lf lh‘v&llhh"lh.\l 1 see with just the naked “0;‘ U‘-nlxh: T.) That Is largely my posi- have looked about this il the roof and between the walls, {ncluding the young ladies and the young gentlemen and these old bald-headed fellows; I can mix up everything in this building and tie it up to the old days except “‘water splits.”” (Laughter.) ‘We never had them. (Continued laughter.) RECALLS THE PAST. But speaking seriously, ard only for a mo- ment—I have had two days of very hard of an undivided nation and an entire people. (Applause.) On behait of the eitizens of San Francisco, irrespective of class, condition or former affiliation, I, her chigf magistrate, bld you a cordial welcome. 1 bid you welcome on the part of those who wore the gray as well as for those who wore the blue, and for their children and their children’s children. GROWTH OF THIS CITY. 1 bid you welcome for a city which, until recently but an outpost of our national life, is now fast becoming one of its great centers. I welcome you to the scene of our present national activities and point to you the great ocean on which in the time about ‘to come American enterprise, American progress and American patriotism are destined to play a most important part. (Applause.) 1 welcome you to this western shore, beyond known to history, for liberty, lbert: thought, liberty of action, liberty of periugn.“ We have had another war since, a war aiso Comeades of the Grand Army - : 3 of the Republic, Ladies and Gentlemen and pie_an empire where gratitude, affection and | waged (or,ohe Drinciples of justice and of | which and far, far toward the setting sun | Friends: I do not know that in all my expe. | work. and I shall not attempt at this time pairiotism rule supreme, and where the Star. | persal Tty, @ war which to be sure has | rises a new sphere of national actlon, a mew | rience I have ever appreciated so fully or felt | any finished address In response to the elo- e 3 o or American achievement, where can | pression as I do at this mome: y this assemblage, with the = of our love and devotion to our unifed country, | also served to wipe out completely all feelings | arms and American valor have already estab- &'mm..- and on this occasion. As I look out | forms, flags, corps n:'un.' mub-dm.n‘"' lfi:‘r:l and tp you, heroes of the conflict which main- tained us a nation, (Applause.) Men of the war of '61, in those troublous times you fought East, North and South for the integrity and unity of our common land; of difference between those who were in the great war adversaries and antagonists, and has made the Grand Army of the Republic in fact and In spirit as also In name, the represerita- tives of the patriotic principles and thoughts lished an expansion of our national greatness and an extension of our national glory. 1 welcome you to San Francisco, queen city of California, metropolis of the commercial life of our Pactfic Ocean, where the bitternesses over this ‘‘sea of faces’” I an reminded of « story of the war that is told of an ald to a general officer at Gettysburg who was sent with an order to a captain of a battery in the thick of the engagement. He rode up to the in this pavilion, as they did to me overwheim- ingly the days that are gone: must have re- called the fields of carnage. of strife and of peril. it seems~= me that we hear azain | | | fallen brave to whom death came AUDIENCE APPLAUDS SPEECHES |Commander Stewart Recalls Old Memories. Speaks in Glowing Words of Past Dictories. & the shouts of victory and the groans ¢ victory. Such memc forever, and th my Those wers this land of ours; | years that are goi | parting, and we | in the Villages hear the speeches that stirring musie, and we o | company and’ the day and see the wa most feel the {'in this day ana than forty years great and terrible For four long yea Union army and ate army battled long years they and as the gr the land were forth and take his pla PEACE OVER And when fn 1 conflict, there c an end can see the m ng ranks. THE LAND. an insy Applause.) hung out as’ i he sky, the sayings tain that shall neve: be forgo out, “We will fight it out takes oll summer’ heers): and out, as if on the banner from the heavens. Unconditional su: er. (Renewed cheers.) And then between the armed legions of blue and of gray that had faced each o years in deadly combat and had m great and magnificent leadershi soldier of the ages, the Grant oms between the lines uncovered and asking, Let us have peace.”” (Applause.) Seventeen years a bulding in a great campfire a Army of the Republ the entertainment was never forget as long as I that came on my mind that nk here sang the “Battle H hotograp ady i and stirred that great a respo; to an enco Home,'* and I saw th ful and still and at a campfire of public held only se here again in Califorr city of San Francis from this day th war for the supy average about S1 have reaped a rich will have been ¢ most overripe flel But We come now tle flags, which will be of your magnificent city here to hol an organization t unmatched in ganization without a a successor. And soon th X [ qule paraded e time e shail ns that republic one single surviving soid of the war for the suppression of the reb But the flag that they saved shall still float the banner of this great republl altars shall burn the fire an her freedom. Sustained by sped by the a t of ltberty an doubly safe. And this is what Army cf the Republic shall represent generations yet to be. ACCEPTS GENEROUS WELCOME. o cent pres. And now, ence and tor the Grand to-night sn_this pat A the great hosts who are to the State at their homes, ng of comrades in this far-away city, many of them brave soldiers of the republic in time of war fghting her battles bravely and successfully but, unfortunately. fighting the bat to-day unsuccessfully. 1 a disabled by wounds and disease for every soldier of the republic that is not here to-night. I acc it for the patriotic _ boys that would gladly be Bere at this reunion of the Grand Army of and who await our return and o com- the Republic, bid us welcomne to our several hom munities. 1 accept it for the Gra y of the Republic that carries upon its rolls to-day 260,000 of as brave men, soldier and saflor, ched under ban- s of & man-of- fon that dur- 903 has been places of nd of ours, as ever battled for a flag. ma slippery _dec true trust and responsibility in thi and two of whom feil in the highest executive station within the gift of this mighty people and taught the American people how a soidier an fight in war and dle in peace—the brave Garfield and the eloquent McKinley. CONGRATULATES CITY. 1 bring to you and to this and And now, sir. State and this city the congratulations the salutations of the Grand Army of ¢ public for all the glory that is ours for all the progress and hope and promi is in the future; and congratulatio 1598 the boys in blue and the boys rallied under the stars and stripes and it out through the Golden of civilization and progress; c: antly and welded together %o that to-day we are one D flag, one God, ome destiny: and the work the Grand Army of the Potomac and all t other armies that made up the mighty hosts that followea Grant and Sherman and Sherl dan and Thomas and Logan, and all shall remain to bless the people of ¢ Yet to be, down through all the years that Providence shall will us. (Applause.) The chairman then introduced Mrs. L. J. Taylor, national president of the Woman's Reltef Corps, who spoke as fol- lows: It is indeed a very great pleasure ours to-night to be permitted to come this grand gathering of the veterans of the six ties and the friends that have gathered her: at this time to show honor to th Wore the blue in those dark days. a great plasure to us to be here at this time and that 's extended to the C It is my very great pleasure at t be privileged to represent the Woma Corpe, an organization composed of mothers, daughters and sisters ans, and other loyal women who themselves together to assist the Grand . In their moble work. Our organization sists of more than 140,000 of these true. women, who are trying in every poss to sssist the Grand Army fn their o and along patriotic lines. This is ne work im which we are all deeply inter- ested. GLAD TO COME HERE. It was my privilege last February to come to your beautiful land in compar commander in chief and his staff at he came to see about the arrangemen coming at this tige: and we realized true hospitality of the people of S and of all of your beloved Sta looked forward with a great deal ¢ to our coming at this time. Now, & we have come to accept of that t ity. since we ana we it, and kind words of welcome and which we have been receiv then the beautiful flowe nificent scenery which see and enjoy at this tim the promises made have b f have come to accent them and fo en Kind friends, we thank you, and we trust tha learn wr Army, and trust that during our stay here you will ot intersst in the work of the Grani we know of your interest, and w we may form a more united band of earu people and that the work that the Grand Army has done may be perpetuated. and as the Grawd Army continues to come together year after music, must have brought back to every one | year we may each learn to do more and more the country for which they Continued on Page 5, Column 3. to the end that