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LAFAYETTE DAY NATIONAL COMMITTEE Charles W. Eliot Moorfield Storey- Caspar F. Goodrich Judson Harmon Myron T. Herrick Joseph H. Choate * George Haven Putnam George W. Wickersham * deceased Theodore Roosevelt Henry van Dyke William D. Guthrie Henry Watterson Charles J. Bonaparte ( !hiarles P. Johnson W. R. Hodges Chas. Stewart Davison, Hon Sec'y. Maurice Leon, Recording Sec'y. GO Wall Street, New York Officers and Special Committees of Lafayette Day Exercises held in New York In commemoration of the double anniversary of the birth of Lafayette and the Battle of the Marne September 6th, 1917 Honorary Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt Elihu Root Hon. Willard Bartlett, Chairman Frank A. Vanderlip, Honorary Chairman Maurice Leon, Acting Chairman Peter T. Barlow William Curtis Demorest George T. Wilson, Chairman George W. Burleigh, Vice-Chairman C. C. Burlingham Henry Ives Cobb William Curtis Demorest Executive Committee Charles DeRahm Job E. Hedges J. Pierpont Morgan Carlisle Norwood John yuinn Arrangements Committee Lafayette B. Gleason Henry Winthrop Hardon J. Montgomery Hare Maurice Leon Robert C. Morris Lewis H. Pounds James Stillman Charles Howland Russell Isaac N. Seligman George T. Wilson Ogden Reid Theodore Rousseau Nelson S. Spencer Alfred T. White Committee on Decoration of Buildings & Monuments ™E.iH«^°" Elis~ suss.— Committee in charge of Exercises at Lafayette Monument Union Square, New York Lawrence F. Abbott, Chairman Edward Harding, Vice-Chairman James M. Beck Edward C. Bridgman Henry Ives Cobb E. Mora Davison Charles A. Downer Lawrence Godkin Hon. Samuel Greenbaum Hon. Learned Hand Richard M. Hurd C. Grant LaFarge Langdon P. Marvin Alexander T. Mason George Haven Putnam Charles Scribner William G. Willcox Committee in charge of Exercises at Lafayette Memorial Prospect Park, Brooklyn Hon. Lewis H Pounds, Chairman Fred W. Atkinson Alfred T Whit,. Frederick Boyd Stevenson, Hon. William M. Calder Wh,te Vice Chairman E. Hubert Litchfield William D. Guthrie, Chairman John Jay Chapman, Vice-Chairman John G. Agar Richard Aldrich S. R. Bertron Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman Franklin Q. Brown George W. Burlelgn W. A. Day Carroll Dunham Neweomb Carlton Reception Committee R. Fulton Cutting Abram I. Elkus Madison Grant Henry G. Gray Edward Harding Lucien Jouvaud Boudinot Keith Maurice Leon George L. LeBIanc Carlisle Norwood Stephen H. Olin Robert Olyphant Finance Committee ^S" 84 ! M e l m K nt l Ch ? irman Frederick H. Allen Samuel McRoberts, Vice Chairman T. W. Lamont Dr. Leighton Parks H. Hobart Porter John Quinn Charles Howland Russell Herbert L. S'atterlee Frank H. Simonds R- A. C. Smith Charles A. Stone George T. Wilson John M. Woolsey Isaac N. Seligman Mrs. Atherton, Chairman Ladie's Section of Committee Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, Vice-Chairman Chas. Stewart Davison, Honorary Secretary William Redmond Cross, Treasurer Mauricb Leon, Recording Secretary 60 Wall Street, New York Lawrence F. Abbott John G. Agar Richard Aldrich Courtland V. Anable Frederick H. Allen Francis L. Appleton Fred. W. Atkinson Grosvenor Atterbury Gorham Bacon Robert Bacon Peter T. Barlow Herbert Barry Philip Golden Bartlett Willard Bartlett George Gordon Battle Edmund L. Baylies Henry Willard Bean James M. Beck Charles K. Beekman Lucius Hart Been Maj. Gen. Bell August Belmont S. Reading Bertron Dr. Herman Bigga Joseph B. Bishop George Blagden C. N. Bliss, Jr. Francke H. Bosworth John W. Brannan Edward C. Bridgman Gen. Oliver B. Bridgman Franklin Q. Brown George W. Burleigh Charles C. Burlingham Edward Burnett Charles Butler Nicholas Murray Butler James Byrne William M. Calder William C. Cammann Newcomb Carlton Oscar R. Cauchois William M. Chadbourne John Jay Chapman Joseph H. Choate, Jr. T. Ludlow Chrystie J. Herbert Clairborne Courtlandt C. Clarke R. Floyd Clarke Henrv Ives Cobb William A. Coffin Bainbridge Colby Henry D. Cooper Joseph P. Cotton Paul D. Cravath John D. Crimmins George Cromwell William Redmond Cross F. Cunliffe-Owen William E. Curtis R. Fulton Cutting Victor W. Cutting; Howland Davis ^has. Stewart Davison 5. Mora Davison V. A. Day Robert W. DeForest j. C. Deming Villiam Curtis Demorest i\ S. Grand d'Hauteville Charles DeRham Cleveland H. Dodge LAFAYETTE DAY CITIZENS' COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK Hon. Frank L. Dowling Charles A. Downer William Kinnicutt Draper Henry Russell Drowne Carroll Dunham Hon. Abram I. Elkus Ellsworth Eliot, Jr. Grenville T. Emmet Allen W. Evarts V\ iliiam Bailey Faxon Hamilton Fish John Flanagan John H. Finiey Frederick DePeyster Foster Austen G. Fox Amos Tuck French Algernon S. Frissell Frederick Gallatin Wumner Gerard Franklin H. Giddingg Cass Gilbert Lafayette B. Gleason Lawrence Godkin Harold Godwin Richard Gottheil Madison Grant Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant Henry G. Gray Hon. Samuel Greenbaum Right Rev. Dr. David H. Greer Lawrence Greer Geo. Bird Grinnel] William D. Guthrie Winston H. Hagen Montgomery Hallowell Learned Hand Edward Harding Henry Winthrop Hardon J. Montgomery Hare Robert Lewis Harrison George Harvey McDougall Hawkes Alan R. Hawley Job E. Hedges Alexander J. Hemphill A. Barton Hepburn Chas. R. Hickox Ripley Hitchcock Hon. George C. Holt Henry Holt Brig. Gen. Eli D. Hoyle, U. S. A. Gerald Livingston Hoyt Charles E. Hughes Andrew Beaumont Humphrey Richard M. Hurd Robert Underwood Johnson Francis C. Jones Lucien Jouvaud Boudinot Keith James E. Kelly Howard Thayer Kingsbury Maurice Kozmynski E. Henry Lacombe Col. William Whitehead Ladd C. Grant LaFarge C. Grand LaFarge Thomas W. Lamont M. B. Leahy George L. Leblanc Maurice Leon E. Hubert Litchfield DeWitt M. Lockman Will H. Low James B. Ludlow Wallace Mac Farlane George Barr McCutcheon Samuel Mc Roberts Clarence H. Mackay H. S'nowden Marshall Henry Rutgers Marshall E. S. Martin Langdon Parker Marvin Alexander T. Mason John G. Milburn Charles R. Miller Robert Shaw Minturn Edward P. Mitchell Hon. John Purroy Mitchel Edward C. Moen Victor Morawetz J. Pierpont Morgan Robert C. Morris Charles C. Nadal Louis W. Noel Carlisle Norwood Walter G. Oakman Stephen H. Olin Robert Olyphant Talbot Olyphant Hon. Samuel H. Ordway E. H. Outerbridge Alton B. Parker William Parkin Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks Samuel Parrish William Barclay Parsons George Foster Peabody Edward H. Peaslee Hon. Francis K. Pendleton Rev. Dr. John P. Peters John B. Pine George A. Plimpton H. Hobart Porter Hon. Levis H. Pounds William A. Prendergast William A. Purrington George Haven Putnam John Quinn William C. Redfield Ogden Reid Theodore Roosevelt Talbot Root Theodore Rousseau Charles Howland Russell Herbert L. Satterlee William Jay Schieffelin Mortimer L. Schiff Charles Scribner Isaac N. S'eligman Lawrence E. Sexton Porter Clyde Shannon Albert Shaw Hon. Clarence J. Shearn Edward W. Sheldon P. Tecumseh Sherman Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman Frank H. Simonds John W. Simpson William Sloane R. A. C. Smith Nelson S. Spencer Francis Lynde Stetson John A. Stevens Frederick Boyd Stevenson John A. Stewart James Stillman Charles A. Stone Willard D. Straight Oscar S. Straus Charles H. Strong Howard Taylor Augustus Thomas Col. Robt. M. Thompson Dr. William Oilman Thompsc J. Kennedy Tod Edward Trenchard Allen Tucker Bayard Tuckerman Eliot Tuckerman Paul Tuckerman Rear Admiral N. R. Usher Guy Van Amringe William B. Van Ingen John C. Van Dyke William Van Ingen Frank A. Vanderlip William R. Warren J. Alden Weir T. Tileston Wells Alfred T. White George W. Wickersham William G. Wilcox George T. Wilson Louis Wiley Beekman Winthrop Dr. Stephen S'. Wise Arthur King Wood Arthur Woods John M. Woolsey James A. Wright Rev. T. Wucher George Zabriskie Mrs. Frederick H. Allen Mrs. Gertrude Atherton Mrs. Robert Bacon Mrs. Sanford Bissell Miss Helen Van'ck Boswell Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Mrs. Wm. Astor Chandler Mrs. Charles H. Ditson Mrs. Carroll Dunham Miss Theodora Dunham Mrs. Hamilton R. Fairfax Mrs. Herbert L. Griggs Mrs. E. H. Harriman Mrs. J. Borden Harriman Miss Winifred Holt Miss Luisita A. Leland Mrs. Henry P. Loomis Mrs. Walter Maynard Mrs. Frederick Nathan Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin Mrs. Douglas Robinson Mrs. Livingston Row Schuyler Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner Mrs. Louis Livingston Seaman Mrs. William G. Slade Mrs. George Wilson Smith Miss Robinson Smith Miss Carita Spencer Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip Mrs. Whitney Warren Mrs. Mary Hatch Willard TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 1 Call Issued by Lafayette Day National Committee . 3 Exercises at City Hall, New York: Address— Hon. "Willard Bartlett 5 Address— Mayor Mitchel 7 Beading of Messages by Mr. Leon : President of French Eepublic 9 Marshal Joff re 10 Ambassador Jusserand 10 General Pershing H Ambassador Sharp H President Butler (of Columbia) 12 Reading of Message by Commander Blackwood : Admiral Sir David Beatty 12 Address— Hon. Willard Bartlett, Chairman' .' 13 Address— Hon Henry van Dyke, D. C. L 15 Address — Dr. Finley 24 Address — M. Tardieu 29 Lafayette Day Banquet, New York: Address— The French Ambassador 37 Exercises at Statue of Lafayette, Union Square New York City ' 44 Address — Mr. John Quinn ' 47 Exercises— Prospect Park, Brooklyn 50 Address— Mr. Stephane Lauzanne ... 50 Lafayette Day in France 57 Lafayette Day in United States outside of New York: Philadelphia 55 San Francisco 75 Los Angeles 77 11 CONTENTS PAGE Seattle 77 New Orleans 78 Boston 81 New Bedford 81 Albany 83 Baltimore 83 Washington 83 Charleston 84 Allentown, Pa 85 Saratoga 85 Hudson, N. Y 87 Irvington, N. Y 88 Wheeling, W. Va 88 "Lafayette, Here we are!" Reprint from Out- look, Oct. 17, 1917 93 Lafayette Day and the Press 104 Address presented to Maurice Leon by his fellow- members of the Lafayette Day National Com- mittee 109 ^LUSTRATIONS Arrival at City Hall, New York, September 6th, 1917 33 On the steps of City Hall, New York, after the Lafayette Day Exercises 35 Celebration — Union Square, N. Y 45 Celebration — Fere-Champenoise, France 56 Celebration — Independence Hall, Philadelphia. . . 64 Celebration— San Francisco, Cal 74 Celebration— Boston, Mass 80 General Pershing at Tomb of Lafayette 92 The Lafayette Day National Committee was or- ganized in the early part of August 1915. Its mem- bership remained the same until the death of Mr. Choate this year, when Dr. Henry van Dyke was in- vited to fill the vacancy thereby created. No other change has occurred in the membership of the Com- mittee since its creation. The Committee issued its first call in August 1915 for the celebration on September 6th of that year of the one hundred and fifty-eighth anniversary of the birth of the famous hero of the American Revolution and the first anniversary of the victory won in 1914, thanks to which liberty still endures in the world. That first oall being addressed to the press at large resulted in many leading articles being published throughout the country urging the observance of an anniversary doubly sacred in the annals of freedom. In its second call issued on July 14th, 1916 the Com- mittee, renewing its appeal to the press, added a re- quest that patriotic societies arrange for the holding of suitable exercises on Lafayette Day in our principal cities. Such exercises were held in 1916 in New York, Boston, Washington, Fall River, Providence, New Or- leans, San Francisco and Tacoma, Washington. His Excellency the French Ambassador Mr. Jusserand, after participating with the Governor of Massachu- setts, the senior senator of the United States for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and others in the in- auguration of the Statue of Lafayette, at Fall River, was the guest of the City of New York on Lafayette Day, being officially greeted on behalf of the City by Hon. Frank L. Dowling, acting mayor, when he spoke at the exercises held in the Aldermanic Chamber of City Hall. The other speakers on that occasion were his colleague Hon. William Graves Sharp, American Am- [1] bassador to France, Hon. Robert Bacon and Dr. John Finley, Hon. Alton B. Parker presiding as chairman of the exercises. Those who attended this first official celebration of Lafayette Day in New York will long re- tain a recollection of the spontaneous outburst of enthu- siasm which marked the peroration of Mr. Bacon when, addressing the French Ambassador, he repeated to him the words spoken by Rochambeau to Washington : "Entre vous, entre nous, a la vie, a la mort"; and of the cheers which greeted that passage of the French Ambassador's address in w T hich, reminding the audi- ence that Lafayette had designed the tricolor of France, he said: "It is the flag of Valmy, the flag of the Marne, the flag of Verdun." A valuable feature of the celebration in New York this year as well as last year was provided by the banquet given by the France-America Society acting in co-operation with the Lafayette Day Citizens Com- mittee of New York for the purposes of the local cele- bration there. The address of the French Ambassador at the banquet last year formed part of the account of the Lafayette Day celebration published by this Com- mittee. II is address at this year's banquet will be found in this book. The call issued this year appears on the next page. Mr. Choate among his last activities, presided at the Committee's meeting May 1st, 1917, at which it was determined to issue that call. His regretted death oc- curing one month thereafter, was the first great loss this country was called upon to face in the cause, now made its own, of France and of Freedom. As is well known, he gave unsparingly his energy and strength to every aspect of those imperative duties of this fate- ful hour among which he numbered this one also. The Committee takes pride in having been associated with him in this phase of his earnest work. December, 1917. [2] LAFAYETTE DAY 1917 Call issued by the Lafayette Day National Com- ' mittee July 14th, 1917. That the nation may celebrate this year, as it did last year and in 1 C J15, the anniversary of Lafayette's birth, September 6th, 1757, the undersigned again com- mend the opportunity thus afforded to honor the mem- ory and commemorate the deeds of one of the noblest heroes of the American Revolution, thanks to whose efforts France's sympathy for the cause of freedom was given effective expression at a crucial period of the struggle for American Independence. In each of the last two years the press at large has contributed to the ever-renewed patriotic interest of our people in the personality and achievements of Lafayette by means of leading articles published on or near the day of the anniversary and it is hoped it will do so again this year; and municipalities acting with the co-opera- tion of patriotic societies are urged to hold suitable exercises upon that day, as was done last year in a number of our principal cities, many of which possess monuments in honor of Lafayette. Issuing this call on July 14th, when France com- memorates her struggle for liberty we are not unmind- ful that by honoring Lafayette upon his anniversary, a date made doubly memorable by the Battle of the Marne, we shall be giving expression to the sentiment of fraternal regard for our sister republic, our ally of old and of to-day, which exists among all elements < door of a plantation, and after the do •^+,rs. £^>S [109] 20 »y •* o 1'. • K o ' . ^ n <& .**%?/£• ^. A + *Y t <2v 4^ ife W r' •<"\ 4? » / 1 ,: ^ >*** /Jill*' ^ d^ •' ». %i* v :. -W*>* V--"-> <,'*??*>* V"-''> ^ .AtffcX x-^fe.x. y^.* y, : : «4°x * ^ / v^v. v^v v^v \ ^O ** 6 ° " • «• <^ ^9* ^ v ^ .°j^** ^ rP v .»i fc ^L% "°o ^ .°.«*:i* ~* v "••«♦' : ' '. .' ' ■ ;" : ■'■.— ■.■