A. Dobie, C. W. Priddy, Nathaniel Beaman, Col. C. A. Nash, E. T. Lamb, William W. Galt, George Pilcher, R. G. Banks, Col. G. W. Taylor, Capt. C. L. Wright, Lieut. J. P. Keville, Lieut. M. C. Ferebee, Lieut. J. F. Lynch, Capt. M. C. Keeling, Lieut. George W. Toms, Aaron Marx, Hon. D. Lawrence Groner, Capt. A. C. Dillingham, C. Brooks Johnson, Judge Theo. S. Garnet, James V. Trehy, William T. Anderson, S. S. Nottingham, Charles P. Sapp, Joseph G. Fiveash, James M. Thompson, Marshall Ballard, Judge D. Tucker Brooke, T. Harvey Daughtry, J. P. Andre Mottu, Cardwell Hardy, Arthur G. Lewis, C. H. Consolvo, George F. Viett, D. S. Burwell, Judge J. J. Burroughs, Harry Spofford Herman, Judge Allen R. Hanckell, George E. Bowden, Col. W. W. Sale, C. A. Woodward.

FORTRESS MONROE: Admiral John C. Wise, Capt. C. P. Tinsley, Lieut. Fred Stopford, Lieut. E. D. Powers, Lieut. Fred T. Austin, Lieut. Homer B. Grant, Lieut. L. P. Waldron. WASHINGTON: Alfred P. Robbins, Robert Callahan, F. J. Cannady, A. W. Townsley, W. L. Callahan.

PORTSMOUTH, VA.: Maj. E. W. Owens, Henry Kirn, Capt. J. W. Lee, Hon. H. L. Maynard.

OLD POINT: George F. Adams.
BERKLEY: Paul Garret.

Lieut.-Col. C. C. Vaughn, Jr., of Franklin; D. B. Martin, of Baltimore, Md.; Maj. William Thompson, of Hampton; Joseph P. Taggart, of Boston, Mass.; Hon. John C. Burke, of Lowell, Mass.; Rev. Alan Hudson, of Brockton, Mass.; Joseph E. Shaw, chief of state police, Boston, Mass. ; Hon. Claude A. Swanson, of Chatham, Va.

When everyone was seated, Captain Usher introduced. Rev. Alan Hudson, who invoked the Divine blessing in these words:

"Oh, Lord, bless the North and the South, Virginia and Massachusetts, and keep them bound together in the bonds of eternal brotherhood. — Amen.”

There were two souvenirs of the occasion. One was a seal leather cigar case, embellished with the Company coat of arms, and bearing the names of the officers. The other was the

menu card, containing, on the first page, portraits of Captain Usher, First Lieutenant Damrell, Second Lieutenant Newcomb and Adjutant Bolton, in half tone upon an elliptical panel set off with a crimson bow on one corner, and on the second page the words "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 267th Fall Field Day, Norfolk, Va., Hotel Monticello, October 4, 1904." The third page was devoted to the menu itself, which was as follows:

The Salem Cadet Band was stationed at the entrance to the hall, and played during the evening. The after-dinner proceedings were opened by Captain Usher with a speech of welcome and congratulation. He said:

CAPTAIN JAMES M. USHER.

Gentlemen of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and Guests:- It has frequently been said that the South is a land of beautiful women, brave men and generous hospitality. Though we have been upon the soil of Virginia but two days, we have found that

statement true to the letter. You have given us a genuine Southern welcome, and one which the members of this Company will long remember. We will take back to Massachusetts the memory of this true Southern hospitality, and cherish it as a mark of your chivalry and brotherhood [Applause.]

The question has been asked since our arrival as to the organization and history of this ancient Company, to which you have extended so generous a welcome to the shores of Virginia.

I will say briefly that it was organized and chartered in 1638 in the State of Massachusetts, a few years after the settlement of Boston and the founding of Harvard College. In the language of a recent historian, "the formation of this military company was a wise precaution and an absolute necessity." The early settlers of Boston and vicinity were surrounded by wild and savage Indians, jealous of the occupation of their soil by the white invaders. Self-protection was therefore a desire and a duty. The church was to comfort, the school to educate, and the military to protect the founders of the new empire.

It was the first regularly organized military company in America, and except on two occasions, resulting from provincial disturbance and war, has held its meetings without intermission for 266 years. [Applause.]

Among its members have been some of the foremost men of New England and the nation, including generals, statesmen, and men of letters. The home of the Company is in old Faneuil Hall, which we love to call the "cradle of American liberty," and from whose platform have echoed the voices of Otis and Adams and Hancock - those patriots who joined with your great sons of Virginia in denouncing the oppressive measures of George III.

It is fitting, after the lapse of nearly 300 years, that this Company should make a journey toward the South, where upon the soil of Virginia the first English settlement was formed.

Virginia and Massachusetts were the pioneers of the Anglo-Saxon race in America. To Virginia belongs the honor of the first settlement. Massachusetts comes next. Since that early period, these two states have each had a memorable history. They were among the first to lift the standard of revolt against the vexatious taxations of the British Parliament.

Massachusetts rejoiced with Virginia when Patrick Henry raised his voice in the House of Burgesses and denounced the Stamp Act, which was a claim on the part of the mother country to tax the colonies without first obtaining their consent. John Otis and Samuel Adams made common cause with the Virginia patriot in resisting this violation of colonial right. [Applause.]

In the seven years' war which followed, the men of these two states were to be found side by side. You gave to us the man who

was destined to lead our armies, and to become the Father of his Country. Now the name of George Washington-the great Virginian has become the synonym of the purest patriotism and the noblest devotion to principle. In both Europe and America his name has entered into language as the best definition of freedom and fidelity. [Applause.]

But you will not forget, gentlemen, that the first army to recognize and accept his leadership in the war of American Independence was the men of Massachusetts and New England, who, fresh from the victorious fields of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill, laid their laurels at the feet of their new leader from Virginia, and swore to him their fealty.

During seven years of trial and suffering, amid the snows of Valley Forge and the slaughter of Yorktown, their loyalty never wavered, and his love for their rugged devotion never waned. Throughout that long and arduous struggle, the men of Virginia and Massachusetts stood side by side in the fight for a common American independence. [Warm applause.]

Forgetting our differences of later years, as brothers should, let us hope and believe that the men of these two old states will still be found shoulder to shoulder, under a common flag, fighting for American liberty and the republic, for which their fathers suffered and died.

Eight years ago, it was the good fortune of this Company to go to England at the invitation of the parent London company, and receive its hospitality. While there, we received a cordial welcome from the men of English birth, who frankly admitted the mistake of their fathers in alienating their brothers in America.

From the gracious Queen down to the humblest British subject we were received with honor, as men of the Anglo-Saxon race with a common language, a common law, and a common Christian religion. [Applause.] It is generally admitted that that visit did much toward creating a closer bond of sympathy between America and England.

A little later, when the Spanish war broke out, and it looked as if Dewey would have to contend with Germany as well as Spain in the harbor of Manila, the commanding officer of the English ships drew his fleet nearer to the American squadron and cleared his decks for action. After the lapse of more than 100 years of misunderstanding between America and England, it was found that blood was thicker than water, and that the men of a common historic heritage would stand by each other in the hour of their nations' need. [Applause.]

If our visit to England contributed in even the smallest way to bring about this result, may we not hope that our present visit to the great old State of Virginia, which has been one of the foremost leaders among her Southern sisters, will bind more securely the ties of American brotherhood, which were sanctified in the blood of Cowpens and Yorktown? [Applause.]

Our mistakes, our misunderstandings, our differences, we forget in the light of our growing oneness and unity. Whatever your burdens are, we only ask the privilege of bearing them with you, and whatever are to be our problems of the future, we ask in their solution your generous friendship and help.

We are not divided by an imaginary,

We are not two-we are one. sectional or political boundary line.

We are a common people, with great democratic ideals of government, and it is our duty to work them out in that spirit of love and forbearance which at all times characterized the first citizen of your state and the great Father of our Country. [Applause.]

The whole nation rejoices in your recent prosperity. We of the North are beginning to realize that you have here in the South a great country, whose resources have been scarcely scratched by the hand of industry. When the Panama Canal opens, then you will be in a position to command the waters of the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, and your products of the forest and the mine and the field will be developed as they should be, and be carried across the highways of two great oceans. It used to be said of the ancient Greeks: "Once stir the blood of Grecian patriotism, and you have a power to reckon with." And I say, stir the latent commercial might of the Southern states, and they will take their rank among the foremost industrial commonwealths of the earth. [Applause.]

South.

We know by your sacrifice in the Civil war, and by your patriotic ardor in the Spanish-American war, what is the spirit of an awakened The men who, like General Fitzhugh Lee, our honored guest tonight [prolonged applause], dared Spanish tyranny in its Cuban stronghold, and were among the first to respond to McKinley's call to drive it from the Western hemisphere, are also capable of making their Southland a leading force in the industrial progress of the nation.

And if I may be allowed to prophesy, I predict that a few years hence, when you celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, you will see great hosts from the North and the West coming to witness the progress you have made, many of whom will stay and become home-builders, to further help you in developing your great industrial possibilities of the future. [Applause.]

This generous intermingling of the men and women of the North and the South will develop that ideal American spirit which finds expression in our national hymn:

"My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountain side

Let freedom ring."

[Loud applause.]