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 WILLIS H. BOOTH Chairman of ihe Day 
 
 FLAG PROCESSION 
 
 Under Command 
 CAPTAIN JAMES S. FRANCE 
 
 MUSIC Palriolk Medley 
 
 INVOCATION 
 
 REV. WILLIAM MacCORMACK, D. D. 
 
 MUSIC Overture La Patrie Bizel 
 
 ADDRESS WILLIAM A. SPALDING 
 
 President Lafayette Day Committee 
 
 ADDRESS CHARLES R. FLETCHER 
 
 Lafayette Day National Committee 
 
 MUSIC Stars and Stripes ....... Sousa 
 
 ADDRESS HON. FREDERIC T. WOODMAN 
 
 Mayor of Los Angeles 
 
 ADDRESS HON. LOUIS SENTOUS. Jr. 
 
 Consular Agent of France 
 
 MUSIC American Fantasia ...... Herbert 
 
 ADDRESS ORRA E. MONNETTE 
 
 President. Society Sons of Revolution 
 
 ADDRESS .... MRS. JOSIAH EVANS COWLES 
 
 President General Federation of Wom3n's Clubs 
 MUSIC Vocal Solo La Marseillaise. MARGUERITE SIGONDE, Soprano 
 
 ADDRESS HON. ROBERT L. HUBBARD 
 
 MUSIC Patriotic Ensemble 
 
 PHILHARMONIC QUARTETTE 
 
 Harold Proctor Norman McPhail 
 
 F. C. McPh<rson Dr. J. Lester Adams 
 
 WERE COMING JEAN. Original Poem read by PERCIVAL J. COONEY 
 
 MUSIC America 
 
 MUSICAL DIRECTOR 
 
 MAESTRO EDWARD LEBEGOTT 
 
 DIRECTOR OF ARRANGEMENTS 
 
 GENERAL CHARLES H. WHIPPLE 
 
Xaf alette iDa^ (Telebrallon 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 Appointed by 
 
 HON. FREDERIC T. WOODMAN 
 
 Mayor of Los Angeles 
 
 William A. Spalding, President 
 Pierson W. Banning, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Library, Society, Sons of the Revolution 
 
 Citizens National Bank Building 
 
 Los Angeles 
 
 EXECUTIVE BOARD 
 
 Dr. Hector Alliot Perry W. Weidner 
 
 Gen. Charles H. Whipple - Stoddard Jess 
 
 Charles R. Fletcher Motley Flint 
 
 Major George P. Robinson John E. Fishburn 
 
 Charles Winsel Dr. Arthur D. Houghton 
 
 Louis J. Sentous Jr., Dr. C. G. Cahen 
 
 William H. Knight Capt, James S. France 
 
 Alvin H. Low William Read 
 
 Willis H. Booth Eugene H. Lahee 
 
 George J. Denis Charles S. Gilbert 
 Edward L. Doheny 
 
 COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS 
 Dr. Hector Alliot, Chairman 
 General Charles H. Whipple Louis J. Sentous, Jr. 
 
 Charles R. Fletcher French Consular Agent of France 
 
 Major George Prentiss Robinson Prof. William H. Knight 
 
 Charles Winsel Alvin H. Low 
 
 Vice-Consul of Belgiurrx Willis H. Booth 
 
 George J. Denis 
 
FINANCE COMMITTEE 
 Edward L. Doheny, Chairman 
 Perry W Weidner Marco H. Hellman 
 
 Stoddard Jess Dr. Arthur D. Houghton 
 
 Motley Flint Dr. C. G. Cahen 
 
 John E. Fishburn William A. Spalding 
 
 PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 
 
 Captain James S. France, Chairman 
 
 Prof. William H. Knight William Read 
 
 MUSIC COMMITTEE 
 
 Dr. Hector Alliot, Chairman 
 
 Dr. C. G. Cahen Dr. Arthur D. Houghton 
 
 SPECIAL COMMITTEES 
 
 CHAIRMAN OF THE DAY 
 
 Willis H. Booth 
 
 VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE DAY 
 Dr. Hector Alliot 
 
 DIRECTOR OF ARRANGEMENTS 
 Gen. Charles H. Whipple 
 
 FLAG RAISING 
 Capt. James D. France 
 
 NATIONAL COSTUMES 
 (Allied Nations) 
 Charles Winsel 
 
 SCHOOLS 
 Alvin H. Low 
 
 HISTORIC PICTURES 
 Charles R. Fletcher 
 
 INVITATIONS 
 Major George P. Robinson 
 
 HISTORICAL INFORMATION 
 
 Prof. William H. Knight 
 
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 Xafa^ette 
 
 By PAUL WAYLAND BARTLETT, Sculptor 
 Gift of the school children of the United States to the French nation 
 
Xafa^i^tte 
 
 DEFENDER OF LIBERTY — HERO OF TWO NATIONS 
 
 BY WILLIAM H. KNIGHT 
 
 A thrilling- chapter in the World's history is that which 
 records an alliance of the American Colonies and the 
 French Nation during the Revolutionary War; an alli- 
 ance secured through a heroic devotion to the cause of 
 liberty by Marquis de Lafayette, the youthful scion of 
 an ancient and noble family. 
 
 When that immortal document — the Declaration of 
 Independence — reached France in December, 1776, it 
 made a profound impression on the people of that 
 country. One day young Lafayette, then Captain of the 
 Guards, though only nineteen years of age, was dining 
 with the Count de Broglie and his royal guest — 3, brother 
 of the English king. The heroic attitude of the Amer- 
 ican insurgents was the subject of discussion and the 
 ardent nature of Lafayette was so thrilled that he silently 
 resolved to go at once to that distant land and join the 
 band of patriots who were struggling- to establish free- 
 dom on those American shores. 
 
 At the first opportunity he embarked with fourteen 
 companions, including Baron de Kalb, on a vessel which 
 set sail from a Spanish port, and after a long and stormy 
 \oyage of seven weeks his party landed in South Caro- 
 lina where they were received with great enthusiam. 
 
 Proceeding overland, most of the way on horseback 
 (the primitive roads were so bad) he accomplished the 
 journey of 900 miles to Philadelphia in thirty-two days. 
 He was at first treated coldly by John Flancock, Presi- 
 dent of the Continental Congress, but when he offered 
 to serve as a volunteer and without pay he received the 
 appointment of major general without being assigned 
 to a division. 
 
 \\'hcn A^'ashington met the young soldier the next 
 da}' and observed his modest but manly bearing, he was 
 struck with the nobility of his sentiments and with the 
 wisdom of his military utterances, and the Commander- 
 in-Chief placed him at once on his ])ersonal staff and 
 made him a member of liis military family. On that 
 day, the last of July 1777. r)iK- of the world's "beautiful 
 and historic friendshi])s" was begun, and ''continued 
 steadfast and unl)rokc'n until the death of the sfrcat 
 
American changed the noble Frenchman's friendship 
 into reverence and devotion." 
 
 An opportunity to test the young- man's caliber soon 
 came. General Howe with British and Hessian troops 
 was marching upon Philadelphia when Washington 
 interposed with an inferior force. As his right wing 
 was broken the young Marquis leaped from his horse 
 and rallied the panic-stricken continentals and secured 
 an orderly retreat in the fateful battle of Brandywine, 
 but not till our hero was wounded so that blood gushed 
 from his leg, and he refused to leave his comrades for 
 surgical aid till they were safe. His prowess won him 
 lasting fame. 
 
 Only a few months later, with a small force of but 
 350 men, he attacked and routed the Hessian advance 
 with such spirit that Cornwallis thought he was assailed 
 by Greene's entire division, and with his 5000 men 
 retreated in hot haste to the main army. He had handled 
 the situation so shrewdly that it gave proof of his qual- 
 ities as leader and strategist. In December, he was 
 appointed to the command of the Virginia Division. 
 
 About this time he wrote to his father-in-law, a 
 wealthy nobleman in France who had tried to dissuade 
 him from coming to America, "At last I have what I 
 have wished for — the command of a division. It is weak 
 in point of numbers ; it is almost naked, and I must 
 make both clothes and recruits ; but I read, I study, 1 
 examine, I listen, I reflect, and upon all the result I 
 form my opinion and put it into as much common sense 
 as I can, for I do not want to disappoint the confidence 
 that the Americans have so kindly placed in me." 
 
 Amid the rigors of that awful winter at Valley Forge, 
 this tenderly reared young officer set his men an example 
 of frugality, self-denial, devotion and courage under 
 privation. 
 
 At the end of the campaign of 1778, his country being 
 at war with England, Lafayette deemed it his duty to 
 return to France and endeavor to interest the French 
 nation in the American cause. He was received with 
 extraordinary demonstrations of popular enthusiasm by 
 all classes of society. As he journeyed to one of his 
 estates in the South of France, the towns through which 
 he passed received him with processions and civic honors. 
 But he kept a level head, turned this adulation to account, 
 and secured from the French ])eople and their king an 
 
army for his beloved America. Count de Rocliaml)eau 
 was dispatched with a fleet of warships and 6000 soldiers 
 to aid the American cause. 
 
 With this splendid army Lafayette came to America 
 a second lime, not as an unwelcome recruit, but with 
 the well-earned rank of major general . and as an official 
 representative of the court of b^-ance. 
 
 Wdien, after lono- and dishearlenini;" strui^^gies, the 
 continental army, aided by the new French troops, en- 
 countered the British cohorts and their Hessian allies 
 on the field of Yorktown. and struck the final blow wdiich 
 terminated the War for Independence, young Lafayette, 
 his face aglow with the realization of his fondest hopes, 
 was at the side of A\^ashington as. in this supreme 
 moment of triumph, the British commander, with 
 averted face, tendered his sword to the illustrious victor 
 of the seven years' contest, now finally decided by this 
 last clash of arms. And, by this forced surrender of 
 Cornwallis at Yorktown we realize how providential was 
 the aid which the influence of Lafayette in France had 
 brought to the American cause at this critical juncture 
 of its history. 
 
 His work in America being successfully accom])lishcd, 
 Lafayette returned to his beloved France, where he was 
 held in such high regard that he was soon instrumental 
 in forming the Constituent Assembly which aimed at 
 the establishment of a representative government and 
 was the first step towards precipitating the French Rex- 
 olution. After the fall of the Bastile he was api^nintcd 
 commander-in-chief of the National Guards of Paris, 
 an organization which rapidly extended throughout the 
 kingdom till it embraced 3,000.000 men. It was at his 
 suggestion that the tricolor was adojMcd b\- the iM-ench 
 l'eo])le and is toda}- tlie rml)leiii «il' li])crty in that 
 country. His influence in his natixc land was nnw at 
 its height, and it was always exercised on the side of 
 moderation, hunianitx. and constitutional libert}'. A\'hen 
 the National Assembly decreed the abolition of feudal 
 titles r>afayette was among the iir>t to lay d(n\n that of 
 Marcpiis which he newer rcsnmed. 
 
 W hen. however, he refused to sanctiem the bloody 
 acts of the Jacobins he was condenme(l to death, but he 
 esca])ed to Austria where he was inininred in a dungeon 
 at Olmutz for fi\-e drear\- year-. i'r«ini this exile he was 
 released at the demand ^f Xajxileon and returned t<> 
 
France in 1799. Recognizing his popularity and great 
 ability, Napoleon offered him a post of honor, but this 
 he declined for he perceived that Napoleon was drifting" 
 into a monarchial form of government, diametrically 
 opposed to the republican principles which he held most 
 sacred. 
 
 In 1824, when Lafayette was again the guest of the 
 American nation, the recollection of his patriotic services 
 in the field, and his no less valuable services in securing 
 aid from the French Government, endeared him to every 
 American. Wherever he went he was hailed with joy 
 and admiration. His tour through twenty-four states 
 was continually marked by demonstrations of gratitude. 
 Cavalcades moved forward to meet him, cannon 
 announced his approach, triumphant arches were thrown 
 across the streets on which he was to pass. Never did 
 a conqueror returning from victorious exploits receive 
 such heartfelt adulation. 
 
 When he visited the battlefield of Lexington, an 
 address of welcome delivered by a humble citizen — but 
 quite characteristic of many other addresses — contained 
 these eloquent words : "Impressed with a sense of the 
 important services you have rendered this country, we 
 greet you on this memorable spot with hearts swelling 
 with every emotion which a love for your exalted char- 
 acter, and a grateful remembrance of your noble deeds 
 can inspire. These hardy yeomanry of the country offer 
 you the sincere tribute of their warmest affections. 
 Under the folds of that glorious flag which your bravery 
 aided to uphold, they now enjoy peace and security. 
 In common with grateful millions we express the earnest 
 hope that a life so long devoted to the cause of national 
 liberty, may be preserved for many years to come, and 
 when you have ceased from your labors may our children 
 rise up to bless your memory and emulate your virtues." 
 In the year 1834, at the ripe age of seventy-seven, 
 this unflinching champion of liberty, this hero of republi- 
 can institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, this 
 defender of the rights of man wherever his virile influ- 
 ence could be exerted, revered by the lovers of freedom 
 in every civilized nation on the globe, this venerable 
 soldier, statesman and philanthropist, passed from the 
 scenes of his earthly strifes and triumphs, but the mem- 
 ory of his transcendent virtues and achievements will 
 be cherished to the end of time. 
 
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