New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907 . it seems tome to be especially fitting and appropriate that the army and navyshould be here to-night to do honor to the distinguished fatherof that world renowned civil and military hero, Colonel MulberrySellers, of Mark Twains invincible and irresistible army. We are reminded by the appearance of the military and thenavy, that when the great battle of Salamis had been fought andancient and classic Greece again kept free, a meeting of the Greekcommanders was held and each of the victorious generals voted hi
New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907 . it seems tome to be especially fitting and appropriate that the army and navyshould be here to-night to do honor to the distinguished fatherof that world renowned civil and military hero, Colonel MulberrySellers, of Mark Twains invincible and irresistible army. We are reminded by the appearance of the military and thenavy, that when the great battle of Salamis had been fought andancient and classic Greece again kept free, a meeting of the Greekcommanders was held and each of the victorious generals voted him-self first in honor — but all agreed that Themistocles was literature during our countrys comparative brief existencehas had many brilliant lights, the opinion of a few captious critics tothe contrary notwithstanding. I shall not now, of course, attempt tocall the roll, but whoever may, by his contemporaries of the last fortyyears in this great world of letters, be considered second in honor —the whole American literary world, reader and writer alike, have long. MARK TWAIN (Dr. Samuel L. Clemens,Fulton Day Orator /3< ~v**-j </****< 1^^ *•/*? Fulton Day 413 ago voted — and to-night we are going to crown Mark Twain, firstin honor both as a writer and a model American citizen. We willcrown him an American citizen who, discharging his obligations andthose of others by years of labor with brain and heart and hands,has left an example of business honesty and honor for the youngmen of this country that shines out in this commercial age like thebeacon of some great light-house towering up before the gaze of thestorm-tossed mariner across a tempestuous and troubled sea. Surely it will not be out of place for your toastmaster for amoment to assume to speak for his generation and to say that thisnotable example of the manhood of the century just passed and gonewill not be entirely lost upon the men of the new century. Surely allof us — men and women
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