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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1912. 



CAPTAIN APPLETON AKD THE ANCIENTS. 



The August number of The Indi.\ Rubber World contained 

 a mention of the fact that on July IS a detachment of fifty 

 members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company 

 of Boston, under the command of Captain Francis H. Appleton 

 had been received by King George, and reviewed on the Buck- 

 ingham Palace grounds and that the company had been pho- 

 tographed with Captain Appletorl between the King and Am- 

 bassador W'hitelaw Reid. 



Here is a reproduction of the famous photograph showing the 

 Captam, the King and the Ambassador, with the other members 

 of the famous Boston company grouped around them. No mem- 

 ber of the detachment that visited London will ever forget that 

 occasion. They were there six days, and they were six days 

 full of official and social activity. 



On the night of the day on which they reached London, the 

 Honourable Artillery Company of London gave them a dinner 

 in the old historic Armoury House. The Earl of Denbigh, in 

 command of the London Company, acted as chairman and de- 

 livered a wonderful address of welcome — full of wit and humor 

 and good-fellowship. But Captain Appleton did not suffer at 

 all by comparison when he arose to respond. His speech was 

 constantly applauded — and particularly the following sentiments : 



"We have, therefore, so much in common that it was inevi- 

 table that we should come to be close friends, and we of the 

 Massachusetts Corps treasure the greeting of your late lamented 

 King, who, as Prince of Wales, said at Marlborough House : 

 'We have received you not as foreigners, but as those belonging 

 to ourselves.' It is my earnest wish that this spirit of comrade- 

 ship may always endure, and that the red cross of St. George 



On the occasion of the reception of the Boston company at 

 Buckingham Palace, when the King reviewed the visitors on the 



Capt. Fr.^ncis H. Appleton. 



parade grounds, he was exceedingly cordial, as may be judged 

 from a few sentences taken from his address : "Last year I 

 had the pleasure of seeing Captain Appleton, when he came as 



King George V. and the Boston Ancients at Buckingham Palace. 



and our own starry banner (applause) may ever be flying to- one of the representatives of the corps, to announce my election 

 gether to the breezes of heaven as the symbols of justice and as Honourary Member in succession to King Edward VII. To- 

 might, and the tokens of an everlasting friendship." da3- I welcome him and you, the representatives of the ancient 



