ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
The public demonstration over the arrival of 
Kossuth a year later was almost as enthusiastic, 
if we may judge from the description given in 
Headley’s Life of Kossuth: 
“Saturday, December 6, was selected by the 
authorities of New York to celebrate Kossuth’s 
arrival. . . . At 9 o'clock the steamer V’an- 
derbilt, decorated with flags of the United States 
and Hungary, touched the wharf at Castle 
Garden to receive the city officials. . . . 
Thus amid incessant displays of congratulations, 
the Vanderbilt sweeping round by Jersey City 
returned to Castle Garden. The battery never 
before offered a sight so glorious. A hundred 
thousand persons were there. . . . Upon 
the Magyar’s entrance into the ample structure, 
another tumultuous shouting rose and_ rever- 
berated, until the roof seemed to tremble. . . . 
After partial silence was gained, Kossuth pro- 
nounced his eloquent address to the Republican 
masses of the New World. . . . 
“The subsequent pageant it is impossible to 
describe with fidelity. Everywhere along the line 
of march the most lively enthusiasm was man- 
ifested.” 
Lafayette arrived on the ship Cadmus, August 
15, 1824, on his first and only visit after the 
KOSSUTH 
engraving in Headley’s ‘Life of Louis 
Governor of Hungary. Published Auburn, 
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BULLETIN 33 
LAFAYETTE 
From an engraving in Foster's ‘‘Tour of Lafayette 
in the United States’ in 1824. Published Portland, 
Maine, 1824. At this time Lafayette, aged 67, wore 
a brown wig 
Revolution in which he played a conspicuous part. 
After transfer to the steamboat Chancellor Liv- 
ingston, he was escorted up to the city by war- 
ships and steamboats on which were members of 
the city, state and federal governments. At 
Castle Garden, Lafayette landed upon a richly 
carpeted stairway arranged for the occasion, 
under an arch richly decorated with flags and 
wreaths of laurel. A magnificent ball was given 
in his honor at Castle Garden, which surpassed 
anything of the kind previously held in the city. 
The féte at Castle Garden is described as follows 
in Foster’s Tour of Lafayette: 
“Tt was a scene of enchantment which the mind 
could not bring itself to believe was a reality, 
and which left the beholder mute, bewildered, 
and gazing in astonishment. Let the reader im- 
agine an immense amphitheatre, not less than 
two hundred feet in diameter, or six hundred 
feet in circumference, with galleries rising one 
above another, to the extreme part of the battle- 
ment, the ascent to which was by lofty flights of 
steps—let him imagine a canopy extending over 
the whole area, *the apex of which was seventy 
feet from the floor, woven of festoons of flags of 
all colours and descriptions, entirely concealing 
the triple folds of canvas, forming the 
RAMEE 5 gS 
“Let him imagine six thousand ladies and 
gentlemen, in full dresses, dancing, promenad- 
ing, and moving in all directions, to the music of 
two numerous orchestras in the gallery, over the 
entrance; let him, if he can, combine, into one 
* There was no roof on the building at that time. 
