Show Tribute to a Square Mea Meal Chicago Chieno Post In the presence of representatives of the United States and Great Grent Brian Britain granie granite monuments were unveiled the theother other day on Sun San Jean an Island in Puget Sound to mark the spots where fot for mau many or were maintained by br both u nations while the ownership of th the ter territory was 15 In dispute ro overy every veteran of the regla regular serce service Sin in either country the sight of these monuments will 11 revive not the memorie memories of 8 a dispute or of nations but or of the glori I eu feed which one Lieutenant Michael FItzgerald U S A I spread In vie view or of his redcoat brethren wt th the h heart invitation to fal fall to toor ne neO O or two of the l In that ban banquet duet ae are sun still in arms and there is probably ably bly not n a comrade of who doe does not know the stor story of how Michael lieutenant U S A set em up fot fOr tile the and made 1 straight a strained situation MI 1 of which j goe goes to shun show that a banquet ma may be bet better tor ter than than a bUU bullOt t Michael Fitzgerald was nas the command commandIng I inS Ing officer and nd the only officer of the i American garrison on San JUan iuan Generl General i McDowel McDowell at San Francisco wa was afraid I benus of Fitzgeralds name that he heI would have feelings against I the British and might Involve the coun countr country tr try In trouble Above al all thing things Lieu Lieutenant i tenant Fitzgerald said sald the general oh ob I serve the rule rules ot of international cour courtey courtesy tey tesy rn Ill do that sae same gener general answered Fitgerald Fitzgerald promptly t I rho English officers for there were ere several or of them it t the garIson garrison asked aske Fitgerald over to dine They rhe have much to offer him for there much In the country Fitzgerald waite waited two months before he InvIted the th over to me mess s sIn In the a a boat boa had gone to San and had returned Fitzgerald b had d only the company compan of soldier soldiers but buthe buthe he improvised a b band nd to play pIa at the ba ban banquet He had a man behind ever every officers chair The table was wih with cut cutglass glass and silver There Thre were delicacies and or of al all kinds kind and he hewins hewins wins was lie like unto that ot of which Horace sang Veracious history hath bath it that the Cee feed cost yost 75 5 a plate The bi bill for tor the thing was 1400 0 A month ater after th the ban banquet inlet on San Juan a do document went lt to an army headquarter headquarters a aSan at San Francisco Generl General McDowell opened i it I it wa was a bi bill for Michael Fitzgeralds banquet and I it was thus Ex Excerpt Excerpt I from Major laor Generl General instructions Above Aboe nl all things Louten Loutenant ant Fizgerald Fitzgerald observe the tho rule rules of in courtesy 0 Tradition hath bath It that McDowel McDowell swore a little but the bI bill wa was paid out or of the contingent fund That banquet kept America American and Briton good od tempered There was no noca clash h and the bound boundary mater matter was sot set ca to wa ted tIed The The memorials unveiled wore were land moot monts to a squar square meat meal In a hung hungry |