Elmer H. Capen, president of Tufts College, Mass. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and Mrs. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. O’Malley, Somerville, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Harson, Providence, R. I. Dr. Michael Kelly and Mrs. Kelly, Fall River, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Elston, Somerville, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Reardon, Cambridge, Mass. Dr. John F. Couch, Somerville, Mass., and Mrs. Ellen M. Couch. Hon. James F. Brennan, Peterborough, N. H. Rev. P. J. Kavanagh, Lexington, Mass. John E. Milholland, New York city. Stephen J. Geoghegan, New York city. James Jeffrey Roche, Boston. Thomas Hamilton Murray, Woonsocket, R. I. Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass. T. St. John Gaffney, New York city. M. A. Toland, Boston. E. O’Meagher Condon, New York city. Hon. Richard Sullivan, Boston. Ex-Mayor John Breen, Lawrence, Mass. Ex-Congressman Joseph H. O’Neil, Boston. M. J. Jordan, Boston. P. J. Flatley, Boston. Timothy Donovan, Lynn, Mass. William Doogue, City Forester, Boston. Dr. T. J. Dillon, Boston. Dr. P. F. Gavin, Boston. Dr. W. H. Grainger, Boston. Patrick Gilbride, Lowell, Mass. Patrick M. Keating, Boston. George F. McKellegett, Boston. John J. Ahern, Cambridge, Mass. Martin Fay, Boston. James Mahoney, Boston. M. E. Hennessy, Boston. Herbert A. Kenny, Boston. There were also present during the evening: Hon. John W. Corcoran, Boston, recently judge of the Superior court, and J. E. Burke, superintendent of public schools, Lawrence, Mass. Upon the conclusion of the banquet the post-prandial exercises were opened by President-General Gargan, who said: REMARKS OF PRESIDENT-GENERAL GARGAN. _Members and guests of the American-Irish Historical Society_: To-day we commemorate the deeds of those heroic men who on April 19, 1775, on the green at Lexington, won a fame as imperishable as the men who fought at Marathon or Thermopylæ. Well might Sam Adams exclaim, “What a glorious morning for America is this.” As a distinguished foreigner has well said, “It is their sacrificed blood in which is written the preface of the nation’s history.” At Lexington was the opening scene of a revolution destined to change the character of human governments and the condition of the human race. Yet I sometimes incline to the opinion, as I read the utterances of men who in our day are called statesmen, and some of the newspapers, that the age of patriotism has gone; that an age of selfish materialists, economists, and calculators has succeeded. Let us hope there is still a saving remnant in this republic which will rekindle the love and patriotism which actuated the men who established our government.