nearly ten o'clock before
As for George O'Connor , with his irresistible laughing song , and the song about the train that went to Morro to-day , he was more popular every time he appeared , and was greeted now by mad applause , and shouts of `` There 's George ! '' and `` Hello , George ! '' And the Home Boys ' Quartette from Emville was quite new , and various solo singers and a `` lady elocutionist '' from San Francisco were heard for the first time . The latter , who was on the program merely for a `` Recitation -- Selected , '' was so successful with `` Pauline Pavlovna , '' and `` Seein ' Things at Night '' that it was nearly ten o'clock before the Governor was introduced . However , he was at last duly presented to the applauding hundreds , and came forward to the footlights to address them , and made everyone laugh and feel friendly by saying immediately that he knew they had n't come out that evening to hear an old man make a long speech . He said he did n't believe in speechmaking much , he believed in DOING things ; there were always a lot of people to stand around and make speeches , like himself -- and there was more laughter . He said that he knew the business of the evening was the giving out of these prizes here -- he did n't know what was in these boxes -- he indicated the daintily wrapped and tied packages that stood on the little table in the middle of the stage -- but he thought every lady in the hall would know before she went home , and perhaps some one of them would tell him -- and there was more laughter .