1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

On Sunday, 14 July, the Swedish Olympic Committee gave a farewellentertainment at the Stadium, to which were invited the Swedishand foreign honoratiores, officials and active competitors, to a numberof some 4,000 persons.The guests were seated at tables arranged in rows in the arena.Non-intoxicating liquors were the only beverages served. A men’schoir, 2,500 strong, gave a concert after the banquet, the festivitiesbeing concluded by a grand display of fireworks on the summits ofthe two towers.Speeches were made by H. R. H., the Crown Prince, Baron deCoubertin and Colonel Balck.The public were allowed to be present during the concert and fireworkdisplay, on the payment of a small fee, and the Stadium wasfilled to the last seat.Speech made by Baron Pierre de Coubertin,at the farewell entertainment of theOlympic Games, given at the Stadium onJuly 14, 1912.Your Royal Highness, Gentlemen,I am like a father who has many daughters. The moment he has succeededin getting one of them married, he thinks of nothing else but of having the nextone married too. The Olympiads are my daughters, and now that the FifthOlympiad has been so successfully celebrated, I turn with heart and soul towards theSixth Olympiad, which, as you know, Gentlemen, will be celebrated in Berlin in1916. And, on behalf of the International Olympic Committee, I beg to say thatwe hope you will attend, whilst I feel sure that I can be allowed to add, on behalfof our German friends, that all of you, Gentlemen, will be very welcome there.We shall never forget Sweden, the Royal Family, or the Swedish people. Weleave with them a part of our hearts. When the bleak season of the year hascome, my dear Swedish friends, and everything is dark and cold, remember thateverywhere in the wide world, there are friends who are looking back to the gloryof this Olympic summer, and who unite with you in grieving that it shouldever depart.I thank you once again, and call on you all for a cheer for Sweden. (Thelatter half of this speech was made in Swedish and elicited loud cheers.)Entertainment given by Skansen for thecompetitors and officials.On Tuesday, 9 July, all the Swedish and foreign honoratiores andofficials, with their ladies, and all the active competitors, were invitedby the Directors of the Open Air Museum of Skansen to visit thisrenowned spot, and afterwards to partake of some plain refreshmentsthere. About 4,000 persons availed themselves of this invitation. Inaddition to instrumental and vocal music, several speeches were made;one in French, in honour of Sweden and the Fifth Olympiad, by MajorGeneral J. F. Lilliehöök; one in English, by His Excellence, H. Lagercrantz,formerly Swedish Minister at Washington; a third in German,789