The games were supported by varied groups and institutions. The 
     
     Club’s English and Irish friends lavished praise on the Scots’ talents and 
     
     love for their homeland. The Mayor of Charlottetown proclaimed the 
     
     day of the games a business holiday.“ The lieutenant-governor, as club 
     
     Chieftain, joined with the Caledonians in announcing the games and 
     
     permitted the use of Government House grounds for the festivities. 
     
     Charlottetown businessmen advertised Scottish wares. Island 
     
     newspapers printed notices and editorial comments. An Island poet paid 
     
     this tribute: 
     
    
   
   
    
     TO “THE CALEDONIAN CLUB” 
     
    

    
     Hail! glorious spirit of the olden time, 
     
    

    
     That stirred the heroes of my fatherland 
     
     To deeds of bravery, to write sublime 
     
    

    
     Their names on fadeless page with dauntless hand. 
     
     Hail! to our Island home, where many still 
     
    

    
     Are found that pride in thy pre eminence — 
     
     That now doth feel a gael reviving thrill 
     
    

    
     Of patriotic pride — thy influence — 
     
     To know that in this Isle remote revives 
     
    

    
     The glorious spark that oft the breast of braves 
     
     Warmed, when their country’s honor e’en their lives 
     
    

    
     Demanded, and was quenched in crimson waves. 
     
     Hail! combination of the freeborn sons 
     
    

    
     Of Albion’s rocks of freedom, that were ever free. 
     
     “The Caledonian Club”, [sic] whose name prophetic runs 
     
    

    
     From heart to heart of glorious action yet to be. 
     
     Wave to the wanton breeze thy banner fair, 
     
    

    
     Beneath whose spotless folds your father’s [sic] bled; 
     
     That it may to the gazing world declare 
     
    

    
     Their gallant sons are worthy of the dead; 
     
     That it may call from west, east, south and north, 
     
    

    
     The worthy sons of Scotia’s land of fame. 
     
     In union strong to one great gathering forth 
     
    

    
     In honor meet to your great chieftan’s [sic] name. 
     
     And that it may like an electric stream, 
     
    

    
     Revive the spirit of the olden time 
     
     In those of Scotland’s bonnie sons that seem 
     
    

    
     As if they lost that principle sublime, — 
     
    
   
   
    
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