New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-13
REMARKS OF MR.. REID.

toast was announced. 1t was 1.-The Press" and
was spoken to by Whteaw Reid who said:
das nSt an Of @ ro5d rend the Charsn to get
the Editors lie out from behind their professional
screen But looking about for the few laymen scat
tered here among the Doctors one may 1e perutea 70
wonder at yOur choice OF tue victim DO LOT 80 nucn
tables on either hand AS 10 tnem, WIN AS Eaito
said elder not better soldier But the new EdltOr
Of the old Epeng Post here near U.s. had not come from
the West somewhat later than some other:, you
would surely not have given so Placid ana uDgsiuIpeJ
"A dinner to Horace Wnlte. As Tor the Eultor OF
HqrperS Week-the only living editor who positively
enjoys speaking for the Press on these occasions anu
others when 2o does itr he had not already been set
down Tor another profession 70 which ne does eqnsl
Press at board where George william GURUS sat sen'
applause L. 1T. no. .hou
We say about Doctors II are nnding out by his
poor words and Mating manner now nt.s ana un,.n
be- VIVA. do you think Of your own exhibtoni There
are here present, al least dozen OF you from whom
myself huys heard the most solemn ana mag,,s
terial Instructions as to how one should
live. Avoid late dinners; avoid . croWaea
three courses your dinner and single gass OF wine
keep your diuDg-rOGm cool avoid drat1 Dc sure "
table An, yes those tae familiar formulas Every
OF you them very On ooS se for
time we've got you out from behind Tue screen.
Won live. Uauglter) This il where the fees go.
The united skill Of two hundred Doctors oSneen-
produce fJr themselves the best and wholesome
way OF dning has resulted In this daughter
we are more Obliged ibal we can tell YOU for being
sho vn at last. so satisfactorily and on the highest
medical authority just wat pam Living ana Hsh
ThinkIngp mean. daughter and applause.l
The newspapers have been spoken oil u, New-Yorks
AutOcrats CT tls Breakfast Table on nc; New-1 ork
has 10 OF the 3reaksAs Table La az inc world
there Is only one We sha never see as Lg 1sn' Ad
Call not Autocrats tnen 0u6 nero DOCTORS hse lhe
81 o n d" to- sys si5e e psea WIZ ss
them. Nc 90 sometimes called on for remedies
wien we haven't bit more idea tnan you w1A Is he
matter with t1e patients o. wnat wiz nelp tHem adu
we then are often conscientious Us YOU and carefully
ion n harmless bread pill Like you work solely for
TIE good Of Humanity but IKE yoi whle we are at H.
we also expect Humanity 10 mud rs good yins Lk,
Won are occasionally mistaken IN diagnosis; and
Ike You. nave BAD half hOur OF II when our
iesolute.y declare that they are suffering from NO
such malalics as we describe. WISE Dootor
under such circumstances, hunors MS patent; ana q
wso Journalist sometimes Tad, Il DesL however nuol
Slist ais grlin to let the people nave tIer owa way
We ai owe you grateful thanks for enabling US 10 SEQ
again in Now York, man Oh aus 10 Wlon you take
so Jsi ti0 and in WON yoa must permit US an
ega PRIDE honor 20 our cOuEiry ana TO the per
M nent liter Itnro OF tue Engl.h tongue. 1t indeed
rare compliment paid your profession In the Iact that
atler ali tho wOong OF the Muses. Dr. Holmes stl male
me ne the business OF ns fe and thus gave largely up
10 Beacon Street what meant Tor mdn.ini Ii ali
tai, n,be literary WORK Is only tae frut OF such
leisure as could b. suacAed from an arduous employ
meni waat higlt the world have had II the iacts
had reversed II Literature hal been L profession,
aud Medicine mis- recreation I tAppause.l
lie himself has bis family complete the round OF
the professions Ills father clergyman his son already
IA distinguished layer ana Jirls-"aat PRECISION Is
There .en Al tEis yaretyoVns family for the grandson
but tao Pres5i Nay, misht we not almost ei,lm
your guest nlmselff For what Is an Editor
but man business II is TO say the word lie has to
say instant, 10 deal vita every new occasion when
4 gome,t Yet here the Prince or all writers for an
ocoason-mOro journalistic In this than the journalist
What notable occasion has ne not adorned WAT DC.
casDn ala not sno" lhe loss u he no .oYn tutt ssos
perfection holmes not heard from In peace or IN
war; IN JOY or IN row anoag COUNT mea Or or tne
yyag and theme tle ring OF our poets voice III
the Graud Ddke or POn Plon or the Chinese
Embassy; II we mourned Tor sumner or PdFIeu ron
Lowell; If We called Our young men 10 the ned or our
young women u tho Sanitary falr; II we reOpehed
burnt,down tAelire in New-York unveiled u statue
to Governor Andrew or 70 Haleek; always the word
for tho hour was Holiness. (Applnuse.)
II were tojudge indee from tne brilliant record OF
his performances, No might say thai Nc really mas the
quality Ed tors only pretend 10 that ne knows s0me-
tmug ABOUT everything, and can write Oh anything
COnsder the round oi mis- shnents -As pysi-
edn. medical lecturer medical author; as noroscopst
aud Pho tOgrapIer; the best living writer o. after
dinner poems ne author OF or Cur tenderest
and OF our most ringing yrics above al, TO give
IN ri reason enough ios G.ea ilne as author o.
The ChamOered Nautilus. perfect poem, II tAe Englsh
lang holds one. (Applause.) Then recall ms work
In u seres OF magazine papers that form absolute
IN American Litora.lre. and give Elm a
novels We talk sometimes OF looking, among our living
writers, for the coming American novelist II mean
Why farther than he author Of Elsie Venaer and
The Guardian Angeli tApplausel
Your nOnored guest, Mr. CHAIRMAN must have seemed
toevery here the youngest man your table tonight
Yet we know, and perhaps venture say that
has written tnlry-two successive annual
poems the class OF 1929 not DO surprised that
all tAe word knows ny HEARTH not his precise ageat
least how oU no has been out " college IL is of
the pleasan things connected with formal relin
qushpenJ VI OF the burdens ne has been bearing
the rshi, In this mellow Indian summer OF
his fruitful ifo know hat bis fame still growing
enc Tho very nasn and glitter Of bis wis have some-
tim ca bndsi mems 20 the rich aud generous quail
ties tnat LAY beneath IL lowell painted him as
"a Leydsnjsr, Always fulLobsrged from which dit
The electrical nngies OF MT Gttor hit"
This tribute from your profession, NJ Chairman. has
served recall to us now manJ nose srs hs titles 10
renown now Wide has been toe field OF his work aud
how rich the harvest he mas cleaned Aud gives tue
welcome opportunity to show that NewYork prizes him
no than Boston and glad to thank aim alike for
the pleasure he has for 80 many years given US all
personally for the example Of his ie Tor tLe service
ne has rendered literature aud the honor ho has
done our Country. Applause.)
On the conclusion of Mr. Reid'S speech, Dr. Barker
referred to q number of physicians who had
sent letters of regret and then called for bumper
to absent friends 1t was drunk stand
ing and the company sang Aud Lang Syne I"
right heartily as % response and then separated.