Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1884-10-31
By Two Hundred of the Leading
/. Citizens Of the Empire Me.
tr0pOlis. y.
The Dinner at Delmonico's in Honor
Of the Next President of the
- United States. ''s. "
Twenty-Five Thousand Men in Line
to Welcome the ''Plumed 3
#. -.. ''r Knight
Chicago Indulges in a $125,00O Fire
and a Brave Man Loses
His Life. Z.
What an English Paper Thinks of the
New Secretary of the
Treasury.
The Associated Press Report.
The Banquet to Blaine.

The banquet to Blaine.
New YORK, Dot. 29.-When Mr.. Blaine was
in Chicago last Saturday he received letter
from VIM. NJ. Evarts and 200 other gentlemen,
in which he was invited to dine at Delmonico's
some night this week. The letter requested
him to fix day when it would be most oonve-
nient for him to be present to meet his hosts.
In answer to the invitation, and while Blaine
was on the way to Evansville, Ind, he replied
to the invitation as follows: t,@
EVANSVILLE, Ind, ), Oct. 23 TO Hon. VIM. NJ
Evarts, John Jacob Astor and others, New York:
accept with much pleasure your kind invita-
tion to dine with you next week, and Indicate
Wednesday evening as one agreeable to myself,
but shall giauly leave the assignment of time to
yourselves. i '-~E,... JAMES g. BLAINE. r
Such is the origin of the dinne~ given Mr..
Blaine this evening. 1t was something of an
undertaking for the committee of arrange
ments to prepare for the reception within
the short time at their dispt sal, but they suo-
ceeded in completing every detail. The hour
set for the dinner was o'clock, and at that time
long lines of carriages had left their occupants
engaged in hand shaking and preparing for the
banquet. 1t Was 7:2O when Blaine reached the
rooms ard few minutes later, a. he entered
the ball room where the covers were laid, he was
greeted bv hand clapping by the guests already
assembled aad Who stood at their respective
places at the tables. Mr.. Blaine was escorted to
the post of honor by Mr.. Evarts aad Mr.. Cyrus
W. Field, and took bis seat as the room re-
sounded with "three cheers for j. G. Blaine,''
proposed by MIR. A. Il. Whitney. The room was
elaborate]y decorated, the tables were laden
with rare plants intermingled with delicate and
artistic examples of the confectioner's art, the
handsome chandeliers were tastefully trimmed
with smilax, and the air was laden with the
perfume of roses. A monster bed of flowers,
bearing the initials j. G.. B., in artistic floral
lettering rested on the table at which Mr..
Blaine was seated; handsome banner bearing
the national shield and representing the Ameri-
can eagle holding in its beak q green garland,
was suspended from the wall behind the pre-
siding officer. The distinguished guest of the
evening, Mr.. Blaine, sat Immediately on the
right of the president, while Levi p. Morton
United States minister to France, sat on the
immediate left of Mr.. Evarts. The other guests
at the principal table, and in the order of Sit
ting, were, on the right, Judge Nosh Davis,
presiding justice of the supreme court of New
York, who sat next to Mr. Blaine; Ex- Governor
Cornell, Gen. Hoyt, of Pa. Cyrus W. Field and
Charles E. Coon, assistant secretary of the
treasury. On the left, Rev. Henry NJ. Field,
d. D., ex-senator Thomas G. Platt, ex.J udge
JOIN F. Dillon, William, David and Addison
Brown. Cyrus W. Field, from whose office the
tickets of admission had been sent out, received
letters regretting their absence from John Joy,
who is out of the city in connection with buai-
ness of the civil service commission; from John
Sherman, who is speaking at Springfield,
Mass; from John G.. Whittier. who hopes "the
coming election will call your konored guest to
the high place he is so we'll fitted to FILL"