St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-30
The Dinner At DeImonico,s.

New YORK, Oct. 29.-When Mr. Blaine
was in Chicago last Saturday he received a
letter from Wm. 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 a day when it
would be most convenient for him to be
present to meet his hosts. In answer to this
invitation, and while Blaine was on his way
to Evansville, Ind, he replied to the invitation
as follows
EVANSVILLE. Ind, Oct 23.-To Hon.
Vim. NJ. Evarts, John Jacob Astor and others,
New York: | accept with much pleasure
your kind invitation to dine with you next
week, and indicate Wednesday evening as
one agreeable to myself, but shall gladly
leave the arrangement of time to yourselves.
JAS. G. BLAINE.
Such is the origin of the dinner given Mr.
Blaine this evening. 1t was something of
an undertaking for the committee
Oh arrangement to prepare for
the reception within the short
time at their disposal, but they
succeeded in completing every detail The
hour set for the dinner was O'Clock. At
that time long lines of carriages had left
their occupants at the doors, and 200 gentle
men were engaged in hand shaking and pre-
pairing for the banquet. 1t was 7:20 when
Blaine reached the rooms, and few minutes
later as he entered the ''ball room,n where
the covers were laid, he was greeted by hand
clapping by the guests already assembled
and who stood at their respective
places at the tables. Mr.. Blaine
was escorted to the post of honor by Mr..
Eyarts and Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, and took his
rw;fh
cheers for James G. Blaine," proposed by
Mr.. A. r. Whitney. The room was elabor-
ately decorated, the tables were laden with
rare plants, intermingled with delicate and
artistic examples of confectioners' art. The
handsome chandeliers were tastefully
trimmed with smilax, and the air was laden
with the perfume of roses. A monster bed
of elegant flowers bearing the initials ~. g.
b." in-artistical floral lettering, rested on
the table at which Mr.. Blaine was seated. A
handsome banner, bearing the national
shield and representing the American eagle
taking in its beak green garland, was sus-
pended from the wall behind the presiding
officer. The distinguished guest of the
evening, Mr.. Blaine sat i'm
mediately at the right of the presi-
dents Levi p. Morton, United States minister
to France, sat on the immediate left of Mr.
Evarts. The other quests at the principal
table and in the order of sitting we're: On
the right-Judge Noah Davis, presiding JUS
tus of the supreme court of New York, who
sat next to Mr.. Blaine; ex-Gov. Cornell, of
New York; Gov. Hoyt, of Pennsylvania; {;
Cyrus w. Field, and Charles f. Coon, as
sistant secretary of treasury. On the left
Rev. Henry NJ. Field, D. D., ex-senator
Thos. G. Platt, ex-Judge John F. Dillman,
VIM. Dowd and Addison Brown. The
more prominent of the other gentlemen
forming the company were: Whitelaw Reid,
Henry Clews, Cornelius N. Bliss. Jacob
d. Vermilye, L. NJ. Bates, J. NJ. Bundy.
Sinclair Toosey, d. A. Hawkins, Jesse Selig-
man, BraYton Ives, Aug, Kountz, Thos. c.
Platt, Clarence Z. Seward, David Dows, Jr.,
VIM. II. Robertson, D. S. Babcock, Cyrus
w. Field, Jr., Robt. Sewell, Jesse Hoyt,
Joseph H. Brown, D. W. Mills, John Knox,
Lloyd Aspinwall, Horace Porter, s. H. Wales,
ThOs. MeIlrath, A. G. McCook, Clarke Good
win. Z. F. Winslow, Russell Sage and JAY
Gould. The only guests present from out
side of New York city and of Brooklyn, were
D. o. Brady, of Tarrytown, N. Y; g. II.
Scribners, Yonkers, n. Y; Fred. A. Potts,
New Jersey; Colvin Wells, Pittsburg; Chas.
Emory Smith, Philadelphia; G.. F. Hobart,