New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-11
WELCOME TO GEORGIA. SALA
THE LoTos CLUBS RECEPTION.

A GATHERING OF wELL-kNo"N Nh"-i""
MsssRs sALA, DEPEw AND SQUIRE HEAhD'
The ground floor of the Lotos Club house was
f,led last evening with men weliknown III ar''
letters and society who had met to do honor 10 one
of the best-known journalists Of the day, NJ dii-
ner and reception given by the ciuo 10 ueoiso
Augustus Sals, who, on his way to lecturing tour
through Australia is spending few days in New
York. At o'clock the guests. to the NUMBER OF
obout one hundred and fifty. sat down to dinner
At the centre table sat the president OF tbe cruz,
Whitelaw Reid having on his rieht hano ''e sue''
If the evening Others at this table were Cnaun-
COS N Denew. Alcernon S. Sullivan Colonel L. W.
Kno~ william Winter Richard OGorman, Frank
r. Lawrence, Colonel Richard lathers u H.
Storey John Jay Knox and joseph fni'Ner'
lmone the other members and guests present
were Horace White, Lester W aliacX, Dousi"9 i".
Ion. s. S. Packard, A. p. Burbank, William h1niS
Fornap Francis s. Smith, DIR. Charles lnslee rar-
doc General Horace Porter, DR.. Louis IL. seaman
Robart r. Roosevelt Uriah Welch, Controher
UW. Cannon, Henry N. Alden, George fawce't
Pou.e DR. Paul f. Munde, Lawrence Barrett ana
John Elderkin.
THE PRESIDENTS WORDS OF GREETING.
Ahout O o'clock when coffee had been served and
the guests were enjoying their cigars the PRESIDENT
rose and proposed Mr. Sala's health IN the Hollow
ing words:
eastf m re
rive your welcome old friend Now you make ~ Inv
dnty-siill a pleasant one-'o give your "'''0"' ~
o1 enemy my old enemy! We shall get on better with the
facts by admitting them at the outset . O twenty
Years in which everybody wishes to be
have with He did not beeTe In S Na he Sdn
want il to- and he wrote FRANKLY as he Deieveu anu
wished auehter he never s0 tnat at least We think
the better him. Applause He came OF apay
ng o% ,h %s"S psr who the
wrong side; and now that IL Is All over VIC "'"i A'
More than fhat~we are heartily glad TO see him The
Statute Of limitations rns r In ss sGo country long
after he changed his NINA ao1 pn found
fhopsas sre srsa as" deal pleasaner reang ike
man ma e' Who eePass, s1d n ns
GOOD fellowship board perhaps may venture TO
add that we particularly IKE Ike Io1gSer ''
WE Changed our own minds-at least about some
mr guest used to sypaihse with but we've patroand
are getting ready to putthe most OF them in.o oTe
Mr. Pulitzer Gnterrupting-A great dsa oe'er io' "o
Mr. Ked-we are considering how much they arc
SYMsh Mn PniiSzer~we have good deal to forgive.
are Sr very ''S glad to see Mr. sala here again. He
veteran in the profession SOr,nnv W wearing
iaurcs won in many fields. and ENJOYING in close ass9
zion the esteem and trust OF great master wlose Iae
sedrlipgs We ali know him as wit, man of letters
and of the world Some OF US nave khp%n f I,S
e described in the old phrase jolly good fellow
On the side of the Atlantic the grasp ne ewes pa
American hand is a and we do not mean lnaV
in New-York he shalt feel away from home. sme YOU
gentlemen health and lro;r Gritty 10 george aug"
'"'"' MR.. sALAs ADDRESS.
Mr. Sala on rising to speak was greeted with
long-continued applause, after which, resting his
hand on the table no spoke as follows
in clear resonant tones. The many happy
phrases of his speech greeted with laughter
nnd applause:
Mr.. PRESIDENT, AND GESrLEMEN OF IhE b9Ios ~, NJ
am under the deepest feeling OF gratitude 70 , M
oft the steathy conspraor having exposed the willy
plotter aud insidOus libelOr and dehed the augndh
6eer clicked with that venom out no, 1t rises still and
posons all that beongso his otherwise happy c9h1!uo
has here reqp az, yonss sSs ss es
with uniounded calumny and 10 olte the n hd that
have fed that 1t will take me from ts Tune 1. 10
MORROW morning bite ali tine friendly hands Win re-
gard events that took place twenty years ago.
aud Of which was an interested Spectator nay snS
taken OF by many hundred thousands OF my ieilow
oountrymen who had not the courage & bt
chat they had been aistakan ont !e, soIsn H
curry favor with the North by saying that they haa al
y6o S da 1S a ans Ss that
which had to say against you said while | was ID
and when my letters came weekly bac, from England ;
and when it quite in your power to have ridden me
nary visitatons which mallgnant o. Copper
head was supposed to dsSsrye' mai B w SSn
left NewYork had quite many good, kind, cordial
friends the Union League side as had on the Dem
would say, further that when 1 came publish my
had made which seemed to me to have been hasty and
incOnsiderate; and 1 did my best to % Ssit
Until e sSf home to 1 magu the people from Whom
But have W Pesn w Rep'q came Se
again in ls79'so with my wife the enemy was re-
yed on al de So win much h0 am an en-
envy to the United States that for years
sf hS Sas ers hardly s
Of letters from Americans from every part Of me
the Easfull Of kindly matter and expressions bearing
to HSs sh 'g Uned States And know perfectly We'll that
there American who comes TO London, be he law
Sn always glad to see him always glad to show him
that although enemy still retain some feelings OF
gratitude toward my friends in the United States
Ihave stated in OF your remarkably versa
tile and Graphic Journals that have boosted OF. having
States But bless your and souls gentlemen Of
the Lotos Club assure you that have no s9Sn asa
when say that ,i II was NV by Ticket %erf fsT
Australia was told by my energetic manager that
might interesting and picturesque country by
Francisco instead OF going by OF the Suez Canal and
the Red Sea had seen your Rocky Monn bd so Il
shall see them ct the end ., OF January
9 ampOse 'o of 10Y Journeys from time to time in my
passage do deliver few incoherent utterances, those
ns . G T from mot s San But H1' a1y
wants to pay two dollars or seventyhve cents 70 near
those ncoherent uteraDces may be assured tha my
managers aud myself will do our utmost 10 devote
the funds accruing therefrom TO purposes OF mercy and
OF charity. tApplause. 1 am sure you believe every
word that say and that Australia is my objective
ILaughierl
But seriously want 20 conclude by saying that do
not believe word Of what your President has said He
does not believe that Tor the past
twenty years have been, and am. an
enemy OF the United States We wero blinded
many of for the time being; we took wrong lane
for the time Just OF Tories and many OF you
Radicals have taken the wrong lane IN England but
think that differences OF opinion should never alter
friendships. And when we consider the mum
Der OF years that have elapsed; when We