New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-28
GREETING HENRY INSTANTLY
.srcoSp TINE THE Loros CLUBS GUEST

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teen Years ago. when he had Just returned oui Ar'a
e. having found Livingstone. the same eiuD
h.a Stanley for its guest Inc Tres'uens
NJ e,d presided last night Az hs rgnt SAT tne guest
~ the evening Chauncey NJ Depew and General Horace
porter in the order named and at his left Lieutenant
1,rerIr. Alsernon 8. sullivan and Colonel Richard
rather. Among the hundred and odd others who
-.ccpped seats at the tables were Z. Heron Allen.
Colonel Thomas W. Knox, Lieutenant Hickey, U. g. A.;
Excise Commissioner W. 8. Andrews. Major j. b. Pond,
DR. E. f. Hoyt George Alfred Townsend Chsndos Fulton
General E. f. winslow I. Henry French and Frank
Sawyer
THE PRESIDENTS WORDS OF WELCOME
Shortly before o'clock the President rose and called
Tor order he said
Well gentlemen, your alarm Of yesterday and last
night was needless The Atlantic Ocean would not break
,ren dinner engagement for the man whom the terrors
Of the Congo the Nile could not turn back and your
guest is here. LApplanse:l ,... r.r. hin, ws,cou.
Then he fresh from the discovery Of Living
stone The rsduy which even doubted the pso
result had hardly died out Our young correspon
fair chance to win his spurs had suddenly made wonder
ful hit Of expedition which nobody had really be
Of HIM and right glad to him. and little bit uneasy
but vastly amused over his peppcry dealings win inc
In spite Of our admiration for his pluck and his luck
we did quito take him seriously Laughter IN iact
Lotto, ou Club Itself was young In that hearty
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ing far more Of CHEEKY greeting comrade Of the quiz
biz beat ten Laughter than Of adequate to
already well launched on career Ihst ranA u S
among the foremost explorers Of the century Loud
That is the character IN which you must Welcome him
now The ROYAL Geographical Society Is In no further
doubt as TO the credit which he Ia entitled He hears
it, diploma Of honorary membership Hear Hear lear
tions of the Khedve commission Of the King Of the
Bens Moro than any Of them be sbot Sos s
thanks Of the Legislature and the RECOGNITION o. Ms w1S
expeditions of his own The who set out merely to
fnd Lvngstone has himself done work greater than
Ss &c
mapped the Nile and founded Free State on the Congo
XII honor to our returning guest! The years have
left their marks upon his frame and their honors MS
parched him the wild beasts and the more savage
men that have pursued him Hear hear ,a he ~ ~
his adoption Let make him feel at home Applause
give you the health OF our friend anu conrade' Jap
pause.
Mr. sTANLEY's RESPONSE.
Mr. Stanley on rising respond was received with pro-
longed cheering and 1t was some moments before ne
could be heard. When the demonstration came TO an
end he said:
MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN THE Loros CLUB
One might start great many principles and ideas which
require illustrated and drawn out In order 70
present picture Of my feelings at the present moment
am conscious that in my immediate vicinity there are
people who were great when was IIte felneInpea
sent TO report lecture by friend right opposite MI
George Alfred Townsend lapplause ana remember tne
manner in which he said Calico said The world moves
round and the world does round. upon the plat
form Of the Mercantile Hall in St Louisone OF the grand
est things out Laughter and applause Inc next
great when had To come before the pubic was
Marx Twains lecture the Sandwich Islands, winch
was sent 10 report And when look to my left here see
Colonel Anderson. whose very face gives me an dea t
about 10 send me 10 some terrible region for some deser
ate commission. Laughter Andof course you are aware
paper that dropped the pacific garb of journalist and
donned the costume of an African traveller; IL
was not row t"T me- corps one to question the
newspaper propretOrs motives. He was an able editor
manded great army Of rowing writer's. people of fame
in the newsgathering world men who had been every
Atlantic TO the top of the very highest mountain men
who ready to give their advice 70 Nsuona CAP
smallest police-courts in the United states Laughter
belonged to this class OF rowing writer's ana can r"
laugher By untiring devotion to my duties an untr
Ing indefagablty as though the o0nary ndeayo
as some OF yau suspect the enterprise Of the able
dtor wa ony ispred win view TO obtain the largest
Circulation aughterl my unyielding nd guiding motive
doing rc' with ail NV might that duty to
which, according to the English state onu aCd
lie first dispatched me Abyssniasraight from Mis-
sour to Abyssinis lLaughter What stride gentle tie
men Renewed langhter People who live west o. me
Missouri River have scarcely think much knowe1ge q,
for me in that But seemed TO Mr. Bennett a very
thing and It seemed to his agent III LOnooh
very ordinary thing indeed Laughter 80 l. q" course
followed siit took IL ~ very ordinary thlnS AS anu
went u Ahyssinia aud somehow or another goI iuch
followed and my kilograms reporting tnc aH VI nag
dala happened to he week ahead OF me bsh IN
ments The people said had done right Well though Ie
London papers said was impostor. daughter inc
second thing aware or was that was orueISu ~
from the Cretan side and the Turkish side and then
sent to spain TO report from the kep.nnean se
from the ears SIDE perfectly dispasslonatey lLuShIer
SENT TO FIND LIVINGSTON.
And then all of sudden sent for to come TO Paris
Then Mr. Bennett, in that despotic way OF his said
81 want you to go and lind Livingstone AS tell you
Twas a mere newspaper reporter. dared not confess
my soul as my own Mr.. Bennett merely said Co. and
went He gave glass of champagne and thought tha
and went And good luck would have It, found Liv
ingstone Loud and continued cheering. ., u.
I returned rs good citizen ought, and as good re
porter ought. and good newspaper corresp onden
ought the tale ana arriving at Aden teegTaphee
request that might he permitted 70 Vlst eNzauoI
before 1 went to China ILsughter.l I came e
D nS to a n@ that eo an yG Ss w 1f
my story. Iaughtert Dear me; II were proud QUO 81
thst whatever said would do would endeaYor to d
init all my migtor, many good man had dd bel a.
fT1nd cheers was requested in an an ofhand man
ner~jnst as any member of the Lotos Club here present
Mould rs,@E Of vs"p reogrsphca work said: No
in the least my dear sir; havntthe slightest objection
anS NO, in the least sensational took particular pain
and wrote paper out and when II was printed II wa
about a hundred polysylabic African words. Laugh
teri And yet for a that and c, that IN
Brighton Association. said that they hadn't come y
listen 10 any sensational stories but that they had come
listen 10 facts lIaughterl Well, now. an old gentle
man very reverend full OF years and honors, learned
Cuc inscriptions and cuneiform characters wrote TO
Times stating that il was not Stanley who had discovers
Iyipgstbne but that 1t Livingstone who had discON
cred Stanley. Laughter
Mr. Stanley then alluded 10 the unbehef IN ME disco'
cries prevailing at that time in Sewiork' and COL
tinued:
II il had not been for that unbelief don't believe
should ever visited Africa again should nave D.
rom, or should have endcavOred TO become with MI
Reds permission. conservative member OF the loo
Club IIanghterl should have settled down ana D'
come as steady and stolid some or ines
patriots that you have around here shoul
have said nothing offensive. I should have don
tome Treating" I should have offered few
cigar aud on saturday night perhaps, would nav
opened bottle OF champagne and distributed 1t anon