New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-28
MR.. FIELDS BREAKFAST TO DE LESSEPS.
A NUMBER OF FRIEND, OF THE COUNT MEET Al
DtLMOSICo's

MR. FIELDS BREAKFAST TO DE LESSEPS.
A NUMBER OF FRIENDS OF THE COUNT MEET Al
D.LMOSIco's
CYRUS W. Field gave a breakfast at Del
nonIoo's yesterday Count De Les-eps There
were present Nile FerdinAnde de Lesseps. the Counts
daughter Napoleon Ney, ex-ChieiJustce DAILY Mn-
ister Levi p Morton. William Dorsheimer. Joseph
Pulitzer, q. W. smaey. General C. p. Stone, Henry
Cotier the Rev DR.. Oh aries H. Parkhurs the Rev. Dr.
II. NJ Field. l. c. Murray and Major Bandy. Mr.
Field Is an Old friend Count DE Lesseps and was once
o guest OF the for twelve days in Egypt M.
Field made the following remarks.
GENTLEMEN II is great pleasure to us al TO welcome
once shores Who though born IN France
% S coaory Since his ScfEs extend AL
The world His greatest enterprise was not IN France not
Canal thirty years this canal existed ony
even 'As the great sepnsnson was Of tins
aS AZ %Spd SOON MI IN With the drfting
5 IAN, and , Sf an me R 81 S y Re
q France amt Egypt ioash hs ~Sy m1o9ga be "ess
and water Jet IN 10 permit the passage 81 SIN oars ah
il and themselves that not mpossbty At
that time NJ was N The year 1874 was present as mem
rrs time beean ACQUAINTED with the insrous man VINO $
years more were neeied to COMPLETE , H. ana II
naions invited witness me opening Of THIS great
tlgh~ay IRON sea roES1 II and the ss Of be Med.
tIeanean aroa the waters Of the ed sea then at
way results great often accrue 70
he ssn o rece We FAR NOR benenf ron II than Frin
indeed than all the OF EUROPE
together. But matter which nation reaps me most from
IL the victory for civilization the fruits OF
which finally thu good OF all nations TOR the dement,
OF al mankind
To achieve glOrF enough for one man. and
II would lie might Teufe nom the
Held ard ame TO the keeping Of history
But hardly had the Canal been opened before ne Turned
his Mediterranean o. the lstmus o tOfnth
which he proposed twain thus opening
o Corinb and the Gut Of 1f.gina ANA
again 10 Africa he actually rOpOed 10 abolish
Desert Sahara by cutting canal when should let IN
OF the Mediterranean 70 overflow the DESERT anu
turn the barren sands into an inland sea
last md hemisphere sufficient for him, he o
OF Columbus 10 tue New rid AMI proposed 70
himself The work his lie. the cutting Ol tat
great which the COrdileras The Andes
nus mountain barrier 10 prevent the Two oceans
and the PatihC-irOm flowing iOg tier A.
the future only that learned IL Egypt
that will DO that thing impossible 10 NJ DE
1esseps and that he has with him the ardent hopes OF al
Americans that he taste Ot death I'll ne mas carried
but and greatest work which Will link his name IN
pershsDy this New World il is already linked with
The OLD
Tomorrow witness proof OF the strong ties
counres in the formal presentation OF
that of Liberty knghtenng The World whch Is the
Of Tie spectacle that wll
Awaken than sixty
yOnder haIbOr and landed Al the Bat
tery Nations guest and the whole land rose
friend Washington. tie gallant French
lo his had the
Independence. Thus bound 70 France
every proof Of mutual regar one more lie u
bind together and devOuty pray thai two great Reub
lcs-the Republic or the Old World and VI the New-may be
forever Gentlemen give You the health Of our
lOnored guest Count Ferdinand de Lesseps
Count DE Lesseps made response in French.