New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-28

be only miserable lao mes. because Baker IN n. "a
looking down on the dark blue waters OF Albert
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graphical gentlemen liansfster ansanvika
although ssesswater After , .s that
problem day after day as we sdSd doTn i bs deaS
stone "i had been 80 when hen he wrote his last
for ANYTHING less than the classic Nile After travelling
400 miles to the Stanley Falls and oeyoh toa
the Northwest TheL IL turned west and then VISIONS vi
and and strange tribes and strange st ws
broke upon our Imagination and we wondered WHAT We
going when the river suddenly 'oOs o Hs
sidsd turn toward sns s sOs'hw to Ws saw
them that t''S It Was aiming directly for the
showing them crimson and pol
shed wire that had been polished for the OCCASION
SIs, %Why is he river Of course That
answer and required persuasion before the Gc
ono Ds I the Words the Kooyah
| Is the river Of Congoand"
THE CONGO AFTER ALL
Alas for our classic dreams Alas for Crophi and
Mophi the tabled fountains of Herodotus! Alas for
he banks of the river whore ses was found
by the daughter OF Pharaoh This is the
parvenu Congo Then we glded and past strange
and cannbals past those nations which nc nave
until we arrived at circular extensio OF the river and
@ e months
After that had very good mind 70 come parn
AT Tssss a %Sa. did Ike me you" But you
know the fases would not A., permit, a1asa me ne
EUROPE %' the King Of Italy gave train 70
ss VERY
the King Of the Begians asking me % go hack 70 Aca
coms for e sSfk
have come for love, for life for pleasure Not I Go
and ask some OF people you know who have never
Africa before had fn@ Sss, Of know w wsa
@ nsass Not n Tor Saa ~ slh Laughter
was received by the Paris Geographical Society and It
was then began feel We'll, after all | have done
You know have always considered myself arepubican
have those bullet rddcd Tags and those arrow
for the discovery Of Livingstone and that crossed Africa
and thOsS G saouiv s guarded S
very friends TO look at them and If any Of S yT9
'n Alter Saa written my book Through the Dark Con
tinent" began to lecture using these words have
passed through land watered by the largest river OF me
An5 IN Ss %sa s sn Yoa haSe cloths and
and glassware and gunpowder ana 'nps d hbe
an" an naS dyesta nas' AND in Barter there
The King of the BeiSian commissioned to that
country My expedition when star ed from the coast
We returned with 5000 trained black and 800
Europeans. The first sum allowed INC was 90 T0oo 20
Thus you see progress of civilization We found the
Congo havingony To-day there sreeght steamers
grsam sad ii lie hrs dreamed nst could unite
a free saie but on February & 1883 Powers Of
Europe and America also ratified an act recogzng the
territories acquired by us to be the free ana independent
Perhars when the members of the LOtos Club have re-
Elected little more upon value Of what Livingstone
and Ieopod have been doing they will also that
these men done their duty in this world and IN the
vain on account Of the great sacrifices they made
benigted millions of dark Africa Loud and enthn-
Sastc appausel.
REMARKS OF LIEUTENANT GREEDY.
When Mr. Stanley had concluded the President intro
duced Lieutenant A. W. Greedy. who said
It's with great deal of pleasure that come here to-
night to Ter your hospitabe roof where
and where told, hest could the story OF the North
You haxe heard toight the story OF the Equator
brought from its darkness from its ignorance from
its barbarism into the sweet sunlight Of knowedse cDi
do not always see clearly but IN .,the days
he has done His labors have initiated epoch in the
history of continent II two thousand years ago
Carthage From that day forth that continent took
downward path and In the past centuries II mas Oeeh
Bur now another epoch has come desnies of that
have been elevated 70 sgS % plane veb e tins
work. Ia the palmy days OF the Roman republic they
mI a, tsir famous citizens which should be synonymous
with the Ger,i5 they had wrought In THESE m0oerm
honors nor in distinctive titles ss Shown its apprea
ton OF this work by giving him the eretest US
the nation But public opinion crystizes despite Jaws.
and so hope that in this country in the torteth century
| Africanas. lCheers and applause.l
| SPEECH OF MR. DEPEw.
When Lieutenant Greedy finished the President called
upon Mr. Lepew. who with an air OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which is common to him such occasions and said
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN THE Loros CLUE;
pa nave as never do ie tonight light" From early youth
| | have been reading and admlring ana wondering
Vet find them here tonight with flowing heads of jet
black hair and jet black mustaches while nave pol
ished sconce silvcred side whiskers Laugher now
want to know where journalism gets its dye If 1t Is
brandy and soda then that my beverage Tor ever more
never appreciated so fully before the priv,
lege Of being ns 1nSpr PAPER. 0 in o as
interview to which Stanley subjected himself that he in
tended TO give fty-two lectures 81 80 apiece. Yet
for The ordinary price of Lot0s dinner we have had The
lecture nothingand thus we gather them ill., lGreat
/ yer, great pleasure 70 Join in Thu, !:
| for he has presented to us those magnincen'
word pictures which VIII endure iofaver OF be ronano-
American people isolated they are frol the ponucs
uu 10 sreeS zero Of theif own laud
ch of his schevemcnts In othr continents
Of the bloody BATH which form staple of hsior,.
Applause. Rome welcomed her conqu~rOrs returning
with the eOils Of with triLmpndl professions
aud menOr. We, more practical, re,elve them
with banquet at tbs Lolos Club LAUGHTER -,
But the -atuerng bero simply expresses ia couoehsou
form fsrug which Will bud uDly rsal al
over tue Uni otatrs. We na ion OF travellers
and AS such are meet and TO honor one w0 Is ny
right the chef order No eople lave ever Ok
Americans. They are constantly nndns pretexts,
or acting without pretoxts, to take aivahtase
OF upon the rail or upon ne water 10
anuiniian distance ana to accomplish results Ihis
ne maic instinct has sent them all over Tie wori 10
irng back Ne " opportunities for incr Of our 60
mrrcal nf back the results o. Cd CIVILIZATION
for our culture in art aud In our education III every
d-rctiou IL has Lodi way " the leoi Hug o. our
| prar-s aud the discovery OF OR untold mineral
wealth. Tue DEVELOPMENT tails instinct Is me soiare
of ths railroad stocguOler Of to-day aud his hope Tor
The future. Laughter . y,
Ev.Iy man who has In hts own person sounded
the capacfirs OF the reporter for an ntervi,w for the
rrpresen alton Of personal exceep an Guar err
of tue nlnTs wiuHh lie never SAIL VIII
ION IN tnls Getting Tho fond LOpe that the woil
wilde fame and magnificent achievements OF otnips VIII
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