New-York tribune., 1889-12-21
A HEARTY GOODNIGHT.
FAREWELL DINNER TO THE NTERNA.
TIONAL CONFERENCE.

AMERICAN UNIoY-A SOUVENIR FOR MAYOR
GRANT-soME OF THE POINTS MADE
BY THE SPEAKERS.
The last night of the visit of the Pan-Americao1
to New-York was marked by one of the moso
brilliant of the entertainments that have been
given in their honor since they began their
pilgrimage in the United States They were the
guests at great banquet at Delmonieos, and
their host the Spanish-Amercan Commercial
Union, AN association of merchants for the pro-
motion Of trade with Mexico, Central and South
America the West India and Philippine Islands
Every effort made to make the banquet Q
notable There was a lavish outlay fer
decorations. Excellent music was provided.
The dinner was one of those that have made
Delmonico's famous. The wines were rich and
rare.
The big dining hall has seldom looked so beau.
tiful. The walls were draped with gay-colored
banners. The portraits of the patriots George
Washington, father of Repubcanism in the North,
and Bolivar, father of Republicansm in the South
hung behind the table of honor From the music
gallery directly opposite displayed the Presi-
Dental flag OF the United States,-the same one
which graced President Harrison's box at the Gen.
tennial ball. with the eagle and thirteen whits
stars on field of blue. 1t was an out-and-out
Republican affair. Nothing to suggest any of
the monarches, ancient or modern, or thrones
or principalties, was 10 be found among
the emblems. 1t was brave show indeed for
the and daughters of liberty The new
banner of Republican Brazil was at George Wash.
ingtons right, with the stars and stripes of the
mother American Republic keeping it company.
Brazil's revised emblem has a somewhat startling
combination of colors-dark blue. yellow and
green. Twenty-one gilt stars glitter on central
circle, which is crossed by white band bearing
the motto, "Ordem Progresso." Five of the
stars larger than the Others and are ARRANGED
in the order of the constellation of the Southern
Cross AT intervals around the room. with plenty
of Stars and Stripes between. were the flags OF
Nicaragua, Hayti, Peru, Guatemala. Mexico
Colombia the Argentine Republic. Costa Rica,
Honduras, Uruguay, Bolivia. Venezuela. Chill,
San Salvador. Ecuador and Paraguay.
HEMISPHERE OF REPUBLICS.
Swinging from the mid-ceiling was great
globe, six feet in diameter with the continents Of
the Western Hemisphere distinctly traced upon it
in flowers on field of evergreen. This was the
work of the Elliott Floral Company, who attended
to all the floral part of the decoration. From the
point from which hung the cord from which this
fOwery world depended, spread in all directions
siken streamers in the colors of the different Re-
publican nations. mingled with garlands of green
and red and green and white In the corners
OF the hall were towerig green palms, with masses
of beautiful plants about their bases The efforts
of the decorator were not confined TO the banquet
ing hall Every room on the floor was in keep
WAS wit
plants.
The design of the menu cards was novel and en-
tirely original. Although the delegates have been
entertained in a hundred cities where menus have
been specially prepared at much expense, there
was not feature in the Spanish American menu
that was not fresh and new. and altogether it COM
bined so many novelties that it was undoubtedly
one of the finest and most appropriate ever made.
The suggestions embodied in it were those Of
the chairman, r. A G. Smith. and the work was
done by the Homer Lee Bank-Note Company. The
menus will make. splendid souvenir of the ban
quet
The covers of delicate tinted silk and about
10X15 in size. They are folded through the centre
Upon them artistically painted in water-colors
a globe showing the principal part Of the Western
Hemisphere, immersed in a sea of water lilies and
sumounted by the coats of arms of the respective
countries represented. There are thirty-seven
different varieties At the left upper corner is the
name of each country cut out in fac-simile in
sterling silver, while opposite, hand-painted. Is
the name of the delegate who received the menu.
and the coats of arms of the different countries are
surrounded by clusters of cactus active volcanoes
ana other tropical features
When the silk lifted there appears a
beautiful steel plate engraving, the work of which
is superb. Springing from a cluster Of cactus and
palms in the upper eft-hand corner is the line:
Banquet to tie Delegates TO the International
American Conference" Behind the tablet Of
Jewels on the left appears the date, December 20.
1889.
TWO GODDEsSHS Oh LIBERrY.
In the centre of the page are the goddesses Of
commerce and agriculture, the first standing with
her right hand extended toward the ocean filed
with merchantmen, while on her left factories,
elevators and shipyards. The Goddess of Agri-
culture has her lap full of tropical flowers. while
in profusion around her the fruits of the
earth On her right wheat corn, cotton, etc..
and among them is beautiful vase representing
art. To the left is Aladdin's lamp from the vapor
of which rise Oriental visions of the Worlds Fair
of 1892. AT the right of the centre of the card