New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-07
OTHER GUESTS PRESENT.

NJ Coleman. William J. Van AIeiale, J. b. butcher
r. C. Acton Collector Erhardt F. c. Wagner. William o.
hamilton Walter Stanton the Rev. w. IL. Z. Faunce'
II. L. sote, John F. Pummer. stephen T. Barker
Edgar A. sIote. Dr. 5. II. Talcott, Edward scheh'
George w Blake Charles T. Cunningham
The success of the dinner was largely due TO
tbe efforts of the following stewards of the
society: S. Franklin Stanton, j. Seaver Page
George W. Mclean, F. De Z. Foster, S. Edward
Nash and William Jay.
THE MENU.
1t was as follows:
consomme ministerial Blsque decreyisses
00n'Onin0 "''''''''i IIcrs docuyrc.
Tmbales Ia Dumas
Ar FaS%s. Dc de- l.rs aa Ia @s;;eHA
Flet de b0cuf la Pcrgueux.
DiF Ptili era nos rs "a fGsSTsG''
csisses dc rs de yeau a la Grammonl
s sor6sS yasa 1nIsnHs.
canvas6acE duck
Salado laitue.
Tntremets de douceur.
sayarin, Mo ,n n S}:-,r,r.. cbantrv
Pieces % Tases sfantases " fruit Petits tours
''A''' ''''' Cafe.
The diners marched into the room TO the strains
of a bugle blown by the leader of tram ol
serving men clad in the blue and Orange uni
form that the society has borrowed from od new
Amsterdam The senior servitor is William
Freeman, who has done duty at the
societys dinners for thirty years, and
John Freeman, who has served the Sons OF
ST Nicholas for twenty-one years, is the next in
seniority.
THE LONG PIPES LIGHTED.
L. o1.- ,;roe bod bann H0hted and
the smokers had begun to draw with " cloud-com-
pelling7 enthusiasm. and when the old bronzet
weathercock had been borne TO a place Of honor
in the centre of the table of honor the president
cordially welcomed the company, and congratu-
lated the society on its prosperity and on the
marked success of its ffty-fourth anniversary
dinner
Frederic J. de Peyster spoke TO st. Nicholas
and the sentiment Bring back TO us Tonight
the sweet fancics Of the past" He made poetic
and charming speech. He remarked that no
matter what flag or what saint man WIS born
under the old New-Yorller remembered that u
be born in the Empire State was to have no
mean fathcrland and man born there need never
look beyond Sandy Hook and Niagara for another
fatherland however famous.
The President of the United States was next
remembered with all the hOnors due.
MR.. DEPEw's WORDS.
Then Chauncey NJ Depew WAS called upon TO
respond for The Governor of the State of New
York" lie said in part
When I am called upon respond for the Governor OF
the State Of New.York Oaughter discover that it is
meal that 1 have often eaten The people Of uS sa'e
never have EXPRESSED any overwhelming desire TO have
me FOR Governor the Governors Of this state for
twenty wears have expressed unanimous anxiety to have
me represent them occasions Ake TINS Inc poH"cT
NJ the presen Governor the State and his personal APP
pearance are both exactly ike mine daughter win
difference HaughterJ Thank God for the difference
Cheers and surhter) While he and woua a9fee on no
public question the subject which Is uppc'Ho' "''o
tonight he aud l are unanimous. ., .
This day every citizen OF Now-York VINO j worthy Oh
the nroud privilege Of having it, suffrage honors II h'
does not he doesn't the origin OF the oI''e inc s0'
OF the city. Al this particular period "heh WY"
celebrating his ancestor Christopher CoumDus ana c
Ing that If not present industrial purpose at iea't
FOR an ancestral purpose Italian citizen we seem
10 forget that the other Columbus was Dutchm"h we
must remember that while the Italian saw inc oy'V''
this continent with its possibilities the Du'chHl ~
yeoped that most nlustrious most beautiful most per
manent and proudest jewel IN the uI@ueil i"
the Republic the city and State OF Ne"'hoiA'
which Is the pearl in the oyster Cheers
ALITTLE WORD FOR NETWORK.
met yesterday upon gobe-irotter ana ne
said While have all that there - OF h"'u' anu
all that there is Of art while been among strange
Niagara Falls and rolled on limited train down through
the Mohawk uaughtcrj and felt that was Huihg III
luxury and in an ease that the world had never known
before Oaugherj and speed unequalIed' except
the Imagination other people aughtef thdI Aad
that sensation which % man when ne can S'f
with soul and with ! am at home tLaush'ef
and cheers) II glory Of NewYork thai every man
and every whether born or coming mere "heh
be or che has breath this air fe a. home (Chrf'
Ihe only man probably living or dea1' VINO Wouiu
be strange 70 that appeatlon II he should come mere
would be old Peter Stuyvesant. lie would ma su'etA
not well paved the Bowery his day (AppliuseJ
lie would mad more Italians more Germans more
men, more Jews everybody than Hollanders III rls
great city and he discover that 10 was ruled by
race Of sih he had never heard. Laughep lie "ouiu
be surprised 10 know that the brightest as wen a. inc
most IaradoXica Of Is actual homeiuler every
where. and theoretical one in the place OF It's brt
daughter
But this c.,y expecting /
another visitor, who landed when he first
came ]" the wrong place and having for 400 years had an
uhequaed opportunity % his mistake he VIII JOIN IN
The pro e's o. WI ch WI march up Broadway ana ruth
ave IN lo9- 10 celebrate the Inauguration Of the "oFa
Fair Cheers When Christopher Columbus shall say,
as he will that h. Only temporarily released from the
society Of Ferdinand and Isabella and that he does not
Understand now L get into interior and he wishes
that some on would show him an epitomc Of why the
world h celebrating the benefits his discovery IN his
little shaIlop 400 years ago, epitone wllch snail eA'
press all that the world Is thankful in the eonribu
ton Of his discovery % IT. civilization, afta aud
5ciences above all, TO It, and It's Liberties
he most OF that procession, by the common
consent Of the whole country including the cities OF st.