New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-12
IN MEMORY OF WALTER HOWE.
ACTION BY THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.

RESOLUTIONS
WELCOME TO CHAUNCEY ". DEPEw.
The Union League Club held its first meeting OF
the fall last night and welcomed Chauncey NJ.
Depew back to its halls. There was large at
tendance in spite of the early season, and the
meetiny-room was fairly we'll filled when Mr..
Depew called the meeting 10 order amidst the
hearty applause that his appearance called forth.
j. Seaver Page. secretary of the club had pleas
ant greeting also, and so did General w. T. Sher-
man, who sat on tie stage. There was little
business to I've transacted. because dur
ing the summer no provisions are made
for the admission Of candidates for
membership. The only set business for the
meeting was the adoption of resolutions on the
death Of Walter Howe, which were prepared ny
Payson Merrill. NJ. w. Cooper, j. Seaver Page
and Francis o. French, a committee appointed by
the Executive Committee. Mr.. Page read the
resolutions, which follows:
Since the last meeting Of the Union League Club
one Of It's best known and most valued members fwies
uSaful public officer, Walter Hove. Wa. by cruel
fate snatched from his family, friends associates and
a conscientious devotion to duty. public and private.
undulled by ease Of circums,ances; hearty emery
CHEEKY. genial, frank and sincere the;r wcre ira Is
Joined with elegant tastes and ACCOMPLISHMENTS tha'
Ills fidelity to high ideals in public service hi,
genuine. unaffected public spirit. make his loss felt
Ills too brief life wiz be remembered with affection on
by his associates. and his memory can be best respected
BY us If in some degree We can make his ideal our
example.
For Lycidas your f. not dead
Sunk though he be beneath the wa,ery door:
So sinks the day.star in the ocean bed.
And yet anon repairs his dropping head
And tricks his beams. and with be>panscd ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky;
So Lycidas sunk low. but mounted high
Through the dear might Of Him that walked the waves
Resolved That the Union Lea-ic Club hereby ex-
presses its profound sorw at the death OF Mr. Hove
It's recognition of the great los, experienced by The pub
tho family of the deceased
The passage from Milton was regarded as par
ticularly appropriate. because it was written on
the death by drowning Of a friend OF the hlind
poet iIr 1887. After the adoption Of the resolu-
tions the meeting about TO adjourn, when
there were loud calls Nor Mr.. pepew. He arose
and said that inasmuch as the newspapers had
his speech in full on his return home. he felt like
the famous stump orator who went about the
country with reporter attached Ia him. When
he asked the reporter what business he had TO
follow him around. the reporter replied that
be had been instructed to report al of the orators
speeches The orator answered that he had
only one speech. whereupon the reporter
no business with you' But Mr.. Depew
even at the risk of repeating himself would say
something: and the first thing was that Of all the
kindly welcomes that had come to him on his
return home. the sweetest and most gracious
was that given 10 him by the Union League Club.
Ii was Of course. pleasant for him Ia hear people
say that they were glad Ia see him home again
even if they did not mean it, But his return had
been made the occasion for his telling
tie public what he knew about the
strike on the New-lork Central, when
there was no strike. HIS mind rather reverted
10 the pleasant memories of some delightful
conversations he had had with prominent men on
The other side of the Atlantic.
"Of all the great Americans said MI Dc1cw,
"who arc famous the Other side. none are so
well KNOWN there James q. Blaine and William
Mckinley. They seemed to regard Mr. Mckinney
Us "a man who had been studying up economic
subJects, apd had invented some new scheme By
which lie could close up all the factories in Eu-
rope and starve all the people there into sub
mission TO the American Government. They
,,ied NE with questions about the Mckinley bill
in order to learn what nature Of man he was and
wha, the dickens he going TO do with all the
people abroad.
Il replied that my notion of Mr.. Mckinley was
that possibly he had an idea Of inducing Euro
beans to cmisrate with their factories and work
ipsmen to this great America and help give ii
greater consuming power Ia agricultural proIilrs.
One of tic most famous characters. MI Rpc"
said that lie met abroad VAS the sultan OF
Lahore who was coal black. lic sat rear MI
Dcpcw at dinner once, and seemed 10 he we'll
posted Oh American affairs and was ANXIOUS I"
learn more 1t appeared that the Sultan was
50 much thought I'll by England that his subsidy
81 100000 year during CONVERSATION
with Mr.. Dcpcw, the gentleman from India
intimaied that he might return Ia ms home bV
way of the United States. Ia fact, he suggested
HAT course probably looking for encouragement
from Mr.. Dcpcw. Yet Mr. Depew could no,
assure him that the American people had been
educated sufficiently 10 receive him with the
same reverence he plet IN England. because
Mr. Depcw secretly afraid that the porter OF
the Wagner palace c.r on wlH'h ne 1raEciIcd
would Ii, disturbed BY his color III" icca "i
this interesting man and his lT"p.c as 10 whai
consti beauty in the fan se\. Was la' y
real beauty who weighed less tAan 400 ponn.s
was of no account. 4 wonanA6t about tlli'
weight was presented IL the coifrfny. and tho
Sultan Immediately conceived kpndnesS for tins
bunch of sweetness. lie Icsov''p that he wuud
cover her with diamonds. aud when his private
secretary heard Of il, he was overcome with awe
at his masters ability 10 raise money.
MIR. Dcpew closed his speech with a tribute To-
the Ravarian peasants vino take III" prlncIpal
parts in the Passion Play He said that he had
seen nearly all the great actors IN the world, ana
they sometimes were merely actors, not always
the characters they unprecedented. But these
simple peasants were always what they seemed TO
he.