The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-23
OUR FOREFATHERS DAY.
THE NEW ENGLAND sOCIETr'S ANNI-
YKRSARY DINNER.

Sse Aev. Or. huntington, Dr shnunccy W.
Depew. Isaac II. Bromley, Gen. Horace
Porter, and the Hon. John DaIzeii.
About Ave hundred and lfty sons OF New
England celebrated Forefathers Day with the
eighty-sixth anniversary dinner at Sherry's.
in Fifth avenue. last night It was dinner
which would have opened the eyes
OF the Pilgrims. whose simple manners
were chiefly remembered in tho pictures
which ornamented the admission card
and tho menu. J. Piorpont Morgan pro-
sided. Among those present were SEN
ator Frank Hiscock. Con. Horace Porter.
Lorenzo G. woodhouse. Walter =. Logon. G.
p Huntington. David Mcclure. ]. Senver Page.
and the Presidents OF sister societlos. Chaun-
cey Depew came late. and there was some
amusement when Mr.. A. r. Whitney took Mr..
Dopews vacant scat for a moment to speak to
Senator Hiscock. Mr.. Whitney looks enough
like Mr.. Depew to be mistaken for him, and he
was 80 mistaken and gravely acknowledged
tho cheers. which greeted him as no took Mr..
Depews seat.
In responding to tho tonst "Our Fore
fathers" the Rev. J. H. Twitchell of Hartford
not only did full honor to the spirit OF the
Puritans but found time for some Jokes.
"Unrealized Yankee Notions was the tonic
assigned to the Rev. Dr. ". r. Huntington. I'm
spite Of the prevailing popular opinion to the
contrary" he said: lin spite Of the wide
spread belief that pructcalty is the dis
tlnguishing note OF the New Englander. I
make bold to saw that the truly representative
YANKEE T. first. lnst. and slYays an ideaist
Of the mercantile world from China to Peru
not mousetnps. axshcnds., cawhammers.
rather OF those noifons Of the mind which. in
TIE be.p phrase OF prescnt-day philosophy. we call
ns Sas U Rsnsw sas h GsH
the most eminent authority in Europe, on dis
displays unusual intellectual activity and su.
tre TIE 81 this s eSp Frsnes
alienist; an az noW nddrefsins an excep-
sgSnk has
are wthoat daily chronicrs 81 his
been interviewed: Tho editor Of Century
polled to admit that the word crank
l. not to .or DO E foand In the Anglo,
81 TN good ehngs Msh tho p rita post
Charcot claims that Shakespeare and Milton
evoluted thss theory i. threatens to empty, our
did deeds Of violence on either. for q Etatu-
tory period sSI but the new idsa sends them .e
months to the glory Of the professional gentle;
men who have wrought a wonderful cure. and
SCI whn ars ye
to assassinate an eminent divine, or to dyna:
draEes' OF other peoples money is. OF course.
Rnsn Tss n9 e 81 k s sssh
dividual responsibility. Hebelieved in arrest
ing the sinner Eth here as preparatory course
rIority in athletics would have secured sradu-
person Who wisp noss"sseG OF an idea never
failed to keep it before the world and neees
sary conId De very dsaEreea6SS In urging It
do4 Sb himself TRs Dute ha mnG invented
the word afte7 the Puritan settlement in Hol-
The Puritan who was! ready to fgh. and
willing to die for the privilege, OF worshipping
crank Of the period. He was a perambuIating
can Of ,,, moral -, dynamite. whose explosion
He was. beyond dispute. the most disagreea-
social dTclitical power Of his day. But the
sons OF the Ilritans govern half the world. and
forces with the other half" ~
tcut's part In the business" said among other
things Of the Pilgrims:
two occasions that they builied better than
they knew: reference being had to the fact
that whereas they came over here for the pur-
pose OF establishing one religion. there are now
within five miles Of Boston something like
800. without including recent cleuvages and
new Inventions.
Nor could they have conceived OF the cnor-
mons improvement there would be in the
breeding and culture of the domestic dog. In
1920 In the neighborhood of Plymouth and
around Massachusetts Bay there was but ono
variety of dog. and that ono OF so furtive and
elusive Il character that the artist who photo
graphed the scene of the landing. as shown on
the certificates Of membership Of this society.
was unable to secure anything but his burk;
which was on the sea. and is represented
tenth ' Of an inch from fly mouth Rock.
To-day more than hundred vnrieties OF dogs
of tho most useful and ornamental character
boston, attending IS their several pursuits
highest culture wearing srcrtac!cs. .,,. ~
Chnuncey DeIpew broke bis long silence on the
ciety Mt the opening OF the present season. he
is reported to have EXPRESSED hiA regret that
his ancestors who settled on this island had
no historian. except Washington Irving. who
Ind not treated tho early Dutch with the seri-
business they deserved In this respect he
thought they were ut n disadvantage us com
pared with other colonists, whose stories had
been told by sober;,mIinded writer's In n stately
and diGnined style"
Horace Porter, spoke nmusingly Of ".sires