Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-23
MERRY NEW ENGLANDRRs.

MERRY NEW ENGLANDERs.
Righty-Seventh Annual Dinner oil
the New England Society in New
York A GoodIy Company - The
Toasrs and Responses.
NETWORK, Dec. 22.-The eighty-seventh
annual dinner of the New England society
was held here tonight. Three hundred
and seventy-nine New Epglanders sat In
the hall and discussed the choice viands
and wines to an orchestral accompaniment
of popular and merry melodies. Hon.
Daniel g. Rollins presided and at the same
table with him sat Chauncey II. Depew,
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Hon. Seth Low,
Rev. 81. L. waylsnd, DID,, Major General
Howard, Isaac N. Bailey, ]. Pierpont Nor
gan, W. L. Strong, Judge N. Van Hassen,
president of the Holland society. W. Lsns
Booker, John Sloan, R. D. Benedict, Hon.
G. A. Warden, g. L. Lowery, Hon. D. G.
Robinson, F. ]. DePeyster, D. Crimmins,
Ellis a. Roberts, J. NJ. Fiske, ]. q. Parker
and D. F. Appleton.
At right angles to the presidents table
were others, at each of which est fifty
persons. These tables were presided over
by Q. E. Brooks, ]. ]. Dudley, j. P Town
send, Alfred W. Bates, ]. ]. Goodman,
Henry N. Bridgeman and D. Rufus Lin
coin. Among others present were: ]. E.
Simmons, J. n: Inman, Ashel P. Fitch,
j. N. Starin, Howard Carroll, III. K. Jes-
sup, W. E. Dodge, II. Walter Webb, s.
81. Wales, Brayton Ives, Cornelius Bliss,
Horace Russell and I. Il. Bromley. The
list of toasts was:
'Forefathers' Day." Rev. DR.. Edward
Everett Hale; "New England and Higher
Education" Hon. Seth Low; "Their Sell
fshness," the Rev. DIR. a. L. Wayland;
THE New Englanders' All Round Capacity
for Good Citizenship" G. A. Marden.
treasurer, of Massachusetts; "The Old
New England Home" g. P. Lowrey; "Our
Adopted Son." G. N. Depew; "The Pill
grim From New England" D. O. Robin
son. A few minutes after 9 O'Clock ex-
Surrogate Rollins called those present to
order and introduced Rev. DR.. Hale, who
was greeted with applause.
In the course of hisspeech DR.. Hale said:
On these shortest days we gather to testify
our honor for the brave men and women
who in the very day of the beginning of
the winter planted the foundations of an
empire. Why is it that the states lying
side by side are not quarreling together as
they always do in feudal institutions or In
European historyi The feudal system
perishes as soon as every man I'M
derstsnds that he is his brothers
keeper and in the company of men
who know that they live together for
the greater glory of God. 1t Is really be-
cause from the day these men landed at
Plymouth the day when Winthrop
sighted the Beverly shore-they and their
companions were trying to advance this
work and make it better one or, as they
said to themselves, to live in Gods glory.
1t Is because of this that Massachusetts,
and New England can claim any success
which they have achieved in four or five
continents or on the ocean. DIR. Hale's
speech was undoubtedly the oratorical eff
fort of the evening. So impressive had 1t
been that 1t was some seconds before the
audience broke out.
Hon. Seth Low was the next speaker.
Mr.. Low said Yale had been turned out
colleges with almost as much regularity as
judges and statesmen. And what shall
We say of Brown and Williams and Am
herst and smaller colleges that have yet
been great enough to give us a Dsniel
Webster, a Longfellow and host of 9TH
ers. Historically the university is much
older than any organized system of com
mon school and everywhere, and neces-
ssrily, an influence has gone out from the
university to the establishment and
improvement of elementary schools.
New England has been pre- eminently
from the beginning she has recog-
mixed the unity of the whole educational
system. She planted Harvard college side
by side with her first schools, that the
scholars of these last might never be with
out the influence of something to which to
aspire. 1t is a legitimate source of pleas
ure and pride to all of us who claim our
psrentsge from New England, slieve to
all of any origin, who are engaged in the
higher education all over the country, that
New England's old college foundations
still endure and perform their ancient and
honorable service. They still illustrate to
their younger sisters q high educational
ideal. They set a standard such that none
may be unworthy whoever sought to attain
it. This snimsting influence going out
from them 10 a splendid contribution to
the education life of the country. In New
England and everywhere our colleges
teach idealism and they teach patriotism.
The colleges are constantly at work max
ing good citizens, men who are at once in
structed as to what good government is
and they are ready and anxious to do their
part to secure 1t for their locality and their
country. To me Hsrvsrd's memorial hall
is sacred shrine. never leave It with
out fresh sense of what 1t means to be q
citizen of free country.
Rev. DR.. Waylsnd, who followed, made
a witty speech. He said that perhaps his
topic would answer as we'll as any other
as hook on which to depend few moral
remarks. "Aud don't hesitate to affirm, !"
continued he, "that the founders of New
England were the most grasping set of men
of whom history has any record. They
wanted the best OF everything and all there
was of it."
DIR. Wayland said they were no less
avaricious in regard to their descendants
They insisted on only the best, whether in
the halls of learning, in the field of battle,
in art or literature everywhere. In Eng
land they had long series Of descendants
which began before Milton and which will
not end with Gladstone. In America the
list is short and easily recited of those who
are not their descendants, who have
achieved greatness DR.. Wsyland's speech
was loudly applsuded.
Hon. G. A. Marden of Massachusetts,
spoke next. His remarks were an I'M
usual feature, because they were mostly In
rhyme. "All-round good citizenship in
| this country, probably more than any
other, includes great variety of qualities
and attachments, among them the ability
| to make q speech. But you have no con.
ception the difficulty one has who has for
nine months been writing political edl
torials and making political speeches il
avoiding subjects which ought to bs
| ignored now. History confirms the claim
| of my toast. Nobody. NOT even the He
brew, is more ubiquitous than the New
Highlander. He certainly Is call around
and he has been ever since 1920.
Mr.. Depew spoke substantially as fol
lows: For more than a quarter of a centur,
| I have been the skeleton at the annual din
nsr of the Now England society. But m!
twenty-five years. service as mentor ha
brought the rare and distinguished homo
of becoming an adopted son. In this
capacity am here. AS foster fathers tn
Puritans have surpassed the record of thu
people. Their methods have improves
with time. They tried to assimilate tn
Indians, and when that was found i'm
possible they massacred them. In accord
ance with the fashion among all scots @
the middle ages and the succeeding cent
uries when the newcomers differed wit
them in faith or creed they banished @
hung them. Though they left comfortabl
homes and brsved the hardships an
perils of the inhospitable wilderness
to enjoy liberty of conscience an
freedom 1t took them 100 years to discove
the truth that progress is only possible ]
the clasp of opposing opinions and the III
fettered practice and expression of beliefs
, The Pilgrims who came over in the Ma,
, flower were mainly equipped with idet
| and househo1d furuiture Init the 20 O(