New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-23
DIR. DEPEW on BROOKLYN.
4 TELLING SPEC II AT THE MONTAUk CLUE
Els BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED WITH A DINNER
IN HIS HONOR.

Els BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED WITH DINNER
IN his HONOR.
A dinner was given for Chauncey VI. Depew By the
Montauk club OF Brooklyn, last night, In Lonor Of
the nry-nlnh anniversary OF his birthday, which Is
10 day. Mr.. Depcw Is life member Of the club
and this is the second time his birthday has been thus
remembered In the dining rooms Of the club, the two
dinners thus given being the most successful In the
history OF the club The guest OF the evening WIS
most warmly greeted and his speech was constantly
interrupted with applause, cheers and laughter It's
most significant and most loudly appauded passage Wa
that In which, with a smile his face. he scored il"
city government for the recent street railway ranchlS"
scandals. Its point was not the less noticeable from
the fact that Mayor Body sat at Mr.. Depews ught
hand.
Those at the table OF honor. beside Mr.. Dcpew
and Charles A. Moore, the president Of the club were
J. Rogers Maxwell, VI. H. De Dung. of The san
Francisco Chronicle: William II. Wallace, Mayor
Boody Colonel John A. Cockerill. Murat IJal'ead.
William Berr H. &. Du VAL the Rev. John j..
Lloyd. II. \. G. smith and ext Congressman William
G. Wallace. The sickness Of Mr.. Drpews wife male
him late I'm reaching the club, that the dinner
almost an hour and half late in starDg, but
the 2i0 members Of the club who surrounded The
tables made up for lost time when the fun began.
After six Indians. in the full reSaa OF the Montau'
tribe had presented 10 their guests the freedom OF
inc WleWal, Mr. D'p'" WIS iHlrodu''N, ana >aIi' III
part, ascr the prolonged greeting extended TO
him had subsidized
Brooklyn Is in every way unique In every Other
place they celebrate birthdays when q mans fults hi,
personality and his character alike forgotten. He"
they o otherwise. In all other cities. they
build monuments after they dead. Here they
build them 10 the living.
Brooklyn is unique in other respects. 1t has all III"
elements ~ cosmopolitan and metropolitan life and at thu
time II Is absolutely rural and provincial.
ttphf..r l.v rios nil
streets the clover blossom j. tn perennial ba1gc Of it.
citizens.
Btooklyn has shown i,,.lf unique it, municipal
She solved the question of ,v goN~rnn"n,
way that has Inra.,1cd the philosophers Of Amer 20
and Europe. Cheer, and laughiorJ She has adopted
that peculiar method OF Appropriation Of public money
has become that 1t j. no longer cal :!
robbery longer called "nhezzlcmen longer called
theft but is simply called n,appropation. lr1lons'd
applause Brooklyn through some rural gentlemen whom
10 elected To high official station found itef facing the
problem when these bucoc people In oac'i
life had taken the funds Of the ct'
In such an open way that IL absolutely
necessary for the forces OF the law Brooklyn
Immediately with the Of The world upon her. went
to Legislature and said III thc-" men had been
thieves in usual nobody would have known any
thag ebout IT, but the in which they took 1t
shows that they thought they had found it. Therefor
their should receive the recognition Of the
STATE loud cheer, and l,ucheF.)
BrooNlyn is the Monte Cr'to OF cities. She civ
away franchl.cs and says thing about the pay (Fa;
checrngl
Mr.. Depcw then touched on the necessity of
dlvorcing city and National politics. and Soothei
Mayor Booty's feelings by some nice references
closed with "A wish that. in another year. ne might
TO IN" club. not aS guest from another clty'
Addresses also made By Mayor Body and
others.