The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-23
souTHsoNs OF GOTHAM.
Their Society Gives I,s Seventh
Annual Dinner.

Annual Dinner
! NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-The New York
( Southern Society held its seventh
annual dinner tonight in the banquet
hall of the Madison Square gardsn
and pretty nearly all the sons Of Dixie in
tom we're present. The Southern Society
is one Of tbs institutions of New
York, taking rank with the foremost
clubs, while their good fellowship
is equaed by few such organizations. The
hall was beautifully and tsstefully deco
rated with flags aud flowers One OF the
rooms was fairly lost in green taugle Of
palms and magnolias that furnished an ad
mirsbly suggestive background for the glo-
rification Of ''Dixien that followed.
The guests we're seated at eleven tables.
That OF the president occupied the west end
OF the room, the others being placed at
right angles to il. On the right Of the
president, J. H. Parker. sat John @. Cal
houn, and on his left Senator Vance Of
North Carolina. Others at the guests
table we're John d. Crimmins,
". L. Strong, Fred Taylor, Ellis II. Rob-
@rts. Rev. SpTuills Buford. William z.
Thompson, Josiah Quincy Of Massachusetts,,
Capt. Hugh Il. Garden, Joseph II. Choate,
ex-Gov Campbell, Daniel G. Rollins, A .
Van Wyett and F. w. j Hurst.
At the table in the body of the room were
Col. A. &. Dickinson, w. K TrIgg, A l..
Boulware, W. A. Christian, Joseph Bryan,
Capt. John A. Coke, all Of Richmond; DR..
Stewart Douglass, b. N. Harrison, G. Terry
Sinclair, Hon. g. johnson, John C. Hen
dirk, Charles g. Deshon, Gen. w. w.
kirkland, Capt. Charles F. Roe Gen. E. S.
Parker, ". II. PendlstoD. r. II. Clarke,
DIR. r. Whiting, u. s. N: c. Kilgore,
Lorenzo Semple. Col. J. c. Haskell, Capt
J. +. McGlensy, L. S. n. Percy A. Pick
erel, Samuel Spencer, Benton McMillin,
Peter MalIett, Capt. T. F. Kane, u. S. n. /;
Robert l.. Harrison, II. S. Thompson and
j. X. Mckay.
A bust OF THE FOUNDER.
One Of the most interesting features Of
the night occurred at the close of the din>
ner when George H. Sullivan presented to
the society fac smile Of the bronze bust
of his father, Algernon S. Sui
livhn. the original of which was
recently presented to the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art. Algernon 8. Sullivan was
the first president of the Southern Society
of New York. and by bis management as
sured its success. The copy Of the bust was
presented to the society by Col.
William l.. Trenholm on behalf
Of the donor, and IL was accepted on behalf
of the society by Capt Hugh r. Gardner,
chairman OF the committee on literature
and art
President Park, in welcoming the guests,
said: This is no occasion for infIicting on
you statistics or aught that is dry. so
will content myself, as your chief executive
officer, with his simple statement Of the
affairs Of our organization; that its
membership has increased during the past
year from $50 to $50, making it the
largest society in New York"
Joseph II. Choate spoke TO the toast
washington" Frederick Taylor to the
"City Of New York." Senator Vance to
Patriotism" and Gov. Campbell to
Our native land" In the absence
OF John Allen, who was to
have spoken to the toast of "Our law
makers" Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts
brought the speechmaking to a close
American unity" was his subject.