Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-12-23
N0TABlES ARE BANQUETtD
New England Society of New York
Celebrates Forefathers' Day.

G, which was ablaze with light and
fragrant with palms and floral decora-
tions.
Here General Harrison and ex Senator
Edmunds stood surrounded by the COM
mittee, while the members of the society
and their guests were introduced at the
banquet which followed in the elabor-
ated decorated dining room.
Charles Emory Smith was toastma aster,
with General Harrison on his right and
Mr.. Edmunds on the left. The president
OF the society introduced ex-President
Harrison who spoke TO the toast, THE
President Of the United States"
Ex-President Speaks.
The speaker said that he felt that he
owed something TO Mr.. Smith because he
had appointed the latter to an Office which
did not pay his expenses. He expressed
bis gratitude TO the people Of Philadelphia
for their cordiality on his embarrassment
on being called upon 20 compete with so
many bright minds in an after-dinner
speech.
at occurred TO me today" he said, ito
inquire why you had to associate six
states In order to get up respectable
society. II you would adopt the liberal
charter measure of the Ohio society have
no doubt you could sub-divide yourselves
into six good societies. The Ohio society
admits TO mem bership every body who has
lived voluntarily six months in Ohio.
mo involuntary resident Is permitted
to come In. But the association of these
states and the name New England is part |
OF an old classification OF the states that |
we used to have In Biographies, and all |
that classification Is gone except In New |
England and the south.
'where Il the west?"
"The west has disappeared and the |
middle states cannot be identified. Where |
is the westi Why Just now at the point
OF that long chain OF islands that put off |
from the Alaska coast, and, II / am to
credit what read, for have no sources
OF Information now except the newspaper
press, there are some who believe that
there are wicked men who want 20 hitch
the chain on to another island further out
In the sea. II that could be done the west
would become the east, for think the
orient has generally Ibeen counted to be
the east.
"The New England character and the in
fuence OF New England men and women
has made Its impress upon the whole coun.
try. The'love of education, the resolve
|
with all the pure and sacred influences
that cluster about It, are elements in the
New England character that have a saw
ing force incalculable In this great nation
which we live.
"Your civil institutions have been free
and high and clean from the old town
meeting days until now. New England
has believed In free elections and the fair
count"
DIR. Hale Talks Politics.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the next
speaker, talked of "The Day We Cele-
brate." Mr.. Hale said among other
things:
when you can establish civil service
commission whose examination shall give
You for the Offices of your government
men OF pure spirit, instead Of selfish men;
pure men, instead Of prohigates; men who
are honest rather than cunning; patriots
and not traitors, men in a word who love
their neighbors better than themselves,
then your civil service reforms will be "a |
popular with the rank and file as they are
now with the theorists about government,
and not till then"
sour Next President"
Congressman Charles Boutelle of Maine
DIR. Hale. Like Mr.. Harrison,
our next president" he said, Il have not
any address. i am proud to
talk to such an assem- blage, whose fore
fathers indelibly stamped all that is right
and holy In the minds Of their long lines
OF descendants; for my attention has been |
directed towards the little colony on an
island Of the Pacific ocean. They have
built up a New England and American |
colony, and have asked us to be under the
shelter of the old flag that sheltered the
descendants from those who landed upon
Plymouth rock in 1921"
Murat Halsted Speaks.
Murat Halsted spoke TO american Ex-
and in referring TO the possible
of Hawaii said "Our boun.
daries are the seas, and IL we should add
the paradise Of the Pacific to our posses
sons, while we might pass the horizon of
Of the fathers, It would he in
walking the way their footsteps pointed,
and IL, emulatinR their adventures, we ex-
csed the scope Of their example we shall
by augmenting the dominion of their
virtues always add to the territories of
their glories"
Rev. DIR. j. S. Mcintosh closed the
speaking with an eloquent address upon
the "Other Pilgrims"
New York's Celebration.
New YORK, Dec. 29.-Illuminated with
100 dazzling lights, decorated with flags,
bunting and flowers, the large hall at
Sherry's last night presented brilliant
scene. 1t was the occasion Of the annual
dinner OF the New England society of
New York. The dinner altogether was
one of the most enjoyable yet held. About
400 were present. Elibu Root presided
and Daniel g. Rollins, the retiring presi.
dent, was toastmaster.
Rev. Dr. Strycker, president OF Hamil-
ton college, replied 10 the toast, Fore
fathers Day" Charles Dudley Warner re-
sponded TO "The Way OF the Pilgrim"
st. Clair Mckelway to "Tbs Puritan and
the Dutchman," Governor William T..
Russell TO "rhe Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts," Charles I. Saxton "A Word
For the State We Live H." General Hor-
ace Porter to THE New England Patriot
ism" and Rev. David II. Greer To The
Adopted Sons Of New England"