The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-12-07
COMMERCIAL DAE.
Leading Business Men Will 0ele-
brate in New York City.
HOW WE SHOULD OBsBRVETHEDAY

Or. Chaunoey NJ. DePew .susgests Appro-
pirate Exercises in the Public Schools
and Public Meetings In Business Centers
to Celebrate the Jay Treaty.
NEW YORK, Dec. THE arrangements
are very nearly complete for the "Ameri-
can commerce banquet" to be held at Del
monicos on the evening Of Commercial
Day" Dec. 19, to commemorate the close
of the first century of commercial liberty
in America as secured by the treaty ne
gotiated with England by John Jay, Of
New York.
The chairman Of the committee of ar
rangements, Mr. s. w. Fairchild, an
nounces the following names as the
speakers at the banquet: Senator Will
lam p. Frye, on "Our Merchant Marine;"
Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson, american
Commerce;" General Charles H. Taylor,
"The American Press" General Horace
Porter, 1.-THE American Business Man"
The aim is to have no important Amer
lean industry, and no section of the coun-
try without one or more representatives
at this centennial celebration, and the ac-
ceptances thus far received give every as
surance Of success in this direction, The
celebration will be distinctively CONNER
cial. Probably the gathering at Delmon-
icos that evening will represent through
the 300 or 400 individual components of it,
a greater variety of American industry
and manufactures and larger measure
of the nations commercial magnitude and
wealth than any similar assembly in this
country.
The reception committee consists of
some of the most prominent citizens of
New York. DR.. Chauncey NJ Depew is
chairman of this committee. Speaking of
the celebration DR., Depew said today:
"The historical facts to support this
movement are pregnant with interest and
suggestion. The close of the first century
of our American commerce should not
pass unnoticed and the business men of
today should bow their Acknowledgements
to the valued services rendered by the pa
triots of hundred years ago. l am very
much pleased at the favorable comments
from the newspapers in all parts Of the
country on my suggestion that Dec 10 be
recognized,as Commercial Day. Some of
the papers seem to be laboring under the
misapprehension that have made mis-
take in my date. The Jay treaty was not
made in a day. From the time of Jay s
appointment until the ratification Of the
treaty by both countries period of three
years elapsed, but it was Dec. 10, 1895, that
! Washington expressed to congress his ap-
proval of the treaty as whole.
! "Some of my correspondents have asked
What can be done on this day by the bust
ness men in celebration of these events2'
Appropriate resolutions should be passed
by organized commercial bodies 1t would
be most appropriate for the Jay treaty to
be made subject for special exercises in
the public schools on that day. The news.
papers on Dec. 10 could properly have ar
ticles on the subject for the files of our
newspapers of one hundred years ago are
rich with historical facts not found in the
standard histories. Public meetings should
be held in business centers and orators
selected to talk upon American CONNER
cial liberty and our interests generally.
"The study of the struggles of our coun
trymen to establish American commerce
will make us better business men an(
better satisfied with our present condi
ton When one stops to reflect upon tn,
wealth of this country as compared will
what it was one hundred years ago
the figures are perfectly bewildering, an(
such an observance of this day through
out the United States would in my opin
ion, do much to start with fresh vigor oui
sluggish trade. The conditions wer
never more favorable for such move
ment."