The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02
BRILLIANT II HUNG CHANG
HoNORS SHOWERED UPON HIM BY
 NEW YORK MERCHANTS.

blaze of Clergymen Which Visited Him
 Yesterday Regarding American Mission
 Work in China.
 New York, Sept. Lii Hung Chans came down Broadway to-day in anoth- CT triumphal procession. u was the guest of the merchants of New York. Ten thousand persons had surrounded the Waldorf by the time Mayor Strong, accompanied by his private secretary, Job Hedges arrived at 12:40 o'clock. A few minutes after Governor Morton and his military secretary, Colonel Marvin, and his private secretary, Colonel Ash ley w. Cole, arrived. Both parties re- tired to the parlor to await the appear ance of Lii Hung Chang. A dozen men from the First Signal corps, state mill itia, came along with the governor to act as orderlies. They wore white hel- mets with orange plumes, and white duck trousers stuck in high boots.
 Shortly before 1 o'clock two hundred troopers from Squadron A, with Cap- tain Bridgman at their head, clattered down the street and lined up on Fifth avenue.
 Police Inspector McCullagh was on hand with one hundred police.
 In the meantime Ii was quizzing Pro- prietor Bolt about the life and habits of the shad The proprietor presented Lii with a seven-pound shad this morn ing and the Chinese cooks made a dish out of it which tickled the viceroy's palate. He forgot all about everything else in his quest for knowledge about the shad. He wanted to know where the fish could be found, how long it lived, how much it cost, and whether it would live in China.
 It was shortly after IS o'clock when Lii was borne out of the Waldorf en- trance in his sedan chair and took his seat in a carriage with Mayor Strong, General Ruger and his interpreter, To Feng Luh.
 The crowd cheered Justify as the pro- cession started down Fifth avenue An escort of mounted police cleared the way Following Lis carriage were seven others. Governor Morton was in the first In the second were the Chi nese minister, Interpreter Ching, Gen eral Fitzgerald and Major Davis The viceroy's sons, Lord Ii and Lord Li jr., were in the third. The Chinese con- sul general, Major Montant, Lieutenant Cummins and MT. Ho of the Chinese legation occupied the fourth. In the fifth were Major Crocker, Major An drews and two of Lis suite. MT. Drew was in the sixth, while Captain Mills and Major Van Duzer occupied the sev- enth.
 The route laid out was down Fifth avenue to Washington Arch, through the arch and Washington Square park to Fourth street, to Broadway, to the Merchants club at Leonard street, where the banquet was to be held
 CLERGYMEN CALL ON II.
 All of the visitors were ministers of the gospel from the Methodist Episco- pal (North and South), Baptist (North and South), Presbyterian North and South), Congregational, Protestant Episcopal and Reformed churches, who represented 7,747.202 church members. They appeared to present to Ii an, ad- dress handsomely engrossed in a seal portfolio lined with red. The address was read to Ii by the Rev. Dr. Ellen wood
 The address spoke of the long contin- uance of Christian mission endeavor in China and the protection that had been accorded it by the government. espe- cially for the last half century. No nation had been more generously treated in this respect than the Ameri- can. It was remarkable how few of our missionaries had lost their lives in China through violence, and where To- cal officials had not restrained such vii olence they had, as a rule, been pun ished. With gratitude the edicts issued for the prot action of the missionaries were remembered, and recent edicts of this kind were specifically mentioned and referred to. Many most kindly expressions by Iii Hung Chang were recalled. Our most intelligent mis- sionaries had, on the other hand, shown great respect for Confucius, Mencius and other Chinese sages and moral ists
 The address then spoke with honor and respect of the Chinese government and the stability of Chinese institu- tions. We had offered our mission work and our medical mems services purely in all endeavor to do good for the Chinese The address closed as fol- lows:
 While we send missionaries to Chi ma we are not unmindful of our duty to those of your people who have come to our own shores. They have in many ipcta0oec beap rllde1y trootad bxy car tain classes among us, mostly immi- grants from other lands, but our Chris tian people have uniformly shown them kindness. They have been gathered into Sunday and evening schools; their rights have been defended in the courts and many times have deputations from the missionary boards and other benev- olent societies petitioned our govern ment in the interest of just legislation for the Chinese.
 Were you to visit our Pacific coast you would observe with interest the homes are refuges which, with the CO., operation of the Chinese consul general the Christian women of that coast have provided for the unfortunate Chinese girls who have been sold into the most debasing slavery. We believe that all these best impulses of philanthropy which lead our people to forget all di- visions of nationality and of race, and to stretch out their arms in true broth er1lood to your people, whether here or in China, are the direct fruit of the l teachings of the divine founder of Christianity. Having through the in-