The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-10-22

Stanley was the idea OF Henry 5. Well.
come, an American business man OF
London, who was not only personal
friend Of Stanley, but a member OF the
ilrm OF druggists who fitted out the
Emin Pasha relief expedition. Through
Mr.. Welcomes energy almost every
american in London subscribed for
tickets to the dinner, and on the night il
i.me OF covers for over three hundred
eople were laid in Evans assembly.
CONS. One table, on a dais, was re.
egyed for Stanley and the more dis
tinguished guests, and there were q
,iozen other long tables facing this one.
Mr.. Welcome attended personally 70
The arrangement OF the seats, and each
man who had subscribed to the plate
that was TO be presented TO the guest
Of the evening was given place at the
end Of one Of the subsidiary tables, and
others were given seats near each other
who had expressed preference. Mr..
Welcome gave minute attention TO
these details, and, the first thing on the
morning Of the night Of the dinner, he
took his completed plan OF the tablcs
and seats to a printer In order to have
the usual diagrams ready for the guid.
ance OF the diners IN taking their places.
When the hour OF $3.50, which had
been fixed for dinner, had arrived, the
100 hundred guests were assembled in
the reeeption-room. Stanley was there,
and so WIS Consul General John C..
New, who wns 70 preside, and so were
some OF 'h' mus, distinguished men in
.nEtan'l. Ggt there was no diagrams
nf the diGirC room, and the reception
rsmmil.e Msi4 anNiously waiting for
.tr WciI2anc to arrive with them. At
rs o'cltick MIR. Welcome flew in, in his
'usiness c.njhes, with smudge Of
printers ink OH his nose aud more on
lls hands. He a~oa;sinly informed the
'crption comni.tUc that the printers
I'D pied the ;.ype or the diagrams OF the
aAlcs nj the last moment. and that
n,y would be compelled to do without
hrm.
u may seem an easy matter for 200
lrn TO find their places at tables. when
r'r names are at their plates, but II
iDught about SO much confusion that
everybody was turned from the dining
room back to the reception room and
brilliant scheme was suggested There
was the original list OF the names of the
liners, with their respective places,
that Mr.. Welcome had rescued from
he printer. in the possession of the re-
ttption committee. The tUastmaster
las stationed on chair at the door OF
he dining-room and instructed to read
The list of names, each man 10 pass out
and take his place at the table when
bis name was called, The toastrnaster
was u fine, big Englishman, with
stentorian voice. He did as he was told.
"New--Consul General John c." he
shouted, and Mr.. New went through
The door. "Stanley-Henry NJ" bel
lowed the toastmaster next. There
was a roar of laughter and that scheme
for seating the guests was dropped.
Finally everybody went in again and
searched for his place and found it or
otherwise, us i'est lie might. Several
u the guests designed for the principal
-:'i@ were rescned from inferior posi-
iinns Nlow, rEd some ambitious ones
we're degraded from the table of rank;
'at the dinner went on merrily and
ndcd similarly, though itbegan an hour
.:'er than the time it had been set for,
nd Nil because vi the accident TO the
iIiagrams.-N. Y. Telegram.