The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-25
MAYTLowER DESCENDANTS,

| MANY prominent People Present dI the
Second Annual Dinner of This Socie-
ty at Delmonico Swell Known New
Haven People Among the Number.
Last evenings New York Mail and
Express says: A notable dinner took
place at Delmonico's last evening, when
100 members of the Society of the May
flower Descendants observed the sign
Ing of the compact on board the May
flower on November %, 1920. Previous
to the dinner there was an important
business meeting.
The New York society was founded
on December %, 1894 and since that
| time charter for a branch society
was granted in Pennsylvania, and in
! Boston a society of Mayflower de-
| scendants was organized At the meet
| ing yesterday Rev DR.. PobericlS Ter
ry, who had been in conference with
representatives of the Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania societies, offered a
resolution, which was carried, to con-
solldate the three societies under the
name of the General Society of May
flower Descendants,
The officers elected were the follow
ing: Governor, Henry e. Rowland;
! deputy governor, John r. Terry; chap
! lain, Joseph j. Slocum; elder, Rev. DR..
Roderick Terry; secretary, Frederic H.
Hatch; treasurer, William Milne Grin
NELL historian, r. H. Greene; surgeon,
| j. Dougal Bissell. Mr.. Hatch was
elected secretary in place of Edward l.,
Norton, who had held the office since
| December, 1884,
Ex-Judge Rowland presided at the
/ dinner, and with him at the raised table
We're Mayor Strong, Rev DR.. Edward
| Everett Hale of Boston, James G. Car
ter, Frederick ]. de Peyster, John S.
| Wise, Edmund Wetmore, G. De Week
berlin, the minister of the Netherlands,
and Colonel Edward c. James.
After the president had made an adj
dress Of welcome, Mayor Strong spoke
| and mentioned the interesting fact that
his wife was direct lineal descendant
OF the first mayor of the city Of New
York, who was elected in 1855, and it
was a unique sequence, as the mayor
pointed out that his wife, thus tracing
relationship with the first mayor Of
New York, should have for her hus-
band the present mayor of New York
city.
DR.. Hale. responding to the toast,
"The Pilgrims alluded to the princi-
pies of true democracy that the voyag-
ers Of the Mayfower instituted The
country he said, had not succeeded,
10 sc
it's leaders or the teachings of its schol-
ars, but by the virtue and will of its
people.
On the subject of "Our Country"
James G. Carter made an eloquent adj
dress. THE mask of patriotism," he
said is often worn by those in whom
the true spirit is absent. Caesar Ma
poleon and other old time warriors of
their instincts We're not animated by
patriotism, but by love of glory. You
ask what we can do for our country S
best good. It is 10 lay aside the ambi-
tion of conquest that is making itself
felt of late; to stop this everlasting
Dragging that everything is best be-
cause it is American, and to stop this
disparagement Of foreign nations that
is going on"
Other speeches made were Colonial
Warriors" Frederick ]. De Peyster;
John Smith" John S. Wise; "Educa-
ton in Politics" Edmund Wetmore;
"Our Earliest Friends" G. de Week
berlin; 1.-THE ladies' Colonel Edward
G. James.
The reception committee consisted Of
. John T. Terry Mrs Charles r. Barney
Mrs. Daniel Stimson, ]. Bayard Back
, us, Edward H. Norton Mrs Edward
Mitchell and Mrs w p. Page
Among those present We're Mr.. and
, Mrs. George II. Warren, Rowland Da
r Wis, Mr.. and Mrs e. II Isandon, vii
$ liam Milne Grinnell Mr.. and Mrs. AL
( bert e. Lawrence, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
e T. Barney, Mr.. and Mrs. r. Fl. Green
: Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sage, Clarence J.
| Collins, Or. and Mrs. Gorham Bacon
9 Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Norton, Lieut.
v Wise, Reginald H. Ward, II. Victo
Newcomb, Frederic H. Hatch, Mrs. Ed
q ward Rosselle, John T Waring, W. S
: Allerton. J. Bayard Backus, Mr. anC
+ Mrs William H. Doty Mr.. and Mrs
o Waldo Hutchings, John 2. Terry, Mis-
Y Rowland. WHY'S Terry, Mr.. and Mrs
I Newell Morton, Mrs. Henry r.. Hotch
Q kiss Captain Charles II. Townshend
Mrs Edward Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs
William Walker, Dr. and Mrs. Rodericl
Terry, Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. c. Brewster
Mr. and Mrs. George G. Gorham, Mis-
, Susan Taber Martin Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
e ward Fl. Coates, Dr. Henry c. Coe, Dr
! John N Tilden, DR., ]. o. Bissell
] Dr. Clement Cleveland, Mrs. Charlie
a Mclean, Mr. and Mrs. f. b. Hill, an,
e Mr. and Mrs. M Grinnell.
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