The age-herald., 1897-11-26
THANKSGIVING DAY OBSERVED IN LONDON By Three Hundred Americans and Eng
 fish NeiShbOrS. HER HIGHNESS' LETTER
Expressing Nausht But Kindly Words
 and Fond RemembFanCeS.
BROUGHT FORTH ELOQUENT WORDS
From Ambassador Hay and 0thers-The Am- bassador Had Good Word For Pump kin Pie and the Proud Bird of
 American Freedom.

Londtn, Nov. 25-Over 900 American
 men and women and a few English per sons celebrated Thanksgiving day by a dinner att the Cecil hotel tonight. The
 party included Col. John Hay, the United
 States ambassador. and his wife and
 daughter, and Henry whftes secretary of the United States embassy.
 The menu which was especially de-
 signed for the occasion was ornamented with American and British flags and over
 the seat of the chairman was an enor-
 nous eagle. The list of toasts was long.
 The health of Queen Victoria was pro-
 posed by the chairman, who read a let ter datsd Windsor Castle, from Sir Ar | thur John Bgge, the private secretary
 to her ajesty, saying:
 "The queen desires me to say that the American ambazsad9r will be so good
 as to convey to the members of the American soci =ty in London the ex- pression of her majesltys sincere thanks for the beautifully illuminated address of congratula,ion sine received from that body I have further to assure your ex- cellency how deeply the queen was touclhed by the sentiments of sympathy with the enthusiasm of her own sub- j:cts on the sixtieith anniversary of her accession to the throne which was con tained in this add1ess from citizens of the UnIte1 States"
 Hon. Sir John GarTelle Barnes, jus tee of the high court of justice, pro posed the heal,h of Ambassador Hay denan1thng upon the great friendliness which he believed exists between Eng ] sand and the United States, saying; "If the two countries will only put their backs together they can rule the destinies of the world"
 Ambassador Hay responded with a bright speech. He sketched the oldgin of the day which began, he said, 'dn | that pathetic thanks offering of our fore | fathers when they were keeping alight | the spark of. freedom which was des- l tined to kfndle into such a beacon blaze | enllghtening and astonishing the world"
 "Some of our peculiar institutions, continued MT Hay, thank heaven we 1 have lost. Some passed away in the 1 tempest of the war they caused, but ;! this, the most unquestionably peculiar 1 of all we can trust to abide with us for 1 ever. This is one of the few things 1 that we can do that offends nobody | threatened TO one, and competes with l no one. There can never be too much | gratitude in the world.
 l "Seyenty millions of voices praising | God together would not justify the ad- 1 dition of one ironclad to any navy on 1 earth. Tonight we can hardly be said | to be in a foreign land. A French states 1 man said the other day:
 "'Where there is one Frenchman there is France so we have three hundred | good reasons here to believe we are in | America tonight and may be pardoned 1 for speaking of some little things that 1 we care about"
 MT. Hay then paid an eloquent tribute l to the "unknown, namIeless. artist who I in the days of early New England, first | brought to perfection the pumpkin pie.' He endorsed Benjamin Franklin's sug- | gestion that the turkey should be the 1 national emblem instead of the eagle, | who, with an aristocIadc profile, loud | voiced and predatory disposition, hardly
 comments himself as the emblem of | modest, industrious and conscientious
 democracy, whfle the turkey like true
 altruist, roosts only for the good of
 others and perishes by the thousands
 yearly for the pubic welfare"
 | Mir. Hay in closing said: "The great
 body of the world are friendly. We are fortunate heirs to England's customs and | laws, which both nations respect"
 Lord Mount Royal responding to "Our | Next Door Nlslghbofs," sad that Canada, l while loyal ito the queen and to Great l BTitair had the fullest feeling of friend | ship for the United States and he was 1 satisfied if either country should get into 1 difficulty the othsr would help its neigh bor