Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-23
Celebration Under Auspices of Con-
gregational Club.
HEROES OF PLYMOUTH ROCK EXFOLLED
Addresses by Chauncey M. Depew,
Webster Davis and Others.
GUESTS AT THE BANQUET

ton Congregational Club at the First Con-
gregatfonal Church, on 10th street. About
two hundred guests sat down to fine ban
quet at $40 o'clock, having met in the par
lors OF the church and INDUCED in social
session of about half an hour. 1t was with
smiling faces and happy countenances that
the officers and members of the club and
the invited guests participated in the feast
prepared N honor Of the landing of the pill
grim fathers in New England in 1920.
The presence of Chauncey NJ. Depew, who
came over from New York to attend the
celebration, and that of Mr. Webster Davis.
assistant secretary of the interior both of
whom made splendid addresses added in
terest to the occasion. Rev. Wallace Rad
cliffe. DID,, pastor of New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, also made a stirring
address.
Mr.. Depew had notified the reception
committee that he could not arrive until
late 1t was after O'clock when he en-
tered the banquet hall, and his arrival was
greeted by an enthusiastic outburst.
The Guests at Table.
The distinguished guests. with Rev Isaac
Clark, DID, the president of the club. oc-
cupied seats at The table on the platform
MIR. Depew occupied the seat of honor at
the table, Assistant Secretary Davis and
Mrs. Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe occupied
seats on the right. On the left were Rev.
DR. Wallace Radcliffe and Rev. DIR. J. f,
Rankin, president of Howard University,
with Mrs. Rankin. Among those present at
the other tables were: Representative Mel
son Dingley ard Mrs. Dingiey, Charles w.
Davis. Alfred Wood, Mrs Helen NJ Wood
Mrs. Sarah E. Smith. Mrs. Mary l.. Mill
more, Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Ewell Rev. and
Mrs. S. NJ Newman, Miss Helen c. New
man, Miss Lulu w. Cummings, Mr. and
mrs N, Elphonzo Youngs, DR.. and Mrs; Ira
w. Dennison, Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Mar
tin, Mrs. j. NJ. Craig, Mrs. Bailey, Miss
Mamie Smith. Marion Smith, Charles NJ.
Catlin. Jerome b. Johnson and wife, Miss
johnson, Miss f. NJ. Bartlett. Mr.. and Mrs
Horace *. Fulton, f. +. Clafln, John b.
Sleman, jr.. l.. 7. Farabee, Z. r. Wiley
Mrs. A. S. CrowelI, Mr.. and Mrs William
Lamborn, NJ. c. Rugg. Mr.. and Mrs. A. s.
Caywood: Mrs. J. z. Garrett, w. Z. Tyler,
Nathan Bickford, Mr.. and Mrs. +. +. Craig,
Miss Mary Elizabeth Pond, Kirk Holmes
Miss Grace Holmes, Miss /. \. Green, Sell
den NJ. Ely, Miss NJ. A. Brewer, Benjamin
w. Pond, Miss c. 3. Pond, Miss S. u.
Baldwin, Mrs L. H. Camp Miss ETA
Briggs Mrs. Eunice Mott. Miss Mott. Miss
81. F. Powell, Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Camp
bell, Mrs. w. ii. Rand, Mrs. Grace Mac
Pherson, Mrs. a. M Parker, Prof and Mrs
George J. Cummings, Rev. and Mrs. NJ.
Ross Fshburn, Mr. and Mrs. r. L. Proctor,
Mr.. f. r. Clark, Miss A II. Clark, Stuart
c. Johnson, Miss Frances Wickham, Mr.
and Mrs. l.. Ii. Hartman, Mrs. ID. G. Pur
man. Misses Purman, Mr. and Mrs F. A.
Pratt Mr.. and Mrs. John Doyle Carmody,
Horace NJ Fulton, Mrs h. X. Bradford. j.
II. Bradford, +. L. Campbell. Mrs. f. L.
Campbell, II. G. Surguy, Mr. and Mrs. w.
r. Hughes, b. F.. Bingham, Mr. and Mrs
George C. Maynard, Mrs J. Taber johnson.
Loren B. 7. Johnson, w. G. Fowler, NJ
and Mrs. Edward J.. Morris. Mr. and Mrs.
John Tweedale, Mr. and Mrs c. NJ Bryant
Mr. Arnold Burgess Johnson, Charles n
MrS Mr
iel Fraser, Fred 1. Dean, Mrs. F. Warren
johnson. Augustus Smith, ]. w. CHECKER
ing, Mr. and Mrs. A G. Wilkinson, ]. IL.
Jennings, DR.. w. w. Foster. Mrs. F. II.
Mabel Clafiin, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred c.
Squires, Prof. II. A. Hazen, William l..
Peabody and wife, Mrs. S. l.. Bliss, C. A.
l.. Mortified, Misses Mortified, Martha F.
Rice, Walter Allen, Annie Louise Powell.
]. Walter Humphrey. Dr. ]. w. Bischoff
and wife, Hattie Meads Smith, Douglas G.
Miller, ]. S. Raymond and wife, Mamie
White, Sara l.. Smell, Mr.. and Mrs. o. H.
Reed Helen A. Davis, Mrs Charles w.
Davis. Rev. H. p. Higley. Mr.. and Mrs. A.
S. Perham. Mrs. Mary ]. Seymour, Julia
M. Pond, Harry b. Bradford, II. w. Birgo,
Miss Anna Birgo, Mr.. and Mrs W. l..
Marsh, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Clay Evans, Mr.
and Mrs. Harrison Dingman, Miss Ding
man, Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Duncklee, MIR.
and Mrs. Jerome F. johnson, Miss Grace B.
johnson and T. T. Stewart.
Soulm1ttee OF reception.
The reception committee of the occasion
was composed of Prof. Geo. j. Cummings,
o. NJ. Mcpherson, Walter Allen, William
Lamborn, Prof. H. A. Hazen and j. B. Sic
man, jr. Music was furnished by the First
Congregational Church Choir, under the
direction OF Prof Bischcff
The feast was begun with prayer by Rev
DR.. Rankin. President Clark introduced
MIR. Depew. His address was on Pilgrim
Civilization
MIR. Depew's Address.
He said. in part:
THAT should leave New York late this
afternoon and travel two hundred and
twenty-five miles TO dine with you, seems
to Justify the charge SO often made against
me that I will travel any distance for
dinner. But the fact that the dinner is the
frugal fare of the Puritans also proves that
l am not particular about dinner.
Nothing better illustrates the progress
of our century, and the difference between
Forefathers' day and our own than this
trip. busy man Of affairs, 1 left New
York at the close of business hours, am in
Washington In time for this celebration,
having prepared my speech on the route,
ard, sleeping comfortably on the car, will
be at my office again before business hours
in the morning.
my ancestry having arrived in this
ere side in New York, on the other side in
New England, and having fallen in love
and married in the old-fashioned way,
without regard to race or creed, 1 can
claim a membership Of nearly every one
of the national societies.
First, comes the Scotch, whose dinner is
digested by bagpipes and indigestible with
hagg.s, whose glory IN literature and phil
osophy no one can dispute, and whose ma
ticnal characteristic is that they keep the
Sabbath, and everything else they can lay
their hands on.
Next comes my own Dutch Knicker-
booker compatriots, believing that Holland
kept alive the spark of civil and religious
liberty, and happy in the wisdom of their
far-sighted ancestors, who pre-empted the
lard ON Manhattan Island.
Then st. Patrick revels in wit and elo-
quence, while the Welshman displays the
intellect Of Gladstone and the obstinacy of
an army mule.
Yankee Takes the Palm.
"But for real, solid, unmistakable and
honest claiming Of all that there Is in this
country. and much that there Is IN the
world, Of which the nineteenth century can
boast and the twentieth century hope for,
the Yankee takes the palm. Yet no stu