The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-23
BANQUET OF new
ENGLAND SOCIETY
Ninety-Third Annual Dinner
Given in New YORK.
MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN
Were Present, and Noted Civilians and
Army Ofic ers Responded to Toasts aE
Gen. Wheeler Spoke ofMc-
Kinley's Southern Tour.
MANY DISTINGUISHED MEN

New York, December 22-Over 400 sons
ninety-third annual dinner of the New Eng
land Society of New York at the Waldorf
Astoria. President Howland presided and
over his chair was the seal of the society.
flanked on either side by the American and
English flags, while on either side of the
flags and at the head of the room were the
coats of arms of the New England states
The tables were strewn with cut flowers
and dotted here and there with potted
palms, while along the sides of the board
were red apples, white turnips and big gold
pumpkins.
The guests included many men prominent
In public and private life among them be-
ing Brayton Ives, Elihu Root, j. p. Nor
gan, Joseph H. Choate, General Hamilton
s. Hawkins, General VIM r. Shafter, Gov
ernor Elisha Dyer, of Rhode Island; Ad-
mral VIM. T. Sampson, Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, General Jos. Wheeler, General
Wesley Merritt, former Governor Roswell
P. Flower Coils p. Huntington, and
Former Vice-President Levi p. Morton.
Goyernor-elect Roosevelt was greeted
with loud cheers when he rose to respond
to 1.-THE State of New York" He spoke In
part as follows
, ",rhe Puritan came from a stock which
carried the Bible in one hand and in the
other the sword. l think we, of the present
generation, have awakened to livelier
sense of what we owe to these men whose
careers typify this word in modern life, OF
what we owe to the representatives of the
regular army and the navy. We owe much
to others of the past; we owe much to our
statesmen, our commonwealth builders; we
owe most to the men who risked their lives
that the honor of the flag might be upheld
and we get from the Puritan the Inherit
ance of more than one virtue. of more
than one set of virtues, and we will do well
to recollect that no one set of virtues Is
enough to serve state; that nation COM
nosed merely of warriors is sure ultimately
TO fail, as a nation composed merely or
merchants, merely of men great In peace.
General Merritt said: 1--WE have a great
work before us. what we nave oohe anu
What the American has done has been in
tbe interests of the country. There Is
great deal that approaches us from every
side in the TROPICS. We dhn extend our
commerce there and We can extend the
trade of America, which is now three
fourths of 1t limited to the tropics, to an
enormous extent. We have the English
feeling with us when we are IN the colonies
OF England"
Naior-General Wheeler was the next
speaker. He was dressed in the full uni
form of a brigadier-general of the general
army and was received with cheers. He
paid a tribute to Colonel Roosevelt and of
me campaign in Cuba. He referred to ex-
pansion and said that while he would not
discuss that question, yet this country
could not back down from the task kn-
posed upon 1t by Providence.
In conclusion, he spoke of the recent
trio of President Mckinley and his col
leagues In the south, where he met and
mingled on friendly terms with men who
had once opposed our nation. which now
is one nation. President McKinley's trip
to the south, he said. would do more to
cement the north and south than anything
else since the war.