New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-30
WEST ENDERS AT DINNER
THE ASSOCIATION FEAsrs AT THE
wALDORF-ASTORIA.
ADDRESSES BY CYRUS CLARK. THE PRESIDENT
EX-coNrRoLLER FITCH. RECORDER

ADDRESSES by CYRUS CLARK. THE PRESIDENT;
Ex-coNTRoLLER FITCH. RECORDER
GoFF AND OTHERS.
The annual dinner of the West End Association
held in the Astor Gallery OF the Waldorf-As-
toria last evening. About hundred and hfty
persons were present Cyrus Clark. president OF the
association presided. and at the head OF the table
were Recorder Gon Street Cleaning Commissioner
Mccartney. Senator Charles y. Page. james l..
Wells ex-Controller Ashbei p. Fitch. the Rev Dr.
Charles f.. Eaton. the Rev. Or. Samuel McComb,
John Proctor Clarke and s. c. Well. Letters or
regret were read from Mayor Van Wyck ex-Mayor
S rong. Bishop Potter. Seth Low and others In
the course OF his opening address the chairman
said:
AT our annual dinner we have been In the haoit
OF inviting the heads OF the various city Depart
ments hut after the election last November II
was uncertain who would be AT the head or the
different departments after January l, wnich VIII
account for the lateness OF our dinner TINS year.
Notwithstanding this beautiful banquet-halI. with
it's artistic adornment. to which We have invited
YOU / must say that Mr.. Astor made n
mistake in not locating it on the West Side. AS
IL is we could not get satisfactory accommodations
there and We were therefore obliged to go SUM
ming down Fifth-ave 1t is only another illustra-
ton OF the old saying that II the mountain won
go to the man the man must go TO the mountain
The last year has been fraught with great In
We have had our Boulevard Handsomely improved
And let me say right here that General Coils was
the only Commissioner who replaced deau tree
with a living one since they were hrst sci OUT
in the days OF Tweed. The war OF the ashes IS
happily ended.
I'VE have met with disappointment In not having
some OF our many proposed improvements carried
out where the money had been hbera1y Pro"ueI
by the Legislature. Il seems TO me mat AT 'h's
time our want Is not so much new legislation as 10
have the old laws carried out and the money spent
I believe in completing the old work before any
thing new Is undertaken. Besides. as View the
situation. account OF the new condlt'vns I'M
posed by the creation Of the Greater New" % mo no
rebate future except. perhaps the undergrouhu
RAILROAD which Is older han some here present. Ss been
that the location OF tho Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
upon the the river bank oncers Of every branch Of
the Navy have lent a helping h'nd toward accom-
After John G. Coleman had spoken. saying, in the
course Of his remnrks that much OF the WORK done
SIDE Vas OWN to the unsensh Efforts
the presidert Of the association. ox-Controile,r
Fitch. in a humorous speech said thai although S,
nothing in the Contfolership worth having
curious kind. They consisted OF per cent on the
taxable estates OF deceased persons US predscns
big mliionarcs' estates. and he thought that AT
any rate, ne Gich) could count on that OF Russell
Sage. Iui Mr.. Sage hal dslppo.ried MN IN ,ne
priscd r. when Mr.. Coler went out OF once Mr
Sage would not still be doing business az me otu
stand. (-aughter.l There were. SAID NJ. IN
returning 70 the special purposes OF the West Emu
Association, many things on their SIDE OF me toHh
in which they were Justly interested But III pushh-
inc those things they ought to be patient ana g0oa-
natlircd with the new Controller With the am
culties that continually confronted him ana we
other city officials owing to the new arihnseiei'
and the many contradictions and inconsistehcies ~
the new charter, patience ana iorDearance sdoi,.
be given to every man charged win THIS o''cu''
problem. ,o tIe
Jonn Proctor Clarke was The next speake ercords
referred TO the recently published Dutcn fcco!uus
from lsis 1880 and said that the CONDITION ol te
city then seemed much the same as IL was nov
He found from proclamation OF Peter StuS Nes"ii'
that the laws against Sunday opening were a.
most the same 40 except travellers anu ldue
boariors was allowed 10 have liquor. Ihls mani
that the same old sandwiches made square mtdi,
and ne thought very likely the same SANDWICHES
were sun used nowadays. G.aughterJ
Mr. Clarke closed by saying that no matter IN
der what administration the city might be the roal,
necessary true things would 90 forward ID spite
OF any mans petty opposition. - ,...
The Rev Dr. Eaton. senator Page. Reco 5i'
COT the Rev DR.. Mccomb. street cleaning oon-
missioner Mccartney, James l.. Wells ana william
Il Ellison also spoke. -. .,..
The special committee in charge Of the dinner dinner
NJ Stanton. James V. y. Gard, George Chnl2nn
Bltcheer {. T. Hastings. Frederick NJ. Lttene'"
and | T. V OcOi..