The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-22

| introduced at dinner to the novelty of
| blue points. gumbo soup. black bass,
terrapin and Maryland ducks, he was
serenaded by the German Glee club.
KOSSUTH'S BEARING.
Those who had met Kossuth during
| the day were not enthusiastic over his
personal bearing, which they had found
| to be tinCtured with at least mild egot-
ism, streaks of vanity and self-con-
sciousness that seemed to say, Really,
I deserve all this attention" The fol-
| lowing day proved that the kossuth
| madness had not applied to New York
! alone, but had become an epidemic
elsewhere. Little Newark and big Bal
I tmore, and boastful Boston and sleepy
. Philadelphia sent their deputations TO
, wait upon the Hungarian exile and In
( Nite him to their respective hospital
tiles. Chairmal made ecstatic speeches
of welcome in the Irving house parlors
all day and ate municipality given lun-
Cheons, while Kossuth in many
speeches Of acknowledgment was
obliged to air his undoubted powers or
oratoIy. Local institutions also sent
deputations TO express sympathy and
congratulations But II began to be re-
marked that lrishmen held aloof, ana
notice was attracted to the fact that a
battalion of wearers Of the green had
rafraincd from joining in the military
parade. Promptly on Monday morn
ing patriotic Michael Doheny rushed
into print with long card of eXplana-
tion to the effect that, while Irishmen
recognized KOssuth as a victim Of alb
solutsm, and to that extent sympa-
with T,agpnt ed his
eulogies in England of the British gov
ernment, (which all true lrshmen hate
with detcstation born of the times
of Cromwell aud King william" More
over there was perhaps pardonable
jealousy among Irish leaders at the
previous omission Of the common coun-
Gil to give municipal welcome to recent
! Irish eXiles.
ON the evening OF Dec. II the dinner
rendered Kossuth by the city authori =
ties came off i'm the Irving house BAN
quoting hall. The hotel then occupied
the entire Broadway block between
Chambers and Reade streets. Mayor
| Kingsland was of course in the chair,
heroically preparing to add new pangs
to his chronic gout. There still existed
the old-time fashion of removing the
tablecloth and when by that operation
walters had, as usual, discommoded ali
the guests and broken sundry plates
| and glasses, letters of regret. couched
| in highly eulOgistiC language toward
the guest (whO by resolution had just
become q national guest at Washing
TONI were read from Webster, Clay,
Cass. Hamilton. Fish, Seward and 9TH
er political magnates. OF course, Kos
suth made the speech Of the evening,
| and ii proved TO he a grand oratorcal
effort and moreover proved as attrac-
tive in the reading as in the hearing.
| Perhaps the most enthusiasm after the
900 champagne corks had popped was
expended over the toast Hungary Be
; trayed, But Not Yet Sold" which was
responded to by the Rev. r. ;. Chaplin,
who was equally eloquent post-prand-
tally or in the pulpit or lecture room.
A queer incident occurred toward the
close of the tOasts when that of The
Press was reached. simultaneously
: arose Editor Henry j. Raymond of the
newly established Times and General
James Watson Webb editor of the an
cient Courier and Enquirer The form
er had been assigned by the commit
tee of arrangements to the toast but
the latter made claim to the honor, as
Both were determined men, nut Webb
had the louder voice, and for some
: time there ensued a babel; but a MEM
: Der of the club, Whispering to Webb
that Raymond was booked for the
toast, the senior at once Withdrew. The
incident affected Raymonds oratory,
and he did not do himself full JUS
tice.
ENTERTAINED BY THE PRESS.
At the ensuing day q deputation of
Cuban exiles and OF Austrian residents,
I who had sympathized with the Hun
garian revolution, waited uDOn Kos
suth and presented addresses. About
/ this time KOsSuth applied in a speech
for material aid in behalf of Hungarian
freedom. Whereupon, Horace Greeley,
in the Tribune, started q popular Kos
suth loan which some enthusiastic per-
son took up and issued certificates of
stock to be subscribed for in aid of a
new Hungarian uprising. These pro-
ceedineS brought protests from the
Austrian minister at Washington To
Secretary of State Webster and from
the Austrian consul here to the news
papers.
Kossuth banquetng being the order
, of the day, another dinner at the Aston
House was rendered by the press, the
poet Bryant presiding. The features
Of the occasion were the decorations
throughout the corridors Of flowers and
FLAGS, and the division of the dining
room into temporary alcoves or mar
quees, Turkish and Hungarian. with
viands, wines, and walters to match
The menu was the most elaborate
which New York had ever known, and
in variety of gastrOnomy has probably
never since been surpassed even by
Delmonico or Sherry. KOssuth was
heard to say that the press dinner sur
| passed even the one given him at the
London Mansion House. The press
having remembered KosSuth as n for
mer editor at Pesth, the New York bar
remembered him as a Hungarian law
yer with another banquet in Triplel
IIall, Il building then standing on
Broadway, opposite Bond street, and
used for concerts, lectures and public
aSScmblageS. Chief Justice Samuel
Jones the second presided with his ac-
CuStOmed dignity, tempered with mild
: jollity. Edward SandfOrd then the
pride. of the New York bar and des,
: tined to be drowned shortly afterward
by the sinking of the Collins steam.
? ship Arctic made the address of the
! evening with such surprising eloquence
! and ferVor that when KOssuth rose tC
respond he seemed to be embarrassed
by the oratOrical competition and GER
p tainly did not do himself justice. Vet
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