The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-14
STANDING AND
IN SILENCE.
Memory Of the Martyr
President Drunk Last
Night By the Lin
coin Association.
ate In SPITE OF BLIZZARD
Merry Gathering at Taylor's
Though General Greeley
Was the Only Guest
Present.
THE NINTY- NINE LOST SHEEP
Colonies Phelps and Dickinson
Amaze Their Audience
With Scriptural
Quotations.
JUDGE BLAiR'S LIKENESS TO JONES
Witty Speeches by Legal
LuminarieS and Patriotic
JUDGE BLAiR'S LIKENESS TO JONES
Witty Speeches by Legal
Luminaries and Patriotic
EuIogies of the Dead.

HlSlorlc memories, II is not SURPRISING
that the attendance at last nights Dime.
of the Lincoln Association eommemorat
ing the birth Of the great President, was
scanty. Although the guests were few,
because others couldn't get there, yet what
they lacked in number they amply made
up In cheerfulness.
Unlike most Lincoln dinners, which are
usually grave gatherings, that of last
night was of an impromptu and informal
nature, and was more like a family par
ty. Only one of the speakers on the
toast list managed to struggle through
the storm and by the eternal fitness of
things it was General A. w. Greeley. the
distinguished Arctic traveller; the others
were stalled on trains between here and
Philadelphia.
The big dining hall of Taylor's Hotel
where the dinner took place, was taste
fully decorated. The Stars and Stripes
draped the walls and 1oated from the
pillars, and at the end of the room was a
large portrait of Lincoln. AS for the
tables, with palms and ferns and long
strings of smilax winding in and out Of
the fruit epergnes they were artisti-
cally arranged, %betraying the fine taste
of q oman.
At the cross table sat Colonel Sheffield
Phelps, president of the association, and
on his right were General A. w. Greeley,
Mr.. Justice Gilbert Collins, John A.
Walker, Rev. j. Francis Morgan, of the
Park Reformed Church, j.. A. Dear and
Thos. Milburn Gopsill. To Col. Phelps
left sat Judge John A. Blair, j.. P.
Brown, Walter Collins, Myron J. Furst,
president of the Board of Trade and
Andrew ]. Corcoran, ex-president of that
worthy body. Among the hoi polloi at the
long tables were:-Col. Samuel D.. Dickin-
son, ex-Commissioner Geo. w. Harding,
Elbert Rappleye, DR.. L. J. Gordon, Nelson
J. II. Edge, J. Ward, H. Il. Holmes,
George w. Conkling, j. w. Omber-
son. Samuel Limerick, ex-Alderman
II. Hill, Chas N. King, Fire Com
missioners John Brennan and Thomas D.
Mills, Chas. E~sterbrook, Chief of Police
B. Murphy, Director William A. Lewis, of
the Board of Education, ex-Assemblyman
w. e. Drake, H.. H. Farrier, Robert A.
Simpson, John P. Landrine, James G..
Hasking, Thos. w. Tilden, M. Murray,
Emil Datz, o. H. Lohsen, Robert B.
Gray, Henry Klein, W. Van Keuren, Jr.,
DR.. William A. Durrie and ex-Alderman
John Mitchell.
Grace having been said by Rev. J. F.
Morgan, the gusts devoted their attention
to this appetizing menu:-
Huitres
Sherry Vino de Paste
Bisque de Tomates nouvelles
celeri Amandes salees Olives
Sarmou H~ollandaise
Pommes a la Braban
Ris de Veau en- Caisses
Pontet Canet 1887
Filet Mignon a la Bernaise
Pommes Parisiennes
Haricos verts Francois
Cotelettes de PouIet, Sauce Supreme
Small cig patifs P0is sa an Be ! e President
Gibier en- Canape
Iaitue Vinaigrette
Biscuit Tortoni
Gateaux Assortis
Frontage de Brie Tonnage Roquefort
Cigars Cafe NOR
The first toast, abraham Lincoln 2
was honofed standing and in silence.
Then Col. Phelps. in his introductory
speech, humorously applied to the absent
speakers the parable of the lost sheep,
in the present case, he said, amid gen.
eral laughter, there was one sheep in the
fold and the ninety and nine were astray.
Zone speaker" continued the Colonel,
''who is not here, wrote to me asking that
he be allowed to speak to his toast in
time to depart by the midnight train,
which left at 1890. Gaughter), and ! have
long letters from others giving us the
marble heart. (Renewed laughter,) We
will now hear from our Secretary other
letters of regret"
Secretary Gopsfll read excuses from
President Mckinley, Robert D. Lincoln,
Attorney General John w. Griggs, Secre-
tary of the Navy ). D. Long, u. S. EeTa-
tor. VIM. J. Sewell, John Sherman, Speak
er Thomas B. Reed, Governor Theodore
Roosevelt and Admiral Dewey.
Il regret said Col. Phelps" that near
ly all our speakers have been lost in the
shuttle. / referred previously to the lost
80, but we nave succeeded in corralling
one. Haughter) and / now introduced
General Greeley {Applause.)
General A.W. Greeley in speaking to the
toast of Lincoln and the Resourceful-
ness of the American Soldier COM
menced with an extract from Lincoln's
message to Congress, July 1, 1861. The
speaker commented on the sagacity and
soundness Of Lincoln's opinion and stated
that the 2Sd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
more than made this prediction good. He