New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-13
ALPHA Delta PHI BANQUET.
SPEECHES BY HAMILTON W. MABIE THE
REV. DR.. Z. WINCHESTER
DONALD AND OTHERS

The convention banquet OF the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity held last night at the Waldorf
Astoria The three hundred Alpha Delts present
were seated at small tables by chapters Hamil-
ton w. Mabie presided. and seated at the table OF
honor with him were the Rev. DIR. f. Winchester
Donald. President James NJ. Taylor Of Vassar.
Talcott Williams. OF THE Philadelphia Press;
James II. Hoyt. OF Cleveland: William E. Curtis
Francis L. Stetson Benjamin +. Blair. General
Tremain. Professor J. C. Freeman. OF Wisconsin
University: Colonel Charles T.. Sprague and DIR.
Charles z. Qulmby. Others present were William
b. Rankine. George Gordon Brooks. Jefferson Clark,
Collin Armstrong Barlow s. Weeks. j. Van ".
Olcott Alfred Ely. ". NJ. Ladd. OF Portland. Ore {;
George J. Peet. Charles May f. T. Olcott DR..
William B. Clark. Arthur Curtis James. n. w.
Niles F. /. Babbett. L. S. Tenney and Benjamin
W. Franklin
Dr. Mabie offered the first toast OF the evening
ITO the Memory of Samuel Eells. the Founder Of
Alpha Delta Phi" II drunk in silence. stand
ing. The POSTMASTER then continued;
The sixty-seventh annual convention finds every
chapter represented from Bowdoin on the Far East
to M M On on the o Far West dn. and S%
south The sixty-seventh annual convention finds
many present who st are familiar faces on these oc
rarely been absent on such occasions this In
1t was Impossible for us to keep Brother Choate
(cheers) at home. He has gone abroad with in
st @ But % ras he S no nS mad *
FUN which is so familiar to us but which would be
lost in the atmosphere of England. And then
Brother Carter (cheers) Is absent IL Brother Car
ter present, should not have to speak on the
ideals OF Alpha Delta Phi because we should flnd
In his presence the living embodiment of those
ideals.
Secretary sprague then read a dispatch from Mr.
Carter. which greeted with cheers
DR.. Mabie then spoke to the toast Of Alpha Delt
Ideals saying that while the ideals OF the fra
ternty yelled In secrecy from the eyes OF the
world. the fruit OF those ideals manifested to
the world In such James Russell Lowell
whose voice In the Civil War said by one TO
he worth army corps: George William Cur
It's. the ideal OF an American gentleman: Phillips
Brooks. Edward Everett Hale, Bishop Huntington
and Judge Day. whom we hoped to have with
saying he can't he present.
The Rev. DIR. f. Winchester Donald was next In
troduced as "a man from Boston. which has been
described as not a place, but state OF mind -
DR. Donalds toast was Alpha Delt Brotherhood"
He entertained his hearers with a speech which
was greeted with laughter and applause.
He followed by James III. Hoyt. who spoke
on Alpha Delts versus Satan; President James
NJ Taylor. who RESPONDED to Alpha Delt knights
OF Fair Ladies': Talcott Williams, on Alpha Delt
Reformers" and Or. Charles r. Quimby who read
a poem on Alpha Det Diplomats"
The closing sessions OF the convention will be
held to-day At yesterdays meeting James G, Car
Ter was reelected president and Colonel Charles
+. sprague secretary Of the fraternity at large