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and stripes, which had apparently become
| foul of some of the rigging. the lad fell to
the ships deck and was killed. -
GRoTIUs' MEMORY HoNoRED.
Americans Joined Dutch in an Impress
sive Ceremony at Delft, Hol-
land, Yesterday

land, Yesterday.
DELFT, HOLLAND, July 4-There was
picturesque and impressive ceremony at
the Nieuve Kirck this morning. The church
was filled with delegates. diplomats, high
officials and ladies. The ceremony began
Lovely Are the Messengers That Bring Us
Good Tidfngs of Peace after which A.
p. Van karnebeck, the former foreign min
lister and head of the Dutch delegation to
the peace conference, who presided at to-
days ceremony, briefly outlined Its nature.
He said:
Nowhere has the conference met with
heartier sympathy than in the United
States, and it is a token of this feeling
and acknowledgment of the reception of the
conference by the Netherlands that the
American delegates, in the name of their
government, desire to pay tribute to the
memory of Hugo Grotius. In order to give
this additional significance, they have
chosen for its accomplishment their great
national feast day."
After the national hymn of the Neither
lands had been sung. Andrew White, the
| United States ambassador to Germany, ard
head of the American delegation to the
peace conference. in long, scholarly ad-
dress paid an eloquent tribute to GrotiuS
ito carry out whose ideas are assembled
! delegates from all nations"
Mr.. White added: Il feel that my own
country unites not only in her gratitude,
but in that of the civilized world
After tracing Grotius' work and the effect
| of his ideas. Mr.. White said: From this
to go on with the work of strengthening
peace and humanizing war, and, above all
| to give the world at least a beginning OF
an effective, practical scheme of arbitra-
| ton
At the end of his address Mr.. White laid
on the tomb of Grotius, in behalf of his col
| leagues, wreath of silver oak and laurel
| leaves. bearing the inscription:
"To the memory of Hugo Grotius, on the
| occasion of the peace conference of the
Hague in reverence and gratitude from the
| United States"
The wreath was three feet in diameter;
and was in a big beech case ornamented
| with silver, bearing the inscription:
'To the government of the Netherlands
from the United States on the occasion of
| the conference, 1893"
| conference follow. The address of accept
ance was made by DR.. W. IL. DeBeaufort'
| the minister of foreign affairs and presi-
dent of the ministerial council of the Meth
erlands He said:
| 'To-day's ceremony will make a deep I'M
preston throughout the country: We @ Hol-
| ious history and the memory of our great
men. We are pleased to see them appre-
ciated by foreigners and the citizens of a
country for which we have such respect
and regard. We are closely connected with
| the historical traditions of America. The
| first settlers on the banks of the Hudson
were Hollanders. and we shall always re-
member with a certain pride that 1t was a
Dutch captain who first saluted the stars
and stripes. To-day we salute your star
spangled banner in our own country. Your
country is one of the largest in the world
ours one of the smallest; but we have one
thing in common, which is that we both
won our country and its independence by
our own Valor."
In conclusion Dr. De Beaufort said he
hoped to-day's ceremony and wreath
would act as stimulus to future gen.
erations in their exertions in behalf OF
still further reforms in International law
and that the wreath would be an everlast-
ing emblem of the historical friendship OF
America and Holland
1 President Seth Low, of Columbia uni.
versity. and delegate to the conference
in returning thanks said: We do not
make light of what we owe to England
but we gladly admit that we owe in g
things which we count as most precious ir
our heritage
The ceremony concluded with the sing
ing of THE Star-Spangled Banner
Baron Bildt, head of the Norway y-sweder
delegation to the conference, announced
that he had received telegram from
that paid at Delft to Grotius. The Gro
titus statue. the church and the town hal
were profusely decorated with American
colors.
Hubo Grotius. iurist and scholar, wa.
born at Delft. Holland April 10, 1853. A
the age of II years he entered the Uni
versity of Leyden and ;hree years later at
tracted the attention of the king OF France
by his precocious learning: He was ap
pointed historiographer of Holland at i
years ol age anu WitIiii the next '"eiF'
years had given to the world severa
famous treatises, one on the antiquity o
the Batavian republic. another on the an
nails and history of Belgian affairs and sew
! eral works on legal subjects. He was fo
some time imprisoned at The Hague OF
| unfounded charges of conspiracy and wa
Irescued by stratagem of his wife in al
|, empty bookchest and fled to Paris. In hi
Imprisonment he was not idle. He mad
several well known transations of class
! literature and wrote his celebrated treats
on the truth Of Christianity. In 1884 he en-
, tered the service of Queen Christina, o
, Sweden, becoming her ambassador t.
/, France. He died August q, 1645