The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-04
WORLD WIDE.
Americans Celebrating All Over
the Globe.
Stars and Stripes Floating to
the Breeze In
EUROPEAN CAPITALS.
London Business Houses Close
In Honor of the Day.
Peace Congress Participates In
a Notable Ceremony.

London, July 4-The Americans abroad
are celebrating the Fourth with great
enthusiasm. The American flag is dis
played in nearly every capitol of Eu-
rope.
In Berlin many members of the Amer
lean colony are starting on a special
steamer for picnic on the river Spree.
There viii be dancing and fireworks in
the evening.
The embassies in Berlin, Paris, Rome
and other continental centers gave re-
ceptiOns.
erous ard many Of the business houses
closed to allow the employees holiday.
AT GROTIUS' TOMB.
Delft, Holland, July 4-There was a
picturesque and impressive ceremony
at the Nieuve Kirck this morning. The
church was filled with delegates, diplo-
mats, high officials and ladies. The GER
emOny began with a chorus singing
MendelssOhn's How lovely are the mes
sem .ers that bring good tidings OF
peace, after which a. p. c. Van Karne-
beck. the former minister of the head of
the Dutch delegation peace conference
who presided at tOday's ceremony, brief
ly outlined its nature. He said:
Nowhere has the conference met
with heaTtier sympathy than in the
United States and it is a token of this
feeling and acknowledgement of the re-
ceptjOn of the conference by the Neither
lands that the American delegates, in
the name of their government desire to
pay tribute to the memory of Hugo
Grokius. In order to give this additional
sigr lficance they have chosen for it's
accomplishment their great national
feast day"
After the national hymn of the heNether-
lands had been sung Andrew D. White,
the sUnited States ambassador to Ger
many, and head of the American dele
cation to the peace conference, in a long
address, paid an eloquent tribute to
GrOfius, "tO carry out whose ideas are
a n q
After tracing GrOttus work and the
erect of mis- ideas, Mr.. White said:
'.Frsm this tomb Of Grotius I seem to
hear a message to go on with the work
of strengthening peace and humanizing
war and, above all, to give the world
at least s. beginning of an effective
practical scheme of arbitration
Att the end of his address Mr. White
laid on the tomb of Grotius, in behalf
of his cole agues, a wreath of silver oak
and laurel leaves, bearing the inscrip-
tione:
TO the memory of Hugo Grotius, on
the occasion of the peace conference at
The Hague, in reverence and gratitude
from the United States"
The wreath was three feet in diane
ter and was in a big beech case orna-
mented with silver, bearing the inscrip-
ton
To the government of The Neither
lands from the United States, on the
occasion of the conference 1899.''
The names of the delegates to the
of acceptance was made by D. W. H.
DeBeaufOrt, the minister of foreign af-
fairs and president of the ministerial
cOuEcil Of the Netherlands. He said:
''TOday's ceremony will make a deep
impression to the country. We Hol-
landers are proud of our country, its
ancient history and the memory of our
great men. We are pleased to see
citizens of a country for which we have
such respect and regard We are close
ly connected with the historical tradi-
tions of America. The first settlers on
the banks of the Hudson were Holland
ers and we shall always remember
with a certain pride that it was a
Dutch captain who first saluted the
stars and stripes. Today we salute your
star spangled banner in our own coun-
try Your country is one of the largest
in the world, ours is one of the small
est; but we have one thing in common,
which is tnat we both won our country
and its independence by our own val
orr
In conclusion, Dr.. DeBeaufort said
he hoped koday's ceremony and wreath
would act as a stimulus to future gen
erations III their eXertions in behalf of
still further reforms in international
law and that the wreath would be an
everlas sting emblem of the historical
friendship of America and Holland.
President Seth Low, of Columbia un-
iversity aud a delegate to the confer
ence, in returning thanks said:
I'VE do not make light of what we
owe to England, but we gladly admit
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