The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-23
NorABLE DINNER IN NEW YORK.
Prominent Men speak-A Toast TO
Queen Victoria.

| New York. Dec. 22.-Five hundred
persons sat down to the fourteen long
| tables in the banquet hall of the Wal
! dorf tonight, the occasion being the
ninety-fourth annual festival of the
New England society of New York.
Former Judge Henry e. How!and pre-
sided at the dinner. Among those who
sat at the raised dais with him as
guests of honor were: Rear Admiral
W. T. Sampson, Governor Roger VOL
colt of Massachusetts, Major General
Wesley Merritt, U. S. A., Hon. John
Barrett, former minister of the United
States to Siam; Captain French e.
Chadwick, U. S. NJ; Colonel Charles A.
Woodruff, U. S. A.; Prof William r.
Terrett, Rev. DR.. William Fl. p Faunce,
president of Brown university; Hon.
Cornelius N. Bliss, president of the New
England society from 1SS7-1SS9 j. Pier
pont MongarA president of the New Eng
land, 1SS91S91; Charles C. Beaman
president of the New England society
1SS5-1SS7; Arthur F. Bowers and Henry
l.. Stoddard
The toasts were: "The President Of
the United States;" "Forefathers'
Day" Prof. w. r. Terrett Of Hamilton
college; "Our Reunited Country" Prof.
w. G. McCabe of Richmond, Va; "The
Army" Colonel c. Fl. Woodruff, U. S.
A; "The Navy" Rear Admiral w. T.
Sampson, u S. A.; THE New England
and the Land Augustus Thomas;
"The New Pacific" Hon. John Barrett.
Judge Henry E. Howland, who acted
as toastmaster, said in his remarks
ho +5x 20
past year when the friendship of the
mother country and this has been so
strongly cemented I wish to say that
in her hour of trouble it would be well
to drink to that eminent woman. the
queen Of England and the empress of
India" To the air God Save the
Queen" the toast was drunk
Oliver Wendell Holmes also spoke
saying in part: I'VE believed it was best
that the north should win. and we be-
lieved that those who stood against us
had just as sacred convictions that
We're the opposite of ours and we re-
spected them That is the reason why
the old Confederate soldiers love and
honor New England who believe in us
and our sincerity when so large part
of the rest of the nation professed to
doubt and mistrust."
Hon. John Barrett spoke on "The New
Pacific" In concluding he said: In
my hand L hold warning and message
to the American people whoch came to
me during the last month in the form
of letter from this hero whom | not
only admired and loved, but had often
seen on the firing line From his lone
J,y in, t-S rp in
the jungle, like the voice of one crying
in the Wilderness yet ever cheerful and
persistent, he wrote: I would to God
that the truth of this whole Philippine
situation could be known by every one
in America as I know 1t. If the real
inspiration and condition of this
insurrection and the influences, local 4
and external, that now encourage the
enemy, as well as the actual possibilities
of these islands and peoples and their
relations to this great east, could be
at home, we would hear no
more talk of unjust shooting of govern
ment into the Filipinos, or Of hauling
down our flag in the Philippines. If the
so-called anti-imperialists would hon
estly ascertain the truth on the ground
and not in distant America they, whom
[ believe to be honest men misinformed.
would be convinced of the error of their
statements and conclusions and Of the
effects Of their publications
here. If am shot by the Filipino bull
let it might as well come from one of
my own men, because / know from OBJ
confirmed by captured pris-
oners that the continuance of fighting |
IS chiefly due to reports that are sent |
out from America Who can question |
the honesty of opinion voiced by this /
fearless noble soldier whom all the ma /
lion mourns? Without political ambi- |
ion and with no object or purpose be-
yond that of faithfully serving his coun-
.ry, he speaks out the blunt, sincere
feelings that welled up\ from his big
leart and are confirmed by intimate ac-
luaintance with the facts he unselfish-
y discusses"