Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-05

| EGATlON TO THE PEACE CON
FERENCE, PAID A SCHOLARLY
TRIBUTE TO THE STATESMAN'S
MEMORY-A KINDLY REPLY BY
DR. DE BEAUFORT.
DELFT, HOLLAND, July 4.-There
was a picturesque and impressive cere-
mony at the Nieuve kirck this morn
ing. The church was filled with dele
gates, diplomats, high officials and la
dies. The ceremony began with a cho-
rus singing Mendelssohn's How Love-
ly are The Messengers That Bring us
Good Tidings of Peace" after which
A. P. G. VanKarnebeck, the former
minister at the head of the Dutch dele
cation at the peace conference. who
presided at to-day's ceremony. briefly
outlined its nature. He said:
Nowhere has the conference met
with heartier sympathy than in the U.
s., and it is as a token of this feeling
and in Acknowledgement of the recep-
ton 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
Grotius. In order to give this addition
al significance they have chosen for its
accomplishment their great national
feast day"
After the national hymn of the
Netherlands had been sung Andrew d.
White, the United States ambassador
to Germany and head of the American
delegation to the peace conference, In
a long, scholarly address, paid an elo-
quent tribute to Grotius, ito carry out
whose ideas are now assembled dele
gates from all nations"
Mr.. White added:
Il feel that my W 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 tomb of Grotius l seem to
hear a message to go on with the work
of Strengthening peace and humanizing
war and, above all, to give to the world
at least a beginning of al effective.
practical scheme of arbitration"
At the end of his address, Mr.. White
laid on the tomb of Grotius in behalf
of his colleagues, a wreath of silver
oak and laurel leaves, bearing the in
scription:
"To the memory of Hugo Grotius, on
the occasion of the peace conference
at The Hague, in reverence and graft
tude from the United States"
The wreath was three feet In diameter,
and was in a big beach case Qruaneuted
with silver. bearing the inscription: To
the government of the Netherlands, from
the United States, on the occasion of the
conference, 1899"
The names of the delegates to the peacs
conference follow.
The address of acceptance was made by
DR.. w. II. De Beaufort. the minister of
foreign affairs and president of the min
isterial council of the Netherlands.
"To-day's ceremony will make a deep
impression throughout the country. We
Hollanders are proud of our country, its
glorious history and the memory of our
great men. We are pleased to see them
appreciated by foreigners and the citizens
of a country for which we nav such re-
spect and regard. We are closely connect-
ed with the historical traditions of Amer
lea. The first settlers on the banks of the
Hudson were Hollanders. and we shall al
ways remember 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 is one of the
smallest. but we have one thing in COM
mon, which is that we both won our coun-
try and its independence by our "
valor."
In conclusion, DR.. De Beaufort said he
hoped to-day's ceremony and wreath would
act as a stimulus to future generations In
their exertions in behalf Of still further re-
forms in international law and that the
wreath would be an everlasting emblem
Of the historical friendship of America and
Holland.
President Seth Low. of Columbia Uni
versity, and a delegate to the conference,
in returning thanks. said:
do not make light of what we owe
to England, but we gladly believe we owe.
in a large measure, 10 the Dutch many Of
the things which we count as most
precious In our heritage"
The ceremony concluded with the sing
ing Of THE Star spangIed Banner"
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