The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-16
ARRIVAL OF BOER ENYOYS
BAND PLAYS THEIR NATIONAL
 HYMN AS THEY LAND.

NOt Disconeerted nt Recent Boer Ns-
 verscs--If This Government VIII Not
 Do as They L,ko They win Try to
 Arouse the People and SO Compel
 Official Recognition.
 New York, May 15,-The steamship
 Maasdam, with the peace envoys from
 the South African republics to the
 United States arrived here to-day from Rotterdam. The envoys, Messrs. Alp
 raham Fischer, J. M. A. Wolmarans and c. H. Vessels, were met by com
 mttee which went down the bay to gree
 them, and later were greeted by larger
 body of Boer sympathzers gathered on
 the pier at Hoboken, where the Maas-
 dam docked, The mayor of Hoboken
 extended a welcome to them, and the
 party then took carriages for the Hotel
 Manhattan in this city.
 When the committee which went
 down the bay arrived at the ship there were introductions all around, and then ex-Judge Van Hoesen said few words in welcome.
 MT. Fischer responded, saying: T thank you most heartily for this wei come which you have just extended to us. The warmth of welcome does not 1 lie in the length of words used, but in i deeds We believe that the American people will also extend to us hearty welcome. For ours is cause that is dear to their hearts. We are fighting 1 for our country. As soon as they come to understand our cause they will, be- | lieve. echo the welcome you have just l given us"
 | The Maasdam was saluted by harbor shipping on her way up. When the ship arrived at Hoboken, the pier was crowded with men and women waving the stars and stripes and the colors of the South African republics, band played patriotic airs from the pier head, and as the ship was being warped into her dock, the crowd shouted greetings to the envoys. As the envoys came down the gang way the band struck up the Boer National hymn, the crowd cheered and vessels near by footed a welcome.
 Mayor Pagan of Hoboken delivered an address and rendered the visitors the freedom of the city With the may or was a candidate of fifteen citizens of Hoboken, headed by Michael J. Coyle,
 I 4 c National Boer Relief Fund association, and Police Commissioner Lankering. treasurer of the local branch of the as- sociation. Mir. Fischer replied on behalf of the envoys.
 The envoys were then introduced to the Hoboken committee and to a con- mltteA of fifteen from New York, which was q part of the committee of 100 that were waiting a the Barclay street ferry to greet the envoys A procession was formed, headed by band Mayor Pagan and the Hoboken and New York committee formed the escort to the vis- itors who followed the carriages, ac- companied by gentlemen appointed as special escorts The procession passed through Washington street past the city hall to. the Barclay street ferry, where the envoys were taken in charge by the committee of 100, and the whole party crossed the ferry to New York. where the envoys were escorted to the Hotel Manhattan. Along the route from the Holland-American line dock to the ferry crowds gave an enthusiastic vel come to the envoys,
 The envoys were eager to hear the | latest news from the war. When told of the reverses to their arms and the | advances made by Lord Roberts they merely shrugged their shoulders. Such | news" said Mir. Fischer, "does not dis | concert us in the least We read these | dispatches between the lines; besides, | what difference does one or a dozen re- verses mean to us? We never propose to stop fighting until we have gained | our independence,
 The delegates were reticent concern ing their plans. MT. Fischer said: "We | cannot say anything which may hinder our cause. We should like to have the government arbitrate with England and we shall go to Washington and try to have an audience with Presi- dent Mckinley. If we cannot induce the government to do what we like we shall try to arouse the people so that they will compel the government to rec ognize us in that way"
 MT Fischer said that they would be largely guided by events as they hap pened. The reception committee has received invitations from the mayors of sixty towns and cities in the United States, and it is probable that the en- voys will visit many of these places.
 When asked as to the truth of the re- port that some of the Red Cross men were fighting in the Boer army Mir Fischer said; "Of this l know nothing, hough some may have joined our forces when they knew the truth. Some at aches who have gone down there to see IS fight have, when they saw us fight md knew the reasons of the war, said 70 us, Give us guns, for we want to fight with you
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