New-York tribune., 1900-11-27
GENERAL HOWARD IT'S GUEST
DIR ABBOTT AND OTHERS SPEAK
AT BROOKLYN CONGREGA-
TIONAL CLUB DINNER.

Major General q. O. Howard was the guest Of
honor last evening at the November meeting of
the Congregational Club of Brooklyn at the Pouch
Gallery in Clinton-aVe. After dinner recep
tion was given for the General The Rev. Dr. +.
p. IngersoL president of the club. presided at the
meeting.
General Howard. being introduced. thanked
the members for his cordial reception and for the
ChautauQua salute with which ne was welcomed
He said that he did not expect any of his friends
help him in any way directly but he would like
have them help him indirectly. Then. in ex-
panation the General spoke of the work done for
the elevation Of the negro race, and said that at
institutions in the South last year there were
graduated three thousand coored students. He
asked each OF his hearers to tell somebody VINO
was not present to send HIM check for Howard
University. The General. after giving interesting
military "reminiscences, paid tribute to the Ameri-
can Navy. which had been thoroughly dsc-
plined that Victories had been gained almost with
out loss OF life.
Major-GeHeral Brooke. commanding the Depart
ment OF the Atlantic praised General Hownr!, re-
called his own early experience in fighting Indians
and said that since then when opportunity had
come 10 the Army Santiago, il had electrified the
world by its discipline and vaIor. Mllitarism. de-
cared General Brooke, had no place in the hearts
of American soldiers That was Il bogl
Rear Admiral Barker commandant ~ the Brook
lyn Navy Yard. said that with the approach Of
Thanksgiving one OF the things to be thankful for
was that the election past and there
Oregon to South American ports after the spa
war. Before the war Americans there were treated
with indifference. If not in some cases with con
tempt. After the they honoced. Admiral
Barker declared that he had always regarded Gen
eral Howard a typical Puritan of the nineteenth
century. with all the virtues of that character
of its faults Speaking OF the Spanish war
Admiral Barker said:
We thought going to right the wrongs
of Cuba, but the sword also smote the enemies of
Porto Rico and reached the Philippines. bring
the Stars and Stripes. War IS not altogether
evil. A righteous war is good. Ask the Americans
abroad what they think OF it; ask yourselves what
influence we should have in China if = had
been successful i'll the last
The Rev. Dr. W S Hubbell chaplain of the
New-York Commandery of the Loyal Legion then
told some amusing stories. Iio was followed bv
the Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott who said that # all
war was wrong. then such names as Brandywinr
and Gettysburg of shame and the
names of Washington, Greene. Farragut, Grant
sherman and Brooke be hon
Ored. but to be forgotten The lighting qualities
was laWlesSneSS in the world there must be brave
men 10 battle against it, There would be
stronger city of NewIork If there were burning
sense or Indignation and a capacity among citizens
10 be angry. that the VilenesS of the city would
be burned mp. as by the very flaming fire OF hell
min F. Blair
The report Of the committee appointed TO draft
memorial resolutions regarding the Rev DR.. Rich
read and adopted The resolutions spoke OF Dr.
Storrs one of the greatest citizens Brooklyn
and the founder of the Congregational denomna-
there.
Among those present were the Rev. DR. II. p
Dewey, the Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Lewis Francis
George p. Stockwell Mr.. and Mrs Isaac II. Cary
Mr., and Mrs. \; 6. Brinckerhon and the Rev.
Sydney Herbert Cox.