New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
LEGAL AID SOCIETY DIMES.
VICE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND
OTHERS SPEAK AT THE TWEEN
TY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION

The Legal Aid Society celebrated its twenty
fifth anniversary last night with dinner the
Waldorf-Astorfa. Over two hundred men and
women sat about the thirty tables in the broad
banquet hail. and during the speeches the galleries
were comfortably filled
At the guests table sat George Won Skal, Alfred
Geissler. German Consult j r. Planten. Consul
General of the Netherlands; E.. Bruwaert Consul
General of France; Paul Dana, Joseph NJ. Deuel..
Rear-Admiral Francis ]. Higginson. Arthur Won
Briesen, Charles s. Fairchild, Vice-President
Roosevelt. the Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott. ST. Clair
McKelway. John Kendrick Bangs. w. Teplow. Con-
sul-General of Russia: j. W. Clark and Louis
windmiiIler
Letters read from Justice H. Brown. of
the Suprems Court of the United States; Sir Percy
Sanderson. British Consul-GeneraI: X. Buenz Ger
man Consul-General: Christian Ravn. Swedish Con-
sui. and NJ Dessewffy. Austrian Consul-GeneraL
Charles s. Fairchd. ex-Secretary of the Treas
ury made the Introductory address. and said in
part:
We have mot tonight in this agreeable way to
give our aid and approval to one of the great works
for good in this city; Some one said New-Yor
In every direction that we turn we find some force
of those forces which does the most good to cur
civic life. II secures justice TO the people 1t
man. man because he is man, It teaches them to qn-
simply because they are their rights
Arthur Won Briesen. president Of the society
gave a brief history OF the work In which he had
shared for many years. telling how it had grown
out of desire TO protect German immigrants
of the decade immediately following the Civil
War
To-day this immigrant is safe" he said. Laws
have been framed for his protection largely
through the efforts Of the officers OF the German
Legal Aid Society
The speaker told how branches OF the society
had been created for the and for the poorer
communities of the East Side. until two hundred
thousand persons, in way other. were
reached by the society He added that In New
Jersey. in Boston. Baltimore and Philadelphia, So
cieies similar the New-York institution had been
organized He believed that In cme hundreds of
such societies would spring up throughout the
country.
our Country" was the subject of the toast
sponded 10 by vice-President Roosevelt, who said
In part:
It is entirely fitting to have the toast Our Couni
of the work done by this society. There is never
away conditions which we would. perhaps, have
liked TO have seen obtain permanently. Inc tnlng
CURED and TO meet them. our concentrated indus
trial development has brought US face to face with
pIishment II we do not remember that the duty OF
each is the duty to his neighbor as well as the
AS Police Commissioner learned OF the practi-
cal good done by this society. The State can do
but a limited share in the betterment of peo-
pie. Much remains 10 individuals. working either
SVsS We have pretty dificult problems TO solve in
municipal and national government we can only
solve them by treating with justice each man. oy
treating each man on his merits as man. This
society recognizes in each man such, to
be given his rights SUCH and to be held 70
rigid accountability in the interests OF his fellow
citizens as to the way in which he exercises those
rights.
Other toasts were: "The Seaman-His Rights
and wrongs" Rear-Adniral Francis J. Higginson;
Home Messages" consuIs OF foreign countries;
..Prhlic Opinion" ST. Clair McKelway: Charity
the Rev DIR. Lyman Abbott. and The Poor and
Their Champions for Justice" Judge Joseph NJ
Deuel.
Among those present were Jacob II. Schif Mrs
wetz. Carl schurz. a Won Brtesen DE- A Ja6ooL 9,o
and party OF eight Mrs Isaac Seligman. Mrs. and
Miss L. Windmtler. Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Blur.
Mr. and Mrs Horace Z. Deming Francis Lynde
StetsOn. James r. Reynolds. John De Witt Warner;
George c. Bodt ex-Judge DittenhOefer. United
States Commissioner John \. Shields, George Nc
Aneny Professor L. A. McLouth, the Rev. Walter
a A. Gardner, w Il. Hornblower and Rudolph
Keppler.