The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-24
MILES SPEAKS IN NEW YORK
c UEST ATTHE ANNUAL DINNER OF
 NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY,
IM Response to tho Toast "The Army and the Navyn He Refrains from Any Reference to tho SchIoy Inqutry-Ad- mtral Barker Also speaks--Governor Mclean Speaks to the Toast "Conne cti- cut and the Puritan.o

New York, Dec. 2S.-Members of the
 New England Society in the city of
 New York tonight gathered at the
 Waldorf Astoria for their Seth annual dinner. It closed with the installation of Edward Clarence Stedman, as pres ident of the society. About 800 guests and members were in attendance. Will jam E. Dodge, president of the society,
 was the toastmaeter. On his right sat Governor George P. Mclean of Con- necticut, and his left Mayor elect Seth Low. Lieut. Gen. Nelson Miles was also a guest.
 The lists of toasts and those who re- sponded to them were:
 "Forefathers Day." President Faunce, of Brown University; Connecticut and the Purit itan," Governor Mclean; New England Sentiment in New York" Mayor elect Low; "The Puritan as an Idealist" the Rev. Dr. Greer; ."The Army and Navy and Our Sister So- cieties'' were other toasts on the list.
 Gen. Miles speaking to the toast 1.-The Army and Navy" said:
 'rhe history of the army and navy has been written in crimson letters on every field and on every scene for more than a hundred years. We notice on this beautiful programme a scene of distress, of suffering. And yet in the pioneers of our day we have witnessed scenes like this, of distress, of suffering of o,,1 i,, oo1y nf and navies we have witnessed scenes of distress and suffering and desola- tion. Yet in this toast that you read you have said that the army and navy have maintained the honor and charac- ter of our government at every camp and on every scene where the army has camped and where the navy has sailed, and I rejoice to be representa- tive of that force and rejoice that the army and navy have been enabled to maintain the character, the ideas and principles of New England and of our great republic"
 Admiral Barker referred to the fact that John Adams was father of the American navy, and, continuing, he said:
  brought the proud pirates of the Med- iterranean to their knees to sue for mercy from this infant republic It | was a son of New England who taught | the robbers of Sumatra to respect the | Stars and Stripes. It was a son of New l England who gained the glorious vic- | tory on Lake Erie. It was son of 1 New England who took his ship to the | Pacific long, long ago and fought one of | the most desperate battles. It was a son of New England who opened Japan without firing a gum
 Governor Mclean came next. He | said in part:
 Tt took the May1ower long time to cross the Atlantic, but she arrived at least one hundred years ahead of the bloody calendar of the Stuarts, perhaps ! lSl wears behind the charity and toiel- ation of the day, but we must remember that we may be 200 years behind the charity and brotherly love of the year 2101. The Puritan came to America for individual liberty and he got it for himself. He came here for Freedom of and blazed his way to Zion with the axe of the 1issenter, and the nan who lost that trail found trouble.
 Our forefathers walked in the path 'evealed to them by such light as they lad. If it was a dim light, and they walked to the left sometimes. they stood ID straight and they feared nothing. The light is brighter to-day and the 'oad is smoother, and sometimes we ,hink we stop and trouble too much.. l.