New-York tribune., 1901-12-07
THE ST. NICHOLAS DINNER.
THOMAS p. REED AND MAYoR-ELECl
TOW PRAISE THE DUTCHMEN.

~. ,,,o,.n+ a7eathercock from the Stadt Hus of
>reuArnsterdam occupied the place OF horor al the
,.,,s seventh annual dinner OF the St Nlcholas So
-, AZ Delnonicos last night The dining hall
- decorated with fes:oons of orange ribbon. and
oss the balcony stretched the banner OF
T1,uard a gift the st. Nicholas Society from
13arI G; Thebaud. On the dais sat President Stuy-
esr- Fish Thomas B. Reed, Rear Admiral A B
rs-kar L s n; Frederic De Peyster, John r.
1o1srten, consul general OF the Netherlands Mich
,.s Fish General Thomas II. Hubbard. w Butler
To,ncan Justice James A. O'Gorman, Robert H.
--eee and General 7. L. James
r-ba exercises Of the evening opened by the
s,o-1ary ceremony of escorting the weathercock.
=, s-r7bol of the St Nicholas Society, TO the dais-
I,o-ne by a servant in ancient Dutch costume. fol-
,o,ed by several coored funkeys wearing the Nv
- If St Nicholas and guard Of honor OF the
vards of the society the venerable bird was
carried through the ran ana piaceu III Iioi' VI
President Fish.
AFTER the weathercock had been turned toward
p-esidenr Fish Mr.. Fish introduced Thomas B.
Reed who said in part:
Ny with saints isa5 nyi9E ibsv or dead 5ei s is
RAJ the toast usually, in this society, given
the speaker. so that he might Know %na' 20 aEo'G G
good for anything who IS not lnstTuctiEe. den0e;
i was 10 saSf Hsi+a- If him Very merry so far
c could see. One of the two, with half a dozen
ohers stood as patron saint to mold up rnne
While Rlgia 9l in asa and Dutchmen ali the
and ana which goes to show our saint is the
stronger O. the TWO, or else that s"eoeh i 'he
What land could such patron saint belong TO- II
not 10 Holland, the land Of dikes ana OF slortS t
and wtndrnils? Under the patronage of what d otne
saint sia ,nS any fbeY live in from the very jaws OF
the ocean itself? They did not neae1y hv the TOOK
charge Of the ocean itself, and made IL thelr Pi0
tec[o[ & ber @ Courage as soldiers the history OF the
world Is full from the days whep me 5Tneror
-riS
holding at bay the enbatted arres @ toT 81 @ of your
yrs--iors would be 10 repeople the oat'ieIieiuS -
bst Strange thing that the saint s q those
stem @ Old fighters Of the sea, Of those grim oa wsT
rlors On shs sd tough cid sailors should be also
.be saint Of little children and light up lne .. 1o.
holds Of lanet t,I lar - 81 Nicholas had stayed at
hone We should not have been s1unG a3 When he
e--esT +he smoke of his pipe over MaIlha,Itn a. 49,
m. ne b Icr our hearts forever and ever he dlo
not bUIid any better than he knew re @+,,-e ~ must
sat 5 si nfenG ngaGGga ont FE before 1 him R thar 10
f ESS 81 M Civ wI.ch shall oJItsne the world He
Ins ~ that a. the years rolled by, he should see
the gsrnere9 og- p the long island of Manhattan
spreading from ts kor,h ~, e,,e of eli the
.rrhty thrcns % vigorous men thns ae count!ess
streets by the stately palaces by the Iaign.s and
bcDsea fiiIe6 with ths products OF All !dLi7. TT
5s , iag sy t fioos Of The Children ef q Nicholas
roII-srr their yigor ard love Of liberty INTO to
blood cf al the ratsons Of the earth
AT tie close OF Mr.. Reeds speech the foho"iiis
tosse r., President Roosevelt was read:
Ora s,,.. believing ssroDg minded man is worth
a hTndreS ray q thousand men without . cIaI
acfer ard the right viii give psriliftiieiie
drecison to the fortunes of the State
This was followed by a toast 20 Governor ooeiA
and then Mayor-elect Seth Low was escorteo To
the dais by Paul G. Thebaud- .
Afr Low responded to the toast 'Our Si'y.
1T recaJl- be said that when Irving began nls
-y<u,ckertocker's History Of Ne~-York be felt
Obliged to go back the creation because IL tnere
Rad been no creation there would have peen 10
history of New-YorA- In a similar vein we nave 10
congratulate ourselves that there were DutchIaen
<o- If there had been no Dutchuen there WouIo
have been no city OF New-York
Nr Low spoke OF his experiences ID 'oit
htIe a delegate at the Peace Conference at me
Hague and said that the same oeraocrdtic SpIIit
thai characterized America to be found among
the Dutch 49, . . .,.,oa
In closing Mr. Low said; It not yet emitted
20 sneak for New-York but If may anticipate that
hC-or T srouId say Thank God for the Dutch
Nr Low was followed by the Rev Ernest M;
et1res who responded TO the toast our Country
John R. Planten. Consul-GenersI of the Nether-
founders of New-Arsterdarn-" At the close OF
General Planters speech the health OF Queen WI,
Selr1ina ot Holland was drunk Major tIensTai
Ioh1 r Brooke was TO respond 20 the toast. tne
Amy but WAS not able to attend Rear admiral
a s Barker spoke for The Navy. The last
toast Of the evening was 70 the REPRESENTATIVES oi
tie various societies present