New-York tribune., 1902-07-18
MR.. REID AT LIVERPOOL,
SPEECH BEFORE CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE WELL RECEIVED.


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Especial to The New-York Tribune by French Cabel
Liverpool July 1S / a. ma graceful COM
pliment was paid to the United States in the
remarkable sympathetic reception of the Special
Envoy TO the coronation at Liverpool TODAY.
He was met at the station by the leading men,
bers of the American Chamber of Commerce,
organized a century ago. and welcomed to the
city. The pretty little daughter of ]. n. Stol-
terfoht, the treasurer of the chamber, presented
a bouquet Of roses to Mrs. Reid, and. as her
father and grandfather stood behind her. three
generations were represented in the act, SYM
bolizing the commercial good feeling between
Liverpool and New-York.
Mr. Reid conducted from the hotel in
the Lord Mayors carriage to Halls Exchange
and the News and the Cotton Exchange. accord
ing to the custom by which Mr.. Gladstone, Lord
Rosebery and other famous visitors have been
honored. and he made in each instance short
speech which heartily received by large
assemblage. although he had not expected this
demonstration of good feeling,
A we'll attended reception at the Town Hall
followed these hastily improvised greetings. and
both Mr.. Reid and Mrs. Reid stood with the
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress while hundreds
of the best known people of Liverpool were
presented.
admirably conducted in the evening
at the Adephi Hotel. and was feast of inter-
national good feeling. The most conspicuous
decoration in the hall a portrait of James
Maury, who was the United States Consul from
the days of Washington to 1929. representing
America in England for over forty years. Con-
sui General Evans and Consul Boyle, who
present might we'll have been encouraged by
this object lesson in the permanence of consular
dignity in the olden days
The dining room was crowded with the most
distinguished merchants of Liverpool. and the
speaking unusually spirited.
After loyal toasts had been proposed by the
chairman, r. s. Hannay. President ROosevelts
health drunk with remarkable enthusiasm.
Lord Derby then proposed the health of Mr..
Reid in singularly felicitOus and appreciatve
speech, in which references were made to his
double function at the Victorian Jubilee and at
the coronation. his honorable career in Aneri-
can public life. and also to the conduct of the
American Government in paying the highest
tribute in its power to Lord Pauncefote.
Mr.. Reid received with rounds OF ap-
plause and with the hearty singing of For he's
jolly good fellow" His speech made deep
impression and followed from beginning to
end with the closest possible attention. His
first point a grateful note of appreciation
of the tribute paid to Mr.. Roosevelt, whom all
America delighted to honor, and after it came a
reference to Lord Pauncefote. who had been
first received under Mr.. Reid's own roof in
America. and whose body had been brought
back to England the Brooklyn which had
represented the United States at the Jubilee
naval parade. Hearty cheers followed his eu-
logium of the King. and his reference to the
magnanimity of the peace which had brought
the war in South Africa to an end and had con-
verted foes into fellow countrymen
There intense curiosity when Mr.. Nor
gan's name was mentioned. and after the deli
cate subject of shipping interests had been dealt
with in common sense way, there hearty
applause when the conclusion was reached that
the safety of a neutral fleet was not imperilIed
by combinations and that the solidarity of the
Anglo-Saxon race would prevail in the moral
progress of the world.
The speech abounded in tactful references to
the municipal efficiency of the government and
the commercial stability of Liverpool and was
citation and approval being rounded out at its
close with chorus of bravOs.
Consul General Evans proposed a toast to the
trade of Liverpool with fervor and fuency and
enthusiastically greeted. Gray HILL one of
the best Shakespearian reciters in England Of
fered most felictously toast TO the guests
and General Joseph Wheeler and Sir Edward
Russell responded with stirring eloquence. Con-
sui Boyle also spoke vigorously. and a most en-
joyabe evening, brimming with interna-
tional amity brought to close.
Lord Invercyde. DR.. Watson, the Bishop of
Liverpool Monsignor Nugent and the nephew
of Mr.. Gladstone among the prominent