New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-12
GIVE DINNER TO A. d. WHITE
GERMAN CABINET AND MEMBERS OF
THE REICHSTAG DO HONOR TO
THE EX-AMBASSADoR.

Berlin Nov. 11.-Members of the Cabinet and
of the Reichstag scientists, authors. Journal
lists fnanciers and manufacturers. comprising
as representative assemblage as Berlin has
seen in years, gave a dinner tonight at the
Kaiserhof I'm honor of ex-Ambassador Andrew
.. White. Home Secretary Posadowsky-Weh-
ner presided. Among the two hundred guests
present were Ministers Won Richthofen, MoeIer
and Studt. Professors Mommser Haruack Wal
deyer. Bergman. Vanthoff, Schneider. Wagner
Slaby. Pheiderer and Won Halle, Herr Knaus,
the painter, and Herr Cechtrz, the sculptor:
Herren Paasche. Barth. Gothein and Pachncke.
members Of the Reichstag; Chief Burgomaster
Kirchner and Herren steinthal. Koch. Mankie
wicz. Guttmann. Goidberger Dornburg and ISL
dore Loewe. inanclers. Among the Americans
present were John Babcock jr. ". ]. Clark.
T. w Cridler. C. W. Kohlsaat Joseph Brucker.
T. I. Sprague, Consul General Mason and Amert-
can consus from all parts Of Germany. The
tables were set in the same hall. used twenty
years ago. on the occasion OF a similar dim
ncr for Mr.. White.
Count Won Posadowsly- Wehner IN proposing
the healths Of Emperor William and President
Roosevelt spoke Of the Emperor's great admra-
ton for the magnificent development OF the
United States: commended the vigor with which
President Roosevelt had conducted the affairs
their administration, and praised Mr.. Whites
unusually mertorious services to his country
abroad. Professor Harnack. In proposing Mr..
Whites health, said
Representatives OF every variety of German
public life here. but we are only a sflaIi
portion of those throughout Germany VINO feel
reverence for you. We beg you to widen THESE
walls 10 the boundaries of the empire.
Continuing Professor Harnack eulogized the
spirit Of Mr. Whites work on the conflict or
science and theology, and said that the Prussian
Academy of Sciences proud TO number the
author of this book among its members lie
said:
Scholars are seldom diplomats, and diplomats
are seldom scholars, but you stand on the Hs1
with wilhelm Won Humboldt Niebuhr, ban
croft and Waddington The United states. like
Germany has it's face turned toward the hght
Germany looks with intense interest on the
G. 7 ouiq Fair as an iustra ton of American
economic and intellectual progress Germany
intends TO show the Americans the advances she
has made since the Chicago Exposition as Wen
a 10 learn what the United states mas done
during this period.
While Mr. White spoke in reply to Count Won
PosadovsI1y- Wehner and Professor Harnack
Professor Mommsen left his seat and stood at
Mr.. Whites side. listening to every word he
said and nodding his head in approval Pro-
fessor Mommsen presented an extraordinary
figure with his long white hair falling over an
Old-faShlOned DrOdd linen tOlidIs dud IT'S boS'iAl
covered with decorations from all countries. Mr..
White said:
As | look over this assemblage representing
So much that gives strength and honor not only
10 this city but to the Empire; as l recall the
personal assurances which have been made TO
me and the greetings which have COME to me
during the past week. not only from Germans
at home but from Germans beyond the seas.
I can only thank you all. both those present
and those absent. from the depth of my heart.
and assure you that so long as my life shall last
the remembrance of these days will remain
among my most precious possessions.
Continuing Mr. White said that during the
life and death struggle of the American Union.
Germany was the nation. which. through
all classes of society took the side of the Union,
while everywhere else in Europe hostile feelings
were expressed and malignant prophecies were
made. Germany understood the deep meanings
of the contest and gave its aid through SYM
pathy with the Union. Therefore" said Mr.
White when some of my fellow citizens en-
deavored 10 reproach Germany with anti Ameri-
can feeling In the more recent military struggle
in which my country was engaged with another
power | reminded them that this more recent
estrangement was infinitely outweighed by the
fact that in the struggle for our very existence
one nation Germany. stood by through evil
and good report"
For the remainder OF his speech he interpreted
America to the Germans and sought to give
them views of the United States which are sell
dom expressed here.