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ANGLo-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP.
Dinner of Pilgrim Club to Ambassador
Choate.

London. March S.-The Pilgrim club
gave banquet tonight in the Hyde
Park hotel to United States Ambassa-
dor Choate to celebrate the completion
of his fourth year as ambassador to the
Court of st. James. Over one hundred
and fifty guests were present. Earl
Roberts presided and two stalwart In
dians in native costume announced the
guests, who were received on their ar
rival by the earl.
The diners were seated at small ta-
bIes. On Earl Roberts right sat Am
bassador Choate, while at the same ta-
BILE were Lord Chancellor Halsbury,
Stanford Newell, United States minis
ter to the Netherlands; Baron Strath-
coma, the Canadian high commissioner;
Lord Reay, Lord Farquhar, Lord Grey
and the Archdeacon of London. Near
by United States Secretary of Embassy
Henry White, Lord Aberdeen, Sir Glenn
ents r. Markham, Earl Cadogan, Lind
say Russell, the organizer of the Pill
grim club here and in New York; JUS
tice Darling, General Power Palmer
and General Sir William Nicholson
were grouped together.
One of the most interesting tables
was that at which Signor Marconi,
Lord Kelvin, Lord Charles Beresford,
United States Naval Attache Captain
Glover and Lord Deerhurst discussed
science and naval and wireless telegra-
ply matters. Lord Claud Hamilton sat
at the next table, with the attorney
general, Reginald Ward, and Sir Law
renee Alma Tadema for vis-a-vis.
Beside General Remington, the great
South African scout, sat the rough rid
er Craig Wadsworth, and the United
States military attache, Captain Cas-
satt. The American artist, Shannon,
Lawrence Townsend, United States
minister to Belgium; Lord Kinnaird, j.
Henniker Heaton, Consul General
Evans, Louis Hay. William Hazard,
president of the American Polo associ-
alton; Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Francis
Burnand, Sir Thomas Sanderson, Sir
Howard Vincent, Sir Edward J. Poyn-
ter, the Hon. Hedworth Lambton, Lord
Fairfax, Thomas Cridler, Viscount st.
Cyres, John Barrett, C. Schiff, Hamil-
ton Mccormick, of Chicago, all the
members of the United States embassy
staff and the majority Of the leading
members of the American colony in
London were present.
Earl Roberts, the chairman, in pro-
posing the toast of .'The President of
the United States and King Edward
VII" said that Mr.. Roosevelt was the
president Of the most enterprising re-
public that the world had ever seen,
and that King Edward was the sover-
eign of an empire on which the sun
never sets. Their most earnest desire
was that America and Great Britain
should continue to prosper and bourish,
and that they might ever continue the
same fast friends. The toast was drunk
with enthusiasm, the orchestra playing
God Save the King" and 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner"
Earl Roberts then in a graceful
speech proposed 1.-THE Guest of the
Evening"" He dilated on the two ma
tons growing regard for each other
during Mr.. Choate's ambassadorship.
Mr.. Choate in a happy response, said
that no warrior ever donned the garb
of pilgrim with more grace than when
the foremost soldier in Great Britain
put off the sword to lead the holy
palmers he saw around him to great
triumph of peace, more glorious than
any victory of war. 1t was great and
clear indication to the world, he con-
tinued, that the greatest soldier was the
greatest peacemaker. and that the
armies and navies of Great Britain and
the United States, to whatever propor-
tions they might grow, would never be
turned against each other. (Cheers)
He wished to propose a reciprocity
treaty to Lord Roberts, namely, that
Lord Roberts should cross the Atlantic
and dine with the Pilgrims of the Unit
ed States He could assure him
warmer welcome than any Englishman
had ever received.
Congratulating the Pilgrim club on
it's marked and sudden success, Mr..
Choate disclaimed for himself the credit
of keeping alive the flame of friendship
between the two countries. 1t was the
outcome, he said, of the popular will
on both sides, and so far as his OBJ
servation and experience extended it
Lord Lansdowne, who by their uniform
candor, their fairness and friendliness
had done all in their power to promote
no tonly peace but cordial warm and
hearty relations between the two gov
ernrnents. On the other side it was
equally due to the late President Nc
Kinley, President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Hay, to say nothing of the late
Lord Pauncefote, whose name was a
household word in America, and his
successor, Sir Machael Herbert, who so
quickly stepped into his shoes and into
the enjoyment of the same hearty
good will as his distinguished prede-
cessor. Ambassador Choate went on to
pay a striking tribute to King Edward,
who, he said, had not let any oppor-
tunity go by without living up to the
precedent created by Queen Victoria
when she said 81 will sign nothing
which will lead to breach between us
and America"
Mr.. Choate said he was deeply
touched when he heard that King Ed
ward last week had voluntarily offered
to send Queen Victoria's jubilee pres
ents to the st. Louis exposition, and
not only by the offer itself but by the
terms in which the offer was made,
which were as follows:
IT know with what feelings of regard
and reverence the people of the United