New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
GEL EBR4TED 4BRO-4D.
1me,1cans an London Honor the
National Holiday.


nv the American Society in honor OF "ashihs-
TONS Rirthasy was the occasion for brilliant
sssemblage the chief feature of which was the
welcome given TO d. r. Francis. formerly United
States Secretary of the Interior and president OIL
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and the
wishes of success to the exposition expressed
by the speakers.
The Duke of Devonshire and Lord LONDON
derry. members of the Cabinet. officially voiced
the good will of the British Government, whle
such representative Britishers as the Lord
Mayors of London and Bristol, the Lord Provost
of Glasgow, Lord Strathcona and Lord Roths-
child and several members of the House OF
Commons. Including Sir Charles Dixie. j. H.
Dalziel Sir Thomas Dewar, Sir Joseph Law
renee, Ebenezer Parkes. Sir Gilbert Parker ana
Joseph Walton, all gave expression TO 'heiA
hearty wishes. Among the we'll known Amer
cans present were Ambassador Choate. Consul
General Henry Clay Evans. Stanford Newell
Minister TO the Netherlands: John Barrett. T. w
Crider. Lord Fairfax. Melville f Stone. Mar
shall Halstead Colonel Hunsiker Halsey c.
Ives, Of the st. Louis Exposition; Captain Piper
deputy police commissioner. of New York; all
the United States Embassy staff and many for
eign representatives of the ST. Louis Exposition.
Sisnor Marconi also present, and received
a attention scarcely second to that paid to the
president of the St Louis Exposition.
The Duke of Devonshire. in proposing the
toast The President of the United States, re-
ferred to Mr. Roosevelt as man who had made
his mark as a successful Civil Service reformer,
a great administrator, gallant military leader
and an eminent statesman, in whom he saw an
intelligent and earnest friend of England:
Never in any previous times" said the Duke
of Devonshire. have Anglo American relations
been cordial Both peoples in fairly
good humor with themselves, and so it is un-
likely that they should be in bad humor with
each other. welcome the tendency on the part
of the United States to take larger and keener
interest in affairs outside the American CONT
nent."
Ambassador Choate. following in the same
strain, declared that any kind of on any
kind of subject between Great Britain and
America would be not only great calamity,
but unspeakable crime.
Mr. Francis eloquently described the motive
and scope of the st. Louis Exposition. He gave
detailed figures, Showing the care with which
the money was expended to make every phase
of the exhibition perfect and useful to the Euro
pean exhibitors and visitors, in short "a golden
milestone in the highway of human progress
and a coronation of civilization" He referred
TO the first great international exhibition In
London. Since then, Mr.. Francis continued
England has always been fully represented at
every universal exposition He urged that the
country should not be behindhand at St Louis
where he said, mo guest would be more wei
come / feel some delicacy in referring to our
consanguinity as motive which should lInpe
You to be an active participant at the feast OF
which your kinsmen the host Nor would II
be becoming in the president OF this universal
exhibition to designate as the seat OF honoT the
nlace at the table to be occupied by the mother
country. You need no assurance, however from
the exposition mana cement nor from the heau
of our government, nor from the American peo-
nile that no one could honor us more nor any
one be given precedence over you We reel
lust .1ed in predicting that the attendance at tne
exhibition will not only be universal <rom Wlthlh
the limits of our country. extensive and popuious
as II is but that the citizens OF every clVlilZeu
country in the globe will visit us in representa-
tive numbers attracted as they will be not only
nv the merit of the exhibition, BIT bE Inc ue-
sire 10 see in their own abode a people VINO
within the last half decade have started OUT
,,non a new policy, taken up new problems ana
assumed new responsibilities. people whose
exannle and influence command and merit op-
seryance and study. people whose reputauonm II
for bospitality is wholesouled and proNerpiai.
Jobn Barrett proposed the health OF the brit-
ish exhibitor" ~-,, 1oh~
lord Londonderry and Sir EDWARD Johh
rox-nter president of the Royal ACADEMY. re
1lied nromising their assistance IN making 'ne
British exhibit success