New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
Gel LEBR4IED AbhO-dD'
.tne,fcaus IN London Honor the
National Holiday.

n.
h,, the American Society in honor Of Wasning-
80 birthday WAS the occasion for brilliant
,oblaee the chief feature of which was the
ps,con,s given 10 d. r Francis. formerly United
S,ates Secretary of the Interior, and president oil
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, ana the
wishes of success the exposition expressed
by the speakers.
Tho Duke of Devonshire and Lord London
derry members of the Cabinet officially voiced
the good will Of the British Government, "hlie
such representative Britishers as the horu
Mayors of London and Bristol the LORD froEoS'
of Glasgow. Lord Strathcona and Lord Roths-
child. and several members of the House OIL
Commons including Sir Charles Dixie j. ID
Dalziel Sir Thomas Dewar Sir Joseph Law
renee. Ebenezer Parkes. Sir Gilbert Parker ana
Joseph Walton. all gave expression to 'ileii
hearty wishes. Among the well 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 Z.
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
Signor Marconi also present, and received
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 a man who had made
his mark as successful Civil Service reformer,
a great administrator. a 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 pevonshire, have Anglo American relations
been more cordial. Both peoples in fairly
hJ,-17o with and so il IL
likely that they should be in bad humor with
each other. / welcome the tendency on the part
OF the United States to take a larger and keener
interest in affairs outside the American conti-
nent'
Ambassador Choate following in the same
strain, declared that any kind of war on any
kind of subject between Great Britain and
America would be not only great calamity,
but an unspeakabe 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 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
consanguirity as a motive which should 1npel
YOU to be an active participant at the feast OF
which your kinsmen the host. Nor would y
be becoming in the president of this universal
exhibition to designate as the seat OF honor the
place 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. from the American peo-
nile that no one could honor us more nor any
one be given precedence over you we Ieel
st.aed in predicting that the attendance at the
exhibition will not only be universal from Wlthln
the limits of our country. extensive and populons
as IT is but that the citizens of every clVliiZeo
country in the globe will visit us in representa-
tive numbers, attracted as they VIII be not onlE
by the merit of the exhibition, bit d! the ue-
sire TO see in their own abode a people VINO
within the last half decade have started OUT
upon a new policy. taken UP new pfopieHs hhu
assumed new responsibilities, a people "hose
exaTapie and influence command ana merit op-
seryance and study. a people whose reputatloi
for bosnitalitv is whoesouled and proNerpIai
John Barrett proposed the health of the briI-
ish exhibitor ,7aa Job,
lord Londonderry and Sir Edward Johh
rovnter. president of the Royal Academy. re-
nIiad nrofnising their assistance IN making the
British exhibit success