The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-02-27
A MEMORABLE OCCASION.
Washington's Birthday Dinner
Given by the American So
ciety in London.
MANY PROMINENT BRITISH GUESTS
The Chief Feature Wns s"e
Given President Fra"e's %
Ioutsiana Purchase se"'e"
Exposition. Who Doomed the
ElOqucntly.

London. Feb. 24.--rhe dinner gwen
Monday night. by the American 80
ciety. in honor of Washngton's pir'h'
day. was the occasion for a priii'nn'
assemblage, the chief feature OF VINE"
was the welcome given to ID. H. FRAN
els. formerly United States secretary
OF the interior and president OF inc
Louisiana Purchase Exposition 20.
! and the wishes Of success TO the eA
position expressed by the speakers.
The duke OF Devonshire and Loru
Londonderry, members Of the cao'.
net. officially voiced the good VIII VI
the British government, while sucn
representative Englishmen as the iord
MAYORS of London and Bristol, the
,ord nrovost Of Glasgow. Lord Strath'
coma and Lord Rothschild. Lord ralr-
fax and the following members OF the
house of commons: Sir Charles Dixie
7. II. Dalziel. Sir Thomas Dewar, oit
.Joseph Lawrence, Ebenzer Parkes
Sir Gilbert Parker and Joseph Wal
ton. all gave expression to the'
hearty wishes.
Among the well-known Americans
present were Ambassador Choate,
ronsul-General Henry Clay Evans,
Stanford Newell, minister TO Inc
Netherlands; John Barrett, l. W..
Cridler. Melville +. Stone. Marsnaii
Ualsfead. Col. Hunsicker, Halsey =.
Ives. of the ST. Louis exposition'
Capt. Piper. deputy police commis-
sioner of New York. all the unitei
States embassy staff and many Tor
eign representatives OF the ~ LOUIS
exposition Signor Marconi was ais ,
present. and received an attention
scarcely second 10 that paid 10 the
president of the ST. Louis exposition.
The duke Of Devonshire, in propos-
ing the toast 1.-The President or ire
United States" referred TO Mr.. Roose
Welt as a man who had made his marx
I, asa successful civil service reformer
great administrator. a gallant mill
tarv leader and an eminent statesman
in whom he saw an Intelligent ane
earnest friend of England.
1 "Ncver in any previous times. sale
= the duke Of Devonshire, "have Anglo
o American relations been more cordial
| DpIn DtbpitS dit IA Ashits re',
Ii with themselves. and so 1t Is nnlikel.
it that they should be in Dad hume
le with each other.
IS Il welcome the tendency on III
If part Of the United States to take
q larger and keener interest in affair
AZ outside the American continent
u Ambassador Choate. following I
70 the same strain. declared that an
ID kind Of war on any kind OF sublec
e. between Great Britain and Americ
would be not only great calamity
but an unspeakable crime.
Mr.. Francis eloquently describe
the motive and scope Of the 81. lou
~ exposition. He gave detailed figure
= showing the care with which IN
money was expended to make ever
- phase of the exposition perfect an
a. useful to European exhibitors an
visitors. in short "a golden milestor
~ in the highway of human progre'
~ and a coronation of civilization
~ lie referred to the first great i
" ternational exhibition in Londo
Since then. Mr.. Francis continue
~ England has always been fully repr
| stnItu ut tNtfN hhiNtiN 'NfD"'''t
lie urged that the country should NJ
an be behindhand at st. Louis, where,
ma said, no guest would be more W.
an. come. IL feel some delicacy in refe
ail ring to our consanguinity as a mott
Of which should impel you 10 be
er. active participant at the feast
ad which your kinsmen are the ho
i'm ,or would 1t he becoming in 7
! a president of this universal expositi
m to designate as the seat Of honor I
III. place AT the table TO he occupied
the mother country. You need no
surance. however, from the expo
ton management. from the head
our government or from the Anne
can people that no one could hon
..,,t us more nor any one he given prec'
;, ence over YOU. We feel justified
.;,d predicting that the attendance at
- exhibition will not only be univer
,r.I from within the limits of our COZ
mes try, extensive and populous as u
,,,u but that tho citizens of every ci,ili
,,e country i'm the globe will visit us
representative numbers, attracted
they will be not only by the merit
the exhibition. but by the desire
10y see in their own abode people W
mas within the past half decade, h
- started out upon new policy. tai
lie up new problems and assumed :
otes responsibilities; a people whose
: 10 ample and influence command
M" merit observance and study. pee
whose reputation for hospitality
whole-soulcd and provcrbal.'
ster John Barrett proposed the he'
sfer Of the British exhibitor" and in
4 by course Of his remarks urged the Y
~ 10 ed Kingdom to make of the -. IL
re to exposition another durbar.
load Lord Londonderry and Sir Edv
John Poynter. president OF the IL
ga. academy. replied. promising their
-mer sistancc in making the British exl
, ~ n success.