The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-16
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
ANNUAL BANQUET HELD LAST
 EVENING.

| Ice stnusteF--EAcehent ban4ucts
 Fine Music and Beautiful Decorations Many Suggestions Made by the Speakers.
 The annual banquet of the New Ha- ven Chamber of Commerce was held in Harmonic hall at o'clock last night and as always the affair was not only a great success but was one of the most enjoyable events of the year. The ban quet was attended by about 300 of New Haven's most representative citizens from the various walks of life, both business and professional.
 An informal reception took place in the club parlors prior to the banquet, and it was dearly 6:S0 o'clock when the orchestra played the grand march and the guests entered the dining room. 1 When all present had found their allotted places and Rev. MT. Perry had I pronounced the blessing the guests sat down and partook of the splendid ban quet which Proprietor Moseley of the New Haven house had provided. \ AAS 9ope1NAOtAo Aleth WGo AllOoN beautifully decorated and presented ] handsome. sight to the diners. The stage at the front of the hall was prac- I tically hidden from sight with palms and potted plants. Draped from the ceiling of the stage were number of American flags From the boxes on either side of the stage hung. pictures of Roosevelt and Fairbanks, draped also with American flags. The other three sides of the hall were hidden from sight with large red and white curtains, there being a long American streamer between each one. \ Along the right center of the hall was the guests table, twenty-four other small tables occupying the rest of the I floor space The tables were all hand somely decorated. The menu was an elaborate one. served in Proprietor Noseley's best style. and was greatly Eenjoyed. Wells orchestra occupied one lof the parlors and furnished a fine mu- sical concert during the evening. The 1 Alpha eolored quartette also from the stage furnished several well rendered sE selections.
 The committee in charge of the affair. to whom is due the we'll merited suc- cess of the event, consisted of Benja- min R English, George A. Alling, Frank "A. Corbin, Frederick H. Benton, Fred terick M. Adler. Horace F. Chace and I Michael Sonnerberg.
 4 At the conclusion of the banquet post lprandial exercises were in order and President Wilson II. Lee of the Cham i Der of Commerce arose and gave a Ispiendid introductory address, after I which he introduced the various speak CTS of the evening in his usual pleasing manner
 Before ahe commenced his speaking Toastmaster Lee called for the singing of America, which was rendered by all standing. He then spoke about what had been accomplished by the chamber recently, after which he introduced the first speaker of the evening, Rev MT. Perry, Of St. Pauvs church, whose sub- I feet was Church and City"
 REV. MIR. PERRY'S ADDRESS.
 Rev MT. Perry's address was as fol- lows:
 MT. President and Gentlemen The invitation you have extended me this evening has a special significance which renders 1t douhly gratifying, because 1t has come to me somewhat In the nature of an inheritance. cannot but realize I that my presence in this company and the privilege of responding to this toast are mine to enjoy through my conpec- ton with your former associate and my I predecessor, Dr. Lines.
 I have noticed that the topic of the toast to follow mine would suggest some conflict between the two factors N of my subject that would need to be settled by arbitration. Yet ill New Ha- ven, of all places in the world, the two institutions, Church and City, can be considered only one. Less than one hundred years ago the separation came in this place between the city and the church, yet in fact they must always be one and the same. No one who gets behind all the mistakes and accidental features of the church can deny that the church is the soul of the city. Wherever the church raises her spires among the city streets she stands, or ought to stand, for truth, and it is the interest of the city to practice 1t no : less than it is the business of the church to preach 1t. Not even the church is more dependent upon the principles of honesty and righteousness than is the whole fabric of our civic life.
 But the church and the city are bound still closer together by the com mon task which rests upon them both. Iii these days, when racial differences divide us and industrial differences set one man up by pulling down another, the task of the Christian city and the Christian church is to give every man a chance.
 The church and the city must solve the task together. The city must re- vert to the church, not for the opinions lof the pulpit-never that-but to hear from an older and a diviner source Gods answer to mems questions and their differences. And as the city is , driven to the church for its best life, so in larger measure the church must fulfill her mission by taking the city into account.
 Judge Harrison's Address.
 The subject of Judge Harrison's ad-
 dress was Arbitration" and was as follows:
 The foundations of international law were laid in Greece and Rome more
 than two thousand years ago. Gradu.
 ally among civilized nations the devel.