The sun., 1904-12-14
COLONIAL ORDER FESTIVAL.
DINNER FOLLOWED BY TOASTS
WITH POLITICAL ANNESES
Gen. Woodford on the New Power OF
the Flag since the spanish War-Dr.
stires on the Dangerous struggle
for Financial and Social Prestige.

Gen. Woodford on the New Power OF
the Flag since the spanish War-Dr.
stires on the Dangerous struggle
FOR Financial and Social Prestige.
Those who cannot read their title clear
to ancestors who lived In the city OF New
York as early as 1853 need not hope to be-
come members Of the Colonial Order.
Thus they are cut of, except as invited
guests. from one OF the most interesting
in the long series Of annual dinners.
The Colonial Order does not call It's din
ners by that name. 1t calls them festivals,
and they are generally held In the month
Of December at Delmonico's. This years
festival was held there last evening.
About seventy substantial citizens OF
New York whose ancestors were obliging
enough to have lived here in 1853 or prior
thereto sat down to the table, and with them
were dozen or more invited guests
Admiral Coghlan was to have been one OF
these, but he could not be there, and Capt.
A. B. Speyers represented the navy in his
place. Others at the platform table were.
John G. Tomlinson TepreGse,ntinng l the nps sons
ssentIng the Society Of the Cincinnati; Charles
II. Sehermerhorn. rePresenting the 81: Nlcno-
ns ns sSS sScsy Of Colonial %ar e Rey
DR. Ernest NJ. Stires, rector OF st. Thomas s
Church; Col ". G Sanger; Gen: Iredssrifk
Fulton Cutting aud the Rev. d. S. Mackay.
They call the president Of the Colonial
Order the chancellor, and the present chan-
celor, Cortlandt s. Van Rensselaer,, sat at
the head Of the table.
Among others who were present were:
ward pis' Sur c11o e h'[Sia Sfca
ford, Arthur Morris, pr. Charles Gilmore
DR., George i, lakewood. Or; Edward ,ouin-
trd. G. w; Throokmorton, Fordham Morris.
A. and MsS HsSen
The Colonial Order does certain things
after the old-time manner, and among other
customs 1t preserves that Of having set
toasts "ith poetry annexed The chancellor
reads toast and poetry while the sufferer
who is to speak his piece has his unhappiness
prolonged just in proportion to the length of
the verses preliminary to his introduction.
The toasts last evening, after the one to
the President Of the United States, were:
Our Flag to which Gen Stewart L. Wood
May Return to it Check the Present Social
Tendencies. assigned to the Rev. DR..
Ernest NJ. Stires; sOur Colonial Ancestry
An Inspiration to Patriotism and Good
Citizenship, responded to by X. Fulton
Cutting, and Our Kinsmen of Colonial
to which John C. Tomlinson, representing
the Sons Of the American Revolution,
spoke.
About the flag Gen. woodford. among
other things, said:
As a result of the bunGling diplomacy
which led us into the war with Spain. the
flag has gone good deal further than ii was
ever thought it would go. and il will stay
where II has gone good deal longer than
some OF our Boston friends are under the
impression IL will.
All OF you who have travelled in Europe
prior to that war must have noticed a certain
something, a something felt rather than
uttered. n something that told you that the
people over there looked down upon us as u
nation.
But any one who has gone to Europe since
that war must be impressed with the fact nat
that flag OF ours means as much To men IN
those old countries now as IL does TO us. I'D q
way, and must be impT Nssed with the fact
that everywhere that flag now goes il carries
with IT a respect and dignity thet IL never
had before. In the strange eyclutons OF
that Spanish war, so insignlf tantinitself as n
physical contest, there has come that which
means much not only to our country but to
the pTorress OF the world ~.', -
The Rev. DR.. Stires said that the gravest
danger of the hour was the strife for finan-
cial and social sucoess-those two great
powers which so many were trying to get
in order that they might transmit them
to their chilrden-their children whom
they were not educating in a way to fit
them for so serious responsibility.