The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-16
Brilliant Entertainment is Given at the Wa|dorI- Astoria by
 Mrs, Hitchcock
PREVENT FRIENDSHIP IS
 EXPRESSED FOR AMERICA
Event Is Styled "An Evening In Rus sa," and Is Attended By Promi- nent Americans and
 Russians.

New York, March 15.-"An Evening in Russia" was the title of an entertain ment declared to be non-polltical in sig nificance and including a programme of Russian music and addresses by promi- nent Russians and Americans which has given tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria un- der the auspices of the Cooperative En- tertainment club of which Mrs Roosevelt D. Hiteheoex X is president. Among those present were: The Marquis De Tally Perigerd; Count and Countess De- Lobel, Russian Consul General Ledygen- sky; Secretaryof the Russian Embassy A. Bobriroff, representing Count Casslni' the Russian ambassador; Commander Boutakoff of the imperial Russian navy; naval attachee at the Russian embassy at Washington; Prince Henri de Gray; Marquis De Hemosa of Belgium, the Rev. Alexander Hotovisky and the Rev. Elias Zotikoff.
 The evening was began by the singing of the Russian and American national hymns, followed by Russian songs by twenty male and female voices under the leadership of Alexander Trofimovitch of the choir of the Russian orthodox church of the Holy Ghost of Bridgeport, Conn. A letter from Count Cassini to Mrs Hitch cock was read;
 Oliver G. Schadt, president of the Peo- ple's college in Philadelphia, who has just returned from St. Petersburg where he represented this country at the peda- gogics and scientific expositions in the old palace on the Neva, made an ad- dress.
 Refers to Traditional Friendship.
 pr. schadt referred to the traditional friendship between Russia and the United States, and said:
 "An antipathy in this country for Rus sia is due to ignorance. If you know Russia, you Americans would be her friend and her true friend, for the feel ing of the Russians for the people of this country is the kindiest."
 Addresses followed by Prbrieff, Baron Ernest Schilling, the Russian first vice consul and Commander Boutakoff, all or whom expressed the earnest hope that the friendship between the countries would suffer no interruption.
 The Russian general consul Nicholas Lodygenski said:
 Let me ask that judgment of my coun- try be not based on superficial knowlede. on hearsay evidence, or on such writings as may. come from those insufficiently in- formed l ask that your judgment be that of mature thought based on accurate information of my country and my peo- pie. With the verdict thus formed, l will be content. Know us as we are.
 Must Take a Standpoint.
 If you desire to understand Russia, it's soul and it's life. you must judge it from a certain definite standpoint. We Rus sians are conscious and we ferventy hope that our friends when they learn to know lis better, will agree that the Russian people is a great Christian nation design ed by the Almighty to accomplish a great Christian mission on earth. All other multiple sides of national life, wars, pol itics commerce, literature and art, all these are of secondary consideration.
 Now after having established this first dominant Russian point or view, l beg to call your attention to the next im- portant key to proper understanding of Russia and the Russians After religion,
  psychology and Russian life Is the un- qestioned and the unquestionable recogni- ton of the noble role of woman-life, in family. in society and in the state.
 'It is a woman, the Norman Princess Olga. grand duchess dowager of Kieff, to whom the Russian people is indebted for obtaining nearly thousand years ago. the greatest blessing that has ever come to humanity, conversion from idolatry to the Christian faith.
 Recognizes Power of Woman.
 q need scarcely explain that being my self brought up in the deepest regard to and most sincere recognition of the bless ed power of woman in the life of family of nation and of all humanity and wit ness this evening that the Russian Chris tian cause in America. is now being taken up by distinguished American ladies. believe and hope that by means of your moral mon-polticaD sympathy, the Chris tian cause will advance
 q venture to assure you that this eyi- dence of your moral sympathy when duly known in my country will be received with deepest gratitude. It will be con- sidered as a new page in the glorious history of 130 years of American Russian frinedship. Begun by Washington, it has continued by his successors, it has the culminating point in the eos of the nine teeth century when President Lincoln and Emperor Alexander the Second simultan- eously hoisted the standard of liberty, abolishing slavely here and giving free dom in Russia.
 "I beg to conclude by asserting with the deepest consciousness of the truth of my statement. that the most feryent wish of the Russian people, without distinction in its Christian denominations and non Christian faiths, without distinction of classes and of it's ethnographical nation alites. I say that the whole united and indivisible nation of 150,0OO.OO0 have only one wish. and this is peace
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