New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-02
DEFENDS STATES NAME.
President Cannot attend Nesc-
Ham pshire's Dinner to Enjoys.

y.
ceived to-day an invitation on behalf of New
Hampshire TO attend the dinner to be gwen oy
that State TO the peace ENJOYS Of Russia and
Japan. The dinner probably will be given at
the Mount Washington House, in the White
Mountains, at time in the near future yet
TO be determined definitely The invitation was
extended personally By Senator Burnham of
ew-Hampshire, and George II. Moses, Sec
rotary to Governor McLane OF that State, who
arrived here to-day to make AN appeal to the
President to participate in the affair Senator
Burnham already had been informed by the
President that he would be unable to go to
New Hampshire this month. but 1t was decided
to make this personal appeal.
Discussing the situation at Portsmouth Sem
ator Burnham said:
1t is recognized generally at Portsmouth that
II 1t had not been for President Roosevelt the
peace conference would have terminated many
Gays ago In rupture. and the titanic struggle
IN the Far East would have continued perhaps
indefinitely President Roosevelt's name is on
every lip. and to him is universally accorded
the glory Of ending the and bringing about
peace He is one of the most conspicuous char
acters in our history.
Assured that the President could not go to
Portsmouth or to the White Mountains. Senator
Burnham and Mr.. Moses discussed with the
President the criticism which recently had been
made on the entertainment of the conferrees in
portsmouth. They told the President that every
thing possible had been done by the officials Of
New-Hampshtre and by the people of Ports
mouth to make the sojourn of the plenipoten-
tiaries in Portsmouth comfortable. They said
to the President that there was no foundation
whatsoever for the criticisms published OF the
treatment Of the ENJOYS and their suites and
that the plenipotentiaries themselves had ex-
pressed their satisfaction with their entertain
ment
President Roosevelt received to-day a letter
written by Governor McLane to Mr.. Peirce,
Third Assistant Secretary of State, who is the
governments representative at Portsmouth.
planning the situation and adverting to the crti
csms which have appeared in various news
papers regarding the entertainment Of the en-
Voys. The letter says:
The article in New-York paper under date
of August 49, referring to the manner in which
the JapanRussia peace ENJOYS being
tertained here. is. am glad to say, entirely un-
true.
the invitation of the Governor Of the State who
rendered the hospitality of the commonwealth
at such place within our borders best suited
the ENJOYS convenience. The place chosen is
Portsmouth, but had the choice fallen upon our
most remote hamlet the entertainment would
have been furnished in exactly the same man.
ner.
That is to say: Our legislature is not now in
session. and New Hampshire has not any con-
tngent fund sufficient to meet an expense like
that dependent upon the entertainment of the
ENJOYS. Accordingly. before the invitation of
New Hampshire was presented 10 the ENJOYS,
had the assurance of few public spirited citi-
Zens that they would join with NE in meeting
the expense of the ENJOYS entertainment until
such time the Legislature could be asked
make the necessary appropriation for the pur
pose.
1t was in this way that the Kearsarge- Ala
bama celebration was financed at Portsmouth
in 1900; it was in this way that we met the
extraordinary expenditure for the replacing of
injured public works in the White Mountains
last year. 1t in this way the cost
of dedicating the statue of John P. Hale which
Senator Chandler presented to the State during
a recess of the legislature.
Among the standing in the breach in the
present occasion, and other of these
mentioned, is Judge Calvin Page, of Portsmouth
who is one of the three trustees of the estate
which owns the Hotel Wentworth property, and
which has business interest in any brewery
property whatever, it's holdings in the Frank
Jones Brewing Company having been sold more
than three years ago
So far the ENJOYS themselves
cerned, il is sufficient to say in reply to the
allegations of the article in question that Baron
Komura and Mr.. Dennison have frequently per
sonally expressed to me the Japanese apprecia-
ton of hospitality. and that Mr.. Wilenkin
has repeatedly and effusiveiy thanked my secre-
tary for what has been done to make the Rus
sian suite comfortable.
With relation to the complaint to the
rates charged at the Hotel Wentworth for lodg-
ing, board. meals, etc, [ only say that the
prices named what I myself pay for my
family, who have been spending the summer
here
AS indication of the measure of reliance to
be placed upon this article in question, it is in
teresting to note that the correspondent de-
scribed you "a New Hampshire man" ! wish
this We're true; but, like the rest Of the cor
respondents assertions it Is not.