The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-04
ANNUAL BANQUET OF
 COLONIAL WARS SOCIETY
HELD IN HARMONIE HALL LAST
 EVENING.

EVENING. Business Session During the Day. officers EIected-Committees Selected -Distinguished Body of Men Attend the Banquet Several Excellent speeches-Rev. MT. Haynes Urges n Closer Unity Between Cities and Country Towns-Address by Pro- lessor Phelps.
 The annual banquet of the Society of Colonial Wars of the state of Connecti- cut was held at the Harmonic club at 6:30 o'clock last evening and was a most elaborate affair. The attendance was about seventy-five. Louis Sherry of New York was the caterer and the feast served was up to his usually high standard.
 The hall was magnificently decorated. Practically the entire walls were cov- cred with American flags and banners while hanging from the ceiling were silk American flags and handsome old silk Colonial state flag. Many handsome rugs covered the floors and deadened the footsteps of the attentive walters as they went about the guests serving them. The tables were most deliberately set, the service being par excellent. The tables were arranged with the head table in front of the stage with two long tables extending at right angles from either corner of the head table. The finest of linen, silver and glassware made up the service and large amount of flowers enhanced the beauty of the scene by their artistic arrangement on the tables Surrounding the tables and on the stage were many potted plants and palms. .
 The gathering at the tables was a most representative one and included men prominent in various walks of life The many beautiful medals and orders which they wore added to the beauty of the scene, which was brilliant with the myriad of little electric lights and the soft glow from the silver candela- bras lighted on the tables. The menu as provided by Caterer Sherry was as follows:
 Tomaties Gourmet,
 Potage Printanier,
 Truite saumon, Sauce Verte, x Aloyau de Boeuf, Bernaise,
 IIarisots Verts, Po1nmes Duchesse,
 Asperges, Hollandaise,
 is. s.i Sorbet,
 Pigeonneau Roti,
 Salade,
 Glace Plombiere aux Praises Cafe,
 Moselle, Champagne, Appolinaris.
 At the conclusion of the banquet post prandial exercises were in order and the retiring governor, Prof. Theodore s. woolsey was toastmaster. After a few introductory remarks in which he spoke of the pleasure he had derived from his associations with the order, introduced the newly elected governor Charles Edward Gross of Hartford. MT Gross spoke very briefly and thanked the members for the honor which they had conferred on him. \
 The next speaker introduced was Prof. William Lyon Phelps, who spoke on the subject Two Representatives of Colonial Literature-Jo onathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin Prof. Phelps made one of his usual interesting and instructive addresses in which he con- pared the relative merits of the two men. He said that in both lives one sees the lives of two great Americans who in many ways were direct oppo- sites. 4 The speaker first reviewed the life of Edwards from a student at Yale to . president of Princeton college. He spoke of the great trials which con- frpnted Edwards during his life and how he sur1nounted them; also his life at Yale, saying that when Edwards came here he was sunk in religion. He then referred to the diary of the dis tinguished scholar, about this time 1T which it said that Edwards came as 3 tutor and immediately found himself iii the swim of wickedness Qaughter).
 Continuing, the speaker said that Edwards was a man who had to be convinced as to right and wrong ane that herein lay the secret of his sound philosophy. He said that Edwards sermons were, maybe, not what might be called eloquent, but they contained great depths of thought.
 The speaker next caused a great dea of nirth by saying that he thought that the paramount greatness of Edwards lay in his possibilities as an ancestor Prof. Phelps said in reference to this that he had just met one resident o1 Connecticut who was not directly relat' ed to Jonathan Edwards. The speaker said that he would not care to have had him for a father or a brother, bu that it would be all right if he were three or four generations removed be cause then the relationship might givt just enough tobasco to invigorate.
 Tn concluding his discussion Of Ed wards, the speaker said that he was { great man and a typical American,
 Professor Phelps next discussel Ben ianfn Franklin, saying that he lived { most active and useful life. He refer red to his many inventions and discov cries. The speaker said that Franklin was about the only man he ever heart of who said in old age that he woul' like to live his entire life over again 1T espoke of the charm of Franklin personality, and then compared the re ligious code of the two men, sayinl that Edwards thoughts were entirel,