Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-01
AMERICANS IN
LONDON GATHER
THANKSGIVING OBSERVED IN
BRILLIANT MANNER
Many Notable Brltons Present at the
Observation-Disclosures Made by
Whitelaw Reid, United States
Ambassador

BY Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. Thanksgiving
day was celebrated in London in the
time-honored manner by leading Amer
leans, by a banquet i'm the grand hall
Of the Hotel Cecil. Among those pres
ent were Ambassador Reid, Captain c.
II. Stockton, naval attache Of the
American embassy, Mrs Stockton,
Major John II. Beacon, tho military
attache; Delaney Jay, private secre-
tary to Ambassador Reid, and Richard
Westcott, deputy American consul
general at London. Others present in.
cluded John j.. Grifiths, consul at
Liverpool Lord Fairfax. William L.
Buchanan, Douglas Slayden, Colonel
Millard Hunsicker and Mrs. Hunsicker
and ]. C. Richards. In all over 400
Americans were in attendance.
The guests of honor included Walter
Vaughan Morgan, lord mayor of Lon
don, and the lady mayoress: Richard
E. LemineuX, solicitor general for
Canada Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimes
dale and Lady Dimesdale, Hon. Alban
Gibbs and Sir Henry Edmond Knight.
F. G. Van Duzer, chairman of the
American society in England presided.
The great hall was unadorned except
for an American eagle backed UP by
monster American and British flags
behind the seat of the chairman.
The scene was particularly brilliant
because of the presence of so many
women. The band played American
airs and concluded it's program with
God Save the King" and the Star
Spangled Banner"
King Edward. Mr.. Lemineux, in ain
eloquent speech proposed THE Presi-
dent of the United States" He said:
Every true American must feel it
an honor to be governed by a man
whose name and fame not only be-
long to his own country, but to hui
manity itself, and to whom the peace
of Portsmouth is a monument which
coming generations will respect and
revere as the crowning triumph of The
uncrowned king of a powerful repub-
lie, who has earned the right to the
title of diplomat among kings and king
among diplomats"
Lord Dimesdale proposed a toast to
the American ambassador to which
Mr.. Reid replied in part as follows:
Mr.. Reid, in responding, first grace
fully welcomed the representatives of
the English government who, he said,
helped to complete the reunion. If
they CHANGED TO notice the American
eagle Tapping its wings during the
evening he hoped they would think
better of the bird on that account, and
at the same time understand that the
Americans present were fully aware
that the British lion was carrying on
business at the same old stand"
After defending the use of the term
American" as applied to the United
States, quoting from Pitt, Fox, Burke
and Daniel Webster, who SO used it,
thus absolving the present generation
from the charge of undue assumption,
Mr.. Reid said that the thought upper
most in the minds of Americans who
everywhere were celebrating the festi-
val was their pride i'll America, pride
in her prosperity at home and in her
renown abroad; profound gratitude for
the blessings of peace, gratitude that
it had pleased Providence that Amer
lea should be helpful in bringing peace
to Others, and above all gratitude that
there was now no cloud on the ma
tional horizon and that America had
not an enemy In the world.
Mr.. Reid paid tribute to President
Roosevelt. He said that the pride of
America in the president was not the
pride of party, but of the patriots of
all parties, because the mutations of
politics had brought to the front and
kept in the front such a type Of Amer
lea as was now known to the world
as Theodore Roosevelt. Concluding
with fine peroration, the ambassador
said:
1T is goodly land the Lord our
God has given us. Thus far have we
come with the hand of our God upon
us. Such were the pious phrases which
on these occasions our fathers were
wont to use. l close with one in q
similar vein from an English pen:
Lord God of hosts, be with us yet
Lest we forget Lest we forget"
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