Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-15
PEACE ENJOYS MEET.
INTRODUCED BYTHE PRESIDENT
AT OYSTER BAY.
komura and Witte, with Their Re-
spective Suites, Shake Hands on the
Yacht Mayhower-An Elaborate and
Picturesque Ceremony.

and the other members of the Japan
csc peace commission, and NJ. White,
Baron Rosen and the suite of the Rus
sian plenipotentiaTies met in board the
naval yacht .Iayhower in the outside
harbor at Oyster Bay Saturday. and
were formally introduced by the Presi-
dent of the United States. The occa-
sion was one of elaborate ceremony
from end to end. A more imposing a
more picturesque sight Oyster Bay has
never seen.
The booming of fifty-nine great guns
in the shadow of Sycamore Hill gave
notice that the peace plenipotentiaries
o. Russia and Japan had been brought
together. Twenty-one of these cannon
notes were for the President and nine
teen each were given the ENJOYS and
their order-blazoned suites, as they
climbed over the white sides of the
Mayflower, where they met in token
OF their resolve to end the far Eastern
war
1t was a notable scene when the en-
voys of Russia and Japan shook hands
as the guests of the President of the
United States. The dramatic incident
was of a momentous character to all
the world, and will be regarded as
typical of the new influence to be
eXerted by the United States as a
world power
For the first time in history ambas-
sailors of foreign powers at war meet
on American soil to discuss terms OF
peace. Heretofore European questions
raised by war have been settled by
European congresses III the last fifty
years the controversies of European
nations have been settled in the inter-
est of Europe at Paris, Berlin and
London.
When the United States has been
engaged in war with European pow
er the terms OF peace have been dis
cussed in European capital. The
treaty of peace between the United
States and England, after the Reyoiu-
tionary War, was negotiated in Paris.
and that of 1915 in London The treaty
OF peace with Spain, after the war of
1898, was signed in Paris. Europe has
been for a century and more the seat
of negotiation and settlement. Now
two great nations, one European and
Asiatic and the other Asiatic,' seeking
permanent peace. shun Europe and
come to the United States.
The ENJOYS Of the warning powers
were received with equal courtesy by
the President Questions of rank and
precedence We're put aside in The
American way The ENJOYS meet as
the guests not of a cabinet officer, but
of the President himself who proposed
the toast, ITO the welfare and pros
perity of the sOyereigns and peoples
OF the two great nations" and eX-
pressed the hope that just and last
ing peace may speedily be concluded
between them"
The meeting of the peace ENJOYS
was a triumph for the President He
alone brought these men together
The President was waiting for the en-.
voys in the pretty cabin of the May
flower and Assistant Secretary Pierce
who had arrived in advance of the
plenipotentiaries. made the formal in.
PRODUCTION. The President said that
he did not need an introduction to
Baron Komura or Minister Takahira
for he had met the4N before. He shook
hands, however, with theb both and
then greeted the other members of the
party.
After the intrOductiOns there was a
pleasing chat in the cabin and then the
Japanese gentlemen retired to another
cabin to make room for the Russian
party. Count White, Ambassador
ROsen and their suite then entered tile
cabin, were introduced to the Presi-
dent, whom they already knew. Then
the two parties were brought together
and there were speeches, more hand
shaking and more conversation. All
hands then partook of stand-lIp
buffet lunch. which, it should be said
was the Presidents clever way OF
avoiding any question of precedence
which might have arisen had the Pres
ident joined his guests at table.
After the luncheon the japanese
gentlemen said farewell with many
protestatiOns of good will and Were
ferried to the Dolphin. The President
and Secretary Pierce soon after left
the MayfOwer in possession of the
Russians and the ceremony was ended
The Dolphin, conveying the Japanese
and the Mayfiower With the Russians
or board, conveyed by the Galveston
reached Portsmouth Monday morning
The Mayfower incident, destined to
become historic was in all its details
essentially Anne fcan If, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean, the ENJOYS of Rus
STA and Japan act up to the American
standard, they will meet for discussi On
of peace terms untrammeled by in.
trigue or malice and in the spirit OF
courtesy and fairness that controlled
Grant and Lee in the negotiations nj
AppOmattoX.