Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-08-11
PEACE ENJOYS MEET.
INTRODUCED BY THE PRESIDENT
AT OYSTER BAY.
Komura and Witte, with Their Re-
spectiye Suites, Shake Hands on the
Yacht Mayf1ower-An Elaborate ana
Picturesque Ceremony.

Baron Rosen and the suite or the rus
sian plenipotentiaries met in board the
naval yacht 4Iayfower in the outside
harbor at Oyster Bay Saturday, anu
were formally introduced by the Presl-
dent of the United States. The ocea-
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 plenipotentlarles
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
Mayfower, where they met in token
OF their resolve to end the far Eastern
war.
1t was notable scene when the en-
yoys 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. IL 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 a 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 aud
precedence We're put aside in the
American way. The ENJOYS meet as
the guests not of a cabinet officer, out
of the President himself, who proposed
the toast, ITO the welfare and pros
perity of the sovereigns and peoples
OF the two great nations" and ex-
pressed the hope that a just and last
ing peace may speedily be concluded
between Them
The meeting of the peace ENJOYS
was 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
Ic IeSIutIlL SdIl tLu
he did not need an Introduction to
Baron Komura or Minister Takahira,
for he had met them 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 i'll the cabin and tLen the
Japanese gentlemen retired to another
cabin to make room for the Russian
party. Count White. Ambassador
Rosen and their suite then entered the
cabin, were introduced to the Presi-
dent, whom they already knew. Then
the two parties We're brought together.
and there were speeches, more hand
shaking and more conyersat ton All
hands then partook of stand-,Ip
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 We're
ferried to the Dolphin. The President
and Secretary Pierce soon after left
the Mayfiower in possession of the
Russians and the ceremony was ended.
The Dolphin, conveying the Japanese
and the Mayfower with the Russians
on board, conveyed by the Galveston.
reached Portsmouth Monday morning
The Mayfower incident. destined TO
become historic. was in all its details
essentially American. If, says the Chi.
cago Inter Ocean, the ENJOYS of Rus
STA and Japan act up to the American
standard, they will meet for discussion
OF peace terms untrammeled by i'll
trigue or malice and in the spirit OF
courtesy and fairness that controlled
Grant and 90 i'm Tho r,oro+;,t;o