Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-01
AMERICAN BANQUET IN LONDON
Addresses Made by Ambassador Reid
and Solicitor General LemieuX.

Addresses Made by Ambassador Reid
and Solicitor General Lemieux.
LONDON, Nov 8O.--Thanksgiving day
was celebrated in London in the time-hon-
ored manner by a reunion of leading Amer
leans in the grand banquet hall Of the
Hotel Cecil. Among those present wero
Ambassador Reid. Captain C. II. Stockton,
naval attache Of the American embassy,
and Mrs Stockton; Major John II. Beacon,
the military attache: Delaney jay, private
secretary to Ambassador Reid, and Richard
Westcott deputy American consul general
at London, who represented the consulate.
Other Americans present included John
L. Grifflths, consul al Liverpool Lord Fair
fax, William l. Buchanan, Douglas Stay
den. Colonel Willard Hunsicker and Mrs.
Hunsicker and ]. o. Richards. In all over
400 Americans were in attendance. The
guests of honor included Walter Vaughan
Morgan, lord mayor of London, and Mrs.
Horribly Steer, the lady mayoress; Randolph
Lemieux. solicitor general for Canada; Sir
Joseph Cockfield Dimsdaie and Lady Dims-
dale, Hon. Alban Gibbs and Sir Henry Ed
mund Knight.
F. c. Vanduzer chairman of the Amer
lean Society In England, presided. The
American eagle, backed up by monster
American and British flags above the seat
of the chairman. The scene was particu-
larly 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"
Mr.. Vanduzer proposed a toast to King
Edward. Mr. Lemieux, in an eloquent
speech proposed THE President 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 belong to his own coun-
try but TO humanity itself and to whom
the peace OF Portbmouth is a monument
which coming g&ACations will respect and
,A4ve4Q PsSrths-NE triumph of an up~
downed ~kinR fSp6%erful republic. who
has earned the fight to the title of dinlo-
mat among kingd and king among dlplo-
mats. '....-
Lord Dimsdale proposed n toast to the
American Ambassador Mr.. Reid, in re-
spending, first kacefully welcomed the
English guests. ho, he said, helped TO
complete the family reunion" II they
CHANGED TO NOTED the American engle flap
ping its wings id ing the evening he hoped
they would thin better of the bird on
that account and at the same time under
stand that the Americans present were fully
aware that the British lion was carrying
on business at tho same old stand"
After defending the use of the term
America" 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 uppermost in the minds Of Ameri-
cans, who everywhere were celebrating the
festival was pride in America, pride in its
prosperity at home and in it's Tenown
abroad, profound gratitude for the blessings
of peace gratitude that 1t had pleased
Providence that America should be helpful
in bringing peace to others, and above all
gratitude that there was now no cloud at
the horizon and that America had not an
enemy in the world
Mr. Reid paid a tribute to President
Roosevelt He said that the pride OF Amer
leans in the president was not the pride
of party. but OF the patriotism i'm all
parties, because the mutations of policies
had brought to the front and kept in the
front such type of American as was now
known to the world as Theodore Roose-
Welt"
Concluding with a fine peroration, the am
bassador said:
1t is a goodly land that the Lord, our
God. has given US. Thus far have we
come with the hand of our God upon us.
such were tho pious phrases which on these
occasions our fathers were wont to use. |
close with one in a similar vein from an
English pen;
Lord God of hosts, be with us yet,
Lest We forget lest we forget
Thanksgiving in Rome.
ROME, Nov. 3O.-Thanksgiving day was
celebrated by a service at the American
church, conducted by the rector, >Dr. Nevin.
Miss Muriel White, daughter of the
American ambassador took up collection
for the victims of the earthquake in Calab-
ria, which resulted in s245 being added to
the fund.
The American college gave Thanksgiv-
ing luncheon. The guests included Ambas-