The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-06
ENGLAND'S TRIBUTE TO
 AMERICAN AMBASSADOR
OTABLEF4REWELL DINNER TO JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
 LAST NIGHT.

Remarkable Gathering at the Mansion
 House-AII Parties, Classes, Profess
 ions and Opinions Represented-Pre-
 mier Balfour and the Archbishop of
 Canterbury EuIogize Retiring Diplo-
 mat Who Replies With Much Feeling
 -The Cementing of Angio-American
 Friendship.
 London, Map 5.-"Certainly the crowning hour of my life is this fare well benefit to the English stage"
 So Joseph H. Choate characterized the farewell dinner at the Mansion house tonight, at which undoubtedly was the most remarkable gathering of notables ever assembled at the historic residence of that picturesque parsonage, the lord mayor of London. In the words of Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman, it would be impossible to collect a more repre- sentative gathering" All parties, classes, professions and opinions from the great metropolis represented by the Lord Mayor himself to the government represented by Arthur J. Balfour and the Marquis of Lansdowne, together with a few of the American colony, were there. Mr. Choate sat at the right hand of the lord mayor; next to him was MT. Balfour and then Lord Gansdowne. At the left of the lord mayor were the archbishop of Canter- bury and the Duke Of Wellington.
 There were present, among others, Earls Minto, Dartmouth, Aberdeen, Denbigh, Kentore, Jersey, Onslow and Crewt; Lords Strathcona, Hereford. Mount Stephens, Lawrence, Hugh Ce- Gil, Balfour of Burleigh, MacNaughton, Alverstone and Rithschild; Viscounts Goschen and Churchill; Sirs Frederick Treves, Eric Harrington, Conan Doyle, Thomas Lipton. Alma Tadema Purden Clarke and others; the Hon. John Nor ley, James Bryce, Austen Chamberlain and Percy Windham. The lord mayors of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and other large towns came to London for the occasion, and there were pres ent Moberly Bell, manager of the Times and the editors of other London dailies; Alfred Austin, Anthony Hope and other authors, many members of the house of commons of all political parties, many other notables, the aggregate numbering 300. Among the Americans were the entire staff of the American embassy, Consul General Robert J. iWynne, Vice Consul Carnegie and Sem ator Spooner of Wisconsin. The wife of the lord mayor entertained a dozen ladies, who sat high above the assembly in the circular music gallery.
 The carriages arrived in long stream, headed by the aldermen in the wonderful corporation coaches, massive, gilded and ornamented creations. @
 The banquet was spread in the Egyp- tian hall, which was draped with the banners of spast lord mayors and the flags of the colonies. Arranged behind the lord mayor and MT. Choate was the corporation plate center piece cross ed by a huge sword and mace, while the smaller pieces of this wonderful service including the enormous loving cup, were used on the tables. The rich, red uniforms of army officers, together with those of members of the munich pal government, and vast staff of red coated, powdered household attendants made a gala scene.
 The archbishop of Canterbury pro- nounced grace and the benediction. The aged lord mayor, a white bearded, pie turesque figure in his rich costume, rose and toasted the king and queen. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman proposed the president" eulogizing him as a genuinely typical character, character istic of America, a firm friend of peace, though not perhaps of a quiescent dis position. Premier Balfour, in toasting MT. Choate, said: ~.-.
 No greater honor could have been done me than to have proposed this toast.n .-.
 He congratulated the lord mayor on being the host of Great Britain on this memorable occasion. Mr. Choate, he said, had been with Britons in days of mourning and of rejoicing, of disas- ter and victory, not only as the repre- sentative of a great state but ever ready to take his part in any phase of British public life not connected with politics and he had ever played his part with distinction. He hoped Mr. Choate would carry away with him much more
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