The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24
DINNER OF ENGLAND'S EXILES
ST. GEORGE SOCIETY HOLDS ITS
12OTH CELEBRATION.
Sir Perc, SandcrsOn Talks Of The San
francisco Disaster and Count Gleichen
praises the work Of the American
Troous-Jercne Il. Jerome speaks

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Tho r,emhers Of the st. Georges Society
.olohrafed the dpy of Britain's patron
soirt last night with a dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria Il was the roth anniversary Of
49, .,o,o,v. one of the oldest in New York,
There was a warm note Of sympathy for
tho san Francisco sufferers sounded at
,he dinner President L. F. Darrell re-
tered to the calamity as one compelling
the sympathy Of the whole world and said
that in the expressions of this feeling Eng
lsbrnen had not been backward.
Sir Percy Sanderson, the British Consul
General. who was the first speaker, said
that tie reception accorded to Prince Louis
~ Rattenhurg and his SQUADRON and the
r,ora racent one given TO Earl Grey had
haen more than sufficient to show how
cordial we're the relations existing between
England and this country, .
sff | refer to the San Francisco tragedy"
no continued, 1T Is but to pay a tribute
II homage and admiration to the courag e
and devotion Of the American people, who
have shown that they can meet such an
emergency with a generosity absolutely
y 1FncIands sympathy in this trying hour,
but think that if we 60 into the material
interests affected we will find American and
British interests more closely interviewer
than those Of any other countries" II
Leu, col Count Gleichen, the British
NLritarv ,ttache, responded to the toast to
the British Army, He said that the army
had fought cIghty-two campaigns in Vic
t0rla : reign.
'aWa raIeye." said he, "that we have some
tIcal an army, if not as large a one, as the
continental nations. recently made an
,rsrection Of Fort Ethan Allen and was
struck there by the American troops.
For practical work | believe we must
Weld specifically in some points to them
And while on this point Of the army | must
refer to san Francisco. | am certain that
in that FIRE no British SOLDIERS could have
done better than the American troops have
done under Gen, Funston
Count Gleichen's tribute to the Ameri-
csn soldiers was greeted with great APP
rlause and one of Hear! Hear"
Jerome X. Jerome, the English %hunorist
talked on the subject of The ladies'" He
said that in England they did not keep the
ladies' in the galleries. but let them eat with
There was a little club OF artists in Chel
sea that started this, he said. Three
If the men brought their wives, but after
the conversation began the wives ,disap-
screen. They said that they had beer
waiting to hear some of the shocking after
dinner speeches. When will they begin,
rne Of them asked her husband. We
nv dear, ~dl1Illt HllSIdlu, L bpli 4 III
thew know any more
FIN given to understand that you are re.
formIng great many things over here, anc
that Won are going to have a new language
not adapted solely to millionaires, but
nevertheless. quite an expensive affair. tc
cost 10000. and to be delivered in six years
l. will probably be called the C%arnegiese
turned into a trust and then protected by
the tariff to prevent the importing of any
more English grammar"
Nlr. Jerome told a story Of a man Wit
went to hear him lecture recently at
small town near New York. The ma
sat next to the lecturers wife and afte
the lecture had been going IN some tim'
asked her when the lecturer was goint
Il to talk about himself. Mrs Jerome re
Piled that the lecturer never talked abou
~ himself.
Who is the MANI asked the, person
seated next to her at this. And when Mrs
II Jerome told him who it was" vent on MI
Jerome. the man said: It's all my mis-
AXE. l thought it was the Attorney-Gen
NA eral.'"
Real Admiral Coghlan, Capt. Ryan o
the British Navy, Gen. Stewart l.. Wood
io-d and Sir puTdnn Clarke alsO smoke,