New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-04
TOASTING Mr.. BRYCE.
London Comments on the Pilgrims
Dinner.
Mr.. REID's FELICIToUs SPEECH


From The Speaker.
Pany Of Englishmen and Americans who bade Mr..
have changed since the trouble about Venezuela
we'll remember meeting two representative Eng
quite Inevitable they said: 1t has been coming
for ever so long" Next / happened to see. two
same opinion Now have moved that in
o one Sq G mueh che the Eom aRd
are fortunate in such an ambassador as Mr.
the long and distinguished line OF American Am
Mas Sneaker me b or zach
utterance of more propriety and dignity. per-
Reid in Proposing Mr. Bryce health ' wa 81 very
clearly Inspired by the unusual pleasure which Mr..
Bryce appointment has given In the States.
MR. BRYCEs FIRST JOKE.
From Vanity Fair.
the Pilgrims. listened to a good speech from Mr.
Whitelaw Reid. and gave his hosts speech in
we're it not that the occasion drew from Mr.
IN his too well spent life He said that from aii
the kind things that had been said about him he
going TO Washington TO another and a better
world. The guests were surprised that they
forgot even to smile.
DIPLOMACY AND DIGNITY.
From The World.
Mr. Whtelaw Reid has to a great extent recov-
cred from the attack of influenza which seized him
Obliged to take great care Of himself and there r
fore he is not entertaining at all However the
few hours to transact important business lie was
also present at the Pilgrims dinner given to Mr.
Bryce last Wednesday, ard made very excellent
speech. which above all things, characterized
by the dignity and-in the best meaning OF the
WOrd-dplomacy OF it's language. All the speeches
at this dinner. indeed Were far above the average
were in excellen: vein and extremely patriotic
while Mr. Patrick Murphy kept every one Intensely
amused by his humor. America well repre-
scented at the dinner The ambassador. have
said before. was present, and Mr. Carter Mr. Grant
smith, the naval and military attaches Captain
United States Consul General. and Mr.. David Hill
the minister to The Hague, whose great book
AN ADMIRABLE TRIBUTE
From The Spectator.
A farewell dinner to Mr.. Bryce was given by the
Pilgrims Club at the Savoy FOtel Wednesday
right. Lord Roberts took the chair and Mr.. White
law Reid the American Ambassador, proposed the
health of the guest In an admirable speech. After
similar occasions 10 Sir Michael Herbert and Sir
Mortimer DuTand, to whose services he paid gem
erOus tribute, the A nerican Ambassador alluded
Anglo American League. The good Will OF the hour
he went on would not create any illusions to the
perfectly we'll that was sent first to look
scrupulOusly after the interests of his
hearty a welcome If they did not expect that of
him But he knew just we'll that those interests
in his country as in theirs: were best promoted by
the task easy; the two great nations the near
est each other in the whols world. and at the heads
of the two governments stood two statesmen with
unsurpassed records Teacemakers. In cOncllI-
sion Mr. Whitelaw Reid observed that. oxford
DrOfessOr traveller man OF letters and statesman,
~. Ers-ea's name was almost os familiar awODor
the people of the United States among his own.
His book about their government had been largely
\ country TO which he stranger and which
vas no stranger 20 him.