New-York tribune., 1907-12-24

:. .r. sn.ncier i. matched by the vision OF the
sr1nsnently iasas commend public confidence except he
add TO political shrewdness the glIt oi puli'l csn
%fn except he t5sq nher
at least be believed to responsibity
faith in the plain and far deaa ,ter te ar sc-
After reading Governor Husness 5 ie'' u1.,.
ceptance a telegram from him was reao- !" niie
am recovering" the Governor telesrapneo. 1t
. would be imprudent II not physlcanS i.iil"
sibe attempt to journey TO Ne" fo'h at ..'s
time | particularly regret that cannot eA'eNu
an official and personal welcome to the Governors
of the New England states who may De Pfesei'
and honor with their presence.
DR. Aked began his response 10 the toast ihe
Faith Of Our Fathers Living STILL by thanking
the society for permitting him. an Enghshi1ah' u
share in the glory Of the dinner He praised III
highest terms the works of Lowell Whittier. oFeI
Wendell Holmes and Emerson. DR.. Aked said ne
did not know what would become OF the aHeseo
American huinorists if they were to have their
cherished traditions spoiled of the Ensiisnmans
abnormal deliberately cultivated ignorance and
lack of hun1or." but that he was not ignorant OF
the record of the New England Society and that
the history and literature Of New England hao oeen
an inspiration him from his boyhood He de-
nounced the narrowness of the English ruler WHICH
had driven the Pilgrims from England to American
shores there TO form greater nation than Eng
land herself In speaking of American schools ne
said:
We have come here and We have seen your
schools work, and we have gone back TO Eng. e.
land and claimed educational ladder with tts
lowest rungs in the kindergarten and 1ts topmast
rungs in the university and have claimed an i1d edq
horn English soil the chance that belongs
TO the child born in the New England States
Admiral Goodrich the last speaker. He re-
.ponded to the toast THE Army and the Navy
The navy" he said 'is power for peace as well
as for war" He then told of conversation he
had merchant just after the close OF the war
with Spain. The merchant had returned from a
trip through Spain and had found that the spanish
sailors liked the American sailors and hence the
American people because of the treatment leS io
ceived during the
/ Governor Proctor of Vermont ana IoNerhoi
| Woodruff of Connecticut each received three
cheers but neither of them spoke
| Mr.. Morgan, who was president OF the society
from 1889 to 1901 of its guests last night
| During the course of the dinner Mr. Morgan
chatted with Edmund Clarence Steumah the
'banker-poet who was seated on one size oA NM
and also with Cornelius n. Bliss. Both MI Steo-
| man and Mr.. Bliss formerly presidents OF .he
New England Society. Mr.. Morgan went away be-
fore Mr. Woodford's speech and did not near the
glowing tribute paid to him.
The menu cards had for frontispiece a copy oI
| She painting Going to Church The tnird page
was an engraving showing Plymouth as II ap-
peared in 1922 and on the last page were pictures
of John Aldens house. plymouth, 1905 ana the
| Miles Standish monument at Duxbury.
Two Governors sat at the presidents tapie'
! They were Rollin S. Woodruff Governor OF Con-
| necticut and Fletcher .. Proctor, Governor OF
Vermont.
Among the other guests at the presidents table
| were J. P Morgan. Rear Admiral Caspar Good
rich L. s. N: Major General Frederick d. Grant.
L s. A. who attended in the full dress OF his
rank; Stewart L. Woodford, George b. AgneW.
( Hart Lyman. Horace Russell. Edmund Clarence
| Stedman, Cornelius n. Bliss. former Secretary OF
| the Interior Thomas H. Hubbard, A Barton
! Hepburn vice-president OF st. Andrews Society
and John Lloyd Thomas president OF ST Da"id
| Society.
! Among those the other tanles were George
| Wilson who for years has been secretary OF the
! society; irving Bachelor. Lucius II. Biglow. 1r.,
! Thomas D. Bradstreet. J.. II. Brdgman, the Rev
! DR. James NJ. Buckley. II. c. Bumpus. Ashbel =
! Fitch McDougau Hawkes.. Charles Bulkley Hub
bell E Fellows Jenkins. Morris X. Jesup, Phineas
| c. Lounsbury, Seth Low. Gates ". McGarrah. Seth
NJ MiIiiken, jr.. Adolph S. Oclls Robert G Ogden,
John A. Sleicher, Seth T. Thomas, Charles y. Villas
| and DR.. John 3. Walker.