Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06
TRIBUTE TO SIR PERCY
MANY DEPLoRE CONSUL GEN.
ERALS COMING DEPARTURE.

NEW YORK, April 6.-Many of the best.
known Anglo-Americans took leave OF Sir
Percy Anderson at the dinner given in his
honor by the British Schools and Uni.
Versities Club at Delmonicos. Sir Percy
has spent half a century as consul gem
eral in this city, and the good-byes which
were said last night We're sincere and heart.
felt. Men of such widely diversified inter.
ests as Admiral Coghlan and Bislo2 Potter
were one in the expressions of admir- ton
and regret at Sir Percys retirement and
the wish that he might return to this city
again.
Sir Percy recalled his schoolboy days and
his associations saying, in part:
In looking back to the time when the
club was formed in 1896 remember how
the founders were good enough to offer me
honorary membership, and how as an Elton
boy claimed my full rights to membership
IN an association founded for social and in-
teliectual intercourse and good fellowship
among men of British education. | need
hardly tell you that since that time | have
watched the progress of the club with the
greatest interest, inasfnuch as It holds a
position which no other society in New
York can fill.
we have the different British societies.
st. Andrews. st. Patrick's. st. Georges,
ST. Davids, Canadian, Australian, etc.-all
with certain restrictions to birth, de-
! scent and so forth, in order to qualify for
sect Is to bring together all those whose
education has been British, British sub.
Jects. American citizens. others who
have that tie in common of being con.
nected in the past with British schools or
universities and being able to talk over old
days from a common standpoint, not only
or literature and education in general, but
also of sports and pastimes
Club Making Progress
The club has been making progress, and
hope to hear of its making greater prog.
ress still, getting into touch with Rhodes
scholars working in sympathy with the
president of Columbia University. DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, and the professors
of that university, whose assistance to AL
fred Mosely has been invaluable, and IN
other ways. 1 think we may congratulate
ourselves on the past, not only as regards
nual dinners-but in respect of those
smaller informal gatherings, whose success
has been assured by the hard work of the
members of the committee and by the will
dng efforts of all those who could contribute
TO their success.
AT these small dinners one goes back to
the days of ones youth, and sometimes one
is startled to find what a distance that
means-how. in talking of cricket, for in
stance, one has to recall how long it Is
since one has played
LAS time goes on and the memory carries
further and further back, when that which
was once ten, fifteen or maybe twenty
years ago comes now to be a recollection
tdating back thirty, forty, fifty years or
lengthening shadows which tell that the
heat and burden of the day passing, and
twilight approaching that time when, after
a good game of cricket foot ball, racQuets
be 1t what it may-one enjoys a rest and
talk over the incidents of the day. That ia
coming to be my position now. 1 do not
say that / shall not you again. because
there is much that would lead me to pay
visit every and then to New York,
but whether l return or not, let me lake
this opportunity of thanking you for all the
help you have given in the past and
wish you all prosperity in the future
Lambert's Formal Address.
Esmo Howard, counsel TO the British le.
cation. was present. as was also Sir w. H.
Preece, Sir Purdon Clark, the Rev DR..
Morgan Dix, Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford,
]. L. Thomas. president of st. David's So-
ciety; w. \Butler Duncan. president of the
American Pilgrims Society; J. E. Grots
Higgins of the st. Georges Society, the
Rev Dr. Patton. II. C. Hunter of the Cana.
dian Society and ]. S. Kennedy, vice presi.
dent Of the chamber of commerce, and DR..
Wolfred Nelson, one OF the founders of the
club.
President Lambert read the formal adj
dress to Sir, Percy, in which he expressed
the regret OF the members of the club that
Sir Percy was about to go away, and their
wishes that he would enjoy the leisure
which he had won.
Bishop Potter said that Sir Percy's de.
parture was a profound grief to both Eng
ish and Americans here. He said that the
retiring consul general had possessed in q
high degree che three most important re-
quisites for such an important post he was
a gentleman, a, student, and possessed Q
great sympathy fbr the people with whom
he came in contact. He then contrasted
him with the american consul, whom he
met abroad ina land rich in historical In.
terest. The only thing which had attracted
the attention of that consul was the NUM-
Der of insects which infested the consulate.