Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-30
Healths and Praise.

After the healths of President Roosevelt
and Emperor William had been drunk
the Prince Won Pless proposed the health
of Ambassador Tower and this ceremony
was observed with many evidences OF
good WILL
The dinner was given by Mr. Tower $
American friends. the prince safd,. III
recognition OF his services to the CONNER
cial and political interests OF America
The ambassadors German friends We're
pleased to join in this manifestation be.
because Germany also had been benefited
by MIR. Towers 1abors but especially ms
work in preparing the way for tarili
agreement with the United states: me
prince then said he had been Informed
by one of his German friends that 5. n
d. North president of the American, tar
if commission. had declared at public
dinner in Berlin that the appointment OF
the commission by President Roosevelt
was due to the exposition of the situa-
ton in Germany forwarded by Mr.. Tower
to the State Department. Continuing, the
prince alluded to Mr.. Towers part In the
securing Of the German representation AT
the ST. Louis exposition, the exchange OF
German and American prof ssors and the
two donations to German Institutions by
Andrew Carnegie.
Mr.. Towers Response.
Mr.. Tower then arose to reply. In the
| beginning of his address he spoke more
| particularly to the members of the Amer
| lean Association of Commerce and Trade
| and referred to the great good 1t hat
| accomplished in connection with the com
merce and trade between the United
/ States and Germany.
| II wish it could be widely understood
and appreciated from one seaboard o
the United States to the other" he said
that this association of American mer
| chants and business men in Berlin is car
rying on with vigilance and the trained
hand of skilled workmen patriotic worl
| devoted to the interests of the whole o
| American manufacturers and industries
| In my own field of duty that of purel,
| diplomatic relations between the two
| countries very many questions have pre-
scented themselves; they have been dis
| posed of one after the other. and they dt
| not need to be discussed here matte1
| of the greatest Importance. hoWeVer-ant
| I mention it with extreme gratlhcation-
| is that today I can look back over ONT
! continuous stretch of harmony and peace
No disturbing question has caused disap
pointment or heartburn on either SIDE.
| Continuing the ambassador alluded II
the never-failing courtesy of the German
| authorities with whom he had come il
| orncial contact. and he referred to the
| German ideal of home. the administration
/ of justice in Germany. the standards o
/ intellectual development. the Spiendld SNS
/ tenn of public order and the thoroughnes:
Of work in the empire.
| Toast Mrs. Tower.
| Stephen ii. McFadden spoke for the
| American colony and presented the am
bassador with an address beautifully in
scribed upon parchment and signed b,
| upward of one hundred Americans who
| live in Berlin. The ambassador made al
appropriate reply to this presentation.
| Foreign Minister Won Schoen was thu
| last speaker. He requested the permits
| sion of the chairman to make few re
marks, and then proposed the health o
| Mrs Tower who, he said. had during
| her residence here, shown herself to be
model of domestic virtue. and though III
| regretted the departure of Ambassador
| Tower he regretted three-fold her leav
| ing.
| 1t CHANGED that Mrs Tower. in a cur
! tanned loge with number of other lade
OF the embassy. heard the toast. which
| was drunk standing. amid the cheering
| of the dinner party.
/ The date of Mr. Towers farewell audi
ence with Emperor William has not we
| been fixed. although he lodged his re
quest with the foreign Office some week