Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-05
BRINGS KA|SER'S LOVE
Friend of America, Count Won
Bernstorff Says.
BANQUET IN NEW YORK
German Ambassador Guest of the
Stats Zeitung.
CABLE IS SENT TO WILLIAM
Felicitated Upon Perpetuation of
Bonds Between Two Nations
Since Time Of Frederick.
BANQUET IN NEW YORK
CABLE IS SENT TO WILLIAM

guished gathering greeted Count Johann
! Heinrich Won Bernstorff, the new German
ambassador. as the reception rendered by
the New Yorker StaatsZeitung in the
Manhattan Club last night.
| The gathering was marked by good
feeling. much oratory and mutual express
sions of regard and friendship. Count
Won Bernstorff was in a particularly hap
Ply mood. His speeches were couched in
| language that fairly breathed his appre
citation of the attentions shown him.
He is a man Of commanding appearance
and distinguished mein. His grasp of
American affairs and ways was comment
ed upon generally by those who talked
! with him.
| Cable to Kaiser.
During the banquet the following cable
gram was sent to Emperor Wilhelm at
Berlin
| ''Three hundred guests assembled at in
vitation of New Yorker Stats Zeitung to
give complimentary dinner Of welcome to
your ambassador. Count Bernstorff. beg
| leave to send cordial and respectful greet
ings to your imperial majesty.
I'VE are mindful of the enduring friend
| ship of Germany for the United States, a
| friendship which began in the reign of
your ancestor the great Frederick, has
| been cherished with unbroken fidelity for
more than a century, and has been &C.
centuated in SO signal fashion by you.
| AS Americans We beg to assure you
that Germany's attitude of amity is fully
reciprOcated. We wish your imperial
majesty long and prosperous rule
Introduced by Herman Ridder.
| Count Won Bernstorff was introduced by
| Herman Ridder. president of the Stats
Zeitung, In a happy address. In 1t the
| speaker dweh upon the friendly relations
| existing between the German and the
American peoples.
! Count Won Bernstorff. in responding
thanked Chairman Ridder for his cor
dial greeting, and then touched upon the
| friendship which the German empire holds
! for the United States of America, saying:
Our amiable host spoke OF the cor
dial relations existing between our two
countries. He is well able to express an
| opinion on this subject as he has always
stood in the front row of those who de-
sired to strengthen these bonds OF friend
| ship.
| 'All who have the same wish, and luck
lily both peoples are as good as unanimous
in this respect. can be highly satisfied, as
| a better understanding of each other and
| deepening cordially Of their relations
has marked the passage of each of the
| last years. You can rest assured that
will do all in my power to make the next
years come up to the mark of their
predecessors
Tells Of Kaiser's Love.
At the chamber of commerce reception
yesterday afternoon Count Bernstorff
spoke briefly. He said in part:
| II can assure you that your friendly
feelings are most heartily reciprocated by
| his majesty the emperor and all the Ger
| man people. From the time of the birth
! of the people Of the United States as
| nation down to the present day there has
been unbroken friendship between Ger
many and the United States. My mission
| to this country can be summed up In the
| one wish, that this friendship may con-
| tinue and always deepen.
THE enormous development of wealth
| and industry. based on the great natural
| advantages which nature has given to
| the United States and due to the active,
enterprising and courageous spirit of their
people, has never been regarded with I'M
| friedly or jealous eyes from our banks
of the North and Baltic seas.
Great and civilized nations consider
the prosperity and happiness of other peo-
| pie not as hindering but as helping their
| own"
Reply From Kaiser.
| The response of the German emperor
to a cablegram of friendship and good
will sent to him last night by the guests
| at the dinner to the ambassador was re-
ceived today by Herman Ridder.
The emperor's cablegram read as fol-
| lows:
| BERLIN, February 5, 1905
"Mr. Herman Ridder Substituting,
| New York:
| II thank you and those participating
| in the dinner given to welcome my am
| bassador for the sentiments of friendship
expressed in the cablegram. which l sim
| cerely reciprocate. WILHELM /. r."