The Washington herald., 1909-04-27
DEPEW IS HONORED
At BIRTHDAY PARTY
MOntauk Club, of Brooklyn,
Gives Senator a Cake.
NICE SPEECHES ARE MADE
Noted New Yorker Discusses His
Age and Declares He Has spent
His Life in satisfactory Manner,
and Looks Back COmpIaeentiy.
Tells of Presidents He Has known.

New York, April s-Once upon a time
in the dear. dead past. as the poet says.
the Montauk Club, Of Brooklyn. wanted
10 get something past the legislature, 50
they sent hurry I'D call for Senator
Chauncey N Depew. who was well
thought Of in Albany.
Whatever II was the MontaUg Club
wanted. the Senator got promptly on the
job. Il got passed and ever since Sena-
tor Depew has been a Plus with the
Montaukers- They and their wives meet
every year TO celebrate the Senator
birthday, and laugh right merrily at the
Senator's jokes. Ole OF new, the jests
are perennially fresh with the Mon
taukers
Tonight they congratulated the Sena-
tor on his seventy-hfth birthday and he
n turn talked about the beauties OF
friendship and the famous Presidents he
has known and the queer accidents that
make history. and how silly it was 10
think that only younglings can do the
worlds big Jobs.
Gives Him Birthday Cake.
" Z.
the club. presided. One OF the first du-
ties he had 70 perform was the presen-
tatiOn 10 the Senator Of q gorgeous
bithday cake. four square feet of sl-
very icing and fluffy innards. and a
purse The purse consisted OF seventy
i've new and glittering pennies turned
out this year by the money machine
over in Philadelphia Mrs. DeDew re-
ceived bouquet of orchids and lilies
of the valley.
Senator Depew. in discussing his
age. said,
The most gratifying tribute 10 nv
youth came from President Roosevelt
when 7 called AT the White House at
the opening Of Congress last Decem-
ber. He said. Senator. YOU beat the
record Speaking IN the late canvass
every day and sometimes twice DAY.
travelling hundreds Of miles. and sleep
ing on the cars every night at seventy
FIVE is ahead OF GladstOne's famous
campaign. He did not speak every
day. nor travel. nor live on railroad
trains.
Satisfied with His life.
everybody says 10 me. and to every
one VIII ilr1S tTFlhFH aE HlE age M0llG
your life have been different If you had
10 live It over? No. my friends. granted
the same conditions and no larger In
formation. everything would be done over
again Just the same 8Iy misfortunes
have been my greatest blessings Nv
most serious troubles have been about
things Which never h3ppended.
'ssfy pride in the past Is that I never
knowingly said OF did anything against
anybody which would Leave a sting OF a
pain. that while the official employer Of
5000 men 7 never had a labor trouble.
that in all the animosities or. passions Of
partisan warfare I never lost 4 friend.
and that the sun Of three score and
fifteen rises upon conditions of health
and strength equal TO the best Of all the
years that have passed, and sets with a
prayer for continuing vigOr Of mind and
body and the glorious privilege Of appre-
ciative and appreciated friends
President English, in introducing Sena-
tor Depew. spoke of the long friendship
that has endured between the club as q
whole and the individual members and
Senator Depew. The Montauk Club. he