The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-03
WHY DEPEW IS NOW
ALIVE
REFUSED TO BUY ONE-SIXTH
BELL TELEPHONE INTEREST,"
LINCOLN AND BRITISH ENVOY
UNPUBLISHED TALE.

New York, May "a great birth
day cake, sparkling with Is candles
and garnished with an equal number
of new pennies, was presented to Sen
ator Chauncey M. Depew last week
at a dinner in honor of his 18th
birthday at the Montauk club, Brook
Ign. He has been the guest of honor.
on II previous occasions Prior to
the dinner Mr. and Mrs. Depew held
a reception. Senator Depew was the
only speaker, a custom which has
been rigidly observed at his birthday
dinners.
In the course OF discursive, in
innate talk, in which anecdotes were
many, Mr.. Depew said:
cit has been reserved for our per-
iod of peace conventions and Hague
tribunal to more feverishly increase
ornaments and invent more deadly
devices for war than in all previous
history combined War was pre-
vented at the last moment three years
| ago between France and Germany by
the Algeciras convention. 1t is the
opinion of the best informed Euro
pean statesmen, and, l have been
| told, of the highest officers of the
army, that a general European war
was recently averted over the Balkan
situation. War so seriously affects
labor and capital.
A Bit of Unpublished History.
"a veteran English statesman who
was attached to the British embassy
during the civil war told me last
summer an incident never before pub
lished. The British minister at that
time accredited to Washington was
Lord Lyons. He was an English dip
lomat of the old school, dignified,
formal, able and a bachelor. He Of
ten dined alone with full courses ana
full ceremony. In the midst of his
announced, follow the servant into
the dining room and take his seat at
the table. Of course, with his ideas,
the minister was as astonished and
complimented as if it had been the
king in the countries where he had
before served.
He would urge the president to
join him in the dinner, but the pres
ident would answer, according to my
informant, No, Lyons, have had my
dinner If anything comes which is
inviting I'll browse around but be-
fore the president departed the ever
present, dangerously acute situation
and fear of Great Britain's recogni-
ton of the confederacy and the means
of averting it were under discussion.
No one knew of these visits and in
formal talks. If the historian could
know he would probably say that the
information thus conveyed to Queen
Victoria by her minister, coming di-
rectly AMI confidentially from the
president of the United States, was
the most potent factor of all the in
fluences brought to bear in that crisis
in keeping the queen and her consort.
Dat hnrf nl oil
dial for friendly relations with our
country.
Rap at the Progressives.
cit is the experience of long life
that one is in the earlier period ex-
cited, possibly anxious and afterward
amuseily curious about many revolu-
lions and revolutionists. I have
learned to look with a charitable eye
upon agitation and agitators. In con-
gress there are statesmen who claim
to possess broader, more patriotic
and more liberal views than their
colleagues and who call themselves
progressives and the others reaction
aries. 1t is simply a change of IT'LL
for things which l have known all
my life. The progressives of the civil
war denounced Lincoln as the most
dangerous reactionary of his time be-
cause he would not free the slaves
until the country was ripe for it.
Gardner Hubbard, as government
inspector of the railway mail service,
while in my office, said that his SON.
in-Iaw Professor Rel1 had invented