New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-01
GREET FRENCH VISITORS
Members Of Society Of the Gin
Cinnati Hosts at Reception.
MAYOR AND WIFE ATTEND
Flags of Two Nations Mingle IN
Decorations of Ballroom at
House of Alexanders.

\ committee of members Of the society
( Of the Cincinnati gave a reception last
night at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
! 3. Alexander, No. I West SSH street, FOR
the French delegation to the Champlaln
! tercentenary. The Stars and Stripes, the
! tricolor Of France and tho blue and whit"
! or the society decorated the ballroom The
/ French delegates attended after a reception
OF the steamship La France. and many
others we're guests from dinners, among
those who entertained being Justice AMI
| Mrs Francis Key Pendleton. at the Metro
poltan Club. Their guests included Mayor
| and Mrs Gaynor. who afterward went 10
tho Alexander house.
The committee in charge Of the affair in
/ cluded winslow Warren. president general
James Smons, yice-presdent general
! Charles Is Alexander NcDOugall Hawkes.
/ John Lambert cadwalader. II. Rieman Dd-
/ val. Lieutenant Colonel Asa Bird Gardner
! Charles Isham James Mortimer Montgom
cry, Robert Clark Morris. Talbot Olyphant
! Justice Francis Key Pendleton, Colonel
/ Charles L. r Robinson ard William Stur-
/ sis The members Of the society wore the
1 eagle Of the order, hut no other drcora-
tons
! The reception was followed by dancing
/ and supper was served about midnight \
number e guests more especially the
/ younger set. were invited for the dancing
/ Among the guests, IT, addition to The
French delegates. were the Ambassador Of
/ France and Nine. Jusserand, Comte and
J CCmtesso dc Pourtales, Captain and Mr.
/ Philip NJ. Lydis. Mr.. and Mrs. William ".
/ benjamin, MIR. and Mrs Charles Dana Glib
son, Mr. and Mrs Courtlandt Nicoll. Mr..
and Mrs. Augustus Jay, Mr.. and Mrs. How
/ land Pei, the Rev and Mrs AleNand"r
! Hamilton Mr.. and Mrs Snowden \. Fahn'-
stock. Mr.. and Ms Columbus O'Donnel
lselin. Mr.. and Mr. Bradsh o. Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs T. J. oakley Rhlreander Mr.
AMI Mrs J. Borden Hartman, Mrs. NJ.
Lawrence Kcene. Miss Pauline Robinson
Henry Ciews Miss Malel Choata. Albert
Eugene Galatin. Hamilton Fish. jr Adr all
1selin H. Erskine Hewitt Henry Waters
Taft Nr and Mira Forbes Hawkes., Mr.
and Mrs stephen II =. PeU, Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen g. Wellman. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert =.
Morris Mr.. and Mrs. j. Norman dc X.
Whitehouse. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ere
lInghuysen Mr. and Mrs william Beverley
Rogers. Mr.. and Mrs sydney : Brces",
Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Lawrence. MI and
Mrs A. Governor Morris. Douglas Rob
inson. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Livingston Pro
fessor and Mrs H. Fairfield osborn aHH
Mr. and Mrs 4. n. Pruyn.
The French delegation were the guests Of
the French Line AT dinner on board TN"
La France Moro than three hundred
guests were present TO meet the members
OF the French commission headed by Ga
brel Hanotau1, tho former Minister OF
Foreign Affairs. and 70 view the hass-reiie.
la France" the work OF the French
sculptor. Rodin. which was on exhibition
I'm tho main comIsniouway Of th" vessel.
Paul Faguct. the general agent Of the
French Line. was the POSTMASTER. The
first speaker Was :. D7l Piar. IN" director
general ~ tho line. who spoke on the de-
voloument OF transatlantic travel during
the last half century. H. said that tho
largest American flag that had ever floated
from the masthead Of a steamer had been
on the La France on her first trip acros 5
the Atlantic. The faG was A gift 20 the
French Line from Robert Bacon, the 70
firing United states Ambassador 20 Franc"
Jules Jusserand. the French Ambassador
70 this country. spoke Of the close relation
ahip between France and the United states
and he said &: was growing stronger each
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