New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15

MATTER OF GOOD FAITH
British Ambassador Praised for
Good Work Here and Hailed
as Representative of
All His People.

| guests listened to speeches by three men
I of brilliant oratOrical ablity-Joseph H.
J Choate. former Ambassador to the Court
! Of St James's: James Bryce, Ambassador
/ from England. and Charles Francis
/ Adams. direct descendant Of President
/ John Adams.
! Mr.. Choate. who followed Mr. Adams
/ or. the speakers platform. referred TO the
| universal regret in this country over the
/ approaching departure Of Ambassador
| Bryce who. he said, has proved nimseI
/ 10 he so thoroughly an ambassador not
merely to our government at Washing
/ ton, but an ambassador from the whole
/ British people to the whole American
people"
Nfr. Choatc said he doubted II England
| could furnish another such man as MI
] Bryce. and then spoke Of what the rctir-
| ing British Ambassador had done for this
country in the signing OF thirteen treaties
with our Secretary Of State.
The former Ambassador TO the Court
Of st. Jamess spoke with evident emo
ton when he referred TO the Panama
Canal controversy between this country
and England. and wanted TO know II the
American people were willing to go back
upon their whole history and give them
selves away on great question Of good
| faith a between America and other coun-
tries.
Mr.. Adams also referred to the Panama
Canal treaty and said he believed that
what gas right between individuals was
also right between nations.
Mr.. Bryce said that out Of genealogy
history Sprang. and praised the work OF
the society for the good it had done IN
establishing connections between families
in England Scotland and Ireland with
families in America.
Mr.. Choate said, in part
Mr.. Bryce is perfectly fair game on
! this occasion. He has been wandering
| up and down the land for the last hNe
or six years. gathering laur"ls and de-
grees and gowns and diplomas. and from
what ! know Of the domestic economy or
his life in England. when he returns
| there he will have 10 build an addition 20
his very modest house in Sussex 10 hold
all these insignia he has gathered. and
| the visible ocular proofs Of the honors
which have been bestowed upon him here.
Want Bryce to Stay On.
II is a great thing for tnis society ia
have captured a British Ambas sador, and
TO have caught him alive. and 10 be able
to put him In the mausoleum OF its IL
brary II does not happen more than
once in many years. England has the
good sense OF keeping its ambassadors on
the job until they grow gray, ana there
is not the annual or quarterly or biannual
or quadrennial change as matter OF
Mr. bryce has been here for FIVE or
six years, and every man, woman ana
child in America wishes he could stay
E.r.. giN o.
bassadors are peculiarly NJ people FOR
membership in genealogical and bioBraph-
ca societies. ] felt my qualifications Tor
membership here after serving SIX years
in England because of the genealogical
demands made upon me BY ontcTprlslng
Americans who regarded the American
ambassador and very properly, az thelr
property. and ! cannot tell you how many
letters received from people in Arkansas
or Dakota or Indiana asking me TO send
them Immediately tho evidence that
could collect Of the relationship they bore
10 a certain man whom the writer mad
been informed had died in the Isle OF
Skye 81 1858. or whereabouts, and whose
defendants were supposed TO have come
10 America.
| / did "A great deal OF service In that
field and | deemed It not uniting but
very appropriate that | should be made,
two or three years ago an honorary
m-mber OF this society. ! could not find
out much about my own ancestors
quiries The late Lord Acton told me he
/ had found my name, spelled exactly as (
spelled II, In some book OF English his
tory in the fourteenth century. and / was
foolish enough not TO ask for a reference
TO IL, and he up and died. and that died
with il.
SO l connected myself with the sturdy
yeomanry OF the heart OF England, who
had connection with st. Johns College
at the time OF Milton and who entered
the college with the poet and continued
as long as he was there. a lady. how
ever. very closely connected with me has
experienced less difficulty. because her
relatives in America nave made very far
reaching Investigations OF their English
pedigree, and have discovered that she
was Of royal descent, really tracing their
ancestry back TO Saxon times and con-
tinuing back and making a direct COM
nectiOn with Ethelryd the Unready. And
In some moments / have thought | could
trace the direct resemblance there.
| should Ike TO continue these ribald re-
marks, and | prefer to follow the ex-
ample Of Mr. Adams and divide my
speech into two distinct portions the
first part meaning nothing whatever. as
YOU have heard with me and with him.
and the second part a little more serious
in direct application TO Mr.. Bryce.
Ambassador from All People.
Now, | have said that everybody in
America was very sorry 10 have Mr.
cause there never was a British Ambas-
sador before him who proved himself 10
I be so thoroughly. as he has done. to be-
| an ambassador not merely to our gov
eminent at Washington. but an ambas-
! sador from the whole British people TO
| the whole American people.
! | doubt IL England can furnish such
another man. They have had great
/ statesmen here with US, but, If / recoleCt
on only one or two occasions did either
/ OF them make an address I'm public /
do not think there is any record Of IL.
except in the case Of Lord Lyons, in the
period of our Civil War; and once Lord
! Pauncefote made speech. In which he
was 80 misre presented by the reporter
and he was stenographer. too-that he
almost felt compelled To resign
! Now. what has Mr. Bryce done for as?
Well. in the six years that he has been
| here-five years and -quarterS-he
| has negotiated thirteen treaties, signed
| thirteen treaties with our Secretary OF
/ state each one OF them tending 10 pro-
mote the cause Of peace and good. fellow
/ ship between our nation and his And he
/ has settled once and forever great
many controversies that might. between
other nations, have given great occasion
| for trouble.
| And besides that, they say that the
Yankees have a faculty OF making them
selves at home wherever they 80. II that
| is so. he must be the most veritable
Yankee 10 be found. as he has made him
self at home in every state and territory
| OF the nation. not excepting Hawaii.
Guam, Porto RICO and The Philippines,
and he has had time. besides that, 10
| make Journeys through this land and
other lands. and. as you all know ne has
already written the best book about