New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-19
ENGLAND ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER PEACE CENTENARY
aroe Gathering at Meeting
Held at Mansion House, in Lon
don-EarI Grey Speaks.
AMBASSADOR H0N0RED
Audience Rises in Silent Tribute
After Letter from Mr.. Reid
Is Read-To Honor
Washington.
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london. Dec. 19-The celebration OF
century of unbroken peace between
the English speaking peoples is bring
ing into line an imposing array Of dis
.,,e,,ished men and women in America
and Great Britain. Notable speeches
we're made and some very notable mes
sages were read at the meeting pro-
NOTED by the celebration committee for
the opening of preparations on this side
NJ the Atlantic in the Mansion
House yesterday. Perhaps the most
impressive of all the messages in the
circumstances was the following stir
ring and pathetic letter, which White
law Reid had written from Dorchester
House twelve days before.
| am finding once more this week that
there is never convenient moment for
being III. but nothing has troubled me so
much since the breakdown three or four
weeks ago that followed my overwork In
The autumn and early winter as to learn
now that the physicians will not consent
10 my attending the public meeting at
the Mansion House TO help inaugurate
your movement for celebrating the hun
dredth anniversary of peace between our
two countries. | especially wish to he
present because ] regard this as an event
Of enormous importance and think that
failure TO give IL such a celebration as
should challenge the attention OF the
whole world would be a crime.
You may have possibly noticed that at
our last Fourth of July celebration by
the American Society in London / took
opportunity 10 bring the matter forward
as prominently as l could. If l dared
Mayors meeting l would. and il by the
time II comes I can escape so far from
the thraldom Of the physicians l surely
shall be. In the mean time ] hope that
the work is in as forward and as promis-
Ing a state in my country as here. I am
sure that the centenary could not have
come al a moment more hopeful for the
peace of the world.
Rise in Silent Tribute.
After Earl Grey had read this letter
the audience rose in a silent tribute to
the memory of the dead Ambassador.
Mr.. Asquith wrote: The peace which
has stood the strain of changing gov
ernments and varying circumstances is
an example TO the world of the posi-
bility Of harmonious and sympathetic
interactio between nations equally
proud and equally Independent, thus
constituting a state of things for good
scarcely less important for the Old
World than the new. The objects which
the committee are met TO promote have.
need hardly say, the cordial support
both of myself personally and his ma
jestys government
Sir Edward Grey wrote expressing
the fullest sympathy with the object.
Lewis Harcourt wrote that no better
testimony could be made to their feel
ings Of sorrow for the late Whitelaw
Reid than a full and immediate re-
Spouse to the appeal TO be made by the
committee.
The following cable dispatch from
Theodore Roosevelt was read:
Ny heartiest congratulations to those
assembled In the historic Mansion House
and my earnest wishes for success in the
effort to secure an adequate celebration
Of a century Of peace between the great
English speaking Empire Of Great Brit
ain on the one hand and the great Eng
Republic of America on the
other
n. H. Perris. secretary of the Brit
ish committee, read messages of sym
patty from J. A Stewart, chairman OF
the American committee Theodore
Marburg. American Minister to Bel
GUM. Alton 3. Parker. vice chairman
of the American committee, and W. Il.
Rowland, Lord Mayor Of London. who
presided, said II was proposed To ce"-
brate the centenary in an imperial
imposing and impressive manner wor-
thy of the great occasion in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain and all
English speaking lands. He was sure
the proposal would have the support OF
the whole empire, and he thought the
rich and the poor alike should be al
forded an opportunity of participating
Earl Grey Speaks.
Earl Grey, president Of the British
committee. said that one suggestion
which had been submitted TO the Amer
lean committee was that monuments
which should commemorate In an I'M
pressive and sufficient manner the nun
bred years of peace should be erected