New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-05
THOUSANDS PAY VISITS
|. TO AMERICAN EMBASSIES
U. S. Citizens Abroad Celebrate
independence Day by Attend
ing Various Ceremonies.
FLAG ON LAFAYETTE'S TOMB
Banquets in London and Paris
-Whitelaw Reid, Myron T.
Herrick and Chauncey M.
Depew Among Speakers.


London. July 4.-Ambassador and Mrs.
Whtelaw Reid threw open Dorchester
House this afternoon for the annual In
dependence Day reception to Americans
In London More than three thousand
took advantage OF the opportunity to
shake hands with the Ambassador and
Mrs. Reid, who stood at the head of the
grand staircase TO receive their guests.
The house was profusely decorated
with flowers. A string orchestra played
the national airs i'm the large drawing
room on the upper floor, while another
orchestra performed on the lawn. Re-
freshments were served i'm marques on
the lawn.
! Among those who attended were the
Prime Minister and Mrs. Asquith, Sir
Edward Grey, Lord and Lady Strath-
coma. the Duke and Duchess Of Rox-
burghe the Duchess of Marlborough. J.
Pierpont Morgan, Justice and Mrs. Nc
Kcnna. Mrs. John Aston, Lord and Lady
! Bateman. Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Beatty. Nine Nordica. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
| l. Waterbury. Lord and Lady Maidstone.
Charles Lanier. Mr.. and Mrs. Gray Girls
void. Mr.. and Mrs. James b. Duke, Lord
and Lady Camoys, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Burns. Lord and Lady Ancaster Lewis
Einstein, Minister 10 Costa RIGA. and
Mrs. Einstein, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. X. Will
merdlng. Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Straight,
Mr.. and Mrs Edward r. Stotesbury Mr.
rison. j. +. :. Harrison. Mrs. Ira y.
Morris, Reynolds Hit. Minister to Qua
temala, and Mrs. Reynolds Hit. Mrs.
Cooper Hewitt and tho Messrs. Roche,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan L. Mott. Mrs.
Franklin MaCNeagh. Eames MACY eagh
Mrs Lanfear Norrie, Mrs. v. p. Morgan
and the Misses Morgan. the Misses Cum
ningham. Mrs \. J. DreXel, Lord and
! Lady Arthur Butler. Mrs. Joseph Cham
berlain Lord and Lady Choyesmoor9
Mr.. and Mrs. George CORVALLIS West
the Earl and Countess of Craven. Mr..
and Mrs. W. \. Lawrence, Mr.. and Mrs
Maldwin Drummond. Lord and Lady
Dufferin. Lord and Lady Essex. Mrs
. William Cloudy, Miss Goudy Mr.. AMI
Mrs. NJ. p. Grace. Miss Grace. Mr. and
Mrs Robert Grant, jr.: the Earl OF Gran
ard. Consul General and Mrs. GrifithS,
/ Captain the Hon and Mrs. Frederick
Guest. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Y. Harcourt
| Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Higgins. Sir Alan and
Lady tombstone. Sir John and Lady
4 Lister Kaye. Martyr T. Kennard and
( Cora. Countess OF STAFFORD. Lord AMI
! Lady Alagair fnnes Kerr, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kerr Smiley Mrs. McIiyaine, Clarence
! McfIvainc. tho Duke and Duchess Of
, Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Mar
Tin. Mrs. Ronads Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
q clark. Lord and Lady Newborough, Mr.
and Mrs. Almeric Paget. Sir Arthur and
/ Lady Paget. the Countess Pappenheim.
SIR Gilbert and Lady Parker, John 5.
. Sargent. the Earl and Countess Of SUI
. folk. Rear Admiral John r. Edwards.
willis l.. Moore. John Hays Hammond,
| ir.: Mr.. and Mrs. Waldorf Aston. tho
Archbishop Of Canterbury aud Mrs.
Dawson, tho Bishop Of London and
/ Charles Louis Sicard.
American Society Dinner.
| The American Societys dinner in
honor of the Fourth Of July, at the
| Savoy Hotel, brought together many
! DISTINGUISHED persons The Marquis Of
HristoI proposed the toast President
Taft" and ex-senator Chauncey NJ.
Depew proposed THE Day We Celc-
brate." He devoted his speech mainly
to politics.
Ambassador Whitrlaw Reid. in re-
! spending 10 the toast of his health, re-
fused to believe that the Republican
party was on the eve NJ dissolution or
that President Tafts term Of service had
expired.
Mrs Reid and other ladies sat in the
! gallery and listened to the speeches.
Paris, July 4.-The observance OF the
| Fourth Of July In Paris this year was
an especially elaborate one. II. CleVe-
land Coke. Of tn" American Consulate
| General, representing the Sons of the
| American Revolution. placed the Stars ana
Stripes on Lafayette'8 tomb in Picpus
| Cemetery.
| Later in the day special exercises we're
| held al the Lafayette statue I'm the fuller
les Garden Myron T. Herrick, the Ameri-
can Ambassador, delivered eloquent
| address, dwelling on the services OF La
| rayette to the United States. large
number Of American citizens were pres
ent. including Mrs. Matthew Scott. presl-
dent OF the Daughters of the American
| Revolution, AZ we'll as delegations from
| - m
Alliance Francaise and the French
Institute I'm the United States. The
MARQUIS de Lafayette responded to the
| address Of the Ambassador
In the evening a banquet was given under
the auspices OF the American Chamber OF
Commerce at the Hotel Paais dOrsay.
American Ambassadors Speech.
Some 800 guests were present at the ban
ouet which was presided over BY Bernard
J. shoninger, president OF the American
Chamber OF Commerce. The guests In
cluded Ambassador Herrick, NJ. David. the
French Minister OF Commerce, Baron d Es-
tournelles dc Constant. Henry w. Taft
Frank H. Mason. the American Consul
General Charles Legrsnd, president OF the
Paris Chamber OF Commerce; NJ Gall.
president of the City Council. and Reuben
y. Hale, president OF the Panama Pacific
Exposltion Commission.
The American Ambassador. in his speech,
read an extract from the American Consti-
tuition, and declared that this Constitution
could not be changed by a demagogic
propaganda or marred overnight by a sud-
den within" He believed that the old order
of things throughout the world was passing
and that a new epoch In world universal
,tv' had arrived which was PERHAPS best