Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-05
CLIENT DELEGATES
RECEIVE WELCOME
Peace Centenary conferees Adj
dressed by Mayor Gaynor
and Lord WeardaIe.

NEW YORK. May 5.-De1egates TO
the conference which is arranging
for the centenary of the treaty of
Client, Signalling a hundred years of
peace among speaking peo-
pies, journeyed from their hotels TO
the City Hall today 70 receive the
eitys formal welcome. The program
included addresses by Mayor Gaynor.
Lord Weardale. head of the British
delegation; Alton p. Parker and
others
Although the centenary of the
treaty. of Client VIII not be reached
until December %. 1914. It is the pnr-
pose OF the conferees to make elab-
crate plans in advance for suitable
celebration, which will include cere-
monies at Client and in churches and
schools and by legislative bodies and
other organizations throughout the
English world. Plans also
are to be made for the erection of
various monuments commemorative
of the event.
|
delegates there are to be many social
gatherings in their honor during the
week, the chief Of which will be a
banquet ON Friday night, at which
Joseph H. Choate will preside. On
Thursday the delegates will be en-
tertained at luncheon by Colonel
Roosevelt at Sycamore and by An
drew Carnegie at a garden party.
| Leaving New York the delegates
will be the guests of the American
committee in Boston, Washington,
Philadelphia, Chicago. Detroit, Mag
ara Falls and Buffalo.
"As close In heart. so close lie
Canada and the United States
geographically" said Mr.. Parker in
welcoming the delegates.
There are 3.S47 miles of oppor-
| tunity for trouble, the longest inter-
national boundary in the world. moi
fortified. nor guarded nor watched
with suspicion since 1877, when the
British and merican governments in
formally agreed to the disarmament
| of the Great Lakes and the whole
borderland. With such a record in
evidence, who shall say that nations
may not dwell side by side and be fol-
all time at perfect peace, or that &c
maintain peace they must stand ever
eady with hand on trigger, alert for
| trouble?
I'VE have long heard that it is the
battleship and the fort and the batta.
lion that made peace possible. Oul
children will call this obsolete doc
trine, for the day is at hand when
war will be prohibited by psblic
| opinion in every empire, kingdom
principality and reprblic; when the
! jnstice of decision by arbitration will
replace the inidstice of decision by
war; when army and navy will be
/ disbanded, when all forts will be-
come historic relics; when all the
iron panoply Of war shall rhst away
dpon an international scrap heap.
May we not--offering odr apol
| ogies to John Disney Adams, nov
for then. as of the 10Th day of Jan.
| Diary, 1S15-venture TO wish anc
prophesy that, the hinges being hope.
lessly rusted by now, the Temple OF
| Janus closed at Client in the veal
1915 shall never be opened again."
The setting for the occasion-the
Governors room of the City Hall
was historic. Mr.. cernegie occupied a
seat beside Washington's writing
desk, and most of the delegates sat
| in chairs used by senators and repre-
sentatives of the original United
States Congress. Mayor Gaynor
asked. What is the sense of going
to war anyway He compared wars
TO dog fights and boys fights, and,
| like Mr.. Parker, referred to the
friendly relations between this coun-
/ try and Canada.
| Lord Weardale. head of the British
delegation, replying, said he hoped
the peace celebration would "be a
potent lesson to the whole world.
| I'VE pray that the next century,
he concluded, will be ecen more
! fruitful of good will and good fellow
| shin amongst us than the one just
about to close. We look forward with
hope and confidence on the growing
| intelligence and increasing culture
| of all races of men, but we hope thai
what we have done may be of service
to other people and that the cause
of peace throughout the world may
be advanced by what the American
people and ourselves have been able
TO accomplish"
Governor Foss. of Massachusetts,
nominated C. DeBruyne, alderman
and scientist of Client, chairman OF
the session. He was unanimously
elected. Mr.. DeBruyne addressed the
assemblage in English. ''Ghent is
proud of having been chosen as q
neutral ground for the peace nego-
tiations of 1914 between two mighty
nations, he said.