New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
hrongs Acclaim Queen,
Honored BY Red Cross
Elizabeth Shows Deep Emotion as Tribute Is Paid
to Sacrifices of Her People; Brilliant Scene in
Autumn Setting of Dawson Home at Glen Cove

The Queen of Belgium was honored
by the American Red Cross yesterday
afternoon at the home of Henry p.
Dawson, Glen Cove, l.. l. Two hun
dred prominent persons witnessed the
presentation TO her Majesty of silver
medal and an embossed copy of the
address delivered by Mr.. DAWSON.
President of the American Red
Cross. General Pershing was one Of
the guests-a new variety of general
with plain black clothes and top hat.
The committee which motored from
the Waldorf to Glen Cove with the
Queen included Mrs. August Belmont,
brotherin-law of President Wilson,
and DR.. John Van Schaik. jr., formerly
Red Cross Commissioner to Belgium.
They whirled through woods CAV
with all the "gold den rags and tags of
autumn" Hedges sprung suddenly to
lie as wayfarers and villagers bobbed
up mysteriously and checred. realizing
that queen was passing. There were
others who waited expectantly in lines
by the roadside and here and there
tne orange. of the Belgian flag Wed
win the blaze of foliage as it waved
from a gate or was huttcred by some
childish hand.
Queen Admires Autumn Setting
The spirit of the autumn woods
was captured and held in the living
room, the dining room and the library
OF the Dawson home, where the Queen
moved among the throng of guests.
She stopped to admire the huge curl
ing golden chrysanthemums and
bronze foliage that adorned the rooms.
- Upon her entrance she met General
greeting on both sides, for it was by
no means the first time the Belgian
Queen and the American general had
met. Together they moved into the
library for the formal presentation.
tllzabeth stood in front of the huge
fireplace, nervously twisting the tassels
of her golden silk dress and seeming a
little alarmed at the gathering around
her. Mr.. Dawson, on behalf of the
American Red Cross, read to her the
following:
"The American Red Cross welcomes
the opportunity to join in the greeting
which the people and the government
OF the United States extend to Thoir
MaJestles the King and Queen of tie
belgllans. and through them to the
people of their heroic country.
Proud Tradition Maintained
"Belgium's resistance to tho enemy
maintained the proud national tradi-
tlon which has descended from the
days of Cesar, who recorded that of
all these the Belgians are the bravest'
1t was this spirit that checked an
enemy OF overwhelming numbers and
impeded mis- progress until Belgium's
allies could make hurried preparation
to avert immediate disaster and begin
the long. struggle which ultimate
turned their threatened defeat into
glorious victory. The mind staggered
before the possibilities of what might
have befallen the world had Belgium
wavered or compromised Belgium was
laid by her own people as sacrifice
on the altar of the worlds freedom.
"The national spirit of Belgium is
typif1ed and personiied in the persons
of your majesties, whose example to
your own country has stimulated cour-
age, endurance and sacrifice in all who
unfeignedly love the cause of freedom.
dom,
"In the qualities manifested by your
majesties and the venerated Belgian
prelate, now also a welcome sojourner
in our land, the American Red Gross
discerns the spirit of service and sac
rfice of the American people, who made
their Red Cross All instrument through
which they might express in tangible
form and by restorative acts their
sympathy for their suffering associates
and allies and their unfaltering de-
termination to spare no effort or sac
rifice until the war should be won.
United States Message to Belgium
Among the proudest privileges of
the American Red Cross was that of
taking the American peoples message
direct to the sacred soil of Belgium
and to its distressed but unconquerable
people.
"And now that the war is happily
ended, the American Red Cross still
assumes the privilege of acting as a
medium through which the American
people may express to your majestes
our national admiration for yourselves,
our hopes for long and prosperous
lives to you both, and our will that
from the crimson fields of war there
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