The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-01-03
PRESIDENTS TALK
TO BRITISH NOBILITY
TOOK PLACE IN THE OLD HIS
ToRIc GUILD HALL, 10.
GATED IN LONDON.
ON WILSON'S 62D BIRTHDAY
Reaches Agreement With Mr.. Lloyd
George and Other English States
men, Then Outlines His Plans
for League Of Nations.

men, Then Outlines His Plans
for League Of Nations.
London.-President Wilson's second
day in England was specially marked
by the state banquet in Buckingham
palace Dec. u, which was notable
not only as q spectacle such as
probably no other court IN Europe can
provide the setting for, now that the
thrones Of Russia, Germany and Aus
tria have disappeared, but from the
representative character Of the men
summoned to meet the head of the
American government.
No more regal setting ever had
been arranged in the palace than that
which greeted President Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson when they were escorted
into the banquet hall for the prece-
dent-breaking state dinner.
Elite Of England There.
Besides the members of the royal
family, the official world was repre-
scented by the foreign ambassadors to
the court of st. James, the heads
} of the government, present and past
chiefs of the army and navy, colonial
J officials and members of the royal
household. There also were present
dignitaries of the church of England
representatives Of universities and
men high In the world of literature,
art and journalism.
Every royal Formally which had
attended epochal occasions at the
+ palace for two or three hundred years
was carried out before and during the
, banquet.
1a In Full State Dress.
4 The attendants were in full state
z dress, which was heavy with gold
K lace The banquet hall, which is 20(
}. feet long by Is feet wide. was ap
n preached by the guests through {
j. state hallway about block long. rich
s ly furnished and decorated with por
celain and paintings The banque
hall is occasionally used for banquet
= and other purposes, and has thron'
at one end.
The main table was arranged S,
a. that the backs of President Wilson
II and King George were toward tn
10 throne.
Lloyd George Dimes Wilson.
lg President Wilson concluded strer
uous day of entertainment with dir
= ner at the prime minister's residenc
Co MO OF which oaff
= cred the members of the war cabine
:. and other government and dominic
- officials.
The dinner was served in the bi
i, oak-paneled dining room in which TIL
"A president had luncheon with the pre-
- mier yesterday. The table decor;
tons consisted of poinsettias, chry
inthemums, lilies of the valley an
r. sprigs of holly. Two silver candel
ed bra added to the soft light from th
ed large electroliers suspended over tn
Mt center of the table. There were sma
ok lights on the walls, on which hun
y, paintings, including a portrait I
" Washington, unveiled by the pres
W. dent yesterday.
a Site on Preniers Right.
The dinner was purely informa
Mr.. Lloyd GAeorge was seated {
one end of the table, with Presidel
IN. Wilson on his right and Sir Robe
er L. Borden, the Canadian premie
es on his left. At the opposite end
Is chancellor of the exchequer, wi,
ne William NJ Hughes, the Australia
RS premier, on one side and Gener
m Louis Botha, the South African pr
m mier.
w Wilson Visits Mothers Birthplace.
''' Carlisle, Engiand.-President w
son, accompanied by Mrs. Wilso
20. came to Carlisle Sunday in rain al
~ cold, penetrating mist, to visit Il
Gu girlhood home of his mother. Lar,
VI crowds lined the streets and cheer,
the presidential party Justify. tt
nc president visited Annetwell stre%
NJ where the site of his late grandfat
e er's chapel was pointed out to hi
ny and the house in Cavendish place tn
ms was built by his grandfather. Lat
he attended services in the Lowth
street Congregational church. He
during the services the Rev. Edwa
, m,t Booth, pastor of the church, reque
a ed the president to come into the p
pit and address the assemblage TT
re- the president did, delivering a she
n speech, in which he touched simI
me out eloquently on MS motner.
his
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