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Show Jn Honor of lii&niarck. Tlie German-American Club of New Tork . ' Enjoy it liaiiquet. - New York, April I.-Although the great German statesman, Prince Bismarck, Bis-marck, is now in retirement and the young emperor has taken tho sceptre of power from his hand, the name and fame of. the ''Iron Chancellor" is still dear to tho heartB of tho Teutonio residents of this city. Today Otto Von Bismarck, who iu regarded by the Germans as the Washington of the Fatherland, is sev-euty-tive years of uge, and extensive arrangements have been made to celebrate cele-brate the event and by so doing honor the warrior statesman." The ex-chancellor will be toasted throughout the length and breadth of Germany, but the celebration cele-bration will not be more enthusiastic than that of the German-Americans, who honor Bismarck as a German subject perhaps more than as tho great uud powerful chancellor. The celebration has taken the form of a banquet at the German club, which promises to be notable not-able iu a comniercii.l as well as in a social sense. Prominent among those who are expected to participate are Carl Schurz, Oswald Ottendorfer, Consul-General Consul-General A. Feigul, the olliciul representatives represen-tatives of the German empire at this port, Secretary of State Cook, William Steiuwny, Theodore A. Havomeyer, the great sugar refiner, I. A. Poppmihuseu, of railroad fame, and other Germans, prominent in railroad, 6teamship and commercial circles. - . .-- , |