Show MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION Lord Chief Justice Coleridge Entertained En-tertained by the New York Bar Association New York lOThe Bar assoeia I Lion of New York city tonight tendered Lord Chief Justice Cole ridge a magnificent banquet The Academy of Music was handsomely decorated for the occasion The transformation of the stage far surpassed sassed in beauty any like attempt this city The scene on the stage was magnificenta garden with pretty lawns of fresh green grass beds of flowers graveled walks and most rare and costly shrubs trees and plants The different differ-ent plants shrubs and flowers used in this scene cost 10000 In the southwest corner of the garden is pitched a Persian tent twenty three feet high supported by gilded cords from the ceiling Within and about the tent are placed 30000 worth of Persian works of art consisting con-sisting of armor bronzes and candelabra can-delabra There is 1000 worth of handsome Persian rugs and carpets of every color and design surrounded sur-rounded by an Oriental camp scene In this secluded and fairylike corner cor-ner the Lord Chief Justice was seated together with his personal associates and escort The American and British flags are seen on the right and left of the tent otherwise the entire stage and the entire auditorium are barren of any display of bunting The dining room is in the basement of the academy acad-emy where preparations are made to provide for 1200 guests No finer banquet table has ever been prepared pre-pared in New York At 11 oclock after the addresses were delivered his Lordship was escorted to the banquet hall by a committee |