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Show A BANQUET TO STANLEY. The African Explorer Will be Entertained hj the New Vork 1'rei.. Club. New Yohk, Jan. 31. Special to The Tilks. The press club will give a banquet to Henry M. Stanley this evening. The resolution by tho press club to entertain Stanley has caused a split in the ranks of the journalists of the city. Many members, although they were in the minority, were opposed op-posed to accordiug any distinction to the Africau explorer on the ground that more widely known authors and writer who have visited New York from time to time have never been invited to the hospitalities of the club except in an informal way. Among the invited guests to the uanquet are Chauncey M. Dcpew, John Russell Young, Mayor Grant and Col. Joromory Knox. i |