Show I INSULTED AT A BANQUET I Justice Woodward of Now York Supreme Su-preme Court Hooted Dow r J ew Yopk Jan 10 Ihp annual c union of tlie Albany Society of Nev York was held tonight at Dclmonlcos One hundred and llfty persons were I present Justice Woodward of the Su I promo court a particular friend of Coy Roosevelt was down to respond to the toast Tho Dutch In Albany and In South Africa He devoted the llrst part of his address to the Dutch In Albany and then turned to the Dutch In South Africa As he continued con-tinued the guests began to cough and laugh and In other ways annoy the speaker When he praised the Boers there was an open outbreak of hostil ities Justice Woodward was unable to proceed One of the guests who called himself Yours Truly John Smith Jumped on his chair and shouted for order The action of some of the members of this society and their treatment of Justice Jus-tice Woodward Is utterly contempt ble he ccxlalmed Justice Woodward Wood-ward is here to speak at the Invitation of the society and his subject was agreed upon I you are gentlemen you will act as such If not then you ought t be ashamed of yourselves He sat down with his face flushed with I anger while 1 a minority cheered and I the others hissed Justice Woodward made an ineffectual Ineffec-tual effort with his to proceed paper but skipped whole pages He finally said l HI want to apologize to you for accepting your Invitation to speak here tonight I wa understood that l was to be your guest and to speak on the subject I have talked on and to read my address I seem to have given you offense and I sincerely npologlre to you youThen drawing himself to his full height he thundered In closing I want to propose a toast to that grand old statesman the William the Silent the Im of South Africa one of most presslvo personalities alive old Oom Paul Kruger There were a few cheers but Kru gcrs name was drowned In an avalanche ava-lanche of hisses Somebody stole up to the orchestra loft and whispered instructions in-structions to the leader l and as Justice Woodward tool his seat the orchestra broke out with Tommy Atkins This made the sympathizers of the British thc element cheer wildly while proBoer ment in turn did some hissing |