Show WAS GUEST OF HONOR I Mr Julia Dent Grant Present at a Banquet I Pilsburg Pa April 27The fourteenth I four-teenth annual banquet of the American I I Republican club of this cltln com memoraUon of the birth of Gen U S I Grant was held at the hotel Schenley tonight and was In many respects the most successful dinner yet given by the ye famous organization The guest of 1 I honor was Mrs Julia Dent Grant widow o the great soldier and statesman states-man Among the distinguished personages per-sonages present wero PuslrnasterGen I era Emory Smith Congressman Robert Rob-ert G Cousins of Iowa Senator M A I Hanna of Ohio Gov C W Atkinson of Vest Virginia Col James E Barnett Bar-nett of Pennsylvania and Charles F Dick of Ohio Thlrlyelght tables with covers for 500 were arranged about the speakers table which occupied thi center of the room Sealed In the balcony at the north end of the hull was Mrs Grant and a reception committee of twenty five prominent Pils burg ladles I was the first time Mrs Grant had attended at-tended a banquet given In honor of her husband although frequently Invited to such functions When she entered the room she was enthusiastically welcomed wel-comed the applause lasting several minutes I It was 9 oclock before the guests cal down to dinner and 1115 oclock when Robert Pitcairn the chairman rapped for order The first speaker was 1osl masterGeneral Smith who responded to the toast National Developments After paying trlbule to the memory of Gel Grant the speaker turned to the counlrys recent territorial acquisitions acquisi-tions When the applause following his address ad-dress subsided Congressman Robert G Cousins responded to the toast Grant The response was a glowing tribute to the memory of the great man and during Its delivery S I lencrs were moved to teal and again to outburst of patrlollc applause The venerable widow In her rather secluded position was visibly affected When the point In the programme was reached where Mr McKinley was expected to respond to the loasL Our I Country Toastmaster Burl lgh announced an-nounced that It was impossible for Mr McKinley to be present and instead of the toast Our Country he proposed pro-posed that the health of Ir U S Grant be drunk In silence The scene which followed was one of the mosl impressive of the evening Following this Senator Hanna spoke on The Greatest Century Mr Han nas address closed the programme and at about IMS in the morning the banqueters dispersed |