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Show JEWISH PILliKIMS HebrewB Supplied Funds for Columbus Colum-bus Expedition. NEW YORK. Nov. 27 There were more celebrations yesterday of the two hundred and tltlieth annlvi rsary of tne Umdlng of the Jews In America, ltev. Dr. Joseph Krauxkopf of Philadelphia delivered an address last nlf?ht on "The Jevlnh Pilgrim Fathers" before the foung Mt-n'H Hebrew association. "Blessed lias been the lot of the Jews In the United States," said Dr. Kt;iuh-kupf, Kt;iuh-kupf, "and blessed has been the United I States In blessing him. It is a marvel-OUg marvel-OUg story, that of the nettling of the I Jew in the Western continent, and the more we read and study it the gt ranger grows the belief that It was the hand of Provident that opened for Colum- I bus and for the Jews accompanying. the portals of the new world, to afford i a resting place at last to the 'Tribe of the. Wandering Foot and Weary ; Breast,' and a haven to all others seeking seek-ing shelter and peace" Rev Madison C Peters of the Baptist Church at the Epiphany delivered a lec- , tuiv last evening on "What the Jewg Have Done fr America." Dr. Peters pointed out that two Jewish merchants, Luis de Santungel and Gabriel Ban-chee, Ban-chee, supplied tho funds for Columbus' ax uiion. |