Show PEACE IS ONE FOR ALL TIME toasts to england and america at new york chamber of commerce banquet new york nov 21 the of one hundred and thirty seventh tonight at delmonico morris K jessup president or the chamber presided and with him sat jos IL choate general horace porter brigadier general frederick D grant rear admiral jos B cochlan and governor andrew montague 0 virginia william alige ley comptroller of the currency ir edwin A alderman president of aba university ot virginia alfred boce ley and lieutenant general adna R chaffa the first toast of the evening wa to the president of the united state and this was followed by a toast to the king of england then followed tb toast england and america to which mr choate responded general porter responded to tha toast the diplomatic and commercial relations between the two great republics governor montague of clr ginia spoke to the toast our united country and president alderman to the toast tha making of a national mr choate said 1 I think that during the last wack there was a demonstration in this city and country that must carr home to the dmd of our friends the water the conviction that the peace existing between these two countries can never be broken it it upon tho united action of these two nations in peaceful employments that the peace of the whole world dei pond referring to tho entertainment oc the chairman at a chamber banquet in london by the london chamber of commerce mr choate said it was at that banquet that lord lansdowne Land downe uttered this sentiment tha president of the united states will in the years that lie before u be not only in thia country but iu the world a potent influence for peace and tor the good of the human race within a few short weeks after the utterance of that sentiment the president of the united states fell by tho hand of an assassin but the king never dies and tha president never dies and what lord landsdowne said on that occasion has been bic emp lined with marvelous marve loua boreo toreo by tha example of our present president now truly haa he been a potent influence for the good of the human race seldom doea it fall to tho lot of any man emperor king or pread dent to render mankind the bervice it has been hla great and good fortune to render during the last year when the part that he had in bringing that terrible war to an end i realized if it ever does become fully known it will be seen that he deserves th name of peace as greatest ot all high mr choaja lamented tha absence from the high jeaa of the american flag and said he holod that the voica of tho chamber would b potent in demanding that something be don to nestoro the flag to the seas st petersburg nov vica adi maral Bir ileff minister of marina closed the new admiralty yards today 1 owing to the demands of the workmen for an hour day new york nov 21 the dramatization of mrs humphrey ward nofel the marriage of william ashe was presented at the garrick theatre tonight for he first time in new york with grace ceorge as lady kitty aba play was favorably received by large |