The Pilgrim Society in the Washington Post 1902-1928

The Washington Post 1902-1928 (only caption and 1st lines..)

*May 17, 1903

PILGRIMS' SOCIETY GROWING
Dinner Will Be Given at London in the Last Week of June.

London, May 6. -- This Pilgrims' Society, which was quietly
organized here less than a year ago by Mr. Lindsay Russell
and a few other American and English gentlemen, and whose object
has been to promote good feeling between England and America, has
now grown to proportions not contemplated by its founders, and
from the prominence of its members already wields a great influence
in the social and political relations of the two countries.

* jun 20, 1903

PILGRIM SOCIETY AT BANQUET.
Wyndham Hopes Ireland Will Become a Bond with America.

London, June 19. -- The first annual dinner of the Pilgrims Society
was given at Prince's Restaurant to-night, and was presided over by
the venerable W.M. Sinclair, archdeacon of London, with the chief
secretary for Ireland, George Wyndham, as the principal guest.
Among those present at the gathering were Senator Chauncey Depew,
Perry Belmont, Lord Fairfax, Gen. Sir George White, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton,
Secretary Carter and Capt. Stockton, of the United States Embassy;
James Macdonald, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Napier, Sir Gilbert Parker,
Richard Peabody, Sir John Puleston, the Prince of Thurn and Taxis,
Sir Horace Walpole, C.F. Moberly Bell, of the London Times; Egerton Castle,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many other distinguished men from both countries.

* jan 30, 1904

ANGLO-SAXONS AT BANQUET
English and American Pilgrims United by Cable Greetings. Delmonico's and Carlton
Hotel Kept in Touch -- British Ambassador Guest of the American Society.

New York, Jan. 29. -- Interchanges of cable messages of good will with the
English Pilgrims at supper at the Carlton Hotel. London, formed a striking
feature of the banquet given at Delmonico's to-night by the Pilgrims of the
United States in honor of sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador,
Bishop Potter presided.

* oct 26, 1904

CHEERED BY BRITONS
Admiral Jewell's Toast at Pil- grim Society Dinner.
NO JEALOUSY BETWEEN NAVIES Admiral's Response to Toast in Honor of American Squadron
at Dinner Given by the Pilgrim Society -- Speeches by British Naval Officers Taken
to Indicate that North Sea Episode is Closed.

London, Oct. 25 -- "I thank God the day has come when neither the British nor the
American navy can be jealous of each other's development."

* jun 24, 1905

WELCOME TO REID - Ambassador Guest of Honor at Pilgrims Banquet.

London, June 23. -- Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador, who has been officially
received by King Edward and the members of the cabinet and entertained socially by
royalty and the leaders of English society, made his first public appearance as Ambassador
to-night at a dinner given in his honor by the Pilgrims' Society of London.

* jun 25, 1905

Dabbling in World Politics.

Premier Balfour, in his speech at the banquet tendered Ambassador Reid by the Pilgrims'
Society of London, was good enough to remind the distinguished company there assembled
that in the future the United States must put up with more or less entangling connections
with the politics of the Old World.

* Oct 6, 1905

RECEPTION FOR PRINCE
Rear Admiral Evans to Be Host to Louis of Battenberg. DINNER ON BOARD FLAGSHIP British
Squadron Will Arrive at Mouth of Severn November 1 -- Rules of Naval Etiquette to Be Observed
-- Journey to Capital, Reception at White House, and Dinner at the Naval Academy.

Upon Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans will fall the pleasant duty of receiving in behalf of the
United States government the British squadron in command of Prince Louis of Battenberg when
it arrives at Annapolis and New York next month. With his warships, Admiral Evans will be at
anchorage when the great vessels of Prince Louis steam up the Chesapeake and round the point
into the mouth of the Severn, to the boom of the admiral's salute from the battle-ship and
armored cruiser division of the North Atlantic fleet.

* Nov 9, 1905

New York, Nov. 8. -- Eighteen American and British warships, from their anchorage in the North River,
will fire in unison at noon to-morrow a national salute of twenty-one guns in honor of King Edward's
birthday. Bach ship will be in full dress, a rainbow of flags stretching from stem to stern. Rear
Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, with his squadron of six armored cruisers, is expected to arrive
from Annapolis early to-morrow morning, coming to anchor probably about 8 o'clock.

* Apr 24, 1906

EXPLAINS FOR PRESIDENT
Why Aid from Foreign Nations Was Not Accepted. America In Adversity, Says Woodford, at Pilgrims'
Banquet, to Show It Can Care for Its Own.

New York, April 23. -- The 120th annual dinner of the St. George Society of New York was held
to-night at the Waldorf-Astoria, and was attended by nearly 400 members of the society and their
guests. Lieut. Col.Count Gleichen, a cousin of King Edward, and military attache of the British
Embassy at Washington, was the principal guest. Sir Percy Sanderson, the British consul at New
York, and S. Uchida, Japanese consul general, were among those at the speakers' table.


* Jan 26, 1907

WARM WELCOME FOR BRYCE.
Pilgrims' Society Arranging Banquet to New Ambassador.

Elaborate preparations for the reception of James Bryce, the newly appointed British Ambassador
to the United States, are being made in this city. Earns Howard, the new counselor and charge
d'affaires, has received official information that Mr. Bryce will sail from England February 13
and arrive in this city about February 21.

* Mar 9, 1907

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Visiting German Officers Entertained at Dinner. SPANISH MINISTER GREETED Mr. Pina Guest of
Honor at Dinner Given by the First Secretary of the Legation and Mme. Pastor
-- Mexican Ambassador and Mme. Creel to Give Reception To-night -- Bryces to Visit Canada.

The Naval Attache of the German Embassy and Mme. Hebbinghaus entertained at dinner last night
in honor of the visiting German officers. Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. Hennigs, Miss Seibert,
Miss Oliver, Maj. von Busse, Mr. Breiter, Maj.von Olschefsky, and Maj. von Losberg.

* Mar 24, 1907

BYRCE IS TOASTED
Pilgrims Society British Ambassador's Host. MANY NOTABLE SPEAKERS Friendship of Two Nations
Keynote of Addresses. Diplomat's First Public Appearance Before American Audience --
Responding to Joseph H. Choate's Toast, He Recounts Various Ties Uniting Two Peoples --
Gov. Hughes Chides the English Visitor -- Most Predictions Verified.

New York, Mar. 23. -- James Bryce, British Ambassador at Washington, made his first official
appearance before an American audience as the guest to-night of the Pilgrims Society at a
dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria.

* Apr 20. 1907

DEAKIN PREDICTS WAR
Australian Premier's Speech Stirs British Statesmen. TELLS ENGLAND TO PREPARE At Banquet to
Prime Ministers at London, Australian Statesman Says Struggle Will Come with Germany and Japan
-- Preparing Defense Without Aid of Mother Country -- Hopes for Reunion.

London, April 19. -- Field Marshal Lord Roberts presided at a banquet given this evening at Claridge's
by the Pilgrims'Society in honor of the various colonial prime ministers who are at present in London
to take part in the colonial conference. It was the most brilliant of the honors accorded the visiting
premiers since their arrival in this city.

* May 3, 1908

HILL DECLINED DINNER.
Refused to Let London Pilgrims Celebrate His Acceptance by Kaiser.

London, May 2. -- The London branch of the Pilgrims' Society did its best to put Dr. David Jayne Hill
in a most unbecoming and uncomfortable position. The society undertook to get up a banquet in London
to celebrate the "happy" denouncement of his difficulty with Kaiser William.


* Nov 29, 1908

REID TO GO, IS RUMOR
Speaker at Banquet Assumes He Is to Return. AMBASSADOR IGNORES STAND Man at Thanksgiving Dinner of
American Society Talked as if Publisher's Tenure of His Post at Court of St. James Was Shortly Coming
to an End -- Ladies Attend the Feast.

London, Nov. 28 -- Thanksgiving day was marked in England, as usual, by a banquet of the American Society,
held at tha Hotel Cecil. It cannot be said that any special distinction was conferred upon the occasion
by the speeches, nor were the English guests who graced the festive board of any particular light and leading.

* jul 1917, 1909

RIVAL POLO TEAMS GUESTS.
Victors and Vanquished Entertained by the Pilgrims.

London, July 16. -- The Meadowbrook polo team, victorious in the recent contests for the American polo cup,
and the members of the British team that played against them were entertained at luncheon today at the Savoy
Hotel by the Pilgrims Society. About one hundred guests, including prominent English sportsmen, were present.
The greatest good feeling was manifested, and the Americans were warmly cheered.

* Nov 20, 1909

FRIENDSHIP BRITAIN'S AIM
No Alliance With America Sought, Sir Mortimer Durand Asserts. Each Nation Strong Enough to Fight Its Own Battles,
He Says, at Dinner to Carter.

London, Nov. 19. -- The Pilgrim Society of London gave a farewell dinner tonight to John Ridgely Carter,
former secretary of the American embassy here, on the eve of his departure for his new post as minister to Roumania,
Servia, and Bulgaria. Sir Mortimer Durand, former British ambassador to the United States, presided and proposed a
toast to King Edward and President Taft, during which he praised the American executive.

* Nov 21, 1909


FASHION'S FADS AND FANCIES
Interesting Events and Gossip, Both at Home and Abroad, as Chronicled in The Post's Exchanges.

COUNTESS VON BERNSDORFF has taken especial pains to adapt herself to her present position as wife of the German
ambassador to this country, and no woman in the diplomatic set in Washington has won more general popularity.

* Feb 6, 1910

KING RECEIVES FAIRBANKS
Victor Emmanuel Discusses Politics With the ex-Vice President. American Visitor Misses Greeting of Ambassador at
Rail-way Station. Pleased With Visit to Rome.

Rome, Feb. 5 -- King Victor Emmanuel today received former Vice President Fairbanks in private audience,
and the two were engaged in conversation for half an hour.

* Mar 11, 1910

FAIRBANKS TO METHODISTS
Ex-Vice President, in London, Tells America's Debt to England. Attends Pilgrims' Society Banquet
Also and Speaks on the Possibility of Preventing Wars.

London, Mar. 10 -- British Methodists gathered in force today to meet former Vice President Fairbanks on the
occasion of a luncheon given in his honor by Secretary Robert Perks. Walter Runciman and a score of other members
of the house of commons were present.

* Nov 12, 1910

FOR PAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY
John Barrett Back of Idea to En- tertain Visitors. Organization Would Show Attention to Distinguished Latin
Americans Who Come to This Country.


To bring about better acquaintance, closer sympathy, and larger commerce among the 21 republics of the western
hemisphere, a movement to organize the "Pan-American Society of the United States," with headquarters in New York
and branches in the other principal cities of the country, has been initiated by Director General John Barrett,
of the PanAmerican Union.

* Nov 19, 1910


NAVAL OFFICERS AS GUESTS
Pilgrim Society Gives Americans Luncheon in London. Vice Admiral Lambton, of England,
Denies Big Ships Are the Strongest Factor in a Navy.

London, Nov. 18. -- The Pilgrims' Society gave a luncheon today in honor of the officers of the third division of
the American Atlantic fleet, now at Gravesend. Vice Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton presided, and had Rear Admiral
Joseph B. Murdock, commander of the visiting battleshlps, at his right. Both admirals made speeches.

* May 24, 1911

NO ANNEXATION PERIL
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Tells British Canada Is Safe. SPEAKS AT PILGRIM'S DINNER Dominion Premier Foresees Time When
an Alliance of All English-Speaking Peoples Will Insure the Peace of the World Forever
Rejoices in Friendship of His Country and United States.

London, May 23. -- The dinner of the Pilgrims Society tonight in honor of the colonial premiers was historic because
of unexpected and noteworthy plain speaking by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the premier of Canada. Sir Wilfrid, addressing
an audience composed of many of the great men of England, handled the annexation question without gloves.

* Jun 29, 1911

PEACE PACT HAILED
Pilgrim Society Diners Enthuse Over Arbitration. HAMMOND GUEST OF HONOR Mr. Balfour Talks of Mutuality of Interests
of Two Nations. Predestined That in the World's History of the Future, He Says, That the United States and Great Britain
Shall Work Together for Civilization and Progress -- Mr. Hammond Looks Forward to Universal Peace. PEACE PACT HAILED.

London, June 28. -- The dinner of the Pilgrims' Society tonight in honor of John Hays Hammond, special American Ambassador
at the coronation, gave occasion for four speeches, which were considered by all present the best exhibition of after-dinner
oratory heard in London for a long time. The speakers were Arthur J. Balfour, former prime minister; Mr. Hammond,
Augustin Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland, and Chauncey M. Depew, former United States senator.

* Jun 25, 1912

BRITISH PILGRIMS FEAST.
Americans Attend Society's Tenth Anniversary Dinner.

London, June 24. -- The Pilgrim Society of Great Britain, at a dinner tonight, celebrated the tenth anniversary of the
founding of the Organization. A number of American pilgrims were present, and it was announced that a large British delegation
would attend the tenth anniversary dinner of the Pilgrim Society of America, which will be held at New York next spring.

* Oct 5, 1912

HOST TO SIR GEORGE REID.
Commercial Club Will Give Luncheon in His Honor Today.

Sir George H. Reid, high commissioner of Australia, at London, who is visiting Washington, listened yesterday to Col. Roosevelt
testify before the Clapp Senate committee, and was guest of honor at a dinner given last night by John Barrett, director of the
Pan-American Union, at the New Willard.

* Nov 11, 1912

BRYCE TO QUIT POST
British Ambassador Announces His Resignation. ADVISES PRESIDENT TAFT Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice Chosen as His Successor.
Retiring Diplomat Will Devote Himself to Literary Work -- Has Had Distinguished Career as Diplomatist and Man of Letters --
Worked for Canadian-American Reciprocity and Supported Taft's Peace Treaties. BRYCE TO QUIT POST.

James Bryce, the British Ambassador to the United States, has tendered his resignation, and will return to England.
There has been no official announcement of the resignation, and the embassy will make no statement, but Mr. Bryce on Saturday
informed President Taft of his action.

* Apr 26, 1913

BRYCE SURE OF AMITY
Nations Can Adjust Differ- ences, He Says in Speech. GUEST OF PILGRIM SOCIETY Former Ambassador Makes No Direct Reference to
Panama Situation Before New York Audience -- Former Ambas- sador Choate Apologizes for Absence of New Diplomatic Beverage From Menu.

New York, April 25 -- James Bryce said farewell to the American people tonight at a dinner given here in his honor by the Pilgrims
Society of the United States. After six years as British Ambassador to this country, Mr. Bryce will sail for home from San Francisco,
May 3, via the Orient.

* Jun 7, 1913

PAGE GUEST OF HONOR
Pilgrim Society Welcomes U.S. Ambassador to England. PEACE KEYNOTE OF SPEECHES Sir Edward Grey and Earl Roberts Extend Greetings to
New American Envoy -- Former Declares Great Britain Ready to Respond to Overtures for Making War More Remote.

London, June 6. -- Walter Hines Page, the new American Ambassador to the court of St. James, tonight received his baptism of fire as
an after-dinner speaker in London at a welcoming banquet given in his honor by the Pilgrim Society. Field Marshal Earl Roberts presided,
and had as supporters at the head of the table Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary; the Earl of Halsbury, former lord chancellor;
the Earl of Aberdeen, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland.

* Feb 17, 1914

'HOLLAND' WRITES OF
Canada's Enthusiasm Over the Peace Celebration. TRANQUILLITY HAS AIDED HER Marvelous Development of the Dominion Might Have Been Checked
Had the United States and Great Britain at Any Time Within the Last Hundred Years Engaged in War.

New York, Feb. 16. -- Much that was said at the recent luncheon which was given in this city by the Pilgrim Society of the United States
to the Earl Kintore was informal, and a good deal of it had reference to the interest which approaches enthusiasm, which was reported at
this gathering to characterize the attitude of the people of Canada to the proposition that there be a celebration of the completion of
100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain.

* Jul 26, 1914

GET SULGRAVE MANOR
Washington Ancestral Home Presented to People of U.S. RECEIVED BY ENVOY PAGE First Formal Ceremony in Honor of Century of Peace Between
English-Speaking Nations Held in Quaint Village Whence Family of First President Came -- Duke of Teck Officiates.

Sulgrave, England, July 25. -- The first formal ceremony in honor of the 100 years of peace between the English-speaking nations occurred
here today when Sulgrave Manor, the home of the family of George Washington, purchased for $42,500 subscribed in Great Britain, was handed
over to members of the centenary committee as a gift to the American people.

* Oct 1, 1915

JOSEPH CHOATE HOPES BIG LOAN TO THE ALLIES WON'T BE THE LAST ONE

New York, Sept. 30. -- Baron Reading, lord chief justice of England, chairman of the Anglo-French financial commission, and Octave Homberg,
of the French foreign office, were speakers at a banquet given them tonight by the Pilgrims' Society of the United States.

* May 22, 1917

CHOATE'S ESTATE WORTH $3,000,000; British Honor Former U.S. Envoy at Memorial Service.

New York, May 21. -- The will of Joseph H. Choate, filed in the surrogate's court today, disposes of an estate estimated at about $3,000,000,
most of which goes to relatives.

* Mar 6, 1918

READING, LANG AND JUSSERAND GUESTS
Pilgrim Society and King George Exchange Greetings.

New York, March 5. -- Lord Heading, British high commissioner to the United States, the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, archbishop of New York and
primate of England, and Jules J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France, were honored guests tonight at the annual dinner here of the Pilgrim Society.

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* NY Times, April 7, 1928

NOTABLES TO JOIN DEPEW RITES TODAY; Leaders in All the Activities of American Life Will Attend Services at St. Thomas's. PEEKSKILL PLANS ESCORT
Entire village Will Be Present at Burial in Cemetery There-- Railroad Offices Closed. Sister Too Ill to Come Here. Forty Patrolmen to Be Guard.
Named to Attend Funeral. Other Committees Are Selected. Many Call at Depew Home.

Leaders in all fields of American life will pay their respects to the memory of Chauncey M. Depew this morning at the funeral services to be
held in St. Thomas's Church, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-third Street.

* LA times, Apr 20, 1907

SAYS AUSTRALIA CAN PROTECT HER SHORES.

LONDON, April 19.--Field Marshal Lord Roberts presided at a banquet

given tonight by the Pilgrim's Society in honor of the various colonial prime ministers, who are at present in London, to take part in the colonial conference.

* The Atlanta Constitution, Jun 8, 1913

WALTER PAGE PRAISED BY PRESS OF LONDON
Strikes Popular Note in First Public Address at Banquet by Pilgrim's Society.

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