On motion, the report was accepted and directed to be published in the next pamphlet issued by the Society.

Mr. William H. Ingersoll, the Librarian, presented his report.

On motion of Judge Bartlett it was resolved that the report be accepted and referred to the Board of Directors for such. action as they may advise.

On motion, the following directors were elected to serve for the ensuing four years: Benjamin D. Silliman, David A. Boody, A. Augustus Low, Charles A. Moore and George B. Abbott.

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. JOS. A. BURR, Secretary.

PROCEEDINGS AND SPEECHES

AT THE

Sixteenth Annual Dinner of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn.

DECEMBER 21, 1895.

To Celebrate the Two Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims.

The Sixteenth Annual Dinner of the NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY in the City of Brooklyn, was held in the Assembly Rooms of the Academy of Music, and in the Art Room adjoining, on Saturday evening, December 21, 1895.

The reception was held in the Art Room, and at 6 o'clock dinner was served. One hundred and sixty-five gentlemen were seated at the tables. The President, STEWART L. WOODFORD, presided.

On his right were seated Hon. CHARLES EMORY SMITH, Hon. ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY, Hon. JOHN WINSLOW, Rev. David GregG, D. D., Prof. HOMER B. SPRAGUE, the President of the St. Nicholas Society, and the President of the St. Patrick Society.

On his left were seated the President of the New England Society in the city of New York, Hon. CHARLES A. SCHIEREN, Hon. FREDERICK W. WURSTER, Rev. J. COLEMAN ADAMS, D. D., Col. LOOMIS L. LANGDON, U. S. A., Commodore MONTGOMERY SICARD, U. S. N.

The members of the Society were seated as follows:

TABLE A.-Presided over by Joseph A. Burr. Geo. H. Fisher, Hon. W. B. Hurd, F. E. Crane, F. L. Noble, L. M. Palmer, Dr. E. A. Lewis, Hon. N. H. Clement, Jesse Johnson, Hon. Aug. Van Wyck, Horace E. Dresser, E. P. Loomis, E. N. Loomis, James D. Bell, Hon. A. H. Dailey, Rufus L. Scott.

TABLE B.-Presided over by Charles A. Moore and Henry W. Maxwell. Hon. Frank Squier, Hon. C. B. Lawrence, George B. Kenyon, Leonard T. Moody, N. Townsend Thayer, William W. Henshaw, Dr. J. E. Richardson, Frank Enos, George B. Alexander, Charles H. Otis, Hon. George B. Abbott, Col. Willis L. Ogden, Charles W. West, E. F. Knowlton, Thomas A. Buffum, Algernon S. Higgins, William H. Hill, E. J. Knowlton, H. B. Moore, Wm. Berri, William W. Goodrich, Timothy L. Woodruff.

TABLE C.-Presided over by Thomas S. Moore and Franklin W. Hooper. J. Spencer Turner, William Adams, Nelson J. Gates, Robert D. Benedict, Harrington Putnam, George Foster Peabody, J. Ed. Swanstrom, William H. Maxwell, James Weir, Jr., Charles E. Teale, Henry B. Haigh, Hon. C. E. Pratt.

TABLE D.-Presided over by Flamen B. Candler and A. A. Low. Robert W. Candler, Henry A. Cozzens, Bowen Bancroft Smith, Rev. R. F. Alsop, D. D., Edward Barr, Charles C. Skilton, Dr. W. B. Brinsmade, Alfred F. Britton, William C. Redfield, Hon. Frank D. Pavey, Hon. George W. Brush, William A. Shortt, George E. Moulton, Commander Barry, U. S. N.; Oliver Hazard Perry, Rev. S. G., Losee, James S. Brownson, Lea McIlvaine Luqueer, Daniel G. Harriman, George F. Crane.

TABLE E.-Presided over by General John B. Woodward. Charles H. Requa, Charles A. Silver, Marshall Driggs, Fred L. Cross, William D. Wade, Col. R. J. Kimball, F. E. Dodge, Carll DeSilver, Cyrus B. Davenport, George H. Southard, John S. James, Michael Snow, George M. Coit, Charles A. Hull, Rev. A. J. Lyman, George H. Prentiss, E. H. Kellogg, Charles S. Sanxay, George E. Bartlett, Dr. J. G. Johnson, William G. Creamer.

TABLE F.-Presided over by Nelson G. Carman. William Ford, Walter S. Badger, John T. Sherman, Charles Adams, William Hester, George P. Merrill, J. D. Fairchild, H. F. Gunnison, William M. Van Anden, Herbert T. Ketcham, William H. Cary, Isaac H. Cary, David Barnett, George H. Randall, John Hanan, Louis Schott, Frank Bailey, Edward M. Grout, A. M. Cahoone.

TABLE G.-Presided over by James McKeen and Ethan Allen Doty. Henry K. Sheldon, John E. Leech, N. P. Collin, George H. Roberts, Dr. J. B. Elliott, Hon. William H. Lyon, George H. Cook, George N. Robinson, Daniel P. Morse, E. H. Barnes, Howard S. Randall, Henry P. Hatch, Dr. Mortimer Lloyd, Ambrose G. Newton.

TABLE H.-Presided over by Hon. David A. Boody. Charles D. Marvin, Thomas F. Goodrich, Nathan J. Sprague, Herbert B. Ogden, Jackson Wallace, Rev. T. A. Nelson, D.D.; Clarence W. Seaman, Charles H. Russell, Remsen Rushmore, Henry C. Eames, Josiah P. Howell.

The gentlemen of the Press:

TABLE I.-Presided over by William B. Davenport. United Press, Brooklyn Standard Union, Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn Times, Brooklyn Citizen, New York Recorder, New York Sun, New York Times, New York Herald, New York World, Associated Press, New York Tribune.

Grace was said by Rev. J. Coleman Adams, D. D.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, HON. STEWART L. WOODFORD.

Gentlemen of the New England Society :-The hour of nine has arrived, the hour at which Miles Standish and Parson Robertson always directed that the punch bowl should be put aside, the barber shop closed and the side doors opened, so that all regulations instituted for keeping the Sabbath according to the Puritan and the Brooklyn fashion might be faithfully observed. [Laughter.] It is pleasant amid the excitements of Wall Street and of the past week, to meet together in this pleasant and neighborly way on Saturday night and keep Forefathers' Day according to the old fashion. [Applause.] Two hundred and seventy-five years have come and gone since the forefathers left Holland and Delfthaven and settled in New England. Within these less than three centuries the seed of the Mayflower has grown and borne fruit until to-night more than seventy millions of people, speaking the language of the old Mother Land, from one ocean to the other, keep alive the memory of Old England and are proud of the achievement of New England. [Applause.] To-day these seventy millions should stand with resolute purpose for all that is best in progress and human development. We may justly be very proud in our great strength. But this very pride and very strength should compel us with united voice to pray that our flag may go to its highest victory in peace and in fraternity with all the world. [Applause.]

The traditions of the New England Society in Brooklyn are that your President shall inflict upon the audience a speech sufficiently long to enable the entire audience soberly to appreciate the speeches that are to follow. [Laughter.] Your Puritanic condition compels me, to your credit, but much to my regret, to make a very brief speech to-night, for, if there be anything that delights a lawyer's heart, it is to hear his own voice, whether encouraged by a fee or a feed. [Laughter.]