Dr. William E. Chenery.
Charles L. White.
Gilbert Tolman.
H. Bingley Alden.
A. E. Mann.
Henry S. Dewey.
I. S. Tolman.
W. H. H. Moies.
C. P. Moies, Jr.
Charles P. Moies.
Frank Cousins.
Samuel Cole.

S. Dockham.

C. A. Dockham.

Isaac M. Ullman.
F. M. Adler.

James A. Howarth.
R. S. Woodruff.
Laban Pratt.
Thomas F. Temple.
C. J. Shaw.

H. W. Berry.

Dr. F. W. Payne.
H. M. Payne.

G. R. Fessenden.

William Tolman.
F. E. Dickerman.
George H. Pendergast.
Frank V. Noyes.
H. H. Dudley.
William B. Lawrence.
E. C. W. Bliss.
H. C. Whittlesey.
H. C. Holmes.
Charles E. Guild.
John Gardner.
F. T. Beede.

Archibald D. Ball.
C. J. Sawyer.

Dr. H. M. Gardner.
F. M. Clough.

L. F. Edwards.
John B. Gregory.
W. H. Savage.

G. W. Bent.

Charles S. Smith.
Henry C. Attwill.

E. C. Walker.

Arthur W. Walker.

Hon. Clarence O. Walker.

H. O. Russell.
Frank R. Shepard.
D. L. Marshall.
C. F. Grout.
Franklin Enslin.
A. W. Brooks.
T. W. Fabyan.
O. H. Alford.
C. H. Hobbs.

W. H. Small.

E. M. Berry.

Lieut. Frank T. Hitchcock. Maj. William A. Perrins. Lieut. George Proctor.

C. H. Buck.

Charles E. Wyzanski.
Max Wyzanski.
J. L. Rice.
Augustus Pratt.
F. H. Brown.
Dr. E. H. Smith.
William Wattie.
A. J. Hathaway.
S. E. Courtney.
D. B. Dorr.
Frederick A. Flood.
G. B. Rockwell.
James W. Greaves.
F. O. Winslow.
G. F. Willett.
Arnold H. Hartman.
Jacques Schoenberger.
John Woodbury.
A. H. McLoon.
Owen Copp.

John K. Norwood.
K. S. Norwood.
B. H. Grant.
Charles E. Grant.
C. M. Parker.
B. F. Pitts.

J. E. Kellogg.
B. E. Manson.
R. L. Warner.
A. C. Dowse.

H. S. Smith.
M. K. Kendall.
H. A. Whiting.

P. Harold Foss, M. D.

Vol au Vents of Sweetbreads Roman Punch

Filet Beef, Mushroom Sauce Fresh String Beans Spring Vegetable Salad

Salt Almonds

Assorted Plain Light and Fancy Cake Frozen Pudding Orange and Raspberry Ice Water Crackers and Young America Cheese Coffee Cigars

Hygeia Sparkling Distilled Water

THE MUSICAL PROGRAM.

Ample provision was made for the edification of those seated at the tables and in the balconies while the dinner was in progress. The Boston Cadet Band and the Orpheus Glee Club, of sixty voices, of Somerville, led by H. Carleton Slack, furnished alternately inspiring instrumental and

vocal airs. The following patriotic ode, by Sam Walter Foss, was sung at the conclusion of Vice-President Roosevelt's speech:

PATRIOTIC ODE.

BY SAM WALTER FOSS.

Reach forth, O ye land rich in story

And strong in the pride of thy name, For a hope that is greater than glory,

A fate that is grander than fame.

Be the strength of the weak in their weakness
And guard them with banners unfurled,
And in the veiled might of thy meekness
The arm and the hope of the world.

CHORUS.

And whether the war drums are drumming,
Or whether the war-clouds pass on,
March on to the years that are coming,
With the hope of the years that are gone.

O Land of gray Time's exultations
And dowered with power and praise,
Uplifted in sight of the nations,

And come to the fulness of days,
Be righteous to all and to any
And true to thy goal as a star,

That the years of thy greatness be many,
The time of thy darkness be far.

CHORUS.

And whether the war drums are drumming,
Or whether the war clouds pass on,
March on to the years that are coming
With the hope of the years that are gone.

The destinies greaten with fleetness,
The flight of thy morning has sped,"
But the shape of a fuller completeness
Looms up in the distance ahead.
O land of the daring and doing,

Be restless and strong, now as then, Be ever, thy glad youth renewing, The Sparta-like mother of men.

CHORUS.

And whether the war drums are drumming,
Or whether the war clouds pass on,
March on to the years that are coming
With the hope of the years that are gone.

THE SPEAKING.

It was about 7.30 o'clock when the dinner was over and President Draper rapped for silence and began the speech-making. He said:

It has been two years since we have dined together-two prosperous years for our country, our club as a whole, and, I hope, for every member of it.

During this time great events have taken place within our domain. We have had a national election which has continued in power the party whose vital

policies are in accord with our views, has re-elected a fellow-member as President of the United States and has elected as

Vice-President one who is in every way worthy of becoming a member. We have continued the work of suppressing the quasi rebellion in the Philippines and have, I hope, in capturing the much advertised head of the insurgents paved the way to a stable, respected civil government of the islands.

The policy of protection has been adhered to and our great home market, which amounts to about ten times as much as our entire foreign trade, encouraged by a wise governmental policy, has caused an enormous expansion of manufactures whose product has been absorbed. We have had large crops which have been sold at good prices; we enter the new century in the midst of an unprecedented prosperity.

I desire to thank you, gentlemen, for your attendance here to-night and to congratulate you upon your ability to be here to listen to our honored guest.

Since we have with us the VicePresident of the United States it has seemed fitting that he should be welcomed not merely by the Home Market Club, but also by the state and the city.

It is proper to say in this place that many letters and telegrams were received from prominent men expressing regret for unavoidable absence. from the dinner. There was one from President McKinley regretting his inability to be present and extending his greeting and best wishes to the guest of honor and others present: a telegram from Senator Hanna, expressing his disappointment at not being able to come, and a letter from Mayor Hart explaining that he was unexpectedly called away but he wished to extend to the Vice-President the hearty good will and respect of Boston.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR BATES.

John L.

Lieutenant-Governor Bates, in extending the welcome of the Commonwealth, said:

Mr. President, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: Two hundred and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-six men went to the polls last November in this Commonwealth and voted for the distinguished guest of this evening for the next to the highest position within the gift of the American people. Massachusetts did not elect him, but it did its full share of the work, and it has not from that moment to this regretted the part that it took in that election.

But I should but faintly conceive the breadth of my duty here this evening if I should extend to you, sir, the welcome merely on behalf of the membership of any organization or any political party. From the moment of your advent to this city, crowds of men and women on every street, in sunshine and in shade, have shown to you that the welcome that I am here to voice is a welcome of all the people irrespective of party or condition. You may pardon me, sir, for saying that we are glad to see you at close range.

There was a time, to be sure, when if one could judge from things which were published as pictures, one might not have been so anxious to do so. We miss the imperial crown not only on top of the head, but the one that has also been placed lower down.

We recognize, however, that while you came not to us with the crown of gold, studded with rubies or with diamonds, that you have won something better; you have won a crown of public approval, and you have made it brilliant by your own deeds. A throne you have not in the nation's Capitol, surrounded by pillars of marble, but your throne, sir, has been established in the hearts of the American people, and is surrounded by the pillars of human affection.

We welcome you, sir, to a strenuous Commonwealth. Massachusetts was born in a snowstorm, on a bleak and barren coast, as you all know, and from that

hour to the present her people have been strugglers against shifting sands and rocky soil and tempestuous seas. They struggled for the upbuilding of a continent, they struggled against the wild child of the forests in order that they might keep their homes. They have struggled for liberty and they have struggled for humanity.

To such a Commonwealth, sir, it is a great pleasure to welcome you, for thou art a struggler and ever from thy youth thy life has been a strife and a battle for the truth; nor ever hast thou in thy pride from the poor turned aside, but ever with voice and sword and pen thou hast served thy fellow men; therefore art thou exalted and therefore does Massachusetts welcome you.

VICE-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S

SPEECH.

The Vice-President, who was received with a storm of applause, said:

In reading the profoundly interesting and suggestive biography of the great scientist Huxley one cannot but be struck by his constant insistence upon the need, not merely of telling the truth but of doing it-that is, of facing facts, recognizing actual conditions so as the better to grapple with them. One way of facing facts is to remember that fundamentally what is needed for success and righteous living in the individual is also what is needed in the nation, which is itself but an aggregate of individuals. Of course the analogy cannot be pushed too far, because there is a vital difference; for the individual forms part of a community which he and his fellows have agreed shall be governed under certain laws, whereas the nations of the world have not yet come to any such agreement, and indeed cannot come to any agreement that shall affect all until all are on a more nearly common plane of civilization. But the underlying fact remains that with individual and nation alike success of the kind which is alone worth having must come from obeying the laws that tell both for our moral and