Report to the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on European Tour

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Excerpt from Report to the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on European Tour: Made in the Interest of the St. Louis World's Fair, April, 1903D. C. Haldeman, President of the American Society in London. The menu of the dinner and the seating of the guests are shown as part of this report. The American Ambassador occupied the seat of honor on the right of the President, Lord Devonshire was on his left, and I was located between Lord Devonshire and the Lord Mayor of London. After a few words of introduction by the Chairman and a toast to the King of England and the President of the United States, the latter being responded to by Lord Devonshire, whose remarks made a profound impression, not only upon the company assembled, butualso upon the entire English people, the American Ambassador proposed the sentiment, The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and after a speech of about twenty minutes introduced me to make the response. My reply was thirty minutes in duration and $chzsts appeared to be well received by the assembled company. Mr. John Barrett, the Exposition's commissioner-gen-g eral to Asia, then-proposed the success of the exhibit of the United Kingdom at St. Louis in 1904, in a speech of about ten minutes, which was responded to by Lord Londonderry, a member of the English Government and President of its Board of Education, and by Sir Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, after which speeches were made on the subject of the World-wide Effects of International Exhibitions, by the Lord Pro vost of Glasgow, Sir E. H. Garbutt, Bart., and sire. H. Holland, M. P. This completed the regular program of the evening. The impromptu proceedings consisted of felicitations of the American Society by its Secretary.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.