man
Abbott, General and Mrs. George B. McClellan, Whitelaw Reid, Henry Ward
Beecher, Parke Godwin, Elihu Root, Cyrus W. Field, Mr. and Mrs. John
Bigelow, and Lionel Sackville-West, the British Minister.

At the supper, which was served at midnight, one of the features was the
striking pieces of confectionery. In gleaming white sugar was a model of
the Capitol, and a tall monument supported statuettes of the President
and his Cabinet. Also there was a twenty-four-foot model of the
Brooklyn Bridge with the President and troops crossing it.

At the banquet to Lieutenant Greely of Arctic fame, at the Lotos Club,
on January 16, 1886, Vice-President General Horace Porter was in the
chair, in the absence of President Whitelaw Reid. Besides Lieutenant
Greely, Chief Engineer Melville, and Commander Schley, who headed the
expedition to relieve Greely, were guests of the club, and among others
at the table were Chief Justice Daly, Colonel C. McK. Leoser, Robert
Kirby, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, Dr. Pardee, Frank Robinson, Herman
Oelrichs, C.H. Webb, Colonel Thomas W. Knot, George Masset, J.
O'Sullivan, Douglas Taylor, James Bates, and Chandos Fulton. In his
speech the guest of the evening told the story of his expedition to the
Far North and explained the reason for every action. Arctic exploration,
he declared, could not be futile when eleven nations were offering the
lives of their men in the cause of science. He told the story of the
splendid spirit of his own men during the dreary months at Cape Sabine
and lauded American courage and achievement in all the corners of the
earth. There were speeches by Judge Daly and Commander Schley, and then
two fun-makers were introduced in the persons of Thorne and Billington,
_Poo-bah_ and _Ko-Ko_, from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The
Mikado," that was then playing in New York.

Late in November of the same year the Lotos Club honoured another
explorer, Henry M. Stanley, who had just returned to New York after many
years' absence, completing Livingstone's work in Central Africa. Stanley
sat between Mr. Reid, the Club's president, and Chauncey M. Depew.
Others at the guest's table were Lieutenant Greely, General Porter,
General Winslow, Colonel Knox, Major Pond, General Townsend, Lieutenant
Hickey, Commissioner Andrews, G.F. Rowe, Bruce Crane, Henry Gillig, and
Daniel E. Bandmann. The speakers, besides Mr. Stanley, were Lieutenant
Greely, Mr. Depew, and Horace Porter.

At Delmonico'