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On 17 november 1894, a dinner was given at the Lotos Club (New York) in honor of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] during his lecture tour in USA.<br />
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== Attendees ==<br />
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* President of the Club : Frank R. Lawrence<br />
* Speakers : <br />
** [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. A. Conan Doyle]]<br />
** Chester S. Lord<br />
** Harrison P. Wallice<br />
** S. C. James<br />
** Edward Patterson<br />
** Abram S. Hewitt<br />
** William H. McElroy<br />
** Bartow S. Weeks<br />
** J. Seaver Page<br />
** Seth Low<br />
** Bourke Cockran<br />
** David Christie Murray<br />
** [[John Ines Hay Doyle|Lieutenant Hay Doyle]] (Conan Doyle's brother)<br />
* Presents:<br />
** E. B. Harper<br />
** O. G. Smith<br />
** George T. Foster<br />
** Julius Chambers<br />
** Frederick Pennington<br />
** Randolph Guggenheimer<br />
** R. S. Ramson<br />
** J. W. Vrooman<br />
** Jerome E. Morse<br />
** A. S. Goodwin<br />
** George H. Wooster<br />
** Dr. W. W. Walker<br />
** Dr. C. I. Pardee<br />
** R. M. Phillips<br />
** L. L. Seaman<br />
** Horace See<br />
** J. H. Sprague<br />
** J. H. Cowperthwait<br />
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== Conan Doyle speech ==<br />
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''Report from The Times''<br />
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"You are hedged in with romance on every side," he said. "I can take a morning train in this city of New-York, I can pass up the historic and beautiful Hudson, and I can dine at Schenectady, where the Huron and Canadian did such bloody work. I feel keenly the romance of Europe; I love the memory of the shattered castle and the crumbling abbey; but to me the romance of the red-skin and trapper be more vivid, as being more recent.<br />
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"It is so piquant also" the doctor added, "to stay in a comfortable inn, where you can have your hair dressed by a barber at the same place where a century ago you might have been left with no hair to dress."<br />
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He spoke of the romance of the city, and said that a man who could look upon it and return over the seas with only a sneer for its wonders and charms was either hard-hearted or soft-headed.<br />
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== Full Report ==<br />
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* [[Entertaining Dr. Doyle]] (17 november 1894, [[New-York Tribune]])<br />
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