From Belgium we went direct to Paris,
where we found that Mr. Theodore Stanton, the son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had kindly provided accommodations for
us. We had barely got settled in Paris before an invitation came
to me from the University Club of Paris to be its guest at a
banquet which was soon to be given. The other guests were
ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Archbishop Ireland, who were
in Paris at the time. The American Ambassador, General Horace
Porter, presided at the banquet. My address on this occasion
seemed to give satisfaction to those who heard it. General
Harrison kindly devoted a large portion of his remarks at dinner
to myself and to the influence of the work at Tuskegee on the
American race question. After my address at this banquet other
invitations came to me, but I declined the most of them, knowing
that if I accepted them all, the object of my visit would be
defeated. I did, however, consent to deliver an address in the
American chapel the following Sunday morning, and at this meeting
General Harrison, General Porter, and other distinguished
Americans were present.
Later we received a formal call from the American Ambassador, and
were invited to attend a reception at his residence. At this
reception we met many Americans, among them Justices Fuller and
Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court.
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