Fifteenth Celebration of the Birthday of Senator Chauncey M. DePew

I have had my full share of enjoyable gifts in my several departments of activities, but none of them has given me so much unalloyed pleasure as these continuing, non-partisan and cordial greetings by the members of the Montauk Club. Work and cheerfulness have been our annual texts. A French philosopher said, Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. That man lives best who labors to the limit of his life and dies in the harness. The epitaph placed by his com rades on the cowboy's grave, Here lies Bill Jones. He done his damnedest. Angels could do no more, roughly fills the bill. I have always depre cated retirement from one's business or profession at any time. I tried it last year on the doctor's prescription for rest: The country side, out of doors, the study of nature, some golf, some motoring - any form of recreation - a few friends, no newspapers and absolute abstinence from work. I could say with Tennyson every day, Bet ter fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

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