Peace Centenary Delegates Arrive.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 5, 1913:
Great Britain Conferrees Come on Caronia to Make Plans for Jubilee.
WILL MEET AT HOTEL PLAZA
To Inaugurate Conference at City Hall This Morning — Greeted by American Committee.
    The conferrees for Great Britain, who have come over to formulate a plan for the celebration of the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, and of a hundred years of peace among English-speaking nations, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Caronia, and were met at Quarantine by an American Reception Committee, who went down the bay on the Dock Department tug. Brooklyn.
    Lord Weardale is the Chairman of the British delegation, and those who accompanied him were: Earl Stanhope, Sir Arthur Lawley, Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, the Hon. Neil Primrose, M. P.; the Hon. Charles Mills, M. P.; Arthur Shirley Benn, M. P.; James Allen-Baker, M. P.; Henry Vivian, M. P.; P. S. Perris, M. A., and the Rt. Hon. Sir George Houston Reid, High Comissioner for Australia, who will represent the Commonwealth at the conference. Moreton Frewin, M. P., another British delegate, did not arrive on the Caronia, but is expected in a day or two.
    On the Reception Committee which met the Caronia were George T. Wilson, Vice President of the Pilgrims Society of New York, and President of the Union League Club; Henry Clews, William Allen Butter, Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University; John A. Stewart, Chairman of the Conference Commitee; William C. Demorest, William H. Shaw, W. D. Forbes, William Saloman, William C. Osborn, and others.
    After the British delegation had been photographed on the deck of the Caronia, together and again with their American colleagues, their baggage was passed through the customs and they went in automobiles to the Hotel Plaza, which will be the headquarters of the conference.
    Lord Weardale, who is a radical peer about 55 years old, said that he had made many acquaintances with Americans on the voyage, and had been pleased at their cordial sympathetic interest in the preparations on both sides of the Atlantic for the peace celebration.
    "On every hand," Lord Weardale said, "feeling has been expressed that the celebration will do good and serve to remind the world at large, as well as our own nations, of the truth of Milton's dictum, 'Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.'"
    He added that during the voyage he was interested in noting the vigor and physique of the 1,805 immigrants on board the ship who were going to settle in the United States and be trained to grow up sroort citizens of that Republic.
    When asked about the Panama Canal question, Lord Weardale replied that the National honor of the American people was so well known in England that there was no doubt that the matter would be settled amicably, and according to all traditions of honor and probity by the American Government.
    With regard to the suffrage question, he said that the damage done to property had injured the cause in every part of Great Britain. The question of how to deal with the fanatical militant leaders was a difficult problem for the Government to solve. Lord Weardale added that with Lord Curzon he was the Chairman of the Anti-Suffrage League.
    Neil Primrose, the younger son of Lord Rosebery, who is a member of Parliament, and wealthy on his own right from the fortune left iim by his aunt, Lady Rothschild, thought it was good of the Reception Committee to leave their beds at 5 o'clock in the morning to meet the British delegates. He has been in New York once before with Lord Rothschild's son, and said he liked America very much. "So far, we have had a splendid time on the voyage," said Mr. Primrose. "and my only regret is that I shall not be in London next week to vote against the suffrage question when it comes before the House of Commons."
    Henry Clews invited the delegates to a luncheon at the Hotel Plaza to-morrow to meet ex-President Taft, Mayor Gaynor, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, George F. Baker, Andrew Carnegie, Gov. Sulzer, Cornelius Vanderbilt, F. A. Vanderlip, Cardinal Farley, and Andrew D. White.
    The visitors were left to themselves for the day to prepare for the coming week of festivities and conferences, which will begin this morning with a visit to City Hall to inaugurate the conference in the Governor's room, followed by a luncheon at 1 o'clock at the Waldorf-Astoria, given by the Pilgrims Society. At 3 o'clock the first session of the conference will be held at the Hotel Plaza.
    Sir Edmund Walker, Charles A. Magrath, M. P., Travers Lewis, K. C., and Capt. Charles Frederick Hamilton, M. A., the conferrees from Canada, arrived by train yesterday and will attend the inauguration at the City Hall at 10 o'clock this morning with Eugene H. Outerbridge, the representative from the Crown Colony of Newfoundland.