The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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- ,,A U A .9 e ., If l . lf A ,f wk-Z dig 1. .fl kk 64,5 l as f-S2-J r 'N 'l ll .If-'l', I Ny t . 3 TO THE BRIDE QUEEN, WILI-IELMINA. There is no lovelinessthat can compare With the white splendor of a wedding eve. There is no wondrous whiteness half so fair As lily wishes that good fairies weave. To-day let fall the fetters of old care, N o more shall tristful reminiscence grieve. Nor shall one frowning morrow us deceive, While shines thy soul upon the world's despair. Accept, O Queen, the plaudits of these rimes Amid the carillons of large acclaim That greet thy waking to a dawning year gp Scatter, sweet bells, the music of your chimes, And let our happiness ring loud and clear, Making glad music with thy golden name. I LE.ONARD CHARLES vAN NOPPEN. THE HAGUE, February 7, Igor, 74 tl hop' lb gigteenf HE Sixtee was held on MOU1 r 50 men ht about 8.30 Van Dyke, called The proceedings ing been published ing of the minutes The Treasurer annual report whit Committee on Fin The Secretary I1 rr-IE ssc All llIlllSl1aHy if uring thelagi lftll TCPOI-ted . ustice Henry: img lllel,0ul- . Tihiamg S kms' llwhom Iglentginerp 0 :early ready for PEE

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him and bill with hand of Otfessinn the Choir efore the Wfls gone mga the doors for CI rode, Wal, and l March, rch cere. witnesses , gold and rs. The Heinrich ay station oon and oo Palace. y children. ets, which National d lanterns. ovinces art he music of inspired bl 1-men, alld soldiers 2110 tion foward play of me' I the traits 0 d lolllefi an mme by the ioll n no 73' amount to several hundred thousand guilders, including the entire new Outfit for all the royal retmue, several State dinners, and the important item of warming the church wher many togk place. There, as in all the churches of Holland, no heating apparatus is supplied for the regular services, and a Week ago the air inside was even colder than the freezing air outside, Queen Wilhelmina ordered several stoves to be put in, which were kept fired to their full capacity for a week. It was discovered some days ago that the mechanism of the Organ was out of order, and several experts summoned to The Hague were kept constantly employed in tuning and preparing the instrument. They managed to get it into condition in time for the ceremony to-day. A A noteworthy feature of the holiday season here is the entire absence of extortion on the part of hotels and shopkeepers, and the warm-hearted hospitality with which all strangers are re-t ceived is equally observable. The Dutch journalists rented the former Austrian legation, one of the handsomest houses in the city, and made it a club for foreign correspondents, who have been the recipients of universal kindness. Many of the owners of stands on the route of the Wedding pro- cession have announced that the proceeds will be given to the widows and orphans of the Boer soldiers killed in South Africa. In honor of her marriage Queen Wilhelmina has pardoned or lightened the sentences of three hundred and sixty-four prisoners. The Court Gazette publishes a decree signed by the Queen announcing that the Prince of the Netherlands will have a seat in the Advisory State Council. The Queen and Duke Henry have bound themselves by the marriage contract, in accordance with the statutes, to recognize the husband as the head of the matrimonial union, and to pro- vide for and educate the children of the union. - The wife PT0mises to obey the husband, but, by a special recent act of the l?utch Parliament, she is exempted from the usual promise im wherever he deems it best to live. e the cere- to dwell with h The contract also provides that the Queen shall allow the hlisband interest on fifty million guilders, and that he shall re- ceive no income from the State except in the case of the Queen's, death. It is further provided that the Queen shall yield obedi- EHCC to the husband as Wife, but not as Queen 3 and the hus- an . ' ' - d Tellnquishes the right to administer the wife's property.

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MINA C 3.ll' CS IIDCS OPPEN- at t ? f Ntffsiees. e ' i A, - , f jf , ki A - - i bm? si Sixteenth Etnnual meeting. I-IE Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the Red Room at Delmonico's, on Monday evening, April 8, 1901. About I 5o members were present. At about 8.30 o'clock the President, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, called the meeting to order. The proceedings of the last annual meeting hav- ing been published in full in the Year Book the read- ing of the minutes was dispensed With. The Treasurer presented an abstract of his annual report which had been duly audited by the Committee on Finance. , The Secretary read the following report : THE SECRETARYS REPORT. An unusually large number of our members have died during the past year. Twenty-three have been reported, including one of our Trustees, lUffiCe Henry R. Beekman, Major-General Van Vltet, our Vice-President for the Army, General Wllliam S. Stryker, of Trenton, N. J., and others 0fWh0m mention will be made in the Year Book, nearly TCH-Cly for publication. .. 75