CHAPTER IV 



Washington {continued) 



As Monday, November 21, was the date of the first 

 meeting of the Plenipotentiaries in conference at the 

 State Department, it marks a stage at which it is 

 fitting to open a fresh chapter. The photograph 

 opposite, taken by Mr. Rice of Pennsylvania Avenue, 

 gives excellent likenesses of the six Commissioners 

 and their two Protocolists, the gentlemen on whom 

 the duty devolved of taking down a record of the 

 proceedings. Bergne officiated in this capacity for 

 our people, and Mr. John B. Moore, third Assistant 

 Secretary of State in the State Department, per- 

 formed a like office for the Americans. Mr. Moore 

 was a very efficient and agreeable gentleman, and is 

 well known as the compiler of many useful official 

 publications, especially a very exhaustive and valu- 

 able work on Extradition. That evening Mr. 

 Chamberlain, Sir Charles Tupper, Henry Edwardes, 

 Bergne, Beauclerk, and I went to Albaugh's Theatre 

 to see Richard Mansfield in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. 



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