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British Legation, reception at, 51 ; 



ball at, 124 

 Bugher, Mr., 52 

 Butler, Mr. Sigourney, 59 



— Senator, 52, 59 

 Buttervvorth, Mr., 43 



Caj,l, Senator, 52 



Cameron, Major-General D. R., 



33, 73 



— Mrs. Donald, 57, 152 



— Senator Donald, 57, 145 



— Sir Roderick, 171 



Canada, mission starts for, 86 ; 

 rumour of Mr. Chamberlain's 

 appointment as Governor-Gen- 

 eral, 138 



Canadian Club dinner at New 

 York postponed, 88 ; held at 

 Brunswick Hotel, 169 



Canda; Mr. C. J., 170 



Carlisle, Speaker, 67 



Carroll, Mrs. and Miss, 131 



Carter, Madame, 52 



Cartwright, Sir R, 96 



Chamberlain, Mr. Austen, 198, 251 



— Mr. D. H., 170 



— Mr. Neville, 251 



— Mr. R., 9 



— the Misses, 251, 252 



— the Rt. Hon. Joseph : his 

 appointment, 1, 4 ; departure 

 from Birmingham and his fare- 

 well speech, 9 ; a good sailor, 

 15 ; bored by attentions in 

 smoking saloon, 16 ; inter- 

 viewed on reaching New York, 

 18 ; guest of New York Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, 28 ; remark- 

 able feat of memory qud a 

 quotation, 28 ; dislike to being 

 " shadowed " by detectives, 29 ; 

 interview with an Irishman 

 outside Delmonico's, 30 ; do. 

 with pressmen at Washington, 

 39 ; goes to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. 

 Hyde, 49 ; Miss Tiffany says 

 "he's just lovely," 50; first 

 introduction to Miss Endicott, 

 53 ; visits the Great Falls of 

 Potomac, 56 ; partakes of an 

 orchid dinner given by Messrs. 

 Angell and Putnam, 58 ; at the 

 conference, 62 ; dines with Col. 



John Hay to meet Senators, 

 63 ; entertained at banquet by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, 67 ; 

 gives banquet to his American 

 colleagues at the Arlington, 71 ; 

 visits George Washington's 

 home at Mount Vernon, 75 ; 

 visits Baltimore, 84 ; interview 

 with pressmen at New York, 

 86 ; his rapidity in reading 

 books, 89 ; interview with 

 pressmen at Ottawa, 94 ; tries 

 his hand at curling with Lord 

 Lansdowne, 95 ; visits public 

 buildings in Toronto, 99 ; guest 

 of Toronto Board of Trade, and 

 imposing speech at banquet, 

 1 00-11 2 ; hailed by a Birming- 

 ham man at Toronto, " Same 

 old Joe," 113; attired in tar- 

 paulin, goes under the Horse- 

 shoe Fall at Niagara, 114; his 

 coolness in a dangerous incident 

 at Niagara, 117 ; started life in 

 the shoe trade, 117; visit to 

 the Senate at Washington, 120 ; 

 press allegation of abuse of 

 Senate floor, 121 ; attends ball 

 at Legation, 126 ; dines with 

 Mr. Bayard, 128 ; dines with 

 Col. John Hay, 128 ; attends 

 reception at the White House, 

 129 ; dines with the President, 

 134; gives second banquet at 

 the Arlington, 134; diagnosis 

 of his character by palmistry, 



135 ; his luck at Monte Carlo, 



136 ; speaks into a phonograph, 

 136 ; his rumoured appoint- 

 ment to be Governor-General 

 of Canada, 138; annoyed by 

 scurrilous and unfounded press 

 allusions to his attentions to 

 Miss Endicott, 139 ; rebuffs an 

 ill-timed speech by one of his 

 guests, 143 ; his views on result 

 of negotiations, 150, 161 ; his 

 participation in the gaieties of 

 the Washington season, 151 ; 

 his welcome at Philadelphia, 

 155 ; banquet by St. George's 

 Society, and speech at Phila- 

 delphia, 156-163 ; recognises 

 " Sons of St. George " whom he 



