Arctic exploration, he declared, could not be futile when eleven nations were offering the lives of their men in the cause of science.

He told the story of the splendid spirit of his own men during the dreary months at Cape Sabine and lauded American courage and achievement in all the corners of the earth.

There were speeches by Judge Daly and Commander Schley, and then two fun-makers were introduced in the persons of Thorne and Billington, _Poo-bah_ and _Ko-Ko_, from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Mikado," that was then playing in New York.
Late in November of the same year the Lotos Club honoured another explorer, Henry M.Stanley, who had just returned to New York after many years' absence, completing Livingstone's work in Central Africa.

Stanley sat between Mr.Reid, the Club's president, and Chauncey M.Depew.
Others at the guest's table were Lieutenant Greely, General Porter, General Winslow, Colonel Knox, Major Pond, General Townsend, Lieutenant Hickey, Commissioner Andrews, G.F.Rowe, Bruce Crane, Henry Gillig, and Daniel E.Bandmann.The speakers, besides Mr.Stanley, were Lieutenant Greely, Mr.Depew, and Horace Porter.
At Delmonico's, December 20, 1889, a dinner was given by the Spanish-American Commercial Union to the visiting delegates to the Pan-American Congress.

William M.Ivins, as the principal speaker, touched upon South American relations and international arbitration as a prevention of war.