Show POWER AND WUl TH MEET TO MEMORY Mi I Jl 25 Hi 3 Of MARK lW AiN NEW YORK Dec L i. ho T hc intellect tho the power powel and the W wealth waIth alth of or of the land gathered at Carnegie hall last night to I pay tribute to the memory of Mark lark I Twain William WilHam Dean Ho Howells ells presided d. d Jo Joseph G. G Cannon speaker of ot the tha house of representatives representatives and Champ hamp Clark speaker that may be be spoke from same platform plat plat- form Corm Dr Henry Van Dyke of Prince Princeton lon ion H 1 nn George Georg W W V. Cable Booth 1 J. Morgan John Luther Long and many others were among those invited The meeting was under the auspices s of the Academy Academy of Arts and Letters Mr Howells spoke poke brien briefly J. J I believe ve I Ican Ican can safely promise he said that the commemoration will not be be format formal or funereal The man himself could no more be formalized than flame lame Ills Big vivid genius genius genius ge ge- ranged at will through alt all the tIit wa ways s 's sor Of or life lICe Now ow that it is freed Creed to 10 the pathless pathless path path- less am amplitude of the skies it could hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly offer the pattern of or a observation Uncle Joe Cannop Cannon was warmly greet greet- ed Ill read m my remark he said It 11 is the first time lime Ive I've ever read a manu- manu Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri ri ri who Js is prominently mentioned as the successor of Mr 11 Cannon as ai speaker of or the house of representatives spoke on Mark lark Twain as a Lobbyist 1 It is in keeping leeping with the eternal fitness of things h haid he gaid aid that a Missourian should should participate participate pate pUl in paying honor to the most famous Missourian t that hat ever lived With me ItIs it itis itis is a labor of love I 1 consider It m my good fortune to have known this illustrious and lov lovable le man personally an and my bad fortune fortune for for- I tune not to have known him for a long I period He was born within a a. few tew miles I of m my congressional district at tho the confluence confluence con con- I fluence of th the three forks of or Salt river a stream of evil omen to candidates upon whose briny bosom ma may y of or them sail Into the gulf of oblivion Mark as a Lobbyist The way I came to knot kno Mark Twain personally is that three or four years cars a ago o lie lie- visited Washington as a lobbyist lat Let not the and arni squeamish shudder at the term for Mark Twain was not only a lobbyist but a very prince of lobbyists lob lob- He did honor not only to the lobbyist but also to those with whom he lobbied He created a profound sensation as ashe ashe ashe he no doubt intended to do a a. sensation a-sensation which so far as he was concerned was strictly utilitarian in character and cunningly cunningly cun cun- planned for effe effect t upon hardheaded head hard ed of matter-of-fact solons Tho subject m matter nitter of hs his lobbying was improvement in the tho cop copyright right laws which were i sa sadly ly in need of improvement Speaker Cannon gracefully and graciously gracious gracious- ly turned P O over t ono one of his rooms to Mark Twain and in it he held his court somewhat some some- what it must be confessed to the demoralization demoralization demoralization de de- de- de moralization of business in congress for forso sq so long as he remained in the capital it was almost impossible to maintain a a. QUOrum quorum quorum quo QUO- rum in the house so eager were members members members mem mem- bers to look 1001 Into his face shake face shake his hand form his acquaintance and listen to his conversation I t think m myself self happy to have been able to aid him in his self imposed task of aiding the American writers They have haie in their kindness done me honor overmuch The men to whom your gratitude gratitude tude is primarily and in I rf t part due are the members o of ot the committee on patents headed on the Republican side by Mr Mr- Currier of New r Hampshire and andon andon andon on the Democratic side by William Sulzer of New Sew York Tribute in Verse Rev Dr Henry Van Dyke read the fol fol- fol nn lowing original poem entitled lark Twain We Ye know you well ell dear Yorick of the West Vest The ver very soul of large and friendly jest lest That loved and mocked the broad brond grotesque grotesque gro gro- groi i tesque of or things In n this new world where wl-jere all the folks folliS are kings I Your breezy humor cleared the air with I sport I 1 Of or shams that haunt the democratic I IFor I IFor court For even where the tho sovereign people rule ruleA A A human monarch needs a royal fool Your native drawl lent jent flavor JO to your our wit J I Your arrows lingered but they ali always s 's shit hit Homeric mirth around this circle ran But left no wound upon the heart of or orman man i I We Ve knew you ou kind in trouble brave brave in pain We saw your our honor kept without a stain We Ve read this lesson of our Yorick's years years- ears True wisdom comes with laughter and with tears x |