Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-09-28 | Page 1 | Hall Caine at Banquet

HALL CAINE AT BANQUET English Horclist Guest of I Honor at. Union Club; Talks Mournfilly. NEW YORK, Sept 28 Hall Calne. the English novelist, was the guest of honor and principal1 speaker at a dinner din-ner given at the Union club last night. Mr. Calne spoke in a tone faintly touched with melancholy, dwelling particularly par-ticularly upon the inevitable passing of the favorite author. Mr. Calne again denied the report that he had come to America to study the genus millionaire. "It Is wonderful." he continued, "to be a' man of immense wealth, to control' the destinies of great masses of men. It is-yet more wonderful to be a statesman states-man a position that has enabled your chief executive to stand higher today than any. crowned head in the world. But I would not give up being a novelist nov-elist to become either a millionaire or a president. "I think, .however, .that when the great American novel comes, it must deal with the huge problems of th power and. position o( wealUt, As me, If I " ever approach , these matters, it . tnust be only from the point of view, of my tiny Island, seeing, as it were, a little. Tet seeing In little, one" pf ten sees more closely , and : more finely."