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Show 0 1 ".'LiiJ'i,vl'!ii; tJ...J- yri.i3 NEW YOTtX, April 6. Augurt Belmont, Bel-mont, who presided at last night's meeting of the representatives of capital cap-ital and labor In the mansion of Andrew An-drew Carnegie, spoke of, i possible change In the times and warned employer employ-er and employee to prepare for a reaction from oar great prosperity. Belmont i uid: .. ! "There is no time more important than this for a gathering of this nature. na-ture. It is very easy to remain at peace during prosperity: but sometimes times ehange and I feel greatly im-pressed im-pressed that the unparalleled develop- ment of our country and its prosperity have been so extraordinary that it is undoubtedly time to strike a halt, and it is not wholly nndesirable. - "I do not desire to. be either a prophet or an alarmist, nor will I discuss dis-cuss the causes which appear to lead to the beginning of it; but it is unquestioned un-questioned that we should prepare ourselves our-selves through just such gatherings as this to understand and solve the problems prob-lems with which we are at any time likely to be confronted." Carnegie's guests at the Hotel Belmont Bel-mont now number sixteen ana more are expected in the next few days. They have been invited to come from various vari-ous countries of Europe to attend the dedication of the Carnegie institute in Pittsburg April 11, and a few days later will return to New York to attend at-tend the National Arbitration and I Peace congress. From the moment they left their comes until they returned to them, Carnegie has asked them to accept ac-cept his hospitality. Some of trie guests have been at the Belmont for a week or more and nine others came on yesterday's steamers. The new, comers are Sir Robert Ball, former astronomer royal. Prof. John Rhys, master of Jesus college, Oxford; Oliver Rhys, provost, and Mrs. McBeth of Dunfermline, Scotland, the birthplace birth-place of Carnegie; Sir John Ross, chairman, chair-man, of the Carnegie Dunfermline trustees, trus-tees, and William Robertson, vice chairman, Mrs. Robertson and Miss Robertson. Previous arrivals included William T. Stead, Lieut.-Gen. Von Lowenfeld of the Kaiser's military household; Lieut.-Col. Dickhuh of the German general gen-eral staff; Prof. Friedrich Schuefer, one of the foremost sculptors of Germany; Ger-many; Sir William H. Preece, J. M. W. Van Der Porten Schwartz, the author; au-thor; Dr. P. Chalmer Mitchell, secretary secre-tary of the London Zoological society; Theodore Von, Moeller and Dr. R. Ko-ser. Ko-ser. Baron D'Estournelles De Constant, one of the leading authorities on arbitration, ar-bitration, will arrive on the French line steamer Sunday, and others expected to arrive will swell the great list of foreign notable to between thirty and forty. Next Wednesday a special train will take all the guests then in New York to Pittsburg. |