Show i CONVENTION OF POETS AT ST LOUIS Special Correspondence Bt lit Louts Louis June Jimi 2 This rids Meek weel the worlds world fair lair entertained H s most mOlt unique national I convention Nothing of or the IIII kind ever ns held no so far tar UN liS history ht has haB recorded for foi Ol this was n a 1 gathering of ot poets peats Thor Thu organization enlivened on the lOth of or of May at nt atthe atthe the III Inside Inn l I is known as all the till Amii AmI AmIcan ran can PreM frees Humorists and this Is II the first Ihl lire ni or of It lire Ihl the body at nt In to II limy n a y year fir nr ego ago 10 The n do du not ant claim to 10 bo be poets that If is I nut not many of them rut Jut In ht the tiro mind they the are given that elite nf ot them writ Hue I H and K gay y perhaps gay gny Rn for lor the tho dally and weekly l vices of o the lute country The rue entire membership of or the Ih organisation In Is lees Ir than thull SO fie O halt of ot them their the con rou convention tenet mewl of ot whom were tyre i by th their lr Those men inert nr are arA writers for tor forthe forthe the American pr press some Home of them are kook hook nid III writers II Hev Sev H v noel eiBl fill h have e a n long lonK 1011 list lIet of ot published books to their credit and 1 others me ere the tho of or many tm un books ns os ont one of or the humor l bl tn It There Them me nee In lire membership u II tIll few Wren men of or national and International renown r as 1111 platform In en The t member Is Isn Isa isn n a of ot 21 31 while the oldest ol lERt N 1 Quad II Is pURl punt TO iO When this holy body was teas organised et r r thin mottos factious the pale pal characterised It o a II union asserting that th the would fix Ix a 1 wale scale of 01 prices for tor the tho vari various Irl ous ou kinds nf or verse with extra r p pay fY y for lor working overtime The Till AP A P II men uren take these jokes nt as they tho expect other people II to take lake their own Jokes The of 01 tin the American Amerl lIn Press PresH humorists Humorist are Henry Edward Warner N Y president Strick Strickland k land W o II II Baltimore vice Ire preel pr sl dent Ioe hove St Ht Louis J lIerl und end lr HI J Pasadena cal nl al parson p and amt pastor emeritus p tuK I All 11 lire functions function or of till the wick II a ron con on with one exception were lIero held Inside the worlds fair grounds rounds This Thill exception as the formal banquet on last evening June JUlie 3 which une held nt at atthe tho the Mercantile Iel club dub the Menn Mens League Lengua of ot lit Sit Louts Louis being the th host hOlt of ot the occasion The Tho Th list of at celebrities who nIto I ho accepted initiations imitations to 10 spook nf nt atter ter the tho cigars ch were served nerved Included Robert nobert J J Homer Davenport the famous cartoonist KM Eli I II Perkins Strickland tt W A L nixby Roy Ho L J McCardell Lowell Lovell Olus fleece nee Ie James dames L U Foley Ioley W V J Lampton Lampion nod Ind B S Bi i 1 Kiser Hon Cyrus nuR P Walbridge former ma mayor or of ot Bt SL Louis Loulu delivered the tho address of ot welcome to which Ire l dent Warner of ot the Humorists re rn responded Hon lion Nathan Frank pub r of ot the St Louis Star was toast toastmaster toastmaster master The Tho Inside the exposition grounds Included receptions nt at the Mis Missouri snarl Wisconsin WI and other state tate build buildIngs Ings Inge music for tor American Frees res Humorists t day dEl June Junr 1 I and extraordinary doings on the th Pike |