New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-14
DELTA KAPPA EPSILON.
THE FORTY FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
SPEECH MAKING IN THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
HOUSE by W. l.. TRENHOLM AND GEN.

i.
ERAL JAMES W. Hustled.
The mystic symbol OF lion, rampant, clawing the
air on flag of rcd, yellow and blue that waved over
house In Fifth-ave yesterday, was the outward and
visible sign that the forty fourth annual convention OF
the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity had begun Its
secret sessions in the building below There were 100
delegates present most OF whom were undergraduates,
and they represented chapters OF the fraternity In tho
following colleges: Yale, Bowdoin Colby Amherst,
Alabama, Brown, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia.
Harvard, Dartmouth Middlebury Michigan, Williams,
Lafayette. Hamilton Colgate College of the City OF
New-lork Rochester, Rutgers, De Paw, Wesleyan
Troy Polytechnic, Adeibert, Cornell. syracuse. Co
lumbia. California Trinity, Vanderbilt Miami and
Minnesota.
The two business sessions held yesterday were
given up principally to preliminary organization ana
10 the discussion of proposed constitutional amend
ments. The convention will devote this morning
and afternoon also business and Saturday morn
ing at IL O'Clock photograph Of the delegates VIII
be taken In front Of OF the buildings OF COLUMBIA
| College.
Professor Charlton T. Lewis presided at tie public
exercises held In the Metropolitan Opera House last
evening The orchestra given up TO the delegates
and other immediate members OF the fraternity about
800 Of whom present The women in evening
dress who occupied tho first three galleries. were the
| oaly decorations of the building. Among those who
with members Of their families, occupied the boxes
were Calvin S. Brce, David Bennett King, General
Wager swayne. f. r. shapleigh, Of the two snrviv
Ing founders Of the society, DR.. T. H. Burchard, Wilson
ii. Blackwell, James Wotton, Nathan Clark. jr., Pro
fcssor Ricketts,, of Columbia College, and J. Lawrence
| Bouvier, jr. The Yale and Counibia chapters each
Occapied a box.
Among those who sat the platform Gran
vile p Halves, Professor Fitzgerald Iis,lale Hugh
Garden, A. p. Hepburn, Almon Goodwin the Rev. Dr.
William Lloyd Lewis, william II. McElroy and Will
| IAN b. Jacobs.
| After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry the
| Professor Lewis welcomed the audience in the name
Of e'fnternty. lie gave interesting sketch Of its
progress since its beginning, forty six years ago, in
meeting of fifteen members Of the junior class Of Yalo
College. Now it has thirtytwo chapters scattered all
over the United States lie regretted he said, to an
nounce that ex-Secrctary Faircild whom he had cx-
pected to introduce the first speaker Of the evening
was prevented by illness from being present but added
! that the political balance OF the evenings OratOry
would not be disturbed, since william l.. Trenholm had
consented to take Mr. Farohild's place
| The ey-COntroller OF the Currency who Is grad
uate of the South Carolina College spoke with Southern
cloquence galany Of the fraternity and the ladies'
declared that the distinguished gentleman whose place
| upon the programme he occupied shining ex-
ample in public life Of ID. X. L. principles, and closed
| as follows:
g. And now in behalf OF these young gentlemen, who
|
Themselves except individually, thank you for your
| presence and your forbearance IN listening 10 tho
| words OF ore who having nothing to say, has said
t and whose mission has been fulfilled In filling WIN
"a little sound the time that otherwise would have been
| silent through the absence OF Mr. Fairchld.'
| The Cleo Club sang again and then Julian faw-
tIornc was introduced and read scholarly poem en-
| titled " Brotherhood .
The last speaker was General James W. Hustea,
who the chairman solemny declared, had been made
speaker OF the New York Assembly the day after nc
| was graduated from Yale and had been speaker ever
since General Hustled was greeted WIN appiauss aa
| lie read paper on the Evolution OF craftsmanship
| The closing words Of his paper vera these:
| "The subject of my brief address was suggested TO
my mind knowledge of the distinguished position
| our fraternity maintains among the statesmen ana
| publcists of the day. Gibson and Long, Roosevelt
and Lodge, Fairchd and Brice swayne and Macneaeh,
| Hawthorne and Lewis, Trenholm, Maynard, Butler,
Erwin and hundred Others of equal fame are leaders
Of thought and household names scholars all-m;n many
of them statesmen of the highest rank, they nave
aLored faithfully dignity and honor the literature,
the scholarship the political staesmanship OF America
and d. X f. points their record with pleasure and
| with pride"
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