Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
CARNEGIE AT A FEAST
Commiserates Canadians as Men
Without a Country of Their Own.
SCOTCH DINNER AT DELMONICO'S.
DR.. Chauncey Depew Cracks Jokes at the
Steel Kings Expense.
THE EARL OF ABERDEEsS LITTLE SLIP

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIspATCH.l
New YORK, Nov. 3O-Two hundred and
fifty canny Scots celebrated the one hun
dred and thirty-ffth anniversary of the St.
Andrews Society at Delmonico's tonight.
They ate French cooking and drank Rhine
wine, and when the band played "Annie
Laurie" they all Joined in vigorously
William McCleland, the piper of the socie-
ty, in bonnet and plaid, piped ''The Camp
bells Are Coming" and "Auld Lang Syne,"
with many more of the old Scotch airs.
When the time came to serve the "haggis
the piper headed the procession of walters
and marched around the room playing ''The
Bunnocks O. Barley Meal"
Because of the illness of President John
Sloane, ex-President j. S. Kennedy pre-
sided. AT his right sat the Earl of Aber-
deem. Others at the Presidents table were
w. Lane Booker, Andrew Carnegie, Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, Rev. D. Parker Morgan,
Judge Van Hoesen, and other representa-
tives of societies similar to st. Andrews.
Carnegie's Pity for Canadians.
After the regular toasts to "The Day an
a Who Honor It," s'The Queen" ''The
President" and ''The Land O. Cakes" had
been drunk, the Earl of Aberdeen spoke of
'The Scot Abroad" The Earl is good
story teller, and he exercised his gift sew
eral times When he said he had visited
Central Park and seen the statues of
Shakespeare and John Burns he was gener-
ously applauded and assisted in correcting
his slip of the tongue.
Andrew Carneuie fo Ethe
Scotch-American," said: ga man without
country was no better than Canadian, the
man of all men to be commiserated. 1
prophesy," he continued, "as the destiny of
this country, that it will, under the Ameri-
can Constitution, adopt all other branches
of English-speaking people"
DR.. Depew was down to speak about the
destiny of our Adopted Country" but he
said the attempt to develop the destiny of
our country, when midnight was so rapidly
approaching, reminded him of the time
when, in prize debate at college, he had
three minutes in which to prove the i'm
mortality of the soul.
Depew Jokes at Carnesie's Expense.
Then he cracked good jokes, some of them
at Mr.. Carnegie's expense, and told good
stories. The spectacle of Andrew Carnegie
claiming to be modest, he said, would never
be equaled, and he was glad we had seen it
in this century.
''It is customary with u.s." he said, ''to
have first our frivolities and then settle
down to the serious business of life We
have had our election. And from my stand
point it was very frivolous affair.
Now we have the serious business of
a Scotch banquet. Nothing better
illustrates the fact that this is an Irish
governed city," he went on, ethan the fact
that when the chairman sent word to the
German who leads the band to play annie
Laurie he gave us annie Rooney"
Other toasts were to '"The Poetry of Scot
land, 'The City of New York" 'Our
Sister Societies." and 'Honest Men and
Bonnie Lassies," and it all wound up with:
May care and trouble never fash,
But mirth and joy be wi ye a.