Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-06
A RECEPTION AND BANQUET.
Mr.. Will Carleton Honored as the President
of the American Society Of Authors.

Mr.. VIII Carleton Honored as the President
of the American Society of Authors.
The reception and banquet rendered to Mr.
Will Carleton, president Of the American So
ciety Of Authors, by the Washington branch Of
that organization at Wizards last night was
most ENJOYABLE affair. OF course the poet whoss
name is a household word in this country wal
the central figure of the evening, but there
were others as well who have made their name
In literature. There was q large gathering Of
well-known people in the parlors Of the hote
to participate in the reception that preceded
the spread. and all we're presented to the guest
of the evening by Mrs. II. D. Lincoln, the head
of the local society. Addresses Of welcome
were made by Representative Greenleaf, Mr.. H
b. Moulton and Mr.. II. NJ. Parker. In hii
speech Of reply Mr.. Carleton referred to Wash
lngton as literary center, and, addressing
himself to the society, spoke of the pleasures
and responsibilities of authorship, contrasting
them with some of the shadows. He also
recited his own sequel to"Over the Hills to the
Poor House,
Theibanquet which closed the evenings exer-
cises was handsome one and large number oil
ladies' and gentlemen sat down to the long
tables. At the close of the more solid portion
OF the entertainment a number Of pleasant and
witty after-dinner speeches we're made, many
come OF Mr.. Cartoons best-knowp poems.
Among the speakers of the evening were Mr..
James L. Tanner, Mr. VIM. E. Curtis. Com
missioner Charles Lyman, Mr.. j. L. McCreery,
hev. DR.. Corey, Assistant Secretary Willis,
Mrs. Emily Thornton Charles. Mr.. Fl. B. Moul.
ton, Representative John Dewitt Warner, Gov.
Fletcher, Prof. II. G. Kirk and Mr.. Carleton.
poem OF greeting, sent by Rev. Frederick G.
Cowper OF st. James Rectory, Amesbury, Mass,
was read by Miss NJ. F. Foster.
Among those present we're: Will Carleton,
Commissioner Douglass. Commissioner Lyman,
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Curtis, Secretary
Willis, Gov. Fletcher, Mt. W. NJ. Meredith,
Mr.. and Mrs. Moulton, Baron der Darabedyan,
Miss Marie Byington, Mr.. Charles Early, Prof.
Fava. Mr.. and Mrs. Cromwell, Representative
and Mrs. Dewitt Warner, Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Creery, Mrs. NJ. L. Lockwood, Miss Frances
Wadleigh, Mr. A. Grant Barnwell, Mai. and Mrs.
Flint, Germond Crande,l. Mrs. Hert, Mrs. NJ. d.
Lincoln, Miss NJ. f. Foster, Mr.. Lincoln, Capt. G.
3. Bracket. Miss F. c. French, Deputy Com
missioner Andrew Davidson. Mrs. Kern, Mr.. G.
L. Kern, the Misses Kern, Representative and
Mrs. Greenleaf, Mrs. G.. F. Pickett Miss Pass
more. Miss Eddy, Miss Alice Hallowel, Mrs.
and Miss More, Judge and Mrs. Wright, Miss
Anna Hyperion, Miss Ida Tullock, DIR. and
Mrs. Lighthill. Mrs. Katherine Hodges. secre-
tary of the American Society of Authors of New
York: Mrs. Henry Herman, New York Sorosis;
Mrs Kate L. Bruce, Miss Huddleston. J. H.
Ralston, Mrs. II. n. Ralston, Col. and Mrs.
De Witt @. Sprague, Gen. Daniel McCauley,
Gen. Bussey. Miss Carrie Harrison, Miss Dam
geriield, Miss Robinson, Miss Harner, Mr.. +.
Warren Day, Prof. Fl. G. Kirk. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tanner, Mrs. Langhorne, Miss Rice, Mr.. W. II.
Michael, Mrs. J. W. Turner, Mrs. Belva A
Lockwood and Miss K. l.. Brice.