The sun., 1900-12-07
TWAIN TWEAKED THEM.
Sr NHHOIAS SOCIETY DINERS SIS
PftTID 4 ROtST
Told Them The, HAD the Finest Munic,ps,
Government In the World. the Fruit of
Their Own Devotion toCvie Dates -Dr.

| was me topi" To- which Mark Twain the Itey
! Dr Donald sag" Msrkny and others devoted
themselves at the dinner OF the ~. Nicholas
I society ~ p"llnonico'- last night II is
seid"nl that representative gathering OF
New Workers OF prominence Ia made to souirn
! az we're the mcmhers OF the st Nichola.
! society under the sarcasm with which Mr.
! clemens praised their citizenship and their
| patriotic devotion TO civic duty He began
| with playful comments on the general Shar-
| actrristics Of New York city life. NOT for
getting hls ancient foe the cab driver. hs
| ehued wan the utmost -olemnity and with
not trace of drOllrry or levitv in his manner
| or III his ntterancas. The society pondered
| Tor silent moment or two before IL remem-
bered TO applaud HIM.
| The President of the society, Frederick ds
Peyster Foster. presided at tho inner About
| nm and before him were seated such repre-
sentative men as Moses Taylor pyne Justice
| oHorhhh, Phiip Rhneander. Robert H.
| Roosevelt, John II. Starn, Paul g. Thebsud
! n Cortlandt Van Rensselaer,. John W. vroo-
| man, George GRAY ward. Cornelius b. Zabris.
| kle. Prof Barrett Wendell. George Blarden.
! julien !, Davies. Henry :. l.. Davis. Fred
erlck J, de Peyster, William T.. Dodge. Mich
olss Fish, stuyvesant Fish. Austen Il. FoA
| Dr, W. Tod Helmuth. Frederick A. Juilliard
and James Gore King
The dinner was one Of the most elabor-
ateiy arranged In the socetys history OF
| slNty-five dinners. Each diner was provided
with pair Of church warden pipes and an ale
| tankard m9de especially for the occasion
and imported from holland Besides the
regular walters Of the establishment the
society had supplied u supernumerary corps
OF black men. who we're dressed In orange
and black kn'ckerbockers and wide rur-
The boy choir Of Grace Church attended
the dinner and sang at intervals after the
coffee was served
President Foster congratulated the society
on another year OF prosperity and COM
rnented proudly on the prominence which
its members had achieved In the recent up
rising in the city against bad government
No one. he said. had done more honor to him
self and his calling and TO the citizens of the
city than had the chaplain of the society.
Bishop Potter. Another of is members.
John Harsen Rhoade,, was on the COMMITTEES
of fifteen. 1t augured well for the city aud
Tor the society that its members were 80
universally recognized as leaders in public
thought and in public sentiment. he said.
ST. NICHOLAS AND OLD NICK
The Rev Dr. Mackay rose TO answer to tho
toast Of ST Nicholas Dr Mackay said
frankly that he was a Scotchman, and that
Ho " ar ule pastor Oh u Dutcn ReIOrfneu
church he did not know much about Dutch
saints. In fact. he said, ministers here In
New York are kept 30 busy by sinners nova
days that they have little or 10 time 20 oulti-
yate the saints. II the patron saint of New
York was 10 BE- ST Nicholas he said parhapS
that would not be such an inappropriate
selection For there were many people here
in the city who believed that there was on"
certain Nicholas at the bottom of much of
the ciiy'l activity just now, although he was
not popularly supposed 10 be canonized, but
was famlliarly called "the Old Nick " What
this city needed. the speaker said. was more
oI III" religion OF the real 81, Nicholas a
religion that taught by precept and example
n genial, sunshiny righteousness that did not
deceive itself into the idea that emaciation
of the body meant holiness or that the starve-
ton OF the appetites meant the feeding Of
Mark Twain. he said wa. as true
preacher of true rishteousne.I asany tishor.
b beeanse% % he td mnved men to @ forrei rG their faults
for cheerful well doing instead Of making
them sour and morbid hy eyerlastingly bend
ing their attention To the sesmy and sombre
side of life
MIR clemens had been, ushercd 10 bis scat
Of the the steward OF the society. im,t he,o!e
Dir Mackay began speaking The Who'll"
society had risen to welG3me him and when
eve was turned toward him 4 whin, ~i"al
smile fitted across the face Of the ohie'
Of the p3pgiar a,,Sh'Ei.n Ea nnd n: n"ddcd
on pipe yard long with bowl fashioned
in the image of Father knickerhoCkcr
MARX TWAIN RETURNS THAMES,
when Dr. Mackay concluded MIR. Fos'cr
Twain." NJ. Clemen. said
'Nr Chairman ard Gentlemen OF tho s
por"Gs .r"a" DAYS for me Night Gcforo last.
n sncech The BIsh"GG OF the Dice" ~
buttons 30 theology and tonight the R"y
Or Mackav has elected ~. To tho lciri.'r'.
pllment and | thank Dr. Mackav nov for
that promotion. ] think that both have
IN afraid Tne' the word
learn tn recognize.
ANp APPROACHES TNF cry "r NEw yoNk
In This absence Of nine ycnr, find q sr"a,
imprGySSm,rn,& & IN 'HC n, .b,y .,b5y, q. NJ" I,ohr
civ Of New York Some say II has improved
because ! have aye, been ",T"g G,,h@r- and
cause ] have come back We mn-' judc"
OF a city. rs Of a nan. by its ey'ernal ar
ard And fs fss-dsrar s Inward t.; L.
shores is more Impressed al 1r.' by our skv-
scraIers They ar" %, nrw ,r 60, 10 mn u" ha.
the tower Of Babel. The foreigner IL shocked
by them ,,..,, A.. ,...,.. ,,
well too chimncyned and too shaggy lik"
q mouth that needs attention from dentist:
like a cemetery tha, !, al monumcn,s and
river where thev are columns towering against
tbe sky all sparkling with light. they are fairy
like thoy are beauty more satisfactory 20
the aoul and more enchanting than anything
ina, man has dreamed Of since the Arabian
Sigh's We can't always have the bcau'iful
aspect ~ things Let us make the most of
our sights that are beautiful and let the OF hers
10. When vour foreigner makes disagree
able roInmcnts on New York by daylight
float him down the river at night
Mir Clemens then paid a tribute 10 the
elevator which he said. made the ak scraper
possible Ho said that the American ele-
va'or must he compared with the cigar bo,
which the European calls a 'lift, TO be appre-
cia'ed The elevator does not Ike the lit
s'nn 10 rcNect between floors That Il all
right In a hearse-horse but isn't the thing
~ elevators The American elevator. he said
was Ike the mans patent purge. II worked
As the inventor said: This purge doesn',
waste any 'imc fooling around: 1t attend.
strictly To business
A JrHU MONUMENT. sTrIcrLY TEMPORARY.
LIKE pKwKYs
Mr. Clemens said that New Workers had
the cleanest. quickest. and most admirable
system OF street railways ln the world
This" said the speaker. has all been
forced upon you by the abnormal apprccia-
tion YOU have of your hackmsn. We ought
always to he grateful to him for that service
Nobody else would have brought such a avs
TEN into existencs for US. We oueht TO build
him monument We owe him one as much
as We owe one TO ANYBODY. let II Be tail
one, Nothing permanent. OF course, Build