The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30
THEY LET MARK TWAIN TALK
AFTER TON REED. DEEPEN, AND
THE REST HAD PRODDFD HIN.
Heed sa's He's Inaccurate and Untruthful
lark Says the Ex.tzAr Lectured to
Ladies' society on the Opportunity
" tho Humblest 10 lie Q Riga mist.


oratory at the dinner given at the Metro
politan Club on Friday evening 10 Mark
Twain by Col. George Harvey. president
al Harper Broe TO celebrate Mr. Glenn ,ns's
ssixty-seventh birthday. Covers were laid
FOR fifty-four and the gathering was nat ional
III character. For once the great humorist
was himself the large, and had diff
Guilty in getting hearing light trained
Sfators-Tom Reed, Chauncey Depew.
Wayne Macveaeh, DR. van Dyke. W. ID.
Howclls. Hamilton W Mabie. St Clair
McKelway and John kendrick Bangs had
their say at him before he had a chance to
reply. Each time a. the speaker proposed
Marks health he rose but was gently
pushed to his seat 10y Col. Harvey. who
announced that the address was not sutiic-
tently Mandatory, or perhaps too true. and
called for another.
W. ID. HOwells read what ne called
double barrelled sonnet prefacing it with
ohe apology that Mark Twain did not lend
himself we'll TO the sonnet, as verse must
u smooth while his method was the in
opir.d higgledy-piggl dy.'
TOM REED DESCRIBES MARK AT SEA.
After Col. Harvey mad restrained Marks
attempt to reply and had told Of various
experiences on btdTl IL IL NosrlN
yacht Kanawha, where Mr. Clemens had
hard time Of il. Mr.. Thomas Is. Reed took
,he humorist in hand He said,
One OF Mark Twnin's defects and short
coming. arises from inaccur lcv-'naccuracy
Af statement He -ometine~ allows himself
IN the enthu sasrn Of the moment. to play
trumps when he has got more sit cards left
An his hand For instance, In this trip, to
which MIR Harvey ha> referred. and which
am sorry 70 say he hns put a most dismal
twist or In this very uip. after had lett the
kanawha that il. after the only person that
had real gravity that WAS calculated to keep
The ship In order and keep her down. had
departed they had storm and were wrest-
ling with IT, and Mr.. kosers heard noi-"
IN the next stateroom, aud he stepped III aid
th-r. he found Mr Twain, clothed in his
coat vibrating back wal aid forward IN the
somewhat CrcumscI tied hnhts OF tue state
aSIn s ss HBq%n S %aI un,ns or th
Asked what he intended 70 do Muh II when
he did lind 1t. he .aid lie intended 10 sit on II.
Now In my judgment history Will reason
with Mr Twain on that sub Jet. II viii
not accept his statement without iuttAer
zee ca at % once il he had found that match and
laid II down lengthwi-e and II lie had sat
IL wUSd DOT 90 d aa{ bod vf nor him Would 3ntt
est DEGREE. If ule match had been put upon
q.
TO suppose that be could balance himself
AGAINST the laws OF sraNny " that way ana
the match IVA Was S @pse f Would Ho Gsye
been safe or wise or sensible eApeoieh'.
D,.,sNr in fran knees. ard frankly leave
IL TO every gentleman present II the criticism
which | have made upon the accuracy and
verscity Of his ttatc N. 1T is hot SOUND
There is another thing that ] have got
against HIM, and tins Is a serious matter
That is, that he il rcvehgcful III his nature
DIV N haf
become h,st oric, where we had the cards,
they played the piano He undertook 70 tell
in the mndest msnncr IN the world to eNplsin
b, so' and in order 10 AVOID any misiteIple-
tation. Il did il n .o". etnue. oa,ei ,onE
m mo abom a so'n oDi 10 sSpHin fully TO them
tie situation. TO point OF 10 them that mas
much as the ma, hire struck the notes WIN
absolute accuracy, no human being with hls
hands could by any possibility be equal tot
And after that he vent out ard took Nr,
Eodf, .sd pnh as1'nss ,hs fo'P be add yo
hear ,ha, hlankty.,'ank fool o, tel haa, 'h b;t
,hsori.sg" Alter had been thu :, ntest N
the world to him, And qnderst", d that or
days and days after ward he he'd Indignation
meetings with himself
BRING HIM II HE'S GOT ANY CLOTHES.
Mr.. Depew told about time at HON.
burg when he and Mark Twain met the
present King Of England He saii;
Mark was walking with me and his trousers
were too short, b+cause they had been worn
too long laughter, the sleeves oil ms coat
had the sane general expression; ms linen
Was clean, but lis hat had lost the nap, he
and wanted "a know who TINS appar ton
vas, and when tod hIm II was Marx Marx T"i aI,
royalty had q charm for him which the Or
s Waller once sad to me when i had gwen
s saef q to Sn ss,er Veil the Prince save a
SnnsT E1SS .o Vi; nyd a aSu {, t ,sss
Invited Mark IVAN i | thought he had any
s sad Y b9ar 1 E@ da sss @nsd
steiy ana we viii have a night OF It" SO
Mark came down and we had lannon's DIN,
ner, and he told the sane story had told
Mr.. Mabie told OF the time when certain
religious newspaper In Boston vas called
the Fireside Com pdnion. and then. with the
change Of modern habits and ,moLern
methods Of heating, II was called the
Chyistidn Register. II was this sort Of
modern progress, he said. that Mark Twain
DR.. Henry van Dyke read a poem which
ran likc this
He, Travelled FAR on ey.Ly land,
Italian rench and GER an folks,
ant syen Scotch ne, m rp .,%. nae ,sn isSe'
And sings her SPREADING fame
THEY LET MARK TALK ALosG , LoSG TIME,
John Kendrick Bangs also read humor-
Gus poem In which he proved that Twain
was really Adam. Finally Mark Twain
himself got chance, ami said:
think ! ought to be allowed to talk a.
long a. want TO for the ren on that ! have
cancelled MI my winters engagements OF
, every Kind for good and suNlciort ron ons
and am mixing 10 new engagement for this
winter and therefore this l. the only time,
the only chance | shall hav" 20 dis'mhowel
nv skull for year. I want TO oncr thanks
and tourr % to the chairman for thi. inno-
vat Ion which ho has Introduced here, Win n
h imriovirg as I slider II. on the old
N hiored style of conducting oc"as ions IKE
THE That was bad that was bad. had.
bad arrangement Under TINT Old custom
the chairman rot up and made -p""oh' IL"
introduced II" pri' oner ~ tho hnr ana COW
cred him all over with conn. iment1 nothin4
but compliments, not a thing but comp /.
mepts-nsycr y Slur. and sat Gown and lett
tho man 20 COY M and talk without n text
You cannot talk on compliment NAV Is T. OF
text TO n o1e~t por' on, and ! was morn liN"
That car talk on compliment hut M. torHn"
II Tied he has nothing TO say, he l. In the con-
d,tion of Or Rice's friend who came home
drunk and explained II to biz wife, and his
wife said 70 him John. yo' hav" drunk all
rsnn,riila lie snd "Y"-. but when |
have drunk all the viii key can't say ISL
rarI'a'" And % think II Is much better
thing 10 leave a man nmo'e-tcd until IA"
tcetiuopy and pleadinRS ar" all IN, Give