The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-28
Committee of Newspaper Men
 Present Prince Henry Album II IS 4 WORK 0F ART
Presentation Speech Made By St. Clair McElWay at a Luncheon and Was Responded to By German Rid
 der of German Paper.

New York December PA committee of newspaper men representing the guests at the dinner given by the New Yorker Staats zeitung to the American press on the occasion of the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia, today presented to the management of that paper a hand some souvenir album in commemoration of that notable banquet. The presenta- tion was made by St. Clair MeElway, on behalf of the committee at luncheon at the Hardware club and was accepted by Mir Herman Ridder of the Staats zeitung In making the presentation MT. McElway said:
 'Mr. Ridder, MT. Won Skall, and other friends: We, who are here today, for our selves, for our professional and busi- ness associates and for our public. wish to give to you a souvenir album. It Is an adequate return for a hospitality which involved public service rendered by you within the year just closing. That service comprised the introduction of the press of the United States to his Royal Hlghness Prince Henry. The fellowship befitted the sincerity and the dignity of tut luiGliOn lHe OTdloIJ aHhG DY 1I5 spirit of fraternity and by it's avoidance of trivialty has been found to stand the tests of time which vindicate wisdom and wither indiscretion. As every Amer ican speaker was a newspaper man, the fact that addresses by irnalists escaped the oblivion of evanescent expression and were thought to be worthy of promin- ent record and to command lasting re- spect both at home and abroad is a gratifying evidence of the realization by the responsible press of It's power and of it's duty to augment the accord of na- tions, when opportunity is alike sig nificant and suspicious. Nor were the words of the royal guest wanting in qualities beftting his representative posi- tion. His benign errand, on behalf of his sovereign brother, or the winning charm of hi manly and magnetic personality. All who took part V tle event have cause to be glad that in retrospect it disclosed nothing to revise nothing to regret and much to remember with un- altered satisfaction. We rejoice that this occasion concurs with the impressive and uplifting news which today attests the reference to arbitration of questions af- fecting the compsoures of the hemis- pheres, the duties and securities of peo- pie and the balance of peace in the world. We claim for the press of the United States and of Germany. a share in the influences which have brought about this new triumph of civilization. Steps are still to be taken to reconcile justice with honor in the action of governments. But the first step has been already taken on the right road and that insures the pacific and successful taking of all the rest.'
 MT. Riders Acceptance.
 In accepting the album Mir Ridder said
 MT. Chairman and Gentlemen-We simply furnished the machinery, as 1t were. But without your cooperation, our dinner could not have been so nota- ble. What gave the event its real import ance was not that the Staats Zeitung is- sued the invitations but that you accept ed them and came to the dinner; that representatives of almost all the daily papers of the country attended, and that some of Americas foremost educators were the speakers of the evening. We consider that we are honored by our col leagues more than we merit. We arc United States colleagues. The Staats Zeitung, although printed in the German language is a truly American paper, owned and controlled by men born in New York city, who have lived here all their lives and whose interests are cen tered in this country, whose future hopes and aspirations are bound up in America, who love the glorious flag that protects us all, and whose hearts are warm with the same feelings of patriotism that stir our blood We are Americans first last and all the time. But no one will think less of our Americansm, because, being of German descent, we also have ten- der affection for the mother country, its language and music and literature, its associations and traditions
 Following are the members of the com mittee who presented the souvenir:
 Whitelaw, Reid, New York Tribune; w H. Hearst, American and Journal; Don (. Seitz, New York World; Oswald G. Willard, Evening Post; Adolph S. Ochs New York Times; Charles Emory Smith, Philadelphia Press; C. w. Knapp, St Louis Republic; Frank B. Moves, Chicago rd-Herald; Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Boston Globe; Clark Howell, Atlanta Con- stitution; St. Clair McKelway, Brooklyn Eagle; w. c. Bryant, Brooklyn Daily Times and Melville E. Stone, Associated Press.
 Description of the Album.
 The album is a large and handsome volume, bound in a selected dark blue lavant morocco and lined with a heavy blue moire silk The leather surface of the cover is richly embellished with im- prints of the monogram IN. Y. S. Z.," and with massive silver mountings. Bun dles of rods tied with ribbons, all of sl- yer, form a border or edge to the cover The principal decorations of the cover consist of two silver medallions one bearing the arms of Germany the other those of the United States, and between them the initial "H," surmounled by the coronec of the German prince. The sl- yer clasps are ornamented with ivy laaves. symbolizing friendship, and in re- lief. the date of the dinner, Feb. 26, 1902.
 The title page is an elaborate piece of hsndwork, richly illuminated in colors and gold. The shields of Germany, the house of Hohenzollern and of the United States. with a wreath of laurel and ivy leaves, and a quill. symbolicay of the press. are gracefully entwined into ar effective headpiece for the inscription, which reads as follows:
 To the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung,
 This Souvenir is Presented