The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-29
WORK OF ART.
Souvenir of Prince Henry Dinner
Given to Staats-zeitung.

| New York. Dec 2g.-The beautiful
Prince Henry souvenir album. which
was finished only after ten months of
continuous labor in the workshops of
Tiffany & Co. was presented Saturday
evening to the New Yorker Staats-Zel-
tung as a memento of the dinner given
by that newspaper to the American
press in honor of Prince Henry of Prus-
STA at the Waldorf-Astoria on February
26 1902 The fund which paid for this
magnificent work was raised by the
guests who were present at the dinner
about 1000 newspaper men.
The presentation was made by St-
Clair MckelWay on behalf of the COM
mittee at luncheon at the Hardware
club and was accepted by Herman Rid
der of the Staats-Zeitung.
The album IS large and handsome
volume, bound in a selected dark blue
levant morocco and lined with a heavy
blue MORE silk The leather surface OF
the cover is richly embellished with nm
prints of the monogram m \. >. T.
and with massive silver mountlngs-
Bundles of rods tied with ribbons. all
silver, form a border or edge to the
cover The principal decorations OF the
cover consist of two silver medalions,
one bearing the arms OF Germany. lhe
other that of the United States. and
between them the initial H. sur
mounted by the coronet of the German
prince. The silver clasps are ornalnen-
ted with ivy leaves. symbolizlng ffaead-
ship, and, in relief, the date OF the oln-
ner, February &c, 1902
The title page is an elaborate piece OF
handwork, richly Illuminated in cOiors
and gold. The shields of Germany, the
house of Bohenzollern and of the Uni
ted States, with a wreath OF laurel ana
ivy leaves, and a quill symbolical OF the
press are gracefully entwined into an
effective headDiece for the inscription
A portrait of the German emperor,
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place Of honor in the book, and among
the other notable and interesting pages
are the following in the order Indicated;
A photograph of Prince Henry with
letter in his own handwriting; the 1nVl-
tation and card to the dinner; photo
graphs of President Roosevelt with
signed letter conmendatOry of the occa-
sion: photographs of Secretary of State
John Hay and his assistant, David J.
Hill, with letter from the latter: photo
gra Dhs, with letters. from zWhltelaW
Reid, Charles w. Knapp anda Charles
Emory Smith. who were the PRINCIPAL
speakers of the evening; photograph
of the German ambassador, Won Hole
ben; w. c. Bryant, of the Brooklyn
Times: Melville e. Stone, general man
ager of the Associated Press, and Ed
ward p Call, of the Evening Post; the
names, engrossed, of the reception COM
mittee on a page; portraits OF the tate
Oswald Ottendorfer. founder OF the
Stats Zeitung and his wife, Mrs. Anna
OttenGorfer. with views of the early
homes of the newspaper; photographs OF
Edward Irhl, president of the Stats
Zietung and Herman Ridder, the treas
urer: a picture of the present home of
the Stats Zeitung and its business ct
fee also interesting engrossed sketch OF
the life of Herman Rider, telling OF his
rise from an errand boy to the head OF
a great newspaper, and photograph Of
the banquet hall al the WaldOrf-Astorlo
with its beautiful decorations.
Then follow the toasts os the evening,
the first one being THE President of the
United States and the German En-
peror.'' responded to by WhitelaW Reid;
St. Clair Mckelway responding to THE
Press; the Tie That Binds and Charles
Emory Smith. of the Philadelphia Press,
Saxon Blood: What We Owe to Ger
many in Literature, Art, Science and
Music and finally, international
Amity," by Charles w Knapp. of the ST.
Louis Republic: a programme of the
toasts, one Of the menus printed on
white satin, with picture of the prince at
the top. and the music rendered that
evening: copy of the tabuated list of the
guests and arrangements of the tables;
newspaper clippings from the Stats
Zeitung and the Associa ted Press; type
written reports of the dinner; the PAM
phlet giving the history of the Stats
Zeitune and two cartoons from the New
York World and one from the New
York Journal, conclude the chiefly inter
esting featu of the book.
Tire album which measures 221A
inches by is inches by Az inches. is
fitted in a handsome mahogany case,
and. in its entirety. it is a distinctly
notable achievement in bookmaking that
will hold its well-earned title of "a mas
terpiece" for years to come.