The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-08
MAYOR TALKS or SCHILLER.
PRAISE FOR GERMAN At CEN
TENNIAL or POETS DEATH.

Mcclellan Speaks 20 German Audience
OF the Lesson Taught by the DramatiSt
Chorus Of 500 Voices Helps In the
CeIebratiOn-Great Crowd Turns Out.
The German singing societies Of New
York continued last night TO commemo-
rate the one-hundredth anniversary OF the
death Of Friedrich Won Schiller, the Poet.
The date Of his death was May Q, 1905. The
meeting was held in Carnegie Hall, which
was filed to lts full seating capacity The
program included solos and chorus singing
by 800 voices.
George Won skal editor Of the StddtS-
zsitunO. and Mayor Mcclellan delivered
addresses.
Representatives Of the German, Austrian
and Swiss Legations at Washington and
Of the oonsulates in this city were present
including Baron Speck Won Sternburg,
Mr. l.. Hengelmdller Won Hengelvar and
DR.. l., Vogel The flags Of the three ooun-
tries we're intertwined with the AmeTi-
can colors.
After the reading Of a lined eulogy
on the poet by the Rev. Alfred ". Hide
brand Mayor Mcclellan spoke. In part
he said:
There never has been a time In the
history Of our Teutonio race when II needed
men that men we're not forthcoming. The
close Of the eighteenth century and the
beginning Of the nineteenth saw Germany
at the mercy Of a foreign conque' o, her
liberties destroyed, her political progress
arrested and her intellectual life almost
at a standstill.
1T was then, when they were most
needed, that the three great geniuses Of
modern Germany burst upon the world
Kant, Goethe and Schiller, the three men
TO whom Germany owes her renaissance-to
whom the modern empire owes It's being.
These three great leaders Of men made the
world appreciate that the German giant
was not dead but only sleeT ing, and by the
power Of their intellect and the force Of
the truth that was In them awoke that giant
to join in the onward march OF mode
progress and modern civilization.
The day may come wien Schiller, the
dramatist, will no longer be read, when
Schiller, the poet, may be forgotten; but
Schiller, the philosopher, the apostle Of
beauty and OF turth. will live forever.
1t is this philosophy Of the man that
brings him 40 nearly and 90 dearly to the
everyday life Of the whole people. To
him beauty and truth were Synonymous
For him there could be no art that was not
beautiful and did not teach the truth.
Schiller believed that the mission Of art
was more than the mere qualification OF
the senses, more than the mere pastime
Of the idle For him art was the means
TO an end. the uplifting OF the spirit and
the development OF the soul not only for
the favored and privileged few, but for all
mankind.
The Germany in which the lesson that
Schiller taught Is being learned to-day is
a mighty world power, encouraging through
its people the love Of liberty and Of truth
and the expression OF liberty and Of truth
through the true vehicle OF beauty-art,
And that lesson Of FIR edrich Won Schiller
you, his oompatriots Of the German speak
ing branch OF the Teutonio race, have
brought TO US your English speaking
brothers"
The closing and most notable part Of the
musical program was the oratorio THE
Lay Of the Bell. by all the male and female
voices, 500 In number. Carl Helm was the
director OF the evening