Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08
BIG FEAST WITH POETRY
Set of Duplicate Hero" Trophies Are
Presented to Him.
ONE POEM KEPT A SECRET
Verse Raped Wall Street Men and
Others Who Are Classed as Cap
tains of Industry.

NEW YORK, December S-Andrew Car
negies boys demonstrated last night that
II they had devoted their energies to Joke
and verse writing they would now nave
humor trust quite as big as the steel mo-
nopoly OF which they are makers and Gus
todians.
1t was the fifth annual dinner of the Car
negie Veteran Associa ton. and for two
hours the banquet hall in the ironmasters
mansion, 5th avenue and 10Th street, rang
with laughter at the pointed jests and
verses. and cheers for the utterances of
more serious sentiment.
Mr.. Carnegie proved himself genial hui
morlst as well as charming POSTMASTER.
and William B. Dickson. second vice presi-
dent of the United States Steel Corpora
ton was triumphantly crowned poet lau
reate of the association after he had read
q series of verses which will be quietly re-
peated in Wall street for months to come
Received by Mrs. Carnegie and her sister
Miss Whitfield. the thirty-six guests began
to arrive at the Carnegie mansion shortly
after O'Clock. and at half-past seven they
were seated in the big banquet hall on the
ground floor Mr.. Carnegie was at the
head of the table. which was of horseshoe
design, with William h. Corey. president of
the United States Steel Corporation, on his
right and j. II. Reed, chairman of the Car
negie board, on his left. All about were
the men who grew up with Mr.. Carnegie
his fortune and incidentally their own, and
whom he proudly terms his boys
List of the Boys"
Those at table beside Mr. Carnegie and
Messrs. Corey and Reed were C. W. Baker,
W X. Balsingeffr, w W. Blackburn, II.
B, Pope, l.. T. Brown. j. ]. Campbell A. C.
Case. ID. NJ. Clemson. W. B. Dickson. "A. c.
Dinkey. John c Fleming. il. \. Franks,
James Gayley, \. r. Hunt. j. G.. Hunter,
d G. Kerr, F. Fl. kindl. Thomas Lynch.
r. S. Mills. A. Mcneil Thomas Morrison,
George E. McCague., w. G.. McCausand,
John Mcleod G. ID. Packer, A r. Pea
cock. l.. c. Phpps. James Scott. Emil
Swenson, e. l.. Taylor. H. f. Tener jr f.
H. Utley. G.. II. Wightman and E. F. Wood
1t was subject of comment that there
has not been a single death among the
members since the association was formed
fve years ago and it was subject of fur
Their comment that despite the bitter
weather, practically every one of the men,
most of them worth millions, walked to the
house last night
Mr.. Carnegie began the speaking by fe-
hcltating his fellow-vcterans on their sue
cessful careers and launched into humor-
GUS vein, which set the serious ced steel
men in perpetual laughter. He was fol-
with his remarks about what he said would
he an unprecedented reign of prosperity,
not only in steel but in other industries as
well.
Poem is Not Public.
Mr.. Dickson then read his poem which
caused quite much surprise as amuse-
ment. 1t was his first plunge into the
maz~s of poetry and the results amazed
the men who had labored with him in the
land of furnaces. There was scarcely a
man of wide prominence in Wall street who
not delcately raped" nor big
deal of the last year which did not receive
due attention. All efforts to persuade Mr.
iC IN nyia Of lie.
piece to the newspapers We're Intellectual
1t will never be printed. he declared
A C. Dinkey president of the Carnegie
Steel Company; James Gayley first vice
president of the United States Steel Cor
poration; L. C. Phipps OF Denver another
official of the corporation, and Mr.. Reed
spoke extemporaneousiy and with spirit
and turn which would easily earn
them place in the National So
eiety of Jokesmiths. Every man at the
table. and many who We're not. were
and humor. Anecdotes of the forge and
furnace, as well as of the office and draw
ing room, were related.
Serios turn was given to the occasion
when c. l.. Taylor of Pttsburg, president
OF the Carnegie hero fund commission
thanked Mr. Carnegie in the name of the
fund for what he had done for his fellow
men. After presenting to Mr.. Carnegie
duplicates of the bronze silver and gold
medals used by the fund, Mr. Taylor said:
MI Carnegie, to US. is the real hero.
He is our leader. He is our ideal of man
mood. In his benefactions, in his coed work
for the uplifting of humanity. he has saved
probably as many lives and bestowed as
many blessings on humanity as any per-
sons whom he can ever reward
1t was close to midnight when the steel
men wrapped themselves in their furs and
started for their hotels, None would COM
ment on the affair except to say that it
was the one great incident in Mr. Car
negies yearly life and that he got no more
enjoyment out If ii than his boys" did.