The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-04
PROF. LOUNSBU1Y HEAD
 OF SIMPLIf TED SPELLING
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF BOARD AT ANNUAL MEETING IN
 NEW FORK.

Brandcr Matthews Reports Progress
 in the MOvement-At Least 100000
 Persons Now Using the New Form
 Also Some Newspapers aud Nigga
 zineS-Letter From Mir. Bryce En-
 dorsing the Work-Mr. Carnegie
 Confident.
 New York, April 3.-Chairman Bran der Matthews, of the simplified spelling board, at its first anual meeting at the Waldorf Astoria hotel to-day submit ted report in which he stated that at least 100000 persons were using the form of spelling urged by the organ ization
 He added that the shorter spelling had been approved by the board of su- perintendents of the New York city schools, as well as by many normal schools and teachers associations in different states, and that they were get ting themselves acsepted in some news papers and in many magazines, reviews and spelling books. Professor Matthews stated that President Roosevelt's fla vorable attitude toward smplified spell ing had been a powerful factor in ad- vancing the work of tte board.
 Among those at the meeting were D.. Benjamin Andrews, William Archer, O. c. Backmer, James w. Bright, Andrew Carnegie, Isaac K. Funk Frederick Fulong, William T. Harris Lyman J. Gage, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Holt, David Starr Jordan, Alex ander H. Mckay, Thomas R. Louns- | bury, William F. Maclean, Francis A. Merctl, Brander Matthews, William H, Maxwell, William w. Morrow, Charles P. c. Scott, Homer H. Seerley, Benja- min E. Smith, Charles E. Sprague, Cal win Thomas and E. o. Vaile.
 Following routine business Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury, of Yale, was elected president. The following exec- utive committee was elected: Isaac K. Funk, Henry Holt, Brander Matthews, Charles P, G. Scott, Benjamin E. Smith, Charles E. Sprague, Calvin Thomas and 1 William Hayes Ward.
 The meeting will continue through Friday. An open session will be held l tomorrow
 The board gave a dinner at the l Waldorf Astoria tonight. A majori- ty of the members of the board, with their wives and guests, were present. Andrew Carnegie presided
 MT. Carnegie in acknowledging ia resolution the board passed at it's ses- his assistance to the organization, said he felt sure spelling reform was com ing. A sure test, he said, was the fact that youth, beauty and chiefly fashion was now taking it up. MT. Carnegie read letters from British Ambassador James Bryce and United States Com missioner of Education Elmer Els worth Brown, bespeaking success for the board in it's efforts at spelling re- form Mir. Bryce among other things said:
 T am delighted to see that the sub ject of spelling reform is beginning to be considered here, and can assure you that in England also some of our lead ing philologists and scholars feel its importance, and are disposed to co-op- crate with you in endeavorng to con sider how it can bt dealt with in a practical way. But the first thing is tc make the public understand that it Is not in the least chimera. It Is em- inently a question of substance, prob lem whose condition would be m i'm mense practical gain"
 Other speakers were William Archer editor of the London Tribune, William D. MacLean of Toronto, Dr. Alexan- der Mckay of Nova Scotia, and Colone Thomas Wentworth Higginson.