The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-13
UNB0UNDED ENTHUSIASM
 CAUSED BY W. I. STEAD
REMARKABLE ADDRESS BY ENG- LISH EDITOR AT CARNEGIE
 INSTITUTE.

Announces Plan to Raise $lOO,OOO to
 Conduct Pilgrimage from All Coun-
 tries to The Hague Peace Confer
 ence-suggestion That Audience
 Might Like to Contribute Answered
 by Downpour of Silver From the
 House--Various Educational Tn-
 stitutions to Assist in Raising tie
 Amount.
 Pittsburg, Pa, April 12.-At the close of a remarkable address by William T. Stead, editor of Review of Reviews. London, England, at the re-dedication ceremonies of the Carnegie institute of Pittsburg late to-day, in which the speaker announced a plan to raise $10O,- GOO necessary to conduct the pilgrimage from all countries to The Hague con ference advocated in g. recent New York address, unbounded enthusiasm took possession of the large audience and money was thrown to the floor of the stage.
 To raise the $1OO,0OO MT. Stead propos- ed that every boy anl girl in colleges and universities throughout the United States donate fifty cents He said the lesson thus furnished to Europe would be an influential factor in the quest of international peace.
 The suggestion came at the end of an address and for fully five minutes aft CT he sat down the applause was pro- longed. Finally the speaker again arose and said that probably the audience would like to contribute to the fund. Immediately shower of silver money landed on the stage coming from all parts of the music hall.
 Among the invited guests on the stage were many presidents of univer- sities and colleges and at the close of the meeting these institutions through their heads, decided to contribute to the fund:
 Knox college, Galesburg, I'll; Alle- gheny college, Meadville, Pa; Tpske- gee Normal and Industrial institute, Tuskeege, Ala; Geneva college, Beaver Falls, Pa.
 It is said that other colleges wL,i an- nounce their intention to contribute. The Pittsburg branch of the National Peace society has taken up the matter anl the Grand Army posts have pre- scented Mir Stead with a resolution of thanks for his efforts for peace. fNha hnstr,,of .rfxro,.5 +t,,x |. sS trustees of the Carnegie institute in. honor of MT. and Mrs. Andrew Carne- gie, the founders, was held tonight at the Hotel Schenley.
 MT. Carnegie was present at this function after being absent all day, due, 1t was said, from fatigue, occasioned by yesterdays ceremonies. The banquet was the most brilliant ever held in the city.
 The exercises to-day were slightly marred by indictment weather. Three large chests of books were presented to the institute by Emperor William through his personal representative, Lieutenant General Alfred F. J. U. von Loewenfeld. The books are handson1e- ly bound and treat of the German ern- pire and army.
 Many messages were received to-day from all parts of the world congratu- lating MT Carnegie in Pittsburg in pos- sessing the great institute. Among the speakers to-day were Sir William Henry Preece, London; Ernst von lime. Berlin: Sir Robert s. Ball.. London; Lieutenant Generan von Loewenfeld, Berlin. and Leonce Bene- dite, Paris.
 Tomorrow the Western university of Pennsylvania will confer honorary de- grees on the foreign and American guests and in the afternoon the party will go by boat to the mill district to see the steel mills in operation. MT. Stead's Address.
 Pittsburg, April 12.-Mr. Stead in his address on 'The Next Step Towards International Peace' said
 T have just made journey through ten countries for the purpose of finding out what is the next step towards in- ternational peace" said the speaker. T have seen three kings, two queens, one prince regent, and all the prime ministers, foreign ministers, ambassa- | dors and public men that are worth seeing, and I found them all unani- nous upon two things The first was that they were quite sure that what ever might be the case with the nine other countries, they declare with cer- tainty that their government and their nation were most absolutely devoted to peace, and were most resolutely deter mined to prevent war. The second point upon which they were all agreed was that the greatest if not the only danger to the peace of the world lay in the existence of a large number of violent, interruptions and irresponsible newspapers, which were constantly en- | gagged in making mischief
 "Fhe imperial chancellor of Germany, Prince Von Beulow, said to me: The emperor is for peace. the king is for | (Continued on Eighth PaeaN