Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-10
ENDS WITH BANQUET
Convention of American Archi-
tectS Concludes Business.
DELEGATES ENTERTAINED
Addresses by Prominent Speakers at
New Willard Hotel.
LETTER FROM KING EDWARD
President Roosevelt's Message Regret
ting Inability to Attend-Guests
Respond to Toasts.
LETTER FROM KING EDWARD

ting Inability to Attend-Guests
Respond to Toasts.
The fortieth annual convention of the
American Institute Of Architects came to a
close last evening with a banquet at the
New Willard Hotel. Two hundred and fifty
guests, including the wives and daughters
of the visiting delegates. were seated around
the banquet tables when President Day
arose and proposed a toast to his majesty.
King Edward VII. Secretary Root. in a
graceful speech. responded to the toast and
paid high tribute to the British king. Let
tiers from King Edward and President
Roosevelt were read
The banquet hall was decorated with
American and British colors. and the or
chestra played selections from God Save
the King and THE Star Spangled Ban
ner"
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu-
sets responded to the toast Architecture
and the National Life" Owen Wister, the
author, Literature and Music +. Hopkin-
son Smith. Painting and Sculpture Sir
Aston Webb. The British Institute of Ar
chitects," and George B. Post, former pres
dent of the American Institute. THE Amer
lean Institute of Architects" Among the
other speakers We're Rev. DR.. Edward Ev-
erett Hale chaplain United States Senate;
Herbert Putnam. librarian of Congress;
Speaker Cannon. DR.. +. A. Alderman, presl-
dent of the University of Virginia.; Right
Rev. Monsignor OConnell. rector CATHODE
University of America; DIR. r. S. Wood
ward president of the Carnegie Institution,
and Thomas Nelson Page.
King Edward Interested.
Edwards chamberlain, which had been ad-
dressed to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand.
former British ambassador to the United
States. The letter. follows: ~
Dear Sir Mortimer: Sir Aston ", ebb
has just started for Washington to receive
there the gold medal which the American
| Institute of Architects have lately insti-
tuted. The king would be glad if you
would have the goodness to explain to the
president of the institute his majesty's sat
isfaction at having their first medal pre-
scented to an Englshman. and to one of
such professional repute as Sir Aston Webb.
THE king would be glad If you would
add that he wishes every success to the in
stitute. Believe me-
(Signed) .KNOLLYs"
The Presidents Regrets.
A letter from President Roosevelt was
read. follows:
Il wish I could be present at the dinner
of the American Institute of Architects
this evening but as l already have two
gagements 1 regret that 1t will be impos
sible for me to attend. I fully appreciate
the significance Of the occasion and the
honor which the institute has conferred
upon Sir Aston Webb. VIII you extend my
hearty congratulations and best wishes to
the distinguished recipient of the medal and
to the American Institute of Architects?'
n of bia remarks Secretary
Root praised the work done by the archi-
tects of the United States and those of for
eign lands. Then he greeted the ladies as
they entered the banquet hall at the con-
clusion of the banquet.
Address by Senator Lodge.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge then rose
and addressed the gathering. He said, in
part
eve are a new country, but not new
people, and it is right that from the older
civilization from which we came that we
should borrow what was best, and 1t has
been our problem to apply the old forms in
consonance with our new aims and our new
desires" He spoke of the old colonial
forms of architecture simple, ornate
and yet so useful. The forms for which we
should strive now are forms conformable to
our new and strenuous civilization, not
bound by the forms which represented an
age Of other faiths and other forces. OF
this sort he thought the nations capitol was
a fine example. The rBooklyn bridge too,
he thought, was typically American In its
strength, its beauty and its usefulness. For
New York, the city of commerce. which, if
1t is to grow, was bound to grow upward,
the skyscraper, he thought, was fitting and
would grow into beauty. But" said he
lin this our beautiful city, which should be
an example to all American citizens, L think
that the poor attempts at skyscrapers are
blunders, and hope some day to see law
enacted which, in this city, the seat Of our
government, shall regulate the height to
which buildings may 60" He thanked God
for the men who had laid out Washington,
and had left for Congress and the people of
this country definite plan along the lines
of which Washington, the city of all the
people, might grow, plan which provided
for a wide park from the Capitol right
through the main avenue.
F. Hopkinson Smith, the author, praised
skyscrapers. He said they were useful in
these days of space and concentration.
Sir Aston Webb. Speaker Cannon and
Owen Wister, who also rose to speak. only
greeted the gathering in few witty terms
The Guests
Among those present were:
Sir Aston Webb, R. A. F. s. A.; Mr.
Speaker Cannon; Mr.. Elihu Root, Secretary
of State; Mr.. Frank Miles Day president
A. 1. A; Mr.. Justice Edward d. White: Mr..
Esme Howard, charge d'affares. British
embassy; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Right Rev. Monsignor O'Connell; Mr.. Rob-
ert Bacon, assistant secretary of state;
Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee, Sir Caspar Pur-
den Clark, Mr.. H. B. F. Mcfarland; Frank
H. Hitchcock. assistant postmaster general;
William B. Mundie, Representative Foss
Frederick Law Olmstead. e. G. Lind, Fran
els P. Leupp,. Herbert Putnam. Alcde
Chausse; Col. Charles s. Cromwell, L. S.
A; w. S. Games, c. NJ. Ffoulke E. H.
Blashfield: Prof. Simon Newcomb, Rev
DR.. Edward Everett Hale. Gen. R. NJ
O'Reilly, Richard Rathbun, A. Salm G. BIN,
D. H. Burnham, Representative Samuel W.
Mccall. Karl Bitter, F. Hopkinson Smith
DR.. c. II. Harrison, Charles Follen McKim,
Senator Knute Nelson. DR.. f, A Alderman,
Owen Wister; George B. Post. past pres
ident A. 1. A: Frederick Dielman. DIR.
Charles w. Needham. N. b. Giouros Thorn
as Nelson Page, Henry Siddons Mowbray,
Prof. w. H. Holmes, Maj. John S. Sewell,
U. s. A, Robert S. Peabody, Representative
Richard Bartholdt, H V. Manchester Henry
Hornbostei. r. S. Woodward William A.
Langton. Dana C. Bartlett II. L. Warren
and CasS Gilbert 500 .~,...ta-
Simple ceremonies accompanied the I'M
yelling of a tablet in honor of the American
Institute of Architects at the Octagon
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