Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14
PRESIDENT TO DEKES
Compliment to Wide Influence
of Fraternity.
TAFT SENDS HIS REGRETS
Convention Closes With Dinner At
tended by 600 Members.
SENATOR BRANDEGEE TALKS
Taft SENDS HIS REGRETS
SENATOR BRANDEGEE TALKS
Only Chinese Frater, Chung Men
Yew, Now on Way to Washing
ton, Acknowledged Invitation.

NEW YORK, November 14.-CloSinS one
of it's most successful annual conventions
during its existence Of sixty-two years,
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity held
a dinner in the grand ballroom of the
Waldorf-Astoria last night that was be-
lieved to be the largest college dinner
ever given, six hundred being present.
Justice Vernon NJ. Davis, president of
the D. K E. Association Of New York.
read the following letter from the Presi-
dent Of the United States:
My Dear Sheriff.: May l. through you,
present to my fellow D. K. Els on the
occasion of their sixty-second annual con-
vention banquet, my hearty regards?
I'm the recent campaign the effort was
made to array class against class. Should
such an effort ever succeed 1t will rep
resent the most damaging blow that can
ever be struck at what We think truest
and finest in American life. Therefore,
feel that peculiar good must come from
an association such as tnat of ID. n. f.,
an association which takes the form of
fraternity whose reason for existence is
to be found in extending the bonds of
good brotherhood.
''Of D. X. f. this is peculiarly true, be-
cause of its great strength in the south,
20 less than in the north. Fraternity
such as this should unite men without
regard to section, creed or occupation. on
the basis OF the great qualities which they
have in common-on the basis of virile
strengthened yet the determination TO
stand for what is right
Taft Also Sorry.
Judge Taft wrote from Hot Springs,
Va, as follows:
my Dear Mr.. Halves: beg to acknOwl-
edge receipt of your favor of November
0, concerning the convention of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity. to be held in
New York city Friday, November IL. l
take great pleasure in extending to you
and the members OF the fraternity my
cordial good wishes, and should be de-
lighted to be with you on this occasion
II 1t were possible.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid sent greet
ings from London, Senator James B. Nc
Creary from Kentucky, Senator Henry
licitor General Henry NJ. HOyt from
Washington. Non-members' letters were
received from Gov. Hughes Of Delta Up
silon, and Secretary Garfield of the In
terror Department Of Alpha Delta Phi.
Chung Men Yew Sends Word.
Among the letters was one from the
only Chinese member of d. X. E.. Chung
Men Yew Yale. so, who is on his way TO
this country on a special mission from the
Chinese government to make suitable ac-
acknowledgement of gratitude to this coun-
try for having RENTED to China the bulk
of the Boxer indemnity.
President-elect Tafts brother, Charles
P. Taft. Yale. "a. was to have been the
POSTMASTER. bu. he had been called to
Texas. and William NJ. Barnum was in
troduced in his stead by Justice Davis.
United States Senator Frank B. Brande-
gee of Connecticut told Of the founding Of
D. X. Z. at Yale. Surrogate Beckett
spoke Oh I'd. X. f. in National Affairs"
Others at the speakers table were the
Rev. Karl Reiland. assistant rector of
Grace Church; Charles p. Mathewson,
trustee of Dartmouth College; the Rev.
ST. Clair Hester, president of the d. X.
E. council, and j. r. Whiting, the pres
ident Of the convention.