New-York tribune., 1908-11-14
CROWD AT THE BAZAAR
Mr. Carnegie and President WIson
Speak-Many attractions.

Artists. writer's patriots, fashionable women Ind
sns Dutch girls in the quaintest OF caps Colonial
girls, actresses pouring tea, Andrew Carnegie talk
iuS about the disadvantages of city life for chill.
scrnso-ing to be bought: fragment of Christophcl
sCoumauss bones in gold and crystal cross; these
.sre & few OF The impressions the visitors brought
swsy from the crush that sienalized the openine
i Of the bazaar of the City History Club at the
Hotel Plaza YESTERDAY
Woodrow Wilson. president Of Princeton Uni
yersity, made the chief address at the historical
conference with which the bazaar opened Mrs
Robert Able who presided. said IT a little un-
Usual 10 mix hazaars and historical conferences
But, she said. ~our city history classes are going
al over the city. and we can't get people to "a
ard see how they work. People VIII come to
hazaars, and while you're here we're going 10 show
yoG sample class and tell YOU about the work -
score or so Of East Side ladszworktng boys all
q thena-con1posed the class. They read minutes
elected new member. and came forward and read
essays about New Yorks Fire Department with
pretty fair grammar and department, considering
that the eyes Of the bazaar We're upon them
President Wilson talked about the civic revival
The people are waking up. ne said but the heayf-
ness CT sleep is still upon them, and they hardly
know what they ought 20 do n the way Of changing
things. but they know they ought 10 do something
lie gave word OF sympathy 10 the business man.
"|ho has awakened TO the knowledge that some of
HIS methods in acquiring his fortune have been
against the public welfare. He knows it, but
knows business and around him great bodes-o Of
who don't know business. wildly running after
unconsidered nostrums-
The moral awakening, the speaker said. must be
Individual 1T viii do good 10 sit down and beg
oTnnipo1ent government, Come, appoint commits
sions; manage the business don't how man
ourselves pnoralize US We moralize-
selves sud spread the ooutagion. But 10 moralize
ourselves We must know ourselves. and TO noralize
the state must know the state-its past. It's
history-and that is why clubs like the City History
Club arc SO good q thing"
NJ Carnegie said that children born and brought
up Fl the city IN hard luck and the least
thar could be done for them was 10 give them
plenty OF parks. 7 don't see how children can be
happy without trees 70 look at he said He urged
rhe cit History Club take the children places
where they could the trees and grass every
time II could. and then he told story of what he
called "a little Stars-and-Stripes boy
This boy" he said. and another little East Side
feIloT-both Of Chem had never seen anything but
the East Side streets before. fancy-were in
Central Park BILL 7 heard one say. who does
al this belong TO- Why said tho little Stars-and-
Stripes fellow, proudly, TO you. an me. an every
ether citizen
With the closing # the conference the bazaar was
IN fun swing IN the book booth Mrs Josephine
raskzm Bacon. in a scholastic gown and cap Of
white. sold her own books with enthusiasm.
Mrs Kate Douglas Wiggin also in cap and gown.
was another in attendance at the bookstal. one
hook that is being raed of here is illustrated
copy Of Peter Pan with Barrte's autograph
The floral booth beautiful. and the Indian
UisWam. in charge Of Mrs Frederic Lines Brad
ley, attracted many OF the curious. The wife Of
rhe Turkish Consul General. Nine. AfundH Bey clad
IN bewitchng pink kirnona arrangement of SHIN
rnerIng silk. with hIny veil pretending 10 hide
her mouth, dispensed coffee at the Turkish booth
But the real crush came downstairs where the
dramatic tea took place IL q big ~k{te-and-gold
Toom a. 49, O'Clock. Subway crowds are nothing
compared TO the throng that pushed and pressed