New-York tribune., 1908-12-16
SETH LOWS SPEECH.


Seth Low. In introducing Judge Taft said
The National Civic Federation is greatly hoPoTed d
tonight by the presence OF the 80 mon
every one of us the effect produced by the touch
knight filling us with the Inspiration Of noblesse
oblge to do more than ever toward the oPi+i7
and labor in the whole field of industry and com
/ suppose there is no other country in the World
where such gathering as this would oe PGSsIi
and their wives interminged at M the aoies
to-be Of THE ration and his wife are present on
the deocratc footing % ad ans done T
nothing more than this 1t would have JIstlned lIs
democracy, @ % after all that the great economic prob
lens of our day and country are to oe sett,ed Mrs
TAFT IRe sRgnes not merely hat the
atendng its annual dinner but they are here be
cause they were workers IN the ranks Of the Fed-
Fase Mp Taft to Be their next President and
5is0 also sbed to a5fst their Continued interest
in the work that the Eederaom onr If pEesenting 10
YOU i'' the Honorable William H. Taft. President
designate of the United States
LABOR AND CAPITAL SIDE BY SIDE
At one of the five score tables sat Presi-
dent-elect Taft and Mrs. Taft. Samuel Com
ners president of the American Federation OF
Labor. August Belmont, A. b Garretson chief
7f the brotherhood of Railway Conductors; Mel
vile r ingalls, former president Of the Big
Four Railroad; Seth Low, president Of the fed
Grafton. and Mrs. Low. ex-Judge and Mrs Alton
B. Parker. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
At other tables sat employers and employees
Of many corporations. John D. Rockefeller. jr'
and Frank B. Kellogg, who has been prosecuting
the governments inquiry into the Standard Oil
Company. were near neighbors. though not at
the same table. Andrew Carnegie and John
Mitchell sat side by side
Nine hundred and ten persons were present
There was no speakers table in the strict
sense of the word. though at table NO 40 most
of the speakers were gathered
At table No % Miss Morgan. daughter OF j.
Pierpont Morgan. sat next To Daniel J. keefe
ex-presfdent of the Longshoremens Union ana
now Commissioner General Of immigration
Others there were Frank H Hitchcock, chair
man Of the Republican National Committee and
Henry W. Taft.
Those present included Mr. and Mrs William
J Morgan, Mr.. and Mrs John A Stewart. Otto
NJ Eidlitz Angus Sinclair, George O'Netl. w
H McCord. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Marburg
and Miss Marburg. Robert c. Ogden. George A
Hearn Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff. F
A Acland head of the Department of Labor OF
Canada; Mr. and Mrs. W. c. Brown. Mr. and
Mrs Chester B. Lord. w D. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs
Nathan Blur. John A. Mofftt. A G. and Alfred
Bedford. Lewis B. Gawtry. Horace E. Demtng
Mr. and Mrs Timothy Healy, Thomas NJ Mulry
7 d Beck r W. Hebberd. Commissioner of
Charities: John D Crimmins, the Rev Thomas
r SIicer. Mr. and Mrs Frank B. Kel-
loee Mr. and Mrs Samuel Untermyer, Mr.
and Mrs Milo R Malbie. William McCarroH.
Mr. and Mrs Edward E. Wise Or. and Mrs.
John H Finley Mr. and Mrs. E s A de Lima,
Tudze and Mrs Holt. Charles A. Conant NJ. j.
REAGAN Commissioner John n. Bogart Mr.. and
Mrs w Carroll Low Mr.. and Mrs R NJ. Easley
Mr. and Mrs V Evert Macy. Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick D Underwood. Mr.. and Mrs John
n. Rockefeller jr Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Hart
lev Dodge V Morawetz. James Speyer. Henry
W Taft. Mr. and Mrs George ". Perkins. Haley
Fisxe. Mr. and Mrs ST. Clair McKelway. Mr..
and Mrs Herman Ridder. MT and Mrs. William
r Wilcox. Andrew Carnegie. DR.. Lyman Alb
hott. ]! n Seligman Mr.. and Mrs John Hays
Hammond Edwin WarfeId, former Governor Of
MARYLAND; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Alvord Mr. and
Mrs Charles F. Chaplin. Edward Lauterbach,
Henry Siegel and Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Ketten.
Mrs Jetiro Ono Of Japan. wore full Japanese
costume. and excited a lot OF attention among
the diners.
Ralph NJ Easley. secretary Of the National
civic Federation came in for all sorts OF
pliments from several OF the speakers. particu-
lary Judge Taft and Mr.. Gompers He was
much too busy to hear them himself. but Mrs
Fasley and Miss Donna Easley. his daughter
were there to tell him what had peen said. Mr.
Taft referred to him the indispensable man
of the federation.
HOTEL ANsoNIA GRILLRooM OPENED.