The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
The FORTNICHTLY.
The Literary Club Entertains
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott
By an Elaborate Banquet Grace
fully Served.
ASKED FOR EDUCATION
Given a Liberal One With Ten
Course Dinner.
ASKED FOR EDUCATION
Distinguished Speakers on VAR
iOus Lines of Thought.

The F'ortnightly club banquet given
last evening in the new Mills tea room,
in honor of DR.. Lyman Abbott of New
York closed a busy day for the distin-
guished preacher, author and editor,
visitor here. The dinner was exquisite
" prepared. gracefully served, the
table beautifully decorated. 1t is not
too much to say that the meal was one
of the very best ever served in Topeka
Many guests present who had attended
dinners in New York declared it excel
led the ordinary repast served in the
metropolitan city for eight or ten dol
lars per plate. The caterer, Mrs. Julia
Wiley, earns mention. The table was
bordered with Smilax. At either end
the clubs motto, Culture and Patriot
ISM" erect serenely riding the waves,
was a miniature lake profusely edged
with lilies of the valley. The center
was graced with a mammoth vase of
American Beauty roses. The dinner
was strictly a gentlemen's affair. AT
one end sat Dr. Abbott at the right OF
President Loomis. At the other sat
Governor Hoch at the right of Chief
Justice Johnston.
Those who gathered at the board
were all members of the club except DR..
Abbott and the last four named in the
list, who were invited guests. The full
Fortnight1y membership was present
except Dean D. l.. McEachron and Prof.
A. NJ. Hyde:
Rev Dr. Lyman Abbott, Mr.. N. H.
Loomis Mr.. j. H. Larimer, Mr.. G. II.
Whitcomb, DIR. Frank B. DANES, Mr.. G.
F. Spencer, Mr.. Scott Hopkins, Mr. Dell
Valentine, Mr.. L. D. Whittemore, DR..
S. s. Estey, Mr.. F. D. Coburn, DR.. Chas.
NJ Sheldon, Mr.. John Macdonald, Rev
Francis L. Hayes, Mr.. J. w. Gleed, Mr..
w. w. Mills. Mr.. A. D. Gray, Judge j.
D. Mcfarland, Mr.. David Bowie, Judge
T. F. Carver, DR.. Newman Plass, Judge
w A. Johnston, DR.. A. H. Thompson.
Governor E. w. Hoch, Mr.. c. s. Gleed,
Mr.. Arthur Capper, Mr.. Frank P. Mac
Lehman.
THE MENU.
Grape Fruit with Maraschino Cherries.
Cream of Tomato Soup.
Bread Sticks-Olives.
Black Bass Outlets with Caper Sauce.
Brown Bread. Radlshes.
sweatbread Patties.
Potato Balls. June Peas.
Turkey with Dressing.
Apples.
Currant Jelly on Orange Slice.
Spiced Mangoes Hot Biscuit.
CneTTy 0LeTDol
Fricassee SQUAD.
Asparagus Tips on Toast.
Whole Tomato Salad stuffed with
Cucumber.
Cheese Waters.
Ice Cream in Moulds,
American Beauty and Easter Lilies.
Angel Food. Macaroons.
Cafe Noir Butter thins with Roqueford.
Cheese.
Sailed Almonds. Mint Waters.
Following a kindly introduction by
Mr.. Loomis, DR.. Abbott said that he
came west to broaden his education.
ST realize" said he, "that while New
York is a cosmopolitan city, the sec
ond largest Jewish city in the world,
the third largest German city with in
Vulnerable peoples of various nations
and races, still if one looks at men
and measures from a New York
window, he is apt to be provincial
and narrow in his views. The great
issues are not between capital and
labor, but between capitalists and la
borers. Men make issues and issues
make men.
1.-THE railroad problem is one of
dealing with those who run the roads,
the shippers who patronize them and
the people who travel over the lines.
1 have visited Minnesota, Iowa,
Oklahoma and Kansas; have met
their people face to face. The
speaker has the advantage over the
printed page in that it cannot so
we'll express the spirit of the word
and the deed. While I may read and
absorb knowledge. 1 must hear the
voice and touch the palms of the
speaker, to gain the real spirit The
spirit and courage and action of the
middle west are wonderful. 1t is the
truly American spirit of this great
and glorious country. At the Univer-
sity of Kansas I was deeply i'm
pressed. In a sense, of course, it is
not equal to the great universities OF
Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Cor.
nell. yet I may say that at the Kan
sas college, I found a deeper desire, g
more earnest purpose, a higher re-
solve, a more ardent effort for rea
culture and knowledge and wisdom
than exist, per capita, in the eastern
institutions. In a word the student!
of the latter seem to have been sen
to college, while the stuUents of YOU
State university seem to go to col
1ege."
There were talks, limited to sever
minutes by the iron, arbitrary despo
who presided as POSTMASTER. Thes
talks covered Kansas. "Agricul
turally,'' by Secretary Coburn; "F'ron
a Trust Standpoint" by Gov Hoch
Internationally" by John MACEDONIA,
of the Western School Journal