New-York tribune., 1910-12-01

WHICH lake Is SQIaIiN 2ppIcdDle TO MAI
Twain.
Mark Twain the Lobbyist.
so it came to pass that on memorable
day Mark Twain, lobbyist, with his world
wide reputation as his avant courier, de-
scended upon the capital in gorgeous at
tire and swept everything before him
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
was this great Missourian. for in the
dead of winter he wore a suit of white
fiannels, white as the snow which filed
the air, while all the world wondered.
He created profound sensation-as he.
no doubt, intended to do-a sensation
which. so far as he wes concerned, was
strictly utilitarian in character and cum
ntngly planned for effect upon hard-headed,
matter of fact solons The newspapers
were filled with Mark Twain and his
seasonable rainlent He was the theme OF
every tongue from White House TO police
station-from Porto Rico to far Cathay
Since Josephs coat of many colors. no
article of apparel of any other male person
was ever SO extensively advertised.
Recoections Of Mark Twain's life were
given by Col. Henry Watterson. Editor Of
The Louisville Courier-JournaI
Although Mark Twain and L. said Col
Natterson. called each other cousin and
claimed TO be blood relatives, the connection
betweenAus was by marriage. A sreat-uncle
of his married great-aunt Of mine; his
mother was named after and reared by
this great-aunt: and the children Of the
marriage were of course, his cousins and
mine. Though the family became widely
separated. We were lifelong and very dear
friends; passed much time together at
home and abroad; and had many common
ties and memories
Just after the successful production of
his play. The Gilded Age and the up
roa rious hit of the comedian, Raymond.
/ in its leading role, l received a letter from
him in which he told me be had made in
Col Mulberry Sellers a close study of
certain mutual kinsnan and thought he
had drawn him TO the life, but for the
love OF heaven he said, don't whisper it,
for he would never understand or forgive
me. if he did not thrash me on sight,
The pathos of the part, and not its comic
aspects, had most impressed him He de-
signed and wrote it for Edwin Booth. From
the first and always he was disgusted by
the Raymond portrayal. Except for its
popularity and money making he would
have withdrawn il from the stage as. in a
7 III of pique, Raymond himself did, while
it was still packing the theatres. The
original Sellers had partly brought him up
and been very good to him: a second Don
Quixote in appearance and not unlike the
! knight of La AIancha in character.
How much Of melancholy lay hidden
behind the mask Of the humorist it would
be hard to say. His griefs were tempered
by vein Of philosophy He was a med
/ ley of contradictions. Unconventional to
/ the point of eccentricity. his sense of his
own dignity was, all sufficient. Though
/ lavish in the use of money, he had a full
realization of its value and made close
| contracts for his work. Like Sellers his
mind SCARED " nen it sailed financial cur
J rents. He lacked sound business judg-
/ rnent n the larger things, while an excel
/ lent economist in the lesser.
| His marriage was the most brilliant
success of his life He got the woman of
all the world he most needed truly
lovely and wise helpuleet who kept him
/ in bounds and headed him straight and
right while she lived the best of house
wives and mothers. and the safest of
! counseIlors and soundest of critics. She
knew his worth; she understood his
| genius; she clearly saw his limitations and
angles Her death was a grievous disas-
ter as well as a staggering blow He
never quite survived it
/ tItOTSt W 1dDlt-, JIlt NOVELIST Is one
who loved the man more than his humor.
Behind and beneath the shaggy exterior
! of his incessant and overpowering huuor,"
said he last night, --one found that he
| was made Of better clay than comman
man. Of better clay. perhaps. than great
men
The Rev DR.. Henry van Dyke closed
I the evenings programme with the reading
| OF a poem.
! The exercises were held under the aus
pices Of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters which appointed as a Mark
Twain Memorial Committee William
! Dean Howells. William Milligan Sloane.
Robert Underwood Johnson. Edwin Austin
! Abbey, Henry Mills Alden, John White
Alexander, John Bigelow. Arthur Twinfng
! Hadley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
! Thomas Hastings. Henry James. Henry
! Cabot Lodge, Hamilton Wright Mabie, AL
fred Thaver Mahan. Brander Matthews.
Bliss Perry, James Ford Rhodes. Henry
! van Dyke and Woodrow Wilson.
Among those present were J. P Morgan,
! J. Borden Hartman. Mrs. Robert G. Inger-
! soil, DR.. Edward Quintard. Horace White.
! Miss Winifred Holt. DIR. St Clair Nickel
way, Adolph s Ochs. Colonel George Har-
vey. J. Henry Harper, Albert Bigelow
Paine, Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Miholland.
J Miss Inez Milholland. Mrs Martin Little
! ton, DR.. A. Alexander Smith. Miss Mildred
Howells. Mrs. Richard Watson Glider. Mrs.
Andrew Carnegie1k FRS Charles A Ditson.
Miss Elinor Cou"pck. Professor Richard
Gottheil Mrs Won r. Phelps. Peter Finley
Dunno Robert ]. Collier. Mrs. Ruth Nc
Emery Stuart. Theodore \. Vail. William
Rockefeller Mr.. and Mrs. Brayton Ives. Mr.
and Mrs Daniel F. Kellogg. W. ]. Lampton.
VIII n Harden, F Hopkins0n Smith,
Booth Harrington, Charles Ram Kennedy.
Samuel NJ Gardenhire, John Luther Long.
Arthur Ruhl, Charles Batten LooTnis.
Mr.. and Mrs Jesse Lynch Williams. Win
field s Moody, Marion Hariand." Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Underwood Johnson. ".
W Ellsworth Frank II. Dodd. Irving
Bachelor. Nathan Straus. Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Damrosch. DR.. Carlos r MacDon-
aid. W a Nash. Judge and Mrs. Alton B.
Parker. the Rev Junius B. Remensnyder
Don c SeitZ MIR. and Mrs. Seth Low,
Frank A Munsey. Professor Thomas X.
Launsbury Colgate Hoyt, William B.
Hornblower, Professor J. Howard Van Am
ringe. Mrs. " II. Schieffeiin. Miss jean
nette Glider, Dr. and Mrs Charles Avery
Doremus, Emil L. Boas, Isaac n Sehgman,
the Rev Percy Stickney Grant, Edward r..
Seligrnan ex-Justice Augustus Van Wyck-
DR. John u. Quackenbos, DR. and Mrs. New
ell Dwight Hills Mrs. Henry Willard Louis
Marshall jor Charles l., LydeckeT.