The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
WIn. Dean ROWeIIS PreSides Over Great AsS0mbIage
 At Carnegie Hall
MOST EMINENT MEN OF
 COUNTRY MAKE SPEECHES
Champ Clark and Speaker Cannon Make Characteristic Addresses Touching Upon Incidents in
 Life of Mark Twain

New York, November S0.-rhe intellect. the power and the wealth of the land gathered in Carnegie hall tonight to pay tribute to the memory of Mark Twain, whom the world loved because he made it laugh.
 William Dean Howells presided Uncle Joe Cannon, speaker of the House of Representatives, that is, and Champ Clark. the speaker that may be, spoke from the same platform. Dr. Henry Van dyke of Princeton, Henry Watterson, George W. Cable. Booth Tarkington, J. Pierpont Morgan. John Luther Long, and many others were among those invited. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Academy of Arts and Letters
 Mir. Howells spoke briefly.
 q believe I can safely promise" he said of the commemoration, that it will not be formal and will not be funeral. The man himself could no more be for malized than flame. His vivid genius ranged at will through all the ways of life. Now that 1t is freed to the painless amplitude of the skies, it could hardly offer the pattern of conventional ob- servance.
 .'If the mind and the make of our com memoration could be left to him. we might imagine him saying:
 Must Not Re Too Solemn
 Why, of course, you must not make a solemnity of 1t; you must not have it that sort of obseay. 1 should want you to be serious about me-that is, sincere; a nd nn ha r, to eulogy But we don't object here to any mans affection; we like to be liked as well as ever, and if any of you can remember some creditable thing about me I shouldn't mind his telling it, provided always he did not blink the pa1liating cir cumstances, the mitigating moves; the selfish considerations that always accom- pany every notable action. 1 shouldn't { like to be made out miracle of humor, either. and left a stumbling block for any man who was intending to be moderately and instructive hereafter At the same time, don't suppose a com is exactly the occasion for dwelling on a mans shortcomings in his life or his literature
 Tt seems to me-" MT. Howells con tinued, that we are met tonight not so much to commemorate great man as one who still lives in us as a con- Others hereafter may call him the greatest humorist, the kind est and wisest moralist, who ever lived. We who were of his acquaintance can best offer our collective reminiscence, a composite likeness of him which will keep him real and actual"
 Remedies for SlecpIessness
 Joseph Choate recalled that Darwin used to say he kept two remedies for at the head of his bed the Bible and "Innocents Abroad" And Darwin said he didn't know which he read the most" continued MT Choate, "but the story that earned undying fame for the author was the jumping frog story. Not even Lincolns two- minute speech in Gettysburg has been read so much or committed to memory so often as that remarkable story.
 Mark Twains hatred for shams and charlatans was as intense as his love for truth and honesty I believe he and Franklin learned more in the print ing shop than the average boy in col lege. He graduated from the printing shop high school and then spent four years in the pilot house. Those four years were his university course and were more instructive to him than Yale or Harvard could have been. And he realized it himself"
 Champ Clark's Tribute
 Congressman Champ Clark of Mis- souri spoke on Mark Twain as lob byist."
 Tt Is in keeping with the eternal fitness of things" he said. that Mis- sourian should participate in paying honor to the most famous Missourian that ever lived. With me, it. Is a labor of love.
 consider fl my good fOrfrne tn have known this illustrious and lov- able man personally at all, and by bad fortune not to have known him for a long period. He was born within d few miles of my congressional district, at the confluence of the three forks of Salt river, a stream of evil omen to candidates, upon whose briny bosom many of them sail into the Gulf or Oblivion. lie was reared at Hannibal, which adjoins my district, and his eel ebrated cave, rendered immortal by his pen, is in Rails county. the northern most county in the district which l have the honor to represent. I had read with avidity every word he ever wrote and counted him among the worlds benefactors; but luck or Hate or fortune so ordered things that I never beheld him in tia 1esh until he was in the gorgeous stsetf dF his long, useful and glorie lile
 Meeting With NafiS Essast4
 rThe way l came to ha3w fisrk Train is that thtee or f5tl sf ars ago he visited Washingf lN 1s i6n. fst Let not the prudish ar s'lea lis. s- ud- der at the term, for N2,A 1a,u was not only a lobbyist, fut nee of lobbyists. He did itLof rl yqif. to the lobbyist, but also C. siese t lom he lobbied. r
 ''So, it came to pa tsiof 9 ein- orable day. Mark Tra yith his worldwide reput1F as hh ant courier, descended urn ht Aa N in gorgeous attire and sris be fore him. Solomon ia sia f4. was not arrayed as this gses stls for in the dead of wintei he ,fe of white fiannels. white as 5ta ifs lich filled the air, while a8i fs.r ~iei ton- dered. He created Qfftf fe& eAs ton --as he no doubt int n 1sc 1-s sen- saton which, so ia Hs he .on- cerned, was strictly uiil risr rac- ter. and cunningly pia nif sc pon matter-' Ha+onf.
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