New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-10
KATE DEBS AND BRYAN
IN TWILIGHT FAME HALL
Amid Notes of Chinese Gong,
Club Elects Them to List of
"USefuI Americans"
TWELVE OF THEM IN ALL
Whitcomb Riley and Many
Others Are Voted Down
Balloting Ends at
Early Evening.

Armed with Chinese gong and forti-
fed by number OF speakers-mostly So
cialists-the Twilight Club last night
elected Oklahoma Kate" Eugene V.
Debs and ten others as the twelve most
socially useful Americans"
Mr.. Tucker. the secretary explained
that such would be the procedure after
all the speeches were finished. which
would be some time toward . a. m. so his
word Is taken for it. Moreover, the votes
would not be counted until late to-day. he
added.
we sent out list OF thirty-four
names to representative Americans all
over the country" he said. land we have
received word from three thousand of
them. The majority favored the first
twelve on the list But we're going to
take j. r. Morgan's name from among
them and also Helen Goulds. and substi-
tute William Jennings Bryan and Kate
Barnard COklahoma KateJ IN their
stead"
So the honored dozen. as duly elected
by the Twilighters-taking the secretary's
demonstrations as fact-are:
Jane Adams. Theodore Roosevelt.
Thomas \. Edison. Judge Ben b. Lind
say, Kate Barnard. William Jennings
Bryan. DR. Simon Flexner. DR.. Harvey w.
Wylie. Booker T. Washington. Eugene v
Debs. Mrs. Russell Sage and the Rev.
Anna Shaw.
Among the twenty-five who were left
out were we'll known soap manufacturer.
a half-doZen socialists and James Whit
comb Riley. They put the Hoosier poet
last on the list
The speechmaking opened with a
thumbnai history OF the Twilight club
by Mr.. Tucker. And this part OF what
he said is worth quoting:
I'm the Twilight Club there is rule
not 10 wear evening clothes. for its
founders feared that the bad manners Of
| evening clothes. IL worn, might creep into
the organization, and evening clothes. the
founders OF the Twilight Club believed,
would not aid I'm profound thinking
Then Mr. Tucker. who wore evening
clothes said that all wanted to think
high and beautifully. but not gloomily.
Whereat the POSTMASTER was intro
duced. and almost every one who arose
10 speak Dau MS own AdNtiAA' Ii'SA H'-
clally useful American or set Of them.
Judge g. jay Humphrey. Of the Bor-
ough OF Queens offered name not on
the list-that OF Mrs. Ballington Booth.
whose relief work among ex-convicts and
the families Of convicts put her high In
his esteem. This brought IA protest from
one Of the women diners. She said
rs Mrs. Darlington Booth an Ameri-
cam"
| And Edward j. Wheeler. POSTMASTER,
replied Yes. she is a good American
one merry soul. sitting beside the re-
porters. who didn't relish all that was
being said. was simply overwhelmed with
iov when one OF the speakers. n woman
physician. spoke OF some animals VINO
lose their fms and get lungs
"put down 'hns'," exclaimed the Merry
souI put down fms She means sills.
That's a good one, ia' ha' ha.'
Ite finally nuieted down and the next
sneaker. John Mcknight, an editorial
writer on a morning paper. was iht'r
Lrupted so by the man who beat on 'he
| Chinese gong when he thought the speech
had reached it's limit that the diners
showed their disspproval Of the gohG
heater or the laudatlon OF William Jen'
nings Bryan that Mr.. Mcknight was de-
liverlng. for they clapped and cheered
him when he sat down. and cried More
More
| Carrie w Allan. who despite her sex
ran for Secretary OF State on the Social
ist ticket at the last election, praised
Eugene V. Debs and the entire Socialist
movement with such fervor that the gonG
heater did not ring her out until she had
spoken twice as long as her predecessor
Dorothy Dix. who writes articles adj
vising Young lovers on the prophecies OF