New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-11
ALL NEW YORK
PRAISES M'ANENY
$50 of City's Leading Men,
and One Woman, Attend
Honor Dinner.
RETURN DEMANDED,
mitchell DECLARES
Seth Low, Job Hedges and DR..
Finley Speak-Guests Give
Silver Tea Service.

Seldom has q more representative or
noteworthy gathering of citizens as
sembled to do man honor than the $50
men--and one woman-who attended
the dinner in honor of George Nc
Aneny, President of the Board of Al
dermen, at the Waldorf last night. Com
missioner Katharine B. Davis Of the
Department of Correction, was the lone
woman on the floor, and she sat at the
guest table with thirty men. including
practically all the officials in the city
government.
Mayor Mitchell made his first appear
snce in public since his recent illness,
and spoke with deep feeling of the loss
it would mean to him and the city when
Mr.. McAneny resigned his present of
Zee. Seth Low. president of the Cham
Der of Commerce, presided, and the
other speakers were Morgan j. 0'Brien,
William c. Breed, of the Merchants As
ISOLATION; Job +. Hedges and John IL.
Finley, president of the New York Uni
versity. George w. Burleigh, chairman
Of the dinner committee, presented q
costly silver tea service TO the guest Of
honor on behalf of the citizens present,
each of whom contributed toward it.
Mr.. Low declared that the citizens
had gathered to do honor to man
whom the whole city loved to honor. He
introduced Mayor Mitchell as the first
speaker and congratulated him upon
his recovery from his Illness.
81 am particularly glad that the first
time that ! have been able to appear in
public since my recent illness should
be at this dinner in honor of George
McAneny," said the Mayor. This is
no perfunctory tribute. | am glad to
testify to my appreciation OF his SER
vices as a public official and to my
affection for him as friend"
The Mayor reviewed some Of the
great problems that had been worked
out since he and Mr.. McAneny have
been in the city government The
solving of the dual subway problem
was Mr.. McAneny's greatest work, he
said.
Il can more properly pay this tribute
10 Mr.. McAneny's genius and con-
structive ability" said the Mayor, "be-
cause | differed with him IN regard TO
some of the financial sides of the sub
way problem. We have had in this ad-
ministration some very vexatious prob
lens, and have always had the splen-
did cooperation of Mr.. McAneny in at
lacking all these problems. We are ap-
preaching another one now in the mat
ter of the New York Central tracks on
Eleventh Avenue, and the working out
of this problem is largely due to the
assistance of Mr.. McAneny, so that
hope to present the plans Of settlement
to the Board Of Estimate before Janu-
airy /.
"He goes from public Office for a
time, but | believe that the people will
call him back soon. For his own sake
this administration will lend him for a
little while, but | hope, and am conf
dent, the people will demand his splen-
did public service again before long"
Morgan j. O'Brien followed the
Mayor as the next speaker and paid a
high tribute to Mr.. McAneny as pub
lie servant and as man, as did Mr..
Breed, Job Hedges and DR.. Finley.
Mrs. McAneny occupied box in the
grand ballroom, and with her were
Mrs. George Haven Putnam, DR.. Mary
Putnam, Mrs. Henry II. Curran, Miss
Meyer, Miss Ruth McAneny and Her
bert McAneny.
At the guest table were Henry H.
Curran, Calvin d. Van Name, Douglas
Mathewson, Oscar S. Straus, the Rev.
Howard Dufield, DR.. Abraham jacob,
H. Fairfield Osborn, Dudley Field Ma
lone, Major General Louis w. Stotes-
bury, William A. Prendergsst, Morgan
j. O'Brien, Colonel Edwin f. Glenn,
u. S. A.; r. Fulton Cutting, Mayor
Mitchell, Seth Low, DIR. John II. Finley,
the Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, Rear Ad-
miral ~ p. Usher, Z. s. ~; William c.
Breed, the Rev. William T. Manning,
Robert W. de Forest, Alton B. Parker,
Job L. Hedges, DR.. Katharine B. Davis,
Rabbi Silverman, Marcus NJ. Marks,
Lewis H. Pounds and Maurice Connolly,
Several men prominent in Tammany
Hall were at the tables, among them
Thomas F. Smith, secretary of the Wig
wan; Robert f. Wagner, State Senator;
"Al" Smith, Sheriff-elect; John H.
McCooey, Brooklyn Tammany leader;
Judge Edward Swami, District Attor-
ney-elect, and j. Sergeant Cram, of the
Public Service Commission.
At one table sat George W. Perkins,
Frank Hitchcock, formerly chairman Of
the Republican National Committee;
Melville E. Stone, Darwin p. Kingsley,
p. A. S. Franklin, George +. Baker,
Coleman du Pont, Judge Samuel Sea-
bury, Vincent Aston and W. Averill
Hartman.