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 THE DINNER GIVEN TO 
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DINNER 
 
 GIVEN • TO • CASS • GILBERT • ARCHITECT 
 BY • FRANK • W • WOOLWORTH 
 F • HOPKINSON • SMITH 
 
 PRESIDING 
 
 APRIL • 24 • 1913 
 
 THE • WOOLWORTH • BUILDING 
 
 NEW • YORK 
 
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 Copyright, 191S,by 
 HUGH McATAMNEY 
 
 MUNDER-THOMSEN PRESS 
 Baltimore :: New York 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Introduction 15 
 
 Addresses by : 
 
 F. Hopkinson Smith 29 
 
 Frank W. Woolworth 35 
 
 Cass Gilbert 45 
 
 Louis J. Horowitz 57 
 
 William Winter 65 
 
 W. U. Hensel 75 
 
 Patrick Francis Murphy 85 
 
 Menu 98 
 
 Speakers 97 
 
 An Appreciation 101 
 
 Alphabetical List of Guests 107 
 
 Floor Plan of Seating Arrangement 121 
 
 Guests as Arranged by Tables 125 
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 The Building 11 
 
 The Hallway 17 
 
 Portraits of : 
 
 F. Hopkinson Smith facing 28 
 
 Frank W. Woolworth facing 32 
 
 Cass Gilbert facing 42 
 
 Louis J. Horowitz facing 54 
 
 William Winter facing 62 
 
 W. U. Hensel facing 72 
 
 Patrick Francis Murphy facing 82 
 
 Woolworth Building by Night (Photogravure) facing 98 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 When, on the morning of April 25, 1913, the news- 
 papers reported the part taken the previous night 
 by President Woodrow Wilson in formally opening 
 the Woolworth Building, a question that instantly 
 shaped itself in the minds of many people was — 
 "Why did he do it?" Their astonishment was per- 
 haps natural enough. The Woolworth Building, as 
 everybody knew, was not a public institution, or 
 even a semi-public one, but was an ojffice-building 
 erected in New York by private capital and avowedly 
 as a money-making enterprise. Yet the President 
 had not hesitated to participate officially and most 
 impressively in the opening ceremonies. 
 
 These centered around a dinner tendered to the 
 architect, Mr. Cass Gilbert, by the owner of the build- 
 ing, Mr. Frank W. Woolworth, and attended by 
 more than eight hundred specially invited guests. 
 Promptly at half-past seven o'clock, the evening 
 of April 24, Mr. Woolworth, Mr. Gilbert, and the 
 guests, after a reception on the beautiful mezzanine 
 floor, assembled on the new building's twenty-seventh 
 story, which had been converted for the occasion 
 into a magnificent banqueting-hall. When all were 
 seated the lights were gradually lowered, until at 
 last the hall and the entire building were in almost 
 total darkness. At the same moment, there was 
 
flashed to President Wilson in Washington a tele- 
 graphic message, announcing that everything was 
 in readiness for him to open the building. 
 
 The President's response was simple yet exceed- 
 ingly dramatic. All that he did was to press a but- 
 ton connected by wire with the building in distant 
 New York. But that slight pressure of his finger 
 had a remarkable result. For it set in motion the 
 dynamos providing the lighting power for the new 
 building, and instantly eighty thousand electric 
 lights were ablaze from the tip of the sky-challenging 
 pinnacle to the depths of the sub-basement. 
 
 In the banqueting-hall the eight hundred guests 
 leaped to their feet with an irrepressible cheer. 
 Outside, in Broadway and historic City Hall Park, the 
 thousands who had been patiently awaiting this mo- 
 ment, first gasped, then shouted their admiration, as 
 the wonderful Woolworth Building sprang into full 
 view against the blackness of the night. Standing 
 there, gazing up, up, up to the summit of the sixty- 
 storied edifice, towering in silent majesty and en- 
 thralling beauty over the lesser, but still impressive, 
 piles of lower Manhattan Island, not one among the 
 multitude of fascinated onlookers failed in that awe- 
 inspiring instant to understand why the President of 
 the United Sates had consented to participate in the 
 opening ceremonies. 
 
 It was, after all, something far more than a mere 
 office-building at which they were gazing. It was 
 the highest and one of the most beautiful structures 
 ever erected for the daily occupancy of man — the 
 highest structure of any sort in the world, excepting 
 only the Eiffel Tower in Paris — and it was a structure 
 erected on American soil, in accordance with the 
 
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ideas of an American owner and an American archi- 
 tect. In its lofty Gothic splendors it embodied an 
 almost incredible triumph of American creative 
 genius, and stood forth to the world as a matchless 
 memorial to the spirit of American enterprise, prog- 
 ress, and achievement. Consequently, its formal 
 opening was properly to be regarded not as a private 
 or local aflfair, but as a public event of importance to 
 the whole nation. 
 
 This was the consideration that induced President 
 Woodrow Wilson to press the button that caused the 
 Woolworth Building, throughout the night of April 
 24, to illumine New York with its glow of golden 
 glory. And, in truth, it was precisely the same con- 
 sideration that brought together, as Mr. Wool worth's 
 guests, one of the most remarkable gatherings of 
 American citizens that ever attended a function of 
 this kind. 
 
 Among the eight hundred men who broke bread 
 that April evening under the roof of the Woolworth 
 Building, almost every profession had representa- 
 tives. From Washington, in response to invitations 
 personally extended by Mr. Hugh McAtamney, Mr. 
 Woolworth's able lieutenant who had been entrusted 
 with entire charge of the dinner arrangements, there 
 came on a Pennsylvania special train which Mr. 
 Woolworth had provided, more than a hundred Con- 
 gressmen and others prominent in the life of the na- 
 tion's capital. Massachusetts sent its Lieutenant- 
 Governor, while the Governors of New York and 
 Rhode Island were represented by their chiefs of 
 staff. Boston, Providence, and other New England 
 cities contributed a strong deputation of political 
 leaders, lawyers, business men, and educators. Presi- 
 
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dents of national and savings banks, judges, pub- 
 licists, college presidents, professors, scientists, physi- 
 cians, surgeons, artists, architects, heads of insurance 
 and real estate firms, manufacturers, importers, 
 ship-builders, railroad and steamship men, engineers, 
 builders, and advertising men united to swell the 
 ranks of the guests at this notable dinner. Litera- 
 ture in all its branches was conspicuously represented 
 by well-known publishers, editors, journalists, his- 
 torians, essayists, novelists, and poets. 
 
 In short, the men who assembled at Mr. Wool- 
 worth's invitation to celebrate the opening of his 
 building summed up in themselves and in superlative 
 degree the varied activities and attainments of our 
 American life of to-day. Their very presence in the 
 banqueting-hall testified eloquently to the national 
 significance of the occasion. To be sure, there were 
 doubtless some among them who, ere they took their 
 seats at the hundred tables laid for their accommo- 
 dation, were but vaguely conscious of the truly 
 marvelous character of the achievement they had 
 been invited to commemorate. But they had only 
 to glance out of the broad windows near which they 
 were seated to gain an instant and lasting apprecia- 
 tion of its greatness. 
 
 Especially was this true of the guests seated on the 
 Park Place side of the building. Far below them, 
 stretching northward, eastward, westward, they saw 
 the roofs of the homes, churches, workshops, and 
 playhouses of seven million people. To the north- 
 east thin threads of light, like fairy strands, outlined 
 the bridges to Brooklyn; while, running northwest, 
 a wider band traced the course of Broadway, the 
 greatest street in the world, and now made still 
 
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greater by the completion of the wonderful building 
 from which they were then overlooking New York. 
 Near at hand loomed the huge bulk of the unfinished 
 Municipal Building; and, farther north, in a direct 
 line, the Metropolitan Tower, a worthy, if less im- 
 posing, companion to the Woolworth Tower beneath 
 which the dinner-guests were seated. 
 
 Had it, indeed, been daytime, and had they made 
 their way to the summit of the Woolworth Tower, 
 the wondrous achievement embodied in the building 
 which it crowns would have been forced in upon 
 their minds even more strongly. For they would 
 then have beheld, in addition to the brilliant scenic 
 and color effects of the great metropolis lying beneath 
 them, a vast outstretching panorama of land and sea, 
 mountain, meadow, verdant valley, silver lake, and 
 flowing stream, with cities, towns, and hamlets dot- 
 ted numerously roundabout. Forty miles to the 
 southwest, Princeton and its famous university 
 would have been visible; forty miles to the north. 
 West Point, the nation's cradle of military genius; 
 to the northwest, more than forty-five miles away, 
 their eyes would have rested on beautiful Lake 
 Hopatcong; and, turning to the southeast, they could 
 have gazed an equal distance out to sea and watched 
 the coming and going of the ocean leviathans with 
 their precious freights. 
 
 All this and much more, had it been day instead 
 of night, Mr. Woolworth's guests could have seen 
 from the summit of a building rising nearly eight 
 hundred feet above the passing throngs on Broadway 
 — a building so high as to overtop by two hundred 
 feet the mighty Pyramid of Cheops, one of the famed 
 wonders of the world; a building so massive as to 
 
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have absorbed more than twenty-five thousand tons 
 of steel in its construction, and a building erected 
 with such painstaking regard to the threefold re- 
 quirement of strength, convenience, and beauty 
 that its cost probably exceeded that of any private 
 building in the world. More astonishing still, as the 
 architect, Mr. Gilbert, stated the night of the open- 
 ing ceremonies : 
 
 "There was no financing of this building. Mr. 
 Woolworth has paid for it all himself as he went along. 
 His bankers tell me that this building is unique here 
 and probably so throughout the country, for it stands 
 to-day without a mortgage on it or a dollar of indebt- 
 edness." 
 
 Small wonder that after such a statement the owner 
 of the highest office-building in the world was inun- 
 dated with a fresh flood of congratulations from his 
 admiring guests. Nor, as his personal friends were 
 well aware, had Mr. Woolworth's share in the up- 
 raising of this regal edifice been by any means con- 
 fined to the payment of the construction bills. The 
 idea underlying it — the purpose of erecting the loftiest 
 and most beautiful building ever put up for com- 
 mercial uses — was entirely his own; and from first 
 to last, he had actively co-operated with the archi- 
 tect in the difficult tasks of conception and execu- 
 tion. Every detail of exterior and interior design, 
 of installation and decoration, had been carefully 
 scrutinized, and in many instances had been suggested 
 and devised by him; every stage in the building's 
 growth had been watched with a vigilant eye. 
 
 Rightfully, then, on the evening of the dinner, Mr. 
 Woolworth was a supremely happy man — happy in 
 the consciousness of the realization of a fondly 
 
cherished dream, and happy in the further knowledge 
 that its reahzation was the crowning triumph of a 
 long, arduous, and phenomenally successful business 
 career. Indeed, altogether apart from the signifi- 
 cance of the Woolworth Building as a marvelous 
 memorial to American creative genius, its opening 
 ceremonies merited observance on a national scale, 
 if only for the reason that it towered to the sky as a 
 superb and enduring symbol of the possibilities open 
 to every man in the great American Republic, no 
 matter how handicapped by circumstances of birth 
 or early fortune. 
 
 And it thus towered with reference not only to 
 the personal achievements of its owner, but also to 
 the career of its architect, the guest of honor at the 
 commemorative banquet of which this volume is 
 designed to afford a permanent record. The story 
 of Mr. Woolworth's rise from a three-dollar-a-week 
 errand-boy to one of America's greatest merchant 
 kings (a story told in detail on a following page) finds 
 a striking parallel in the story of Mr. Gilbert's rise 
 in the field of art. Like Mr. Woolworth, Mr. Gil- 
 bert began life under conditions that gave him no 
 advantage over the average American boy, and if 
 to-day he ranks, as he undoubtedly does, among the 
 world's foremost architects, he can truthfully affirm 
 that he owes his eminence to his own unremitting 
 efforts. 
 
 Born November 24, 1859, in the Ohio town of 
 Zanesville; boasting on his father's side descent from 
 the notable Gilbert family of Queen Elizabeth's time, 
 and inheriting from his mother the solid qualities 
 that go with a combined Quaker and Scotch-Irish 
 ancestry, Mr. Gilbert inherited from neither paternal 
 
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nor maternal progenitors much, except native talent. 
 His father's death, which occurred in 1868, shortly 
 after his migration from Zanesville to the then Far 
 West of St. Paul, Minnesota, brought the family- 
 fortunes to a somewhat low ebb, but did not prevent 
 Cass Gilbert, thanks to the loving devotion of his 
 mother, from obtaining a fairly good schooHng. It 
 did, however, make necessary the abandonment of 
 a cherished project of attending Princeton University, 
 and after a year in a small Minnesota college he en- 
 tered the office of a local architect. 
 
 Precisely as Mr. Woolworth, starting as errand- 
 boy at the age of twenty-one, was obliged to work 
 for a time without drawing a penny in pay, so Mr. 
 Gilbert had to serve a long and financially unremu- 
 nerative apprenticeship. But he was so eager to 
 learn architecture, that he was content to slave many 
 hours a day, for a year and a half, without earning a 
 single cent. When, however, at the end of that 
 time his employer offered to put him on the pay-roll 
 at the princely salary of twelve dollars a month, he 
 rightly protested. Surely, as he pointed out, he 
 was now worth more than that to any architect. In 
 this belief he sought and found a new position — and 
 settled down to earn the money that he felt was 
 needed to enable him to secure the technical educa- 
 tion without which he could never hope to be a 
 really first-class architect. 
 
 Pinching, saving, toiling tirelessly in the office and 
 in the field, working now as draftsman, now as rod- 
 man for a railway surveying company, he was just 
 twenty years old when he found himself in possession 
 of a sum sufficient to give him a single year in the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he 
 
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specialized in architecture, and there, crowding two 
 years' work into the only year he could spare, he 
 completed his studies prize-winner of his class! An- 
 other period of toilsome effort with a surveying party 
 followed, and after this — again on his hard-earned 
 savings — a splendid year of study in Europe, a year 
 of desultory, but diligent knocking-about in Italy, 
 France, and England, making notes and sketches of 
 the beauties of Old World architecture. 
 
 Thence back to America to begin the actual prac- 
 tice of his profession, and to bring to the land of his 
 birth a wealth of new architectural ideas and ideals. 
 It would be tedious to attempt even to enumerate 
 here the many beautiful buildings with which the 
 name of Cass Gilbert has been associated since he 
 first gained nation-wide recognition by winning the 
 competition for the Minnesota State Capitol at St. 
 Paul — a building which, as erected in accordance 
 with Mr. Gilbert's plans, has been described by the 
 painter and critic, Kenyon Cox, as "a vast piece of 
 sculpture, on which the light falls as caressingly as 
 upon the white face of the Venus of Milo. Seen at a 
 distance," Mr. Cox adds, "it seems of the colors and 
 almost of the very substance of the sky, into which 
 it melts like a snow-peak on the horizon." 
 
 These words, as everyone who has seen the Wool- 
 worth Building must appreciate, might be appHed 
 with even greater force to Mr. Gilbert's latest crea- 
 tion. It is a veritable fairy palace, such as we have 
 all dreamed about in childhood — a dream now happily 
 come true through the genius of two typical Ameri- 
 can conquerors of success in the world of business and 
 the world of art. 
 
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Surely such a building with such a history stands 
 as a majestic symbol of the marvelous possibilities 
 open to American manhood at its best; stands, that 
 is to say, as a national monument, in the dedication 
 exercises of which the President of the United States 
 might well have felt proud to take part. Surely, too, 
 the more detailed account of its genesis, evolution, 
 and completion, as told in the addresses on the pages 
 that follow, amply deserves a close and thoughtful 
 reading. 
 
 H. Addington Bruce. 
 
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THE • ADDRESS • OF 
 MR • F • HOPKINSON • SMITH 
 TOASTMASTER 
 
The Toastmaster: In the days of the Pharaohs 
 men built monuments to cover dead things — ^princi- 
 pally kings. 
 
 In the Middle Ages men locked their money in strong 
 boxes or hid it in caves and stood over it with a club. 
 
 To-day the only body of men who hide money so 
 that it is of no use to anyone are the gentlemen con- 
 trolling our government funds, who hide it away in 
 cotton bags or rack it up on pine shelves, in the vaults 
 of our several sub-treasuries. This is no doubt im- 
 portant on the theory that it is good to put away 
 something for a rainy day and on the other theory 
 that when an outside nation concludes to take a 
 crack at us we may be in a better position to crack 
 back. It is also of value in persuading our people 
 that a small sheet of wood pulp properly signed is as 
 good as a gold dollar, properly stamped. 
 
 Outside of these treasury dogs, most, if not all, of 
 the men controlling very large sums of money are 
 distinguished by totally different policies. 
 
 One whose fortune runs into the millions opens 
 the flood-gates of expenditure, by first disinheriting 
 himself, and then providing for the continuous foun- 
 dation and support of various institutions of learning, 
 including libraries and art galleries. 
 
 Another endows universities, provides enormous 
 sums for medical research, sustains hospitals and 
 asylums and gives work to tens of thousands of men. 
 
 A third builds, endows and stocks a museum full 
 of priceless treasures, Spain being the chief loser, and 
 throws it wide open to the passerby. 
 
 A fourth runs a line of concrete arches for miles 
 out into the blue Caribbean Sea, bringing the tropics 
 within a day's journey of our ice and snow. 
 
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Another who has but lately joined the vast majority, 
 in addition to countless and continued acts of kind- 
 ness with his coffers wide open, his hand never stayed 
 from giving, leaves behind a monument which will 
 last as long as any other of his time; namely, the 
 world-wide belief in the integrity of the American 
 character as exemplified in his own stern, relentless, 
 uncompromisingly honest life. 
 
 This view of the benefits accruing to the Republic 
 by reason of the accumulations heretofore referred to, 
 while general among thinking men, is not universal. 
 The attacks on our rich men are constant — quite 
 persistent of late and from a high quarter. The 
 criticisms are various, reflecting on the integrity of 
 the owners, of their baleful influence on the growing 
 generation and particularly on the fact that they 
 crush out the smaller men, their motto being '*The 
 devil take the hindermost," not remembering that 
 the devil ought to take the hindermost in a country 
 like ours, where every opportunity is given a man to 
 succeed and where those who lag behind and whine 
 are those who have neither the courage nor the ability 
 to fight their way to the front. 
 
 Of late a new man has come to the front. The 
 criticisms indulged in by the unthinking, the dis- 
 gruntled and the ignorant as to the means by which 
 other reservoirs of like magnitude have been filled, 
 are pointless in his case. 
 
 Neither the freshets of speculation, the downpour 
 of good luck, nor the bursting of some hard-pressed 
 dam above his source of supply, whose water he was 
 fortunate enough to impound before it had run to 
 waste, ever added a single gallon to his sum total. 
 
 What filled it to the brim and running over were 
 
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millions of rain drops during a shower of continued 
 success lasting thirty years. Just a little at a time 
 and never failing — only this and nothing more. 
 
 An all-round American, this man; born on a farm 
 up our State ; clerk behind the counter of a cross-road 
 country store the year he voted; without capital, 
 without friends at first; working eighteen hours out 
 of the twenty-four and still at it. What happened 
 when his reservoir began to spill over its edges? You 
 have only to look around you and see. 
 
 And if the beauty of the interior below where we 
 sit has not satisfied you, please step down to the 
 sidewalk and look straight up until you get the roof 
 of your mouth sun-burnt, while your eyes follow, as 
 they would the flight of a rocket, the upward spring 
 of that wonderful Gothic tower, its apex piercing the 
 blue. 
 
 A thing of beauty this — a lasting monument to a 
 plain farmer boy who kept ahead of the procession, 
 close up to the band, and an example to every Amer- 
 ican lad to go and do likewise. Withal a marvelous 
 contribution to his adopted city — one more of the 
 architectural triumphs of our time. 
 
 Gentlemen, I have the honor to present to you our 
 generous and distinguished host, Mr. Frank W. Wool- 
 worth. (Prolonged applause and cheering,) 
 
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THE • ADDRESS • OF 
 MR • FRANK • W • WOOLWORTH 
 
Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen and Friends: I thank 
 you for accepting my invitation to do honor to one 
 of the greatest architects in this world. (Applause.) 
 
 I beg to make a few apologies. This room in which 
 we are now assembled was never intended for a ban- 
 quet of this nature, and I trust that you will pardon 
 me for selecting such an inconvenient place. But 
 I knew that some of you would like to see what kind 
 of a building Cass Gilbert put up. (Applause.) 
 
 Before going any farther I would like to call special 
 attention to Mr. Hugh McAtamney, who has been un- 
 tiring in his efforts to make this dinner a success. I 
 trust you will overlook any inconvenience you may 
 have been put to on account of the unusual place, and 
 I congratulate Mr. Hugh McAtamney on his success 
 in this stupendous task. I want everyone in this room 
 to know who this man is. Mr. Hugh McAtamney, 
 stand up. (Mr. McAtamney stood up and was greeted 
 with applause.) 
 
 I desire to make another apology for speaking to 
 you at all. As you all know, I am not a public speaker, 
 and have never made a public speech of any account 
 in my life. What made this building possible ? Did 
 you ever think of that? Twenty-one years of my life 
 were spent on a farm. On March 24, 1873, over forty 
 years ago, I w^ent to work to learn the dry goods 
 business in Watertown, New York, with Moore & 
 Smith. I am very thankful to-day to my employers. 
 They taught me the first lesson in my mercantile 
 career, and what little success I have made in the 
 mercantile world I ow^e to them. (Applause.) Gentle- 
 men, these two men are here to-night, and I want 
 you all to know them. Mr. Moore and Mr. Smith, 
 stand up and show yourselves. (Mr. Moore and Mr, 
 
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Smith stood up and received a great ovation,) They 
 are two of the people who helped to make this build- 
 ing possible. 
 
 I do not wish to be egotistical, but if I have had 
 any ability at all in the past, it has been in my selec- 
 tion of good generals as managers of the httle business 
 that I started. It was a little business. It com- 
 menced with a five-cent nickel piece. The first 
 manager that I selected after I had run the first store 
 successfully was a man by the name of C. S. Wool- 
 worth. I believe they call him my brother. C. S. 
 Woolworth, please stand up. (Mr, C. S. Woolworth 
 then arose amidst great applause,) 
 
 The gentlemen seated at a table right over there, 
 and some of the principal men at that table are now 
 behind me, are those that are responsible for my 
 financial success. They helped to collect the nickels 
 and dimes that have gone into the building, and 
 they also helped to make the building possible. 
 (Applause,) 
 
 Seated at those tables right over there in front of 
 me are gentlemen from whom I have made a great 
 many purchases in years gone by and it is a pleasure 
 to me to greet these gentlemen here with us to-night, 
 and notwithstanding the fact that they have been 
 selling us goods and making money from us they 
 have done their duty and they have helped to make 
 this building possible. 
 
 When I moved into the City of New York in July, 
 1886, my first bank account was opened with the 
 bank that is now the Irving National Bank (applause). 
 The account was so small that the officials hesitated to 
 take it, although I was well introduced (laughter). I 
 soon, however, became a director in that institution. 
 
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and through the influence of the oflBcers and directors 
 of this bank, which had grown to very large propor- 
 tions in the meantime, I was induced to erect a small 
 building on the corner of Park Place and Broadway — 
 the place where I now stand {laughter), and I was sure 
 of one good tenant besides the corporation with which 
 I am connected. (Applause,) You have seen the 
 banking quarters down below that they will occupy 
 in this building. This bank was also one of the 
 factors that made this building possible, and the 
 directors and officers of that bank are now seated at 
 the tables located right down here, and I am very 
 sorry you cannot see them. I would like to have the 
 President of that bank, Mr. Rollin P. Grant, stand 
 up and show himself. (Applause,) 
 
 There is one gentleman we must not forget, and 
 that is Mr. Lewis E. Pierson (great applause), formerly 
 President of the Irving National Bank. He was of 
 great assistance to me and my assistants in locating 
 the site of this building. 
 
 Edward J. Hogan (great applause) was the real 
 estate broker who was so successful in securing the 
 property this building rests upon; and it required 
 strenuous efforts on his part to assemble seven dif- 
 ferent properties into one large plot of ground. He 
 afterwards became the successful renting agent, and 
 has succeeded beyond all expectation, and has put it 
 on a good financial basis. (Great applause,) Gentle- 
 men, I would like to have you all know Mr. Hogan. 
 Mr. Hogan, please stand up. (Great applause,) 
 
 One of the first things an owner who expects to 
 erect a building must do, after he has secured his 
 property, is to secure the services of an architect. 
 Some of the greatest architects of this country were 
 
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anxious and ready and willing to do this work. 
 {Laughter and applause,) They were all good archi- 
 tects, at least nearly all of them that applied for 
 this proposition; but it required an extraordinary 
 architect to put up a structure of this nature. I have 
 never regretted my choice of the guest who honors 
 us this evening, Mr. Cass Gilbert. {Great applause,) 
 Mr. Cass Gilbert, stand up. {Great and continued 
 applause.) But this great architect was a very great 
 architect before I discovered him. {Laughter,) He 
 has built some enormous and magnificent and artistic 
 buildings before. Look at the Capitol of Minnesota. 
 Look at the West Street Building. {Applause,) Look 
 at the Custom House. {Applause.) These are some 
 of the reasons why he was selected, because he had 
 done great work before he ever touched this building. 
 However, he is a greater architect to-day than he 
 ever was. {Great and continued applause.) I have 
 been congratulated time and time again on the 
 beauties of this building, but it is not necessary for 
 me to go into details in regard to this building, as the 
 building speaks for itself. {Great and continued ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 After selecting a successful architect, it was neces- 
 sary to get a contractor big enough, broad enough, 
 and with financial ability enough, to carry such a 
 structure to a success. I was fortunate in getting the 
 Thompson-Starrett Company {great applause) to take 
 this responsibility, which they have done. The 
 foundations were laid by The Foundation Company; 
 the steel commenced to show itself above the side- 
 walk November 15, 1911; and the first of July, 
 1912, the flag was flown in the breeze at the top 
 pinnacle of the tower. {Great applause.) That is the 
 
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kind of men that do business in a scientific, methodical 
 and dihgent way. I wish you all to recognize the 
 President of that company. I therefore ask Mr. 
 Horowitz, the President of that company, to stand up 
 and show himself. (Great applause.) 
 
 Now, gentlemen, I could go on and tell you about 
 all the sub-contractors, of the wonderful work they 
 have done through Mr. Horowitz's administration; the 
 timber and everything that goes together to make 
 this building possible was assembled systematically, 
 and every piece of steel, every stone, every brick, 
 everything came to its place in time. That is the 
 reason why this building was erected so quickly. 
 
 I don't want to worry you any longer with any 
 more of my remarks. I know you are getting weary 
 of them, but I have a secret in my hand here which I 
 wish to tell you. You are not supposed to tell any- 
 body outside of this room. (Laughter,) It has been a 
 great speculation on the part of everybody as to the 
 exact height of this building. When Mr. Cass Gilbert 
 asked me how high this building should be I told him 
 750 feet. He questioned me; he said *'Am I limited 
 to 750 feet?" (Laughter,) I said, *'That is the mini- 
 mum." (Laughter and applause.) He said "Will you 
 object if I make it a few feet higher.^" I said "Not in 
 the least, not in the least." Time went on; he got 
 to work with his superintendents, who, by the way, 
 are some of the finest men in New York. The 
 assistants that Mr. Gilbert has in his office are men 
 who can be depended upon absolutely ; and I wish to 
 give them honor at this meeting (applause), as well 
 as to give honor to the men who have been under 
 Mr. Horowitz, for they have done justice to him and 
 to everybody else. (Applause.) 
 
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Now, in regard to the height of this building : When 
 I returned from Europe last September I asked the 
 architect of this building how high it was. I had heard 
 rumors. I had received a few letters while I was in 
 Europe, and one of them astounded me by saying that 
 the building was to be 770 feet high. I did not believe 
 it. I did not believe Mr. Gilbert would take advan- 
 tage of me like that. Finally, when I came back and 
 asked him how high the building was (I wanted to 
 know), he said "I cannot tell you within a few inches, 
 but, as nearly as I can figure, it is 787 feet high. 
 {Laughter and applause.) Gentlemen, this building con- 
 tinued to grow. I couldn't understand why. They 
 were fooling me all the time. Finally, about a week 
 ago, I became disgusted in trying to find out the 
 height of this building, and I advised the architect to 
 employ a corps of engineers to measure it absolutely. 
 I have those figures before me to-night, and perhaps 
 it might be interesting for you to know the exact 
 height of this building. 
 
 On the Park Place corner, which is right here on 
 this corner, from the sidewalk to the top of the tower 
 is 791 feet and one-half inch. {Laughter and applause.) 
 
 On the Barclay Street corner, it is 792 feet. 
 On the Broadway front it is 791 feet 6 inches. 
 On the Park Place side, at the entrance in Park 
 Place, it is 792 feet 3 inches. 
 
 Op the Barclay Street entrance it is 793 feet 9 
 inches. 
 
 Those figures make an average height of the tower 
 of 792 feet 1 inch. 
 
 The foundations of this building are 121 feet below 
 the sidewalk line, to bed rock. Therefore, from the 
 
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bottom of the foundations to the top of the tower 
 is 913 feet and 1 inch. (Applause.) 
 
 And the height of the tower above sea level, high 
 tide, is 947 feet 2 inches. 
 
 Now, having determined the height of the building, 
 there have been a great many rumors and estimates 
 in regard to how many stories high the Woolworth 
 Building is. So I determined to know for myself, 
 and on one fine day I went to the very pinnacle of 
 the tower and walked down from that exalted height 
 to the sub-basement of the building. The building 
 has been known as a 55-story building, but I discov- 
 ered that the architect, or somebody, had omitted 
 five stories from their calculations, and the building 
 as it stands today is 60 stories high, 58 stories up to 
 the observation tower, and the observation tower is 
 750 feet above the pavement. Of course, it would have 
 been easy to have made this building 79 stories high, 
 allowing 10 feet to a floor, but, as you know, there is 
 no floor in the Woolworth Building less than 11 feet 
 high, and some of them are over 20 feet high. It is 
 very conservative in saying that the actual number 
 of stories in this building is 60, and it will hereafter 
 be known as a 60-story building. 
 
 Now, gentlemen, I only illustrate to you how the 
 architect, and everybody else, has been trying to 
 fool me on the height of this building. 
 
 But I don't want to take up any more of your 
 time; I have said enough. The Toastmaster told me 
 he would only allow me three minutes (laughter); 
 finally he compromised at eight minutes. Now I don't 
 know how long I have spoken; perhaps an hour. 
 
 Gentlemen, I thank you from the bottom of my 
 heart for coming here to welcome Mr. Gilbert to- 
 night. (Long applause,) 
 
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The Toastmaster: It is rather difficult to intro- 
 duce the next speaker. We can well understand our 
 host's attitude toward him. He dreamed a dream and 
 awoke, and the dream came true — so he gives him a 
 dinner. 
 
 If I had my way I would inaugurate a series of 
 dinners, all over the country, in all the principal 
 towns and cities — that course being the more conven- 
 ient for the thousands of our citizens who would like 
 to thank him in their hearts for this monument of his 
 genius. 
 
 The feeling one has for a genius is peculiar, and the 
 ways of expressing it but few. The story of Charles V. 
 and the great master Titian illustrates it best to my 
 mind. 
 
 Charles V. came into the painter's studio while the 
 master was at work. Titian dropped a brush; 
 Charles V. stooped and picked it up. Titian, horror- 
 stricken, said, "Your Majesty!" in great surprise. 
 "No," said the monarch, ''Your Majesty!" and 
 handed back the brush. 
 
 Gentlemen, I have the honor to introduce Mr. 
 Gilbert. {Continued applause,) 
 
 m 
 
THE • ADDRESS • OF 
 MR • CASS • GILBERT 
 
Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. Woolworth, gentlemen: I 
 thank you most heartily for your generous greeting. 
 Mr. Woolworth, I cannot thank you enough for the 
 extraordinary honor that you have conferred upon 
 me in inviting this distinguished company here to- 
 night. 
 
 When you told about the height of this building 
 I was filled at first with a feeling of embarrassment 
 which for a time almost became remorse; but had 
 I known your own point of view as well two years 
 ago as I know it to-day, I am afraid we would not 
 have stopped at 791 feet and one-half. {Laughter.) 
 
 Your reference to the engineers amused me im- 
 mensely. We architects and builders thought we were 
 erecting a building that would be possible of accurate 
 measurement, and that the measurements would be 
 the same in all cases. I judge from their statement 
 that the building is lop-sided {Laughter,) If that is 
 the case, I shall decline to sign the last certificate 
 for the Thompson-Starrett Company until they 
 straighten it up. It reminds me a good deal of my 
 friend George B. Post's story about a wonderful pal- 
 ace in India. There was a colonel of the Indian army 
 who returned to England after many years service in 
 India. He was in the habit of telling stories after 
 dinner, and those stories took on a rather extraordi- 
 nary and perhaps an exaggerated form, until his 
 valet, who, following what I am told is an English 
 custom always stood behind him at dinner, reminded 
 him one evening when he was dressing that perhaps 
 he was losing his reputation for credibility. So it 
 was arranged that if he told any such extraordinary 
 stories again his valet would tap him on the shoulder, 
 or cough, or do something, and then he would modify 
 
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the story. One night after dinner in a country house 
 the old colonel began. They were then talking of 
 palaces in India and extraordinary buildings they had 
 seen. He started to describe a crystal palace, with its 
 gorgeous interior, lined with wonderful mirrors, orna- 
 mented with mother-of-pearl, in silver and mosaic, 
 and all the wonders of the Orient. His valet coughed 
 twice, and finally tapped him on the shoulder. The 
 old gentleman was about to give the size of that 
 building when he got this little signal; and so in 
 order to be moderate about it he said, ''And would 
 you believe me? There was a room in that palace 
 that was the most extraordinary room you ever saw 
 in your life. Why, gentlemen, that room, I will give 
 you my word, was a mile long." Whereat there was 
 another tap on his shoulder, "And, ' ' he said, ''bless my 
 soul, it was only three feet wide." (Laughter,) He 
 averaged it up. 
 
 Now, Mr. Woolworth has ascribed to me certain 
 merits which I do not possess. Mr. Hopkinson Smith 
 has been kind enough to hang the garlands of his 
 unmatched oratory (laughter) upon a rusty nail driven 
 in the wall, but I want to take you into my confidence : 
 the real architect of this building is F. W. Woolworth. 
 (Applause,) He has hitched us to his car. He has 
 sat on the front seat and held the reins, and, in the 
 early stages of the enterprise, and all through it, 
 barring only the brief time of his absence in Europe, 
 there was no detail that did not have Mr. Wool- 
 worth's personal supervision, and in many cases, I 
 will admit now, somewhat to my temporary distress 
 (laughter), his criticism (laughter) and sometimes his 
 comment. But through it all I came to know good 
 behind that comment, behind that exact clear- 
 
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headed business point of view, that required certain 
 definite results, there was the kindest and most 
 sympathetic nature, the finest spirit of the best kind 
 of a cKent. (Applause.) 
 
 I see before me a great many professional men, men 
 engaged in all the walks of life, and, speaking as a 
 professional man and particularly as an architect, I 
 want to say that it is, in my judgment, utterly im- 
 possible to erect a great monumental building or carry 
 on successfully a constructional enterprise, particularly 
 one that involves the art of design, without a sympa- 
 thetic client. (Applause,) And for those of you who 
 may be so unfortunate in the future as to embark 
 upon a building enterprise, I venture to suggest just 
 one thing : that, whatever you do, enter cordially and 
 sympathetically into the point of view of the man you 
 have chosen to conduct that enterprise for you. Guide 
 him and direct him, but ever give him your confi- 
 dence, your support. 
 
 Now, I want to say that a work of this magnitude 
 is not executed by any one man. 
 
 It is the result of the cooperation of many men. It 
 means the loyal help, the loyal and earnest work of 
 many minds working along in one direction. In this 
 case there have been so large a group of men engaged 
 upon the enterprise that it is utterly impossible to 
 give to all the credit that they so richly deserve or even 
 to name them by name. But among those whom I 
 would like to name on this occasion — and I will not 
 ask them to stand up ' ' — is, first, the man who came 
 first with me into the enterprise, Mr. John R. Rock- 
 art. (Applause,) First, from the laborious early 
 stages of the sketch plan to the final details and the 
 execution both practical and artistic. Mr. Thomas R. 
 
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Johnson (applause), whose facile pencil and refined ar- 
 tistic genius have had so large a part in the creation of 
 the design for which you have given me credit. Mr. 
 George H. Wells, whose constructive skill and sound 
 common sense have been so effective in the manage- 
 ment of the work. To them, specially, I render my 
 acknowledgment. (Applause.) To Gunvald Aus, 
 chief structural engineer, and to his associates, Mr. 
 S. F. Holtzman, Mr. Kort Berle, and Mr. Dag Sand- 
 berg, who made the calculations for the structural 
 steel, are due praise and honor of the highest. To 
 extend the; list would read like a list from Who is 
 Who in Architecture. But I cannot refrain from 
 mentioning others who have performed notable serv- 
 ice. Among those, Mr. F. H. Keese, Mr. W. P. 
 Foulds, Mr. G. F. ShaflFer, Mr. H. K. Culver, Mr. L. 
 E. Eden, Mr. Z. N. Matteossian, and, by no means 
 least, Mr. W. R. Sunter, the able superintendent, 
 who has followed this work from the bowels of the 
 earth to the topmost pinnacle of the tower, and co- 
 operating with us have been Messrs. Nygren, Tenney 
 & Ohmes, the heating engineers ; Messrs. Mailloux & 
 Knox, electrical engineers and elevator experts; Mr. 
 Albert L. Webster, the sanitary engineer; Mr. F. de 
 P. Hone, the inspector of steel; Mr. John Hogan, the 
 clerk of the works; Mr. R. D. Read, who has kept 
 the complex accounts and correspondence, and many 
 others. (Applause,) Only the obvious limit of time 
 prevents my naming at least as many more who have 
 rendered service of great value to the work. 
 
 In accepting the honor which this occasion impUes, 
 I am accepting it on their behalf as well as on my 
 own. In recognizing the services of my associates, 
 our office staff and engineers, I would feel that 
 
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I would like to add a word of praise to every man 
 engaged on the work. Certainly no architect ever had 
 such loyal and untiring support. But it is impossible 
 within the time allowed me to speak of them. I must, 
 though, make my acknowledgments to the Thompson- 
 Starrett Company, the great building organization, 
 who have acted as general contractors, and their 
 very able and resourceful President, Louis J. 
 Horowitz. They made good. 
 
 It is not for me to praise the work. I hope that 
 you will find it worthy. But I may be permitted to 
 suggest that its completion signalizes many things. 
 It shows that this is the land of equal opportunity, 
 and that under our laws and under our government 
 a man may start in life with nothing of this world's 
 goods, and, single-handed, achieve success; that this 
 opportunity is open to all and that it is not through 
 agitation and unrest our people will prosper, but by 
 the good old-fashioned virtues of honesty, clean deal- 
 ing, industry and thrift. {Great applause,) 
 
 Those virtues are illustrated in Mr. Frank W. 
 Woolworth. (Applause,) 
 
 It shows also that the Arts, especially the con- 
 structive arts, are not without honor in our day and 
 in our land; that at least one of the owners of great 
 properties — and I myself believe that there are many — 
 recognize the civic obligation to endeavor to make 
 such buildings beautiful as well as useful, and that 
 they in doing so lose no item of usefulness nor lessen 
 the income value of their property. Such men are 
 public benefactors in the largest sense. I hope that 
 it shows that there is a vitality in our art sufficient 
 to meet new conditions. It demonstrates that the 
 American business man can accomplish whatever he 
 
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undertakes, for Mr. Woolworth, who has conceived 
 this great enterprise, purchased the land and carried 
 the building forward to a successful conclusion, enough 
 work for one man's lifetime, and to have done it in 
 thirty-six months as a by-product of his energy is a 
 little less than marvelous. (Great applause.) 
 
 For most men the financing alone would have been 
 a staggering proposition. For him it was easy. (Ap- 
 plause.) He "cut it out. ' ' (Applause.) There was no 
 financing. He paid for it himself as he went along. 
 (Applause.) And while he has never made any such 
 statement to me, I took pains to ask his banker about 
 it not long ago, because I had a kind of contingent in- 
 terest in the final settlement myself. (Laughter.) And 
 his banker told me that this structure is unique in 
 New York, and perhaps in the whole history of great 
 buildings in this country, in that it stands without a 
 mortgage and without a dollar of indebtedness. (Great 
 applause.) You would never know that from him, but 
 I took pains to find out about it. It is therefore a 
 monument to his resources, as well as to his energy, 
 his taste and his civic pride. 
 
 The great patron of the arts is he who not only col- 
 lects works of art, but he who gives the artists oppor- 
 tunity. Such a patron of the arts is this man whom 
 we have here to-night as our host. Throughout this 
 work he has been ever helpful, sympathetic, genuine 
 and sincere, not neglectful of details, taking a per- 
 sonal part in everything, but willing to listen and to 
 cooperate and to coordinate. 
 
 Gentlemen, my dear old friend Archbishop Ireland, 
 at the end of a Loyal Legion banquet, after listening 
 to all the past privates and high generals that fought 
 the Civil War, was called upon late in the evening to 
 
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address them, and he, in that wonderfully beautiful 
 old-fashioned Irish brogue of which he is such a mas- 
 ter, hesitated a minute and then said: ''Gentlemen, 
 there is a time when the truth should be told. Let us 
 praise ourselves. ' ' {Great laughter.) 
 
 And this is our opportunity — Mr. Woolworth's and 
 mine. He praises me and I praise him {Laughter) . He 
 is a real patron of art as in the Middle Ages was Agos- 
 tino Chigi, the great banker of Rome; as were the wool 
 merchants and bankers of Italy who made their cities 
 beautiful, and have built them for every beautiful 
 purpose, and as was Jacques Coeur, the great banker 
 of France. And we have to-day with us Frank W. 
 Woolworth, who has, all unconscious of that side of 
 it, or that intention, out of the goodness of his heart, 
 out of the kindness of his nature, come forward and 
 made his contribution, we hope, to the civic beauty 
 of his adopted city. 
 
 I cannot thank you too deeply, Mr. Woolworth, for 
 the honor you have done to me, and for the oppor- 
 tunity you have given to me, in making me the archi- 
 tect of this building. 
 
 Mr. Frank W. Woolworth: Now, Mr. Gilbert, 
 you thought you were through, but unfortunately you 
 have to get on your hind legs. Now, this must be 
 drunk in silence — this toast. {Presenting to Mr, Gil- 
 bert an immense silver cup.) 
 
 Mr. Gilbert: Holy Smoke! Well, my! That takes 
 my breath away. 
 
 Mr. Woolworth: Mr. Gilbert, it gives me great 
 pleasure to present to you this small token of my re- 
 gard for your ability, for you as a man — a man that 
 is honest from the sole of his feet to the top of his 
 head. 
 
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It has been said that some architects never asso- 
 ciate with their cUents after they put up one building 
 for them. (Laughter,) It has been said that the chent 
 never cared to see the architect again. (Laughter.) 
 Mr. Gilbert is just as much my friend to-day as he 
 ever was. (Applause,) Therefore, I give him this 
 little token of regard. On the interior of it is an en- 
 graving of the building made by master hands — Tif- 
 fany & Co. On the exterior of this little cup (laughter) 
 has been engraved, and it stands out in gold letters, 
 these words: *'PTesented to Cass Gilbert by Frank 
 W. Woolworth, as a mark of appreciation, at the for- 
 mal opening of the Woolworth Building on the 24th 
 day of April, 1913." (Great applause,) 
 
 Mr. Gilbert: You could drown sorrow, care, and 
 all sorts of trouble in that. During the entire period 
 of this work, Mr. Woolworth, I have been endeavor- 
 ing to be ready for emergencies. I thought something 
 might happen in a constructive way, and I have tried 
 to be in a frame of mind never to be taken by surprise. 
 But I confess, I am utterly taken by surprise, and I 
 don't know what to say. I thank you for this superb 
 trophy more than I can tell you, and I think you can all 
 understand it without my making a speech about it. I 
 thank you very much, from my heart. (Great 
 applause.) 
 
The Toastmaster: It requires three men to per- 
 fect a great structure: 
 
 The Owner ^ 
 The Architect, 
 The Builder. 
 
 Let me recall to you what I saw myself, some few 
 years ago, immediately below where we sit. I stood 
 on the sidewalk and watched the performance; mar- 
 velling over the perfect organization, the absolute 
 surety, decision, the order — behind it all the system 
 which made it possible. A building requiring 25,000 
 tons of structural steel, with no free storage outside 
 its building lines, everything being hoisted from the 
 trucks as it was required. As the days went by I fol- 
 lowed the work, watching the testing drills bore into 
 the earth's vitals; then began the blasting, then the 
 caissons were sunk — big, round as a ship's funnel and 
 many times as long — down they went slowly, slowly, 
 one foot at a time, the brown ground hogs digging like 
 moles in the foul air. Then a swarm of Titans rushed 
 in. Up went the derricks, the cranes swung. Half a 
 score of engines vomited steam and smoke, then huge 
 beams of steel, heavy as a bridge truss and as thick, 
 punched and ready, were swung into place and the up- 
 ward lift began — up — up — up — into the blue — a gi- 
 gantic skeleton of steel over which, months later, was 
 stretched a skin of stone punctured with a thou- 
 sand browless eyes. Mr. Horowitz. {Great applause,) 
 
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THE • ADDRESS • OF 
 MR • LOUIS • J • HOROWITZ 
 
\ 
 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : I have been asked to 
 respond to the toast of *'The Builder of the Wool- 
 worth Building," and presumably am expected to dis- 
 cuss the problems attendant upon the construction of 
 this building, and how they were overcome. But I 
 said all I have to say on this score at the time I was 
 persuading Mr. Woolworth to give me the job, and the 
 Woolworth Building as it stands must tell the balance 
 of the story. As a matter of fact, I feel that I owe 
 it to myself to tell you that I am speaking here to- 
 night more from compulsion than choice. When Mr. 
 Woolworth first asked me to speak at this dinner to 
 Mr. Gilbert, I very properly suggested that there 
 were many men much more competent than myself 
 to make such an address. But this arrangement would 
 not satisfy Mr. Woolworth, who has grown so used 
 to ordering me around that he has got the habit. 
 
 The fact is, Mr. Woolworth always manages to 
 get his own way somehow or other, so one might 
 as well submit with a ready grace in the first 
 place. Nothing seems impossible to him. He has 
 founded and continues to extend the ramifications 
 of one of the most fabulous businesses in the world; 
 and at a time when most men are preparing to 
 detach themselves from the cares and tribulations 
 of business affairs, Mr. Woolworth, with charac- 
 teristic energy and enthusiasm, creates a structure 
 which has already been referred to far and wide as 
 the Eighth Wonder of the World. Had Mr. Wool- 
 worth done nothing else but create that wonderful in- 
 stitution, the 5c and 10c store, he would have done 
 enough. Had he done nothing but give employment 
 to the thousands who work with him and for him, 
 he would have been a benefactor of his race. But to 
 
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surmount his own great achievement, as he once 
 surmounted the obstacles of an obscure beginning, 
 with such a mighty enterprise as the Woolworth 
 Building, this surely is a very stimulating example of 
 his courage. And I make this point the more strongly 
 because, in these days of general discouragement in 
 business circles, when the spirit of pessimism is reduc- 
 ing so greatly our constructive energies, it is gratifying 
 to find a man who has sufficient confidence in himself 
 and in the future of his country not to be intimidated 
 by the recent senseless persecution of big business. 
 
 But it is one thing to say pleasant things about 
 Mr. Woolworth, who is not scheduled for praise 
 this evening, and it is quite another to extol a man like 
 our guest, who has been dragged into the limelight in 
 order that he may see and hear and forever remember 
 what we think of him. I have always been of the opinion 
 that it requires extraordinary talent to praise a man 
 judiciously in public, because there is a positive genius 
 in knowing just what to say and just what to leave 
 out, and I am not accustomed to face such emergen- 
 cies without a set of plans before me. In fact, plans 
 and specifications are such a part of my business and 
 social life, that I look to them for guidance in all 
 things. And it does occur to me, when I reflect upon 
 the thousand and one things which the Woolworth 
 contract said should be done, and the thousand and 
 one things which it said should not be done, that so 
 exhaustive a recital may possibly have contained some 
 rules for making after-dinner speeches. 
 
 But, after all, this is no time for rules. Some men 
 are praised by rule, some few as exceptions, and Mr. 
 Gilbert comes under the second classification. I be- 
 lieve I am correct in stating that we are here to-night 
 
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to honor Mr. Gilbert, not only as a great architect, 
 but also as a very likeable man. It is not success alone 
 which gets a man a dinner from his friends, but rather 
 the amiability of his disposition and his capacity for 
 friendship. And surely there can be no better proof of 
 Mr. Gilbert's amiability and his capacity for friend- 
 ship than that which is implied by so notable a gath- 
 ering as this one. As a man, Mr. Gilbert possesses the 
 rare faculty of inspiring the utmost confidence and re- 
 spect, and if I may be pardoned for referring very 
 briefly to my personal dealings with Mr. Gilbert, I 
 may say that I have a hundred times been obligated 
 to him, not only for that guidance and advice which, 
 as the architect for this great operation, it was his priv- 
 ilege to furnish, but chief of all for his unfailing cour- 
 tesy and patience. And whilst I am very anxious 
 to avoid giving any embarrassment to our guest by a 
 too glowing tribute to his virtues, I am going to say 
 that I never hope nor wish to do business with a kind- 
 lier, fairer, truer man. 
 
 As an architect, Mr. Gilbert's position in his pro- 
 fession was assured long before the Woolworth Build- 
 ing was dreamed of by its owner. Yet if he had had 
 no successes behind him, the Woolworth Building 
 would have sufficed to make him famous. He has 
 done something more than design the greatest com- 
 mercial structure in the world. He has done some- 
 thing more than contribute to the beautification of 
 this possibly too commercial city. He has made a very 
 salutary refutation of the charge so long levelled at 
 his profession by the architects of the Old World, that 
 American architecture has neither art nor beauty but 
 only magnitude to commend it. I make no pretense 
 of knowing much about architecture from an aca- 
 
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demic point of view, but I do know, as I contemplate 
 this wonderful pyramid of steel and stone, rearing it- 
 self majestically to a height never before reached in 
 the annals of building construction, that the Wool- 
 worth Building is one of the most beautiful buildings 
 in the world. 
 
 And in dedicating this great building to American 
 commerce and industry, we are also dedicating it in a 
 larger sense to the spirit of enterprise which has made 
 this country foremost among the nations. We are ded- 
 icating it to the genius of two distinguished Americans 
 who have realized, each in his separate sphere, a meas- 
 ure of success such as few men are privileged to enjoy, 
 and who, in the respective capacity of owner and archi- 
 tect, have created a structure which is the wonder of 
 the civilized world. 
 
 In conclusion, I wish to acknowledge to Mr. Wool- 
 worth and Mr. Gilbert my profound gratitude for 
 having been privileged to take part in this magnifi- 
 cent enterprise. Aside from the sentimental con- 
 siderations which I shall always attach to my 
 association with these gentlemen on this great work, 
 I shall never think of the Woolworth Building with- 
 out a sense of gratification and pride that I can claim 
 a hand in its construction. I wish also to acknowl- 
 edge the complimentary references which have been 
 made to our work on the Woolworth Building. But 
 I should be guilty of a dereliction if I failed to tell 
 you that the bulk of the credit for that work belongs 
 to the very efficient and very loyal organization which 
 I have the honor to represent. Gentlemen, I thank 
 you. {Great and continued applause.) 
 
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The Toastmaster: After the owner, the builder 
 and the architect finish their work, and the exquisite 
 Gothic tower has risen into the blue above us, there 
 are times when the setting sun gilds it with beauty; 
 when the morning light touches it with silver; when 
 the solemnity of the night falls upon it and the stars 
 bend over it; when all that is beautiful in nature 
 hovers about it to do it honor. 
 
 And we are about to touch upon this phase of the 
 wonder above us, for I shall now call upon a sweet 
 singer, who, for many years, has been beloved as 
 the most distinguished of our dramatic critics as well 
 as one of our most distinguished men of letters. He 
 will tell you of another side of this great enterprise 
 and he will tell it in words that only William Winter 
 knows how to use. I introduce to you the distin- 
 guished critic and man of letters, Mr. WilHam Winter. 
 {Great applause.) 
 
THE • ADDRESS • AND • THE • POEM • "THE 
 ARTIST" • OF • MR • WILLIAM • WINTER 
 
I thank you, Mr. President, for the gracious 
 courtesy with which you have been pleased to men- 
 tion my name, and I thank you, gentlemen, for the 
 generous favor with which the mention of it has been 
 received. As I look on this remarkable assemblage, 
 representative, to an uncommon degree, of character 
 and intellect in every department of thought, enter- 
 prise, and labor, I remember, and can but echo, the 
 expressive words of Shakespeare: 
 
 "How many goodly creatures are there here! 
 How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world, 
 That has such people in it! " 
 
 And I feel that it is indeed a precious privilege to see 
 such a company and speak in such a presence. 
 
 This occasion and this scene are suggestive of many 
 thoughts, but they must not beguile me to the use 
 of many words. For the reason that I am a man 
 of letters whose whole life has been devoted to the 
 service of the arts by which beauty is diffused and 
 a refined civilization promoted, I have been asked 
 to address you in the name of the community of ar- 
 tists, and, accordingly, it becomes my fortunate and 
 much valued province, speaking on behalf of that 
 community, — and, therefore, I am sure, with your 
 sympathetic approbation, — to congratulate Cass Gil- 
 bert on his noble achievement, and to express a pro- 
 found and grateful appreciation of his fine genius, 
 which, — kindled by love of beauty, inspired by 
 imagination, and guided by the sovereign faculty of 
 taste, — has enabled large and generous wealth to 
 adorn our imperial city with this magnificent building. 
 
 There is a conventional opinion, widely prevalent, 
 that an artist, because a poetic dreamer, is a visionary 
 
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being who sits on the end of a damp cloud and twangs 
 a harp. That opinion is erroneous. The artistic mind 
 and the practical mind are, in fact, so closely kindred 
 as to be almost identical. Newton, so gentle and lovely 
 in character, so poetic in spirit, so truly an artist in 
 nature, was not only a consummate mathematician 
 and philosopher, but also Master of the Mint, and 
 he was entirely proficient in that eminently practical 
 office. Milton, statesman as well as poet, who wrote 
 some of the most glorious poetry in all literature, also 
 wrote the State Papers of Oliver Cromwell. The 
 wonderful man who died a few days ago in Rome was 
 the ablest administrator of practical business affairs 
 of whom there is record in the annals of any nation 
 or any age — wielding a greater power than that of 
 those merchants of Venice and Genoa who so long 
 delayed the sailing of the Spanish Armada; a greater 
 power than even that of Napoleon Bonaparte, at 
 the summit of his career, because, silently but surely, 
 exerted over a far wider area and in a far more exigent 
 time; and the reason of his colossal authority and im- 
 perial sway is that he possessed the combined imagin- 
 ation and intellect which grasps and comprehends the 
 whole constitution of human nature and the whole 
 complex system of social activities. He was the grand- 
 son of one of the loveliest of the American poets ; he 
 was himself of a poetic spirit; he was instinctively a 
 lover of the arts; and his life provided ample testimony 
 that the artistic mind can be entirely competent to 
 meet any demand of business or any emergency of 
 public affairs. 
 
 It is not inappropriate that a man of letters should 
 celebrate the beautiful Woolworth Building; the 
 accomplished artist who designed it; and the faith- 
 
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ful, able executive who built it; and should con- 
 gratulate its fortunate and munificent owner, Frank 
 WoolworthjOn the possession of such a treasure. Archi- 
 tecture, impressive and charming to all artistic minds, 
 has ever been a special delight to men of letters, and to 
 such men the world has been indebted for some of the 
 grandest fabrics of it that ever were reared. The famous 
 white marble tower of Pharos, once visible at a dis- 
 tance of a hundred miles to the sailors of the Mediter- 
 ranean Sea, was built by the Egyptian Ptolemy, writer 
 and scholar as well as warrior and king. Much of the 
 stately castle of Heidelberg, of which the majestic ruin 
 frowns from its mountain side on the sparkling waters 
 of the rapid Neckar, was planned by Michael Angelo, 
 poet and man of letters, painter and sculptor. Opu- 
 lent Fonthill, once a marvel of magnificence, was built 
 by William Beckford, romancer and man of letters, to 
 whom literature owes that glittering gem of imagina- 
 tion, the weird, fantastic Arabian tale of "Vathek." 
 The massive palace of Blenheim, symbol of the Eng- 
 lish nation's homage to the brilliant victorious Marl- 
 borough, was designed by Vanbrugh, man of letters 
 and dramatist. Holkam, that wonder of Italian art, 
 fronting the gales and surges of the stormy German 
 Ocean, was erected by Thomas Coke, writer and 
 scholar. Monticello was planned and reared by 
 Thomas Jefferson, man of letters as well as statesman, 
 and in both vocations renowned. Many similar 
 examples could be named, but those suffice. 
 
 There is poetic authority for the belief that the 
 architect of St. Peter's Cathedral, in Rome, "builded 
 better than he knew." If he did, his experience was 
 exceptional. The poet's allusion, I suppose, is to those 
 sudden waves of inspiration which come to every 
 
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artist of genius, in the course of the execution of his 
 main design. But the true artist knows his art, and, 
 in the use of it, he leaves nothing to chance. Milton 
 did not foresee the numerous verbal felicities that 
 would illumine his writing of the "Paradise Lost;" 
 but he conceived that sublime epic as a complete and 
 rounded whole. The inventive artist who planned this 
 massive and beautiful structure did not, at first, dis- 
 cern every detail of its complexity. Many an hour 
 of anxious thought must have been bestowed on the 
 intricate particulars of the plan; but I am sure that 
 this gorgeous edifice, at the first, rose in the cham- 
 bers of his imagination a rounded and complete 
 whole, a grand fabric of Gothic architecture — vast, 
 airy, graceful, glorious — even as the delighted gazer 
 can behold it now. 
 
 And now the work is finished, and "the end 
 crowns the work." When Shakespeare, after a men- 
 tal ordeal of which I think with awe, had dropped 
 the pen that wrote the tremendous tragedy of "King 
 Lear;" when the blind Milton had dictated the last 
 line of his epic, and the forms of the heavenly hosts 
 were vanishing from his inward eye; when Raphael 
 had given the final touch to his marvelous painting of 
 the Transfiguration, in which the whole spirit of the 
 Christian Faith is expressed at once and forever; when 
 Gibbon, at Lausanne, had written the last word of his 
 great history — the most colossal achievement of the 
 kind that ever was accomplished — and, as he looked 
 on the waters of Lake Leman, placid in the summer 
 moonlight, felt and knew that the labor of twenty 
 years was at last complete — what mingled and con- 
 flicting emotions must have surged through their 
 minds! What wistful sadness, in parting from old 
 
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companions! What gratitude and joy in the trium- 
 phant fulfilment of splendid ideals! Such emotion, I 
 know, is that of Cass Gilbert, to-night, when realizing 
 the accomplishment of his majestic architectural con- 
 ception, and the dedication, amid general and enthu- 
 siastic acclaim, of this superb temple of industry, 
 beauty, and art. 
 
 I have attempted to express in poetic form the 
 thought which I believe must be in all our minds at 
 this moment, and I desire to leave this record of it in 
 your remembrance, as my tribute to this festival: 
 
 THE ARTIST 
 
 Where once Zenobia's bastions rose 
 The wind that stirs the desert sand 
 
 Now softly sighs and sadly blows 
 O'er Tadmor's desolated land; — 
 
 The dirge for life and glory fled, 
 
 The requiem for centuries dead. 
 
 The towers of Troy are sunk in tears, 
 The golden domes of Tyre are gone, 
 
 And only wandering echo hears 
 The vagrant name of Babylon; 
 
 And ravens flit and serpents hiss 
 
 O'er what was once Persepolis. 
 
 Of silent Time th' impartial hand 
 That quells alike our griefs and joys, 
 
 The ruthless regent of command, 
 That now creates and now destroys, 
 
 Has triumph'd, since the world began. 
 
 O'er man and all the works of man. 
 
 Yet always the aspiring Soul, — 
 
 The Angel in the mortal clod. 
 The Vision that defies control, — 
 
 Will look through Nature up to God, 
 And strive, in word and form, to speak 
 The beauty it was born to seek. 
 
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That only, that eternal theme. 
 
 Still fires Imagination's eye! 
 The Phidian Jove lives but in dream, 
 
 The Phidian spirit cannot die! 
 Through Nature's heart that passion runs. 
 Still circling with the circling suns. 
 
 As well beneath Columbia's skies 
 
 As on Athena's sacred height 
 A stately Parthenon can rise, 
 
 Minerva's temple leap to light, — 
 A thing of wonder and of praise, 
 In modern as in ancient days. 
 
 And not in vain, from age to age. 
 In forms of grandeur and of grace, 
 
 Is writ on more than History's page 
 The progress of the human race, — 
 
 The rise of mind and feeling, shown 
 
 In golden poems made of stone. 
 
 In every glorious form the sign 
 
 Of something more transcendent still, — 
 
 The impulse to a life divine 
 
 That moulds and guides the human will, — 
 
 Presages beings fit to dwell 
 
 In mansions reared so nobly well. 
 
 Not for itself the glowing heart 
 Of genius weaves its magic spell, — 
 
 The glamour of poetic art. 
 
 Like the sea's music in the shell, — 
 
 The charm, magnetic and serene. 
 
 Of all that forms and colors mean. 
 
 For all the world that spell is cast 
 O'er common and uncommon things; 
 
 To gild the story of the Past, 
 
 To speed the Present on its wings, 
 
 To hail the Future and ordain 
 
 Triumphant Beauty's perfect reign. 
 
 Auspicious Future! May it find, 
 In our great Empire of the West, — 
 
 The haven home of all mankind. 
 
 By Plenty crowned, by Freedom blest, — 
 
 A people whose supreme success 
 
 Is intellectual loveliness! 
 
The Toastmaster: Gentlemen, I have the distin- 
 guished honor of presenting to you another expert — 
 one whom I thought we could get along without, 
 but it does not seem possible for us to escape 
 the talons of the law. (Laughter.) Probably our dis- 
 tinguished host and our distinguished architect will get 
 into some entanglement when the final accounts are 
 made up, in which case they will be very glad to call 
 upon the next speaker, Mr. Hensel. 
 
 The Honorable Mr. Hensel, Ex-Attorney General 
 of the State of Pennsylvania. (Applause,) 
 
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THE • ADDRESS • OF 
 HON • W • U • HENSEL 
 
Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen : Even if the 
 printer had not accidentally dropped my name from 
 the programme,! should feel a very great deal of hesita- 
 tion at disturbing, if not shocking, the spell of enchant- 
 ment which must linger with this company, after the 
 notes to which you have just listened from the pen and 
 tongue of one who for forty years has irradiated Amer- 
 ican art and literature. Of all the triumphs, material, 
 social and artistic, that have come to our host in his 
 business career, I know of none greater, more elo- 
 quent and more touching than that which has come 
 to you to-night from the brain that rests under " that 
 good gray head, which all men know" {applause), the 
 premier of American learning and letters, of American 
 literature in the last half century in this country. It 
 has perhaps suggested itself to the management of this 
 occasion that it would not be entirely complete with- 
 out some recognition from an interior town in Penn- 
 sylvania, where our distinguished host began his bus- 
 iness career and the great success which has crowned 
 him. When I stand in the presence of a building, or of 
 a man nine hundred and nineteen feet high {laughter) 
 and contemplate the Lilliputian critics who have 
 watched, first, his business career, and then his new 
 venture, with doubt, timidity and skepticism, I am 
 very much reminded of a Pennsylvania Dutchman 
 from Berks County, who was a great admirer of An- 
 drew J ackson . He was in the Pennsylvania Legislature 
 in the most tempestuous period of that eminent states- 
 man's public career. He was wont to boast of his in- 
 timacy with General Jackson, and there was a little 
 bit of a bespectacled lawyer from Philadelphia named 
 Mclntyre, who was a great opponent of Jackson. One 
 day old Schaefler, before the House of Representa- 
 
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lives had assembled at Harrisburg, when they met in 
 the old Capitol — not in that splendid new edifice, 
 Mr. Gilbert, which we have since erected — called 
 on him there in a social way before the session. 
 General Schaeffer turned to little Mclntyre and said, 
 ''I have had some epistolary correspondence with 
 the President of the United States. He wrote me 
 a letter and I have written him that reply. I would like 
 you to look it over, because I think it is a mighty good 
 letter." Little Mclntyre raised his eye-glasses, read all 
 over it and said, "Yes; that is pretty well done. Gen- 
 eral, but," he said, "I would just like to make a sug- 
 gestion. In polite correspondence it is customary 
 when we use the first personal pronoun to write it, not 
 with a little ' i ' dotted, but with a capital I." Schaeffer 
 was a little taken back, but looked at it and said, ' 'I 
 know that very well, sir; I am quite well acquainted 
 with the rules of polite correspondence, but when 
 I write to the great Andrew Jackson I abase 
 myseK. {Laughter,) If I was writing — with due re- 
 spect to our reverend friend — to a damn little pis- 
 mire like you, I would write a capital I to fill two 
 sheets of foolscap paper." 
 
 The people of Lancaster County had our host as a 
 business man on a small scale in our own little town, 
 where he came, a comparative stranger, nearly forty 
 years ago, and where I think he once made almost a 
 business failure, and where he certainly made his first 
 business success. With a very little capital, but with 
 unlimited energy and confidence, backed not only by 
 the good will, but I think by the prayers of good men 
 and good women, on a capital of a very few hundred 
 dollars, he built up there in that city of Lancaster of 
 Pennsylvania the foundation on which all these great 
 
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and later commercial enterprises have expanded. He 
 has gone out from among us, but two things are to be 
 said, and I am here to bear testimony to them to-night, 
 to his credit and to ours, and that is that we have 
 never lost our pride and our confidence and our affec- 
 tion for Woolworth, and he has never ceased his pride, 
 affection and gratitude to Lancaster. (Applause,) 
 
 And in all the towns where his name is known, and 
 into which his business has entered, and where his ven- 
 tures have been successful, of them all I think the closest 
 and nearest and dearest to his heart, next to Water- 
 town, New York, is the old town of Lancaster, Penn- 
 sylvania. (Applause,) And though we boast ourselves 
 the inhabitants of no mean city, we realize that he is 
 no longer a local character, no longer a Lancastrian, no 
 longer perhaps a Pennsylvanian, in fact no pent-up 
 New York confines his powers; he is a citizen to-day 
 of the world; but wherever he goes, and whatever he 
 does, the hearts of our people are with him. And we 
 recognize, and I am here to bear testimony for the 
 people of that little town, that in the erection of this 
 monument to his unselfish public spirit, to his high 
 sense of civic pride, he has been true to the traditions 
 which he established in Lancaster more than a gener- 
 ation ago. When his outlook was narrower than it is 
 now, when his desires perhaps were more limited, he 
 paid to our good city the same compliment that he 
 has paid to yours: He came into that city and built 
 there what I think at that time he felt was a monu- 
 ment to his commercial enterprise. (Applause.) He 
 built, for the first time, in that place a structure seven 
 stories high. Critics then and pessimists said it was 
 the beginning of the end, it was bound to be a failure, 
 (Laughter) and fifty years hence his building would 
 
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remain untenanted. The result was that before the 
 time he fixed for a moderate return on his investment, 
 he was compelled to make an enlargement which is 
 practically a duplication of the original. {Applause.) 
 I want, however, to bear testimony here to-night, for 
 the people of the city in which he made that original 
 success, to which he has returned year after year, for 
 which he has ever shown the warmest gratitude and 
 the highest appreciation, to the public spirit which 
 he manifested in the erection of this building, and to 
 the remarkable discrimination and the almost pro- 
 phetic power which he displayed in the selection of 
 his architect. It was my privilege some years ago, 
 in the city of St. Paul, for the first time to observe 
 the creation there in the State capitol of Minnesota, 
 the work, I think, of a native of that State. 
 
 And it seemed to me there was then born a new 
 impulse in American art. It seemed to me that out of 
 the West there had come an artistic and creative force 
 of which the art spirit of this country had not hereto- 
 fore been conscious. 
 
 This building to my mind, gentlemen, means much 
 more than a commercial enterprise. This building 
 is peculiarly a contribution to the art treasures of 
 this country, in the fact that it is not, as art treas- 
 ures generally are, locked up in a gallery, secreted 
 almost in a private house, enclosed in a cabinet for 
 the select thousands or ten thousands. But this is 
 a structure for the many millions, not only who pass 
 up and down your streets, but who come in and 
 out of this great portal; and here it will stand, as 
 the eloquent poet of this occasion has said to you, 
 like a temple of the Pharaohs, to be a delight to 
 those who come into this port and will see its pinnacle 
 
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touched with the rays of the morning sun. The immi- 
 grant, when he starts across on his westward jour- 
 ney, will see the last rays of the setting sun fall upon 
 its lofty towers and minarets; and in that respect it 
 will be more than the ordinary gallery picture, more 
 than the ordinary cabinet treasure — it will be a lesson, 
 an instructor, an art teacher to the millions not only 
 of our own countrymen, but to all immigrants from 
 all lands. 
 
 It is in the third place, to my mind, a triumph to the 
 builder. I was touched as I have never been touched — 
 and I say in public what I said to the gentleman in pri- 
 vate — by the simple eloquence of the builder of this 
 building. And it seems to me that for all time this 
 building will stand as a monument above all things, 
 in these days when there is so much agitation for the 
 altruistic in business — as a monument to the benevo- 
 lence, to the private sagacity and broad mindedness 
 of the man who has illustrated in his dealings with 
 his employees, in his dealings with the commercial 
 world, in the fact that in the establishment of hun- 
 dreds and hundreds of places of business in all the 
 cities and all sections of this country, he has better, 
 almost than any other individual, solved those mighty 
 questions of the relation of capital to labor, and of 
 the trusteeship of wealth. (Great applause.) 
 
 If students of our social system, if critics of our 
 business order, will study the career for the last thirty 
 years of the man whom architect and builder have tes- 
 tified here to-night is first of all and most of all re- 
 sponsible for this magnificent structure, they will find 
 that in his dealings with the general public, in 
 his relations with his business competitors, and above 
 all, in his relations with his employees, he has better. 
 
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to my mind, than any other individual solved those 
 vexed problems which seem to disturb and confuse 
 and perplex and complicate our legislators and the 
 critics of our social system. (Applause,) 
 
 What employee complains that he has not received 
 his fair proportion of the profits of the business? What 
 competitor complains that this man, who has organ- 
 ized hundreds of stores, has enforced against the 
 public an odious trust? Therefore, it gets right back 
 to this, that the solution of all these problems is not 
 in ordinances, is not in the statutes, but it is in the in- 
 dividual character of the man who conducts the busi- 
 ness, and stands between his business and the public. 
 (Great applause.) 
 
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The Toastmaster: Gentlemen, I give you Mr. 
 Patrick Francis Murphy, and neither I nor any one 
 else can offer you anything better. (Applause.) 
 
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THE • ADDRESS • OF 
 MR • PATRICK • FRANCIS • MURPHY 
 
The distinguished host and guest have now pro- 
 jected themselves into New York history. Promi- 
 nence has a penalty that follows it like a shadow. There 
 are two occasions in life when a man discovers his ex- 
 traordinary quahties and how valuable he is. One is 
 when he attends a banquet given in his honor, and 
 the other when he is sued for breach of promise. On 
 either of these occasions it is embarrassing to receive 
 tributes of worth. Whether he deserves them or not, 
 it is just as embarrassing. 
 
 Our host and guest represent a happy union of 
 Commercial Genius and Architectural Art, like those 
 suburban houses, semi-detached. 
 
 In this life men of skill do not always find favor. 
 Even clever men require exceptional circumstances to 
 develop their qualities. Time does not always give 
 them their chance. At the entrance to life are two 
 gates: on one is marked "Too Soon;" on the other 
 "Too Late." It is a melancholy paradox that the 
 artist may be a hundred years ahead of his time and 
 three months behind on his rent. 
 
 A perpetual devotion to Art can only be maintained 
 by a perpetual neglect of financial considerations. 
 They have been old enemies. Art and Money, so old 
 and so bitter in hostility they are not often found in 
 the same room together — at least while the artist is 
 alive. 
 
 Reputation is seldom gained from things that have 
 no splendor nor show; the height of a building at- 
 tracts the eye while the foundations lie without re- 
 gard ; yet there is no way to the top of Science except 
 from the lowest parts. Even the architect must have 
 his commercial side. To be successful, he must lift one 
 eye to heaven, and without any derogation to his Art 
 
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the other eye must be squinting at the cash register. 
 
 It is the fate of every art to be subject to the ca- 
 price of fashion and the character of the people. 
 Every great nation has left its characteristic impres- 
 sion on architecture. The departed splendor of Greece 
 is shown in her temples; Italy with her palaces; the 
 tombs of Egypt are still our best models. We note the 
 castles of Germany, the chateaux of France, the Eng- 
 lish country houses, and finally the American human 
 birdcages, touching the heavens. The wonder of the 
 architectural world is the Greek mastery of marble; 
 its modern equivalent is the American mastery of 
 steel. 
 
 There is in Athens, at the foot of the Acropolis, a 
 charming little temple dedicated to Victory. This 
 temple has on one of its sides a bas-relief representing 
 the Goddess of Victory; she is engaged in loosening 
 her sandals ; she thus declares her intention of remain- 
 ing. But though her feet are bare, it is noticed she still 
 has wings. In this, the sculptor has conceived a beau- 
 tiful allegory : that the day which will see her fly away 
 may not be far distant. For no nation has long re- 
 tained in its arms that faithless goddess. Why should 
 she be constant .^^ She knows what every woman 
 knows: that when she returns she will be forgiven. 
 Supremacy in nations and individuals has never been 
 permanent; there never was a Samson so strong but 
 he met his Delilah. To-day the Woolworth flag of 
 victory towers above all others, astonished at the 
 audacity of its own altitude. 
 
 Whistler, the artist, had inscribed over the door of 
 his house a quotation from scripture: ''Except the 
 Lord build the house they labour in vain that build 
 it. E. W. Goodwin, Architect, built this one." 
 
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According to this, a celestial support is necessary for 
 every edifice; and the Woolworth, from its superior 
 altitude, seems to be in closest connection with the 
 upper world, as if its two projectors were intimate 
 friends of Providence. 
 
 The eminent men in Law, Medicine, and Architec- 
 ture do not advertise. They think it has something 
 to do with morality. Architects have rules of their 
 own, very acceptable to themselves, and sometimes 
 understood by others. When the prisoner was asked 
 by the judge what he had to say for himself, he replied 
 the observance of good breeding forbade him to speak 
 of his own deeds. So our distinguished Architect, able 
 and original though he is, has devoted himself to his 
 Art, instead of telling the public over and over again 
 what a clever man he is. To Mr. Woolworth this 
 seems most unbusiness-like; and so as Cass Gilbert 
 is quite hopeless in this matter, our host provides 
 this magnificent banquet and this glorious oppor- 
 tunity so that some one shall come and do it for him. 
 (Applause,) 
 
 Many men are spoiled by success; still many more 
 are spoiled by failure; so possibly it is just as well to 
 listen to voices in testimony of what you have done; 
 to hear that you have arrived at a period full of years 
 and honor and that you have left behind you what 
 most men desire to achieve, namely, a vital record of 
 life's activity. 
 
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The Toastmaster: Gentlemen, there is still an- 
 other important ceremony. I think you will all agree 
 with me that this has been no ordinary dinner. Cer- 
 tainly nowhere in my experience has there been so 
 large a private one. To many of us this building 
 conforms to the lines of a great cathedral, its spire 
 pointing to God. We are a serious people, and at 
 times are open to serious influences. Tonight we are 
 celebrating the completion of one of the great struc- 
 tures of the world, one which lends lustre to the 
 beginning of this new century. Let us make this 
 dinner memorable by an innovation which may 
 appear to you unusual, but which seems to me to be 
 especially fitting. I ask you to rise and sing the Dox- 
 ology, in long meter. 
 
 {The audience arose and sang the Doxology,) 
 
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THE • DINNER 
 
THE DINNER 
 ASTRAKHAN CAVIAR 
 
 RADISHES OLIVES SALTED NUTS 
 
 Amontillado COTUIT OYSTERS, MIGNONETTE SAUCE 
 
 chablis clear green turtle soup 
 
 PARMESAN STRAWS 
 
 TURBAN OF POMPANO 
 
 POTATOES, AUSTRIAN STYLE 
 CELERY KNOB AND WATER CRESS SALAD 
 
 PoNTET Canet breast of GUINEA HEN, NESSELRODE SAUCE 
 
 TERRAPIN, BALTIMORE STYLE 
 
 Cigarettes ROYAL PUNCH 
 
 Cordon Rouge ROAST SQUAB 
 
 GUAVA JELLY 
 
 WALNUT AND GRAPEFRUIT SALAD, KUROKI 
 
 SunntsidePort frozen bomb 
 
 fancy cakes 
 
 Apollinaris 
 Cigars 
 
 COFFEE 
 
THE • SPEAKERS 
 
THE SPEAKERS 
 
 F. HoPKiNSON Smith, Presiding 
 
 Frank W. Woolworth 
 *^The Architect and the Builder'' 
 
 Cass Gilbert, Responding 
 ''The Architect'' 
 
 Louis J. Horowitz, Responding. 
 ''The Builder" 
 
 William Winter 
 "The Artist and The Woolworth Building" 
 
 Hon. W. U. Hensel 
 "Early Days of Frank W, Woolworth" 
 
 Patrick Francis Murphy 
 "Individuality and The Woolworth Building" 
 
• APPRECIATION 
 
AN APPRECIATION 
 
 In the middle ages master minds labored and 
 brought forth those massive edifices dedicated to wor- 
 ship, noble cathedrals whose beauty has for centuries 
 charmed the pilgrims to their doors. In our day an- 
 other dreamer beheld a vision of a wondrous tower, 
 refulgent with a lustrous glow, embroidered with deli- 
 cate tracery and set with pinnacles of attenuated grace. 
 From this master mind has been born another build- 
 ing dedicated to trade — the glory of a continent, the 
 wonder of an admiring world. 
 
 Gothic, but of a grace that softens the rugged 
 austerity of the ancient type; massive, yet with a 
 symmetry that binds in a perfect harmony the lofty 
 tower to the noble building below; high above the 
 other truly great edifices, its neighbors, the Woolworth 
 Building rears its lofty form until the crowning fleche 
 reaches the amazing height of seven hundred and 
 ninety-one feet above the level of the thoroughfares. 
 
 A dream, but realized through an infinitude of de- 
 tail. Each of the hundreds of thousands of parts con- 
 ceived and numbered beforehand, mile upon mile of 
 brick, and steel and stone, in a constant procession, 
 never ceasing, never late. So grew this brain-child of 
 the man inspired by a vision — Cass Gilbert. 
 
 Nor is it amiss to let our thoughts revert to olden 
 days, to that hour in 1609 when, after a weary pas- 
 sage, Henry Hudson sailed into the greatest harbor of 
 the world, but reahzed it not; to the time when scarce 
 four years after came Adrian Block, of open mind, who 
 saw with prophetic eye the island peopled with a race 
 whose trade should reach the uttermost parts of the 
 globe; to the day when the Indian owners for a few 
 
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glass beads bartered the tract of land where now 
 stands the greatest group of buildings in all the world. 
 
 Let us trace the growth of this little Dutch trading 
 post through years of homely romance, of the hewing 
 of trees, of a new house here and there, of the won- 
 drous windmill, the sky-scraper of 1631, built to 
 beautify as well as serve, a stone's throw from the 
 site of the Wool worth Building. 
 
 The jealous eye of England, however, soon lights 
 upon the thriving colony, and in 1664 its fleet of war- 
 ships anchors off the Battery. In vain protests old 
 Peter Stuy vesant, Governor of the Dutch ; the British 
 land and, amid the roll of drums, raise the flag of 
 England over the city Green. Dutch days in the 
 colony are ended. The language of Holland gives 
 way to lEnglish. New Amsterdam becomes a mem- 
 ory and New York receives its present name. 
 
 Who can record the genius for trade, the indomi- 
 table spirit that ordered the growth and wealth of this 
 new community, until it took its place as the greatest 
 commercial city in the world and second to but one 
 in number of inhabitants? Great merchant followed 
 great merchant in the construction of a mighty com- 
 merce, as generation followed generation, until in 
 these, our greatest days, we find a man who has con- 
 ceived an idea, who has broadened and developed it, 
 until he ranks a peer of the merchant princes of all 
 times — Frank W. Woolworth. 
 
 Following his career, we find him possessed of the 
 determination to erect a loftier pile than aught the 
 world has seen. Architects and master builders of the 
 day are called. Each bends to his appointed task : one 
 struggles patiently, and his reward — an entrance 
 majestic, beautiful; another labors long and earnestly. 
 
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a month, a year, of drawing and redrawing, of disap- 
 pointment and inspiration, and lo ! a hallway, roofed 
 with perfect arch, studded with colors soft yet lumi- 
 nous, upborne by columns of matchless grace possessed 
 with strength of Titans — a masterpiece. For comfort 
 of the thousands to be housed, to ease their burdens 
 and haste the busy march of trade another strives; 
 still others spin the potter's wheel, mold and caress 
 the inert clay to catch the fleeting curve of grace, to 
 beautify the windows tier on tier, and break the sharp 
 Unes of the roof against the sky. Then after all this 
 labor, heartache — ^joy, we have this monument, white 
 and glistening in the midday's sun, yet softened with 
 delicate touch of ecru, mauve and green, as of the 
 oHve grove which, when the sunset glow brightens the 
 western skies, reflects to all who see a wondrous sheen 
 as of the copper burnished in the flames. 
 
 Thus grew the city, and thus arose this greatest of 
 the temples of commerce, two mighty prodigies of a 
 Western World. 
 
 W. E. T. 
 
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ALPHABETICAL • LIST • OF • GUESTS 
 
TABLE SITTINGS 
 
 A 
 
 Abbott, Henry H. (61) 
 Adams, Edward Dean (74) 
 Adams, Samuel (76) 
 Adamson, Robert (39) 
 Agnew, S. H. (88) 
 Ahearn, H. A. (1) 
 Alexander, John W. (76) 
 Albright, Harry H. (16) 
 Amrhyn, G. X. (27) 
 Apple, Dr. Henry H. (57) 
 Appleton, R. Ross (47) 
 Armitage, Paul (43) 
 Arnould, D. (38) 
 Aus, Gunvald (28) 
 Austin, Frederick A. (1) 
 Austin, Robert B. (53) 
 
 B 
 
 Bache, Rene (74) 
 Baker, George Barr (71) 
 Baker, Ray Stannard (56) 
 Baker, William H. (40) 
 Baldwin, William D. (57) 
 Balfe, Harry (51) 
 Ballivian, Hon. Adolfo (33) 
 Ball, Alwyn, Jr. (86) 
 Bardol, E. A. (22) 
 Barker, William (6) 
 Barnard, William H. (54) 
 Barr, Lockwood (53) 
 Barrett, Alfred M. (72) 
 Barrett, James M. (6) 
 Barrett, John (34) 
 Bateson, Charles E. (47) 
 Battle, George Gordon (43) 
 Belding, Milo M., Jr. (48) 
 
 Bell, Edwin A. (6) 
 Benjamin, Eugene S. (63) 
 Benjamin, George P. (38) 
 Bennett, Elbert A. (66) 
 Benton, Col. Everett C. (73) 
 Berle, Kort (29) 
 Bert (12) 
 Bierck, A. B. (70) 
 Black, Col. Wm. M. (73) 
 Blackwell, George (28) 
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GUESTS • BY • TABLES 
 
TABLE A 
 
 1. C. S. Woolworth. 
 
 2. Hon. Frank Donohue. 
 
 3. W. E. G. Gaillard. 
 
 4. Hon. T. C. T. Grain. 
 
 5. Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell. 
 
 6. Hon. Thomas P. Gore. 
 
 7. Patrick Francis Murphy. 
 
 8. Louis J. Horowitz. 
 
 9. F. Hopkinson Smith. 
 
 10. F. W. Woolworth. 
 
 11. Cass Gilbert. 
 
 12. Hon. Aram J. Pothier. 
 
 13. WiUiam Winter. 
 
 14. Hon. Gonzales S. Cordova, Minister 
 
 Plenipotentiary, Ecuador. 
 
 15. W. U. Hensel. 
 
 16. Hon. Ollie K. James. 
 
 17. Hon. Charles L. Guy. 
 
 18. Hon. D. J. Walsh. 
 
 19. Hon. Edward E. McCall. 
 
 20. Hon. Joseph T. Robinson. 
 
 Tables for Congressional Guests 
 
 TABLE 9 
 
 Adair, John A. M., Indiana. 
 Barchfield, A. J. (M. C), Pennsylvania. 
 Barnhart, Henry A., Indiana. 
 Batlirick, Ellsworth R., Ohio. 
 Borchers, Charles M., Illinois. 
 Broussard, Robert F., Louisiana. 
 Brown, William G., West Virginia. 
 
 TABLE 11 
 
 Bulkley, Robert J., Ohio. 
 Byrnes, James F., South Carolina. 
 Byrnes, Joseph W., Tennessee. 
 
Callaway, Oscar, Texas. 
 Candler, Ezekiel S., Jr., Mississippi. 
 Cantrill, James C, Kentucky. 
 Cary, William J., Wisconsin. 
 Connolly, Maurice, Iowa. 
 
 TABLE 13 
 
 Conroy, Michael F., New York. 
 Crosser, Robert, Iowa. 
 Davenport, James S., Oklahoma. 
 Decker, P. D., Missouri. 
 Dixon, Lincoln, Indiana. 
 Doremus, Frank E., Michigan. 
 Driscoll, Daniel A., New York. 
 Dupre, H. Garland, Louisiana. 
 
 TABLE 15 
 
 Dyer, L. C, Missouri. 
 Edwards, Charles G., Georgia. 
 Esch, John J., Wisconsin. 
 Eversman, Hon. John, Assistant Secretary Na- 
 tional Republican Committee. 
 Fairchild, G. W., New York. 
 Ferguson, Harvey B., New Mexico. 
 Ferris, Scott, Oklahoma. 
 Finley, David E., South Carolina. 
 
 TABLE 17 
 
 Francis, W. B., Ohio. 
 Gallagher, Thomas, Illinois. 
 Garner, John N., Texas. 
 Gittins, Robert H., New York. 
 Godwin, Hannibal L., New York. 
 Goeke, J. Henry, Ohio. 
 Goldfogle, Henry M., New York. 
 Good, James W., Iowa. 
 
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TABLE 19 
 
 Goodwin, William S., Arkansas. 
 Gordon, Robert B. 
 Graham, James M., Illinois. 
 Griest, James A., Pennsylvania. 
 Hamill, James A., New Jersey. 
 Hamlin, Courtney W., Missouri. 
 Hardy, Rufus, Texas. 
 Hawley, William C, Oregon. 
 
 TABLE 21 
 
 Heflin, J. Thomas, Alabama. 
 Helm, Harvey, Kentucky. 
 Hensley, Walter L., Missouri. 
 HUl, R. P., Illinois. 
 Hughes, James A., West Virginia. 
 Hull, Cordell, Tennessee. 
 Jacoway, Henderson M., Arkansas. 
 Keating, Edward, Colorado. 
 
 TABLE 23 
 
 Kennedy, Charles A., Iowa. 
 Kirkpatrick, S., Iowa. 
 Kleburg, Dr. A. J., Washington. 
 LafoUette, William L., Washington. 
 Langham, J. L., Washington. 
 Lever, Asbury F., South Carolina. 
 Mapes, Carl E., Michigan. 
 McAndrews, James, Illinois. 
 
 TABLE 25 
 
 McDermott, James T., Illinois. 
 McGuire, Bird S., Oklahoma. 
 Merritt, Edwin A., Jr., New York. 
 Morgan, Louis L., Louisiana. 
 Murray, William F., Massachusetts. 
 Murray, William. 
 Murray, W. H., Oklahoma. 
 O'Hair, Frank T., Illinois. 
 
TABLE 9A 
 
 Page, Tyler, Washington. 
 Patton, Charles E., Pennsylvania. 
 Pepper, I. S., Iowa. 
 Prince, Ben., Washington. 
 Ranch, George W., Indiana. 
 Reilly, Thomas L., Connecticut. 
 Rothermel, John H., Pennsylvania. 
 
 TABLE 9B 
 
 Rouse, Arthur B., Kentucky. 
 Rubey, Thomas L., Missouri. 
 Russell, Joseph J., Missouri. 
 Sabath, Adolph J., Illinois. 
 Saunders, E. W., Virginia. 
 Sherwood, Isaac R., Ohio. 
 Sinnot, J. J. 
 
 Sisson, Thomas U., Mississippi. 
 
 TABLE 9C 
 South, Jerry. 
 
 Stanley, Augusta O., Kentucky. 
 Stephens, John H., Texas. 
 Stone, Claudius IT., Illinois. 
 Stout, Thomas, Montana. 
 Stringer, L. B., Illinois. 
 Tavenner, Clyde H., Illinois. 
 Taylor, Sam M., Arkansas. 
 
 TABLE 9D 
 
 Trimble, South. 
 Walker, J. R., Georgia. 
 Weaver, Claude, Oklahoma. 
 West, Henry L., Washington. 
 Whitacre, John J., Ohio. 
 WilHams, W. E., Illinois. 
 Wilson, Emmett, Florida. 
 Wingo, Otis T., Arkansas. 
 Woods, Frank P., Iowa. 
 
TABLE 1 
 
 Ahearn, H. A. 
 Austin, Frederick A. 
 Bridgeman, Robert 
 Bryan, James William 
 
 Buckhout, Frank 
 Chittick, R. O. 
 Crompton, W. J. 
 Cone, Frederick H. 
 
 Cook, Ernest 
 Dana, Dwight 
 Tevis, Charies V. 
 Doyle, James 
 
 TABLE 2 
 
 Ellner, Joseph 
 Fisher, William 
 Ford, Martin 
 Hatfield, Henry 
 
 TABLE 3 
 
 Hecht, Samuel 
 Kastriner, Maurice 
 Kelly, John T. 
 Martin, Henry 
 
 Mehle, Fred 
 Molesphini, Charles 
 Nicholson, Arthur T. 
 Pankin, George 
 
 Pascal, Frank L. 
 Stephens, William H. 
 Sutherland, E. G. 
 Holmes, E. T. 
 
 TABLE 4 
 
 Thew, Harvey P. 
 Vaughan, Benjamin A. 
 Pinover, Irving 
 Hetrick, John N. 
 
 TABLE 5 
 
 Saymon, Max Irwin, Harry C. 
 
 Creveling, George Shone, R. H. 
 
 Butterly, Charles Joseph Davidson, E. M. 
 
 Hines, Edward Morris, Robert G. 
 
 Bell, Edwin 
 Butterworth, B. T. 
 Burroughs, Elton 
 Barker, William 
 
 TABLE 6 
 
 Barrett, James M. 
 Dailey, Louis B. 
 Doolittle, J. W. 
 Doyle, John F. 
 
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TABLE 7 
 
 McCarthy, Charles R. Borden, Glent D. 
 
 McCarthy, George W. Vought, F. D. 
 
 Shaw, Bernard Roberts, E. J. 
 
 Landon, George Penrose, John J. 
 
 Thomsen, W. E. 
 Brown, Gerald R. 
 Slosson, Edward 
 George, Edwin S. 
 
 TABLE 8 
 
 MacLean, W. B, 
 Rutter, Horace 
 Rebele, Otto 
 Evans, John R. 
 
 TABLE 10 
 
 English, Benj. R. Robinson, L. W. 
 
 Hessler, Dr. H. P. Sullivan, Thomas H. 
 
 Grave, F. D. Troup, Alexander 
 
 Mansfield, Burton Watrous, Dr. George D. 
 
 Kinney, M. Curtis 
 Earl, E. H. 
 Bert, 
 
 Crawford, John H. 
 
 TABLE 12 
 
 Donohue, 
 Hogan, John 
 De Lacy, George C. 
 Carter, George 
 
 TABLE 14 
 
 Frantz, P. G. 
 Butterworth, R. B. 
 CroU, J. S. 
 Danks, B. H. 
 
 Faunce, C. H. 
 
 Major, Duncan Kennedy 
 
 Cochran, E. A. 
 
 Troy, J. U. 
 
 Creighton, Allan 
 Creighton, Claude 
 Creighton, R. L. 
 Creighton, T. H. 
 
 TABLE 16 
 
 Albright, Harry H. 
 Carpenter, F. B. 
 Cutting, Hubert B. 
 Douglas, O. F., Jr. 
 
Valentine, C. F. 
 Bradbury, E. J. 
 May, James B. 
 Rankin, M. J. 
 
 Griffin, H. L. 
 McBrier, E. M. 
 Newberry, W. F. 
 Osborne, C. M. 
 
 Ivie, Alvin E. 
 Bardol, E. A. 
 Cornell, Edward 
 Weckesser, F. J. 
 
 Case, C. P. 
 Kirby, F. M. 
 Moody, H. A. 
 Moore, W. H. 
 
 TABLE 18 
 
 Winslow, C. E. 
 Hill, John R. 
 Miller, E. H. 
 Griswold, C. C. 
 
 TABLE 20 
 
 Hutchinson, Frank J. 
 Newberry, C. T. 
 Nutting, E. C. 
 Reynolds, John 
 
 TABLE 22 
 
 Gage, B. W. 
 Conable, Ralph 
 Knox, Henry D. 
 Williams, Walter 
 
 TABLE 24 
 
 Peck, Carson C. 
 Parson, H. T. 
 Perry, R. Smith 
 Hutchinson, H. F. 
 Carter, Com. F. F. 
 
 TABLE 26 
 
 Hugo, Hon. Francis M. Royal, Hon. John K. 
 
 McBride, Hon. A. F. Schoeneck, Hon. Edward 
 
 McClain, Hon. Frank B. Wittpen, Hon. H. Otto 
 
 Rice, Hon. Frank J. Finley, Dr. John Huston 
 
 Bryant, Dr. W. Soheir 
 
 TABLE 27 
 
 Morrissey, James H. 
 McGann, James E. 
 Picket, Col. Charles W. 
 Sullivan, Daniel T. 
 Seymour, George W. 
 Richey, E. S. 
 Rosenberg, Arthur 
 Tilton, Edward L. 
 
 Amrhyn, G. X. 
 Poli, S. Z. 
 
 McGrath, Hon. John F. 
 Lynch, James W. 
 Thorns, WilUam E. 
 Kerwin, N. L. 
 Hammill, Hon. Frank H. 
 Toch, Henry M. 
 
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TABLE 28 
 
 Webster, Albert L. 
 Matteossian, Z. N. 
 Mohn, Joseph F. 
 Parmelee, E. D. 
 Phillips, E. S. J., Jr. 
 Read, Rex D. 
 Shaflfer, Guy F. 
 Stevens, William W. 
 
 Aus, Gunvald 
 Donnelly, John 
 Ricci, Eliseo V. 
 Van Dusen, H. B. 
 Dinwiddle, J. H. 
 Sandberg, Dag 
 Blackwell, George 
 Brown, W. H. 
 
 Sunter, William R, 
 Rockart, John R. 
 Johnson, Thomas R. 
 Wells, George H. 
 Holmes, Dr. 
 Conlan, Frank J. 
 Culver, Harry R. 
 Eden, Louis E. 
 
 TABLE 29 
 
 Keese, Franklin H. 
 Berle, Kort 
 Holtzman, S. F. 
 Nygren, Werner 
 Gilbert, Cass, Jr. 
 Tenney, Theodore S. 
 Ohmes, Arthur K. 
 Knox, Charles E. 
 
 TABLE 30 
 
 Carse, Henry R. 
 Kelsey, Clarence H. 
 Frew, Walter E. 
 Joyce, William B. 
 
 Pugsley, C. A. 
 Quinlan, James 
 Vreeland, H. H. 
 Haynes, Lathrop C. 
 
 Lounsbury, P. C. 
 Marston, Edgar 
 Morgenthau, Henry 
 Underwood, F. D. 
 
 TABLE 31 
 
 Clews, Henry 
 Bright, Louis A. 
 Hogan, Edward J. 
 Martindale, Joseph P. 
 
 TABLE 32 
 
 Schwab, Chas. M. 
 Foster, Hon. Warren W. 
 Fowler, Hon. Robert L. 
 McAdoo, Hon. William 
 
 0*Sullivan, Hon. Thomas G. 
 Dowling, Robert E. 
 Steers, Alfred E. 
 Loeb, William, Jr. 
 
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Gil, Hon. Mario L. 
 Sorzano, Julio F. 
 Rivas, Hon. Santiago 
 Ballivian, Hon. Adolfo 
 
 TABLE 33 
 
 da Cunha, Hon. M. J. F. 
 Escobar, Hon. Francisco 
 Jorrin, Hon. Julio Sorzano 
 de Salas, Hon. F. Javier 
 
 TABLE 34 
 
 Lounsbury, Thomas R. Quackenbos, Dr. John D. 
 
 Barrett, John Winter, Jefferson 
 
 Morgan, William Fellows McAtamney, Hugh A. 
 
 Johnson, Robert Underwood Frazee, John 
 
 TABLE 35 
 
 Starrows, James J. Flagg, Ernest 
 
 Towne, Henry R. Gibson, Charles Dana 
 
 Sigsbee, Admiral Chas. D. La Farge, C. Grant 
 Smith, F. Berkeley Gleaves, Capt. Albert 
 
 TABLE 36 
 
 Nixon, Lewis Webb, J. Watson 
 
 O'Brien, Hon. Morgan J. Welling, Hon. Richard 
 
 Ingersoll, Ernest 
 Moss, Frank 
 
 Robinson, Allan 
 Chew, Beverly 
 Flint, Dr. Austin 
 Gary, Elbert H. 
 
 Arnould, D. 
 Benjamin, George 
 Cochrane, Thomas 
 Hagarty, George V. 
 
 Adamson, Robert 
 Curran, Henry H. 
 Frothingham, E. V. 
 Johnson, Joseph 
 
 Williams, George T. 
 Von Helmolt, Charles 
 
 TABLE 37 
 
 Kahn, Otto 
 Schenck, Henry A. 
 Ramsey, Dick S. 
 Morgenthau, M., Jr. 
 
 TABLE 38 
 
 Kolb, George 
 Matthai, W. H. 
 Mills, F. H. 
 Samstag, H. T. 
 
 TABLE 39 
 
 Lederle, Dr. Ernst J. 
 Lewis, Nelson P. 
 Miller, Rudolph P. 
 Moore, Robert R. 
 
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O'Connell, John J. 
 O'Keefe, Arthur J. 
 Purdy, Lawson 
 Waldo, Rhinelander 
 
 Taft, Frank 
 Heins, John W. 
 Votey, E. 
 Brown, Rev. S. W. 
 
 Ollesheimer, Henry 
 Lloyd, Charles C. 
 Scott, Walter 
 Pfeiffer, C. G. 
 
 Battle, George Gordon 
 Douglas, Archibald 
 Armitage, Paul 
 Schenck, Edwin S. 
 McCann, Chas. E. F. 
 
 Chicester, Howard 
 Palme, Julius 
 Hitchcock, J. F. 
 Clarke, T. E. 
 
 Donald, James M. 
 Skinner, William 
 Nichols, James E. 
 Pierson, Lewis E. 
 
 Hutton, Franklyn H. 
 Hutton, Edward F. 
 Ellis, George A., Jr. 
 Horton, Harry L. 
 
 TABLE 40 
 
 Murphy, John J. 
 Smith, R. A. C. 
 Grifenhagen, Max S. 
 Baker, William H. 
 
 TABLE 41 
 
 Townsend, Rev. S. DeLancey 
 Bryant, Dr. Joseph T. 
 Stern, Louis 
 
 Woodruff, Hon. Timothy L. 
 TABLE 42 
 
 Schoonmaker, J. H. 
 Schlesinger, Leo. 
 Hatfield, Hon. Charles E. 
 Stroebel, E. 
 
 TABLE 43 
 
 Jones, E. Clarence 
 Pulitzer, Ralph 
 Seymour, E. F. 
 Flower, Fred 
 Seymour, Julius H. 
 
 TABLE 44 
 
 Pearson, Dr. Charles E. 
 Pearson, John B. 
 Delafield, Dr. Francis 
 Meyer, Dr. Willy 
 
 TABLE 45 
 
 Brooks, Joseph W. 
 Whitmore, D. W. 
 Grant, RoUin P. 
 Dodge, M. Hartley 
 
 TABLE 46 
 
 Ely, Dr. Albert H. 
 Donahue, James P. 
 Woolworth, Fred E. 
 Rothschild, Louis F. 
 
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Eangsley, Darwin P. 
 Crimmins, John D. 
 Cram, J. Sergeant 
 Bateson, Charles E. 
 
 Whitmarsh, T. F. 
 Nash, Willis G. 
 Belding, M. M., Jr. 
 Perkins, Charles E. 
 
 Buel, C. C. 
 Creelman, James 
 Harvey, Col. George 
 Hester, William 
 
 Reisinger, Hugo 
 Simon, Robert E. 
 Metz, Herman 
 Evans, William T. 
 
 Childs, William, Jr. 
 Balfe, Harry 
 Luke, John G. 
 Taylor, S. F. 
 
 TABLE 47 
 
 Munn, Dr. J. P. 
 Appleton, R. Ross 
 Morgan, Edward M. 
 Sachs, Samuel 
 
 TABLE 48 
 
 Cruikshank, Warren 
 Morse, D. P. 
 Mitchell, Sidney Z. 
 Seed, John H. 
 
 TABLE 49 
 
 McClure, S. S. 
 Stoddard, H. L. 
 Scribner, A. H. 
 Kost, F. W. 
 
 TABLE 50 
 
 Severance, C. A. 
 Rudolph, Cuno H. 
 Starrett, Paul 
 Stevens, John F. 
 
 TABLE 51 
 
 Weiner, B. F. 
 Williams, H. M. 
 Gerry, Robert L. 
 
 TABLE 52 
 
 Finlay, Charles E. Leipziger, Henry M. 
 
 Cook, Robert Grier McDougal, James 
 
 Schuyler, Montgomery Peirce, John 
 
 Harburger, Julius 
 
 Austin, Robert B. 
 Walsh, M. P. 
 Barr, Lockwood 
 Long, John Luther 
 
 TABLE 53 
 
 Owen, F. Cunliffe 
 Reynolds, Louis H. 
 Wheeler, Edward J. 
 Gehring, Charles E. 
 
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Barnard, W. H. 
 Imhoff, C. H. 
 Bushnell, Eric 
 Ward, H. C. 
 
 Sutton, Frank 
 Sutton, Horace L. 
 Thompson, William R. 
 Jaeger, Dr. Charles H. 
 
 Smith, T. R. 
 Peple, Edward 
 Pennock, H. Hardcastle 
 Edwards, Geo. Wharton 
 
 TABLE 54 
 
 Breed, William C. 
 Klein, Emil 
 Burrell, F. A. M. 
 Schoonmaker, Jacob H. 
 
 TABLE 55 
 
 Tuthill, A. W. 
 Snow, Ellridge G. 
 Finkel, Emil 
 Thompson, Burton 
 
 TABLE 56 
 
 Baker, Ray Stannard 
 Cook, Charles Emerson 
 Friedmann, Dr. Arthur C. H. 
 Johnson, Walter A. 
 
 TABLE 57 
 
 Hearn, George A. Apple, Dr. Henry H. 
 
 Boldt, George C. Baldwin, W. D. 
 
 Nissen, Ludwig Butler, James R. 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Joseph French Flint, Charles R. 
 
 Fiske, Wilbur C. 
 Clarke, Lewis S. 
 Green, Robert W. 
 Westervelt, A. B. 
 
 Cullen, R. J. 
 Enright, R. E. 
 McHenry, Edwin D. 
 Schneider, W. F. 
 
 von der Rapp, Baron 
 Webb, Louis 
 Wragge, Captain 
 Vanstone, Noel 
 
 TABLE 58 
 
 Lincoln, James C. 
 Day, Joseph P. 
 Hatfield, Joshua A. 
 Hilles, Charles D. 
 
 TABLE 59 
 
 Ellithorpe, F. T. 
 Ellithorpe, Gilbert S. 
 Provan, David B. 
 Hopkins, G. M. 
 
 TABLE 60 
 
 Fosco, Charles 
 Garth, Henry 
 Williams, John 
 Stickel, Frederick G. 
 
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Hunt, Dr. Leigh 
 Seamans, C. W. 
 King, Willard V. 
 Abbott, Henry 
 
 Boring, William A. 
 Blashfield, Edwin H. 
 Darbyshire, Percy W. 
 Dittenhoefer, Hon. A. J. 
 
 TABLE 61 
 
 Williams, Dr. H. S. 
 Marling, Alfred E. 
 Mortimer, George T. 
 Marshall, James Rush 
 
 TABLE 62 
 
 Finck, Henry T. 
 Halsey, Frank W. 
 Hatch, Edward, Jr. 
 Hunt, Leavitt, J. 
 
 Benjamin, E. S. 
 Gladding, W. M. 
 Lee, Fred G. 
 Lott, John Z. 
 
 Reardon, J. W. 
 Martin, John J. 
 Randall, W. L. 
 MacLellan, George 
 
 Urban, C. Emlen 
 
 TABLE 63 
 
 Luke, Adam K. 
 Snyder, Alex C. 
 Worrell, P. B. 
 Cochran, James 
 
 TABLE 64 
 
 Fames, John C. 
 Reilly, William J. 
 Dobson, Meade C. 
 Klein, Emil 
 
 TABLE 65 
 
 MacMullen, Rev. Wallace Cacavjo, Joseph 
 Hall, Rev. Dr. Frank Oliver Tarbell, Gage E. 
 Silverman, Rev. Joseph Parington, Dr. F. E. 
 
 Thompson, S. A. 
 
 Lamb, Charles R. 
 Tietjen, Christian F. 
 Leslie, Warren 
 
 Von Briesen, Arthur 
 Hamilton, W. P. 
 Felsinger, William 
 Harmon, John N. 
 
 Ely, Robert Erskine 
 
 TABLE 66 
 
 Kimball, Ingalls 
 Bennett, Elbert A. 
 Davies, J. Clarence 
 Hitchcock, S. M. 
 
 TABLE 67 
 
 Pine, John B. 
 Mead, S. C. 
 Marks, Marcus 
 Ramsay, J., Jr. 
 
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Hartfield, William 
 Hawley, John H. 
 Nelke, David I. 
 King, Frederick A. 
 
 Luby, James 
 Merrill, Bradford 
 Janvier, Thomas A. 
 Bruce, H. Addington 
 
 Kennelly, Bryan L. 
 Parish, John L. 
 Leay craft, J. Edgar 
 Pratt, Sereno S. 
 
 Baker, George Barr 
 Day, Frank Miles 
 EUot, Walter G. 
 Markham, Edwin 
 
 Barrett, Alfred M. 
 McKinny, William 
 Ogden, George D. 
 Flatten, John W. 
 
 McHarg, Ormsby 
 Benton, Col. Everett C, 
 Cosby, Col. Spencer 
 Brown, Glenn 
 
 Adams, Edward Dean 
 Bache, Rene 
 Cashman, Joseph 
 Cook, Walter 
 
 TABLE 68 
 
 White, Horace 
 Kunz, Dr. George L. 
 Houston, Herbert S. 
 Williams, George V. S. 
 
 TABLE 69 
 
 Simmons, E. A. 
 Bushnell, Ericcson F. 
 Chesebrough, W. H. 
 Day, W. A. 
 
 TABLE 70 
 
 Reynolds, Mryon T. 
 Walker, Legare 
 Winter, Edwin W. 
 Bierck, A. B. 
 
 TABLE 71 
 
 Moffet, Cleveland 
 Quinn, Thomas C. 
 Quint, Wilder Dwight 
 Tesla, Nicola 
 
 TABLE 72 
 
 Seitz, Don 
 Shaw, F. Angus 
 Sleicher, John A. 
 Muschenheim, William C. 
 
 TABLE 73 
 
 Coler, Bird S. 
 Von Helmolt, Charles 
 Black, Col. William Murray 
 Wilcox, Hon. W. R. 
 
 TABLE 74 
 
 Yard, Robert Sterling 
 Whiting, Irving S. 
 Rouland, Orlando 
 Norton, William 
 
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TABLE 75 
 
 Cummings, Geo. E. De Berard, Frederick B. 
 
 Davis, Richard Harding Einhom, Dr. Max 
 
 French, Daniel C. Dunekna, F. A. 
 
 Currey, Jonathan Partridge, William Ordway 
 
 Adams, Samuel 
 Alexander, John W. 
 Kelley, Halsey W. 
 Jones, W. O. 
 
 Kohn, Harry R. 
 Kohns, Lee 
 Langill, Charles H. 
 Meyers, James Cowden 
 
 Carter, P. G. 
 Matteson, Warner B. 
 Ide, John Jay 
 Hendricks, J. W. 
 
 Bierck, A. B. 
 EUiman, Lawrence B. 
 Rice, Hyand P. 
 Golding, John R. 
 
 Freeman, William C. 
 McLaughlin, Frank 
 Hardenbergh, Louis 
 McCrosson, E. 
 
 EUiman, Douglas 
 Krell, Albert 
 Harmon, Clifford B. 
 Hill, Oliver B. 
 
 TABLE 76 
 
 Kiliani, Dr. Otto T. 
 Church, Col. William E. 
 Callahan, D. J. 
 Buckley, James 
 
 TABLE 77 
 
 MiUer, H. W. 
 Morton, William C. 
 McCooey, John 
 Oppenheim, James 
 
 TABLE 78 
 
 Spencer, George F. 
 Nelson, M. J. 
 Rowntree, Bernard 
 Treadwell, E. A. 
 
 TABLE 79 
 
 Rascovar, James 
 Rascovar, Frank James 
 Rascovar, Harry 
 Byrne, J. J. 
 
 TABLE 80 
 
 Markowitz, A. Lincoln 
 Polhemus, Henry W. 
 Tevis, Charles V. 
 Dana, Dwight 
 
 TABLE 81 
 
 Lyons, Howard J. 
 Meader, Herman Lee 
 Bennett, Elbert A. 
 Hawley, Charles Beach 
 
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TABLE 82 
 
 Ellison, William B. 
 Fletcher, F. I. 
 Gitterman, A. N. 
 Loomis, E. E. 
 
 Croxton, S. W. 
 Robinson, Edward 
 Wyckoff, F. A. 
 Schnitzer, William M. 
 
 McCarroll, William 
 Paul, Frederick W. 
 Peck, F. L. 
 Plant, Albert 
 
 Tener, Hampden E. 
 Rapp, John W. 
 Powell, William H. 
 Phillips, Barnet 
 
 Ball, Alwyn, Jr. 
 Hancy, Edward J. 
 Finegan, Austin 
 Hope, W. C. 
 
 Compton, William N. 
 Delaney, John H. 
 Fisher, Adolpho 
 Handel, George A. 
 Blauss, John Lincoln 
 
 Bleeth, Philip 
 Crawford, William 
 Oberndorfer, Nat. 
 Tebbs, Robert W. 
 
 Marsh, Mr. 
 
 McCreery, J. Crawford 
 Horne, Frank A. 
 Pease, W. Albert 
 
 TABLE 83 
 
 Scully, P. J. 
 Smith, P. R. 
 Wylde, E. 
 Smith, W. T. 
 
 TABLE 84 
 
 Scott, Douglas Mark 
 Starkie, John W. 
 Quinby, J. G. 
 Shannon, Wm. E. 
 
 TABLE 85 
 
 Seldon, Ch. H. 
 Truslow, Arthur 
 Orcutt, B. S. 
 Peck, George 
 
 TABLE 86 
 
 Morch, Thomas 
 Noyes, Charles F. 
 Demorest, Wm. Curtis 
 Mulligan, Joseph T. 
 
 TABLE 87 
 
 Wilmsen, B. 
 Holden, Frank H. 
 Holden, L. C. 
 Flynn, W. J. 
 
 TABLE 88 
 
 Newman, W. G. 
 Sweet, Benjamin H. 
 Duross, Charles E.