Many Men of Mark

Prince Henry had Luncheon Yesterday with some Score Americans.

CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY.

That’s what they were styled and Roll proves Name — German Societies’ Reception.

New York, Feb. 26. — Prince Henry of Prussia met and took luncheon with 22 captains of American industry at Sherry’s this afternoon. It was originally intended to have an even 100 captains, but at the last moment eight of the five score selected had to decline. There were at the board, beside the captains, one prince of royal blood, twelve prominent citizens of New York, who were the hosts of his highness and of the captains, and eleven specially invited guests.

The names of the industrial magnates of the United States will be found below. The hosts were:

J. Pierpont Morgan, James Stillman,
Morris K. Jesup, Wm. K. Vanderbilt,
Levi P. Morton, Edward D. Adams,
Alexander E. Orr, George F. Baker,
Wm. Rockefeller, John Claflin,
Abram S. Hewitt, Elbert H. Gary.

The special guests were:

Mayor Low,
David J. Hill, first assistant Secretary of State,
Major General Henry C. Corbin,
Rear Admiral Evans,
Colonel Bingham,
Commander Cowles,
Lewis Cass Ledyard, commodore of the New York Yacht Club,
Albert Ballin, director general of the Hamburg-American line,
George Plate, president of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company,
Gustav W. Hiemenz, president of the Hamburg-American Steamship Company,
Dr. H. Wiegand, director general of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company.

The guests were expected to present themselves at Sherry’s at 12 o’clock sharp. They were on time. The prince, his suite and the specially invited guests were expected at 12.30 o’clock and at exactly that hour the prince arrived. He was accompanied by Rear Admiral Evans and escorted by Troop C. After the prince came his suite and the German ambassador and German consul general. In a carriage immediately behind his royal highness was George Titus, chief of detectives. By an arrangement with the local committee of entertainment, Captain Titus’s place in any land jaunt of the prince henceforth will be always immediately behind him.

The royal guest was met at Sherry’s front door by Edward D. Adams, representing the hosts. Then Mr. Adams escorted the prince to the third floor or which is the grand ballroom, where the luncheon was served. Off the ballroom are several reception-rooms and into one of these the prince was conducted and introduced to Mr. Morgan. Mr. Morgan in turn introduced his royal highness to all the other hosts and then to each of the specially invited guests. His highness had not begun to be presented all around when his suite came along and its members had to be introduced. Introductions were through with, however, by 12.40 o’clock and everything was ready for the royal guest to enter the luncheon-room.

About fifteen minutes before that the industrial captains were sent into the dining-room and seated at eight crescent-shaped tables. This left two tables on the main floor and the table of honor, which was raised on a platform about a foot high, unoccupied.

When the other guests were seated, the royal procession to the dining-room began, headed by Commodore Ledyard, escorting Lieutenant Commander Schmidt von Schwindt. Following them came most of the military and naval captains, commanders and lieutenant commanders in the prince’s suite. They made straight for one of the unoccupied tables on the main floor. Following the detachment under Commodore Ledyard there came the next dozen guests, headed by Mayor Low, escorting Mr. Hill, the assistant secretary of state.

After these came his royal highness, escorted by Mr. Morgan and followed by the rest of the 24, who were to sit at the table of honor, in the following order:

Ambassador von Holleben and Abram S. Hewitt,
Vice Admiral von Tirpitz and Morris K. Jesup,
General von Plessen and Levi P. Morton,
Vice Admiral von Eisendecker and Elbert H. Gary,
Vice Admiral Baron von Seckendorff and George F. Baker,
Rear Admiral Count von Baudissin and James Stillman,
Commander von Drumm and William Rockefeller,
Captain von Müller and Ludwig M. Goldberg,
Consul General Buenz and Alexander E. Orr,
Commander Hipper and John Claflin,
Commander von Holleben and Edward D. Adams.

Luncheon was then served.

While the luncheon was being served, those at the tables had a chance to see what the decorations in the dining-room were like. On either side of the main entrance were stands of German and American colors. Directly back of the seats of Mr. Morgan and the prince in a frame of red plush was a large piece of tapestry made in this country. The walls of the room and the panels back of the balconies were hung with costly pieces of tapestry brought from the other side. The luncheon was served by lackeys in liveries said to be the court livery of England. At any rate, they wore black plush breeches with brass buckles at the knees, black cloth coats, white waistcoats, black stockings, patent-leather pumps and white cotton gloves.

Just as the coffee was passed a company of women entered the galleries overlooking the dining-room and seated themselves in the boxes.

As soon as the luncheon had been served, the tables on the floor were moved aside and Mr. Morgan arose and proposed a toast to the President of the United States. It was drunk standing, as were also the toast which he proposed to the first an Emperor and to Prince Henry. After the prince had been toasted for the first time he seat and rising at that unhurried tact of his, rose to his glass and said:

“Gentlemen, I rise to the pledge the continuation of business.”

The sentiment was roundly applauded and the toast drunk. Mr. Morgan arose and said:

“Gentlemen, since we sat down here the table has been filled full.” Every host looked and Mr. Morgan added: “I would have said it better had I said that the chairs have become filled. More luncheon is at any rate, I propose a toast to the Ladies.”

This was drunk standing and then all those at the head table stepped down on the floor and the captains of industry were presented to Prince Henry. For an hour he talked with one after another. The prince seemed to be particularly full of questions for Mr. Schwab, Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Morgan. At one time he had John D. Rockefeller standing on one side of him and William H. Rockefeller on the other. His highness pumped questions at each so fast as they could answer them. He became so much interested in this informal conversation that, when somebody reminded him that, according to the programme, he was to spend the afternoon in sightseeing around New York, the prince replied:

“If it will not interfere with anybody’s arrangements but mine, let us stay here.”

And so he remained in the luncheon-room making questions for another hour. At 3.30 o’clock he said he must be going and ten minutes later he was whirling away in his carriage down Fifth avenue with the trumpeters of Troop C at a quick trot before and behind him.

Captains of American Industry.

A list of those invited to the luncheon, with a brief statement of the grounds of their fame, follows:

Edward G. Acheson, Niagara Falls, the inventor of carborundum and of a successful process of making graphite.
James W. Alexander, New York, president Equitable Life.
J. Ogden Armour, Chicago, president of Armour & Co., meat packers.
George F. Baer, Reading, Pa., representative of the largest anthracite interests in Pennsylvania.
Alexander Graham Bell, Washington, inventor of the first successful speaking telephone.
Edwin J. Berwind, New York, president bituminous-coal interests.
Lieutenant Colonel J. S. Billings, New York, director of the New York Public Library.
Eliphalet W. Bliss, New York, inventor and manufacturer of machinery for working sheet metals; sole manufacturer of the Whitehead torpedo.
Emil L. Boas, New York, general manager of Hamburg-American line.
Frederick G. Bourne, New York, president Singer Manufacturing Company.
Henry Pickering Bowditch, Boston, physiologist and educator.
John Brashear, Allegheny, Pa., astronomer and manufacturer of astronomical and optical instruments.
Daniel Hudson Burnham, Chicago, architect, who is chief exponent of modern architecture.
Adolphus Busch, St. Louis, Mo., president Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company.
Alex J. Cassatt, Philadelphia, Pa., president Pennsylvania Railroad.
Alexander E. Brown, Cleveland, inventor and manufacturer of labor-saving machinery.
Charles F. Brush, Cleveland, O., inventor and founder of the American electric lighting industry.
Francis Woodbridge Cheney, South Manchester, Ct., of the Cheney Bros., the silk manufacturers in the United States.
Duane H. Church, Waltham, Mass., inventor.
Charles Floory Clark, New York, secretary and president Bradstreet company.
William Brown Cogswell, Syracuse, N.Y., labeled manufacturer of soda products in the United States.
John H. Converse, Philadelphia, Pa., president the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Charles H. Cramp, Philadelphia, Pa., 50 years general manager of Cramp’s shipyard.
Francis Bacon Crocker, New York, inventor and professor of electrical engineering, founder of the Crocker-Wheeler Electrical Company.
Charles Deering, Chicago, Ill., senior member of the Deering Harvester Company, the largest plant of its kind.
Theodore Low De Vinne, New York, leader in improvement of typography.
William F. Dodge, New York, identified with the production of copper.
John F. Dryden, Newark, N.J., president of the Prudential Life.
J. B. Duke, New York, president American Tobacco Company.
William H. Dunwoody, Minneapolis, representative of the Washburn-Crosby Company which manufactures more flour barrels of flour a day.
Thomas Alva Edison, Llewellyn Park, N.J., inventor.
Anton Frederick Eilers, Brooklyn, N.Y., metallurgist and mining engineer.
Marshall Field, Chicago, dry goods merchant.
Stuyvesant Fish, New York, president Illinois Central Railroad system.
David R. Francis, St. Louis, Mo., president Louisiana Purchase Exposition, recently identified with financial and railroad interests.
John Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa., the father of the iron and steel industries of America, founder, designer and builder of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
James B. Grant, Denver, Col., mining and mining engineer.
George J. Gould, Lakewood, N.J., railroad president.
Clement A. Griscom, Philadelphia, Pa., founder and chief executive International Navigation Company.
James H. Haggie, New York, practical geologist.
Charles M. Hall, Niagara Falls, the inventor of the process of producing commercial aluminum.
Edward H. Harriman, Arden, railroad magnate.
Henry O. Havemeyer, New York, president American Sugar Refining Company.
Marvin Hughitt, Chicago, Ill., president Chicago & North-Western Railroad system.
Julian Kennedy, Pittsburg, Pa., expert designer in iron and steel manufacture.
Samuel Pierpont Langley, Washington, astronomer and physicist, secretary Smithsonian Institution.
Robert T. Lincoln, Chicago, president Pullman company.
Johnston Livingston, New York, senior partner of the firm of Livingston & Co.
Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago, merchant.
John A. McCall, New York, president New York Life Insurance Company.
John Markle, Jeddo, Pa., representative of the individual operators in anthracite coal.
Samuel Mather, Cleveland, O., of Pickands, Mather & Co., who are agents for a large number of iron and mining companies.
Charles H. Mellen, St. Paul, Minn., president Northern Pacific Railroad.
J. Rogers Maxwell, New York ... and president Atlas Portland Cement Company.
George W. Melville, Washington, D.C., rear admiral and for fourteen years executive head of the bureau of steam engineering of the naval service.
Albert A. Michelson, Chicago, head professor of physics of the University of Chicago and president American Physical Society.
D. O. Mills, New York, president Niagara Falls Power Company.
S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa., physician and novelist.
Charles A. Moore, New York, representative of large manufacturers of machine tools and their practical distributor.
George S. Morison, New York, railroad and bridge engineer and member of the Isthmian canal commission.
Henry Morton, Hoboken, N.J., president Stevens Institute of Technology.
Simon Newcomb, Washington, D.C., mathematician and astronomer.
Frederick Pabst, Milwaukee, Wis., brewer.
William Barclay Parsons, New York, chief engineer of the rapid transit commission.
Edward Charles Pickering, Cambridge, Mass., director of the astronomical observatory of Harvard.
Albert A. Pope, Boston, Mass., pioneer in the development of the bicycle industry.
Henry S. Pritchett, Boston, Mass., president Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Michael Pupin, New York, electrical inventor and professor.
Ira Remsen, Baltimore, Md., president Johns Hopkins University.
Edwin Reynolds, Milwaukee, Wis., inventor of the Reynolds-Corliss engine.
John D. Rockefeller, New York, president Standard Oil Company.
Washington Augustus Roebling, New York, bridge engineer.
Henry H. Rogers, New York, pioneer in the petroleum industry.
Charles M. Schwab, New York, president United States Steel Corporation.
Gustav Henry Schwab, New York, agent in New York of the North German Lloyd.
Irving Murray Scott, San Francisco, Cal., shipbuilder.
Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia, Pa., chief engineer Niagara Falls Power Company.
Samuel Spencer, New York, president Southern Railroad system.
Frank J. Sprague, New York, electrical engineer.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Schenectady, electrician, scientist and inventor.
Nikola Tesla, New York, electrician.
Elihu Thomson, Swampscott, Mass., electrician, inventor of electric metal welding and working.
Robert H. Thurston, Ithaca, consulting engineer, scientific investigator and inventor.
Herbert H. Vreeland, New York, president Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
Charles D. Walcott, Washington, D.C., director of the United States Geological Survey.
John G. Walker, Washington, D.C., rear admiral United States Navy and president United States Isthmian Canal Commission.
George Gray Ward, New York, managing director Postal Telegraph and Cable lines.
Levi C. Weir, New York, president Adams Express Company.
George Westinghouse, Pittsburg, Pa., inventor, manufacturer, organizer.
Edward Weston, Waverly Park, N.J., electrician and inventor, pioneer in American electric plating and electric and incandescent lighting.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, St. Paul, Minn., largest operator in manufacturing lumber.
Peter A. B. Widener, Philadelphia, Pa., financier and operator of surface railways.

How the Prince Spent the Morning.

“The prince is a royal good fellow,” said Rear Admiral Evans when he arrived at pier 34 about 11.30 o’clock this morning. “He is already more of an American than any foreign visitor to this country whom I have met. As to the programme for tomorrow, I can only say that the prince is tired and I am tired and everybody is tired. I do not know positively whether the proposed sightseeing tour through the city will be made or not. That will be decided by the prince before the luncheon at Sherry’s is over.”

It was semi-officially announced late on Tuesday evening that the prince might possibly make the visit to General Grant’s tomb this morning. This plan, however, if it ever was definitely decided upon, was abandoned very early in the forenoon.

He did not get up this morning until after 8 o’clock and he had breakfast with his suite at 9 o’clock. Captain von Müller said at a little after 10 o’clock that the prince had given up all idea of making the visit to General Grant’s tomb for that day. The ceremony of depositing the wreaths would be postponed until after his return to New York from his long trip to the West and South.

Prince Henry devoted all the morning to his correspondence. But there was a continual procession to the pier of people who with various credentials and excuses sought admission either to the fenced-off enclosure or to the yacht itself. One who called was Mrs. J. A. Moore of Pittsburg. She had come all the way from Pittsburg to see Prince Henry, she said, because her mother, who was Hannah Maria Boon, had been nurse to Prince Henry’s wife, the Princess Irene, during her infancy. Mrs. Moore’s name was taken to the prince and when her identity was explained to him he immediately sent for her. She remained in conversation with him in his apartments on the yacht for nearly an hour. She said on coming out that the prince had been very kind to her, and that they had talked over a great many family matters.

It was about 11.20 o’clock when Admiral Evans arrived. He came alone and it was his mission to escort the prince to the luncheon at Sherry’s. Soon after his arrival the bugle of Troop C was heard far up the street and that body of cavalrymen came clattering down to the pier. In addition to these there was a large force of policemen on duty. In the meantime, four or five open carriages, the same that were used by Prince Henry and his suite in their journey from the Battery to the City Hall on Tuesday, drove down the pier.

There had been a more or less large crowd assembled in the street and in the vicinity of the pier all the forenoon and these demonstrations brought to it such large reinforcements that it was soon almost as great in size as any which has gathered there since the prince’s arrival.

Hats were lifted and there were some symptoms of a cheer as the prince and the admiral stepped into the carriage and took the rear seat, Admiral Evans on Prince Henry’s left. Then the prince’s carriage moved slowly ahead and General von Plessen and Vice Admiral von Tirpitz entered the next, which followed slowly after the one with the prince. The crowds around the rest of the route were of an impromptu character, but grew larger as the procession advanced toward the more frequented parts of the city.

Reception by German Societies.

The German societies gave Henry of Prussia a thoroughly German reception at the Arion Society Club house tonight. They spoke German to him, they marched before him with torches to the number of about 10,000, they sang German songs to him and they rang in honor of his brother the Emperor and for his own royal self three tremendous German hochs. The prince made in reply to the addresses made to him the only speeches in German which he has so far made in this country.

Prince Henry told the gathering that if any advice was needed from him to Germans in this country it would be to this effect: That they could best show the quality of their German instincts by unwavering devotion to the country of their adoption. The singing of the Arion chorus so pleased his royal highness that he asked for a second song, and then asked with much insistence for a repetition of the second song.

The prince reached the club almost exactly on time. He entered the front door and was confronted with as substantial a wall of full grown short fronts as ever was seen on a gathering of Germans in this city. They stood in two solid walls inside the hall of the clubhouse and in between them was President Klaus von Briessen of the Arion Society who addressed the prince as follows in German:

“In the name of the Arion Society I welcome your royal highness in our home. I trust that the hour that your royal highness will spend under our roof will be pleasantly remembered by your royal highness. With us it will ever be cherished.”

Prince Henry bowed to Mr. Von Briessen and said that he was very glad indeed to be in the home of a German society. He was very grateful, too, he said for the hospitality shown to him by Germans and he desired to thank the society for receiving him in its beautiful home and for giving him the opportunity to witness a torchlight parade of Germans from its balcony.

Mr. Von Briessen, with the members of the reception committee of the united German societies, marched up two flights of stairs with the prince and his suite and the American officers who are accompanying him.

In the big concert hall on the third floor, they found about 300 members of the society who had been waiting for them. The prince was led, with swift Teutonic adherence to the programme, directly to a small marble-topped table in the middle of the concert hall, where another little speech was made this time by Dr. Weyland, president of the United German Societies, and to this he replied, as follows:

“Mr. President, allow me to express my heartfelt thanks for this cordial reception. It fills me with joy that all German societies in New York have had a share in this ovation, which I do not take as addressed to me, but to my brother, his majesty, the German Emperor, my august sovereign.

“Gentlemen, I understand perfectly well that most of you are citizens of this splendid country. (Cheers.) From your old fatherland you have brought the German’s sense of duty. And this sense of duty has undoubtedly been an important means to the success you have attained as citizens of this land. I desire for you that you may, as citizens of this beautiful country, preserve toward it the same sense of duty which actuates the brothers of your race in the old home country.”

Every pause in the prince’s utterance was greeted with great cheering and applause. Then there was handed to him a heavy brown leather album decorated with silver. In it was a verified address.

Captain von Muller then hurried up with the prince’s cloak and he went out to a gloriously decorated balcony overlooking Park avenue. The prince looked down on a black mass of people which opened to let through a mass of torches bobbing up and down with the steps of the bearers. The band was in front of them. The prince raised his hand to the visor of his cap in salute to the tune. There was a break in the torches and the bearers of a forest of flags marched by. The prince was told that these were the emblems of the societies. He saluted them, too.

Then came the societies. They came without any interval between the bodies of torchbearers, except those made by the 25 bands which accompanied the procession and brayed their loudest under the prince’s balcony. Orders had been given that there should be no cheering. But the folks down below were evidently watching the prince very closely, for every time his hand went up to the visor of his cap there was a shout from below. After the last of the parade was over the prince was taken back into the concert hall, where there was more singing.

From the clubhouse the prince went directly to the dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria.