Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz

ADDRESSES IN MEMORY

OF

CARL SCHURZ

CARNEGIE HALLNEW YORK
NOVEMBER 21
1906

NEW YORK COMMITTEE OF THE
CARL SCHURZ MEMORIAL

CARL SCHURZ died in New York City May 14, 1906, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. On June 8, a meeting of citizens of New York was held at the Chamber of Commerce, to take measures to honor his memory. A committee was formed to coöperate with similar committees in other parts of the country in establishing a permanent public memorial to Mr. Schurz, and to hold in New York a fitting memorial meeting. This meeting was held at Carnegie Hall on the evening of Wednesday, November 21, 1906, the Honorable Joseph H. Choate, Chairman of the New York Committee, presiding.

The speakers were the Honorable Grover Cleveland, former President of the United States; Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University; Professor Eugene Kühnemann, of the University of Breslau; the Honorable Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy; Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, Editor of the Century Magazine; Professor Hermann A Schumacher, of the University of Bonn; and Dr. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute.

The music included choruses in German, sung by the Liederkranz and Arion societies, and the march from Die Götterdämmerung and the prelude to Die Meistersinger, by the New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Frank Damrosch.

The full proceedings are printed in the pages following:

 

Speakers (not listed in original)

ADDRESS OF THE HONORABLE JOSEPH H. CHOATE
ADDRESS OF THE HONORABLE GROVER CLEVELAND
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT CHARLES W. ELIOT
ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR EUGENE KÜHNEMANN
ADDRESS OF THE HONORABLE CHARLES J. BONAPARTE
POEM BY RICHARD WATSON GILDER
ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR HERMANN A. SCHUMACHER
ADDRESS OF DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

AT the conclusion of the meeting, the Chairman announced the purpose of the Memorial Committee to provide, through popular subscriptions, for an appropriate permanent memorial to Mr. Schurz. From the funds secured the Committee will erect a monument in bronze—either a statue or otherwise, as may be determined when the artistic considerations have been weighed—and will provide, in such degree as the subscriptions permit, for the advancement, in Mr. Schurz's name, of some of the public work to which his life was given.

CARL SCHURZ MEMORIAL

NEW YORK COMMITTEE

Joseph H. Choate, Chairman
Gustav H. Schwab, First Vice-Chairman
George McAneny, Second Vice-Chairman
Isaac N. Seligman, Treasurer
William R. Corwine, Secretary

Edward D. Adams Felix Adler Henry Mills Alden A. Arns Emanuel Baruch John Bigelow Karl Bitter Emil L. Boas Franz Boas Udo Brachvogel Arthur Von Briesen Karl Buenz William Lanman Bull E. L. Burlingame Charles C. Burlingham Silas W. Burt Nicholas Murray Butler Andrew Carnegie William H. Carpenter Edward Gary Leander T. Chamberlain Joseph H. Choate Hubert Cillis

Samuel L. Clemens Grover Cleveland Charles A. Coffin Charles Collins Heinrich Conried Alford W. Cooley William R. Corwine John D. Crimmins Edward Curtis R. Fulton Cutting Frank Damrosch Horace E. Deming William Demuth Richard H. Derby A. von Duering George Ehret Charles S. Fairchild Austen G. Fox A. S. Frissell Richard Watson Gilder Elliot H. Goodwin Samuel Greenbaum Francis Burton Harrison

George Harvey Theodore Henninger Henry Hentz Henry Holt William B. Hornblower William D. Howells Archer M. Huntington A. Jacobi D. Willis James William Travers Jerome Francis P. Kinnicutt Hermann Knapp Antonio Knauth Hans Kudlich Ernst Lemcke Gustav Lindenthal John T. Lockman James Loeb Seth Low George McAneny S. S. McClure St. Clair McKelway Hamilton Mabie Charles R. Miller Jacob F. Miller Robert Shaw Minturn J. Pierpont Morgan Levi P. Morton Ludwig Nissen Robert C. Ogden Alexander E. Orr Walter H. Page Albrecht Pagenstecher Alton B. Parker John E. Parsons George Foster Peabody

Henry Phipps Henry C. Potter Joseph Pulitzer George Haven Putnam Herman Ridder Carl Schefer William Jay Schieffelin Charles A. Schieren Jacob H. Schiff William Schramm Arthur Schuler Gustav H. Schwab Isaac N. Seligman Albert Shaw Edward W. Sheldon Edward M. Shepard George von Skal William M. Sloane Charles Stewart Smith James Speyer Julius Stahel Edmund C. Stedman William R. stewart Anson Phelps Stokes Isidor Straus Oscar S. Straus Spencer Trask Oswald Garrison Villard Paul M. Warburg Max A. Wesendonck Everett P. Wheeler Alfrede T. White Horace White Alfred A. Whitman Stewart L. Woodford August Zinsser

In Memory of Carl Schurz

CARL SCHURZ