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engagements here will make it impossible for me to attend, but I am sure that so many will be glad of the opportunity to do honor to the scholar and statesman, that I shall not be missed. I take pleasure in expressing my high appreciation of the great services he has rendered to our country by his writings and his speeches.
Yours truly,
TELEGRAM FROM PRESIDENT BOOKER T. WASHINGTON OF THE TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE.
Mr. George Wilson, 32 Nassau Street, N. Y.
Regret my inabillity to be present this evening at the
testimonial reception to be tendered Carl Schurz,
scholar, patriot, humanitarian. His devotion to the
civil service cause, and of humanity oppressed, have won
the admiration of all men without regard to race or condition.
Please express my congratulations.
FROM MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE.
Dear Sir: That I am to miss the seventieth birthday dinner given in honor of my friend, Carl Schurz, is to
