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The Lotos Club
district attorney and later the secretary of state. And at a dinner for newly elected Senator William M. Evarts, a former U.S. secretary of state, he spoke of “the charm that has made you the most popular, most prosperous, most charming, most useful, the most graceful and the most powerful association in this city.”
Auguste Bartholdi, the French sculptor who created the Statue of Liberty, was entertained at The Lotos Club on November 14, 1885. The next January, Brigadier General A. W. Greely, the Arctic explorer, was honored along with Com. Win eld Scott Schley, who commanded the expedition that had rescued Greely and his party. And in 1889, President Whitelaw Reid resigned after fourteen years in o ce to become U.S. Minister to France and was succeeded by Frank R. Lawrence, who would serve as president for thirty years.
In 1891, the Italian poet and dramatist Giuseppe Giacosa, who had come to America to conduct a production of one of his dramas for Sarah Bernhardt, was feted. Among those present was the editor and writer, William Dean Howells, who is said to have moved the center of American culture from Boston to New York. Musical director Walter Damrosch was given a dinner at which industrialist Andrew Carnegie spoke.
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