12 To the River Plate and Back 



During the second week of April in the year 1907 

 the greatly enlarged buildings of the Carnegie Library 

 and Institute in Pittsburgh were formally rededicated. 

 From many lands came delegations of learned men 

 bearing felicitations. Among these visitors was a 

 company of eminent Germans, the representatives of 

 His Majesty, the German Emperor, and also a company 

 of distinguished Frenchmen representing their country. 

 They did not come with empty hands. The German 

 Emperor sent a right royal gift, consisting of books, 

 engravings, and photographs, illustrating the arts and 

 material progress of the Empire. The representatives 

 of France likewise were the bearers of choice volumes, 

 appropriately dedicated, and thus destined to be memo- 

 rials of their visit. Upon the morning of the second 

 day of the celebration the writer was summoned to the 

 telephone by Mr. Carnegie, who said: 'Did you not 

 once tell me that when you were making the replica 

 of the Diplodocus for the British Museum you had 

 made a couple of additional castings?' The answer 

 was in the affirmative. Then came the reply: 'The 

 kindness of our German and French friends on the 

 present occasion prompts me to do something in return. 

 If it should be thought appropriate to tender to the 

 museums in Berlin and Paris the same gift we made to 

 London, please take up the matter with the gentlemen 

 who represent Germany and France, and arrange to 

 do so." It did not take long to act. The German 

 Minister of State, Herr Theodor von Moeller, and 

 General von Loewenfeld were in a few moments in the 

 office of the Director and a statement of Mr. Carnegie's 

 thoughts was made to them. They appeared greatly 

 pleased. Baron d'Estournelles de Constant and Mon- 

 sieur Paul Doumer were shortly afterward apprised in 



