Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-24
A FAMOUS DINING CLUB.
The Glover Club, Of PHILADELPHIA, the
Guests Of the GridirOn Club, Of This
City.

| City.
| NUAL AND MONTHLY BANoUETs-A LIST OF
| THEIR DISTINGUISHED GUEsTs-THE GRID
IRON CLUB, ITS MEMBERS AND ITS GUESTS
| ETC.
| The Gridircn club will entertain the Clover
| club. of Philadelphia, at dinner at Chamber
! Inns this evening. The members Of the Clover
club will arrive in a special car the Pennsyl-
| vania limited this afternoon, in charge of q
committee of the Gridron club. They will be
| driven on their arrival to the Executive Man
sion, where the President will receive them in
the library. Thence they will be driven to Cham
berlin's Halt-past five is named on the cards
of invitation as the hour of meeting.
The famous Glover club was founded in JAN
| uary, 1882. Its dinners have been given regu-
| larly on the fourth Thursday of each month,
except during warm weather, ever SINCE Every
dinner since the fourth has been given at the
Hotel BELLEVUE which has the best chef in Phil
adelphia. 1t is known locally as the Glover
club house. The Glover club fiag-a green four
leafed clover white-fies over it on club
nights. The club dimes in great square dining
room, such as cannot be found in Washington.
The club dining table is in the shape OF four
always extremely unique and tasteful, and the
general decorations of the room are elegant and
el ntio me novel effects which the club
deal Oh effort on the part of the executive COM
mitt9e which spends money, time and labor
Is needless to say that the menu is always per
feet.
WHO ARE THE MEMBERS.
The club includes the brightest men in Phila-
delphia and none but bright men are invited as
guests. 1t is not strange therefore, that the in
tellectual exercises during, ard after, the dinner
should be SO clever and so charming as to battle
description. There Is Il peculiar flavor in these
entertainments which is as inimitabe as the
scent OF clover. There is never a dull moment
from the beginning to the end. II some one is
not telling good story some one else is sing
ing a good song. The baby of the club-the
member last elected-climbs down out of his
great high chair, with his silver rattle strung
on libbons around his neck, lifts the massive
three-handled hammered silver loving cup, in
scribed with the clubs motto: "a votre sante,"
and the clubs versicle:
while We live, we live In clover
hen we die, We die all over"
on the table just before the president, and
hands it to the latter, who drinks from 1t to
the health of the club guests. and then starts it
clubs famous mutton is brought in
on great platters by robed walters
and carried I a twice around the room while the
ballad OF the Darby Ram. President NJ F.
Handy, who has presided over the club ever
since 1t began, Is very fine executive as well
as very brilliant wit, and under his deXterous
administration the best that is in the members
and their guests is brou yht out. There are no
dull speeches, no awkward pauses, trite
tales; everything is fresh and delicate and joy
Gus. Time would fail to tell of the many little
details which 60 to make every Clover dinner
a splendid success, or OF the play of wit around
the table, or the admirable singing OF the quar-
tette. There is only one Glover club, and it
must he seen to be appreciated. The members
vi the Glover club are chiefly professional men.
more than one-third of them be- ing newspaper
the president, MIR. Nj. Z. Handy editor of the
Daily Ne,Os; Mr.. a. X. Mcclure, editor OF the
1 IN i MI. Charles Emory smith, editor OF
the 1fanscript; Judge Thomas r. Ecock, E.
Coppee Mitchell, ex-Attorney General Wayne
MacVeagh, Col. VIM. Ludlow, now Engineer
Commissioner OF this District Recorder George
Pierre, Il. h. JamisOn, who is treasurer of the
club; Capt K. Z. Clipperton, the British consul,
at Philadelphia, and James Rankin Young
executive clerk OF the U. 5. Senate. The hon
bingham, Edwin Booth, samuel NJ. Clemens,
Daniel Dougherty, Henry NJ. Hoyt, Henry Irv-
Ing and 5. smith Russell. Among the promi-
n men men entertained as guests at the Glover
dinners have been Gen. VIM. T., Sherman, Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock, Attorney General
Brewster, Postmaster Gener / Hatton, Adult
ant Gen. Drum, Rear Admiral MuIlaney. Sena-
tors Logan, Hawley, Morgan, Cameron Man
d d,e representatives Reed, Curtin, Randall,
Geo. I'll. Boxer, Z. ID. Warner, Geo. 2. Lathrop
Noah Brooks, e. T. Mitchell. George Alfred
Mccammop. R la sln iaa 51sepn X.
Grow, John +. Hartranft, E. Burd Grubb,
Henry :. Huidekoper, James A. Beaver, AT
torney General Cassidy OF Pennsylvania, Ser
geant Ballantyne OF England. Chief Justice
Mercur OF Pennsylvania, John Jay Knox.
Judge Stanley woodward, A. Loudon snow
Booth, Dion Boucicaut, John I. Raymond,
William J; FLORENCE, William t. Car.etol My
n. Ward, Frank ID. Millet Peter Moran. Angus
tus Heaton, DIR. ID. Hayes Agnew, DIR. w Iiliam
Pepper, DR.. J. W; Gross. Or. W. H. Papcoast,
marion Barker, Hamilton Disston, Charles H.
Cramp, George b. Loring, Charles G. Leland,
Charles Wyndham, h. b. Haskell, Joseph How
ard, jr, II. J. Ramsdell, Calvin Wells, George
W. Adams, Frank Thomson, Charles Z. Pugh,
Stephen Il. Elkins and Edward T. Steel.
THE GRIDIRON ENTERTAINED.
Last December the Clover club entertained
its first child. the Gridiron club. of Washing
ton, at dinner. The Grldiron club took its
name and its emblem from under the Glover
cruz loving cup. II was organized on the oath
OF January, 1888, at Welcker's, where it's
has dined ever since ON the last Saturday of
every month, except June, July, August and
september; Its entertainments, though less
elaborate than those OF the Glover club, have
been equally successful in bringing clever men
together. and bringing out their brightest
thoughts. The GridlrOn club differs materially
from the Glover club in that the proceedings at
It's dinners are never published, and tor this
reason the delightful character OF the Gridiron
dinners Is known solely by those who have at
tended them. The well known custom OF the
Gridiron club in this respect gives a freedom to
the tongues OF members and their guests which
mas contributed not a little to the interest of
It's dinners. Young as it is, the GridirOn CLUB
mas already won national reputation, and an
paw hiii ous CiuDS llhe tue clover,
OF Of Philadelphia, and the Papyrus of Boston.
spondents and editors. Its membership is
limited to forty. 1t has no hon
orary list. Its first officers were: Major
Ben: Perley POOre president; Mai. John NJ Car
son, vice president; Mr.. Charles I. Murray sec
rotary and treasurer; Mr.. NJ. q. Seckendortf and
Mr. Z. NJ. Ogden, members executive commit
tee. The present officers are: Mr. Frederic
Perry Powers, president; Mr.. George W.Adams
vice president; MIR. Henry Il. f. Macfarland
secretary and treasurer; Mr.. f. q. Dunnell and
Mr. +. V. DeGraw, members executive COM
mittee.
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Among the guests of the Gridron club have
been Vice President Hendricks, Speaker Car.
Isle, Secretary Bayard, Secretary Lamar, Post
master General Villas, President Pro Tempore
sherman, Lieutenant General Sheridan Sena-
Ter, Aldrfch, Harrison, Jones of Nevada Eustis
representatives Long, Wise, Kelley, Merriman
Reed, Dorsheimer, Haynes, Wheeler Mckinley.
Bayne. ButterwOrth, Collins, Tucker Randall
Herbert, Hit, w. G.. +. Breckinridge and Nor.
wood, General de Mexia, Colonel Sheridan. AS
sistant Secretary Fairchild, Speaker Hustled of
New York, Commissioner Montgomery DR.
George Il. Loring, John Philip Soussa Stilson
Hutchins, Second Controller Maynard Clarence
Pul!en. JIG Pangborn, Henry Cabot Lodge John
Addison Porter, j. Sterling Morton, George
Alfred Townsend, William NJ. Singeriy of the
phiiadelphia Record: William v. Mexican, of
the PniIadelphia Ledger: f. o: Graves, Sterling
Z: Rounds, Richard L. Merrick, Eppa Hunton
First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson
Second Assistant Postmaster General Knott.
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