Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-28
How Members and Their Guests En-.
joyed Themselves on Saturday Night.

The Gridiron club held its January dinner at
Chamberlin's Saturday night. As the club
was organized in the month of January this
dinner was also an anniversary occasion and the
attendance was one of the largest that the club
has known both as regards members and guests.
Mr.. Fred Perry Powers, president of the club,
was evidently well pleased as he looked at the
| four well-flled tables the occupants all await
| ing the introduction of the infants before
| commencing the dinner.
| With the coffee came the rap to order by
President Powers, who happily introduced the
speakers and singers for an hour, and then
| called upon the vice-president, Col. Fred d.
Mussey, to perform that duty for the remainder
OF the evening. Among the speakers were
resentatives Long. Hopkins, of Illinois; Camp
| bell and Thompson, of Ohio Guenther. Of Wis
consin; Prof. Geo. NJ. Richardson, Joe Howard,
| jr.. of the Boston Globe; Sol. Jno. NJ. Wilson.
Col: Pat Donan, r. A. Parke and Myron NJ.
Parker. REGULATIONS were given by DR.. Bed
loe and Mr.. W. F. O'Brien and songs were
sung by quartette of the club and by
! DIR. Bedloe, Chas. R. Deacon, Geo. W. Boyd,
Hub. I. Smith, Hobart Brooks. r. NJ. Lar
ner. JAS. r. Young and Paul Wolfe. Mr..
Larner's song was a topical one and professed
| to have inside information from Indianapolis
as to the next cabinet, and Mr.. Wolfe gave a
song which was composed expressly for the
Gridiron club by Mr.. John Philip Sousa and
has been adopted as the club song. The melody
Is pleasing and catchy with free swing that
| Is especially adapted to a full chorus. The
title do We? We do is taken from the re-
| frain, and the words are as follows:
The poet-he sings of the sparkling wine.
Do Wet We do.
Then cheerily, merrily all rejoice,
And drink to the wine of the poets choice:
The Griddies endorse with unanimous voice,
The wine of the poets song.
The lover-he sings of maid divine
Do we. We do.
Then cheerily, merrily, all rejoice,
And drink to the maid of the lovers choice;
The Grddies endorse with unanimous voice,
The maid Of the lovers song.
The singer-he MARBLES of melody
Do we? We do.
Then cheerily, merrily, all rejoice,
And drink TO song of the singers choice;
The Griddies endorse with unanimous voice,
The swing OF the singers song.
Together wen sing of the glorious three.
| Won't We? We will.
Then cheerily merrily, all rejoice,
For poet and lover and singers choice;
The Griddies endorse with unanimous voice.
The wine and the maid and the song.
| All the exercises passed off very pleasantly,
| the speeches being bright and witty, the songs
| well sung, the choruses full and effective, and
| the stories told pointed and amusing. 1t was
for the second time, and it generally voted
that their dinner had been the best in the
| history of the club.
| The guests present were Senator Jno. G.
| Spooner, of Wis; Representatives Jno. D..
Long, Mass; Archibald Hopkins, Ills;
bell, and A. C. Thompson, of Ohio; Col.
| Jno. III. Thurston, of Nebraska; Col. Pat
DOMAIN, of Dakota; Joe Howard. jr., Boston
Globe; Col. Jno. NJ. Wilson, commissioner of
public buildings and grounds; Prof. Geo. NJ.
| Richardson, Geo. w. Boyd, and r. A. Parke,
of the Pennsylvania railroad company; Mr.. S.
H. Kaufman. EVENING STAR; Secretary Chas.
| r. Deacon and DIR. Bedloe, of the Glover club;
! T. s.. Williams, New York Commercial ADDER
| tiser; r. B. Matthews, New Orleans Picdyuae;
| Myron M. Parker c. Maurice Smith, DIR. H.
| E. Leach, Mr.. Geo. G. Balm, United Press,
and Hobart Brooks, New Haven Register. A let
| ter of regret was read from Mr.. Frank Thorn
son, vice-president of thePennsylvania railroad
| company, and a telegram from John Corwine,
an Infant" of the Chicago Herald, stated his in
ability to be present. The members of the club
| present were Messrs. Fred Perry Powers,
Chicago Herald; F. D. Mussey, Cincinnati Com
nercidt- Gazette; Richard Nixon, New Orleans
! TSmes-DeInocrdt; A. W. Lyman, New York Sun;
E. G. Dunnell, and F. A. De Puy, New York
| Times James Morgan, Boston Globe, Robert
Wynne, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette; H. b.
! F. Mcfarland, Philadelphia Record; Jay F.
Durham. Minneapolis Tribune; G. F. Towle,
Boston TrdoelLer: c. NJ. Ogden, New York Tee
ordm; Crosby S. Noyes and DR.. Frank T. Howe,
| EVENING STAR; Jno. NJ. Carson. Philadelphia
Ledger; NJ. G. Seckendorff. New York Tribune;
P. V. DeGraw and W. +. O'Brien. United Press;
d. R. Mckee, New York Associated Press;
Louis Garthe. Baltimore american; F. A. G..
Handy, Chicago Times; F. H. Horsford, De-
| troit Free Press; L. J. Gibson, Philadelphia
| Press; s. E. johnson. Cincinnati Enquirer;
Rob't NJ. Larner, Baltimore Sun; Walter B..
Stevens. st. Louis Globe Democrat; Alfred j.
Stofer, jr., Richmond State; George H. Walker,
Cleyeland Lecder; II. L. West, Washington
Post; Paul Wolfe, New York Stats Zeitipig;
Jas. r. Young. Philadelphia Erening Star;
Hubbard L. Smith and John Philip Sousa.