Evening journal., 1890-04-11
LAST EDITION
FIFTH ANNUAL REUNION,
BANQUET OF THE HAMlL1 ON DE.
BATTING cOTERlE.

The Most Successful in the society's His
torv-Bsautiful FIowers-stylish Menu.
Spirited Speeches Representative |
Membership.
The Hamilton Debating Coterie held its |
fifth annual reunion last night. The |
reunion was the most successful yet |
given by this young and prosperous so |
ciety. The regular meeting room in |
Fletcher Hall, No 604 Market street, was |
the banquet hall, and at $50 o'clock |
thirty-two young men sat down around
4 table that extended the length Of the
room.
President Robert Adair and the officers,
and Premier George S. Allmon, with his
cabinet, sat at a table placed at right
angles to the longer board. The tables
were decorated with punches of roses,
pinks, lilies of the valley and smilax, tied
with wide pink ribbon, and with the
large cakes and plates of fruit made a
pretty effect. For each person was a
button hole bouquet and handsomely en-
grayed toast and menu card. The name
Of the recipient was written on the en-
graved page The toast and menu pages
were noted by those words embossed in
gold.
this is the menu that was placed before
the young men, who in this Joyous way
began the celebration of the fifth re-
union:
Deviled Crabs,
Lobster Outlets Chicken Salad.
Olives. Vienna Sticks. Small Pickles,
Desert.
Ice Cream Fruit 49,.
Lady Cake Mixed Cakes
Coffee Cigarettes.
ULo rv,prar ooruad in fba latest
style and the toasts, which were inter
mingled, gave a distinct relish These
were the toasts;
salutation. .... President Robert Adair
~ ''s Charles b. Palmer
Premier George S, Ailmon
Recitation, "The Polish Boy
The Fifth Reunion. ........ Wellington b. Lee
The speeches were enthusiastically ap-
plauded, and the coterie, which is moth
ing if not parliamentary on meeting
nights, gave full sway to its enjoyment
of them. Mr.. Whelan's recitation won a
hearty recall and he gave an impersona-
tion of the old darkey who admonished
his soE for stealing a watermelon. and
then whipped him because it was green.
Counselor Palmer's Tit bits of Wis
dom and Coterie Lore" was the humorous
toast and it kept the members laughing
for twenty minutes. The toast was pre-
sented with the real article-toasted
bread.
Mr.. Lee, in his response to "The Fifth
Reunion" referred feelingly to the alb
sence of Eugene vandever, who was one
of the founders of the coterie, and whose
death was the first and only death that
has occurred among the membership.
The SET toasts were followed by i'm
promptu speeches from many of the mem
bers, in which the Clover Club idea was
used with effect The society has two
married members and both were heard
from. P. Elliott Taylor, the youngest
member present, also spoke.
Several members who are the pas
X sive list on account of absence from the
city or other circumstances, sat at the
board with the active members. They
were: Swithin Chandler, student at the
University Of Pennsy ylvania; Harry d
Hildebrand of Pittsburg, Pa Malcolm
MacLear, student at Harvard Law College
William T. Westbrook, Jr., of Media,
Pa Thomas A. Bedford, Charles S.
Frishmuth, Frank }. Murphey and
Frank F. Slocomb.
Letters of regret were received from
Harry A. Hickman. Ann Arbor, Mich.
Fred T. Cause. Hoboken, N. j., and
William Mendenhall, st. Louis, Mo-, and
were read by Secretary of Membership
Robert D. Kemp. Other members who
were unable to be present are: Georg'
T. Hildebrand, Denver, Col Horace
Greeley Knowles, Minister to Bordeaux
France, William H. Schoen, Jr., o.
Philadelphia; Charles S. Gawthrop
George P. Hodgmsn, Edward T. Price
Willis L. Putnam. Charles Rankin, Il. G
Stowe. Arthur w. Swartz and James s
Watson.
The arrangements for the banquet
were made by the .'The Cabinet" Late
in the evening the bunches of flower
were presented to favored members, ant
the large pound cake was set aside TO
the president of the Coterie, in accord
ance with the annual custom. The 6ftl
reunion closed after midnight, leaving il
its stead pleasant and ineffaceable reco,-
lections.
The following is list of those pres
ent
officers President Robert Adair
vice president, John L Whelan; secre
tarY, Charles B. Dubell.
Cabinet-Premier, George S. Allmon
chancellor of exchequer, E. Baldwin I
Springer; secretary of membership
Robert D. Kemp; counselor, Charles b
Palmer; interior secretary, Will 6
Taylor.
MEMBERS.
Thomas A, Bedford. George b. Moore.
Henry W. Bryan. Frank J. Murphey,
William Butz r p. Robinson,
Swithin Chandler, Charles s. Wilson,
Charles S. Frishmuth, w. H NJ Shilling,
Noble + Hadley. Edwin p. SlOcOmb,
Charles X, Harris, Arthur X. Taylor,
Harry ID. Hildebrand,lP Elliott Taylor.
John w. Lawson, Jr AUBREY That cher
Wellington Is. Lee, lB.Frank Townsend,,I II
Malcolm MacL ear. Frank b SlOoomb
William r. Westbrook Jr.
H. & F. s Book Beer delivered to pl
irons TO-DAY and to morrow.
Street and Sewer Commission.
The Street and Sewer Dpartment bel