The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-31
AMID FLOWERS AND MUSIC.
How the Suffer Club Members En-
jOyed Their Annual Banquet.
Tho Elegant Rooms Beautifully Dec
orated-A Royal Repast, With
Music, Toasts, Etc.

Music, Toasts, Etc.
The annual dinner given by the Suffer
Club last night was one of the most elab-
crate and successful celebrations ever
given by the club, and the affair reflects
great credit upon the organization as well
as upon the committee, Messrs. w. X.
Ormsby and l. Z. ROBBIE, who had charge
of the arrangements. The elegant quar-
tiers of the club were decorated in man
ner probably never equaled in this city,
and doubtless rarely surpassed anywhere,
at this season of the year, as few cities IN
midwinter can procure choice plants in
the same perfection and profusion as
our own.
The rooms were decorated by the Bell
Conservatory, and the work was COM
mended and complimented by all OBJ
servers.
There was an abundance of choice flow
ers and potted plants in every avallable
niche, and festoons and garlands, inter-
woven with evergreens and California
holly-berries, dropped gracefully from
doorways, arches and windows every
where throughout the elegant apart
ments.
In the banquet-rooms the tables were
spread with admirable effect and adorned
with fruits and flowers in the most lnvlt-
ing and artistic style. Covers were laid
for over hundred guests, nearly all OF
whom We're members of the club, and the
company, from start to finish, was IN the
best of spirits. Billiards and cards were
INDUCED in in the early part Of the even
ing and until shortly before o'clock,
when dinner was announced, and the
assam hlaup rpToirp1 n the hannnat.
During the entire evening, with brief
intermissions, delightful music was
furnished by a select orchestra under the
leadership of c. A. Neale. Following is
the programmes:
/ March, Sound ''......... -Sousa
2. Overture, Morning, Noon and Night"
3. Nocturne, "Ecoutez Mop ...........J Funke
4. Grand waltz, Aus dem Reiche der
rome .-.--..--.---.----. ....-. =. fausI
5. String quintet. Summer Song.
on WeDer
Z Selections from "Robin Hood"
r. DeKoHen
s. Concert waltz, "Symposia". ..,.............
THEODORE Bendix
9. Intermezzo, from "Cavaleria Rusti-
cana AaScagni
10. Overture di ConcCrt.............. zee. Oh. Bach
II. Quintet, lie Reye de la Danseuse......
IL. Overture, 1.-The Fiddler of st. WAIST"
-.--.--,........ ...;.----.--.-.. --...-. Herman
Is. Song for cornet, dreams, '......~-.Stl eezFd
IA. GaiOp dt ught
The music programme together with
the bill of fare were very tastefully
printed and placed with each cover. Of
the latter everything was served in the
most dainty and tempting style, and
proved most creditable to the culinary
department, including the corps of wait
ers, who anticipated the wants of every
guest and left nothing to be wished for.
THE ToAsTs.
r. #. Devlin, President of the club,
presided with dignity and affability, and
rs master of ceremonies upon such an
occasion it would be difficult to name his
superior.
There promised to be no end of toasts,
and at a late hour, when the represent
alive of the RECORD- UNION withdrew,
speeches were still bobbing up serenely,
and nearly everything came up Tor a
send-ot, from the flood to a certain far
ing electric light which Mayor Comstock
now stands pledged to subdue.
Hon. j. w. Armstrong was first called
upon to rise to the spirit of the occasion
and respond to the toast "Our State"
which he did in a prompt and graceful
manner. Our State, he said. was pecul-
iarly and appropriately typitied in the
decorations which were so abundantly
arranged, and he was sure that few peo-
pie in the bed of winter on the other side
of the mountains could imagine the
favored people of this glorious State.
No part OF the world, said he, enjoyed
the same equitable conditions of climate
Italy was the nearest approach to Cali
fornia in this respect, and yet that coun-
try fell far short of this. California, too,
contained 100000 square miles Of terri
tory more than Italy, and had resources
more vast and varied than even her own
people realized.
He believed the State entitled to far
more and richer benefits from commerce
that she enjoyed, and that the influential
merchants of san Francisco should be
more alive to their advantages, and alert
in the extension of trade and enterprise
The people of the State needed only to
be aroused to energy, and to a greater real
ization of their resources and advantages,
to extend the commerce and prosperity of
the State to gigantic proportions.
He was very positive in his opposition
to any movement toward a division or
breaking up of the great State of Califor-
MIA, and had no sympathy with those
who would divide IL into sections or
parts, or make two States of it. 1t should
remain as it Island, as it is, there is no
place of its size in the world equal in
many points of advantage to California.
OTHER SENTIMENTS.
Following Mr.. Armstrong there were
many able and witty responses to toasts
proposed, and no little merriment was
caused by the confusion which ensued,
owing to a number of alleged "misun-
derstandIngs" of subjects to which i'm
promptu rejoinders were demanded.
Toasts propounded and replied TO were
as follows;
"Our City-May She Battle Success
fully Against all Observation-Disclosures w.
j. Comstock.
"Our Business Men'-Joseph Steffens.
sour State kair'-Edwin +. Smith.
"Our Young Men''-F. d. Ryan.
'Our Fruit Interests H. Weinstock
1.-The Ladies"-B. L. Steinmsn.
"The State AIilitia'-Captain T. B.
Hall.
"Our Country Friends"-Dr. Obed
Harvey of Gait.
"Our Babies''-Dr. w. Z. Briggs.
1.-THE Legal Profession"-AIbert S.
san Jose. Our Sister City'-J. Il.
Henry.
''Non-Resident Members'-F. B. Tut
tie of Auburn.
our Annex, Washington"-Fran
Miller.
Our New Postofice"-J. 0. Coleman.
"Our City's Future''-A. c. Hinkson.
water Power"-Albert Gallatin.
"Our Club''-Adam Andrews.
"Our Foundlings''-A. Abbott.
The entire company behaved very
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