St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-01
DINEO WITH Wilkes.
Underwriters Enjoy a Swell
Lunch at the Minnesota
Club,
At Which President Wilkes
Is Host and the Enter
taineP.
Officers Expected Here Today
With q New Orleans
Murderer.
A Very Tough Convict Warned
to Be Absent From st.
Paul.

fair fat and forty-and a few hours over
celebrated his incumbency as presi-
dent of the Minnesota Life Insurance
association by a swell dinner at the
Minnesota club last evening, given in
honor of the lightning solicitors of the
Twin Cities. The veterans were out in
force, among them E. w. Peet, of the
Mutual Life: Shepherd. of the Mutual
Benefit: Stahl, of the Ktna; Ban
croft, of the New England Mutual;
Messrs. WOrrell, Parker. Hanmore,
Miller. Stimmel, Lautz, Strouse, Swim
borne, w. f. Peet. Savage, Gooding,
IIoyt, Russell X. DOrr. Keiter, Wall,
Van Fleet, Prest, Tallmadge, Kautf-
mann, Hurd, Smith, Pearth, Poor, Tar
box. jacobson. Murphy, Jackson, Herr
burg, Wann. Mclean, Mackenzie,
Loomis, Woodhead and Boyle.
The Mendelssohn quartette and the
Twin City Mandolin and Banjo club
furnished an exceptionally fine musical
programme, and the club chef fairly
surpassed himself in serving the follow
ing excellent menu:
Blue Points
Cream of Lettuce.
Planked Roe Shad.
Silceu EuCunD6 5.
Breast of Chicken With Truffles-Pontet
Canet
French String Beans.
Roman Punch
Roast Quail-Piper Heidsieck.
Lettuce and Tomatoes
Neufchatel Cheese.
Coffee.
When full justice had been done to
the substantial elements of the feast,
Rukard Hurd, at the request of the
host, read number of letters OF regret
from prominent Eastern life insurance
presidents, framed in such happy con-
ceits understanding in so many apt hits
that all present were fairly conVulSed
with laughter. Many of the guests
who are employed by companies other
than those administered by the writer's
of the letters secretly determined to get
in line, and openly acknowledged that
the writers of these missives had ample
basis for claiming their respective
companies to be not only the
largest, best and biggest dividend
payers, but might also glory in the pos
session of the most complete letter writ
erS. The hit par excellence of the Occa-
sion was the delightful paraphrasing of
the privileges granted by an equitable
policy. The inner pages of the menu
contain this very funny screed, UNI
doubleday the production of Wilkes
nimble wit 1t was as follows:
List of Privileges Under This Menu
Cthe details of which will be found in
the invitatiOn.):
Guests are permitted to 'iolly up their
appettes four days in advance of the ban.
quet
This menu becomes incontestable and
grants freedom of speech, inspiration and
defamation one minute from its date of issue.
..gN1 ff..Ya
hours for as many teuths of the original col
iation as complete momentarY nibbles have
been taken.
1t gives to the holder hereof
choice of three methods of settlement
beginning at a, m. on the morning follow
ing the peace Offering, as follows:
First-ro'lay off at home all dav for repairs.
Second-To taper Off from 10 H. m. to
D. m. or walk Off the possible "indigestible"
features hereof.
Third-To hustle around and write S2O.O 900
twenty-year endowment application, without
rebate.
The age of the person upon whose intel
lect this menu impinges will be, for all social
purposes, admitted by the club steward in adj
vance, and after being thus adm itted no de-
ductOn in the allowance Of creature COM
forts and intellectual recreation will be ad-
milted on the score of lack of appetite or
inspiration.
The name of each guest was inscribed
on his menu card, and on the inside
border of each was laughable cartoon
indicating the personal peculiaritieS or
characteristics of the holder. 1t created
no end of fun.
The dean of the faculty, the veteran
bon yiYant, +. W. Peet. made charac-
teriStic address, Astounding in pointed
wittcisms, and concluded by proposing
the health of the host, who, in respond
ing, delivered a masterful address. full
of feeling and good fellowship. 1t was
marked by an entire absence Of humOr,
MI Wilkes leading characteristic. lie
talked like a man imbued with
a realizing sense of the earnest
ness and benefcence of bis calling.
He urged the life underwriters to
work i'm harmony, TO elevate their call
ing, and never to lose sight of the fact
that while they were earning their liv-
ing in an hOnOred occupation, they were
at the same time entitled to that cOnSid-
Grafton which invariably follows in the
footsteps of work well and cOnscien-
r tiOuSlY done. People who had formerly
known Mr.. Wilkes as humOrist awoke
TO the fact that they had also been en-
tertaining all these years an orator. Mr..
Kaufman also delivered an earnest
ami telling speech on the Importance of
organized effort.
Mr.. Bancroft, of the New England
Mutual, whose amusing specialties in
the field of legerdemain have stamped
him first among amateur pTeStidigltate-
urs, contributed not little to the amuse-
ment of the guests by introducing some
entirely novel experiments.
The banquet ended about IL O'clock,
and the guests were united in praise of
the elegance and munificence of the
dinner. Mr.. Wilkes may congratulate
himself that his entertainment was
distinct hit, one that will be long re-
mered with pleasurable emotions by
every participant.