Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-21
TALKING OF OLD YALE.

sOEs OF Olu lblo SAT QOWn 70
the long table in the banquet room of the Ar
lington last evening. and after disposing Of a
handsome dinner listened 10 speeches, cheered
and sang the praises Of the alma mater until
after midnight. The occasion was the annual
dinner Of the Yale Alumni Association of the
District, and like all those that have gone before
was great big success from, beginning to end.
There was only one thing wanting to make il
all that Yale dinner coald possibly be and that
| was the presence OF the great Yale man, DR..
Chauncev Depew. Unfortunately that gentle
man IS the president OF the New York associa-
tiOn and as they had their dinner last night at
Sherrys his presence Sas necessary at home.
The gathering last night was typical Yale
7 crowd. true 20 their devotion to each other and
! 70 their foster mother under the elns OF New
Haven. To have heard them last night one
! would have been likely to remark, as did an
] undergraduate Of another institution year or
l two ago when the blue went above the crimson
+ and the orange and the black the foot ball
A field. Then laleses il right in it," To be a
Yale man Is a big thing, for somehow the wear
! ers 81 the blue have a way of getting TO the
/ front. At the long side Of the table last night
/ was a group Of prominent statesmen that would
t be dIihcult to duplicate outside of the Capitol.
/ There we're three members of the United States
/ supreme Court present, Justice Brown. Justice
] Brewer and Justice Shiras. all Yale men, and as
I for the Senate and House, any sort OF presid-
ing officer at all could have counted a quorum
/ there. They all came out strong in the singing,
, and ~ most of the older members had to follow
l the lines in the HYMN book pretty carefully they
sti knew the tunes and if il only possible to
l form a congressional glee club the recently re-
J elected Senator from Connecticut would come
IA strong on the bass, and there are lots of
worse teuors than was put up by the senior
/ Senator from Delaware.
Z All fhrp.rph no thara p~ac vata nv
dercurrent of sadness. for the lnte Senator Glib
! son was "A member OF the association, and few of
/ the speakers failed to pay graceful tribute to
! the memory of the life and character Of Mr..
/ Gibson. who was characterized as a true south
I erB gentleman and typical Yale man. At the
| meeting Of the association in one Of the large
/ parlors before the dinner the historian, Prof.
| lsaac Clark. read paper in which he eulogized
/ the memory of the dead statesman. The only
other death in the association during the year
was that of NJ. Zach Carpenter.
SOME BIO YALE MEN.
With the coffee and cigars came the speaking
/ and Senator WoIcott. the president Of the
| association, who acted as POSTMASTER, intro
/ duced each of the speakers in a few pleasant
words. lie managed o get in numl er of clever
I hit-. As. for instance. when he said that Latin
had been omitted from the menu card on
I count OF the presence of Harvard man nj the
/ banquet He referred oJustice Shira q an tn r
l Yale man added the Supreme bench, and
then introduced Mr.. Justice Brewer to speak
/ to the toast, ''Yaie on the BENCH
! Speaking OF Yale on the bench Justice
/ Brewer said that Yale was very much there,
/ with one-third of the highest tribunal in the
/ world graduates of the New Haven college. He
/ said that one can often tell what mans worth
/ u by what takes place in his absebcetand then
went ON 10 show what dreadful things had hap
| pened in the three states that had sent up JUS
4 Al
4 arrival in Washington In explaining their ap-
| pOintments he said that he himself had been
/ appointed "a a Brewer because he could keep
| the bench full, Justice ShiTas for the sake of
getting some Young, fresh blood. and as for
Mr.. Brown, the class of sc that had furnished
! two members of the bench would have to work
4 hard 70 keep.up with the class o153 which had
| sent such an able representative as Mr.. Brown.
| This gave him chance TO paya glowing tribute
| to President Harrison. who had so recognized
| the claims of old Yale. and he spoke in the
highest terms Of the way the President has
stood up under the most awful blow that could
{ fall IpOa a human household and how, as the
/ leader Of the party that has gone down in an
I awful defeat that seems a condemnation OF his
administration, he has borne up without a MUIR
muir and with dignity that does him infinite
credit.
Senator Dawes made happy speech on the
subjeet Of the Yale man in public life and was
| followed by Mr.. Bellamy Storer, who spoke for
/ Harvard.
FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
| Representative Storer and Representative ".
/ c. j. BreckiUridge were present as represent
| ing outside institutions. They were lambs
! among fock Of wolves. but they got off pretty
/ well. just the same and lost little wool in the
| scrap. In speaking for the crimson Repre-
sentative StOrer made a number of clever sallies
al the blue. but he smOothed it all over with his
af. Ill
I our friends, the enemy Representative
! BreckiErldge spoke for smaller colleges of the
B country md aiso for the men who, unable to
take the collegiate course, have yet bru he'd
aside all Glihcuities IN their why and have made
/ names and laces for themselves as high as
| though they Ind been college bred men.
/ He reminded the Yale men that there
we're Yet some real good clever people in
/ the world who had never even been to
/ New Haven. lie spoke Of Miami, the alma ma
| ter Of that President at whose open grave all
4 stood yesterday To shed q tear. and no matter
! how they might regard the manner of his cleo
/ uon TO the presidency. they could not but ad-
rlre his probity. morality and ability. lis il
/ r0;, sald 1ir. Breckinridge. ito the credit of
one small! college that 1t should have given to
| the world such men as Stanley Matthew'S pure
l upright and gallant. rutherford b. Hayes and
[ President HARRISON"
! Mr.. Theodore Bacon Of Rochester " Y. was
| called upon TO speak OF Yale interference in
Z PRACTICAL politics. Mr.. Bacon Is mugwump
I a seli-admitied mugwump. man who regards
! a vote not as power IN eiecting one man, but
tObe used TOR the purpose of beating the other.
He said that being invited TO come to Wash
! ington 70 speak was like bringing wind to the
caves of .EOlus. the home OF wind Inter
\ ference. be had found out from an undergrad
tate. l. q term that used III foot ball means
the attempt on the part of one person to pre-
vent another enc from getting what he wanted.
. with this a hIs text he spOhe of the part Yale
has tsken IN interference from the time of
President Naph,hali Daggett down to the time
/ % President Theodore Woolsey. President
I pacget: had stood in the road with long fowl
Ing piece in his hand and had intersered with
Practical politics as eNemplIfod in the red Goa Is
! y. george III.
/ Ar. John II. Jackson spoke for the yale
| kIds and the Other toasts we're: Yale in Con-
EccticCt, responded 10 BY Senator Platt; Alma
mater by Representative John DalZell, and
University extension" by Mr.. Morgan Ii.
. Beach.
TBosE WHO WERE PRESENT.
The Yale men present were;
/. '. Boret and Morgan II. Beach, 50; E. A.
/ Eowers, 70: Justice Brewer. SO; Rev J. II.
I Bradford. SO. Col /. Edwards Clarke, 50;
Prof Isaac Clark. Sc; W. =. Case, 50. John
Dd1eh, IS; senator Henry J.. Dawes. ''39; DIR.
Richard &. Dean. 81; Senator I. t. Dubois,
y. Herbert Dingley, 81; Horace W. Eaton.
90. Rev. J. l.. Ewel. %. Henry c. Halloweli,
81: Senator Joseph IL. Hawley, SO; Frazier II.
Head, "a; Senator Anthony higgins. 81: Curtis