New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-30
HIGH JINKs OVER HoEBER.
HIS FRIENDS GIVE HIM A DINNER.


PEOPLE HAVE BIGGER OPINION OF HIM
THAN THEY HAD TWO YEARS AGO.
Was Coroner Hoeber a proud and happy man last
night? He said he was. and he looked H. every
inch II was at the Hotel Savoy that nc sald ana
looked H. fol- more than a hundred OF MS ir'e""S
go .am,rers gave a dinner there In his honor.
and the little Dutch Coroner, as he dehghts W
call himself was eulogized and wlned ana hao MS
health drunk until his size visioly increased i''e
gathering was mostly German as to natiohahS'
hut there was present a number Of men VINO nave
heen prominently before the city In one or aho'hef
canacity and they all drank the health OF inc
Coroner IS deeply as seemly and they crieo.
"IIoch Coroner!" with all their might ana WIN all
their voices.
Henry s. Stark presided, and on his rish' SAY 'ne
Coroner himself, q model for statue OK Con
49," Others present we're Professor Xavier
scharwenka, the musician; Professor A. werner
Forbes j. Hennessy Dr. A. Meyer feh~ nam"
burger Max Osterberg. Carl Hermann. Auoii
Hirsch. Dr. D. Ledermann. Dr. Dillon Brown, III
O. II. Schultz Lewis Blum and coroner f"'
clans Weston and O'Hanlon.
Mr. Stark set the oratorical ball a-rolling saying
that although Coroner Hoeber had been cartooheo
and lampooned by an uncharitaoie rress' ne iao
borne II all with patience that must nave re'liu
ed many a reporter and editor OF the long-suner-
ing job when you have a man., SAID me- 'hd'
persistently dehes the press, you have rara avis
The Coroner has won the respect OF all VINO love
honesty OF purpose, and many OF those VINO came
to scoff remained TO pray" Then every man arose
and drank deep to the health OF the Coroner sing
ing "Hoch Coroner Hoeber!' In true Germah-s'u-
dent fashion.
Thu Coroner was yisibly embarrassed. 'Vor once
IN nv live" he said, Il am emparrassed. TO "a!
dot am nod a broud andt habby man vouio no'
he der trude Who would nod pc broud at der side
off 20 many chentlemen gaddered togedder vor DER
zole burboze of doing him honor! Emery ohe
aF chr vvfnQ
baty and his abbrecaton vor der i'ouie -
Coroner Eat iss easy a man do rece1e ger
margs off APPRECIATION off hiss zervcez' kho" w,
II dond madden what you do you VII DC aooieoi''e
by ZONE andt apused by odders. Goroners are az
eusdomed do apuse andt II soch lidde bid OH
Coroner like me ISIS honored ike ols III 's' 'u'e ~
ne bass shown hiss ABILITY
ct vas nod brebared vor Something's ven became
Coroner / had BASED droo der campaign 'ioouu
receiving any addacks vhatefer Bud an au WIZ
I BECAME der darged yor der mosdt noieho apuse
What anv man efer vas. ] know dod am Cher-
man know dod cand help my Cherman diaieco
know dot vas kveer man. But hal hotoceu
do, an sartain occazions when Id vos necessary my
English vos fiery veil Understood. Der press amt
understood each odder to-day bedder dan We uiu
doc years ago andt pellet dot doze men oot TAU,
der fiddle Dutch Coroner vas pig FOOL mar iouNu
oud dot he ISIS not kervite soch pig 'oo' ass ~
taut he vonce. ,,,
"pey found oud dot no madden vat dey griticise
nor va, dey say remain oqs der same dd vat wat pe
RO Dy found oId es of er
Won dime when admidded DOT sw 6 aad b sa had
5y said ia ns Der Ssso%s ao
you'd h s done don SsT as off ID
my vault dey taut vas Republican ,s yhe ho xai
Democrat Xor ten years pem nas su''ef Der
middee Vat nominated me had not seen me vor 400
but dey pee6as s dot 10 eUnes s aS
myseliuf specially equipped vor der place, ra mv
s :aaed Wit to oddeIa @ ha f2
haf no doubt dot vas nod der worst o"e o' "e
Der ISIS no office in der country vat iss SO iGo or
understood andt IMPORTANT as d9t on d ae les nod
i he ISIS ya 1sfe 70 osSH to ANYBODY
mide be pusy eisevere. II some damn fool gommd is
suicide a dnids in Harlem ana dd Her fool is ferry
Hkrlv TO gommd suicide at der sout Ferry a. 1ef
same dime, and den dey gricise der coroner De-
sper Dress ISIS exbegted by some beobe 70 know
eferding Dey dond but dey haf 70 de TO- der
n"osbapers do ask dem nes dot dey could find in
deTe dctiona,es or no
The Coroner then had something to say about the
equipment OF the Coroners office and the dunds
a., na tbst while the growth Of the city had been
Recognized by Increased allowances for every other
department. the Coroner once for the discharge
OH OF It's duties He finished by declaring that he had
always s5ye1 to do a fsY as ne they did
I'D viii nefer pc forged" he said as re sat down
amid hearty cheers. .os.,na oar,ra-
,,on for the Coroner from Otto Irving Wise. Theo,
Sore futile. Judge Geigerch, Carl Schurz EdwaI ,
Lauerbaeh who thought the q hr Hen aH Binder
profess or Scharwenka played his own foIsh Ma
onal Dance 10 the great deghd OF che mill
iate hour 1t was a great night for the little Dutch
Coroner.