The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-18
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The nineteenth annual banquet Of the Hotel
Association of this city took place at Del.
monico's last night. President II. II. Brock
way presided. and others present were James
ii. Breslin, John r. Carroll, Police Commission.
ers Hamilton and Sexton, Justices Smyth,
McAdam, DAILY, DuRro, Van Brunt, and o'Brien,
Judges Cowing, Fitzgerald, Now5urger, and
Mcmahon, City Magistrates Flammer, Ohm
sted, deuel., Wentworth, and BranD, A.. l..
Ashman, William q. Leland, J. Z. Caddagan,
and Leo Frankel.
President Brockway made a brief speech of
welcome, and then introduced Mr.. Breslin as
toast master. Mr.. Brcslln introduced as tho
first speaker Charity Commissioner John w.
Keller. Collector OF the Port George r. Bldwell
spoke next.
Last year." he said, II was introduced to
this body as q possible candidate for the oflc of
Collector Of the Port, and you snickorcd. To-
night l was introduced as the Collector, and 1
snicker.'
+. Willis Rice spoke next, and then tho hu-
morist of the association. Simeon Ford, was
introduced. Mr.. Ford said in part:
I'm India, when they hunt the tiger. the hunt
track the tiger TO ITS lair. they shoot the tiger,
they, don't hit the tiger in q vital spot, il leaps
on the elephant, and then things are different,
buU III NOW 1OTk, WnotneT inc lumEnAny
tiger or tho Republican elephant is on top, the
hotel mons dinner comes off every year just
saS s sS%s. MAYOR Ms w gEso S'sG WITH e h Siy ta last grAs sb Is
%yet ~ WITH fHpi his y h hasS i 'a W. 'S %ei SSnSr alike ike
to u.s. ss'' The elephant aep aaiui Kicked Cd over tho fS't traces aces
Lot the poor Indian has returned to his wig
tiger is licking his chops complacently and ,ex-
pectantly, and we are attending our nine,
teenth annual banquet. just as IL nothing had
happane1 Onra n war we Law aside MIR Caraa
and this is the one night when the boarders
cease from troubling and the butchers are at
rest
Tracy was a figure head and Tracy said Low
signs Of life he gave was when be had the color
t 9s sis anna nsiT hS Sda the ps I'm tao p San tha ! "a Sead aboNo
the red He didn't want the girls to think he
y was rsdh hi% ID; And md now now, he nn Is in 81 | S venture Tot to
ask is to have the Raines law changed so that
fore he can get a drink, ho must get u drink be-
fore ho can order q meal. ,
There Is one other thing. Tho worst trial
we have to bear is the constantly reiterated as
sertion that our business is one OF vast and un-
holy PFC profit At No No mat mater and how wo hard ns we have veto to
with us the complacent idiot who rallies us on
our ,ill.gotten gains; We want Judges put on
kill one of these men, that it Is a case OF justi-
fable homicide.
SOMETIMES L 1901 IGulplcu ~ lily tTOLn Now
York and open a hotel up in the Klondike. 1t
might, be chilly there at ttmes-especially, on
a eesti 6sii the lev ya face that ! | e MoS sE nSo mind. AND ID
then / wouldn't have to buck up against the ice
trust, or contribute to the Herald Ice Fund.
gold dust instead of in checks on which you
subsequently have to pay protest fees. About
down. down;tosztSe 1Saide,f = Hypben Astoria. You
pld Waldorf a0me the new AsfOria. Init from
appearances there of late 1 judge that a good
many of them are putting up at the Hyyphen;
been raised SO blamed high oflate that it gives
one vertigo. The limit Is SO high that most Of
which three years ago were considered miracles
of luxury are now looked upon as Revolutionary
now expects they don't want to pay anything
additional, and the consequence is that the hotel
keepers Or lot is not lot th happy o one :,rs Sometimes times !
to ask for the position Of Commissioners of Street
Cleaning under Tammany, so won't have any
ro m see By H thS PSs sSs rs snst ssv SS4,s msmsG prs Of
note note With u pain however, that The irish have re.
eeiyed but scant recognition: am one Of the
Isn't much comfort in being a Republican, and
sometimesSwish my conscience would permit
% ons to Re be S eem0S yoa are IL y called sFo 4 ;fha eeis1. Il
and in either event you are r bound to Be q
York will not be as well run as under a reform
government, but III bot ven all show a better
bank balance. If the rural population want to
and buy gold bricks, they will leave their
money here, and we need 1t in our business.
Virtue is Its. own reward, but you can't meet
notes with f.; and faith will remove noun
tains, but 1t can't lift a ,chattel mortgage.
Gentlemen, / think that what we mistook for
Tammany's painting the town red last Novem-
ber was really the rosy glow that heralded the
dawn of New York's prosperity"
Other speakers were Hosea NJ. Knowlton,
Attorney General OF Massachusetts, and James
II. Hoyt of Cleveland.