The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-14
DEAC0NS CATER WELL
Excellent Supper Served
Last Night By
Mems Club.

Men are good cooks, not all men, OF
course, but certainly some of the mem
bers of the First Congregational Church.
This fact was proven last evening when
the Mems Club gave its third annual
dinner, and just here it might be as well
to add that every one of those dinners
has been an Improvement upon the last,
which is saying a great deal.
In the case of last evening not only
was the dinner better than that of last
year. but the crowd and the entertain
ment. These men saw to it that their
talents should not be lost, and though
the umbe of walters (all men) was un-
usually large, they found they had their
hands full to fill other peoples mouths.
| To accomplish this it took any number
of turkeys, oysters and hams, to say
| nothing of the way those walters had to
jump, or of the ice cream and cake.
FURNISHED by the ladies', which came
extra. The supper was served in the
basement of the church, where long ta-
bles were spread in the usual manner,
with, considering that. the men did this
work also, here and there a knife, fork
or spoon missing, but nobody seemed to
mind in the least, and, though there were
SOllc ltdES tApTcSStQ III III QtiQcItpliS a.
to the danger of a shower of hot cof-.
fee down ones back, or perhaps the de-
~struction of china and overflow Of grease,
or even a 1apsus linguae, these men had
evidently gone into domestic training as
a preparation for the event, and not one
of these calamities occurred, though
there were one or two crashes heard in
the kitchen. Then the way those wait
ers carried off the dirty dishes, to say
nothing of the style of bringing on or
ders, was enough to make the ladies
fairly gasp for breath. Great piles OF
cups, balanced in the palm Of the hand,
while the other iuggled with an equally
large number of plates, left the table and
actually reached the kitchen in safety.
Or five or six orders were all delivered
at once with the same success, save
that occasionally. one got more than he
paid for, part of the contents of one
plate having overfiowed into the other
But all this only added to the fun and
promoted good digestion. If there were
any serious results it was the cause of
too much good cooking.
After all had been well fed they cd
journed to the lecture room of the churcn
where an other course in the way OF an
excellent literary and musical programme
was served. This was opened by Mrs.
Bowman. Miss Bachman and Mr.. Collins
in the May Song then Mr.. Fred Muicox
gave a mandolin solo. Miss Retta Smith
a fine selection on piano, Mrs. Frank Hall
a violin solo, Mr.. Fred Higgins a eornet
solo, and Miss Ethel Higginbotham re-
cited "The Jealous Wife, which with
Morning Thoughts and Good Night
by the trio who rendered May Song"
completed the programme, all the pieces,
of course. being encored.
Altogether the supper was a great sue
cess, and CLANS were discussed for an
other affair Of the kind in the near future
over the dish pan.
Those in charge were:-George w. Rus
sell, chief turkey cook; George NJ Craig,
head waiter.
Assistant waiters-s. r. Collins, L. 3.
Sperry.
Reception committee-Rev. John L.
Scudder.
Carving Committee. v. H. Post, head
Assistant carvers-M. H. Kelsey, George
=: Wanner, D. G. Haring.
Doorkeepers-R. d. Wynkooo. w. II.
Dram. Pay before you eat.
Ice cream G. Q. OWN. Calvin, J. Id
ward Hammond.
Decorating Con1mittee-Captain c. 0.
Van Mart. chief decorator.
.Assistants-F. w. Gerow, William Nj
chers.
Walters in CHARGE s.
Table No. IF. H.. Hall, boss; frank
Calvin. G. "A. Crossley. w. e. Dunn.
Table No, &c. H.. Cooper, boss; r. NJ.
Gerow, A. Gobesch. H. G.. Jones.
Table No. sc. a. Crosby, boss; l.. p.
Wishart, e. P. Landfer, H. Lutier.
Table No. IS. C. Lewis. boss. Arthur
Ta6Ie No. IWiiliam MuIcox. boss; Geo.
W. Decker, w. .. Post. j. A. Rescn.
Table No. Erred Higgins. boss; George
Reinhardt, c.. II. Saums, George w. Sax
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