The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-16
MR.. .YoUNG's GRACEFUL REPLY
Witty Speeches From the
Observation-Disclosures of Be-
ing a Club Member.

Mr. E. f. C. Young was the guest of the
Carteret Club last night. Its members in
vited him over to the Lawyers Club New
York City, gave him a banquet, and as
memento of the esteem and respect IN
which he was held, presented him with
silver loving cup.
1t was a remarkable and unique gath
ering. Men of the highest standing in
HGdson county, professional men, bush
ness men and men of every shade of poll
tical opinion, were assembled there for
the sole purpose OF honoring him. whom
one guest felicitiously termed New Jer-
sey's Greatest Commoner.
The banquet and the loving cup were
the outcome of a long, lingering desire to
show Mr.. Young that the Carteret Club
appreciated the great interest he has al
ways taken in its welfare, and the thou
sand and one kindnesses shown to the
members collectively and individually.
A few weeks ago at directors meet
ing of the club, the desire crystallized it,
self, and after turning Mr. Young out of
the room the directors proceeded to ar
range a plan. A committee of fifty was
appointed, and then a sub committee of
five, to carry out the arrangements. A
dinner, that's the thing.
Then a few talked of a loving cup, and
there was pretty near revolution in that
club because these few proposed TO give
1t themselves. mot much" said one,
were all going to be in this" and thus
1t came about that the cup should De, like
the banquet, a tribute from all. The
original idea was to hold the banquet in
the clubhouse but the committee soon
found that to be impracticable when the
application for tickets came pouring IN.
A host of friends of Mr. Young outside
of the club, wanted to be there, and the
poor committee had lively time of it.
Finally it was decided to admit only
members of the club, or where would the
thing end? The applications already in
would require the hiring of the Armory
And so it came to pass that the list was
limited to club members, making it dis
tinctively club affair.
Messrs. E. J. Heppenheimer, J. E. Hull
shizer, Jr.. H. w. Dewitt, W. F. Vidal and
II. P. King, the Dinner Committee, began
their preparation and selected the Law
yers' Club in New York, as an excellent
place wherein to hold the banquet Last
nights dinner proved that they were
right. The accommodations, arrange
ments. and above all the music were of
the highest order and only words of
praise and congratulation were showered
on the committeemen's heads. The you
hould-have-done-this man wasn't
around.
Through the storm to New York there
went nearly two hundred guests to this
banquet last night. By eight o'clock they
were seated at twenty-seven round tables
In patches of six and blocks of eight, all
facing a platform whereon sat the guest
of the evening and the speakers peeping
over and through a bank of splendid
roses. The white and gold dining room of
the club presented brilliant appearance
with the tables, each decorated with
flowers, the wall of palms screening the
orchestra, and above all the distinguished
company there
Mr.. John M. Jones, vice president of
the Carteret Club, sat at the centre of
the platform table, having on his right
the POSTMASTER, Ex-Governor Geo. T.
Werts, on whose right was Mr.. e. F. C..
Young, then Judge j. A. Blair and Mr..
w. D. Edwards. On Mr.. Jones's left sat
Mr.. Justice Gilbert Collins Judge Otto
Grouse and ex-Judge A. @. Garretson. On
the floor below were the following tables
and the guests at EACH
Table At. ]. higgins, j. ]. Broderick,
Dr. John Nevin. ]. ]. Nevin, John E. Nc
Arthur, r. G. Smith, J. ]. Cone
Table B:-J. E. Muller, j. P. Hall, DR..
Chas. Coppinger, ]. P. Landrine. Samuel
McBurney, J. p. Woodmencey.
Table C:-John Glenn, Joseph W. Ed
wards. James Hunt, Thomas Leake. Eu-
gene Leake. William Hogencamp.
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