The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-02-13
CHOICE DINING CLUB.
Novel Methods of the Children
Of the Ark.
SCENE OF NEXT FEAST IN PARIS
Every Member of the Organization
Claims Noah as an AncestOr-On
the Occasion of Their December
Banquet They Will Journey In
Spirit From Philadelphia tn
France.

Banquet They Will Journey In
Spirit From Philadelphia to-
France.
The Children Of the Ark, that odd or
ganization, every member Of Which
claims Noah as his illustrious ancestor,
will give the second dinner of it's career
the latter part of December.
The first dinner of the Children OF
the Ark took place on Feb. last. 1t
was rendered to G.. Jason Waters, the
originator Of the society, and fifty.
eight men sat down in a miniature ark
on the second floor of the Hotel Elan
ders in Philadelphia to toast the ia
Their of the deluge and to pledge his
memory.
Now the Children of the Ark will
journey to Paris for their next dinner
that is, journey in the spirit and not
in the flesh, says the Philadelphia
Press And the dinner after this COM
ing one will take place in Morocco
again in the spirit, for the Children Of
the Ark mean in the course of their
existence to see all countries and to
dine in them, even though they do
not bulge from the same dining room
that saw their initial spread in the
ark
The scene ST the dinner during De-
cember will be Paris, the place cafe
chantant. Gravel walks will be laid.
imitation grass planted. make believe
fountains will be sunk. There will be
small pine tables and ordinary cafe
chantant chairs. Chinese lanterns will
swing from make believe trees. and
there will be little stage in one cor
ner of the dining room, where the
French performers will do their Gayic
turns at vaudeville.
The menus will be in French. che
walters will speak French. and gen
darmes with clanking sabers and fierce
mustachios will strut up and down
this make believe cafe chantant and
keep the guests in order. And that's
how the Children of the Ark will cele-
brate at their December diEher
The January dinner will be oriental
In character. All the hangings will be
Moorish and the guests, instead of sit
ting on chairs, will squat on cushions
and will sit close to tiny tables, each
diner having a wee table all to him.
self. Highly spiced food will be served
and hookahs In lieu Of cigars will be
furnished. The servants will be dress
ed in Moorish fashion and have been
given orders to salaam their prettiest
instead of saying. 'Yes. SIR" when q
guest addresses them.
"The idea for these dinners" said
Mr.. Waters recently, "came about
through the desire Of few Philadek
phja men to start a new dining club in
this city that would be radical de-
parture from the usual dining club and
would be absolutely novel in it's plan
ard method. was to be chief thinker
THAT is, some Of the men suggested
new sort Of a dining club and ] was to
think out the sort of club it was to be-
$50 1 decided on the Children of the
Ark as the name because then, by title
at least. we would be the Oldest club
Wan when compared with the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, the
Danes of Colonial Wars, Descendants
Of the Mayfiower or any of those very
modern organizations.
$50 the title having been decided
upon, the next thing to evolve was the
novel method Of dining. The thought
struck me that the Children Of the Ark
would naturally wander when they
struck dry land. and to have, there
fore. the different dinners in different
countries. But, first Of all, we must
have a starting place, SO the first din
ner the one given last February, took
place in the ark. And now we've be-
| gun to travel.
"There were twelve men as charter
members - SO as to represent the
| twelve tribes Of Israel We were to
have no officers man was not 10
be elevated above the others. Then,
too, it was decided to invite thirty
eight guests in addition to the twelve
charter members-to have fifty per-
sons to each dinner. Our first dinner
saw fifty-eight sit down, but hereafter
we are going to try to limit the num-
Der to half a hundred.
"Of course before we terminate our
usefulness as a dining club we'll
| visit the entire globe-in spirit There
will be spread in the interior of At
RIGA. one in the Philippines, one in Hol-.
land, one at the north pole. In fact.
the Children Of the Ark will eat regu
iarly twice year. and go over the en-
tire globe in their wanderings. and
wnen. in the course Of fifty years or so,
we've exhausted all the countries OF
this earth we'll dine in some of the
planets, for we've made up our minds
never to eat more than one dinner in
one place."
The twelve members Of this odd club
are P. Fred Rothermel. S. P. Rotan. w
II. Ellison. Jr.; J. Hayes Carstairs,
James ElversOn. Jr.; Edward Hyne.
man, Joseph R. Grundy, Boston May,
G. Jason Waters. Judge Allen B. Endi-