The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-01-01

ment that followed.
Covers were laid for SO members and
the menu was as follows
Blue Points:
Sauterne Soup
Bouillon
Sailed Almonds Celery
Terrapin
Roast Turkey
Mashed Potatoes French Peas
Cranberries
Fish House Punch
Lettuce Salad
Plum Pudding Ice Cream
Fruit Nuts
Pineapple Cheese Bentz Crackers
MINIS
Cognac Demi Tasse
Cigars.
When the menu had been about half
disposed of, President Prall handed to
each member large bon bon-taste-
fully done up i'll gilt and silver papers
| and which contained full suit of
tissue paper together with caps, crowns,
&c, dc. These suits had all the hues
of the rainbow and consisted of coats,
cloaks, &c, BE. These were soon don
ned by all of the members. and the
varied and grotesqe appearance that
the gentlemen, previously in immacu-
late evening dress, presented OCCASION
ed much laughter and many were.
called to their feet to be viewed by the
company.
| w hen the dinner WAS over and the
cigars lighted, the President of the
Club, George w. Prall, arose and wei
coined the members to the dinner. in
which lie said in part:
Gentlemen of the CIT affords me "A great
deal of pleasure to arise and on behalf of the
committee, bid You welcome to the fourth
annual dinner of the Club | think, however,
| that instead of bidding you welcome to your
| own board, which YOU have enabled the COM
mittee to 30 beautifully provide, that might
| better congratulate you upon the occasion
and to indulge the hope that have had and
will have a glorious coed time. | can certain
| ly congratulate You upon the warmth, the
| light the music, the flowers and the good
cheer that follows upon the attendance of SO
| large Il proportion of the membership
! v, L
offer no better toast than that one of the older
| time which has done duty on so many similar
occasions: And now may good digestion
wait on good appetite and good health Oh
| both
also wish to congratulate you that at least
II part OF the plan, that was proposed here n
| year ago for the better adornment of the club
| room, has been put into execution and we
| have added to our rooms several articles of
beauty and utility, and trust that the man.
agement will afford an opportunity early dur
ing the coming year for all Of the members to
have part in this laudable enterprise
At this time wish to acknowledge my ap-
probation of the honor that you have shown
me by re-electing me to the President during
the last six or eight years. There have been
many things connected with the Office that
have been very pleasant and very agreeable,
and wish to thank all of the members that
have so kindly and so courteously and SO
generously aided me in the little enterprises
that have been undertaken for the benefit of
the Club, and / bespeak for my successor the
same generous treatment at your hands
And now az a special matter of congratula-
ton for the Club, wish to say that under no
circumstances will consent to be a candidate |
for reelection, but | assure you that my in |
terest and my efforts shall always be enlisted |
in all that pertains to the welfare of the Q |
Club.
Appropriate reference was made at
this time to the death of Charles Dobi- |
linski, who was up to the time of his
death, a member of the Club
Continuing, the President went on
to say that when these club dinners
were instituted three years ago, the
country had just brought to glorious
close one of the most, if not the most,
successful war that had ever been
waged in any country of the world:
This dinner was given in honor of Our
fellow townsman and club member, DIR. Peter
McGill, who had safely returned from the
Spanish war, and yet, from the fact
that we had as guest of honor an officer of
the glorious American Navy, Lieut Purcell,
who, by the way, is the only guest that has
ever been honored with a seat at our table,
we showed that we had in mind all of those
brave men who on land and sea upheld the
honor and glory of the stars and stripes, and
yet / am sure that we all had specially in mind
that one great leader and controller of our
destiny and our achievements, that one whom
we all delighted to love and honor, whose
name shines fairer and brighter tonight than
in the hour of his most splendid achievement
and whose name will continue to shine, yet
farer and brighter, while history shall be
read, and while ali that ia noble and good and
true. is respected and revered of men, To-
night the country, yes the world has just re-
moved the outward signs of grief at the sud
do, l;po Of
fitting and proper that here at the first repre-
sentative assembling of the Club since his
death that we should all rise and thus give cx-
preston to our appreciation of his greatness,
of our grief Mt his untimely death and Of the
| loss that we have sustained ask all to rise to
| the memory OF William Mckinley.
! 1t may seem strange in those times when
| patriotism is taught in every school, adgocat-
! ed in every newspaper, preached from every
| pulpit, and when the individual and the masses
| are so thoroughly imbued with ii, that there
| are or have been times when the feeling
| seemed to be to q certain extent dormant, and
| il you will pardon personal allusion, | will
| relate to you how first learned to love this
| flag and what it represents. Some ten or
| twelve years ago l had taken steamer from
| New York for Portland, Me, and having snf-
fered all those dreadful things that are re-
served for the " land lubber" when he goes
down to sea, we arrived safely, and after a
brief rest and bath in old ocean at Old Or
chard Beach, We took another steamer for
PASSPORT, where we stopped for several hours
to visit the canneries there, and we saw the
| French sardines being put up in the delicious
olive oil from Italy
| OF course, you who have been there will
readily understand that the French sardines
are really small American herring cut to a
size to fit the can and the olive oil is really
| cotton seed oil from the South, and in fact
our steamer stopped there several hours to
unlaid some of this very cotton seed oil
! We then resumed our voyage for st. Johns