The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-12
Nixon Alone Is DIT"

Alone IS
Feb. 12.-Lewis Nixon says he answered for
the last time last night, verbally, the ques-
ton, is Croker really out?'', and intimates
that next time it is asked he will answer
with his fist.
Last night he visited the Tammany men OF
the twenty seventh district. James j.. Mar
tin is the leader there. AS soon as Mr.. Nixon
arrived Mr.. Martin put the question to Nixon
squarely whether Croker was really out and
Nixon was to be regarded as the real leader.
He wanted definite statement:
Mr. Martin has made himself quite clear"
said Mr. Nixon, land I feel that I should be
equally frank Then he proceeded to be
frank as follows: 'I believe implicitly in
Richard Croker and I regard him the en-
bodiment of truthfulness. To assume that l
would accept an equvocal position and be
fgurehead is reflection on me and to-
night l am going to make myself clear for
the last time After this any one who asks
me if 1 am the minion of any insults
me-
ct say to you that there is no intermediary.
No man who comes to fle with orders from
another man can deliver them. AS long as
am chairman Of the finance committee you
will not find any one but myself running
Tammany hall
The Countess Money.
:.
ment in the supreme court to-day on the re-
port of William Rumsey referee, changing
certain trust agreements made in favor Of
his daughter Helen so that they may CORE
spond with the ante-nuptial agreement made
in view of her marriage on Oct. 5, 1901, to
Paul Louis Marie Archambault Bosom, Count
de Perigord of Paris. A change authorized
in this agreement is that the countess shall
have the right, regardless of any other pro-
visions, to the accumulation of any savings
she may. make from her income. The suit
was a friendly one, the count, or defendant,
asserting to the changes
A Farmer Dinner In Town.
Ernest Rudolph Gunther gave a farmers
dinner in his apartment at No. East Forty
first street.
The table was covered with a red and white
fringe cloth, and was matched by the small,
old-fashioned fruit napkins. In the center
was TALL thick glass filled with celery.
The favors for the women were paper mel
ons and paper tomato cans filled with pea
nuts, and for the men paper sardine boxes
with cigarettes.
The menu consisted of vegetable soup, small
fish boiled and served on individual yellow
china platters, followed by a huge turkey
and boiled ham. Potatoes and macaroni
were served from yellow bowls arranged on
white table protecting mats.
Pumpkin pies and mince pies in deep
plates of yellow china were served for des-
sert, after which the colored waitress brought
in market basket full of artificial straw
berries, which she served to the guests in
bowls These mock Strawberries contained
others of the dollhouse variety. After dinner
about fifty additional guests arrived and were
received by Mrs. Albert Delafield and the
hosts sister, Mrs. Wilbur, Bloodgood.
Among those invited were many of the AGO.
Mr.. Gunther's guests were dressed in rural
fashion. the women In calicoes and the men
in homespuns.
Supper was served on tin plates Cham
payne and punch were served from large tin
buckets, with tin dippers, the guests drink
ing them from tin cups.