, 1902-03-10
HARRY's HAPPY HIT.
WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER MANS
CLEVER POEM At SENATOR
WARREN'S DINNER.
He Accused the Genial and Hospitable
Wyominsite of Having Been Civ
ing Dinners All His Life-Senators
Hoar and Morgan Celebrated Their
Twenty-fifth Senatorial Ami
versary.
versary.


Washington. d. c.. March S.-(Spe
cial Correspondence of The Republic
CAM Senator Warren entertained
at dinner Tuesday night a company OF
distinguished guests in honor of the
presiding officer of the senate. Senator
Frye. The dinner, which was given at
the New Willard. was perfect ia all its
appointments and was in every datail
a most delightful affair. The table was
exquisitely decorated and the menu
selected with admirable taste. After
the coffee there were a number OF
brief impromptu speeches. which added
to the general enjoyment. The dinner
closed the series which Mr.. Warren has
given this season and was upon the
same high plane as his previous enter.
tainments.
The guests were Senators Frye. Nor,
gan, Gallinger, Hoar, Wetmore. Kit
redge, Nelson, Dillingham; and Plat
of Connecticut; e~X-Senators Blair and
Thurston; Representatives Richardson
of Tennessee, Moody, Russell, Jenkins.
Hit, Slayden, Clark and Mondell:
Lieutenant General Miles, General
Greeley, General Randolph. Colonel
Carter. Colonel Sniffen, r. NJ. Larner.
L. w. Bresby, L. A. Coolidge, Henry
L.. West of the Press, John Joy Edison.
chairman inaugural committee, Super
vising Architect Taylor. Indian Com
missioner Jones, Director Walcott, Ser
geant-at-Arms Ransdell, Secretary of
the Senate Bennett. Pension Commits
sioner Evans, Joseph A. Breckors. Mr..
Hamilton, Mr.. Browne. Mr.. Palmer of
Omaha, and Mr.. Leighton.
During the speech-making it develop
ed that Senators Hoar and Morgan were
both celebrating the tw%enty-ffth ami
versary of their entrance into the In
tied States senate Some very pleas
ant "reminiscences were related by the
two senators, Senator Morgan recall
ing with much humor that during the
whole twenty-five years he believed
that he and Senator Hoar had never
been on the same side of any n ques-
ton, but that they always agreed per-
fectly when they met at an occasion
of this kind.
Mr.. Harry l.. West of the Washing
ton Post, in responding to the call for
a speech recited the following original
verses:
I'VE were in the garden, chatting,
Beneath the mignonette,
She with her snowy tatting,
with my sigarette;
| still can see her fingers
Fit softly in and out,
While memory sweetly fingers
To view her lips apout.
"A happy sunbeam glancing
Athwart a hayward curl,
Set all my pulses dancing
And turned my heart awhirl;
And when she looked up shyly,
could not help, you see,
But stoop and kiss her silly
Beneath the apple tree.
Strange, that some mote forever
Should mar the dream Of bliss:
Though conscious l had never
Yet Won so sweet q kiss;
Alas! the act Of plumber
So gracefully she bore,
l could not help but wonder
Had she been kissd b%efore?"
And So" said Mr.. West as he con
oluded the appropriate poem, when
we see a dinner with such perfect ap-
pointments as accompany this dinner
tonight; when we see a host who can
gather together such a distinguished
and congenial company, and when We
SEQ him preside with such charming
informality and good taste, we cannot
help but wonder whether he has not
been giving dinners all his life. Only
in this instance" added Mr.. West. amid
the applause Of the company, there is
no mote to mar our dream of bliss"
]. A. B.