Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-28
TWAS MEMBERS NIGHT
SKITS AND JESTS AT THE GRID
IRON DINNER SATURDAY.
The Close of the Seventeenth Season of
This Unique Club-Fun for
Everybody.

| The Gridron Club closed it's seventeenth
| season Saturday night with a character
| istic dinner at the Arlington. The ma
| jority of the guests were representatives
| in Congress, and the evenings skits and
| jokes had quite a congressional flavor The
! name cards were duplicates of the passes
| issued by members of the House to Wis
| itOrs' galleries Accompanying these were
| unique limitations of the Congressional
Record. with an account of the proceed
ings of Congress- which included only such
| remarks of members and delegates as had
been approved by the Speaker and COM
| mittee on rules. AS a result blank spaces
followed the names of all who took part
| except the Speaker, Representative Dalzell
and Gen. GrOsVenor.
| The evenings fun, as usual began with
| the soup and was continued between
! courses until the dinner over, and
| from that time until midnight guests were
recognized by the president and given an
| opportunity to get back at their hosts and
| incidentally to give a few pointed thrusts
at their fellow members.
The "Water Cure"
| In view of the unwillingness on the part
| of certain members of Congress to impart
| information to newspaper men or even to
say anything about themselves or anything
| else it was decided to follow the custom
which prevails in the Philippines and ad-
minister the water cure Representative
| William Alden Smith was selected as con-
| SiStent mute, and he was escorted to the
| center of the floor and the water cure was
| administered by a fire department squad
amid roars of laughter. Upon his prom
| Use to talk more in future the cure was not
| carried so far as to interfere with his en-
| joyment of the remainder of the evening
Ways and Means Committee
| The committee on entertainment resolved
! themselves into the committee on ways and
means and with white wigs and long gray
whiskers, aided by canes and crutches,
presented the appearance of veritable an
tiques. The chairman was a stuffed dunn
my, who, it was said, had been completely
| paralyZed since a week ago Friday. The
! committee held harmony meeting, which
| afforded many opportunities for jests at
| persons and things. Before they got down
| to real business the Speaker of the House
| was introduced and in a characteristic
| spread eagle address notified the commit
| tee that the Senate had passed their BILL
| and the President had signed it, and he
| called for three rousing cheers for the
| United States Senate.
1t was announced that NJ. Santos Dumont
! had arranged an aerial presidential handi-
! cap especially for the Gridiron Club. 1t
| was Il free-for-all. open to any old thing
| willing TO enter. Pictures representing the
| entries We're displayed, and with explana-
| tory remarks, called forth peals of laughter
| Interesting speeches were made by Sena-
| tor German and Representatives Cushman
| Tawney, Swanson, Dick. Cannon and Gros-
| VenOr
| Plenty of good songs enlivened the even
ins's entertainment, and many of them
| were Old-time melodies, and everybody
| joined in the chOruses.
Menu and Guests.
| The menu was as follows:
| Little neck clans, consomme prntanrre
| royale pimolas anchovies, caviar, sailed
| almonds, radishes, celery, striped bass,
| boiled: sauce bavaroise, cucumbers, pota-
toes Parisiennes, filet of beef. larded. la
| imp.atrice: new string beans. soft shell
| crabs. tartar sauce, Gridiron punch, Phila-
| delphia squads, roasted: cheffonade salad
| vanilla ice cream and Strawberries. coffee
| cakes. cigars. Sauterne. Moet & Chandon
Imperial Brut, apolinaris water.
| The guests were Assistant Secretary
| Milton f. Allies, Walter F. Albertsen of
| Illinois, Frederick l. Allen. Commissioner
| of patents; F. NJ. Barksdae of Phila-
delphia, Representative Bartholdt of
| Missouri, Charles Fl. Bayley of Boston, Geo
| NJ Bowers fish commissioner; Charles A
Bowman. Rear Admiral Royal B. Bradford
! Representative Jacob II. BromWen of Ohio,
George w. Brown of Boston, Representa-
| tive Burk of Pennsylvania, E. F. Burns of
| Philadelphia, John G. Capers of South Car
Dina. ]. A Cauldwell of Chicago, Lieut..
| Robert S. Clark, Adjutant General Henry
| c. Corbin; Charles A. Craighead DAYTON
| Ohio; Representative Cushman of Washing
ton, General George B. Davis, Representa-
| tive Charles Dick of Ohio, Don NJ. Dickin-
son of Michigan, General John F. Dryden
| Col. Clarence r. Edwards, H. Clay Evans
| commissioner of pensions; B. A Fowler of
! Arizona, b. T. Galloway of the Department
| of Agriculture. Lieut.. Commander John II
| Gibbons, Representative Geo. G. Gilbert of
L. on ltpt tnr ..Ix q
Maryland, F. o. Gross. MD, Philadelphia
| Representative GroSvenor of Ohio, S. H
Hardwick. George w. Harvey. John c.
Head, Augustus G. Heaton, Speaker D. B.
| Henderson, w. b. Hibbs, Representative
| Ebenezer J. Hill of Connecticut, Rep
resentative Chas. f. Hooker of Mississippi,
| Beale K. Howard, Charles NJ. Irelan Rep
TesentatlEe charles F. JOY of Missouri.
| LeVerett NJ. Kelley, deputy commissioner
of pensions; Dwight Kinney Cincinnati: A.
| J. Lester, Illinois; Repre- sentative c. Lou
deAsiaser Of New Jersey, j. ]. Mcdowell,
cincinnati Enquifer; Represe ntative NJ Ma
! non of PENNSYLVANIA. Lieutenant Colonel
| Henry p. Mccain. William R. Merriam di-
rector of the census; 6. T. Miller Cincin-
natl; Count Won Montegaas of the German
| embassy, Edward B. Moore. assistant COM
missioner Of patents; Representative Ed
| ward Morrell of Pennsylvania Representa-
tive Francis G. Newlands of Nevada Lieut.
Albert P. Niblack, John H. Nolan, James
| +. oyster, II. II. d. PIERCE, third assistant
| secretary of state; Senator Orville H. PIatt
of Connecticut. Representative Samuel L.
| Powers of Massa chusetts, w. H. Rapley
| James Rascovar, New York city; Isadore
Saks. John Saltar. jr., Geo A. Shehan Chas
Simmons, birmingham, Ala; ]. Henry
Small, jr., Charles Emory Smith, Phiadel-
phia Press; Marcus A. Smith, delegate from
| Arizona; Representative William Alden
Smith of Michigan Charles NJ Staley, j.
Walter Steele. William NJ. Steuart, Sir
Henry Strong, chief justice of Canada; Will
liam a. Stuart. Cincinnati; Representative
George Sutherland of Utah Repres ntatiye
Claude A Swanson of Virginia, Major
Richard Sylvester, Representative James A
Iawney of Mime sofa. Leslie G. Ward, NJ
| D. Newark, n. j.; Representative Warner
of Illinois, John r. Williams, Scranton. Pa
and James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul-
| ture.