Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-21
a. a!gn. p. ]. Morgan. Bustera and

MIS-. Hetty Green and another rs the
typewriter girl Of the Office. There
we're talks between the manager. clerk
and senators IN asliagtan Senator
flklns seemed v .nz u <ise Informal
t.ou as - why r vss gciaB up. he
explained that Senator Quay had gone
OF and bought without orders.
Suddenly the customers noticed stocks
were rapidly going down. The type
writer girl Looked into the inner Office
and announced i,at the old man was
asleep" He was awakened and gave
orders for stocks to be put up. a rou-
Iette wheel which had been rugged
against n side Of the room WIS whirled
by one Of the clerks, and stocks jumped
twenty points. After stocks had gone
up to a prodigious height one or tie
customers advanced to the front and
entertained the audience with the fol
lowing song to the air Of Mr.. Dooley:"
There is q man who's known 10 all. a man
of great renoWn.
A man whose name is on the lips Of every
one In town.
You read about him every day. his mace
you've heard. no doubt.
flAA IL BIZ wen AAA1A@=F NAFfE WAA EZHE.H
extra out,
For Mr.. Morgan. Mr.. Morgan,
The greatest man the country ever
knew.
Quite diplomatic and democratic,
Is Mr.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
lie made a million dollars in every kind
Of trust.
lie took his friends along with him; the
others had to bust.
But whom he tackled Teddy he ran up
against a job;
He bought his railroads In a bunch, he
did, so help me Bob!
Now Mr.. Morgan turned a trick. twas
hardly on the square;
He coruered RooseVelts favorite game,
including ''coons" and bear.
THE president may bust my trust, I'll
have TO bow TO fate"
But when It comes to hunting he will
have to arbitrate.
When congress makes its little law, no
trusts viii be alive,
Fer coal ~ be twenty cents a ton, steel
rails be twenty-five:
With the water squeezed from all the
stocks. with forests full Of bear.
The millennium win be at hand, and all the
people swear
by Mr.. Morgan. etc.
The conversation of the crowd in Mr..
Morgan's Office was interesting.
Say" said one, Il got a bully tip
last night"
"Who gave 1t to your
"Chauucey Depew.'
Don't play it." warned another mem
Der, "for If 1t WI worth anything
Chaunccy wouldn't have given it
away"
Then this dialogue occurred:
"The thing that worries the old man
is what we had better do about a pres
ident of the board of aldermen"
No; president of the United States"
ooh, l thought it was something i'm
%portant."
"Well, It Is important. IL the old man
is anxious about It."
The scene ended with the appearance
Of the club member lm%personating Het-
ty Green. who was In q state Of mind
over a cent which she had lost the day
before.
There were many other features, In
Guiding the appearance OF one of the
club members disguised as a lump OF
coal. He was surrounded by a chorus.
who sang appropriate music - as, for
instance:
President Morgan played the organ.
John Mitchell played the dram.
The railroad played the same cd game,
And the price was twelve per ton. per ton,
And The price Was twelve per Ion.
The union OF the Lilly Whites" and
BLACK and Tans' was effected by the
initiation into the club Of J. X. Oil of
Atlanta and J.. Z. Miller of Baltimore.
the two baby members of the club
While quietly eating their dinner these
men were set upon by a mob Of angry
northern and southern editors. carry
ing ropes and uttering the widest
threats of torture and hanging. The
offending members were dragged to
the enter Of the room and charged
with being carpetbaggers who were
trying to direct southern affairs. They
We're known as ~. GARRISON OH, lead
or of the Lily Whites " and y
Prltchard Miller, leader Of the BLACK
and IauS.'" 4 sheriff rescued the
men from the mob after Colonel Hen
ry WattVrson and Mr.. Clark Howell,
impersonatrd 10y leading members of
AttN tAAat, ltitt NtHAFANtllEN4 Alt|tA NtHAtb ~
lnceudIary speeches. BY giving the
Gridiron club az surety they were re
leased on the promise to 40 linked
through life with o colored brother.
Much to the surprise of Secretary
Cortelyou. who was one OF the guests,
his Well known colored messenger. Ar
thur simmons, appeared, and to him
the "baby members Of the club were
bound by broad silk ribbons of black
and white. the club colors. The presi
dent Of the CLUB then ANNOUNCED That
places had been prepared at the table
for the club members. but that their
companions would have to be cared for
on tie other side of Lafayette square,
in the white House.
When tine dinner was concluded Mr.
Morgan expressed himself as very