The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-01
ROASTS ON GRIDIRON
MERRY FRANKS OF BRILLIANT
NEWSPAPER MEN.
MEN OF THE FIRST RANK
ATTENDED THE ANNUAL DINNER
AT WASHINGTON.


and Distinguished Gathering
Merry-J. Pierpont Morgan the
Subject of "a BucketshOp Bur
leSGue-WIIey and His Food Pres
ervntive Tests Also BurIcsqued.
Washington, Jan. 31.-The annual
dinner of the Gridiron Club tonight
was another record breaker in the way
of unique entertainments, and the
Washington correspondents who COM
pose the organization again demon
strated that everything under the sun
Cor on the gridiron) was new; that
there was a humorous side to all cur
rent events, and that toasts and roasts
may be combined for an evenings
amusement.
The dining hall of the Arlington Ho-
tel was never so handsomely decorated.
for, besides the flowers upon the table
and the palms and ferns about the
room, a novel arrangement of electric
lights produced, superb effect among
the decorations.
Among the 200 guests and members
were ambassadors, senator's and repre-
sentatives, governors, high officers of
the army and navy, prominent men in
the financial and business world, edl-
tors and proprietors of great newspa-
pers, and scientists and men of letters.
The menu was calendar, each
month illustrated with the picture of
a prominent guest, whose business or
-
in a jingling rhyme. The inaugura-
ton of the new president of the club,
William e. Curtis, afforded an oppor-
tunity for reverting to the part Mr..
Curtis took in securing the attendance
of Spanish grandees for the Worlds
Fair at Chicago. The pomp and cere-
mony of the Spanish court of 1892
mingled with the present century ideas
and events made it a snowy and laugh
able affair. One of the questions pro-
pounded to Columbus was What is a
trust?" to which he answered. "A
bunch of money surrounded by wa
ter"
Even Morgan Not Immune.
J. Pierpont Morgan, one of the guests
of the club. was made the subject of
! quite the best burlesque of the even
| ing. For the alleged benefit of the
New York financier, the Gridiron Club
installed "bucketshop" as an adjunct
to Mr.. Morgan's office. The manager
and Chair warmers" kept up a lively
fire of questions and answers, In which
various guests were placed upon the
gridiron.
The discussion of available presiden-
tial candidates was a feature of this
part of the entertainment. The bur-
lesque concluded with a song dedicated
to Mr.. Morgan.
The experiments which DIR. Wiley Of
the Agricultural Department is making
with borax as a preservative afforded
another vehicle to give a number Of
prominent guests a gridironing. 1t was
charged that DR.. Wiley was conducting
an experiment at the dinner, and two
members of the club, personating Prof.
Wiley and his assistant, showed the
effect of borax on the brain. A poison
squad" was brought out, and the steth-
oscope and X-rays applied to their
heads. The marvellous things which
they were found to be thinking about,
as told by the operators, created great
amusement.
There were other skits, many topical
songs and choruses, and several good
speeches, all crowding the evening with
wit and humor from beginning to end.
Guests of the Club.
Among those present were: Milton f.
Allies, assistant secretary of the treas
ury; Senator Aldrich. Robert b. Arm
strong, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury; Robert Bacon. New York;
George F. Baker, New York; +. N.
Barksda1e, Pennsylvania Railroad;
James M. Beck, assistant attorney gen.
eral; Lord Charles Beresford. Eng:
Senator Beveridge, Charles Blizzard,
Philadelphia: George W. Boyd Penn
rear admiral, United States Navy; Rep
resentative Bromwell. H. S. Brown,
New York Herald; l.. S. Brown, South
ern Railway; Representative Cannon,
Charles Arthur Carlisle. South Bend,
Ind; Count Casslni. ambassador from
Russia; Alexander Cochran, st. Louis:
Henry C. Corbin, major general, United
States Army; George B. Cortelyou,
secretary to the President: William s.
Cowles, captain. United States Navy;
w. Murray Crane. Ex-Governor of Mas
sachusetts; George II. Daniels, New
York Central Railroad: Senator c. M.
Depew, Senator Dillingham;, Senator
DolliVer, Senator John f.. Dryden; Ed
ward Ellsworth. Buffalo: Col.
j. H. Estill, Savannah Morning
News; Senator Fairbanks, Representa-
tive Foster, II. w. Fuller, Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad; M. e. Gable, Pitts
burg Times; Charles S. Gleed, Topeka,
Kan; Arthur p German, senator
elect from Maryland; James w.
Greene, Buffalo Express; Representa-
tive Grosvenor, Arthur Hale, Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad: Senator Hanna, S.
II. Hardwick, Southern Railway; Rep
resentative Heatwole, Sir Michael Her
bert, ambassador from England; II. II.
Holmes, Boston Herald; John III.
Holmes, Boston Herald; Clark Howell,
Atlanta Constitution; Representative
Hull, Melville T.. Ingalls,, president of
the Big Four Railroad; Philander G.
Johnson, Washington Star; Victor
Kaufman, Washington star Senator
Kearns, John J. Knapp, lieutenant
commander U. S. NJ: II. III. Kohlsaat,
Chicago Record Herald Representa-
tive Littlefield. Representative Lou-
denslager, G. A. Lyon Jr., Washing
ton Star; J. III. Maddy, Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad; George S. Mandell, Bos-
ton Transcript; S. p. Mandell. Boston
Transcript; Rokuichira Masujima. To-
kio. JAPAN Thomas N. McCar-
Cutcheon, Chicago Record Herald;
Joseph Medil Mccormick. Chicago
Tribune; Representative Mercer, Will
liam r. Merriam, director of census
Julius p. Meyer, Hamburg American
Steamship Company Representative
Moody of Oregon; ]. Pierpont Morgan,
New York; Franklin Murphy, Cover
nor Of New Jersey; Alexander d.
Noyes, New York Evening Post; Theo-
dore w. Noyes. Washington Star;
George w. ochs, Philadelphia Ledger;