The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-09
HONOURABLES STILL HOLD OUT
AND ALL THE ANCIENTS ALSO
SURVIVE THE DEADLY FEASTS.

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Early breakfast at the Waldorf In the
Cold Gray Dawn OF the Morning After
Sherry's-AutO Ride and Breakfast NJ
CIarenlont--StOry Telling Bee and BOT.
ties Next-Falr Winds Up the DAY.
That battle hymn of the Sulu Archipea 90
about the cold gray dawn of the morning
after doesn't apply to the allies of London
Boston and New York. Not man was
lost in the battle of the Honourables and
the Ancients at Sherry's and there were
no cutters yesterday morning when the
Old Guard of New York sounded the adj
vance on Claremont for breakfast.
Preliminary morning rations of chops.
salt fish and bromo settler were issued
early at the Waldorf for the Honorable
Artillery Company Of London and the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
of Boston. But the real breakfast was
served up on the banks of the Hudson with
Major Briggs and his. comrades of the Old
Guard as hosts.
1t was an International breakfast It
began at noon With grape fruit from Cali.
fornia and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon
the last drop Of Vermont maple syrup
had been poured onto the last fragment Of
English muffin. In the three hour interval
between the fruit and the mullins so cases
of wine (magnums) is cases of Scotch,
200 cartridges. 900 eggs, several bushels
of mushrooms and about all the whitefsh
that could be caught in Lake Superior
for the OCCASION were seized and disposed
of without any noticeable damage to the
general appetite for an informal cold
luncheon which was served later in the
afternoon at the Old Guard Armory on
Broadway after a remarkable story telling
bout
The warriors dressed for the weather
and didn't care II they were drenched when
they reached Oaremont. The original
plan OF going up there by way Of the Park
and Riverside Drive In a procession of
open automobiles was carried out regard
less OF the storm.
The Londoners wore serge short blue
coats and fatigue caps with silver buttons
and with shoulder knots Of steel mail to
distinguish the artillerymen from the in
fantrymen. The latter carried their swag-
ger sticks. The artillerymen had riding
whips. If anybody has an idea that these
distinguished Britishers don't look like
real soldiers he should see them in fatigue
uniform charging up Caremont Hill in
the teeth of a southeast storm.
When the Old Guard reached the Wal
dorf to resume Its duties a. host and escort
and found that the guests had put aside
their swords and guns and scarlet coats
and bearskins the hosts rushed back to
their armory to change their clothes too.
They didn't have swagger sticks or whips.
so they all carried double barrelled julep
straws instead Of sidearrns and muskets.
Before leaving the hotel the Earl Of Dom
biph, In command Of the Honourables sent
q cable message TO his Captain General
and Honorary Colonel Of the company,
want to say jv.s what he >. had oa tS bIs
H a great country and that one Of Its most
noticeable characteristics Is Its capacity
for Giving visitors q good time The
Earl's opinion seems to be shared by all
the men In his command.
Col. and Lady Denbigh rode UP 70 Clare.
nont With Major Bngss q the Vid M Guard
chusetts. Col. Sid Hedges Of the Ancients.
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Cour-
tenay Baylor, was in the next automobile.
LADY Denbigh and Mrs. Baylor were the
only ladies at the breakfast. They were'
ehsred as hey ihe the rss
for the Claremont and the first toast was
aThe Iadies--God's Fairest Creation
That was offered by Major Briggs and 1t
was followed by the chorus For She's a
Jolly Good Fellow
and the Old Guard. The Earl Of Denbigh
proposed it and in little speech told why
his command had brought their swagger
sticks and whips instead of something
more deadly.
when we arrived in New York. the
Earl said. 1and realized that we we're to
he entertained by the Old Guard, | re.
called former order on a famous field OF
battle, up. guards, and at EN-. But then
I decided we might as well surrender first
as last The Boer war was trlhe TO TINS;
When I saw the herculean build OF the Old
Guard I knew that our little nine-inch
hayonets would be useless in an attack
r. we got a home thrust we'd lose the bayo-
nets. They would never come out on the
other side. They would be absorbed and
assirnilated by your iron constitutions
and we would have to explain to our war
Office at home how We had lost our equip
ment. So we have put aside our arms arm
lin we get outside Of this military Juris-
dcton."
Major Briggs thanked tue Ear! and was
greet Il with The battle yell OF the Britishers.
On the way back from Claremont Lord
and Lady Denbg Oh and most or the ylsltors
from London and Boston stopped at Grant 8
Tomb. A.,
man who sees to it that everybody Is happy
every minute, brought back the best SOW
venir Of the breakfast. A British captain
gave the New York Captain SILK Union
Jack, and Lady Denbi2h wrote her name
on it.
Tho real thing in the way OF good time
aiolIv good time" the visitors called it
was, however, late In the afternoon AZ me
Old Guard Armory. That's where the
story tellers Of the three commands gov
tos, Their, with the doors locke and pottle
or two for every tale. The lone MAJOR
from Amoskeag YVES allowed to- remain
in the room all through the story telliI1s
Last night the Bostonians and Lonooners
attended the Old Guard Fair at Madison
Square Garden in a body. They are 10
60 TO Washington to-day. CD,
The managers Of the fair allowed the
Minute Men OF Washington, organizeo III
1901 10 give what they called an -, mxhloltion
Of the old Continental drill. There was
nobody there to say that 1t WASH y gu.
one Of the London officers remarked thaC
if the CJntnentals really did drlll thal
way he couldn't understand how they
won their fight.
Lord and Lady Denbigh, Col. Hedges
and Mrs Baylor left the fair early ahu
went to Wallacks Theatre, where they
had box.
BRITISH FLAG on HALE STA1t H.