The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-25
MEN PROMINENT IN THE
 CITY AND STATE PRESENT
Feature of the Evening Was Burlesque Strike By Members of the Club Posing as
 Walters.

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 and fast at the Morris hotel last night.
 The second annual dinner of the Birmine- ham Press Club was a bowling success. From the time President Bozeman' C. Bulger called the session to order until the guests had sung Aud Lang Syne in grand ensemble and wended their way homeward with laughs on their lips and copies of the 'Yaller Hammer tucked
 securely under their arms, all went well. The Yaller Hammer is a raper publish ed annually at the Press Club dinner. It teens with sensational news of the day. Last night it came out in an extra on the strength of a telegraph report that Dowie,
 Parkhurst and George Ward were going to start a crusade on the gamblers of Birmingham and cleanse the "crap ridden city.'
 l Aside from the columns of the Yaller
 Hammer there was plenty of fun to keep the guests busy. Everything went with
 rush and before the banqueters had re- covered from an outburst of laughter an- other one was upon them.
 Letters of Regret. Immediately after the toastmaster had concluded his address of welcome he be- gan reading letters of regret One of these came from President Roosevelt. who said he was unable to be present on account of an important engagement with l Bunau-yarilla and Secretary Hay con- 1 corning Panama. He said also they were
 preparing an answer to Senator Morgan.
 Senator Reed Shoot, the Mormon, could
 not come because six of his wives had
 just joined him in Washington. Seth Low
 was busy strengthening out the fusionists 1 in New York and Senators German and
 Hanna wer both chasing the Presidential
 nomination.
 ! While these messages were being read l a commotion occurred in the rear of the
 hall and it was announced that the wait i CTS had gone on a strike. Members of the ! club, armed with trays and wearing white 1 aprons, demanded $4 an hour and two
 hour day or they would not proceed. Af- 1 ter considerable barley it was decided to 1 leave the matter to arbitration and mes- i sage was forwarded to Judge George Gray 1 of Delaware. An answer came that Judge i Gray would serve provided he was paid
 $10,0O0, and that it be understood that 1 he would decide in favor of the strikers 1 A commission was then appointed, con- 1 sisting of Walter Moore, Jerry Fountain
 and Wilson Brown to give the matter
 hearing With that the walters returned 1 to their work.
 The Yaller Hammer then came out in all its fury and there was great fun Soon l thereafter it was announced that car
 was in waiting to show the guests over Greater Birmingham. This car was called
 Seeing Birmingham" and was operat- l ed by two of the newspaper men who stopped at the various points of inter-
 est explaining in ludicrous manner what
 the passengers were seeing. All of Bir-
 minghams leading citizens received a
 good hard jolt during this ride and it
 was concluded with great merriment when
 the car stopped at the Twenty-second
 street crossing and MT. G. H. Estes in-
 sured all of their lives.
 republican pie was brought in and l the three referees dished 1t out in rapid
 order All of the leaders came in for
 a nice roast.
 Towards the end of the dinner demo-
 cratic Christmas box was brought in and
 various presents were sent round the
 table.
 Frank Wynne, one of the members of
 the club, entertained the club with some
 songs which were beautifully rendered
 and very appropriate. Hams orchestra | furnished the music and the leader | ,1ia ,i,,o ha
 right thing at the right time at the end
 of the various skits. | The speeches were numerous and pro-
 voeative of great laughter.
 The banquet hall was decorated elabo- | rately by w. M. Lindsay, the florist. The
 tables were in the shape of PC" the in- | itials of the club, and the decorations
 were superb. An automatic electrical
 effect was produced which brought out the various emblems of the newspaper
 craft alternately.
 The following men were present: l w. M. Drennen, w. B. Leedy, Simon
 Klotz. w. R. Gum, J. H. F. Moseley, R. | W. Ewing, J. T. Mullin, Dr. J. w. Hughes, D. J. OConnell, Hugh Roberts, Paul Cooke, E. E. Williams, J. B. Mo- l OldTy, JoHl hcs2uceii, <A. M. JcHhiiS, n. | B. Gray, Harry Jones, A. l.. Fulenwider. l NJ. M Richey, F. o. Becker, G. H. Estes | O. P. Gaut, l.. P. Hill. J. W. Tomlinson, J. R. Ryan, Dr. Perkins, L. B. Musgrove. ! B. W. Brumley, F. B. Hammer, J. Will
 Donovan, John London, Roscoe Bulger
 l. Pollak. James Bowron J. W. ONeill, l C. Morgan, A. J. Krebs, George Cruik- shank, SoIon Jacobs, Frank Wynne, c. | P. Jones, John c. Pugh, Albert Strad- | ford, Max Karpeles. Col. E. L. Higdon, Austin Lazarus, s. Spro, H. c. Miller, | c. B. Tarrant, J. Cary Thompson. James Harriett, z. T. Rudulph, J. Carter Cooke, J. Asa Rountree. Howard s. Williams, J. T. Evans, Bozeman c. Bnlger, Leon w. Friedman, Eugene Fies. W. T. Ward, Otto Marx. Frank H. Bell, M. V. Joseph, J. J. Smith, Rev. Father O'Reilly, pr. Morris Newfied, w. K. McAdory Col. T. G. Bush, Erskine Ramsey, E. w. Bar rett, T. Otto Jordan. A. W. Miller, Arthur S. Hust, Culpepper Exum.
 The Menu.
 Little Neck Clans Celery Stuffed Olives Vermouth Cocktails