Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-07

nouncement of his death
Standing at bis open grave in the little
| cemetery at Princeton, I was reminded of
an agreement between him and me- made
many months before his death and during
one of his visits to Washington The con-
versatfon was about the Grfdiron Club to
! which he was devotedly attached. Assum-
ing serious mood that was unusual with
! him, he said: Major, If l go before you,
| and 1t is likely l will, l want you to do for
me what you did for the others who have
! crossed the great divide. Take me for a
| hnal Sendon to club dinner. and there
| speak of me as you knew me. Should you
| so first will cross the continent to do the
I same for you The seriousness with which
| this request was made convinced me it had
| Deen deliberately proposed, and the pathOS
| of it's utterance was most impressive. The
| covenant was made, and notifications were
exchanged in the usual manner. Subsequent
| ly. recurring to the conversation, l said to
Annin Billy, when the lights are turned
| out. and l stand before the club and its
| guests. what shall l say of you? After a
| few minutes of reflection, he replied: Say
what was said by an old newspaper man
when asked a like question under similar
! conditions. Say
" That he lived like child and he lived like q
That he loved like child and he lived like a
| In the presence of all that he knew to be good;
| Tint he stood as he might, with pen and with
tongue.
| To cherish the rigi: and to Danish the wrong;
That the world was to him. he went his
As the bud to the flower, the dawn to the day
! That he knew was to GENE Fen say IL you can,
| That he labored and prayed for the browning Of
As the king of himself; that the God whom he
Was the God Of the many, and not OF the few
The Father Of all. Write. then, II you must
i OF the errors that came with the clay and the
| dust;
But add as You may. perhaps; to the verse
For Billy Amin having lived in 1t the world is no
worse
"'And having said that continued An
min, do not let the moldy odor of the
graveyard mingle with the sweet aroma
Of the flowers which will decorate our
dinner tables. Repel the miasma with
sparkling wine and cheerful song. was
done on former occasions of like character,
| and when the dear old gridron bursts out
in light and glory. and the quartet has
started the song, let the chorus break out
| full and strong"
The transition from this somber scene to
mirth and gayety was quick and the fun
of the evening proceeded The cinemato-
graph was utilized to show the democratic
party attempting to divest itself of the
garments of Organism, man taking off his
clothes one garment slipping back as fast
as he took off another. The harmony
meeting between Platt and Odel, and
what happened to Johnson in Ohio were
also depicted in the same way.
The souvenir was an oldfashioned wood
inkstand, decorated with gridirons. In
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| quill pen. and in another a silk Gridiron
| flag, on which was printed the menu, which
was as follows: a
Clear Turtle SOUP
Olives. Anchoyies. Sailed Almonds. c.,o.-
Outlets nst,, Of Chicken HalIeut Figaro
4et of Beea IA Na Ereneh
Terrapin. Arlington Style.
tirfdiron Punch.
| Scotch Plover, Broiied.
Gurrant Jelly. Virginia Hominy.
| Chinonade Salad.
Coffee. Cigars.
Meet & Chanden, Brut Imperial.
ApS1linaris Water.
The Guests of the Club.
The. guests were eugene e. Allies and
Milton E. Allies, Washington. ID. c.; Fred
erick I. Allen, commissioner of patents;
| Philip Loring Aleen, New York Evening
| Post: j. w. Babeock. representative from
| Wisconsin; A. o.. Bacon, senator from
| Georgia; George w. Baird, captain. USN;
| F. N. Barksdale. Pennsylvania railroad,
| Philadelphia, Pa; ]. Adam Bede repre-
sentative from Minnesota: S. C. Berger,
Public Ledger. Philadelphia, Pa; CLIFFORD
| K Bergman, the Washington Post; John
! Biddle, colonel, U.S.A; H. C. Biggs. Chi
| cago Tribune; Ambrose Bierce New York
| Journal; E. Raymond Bliss, Chicago, ILL.,
! George w. Boyd, Pennsylvania railroad,
| Philadelphia, Pa; Charles H. Boynton. AS
J ISOLATED Press. New York: Joseph A.
/ Breckons, Wyoming; H. T. Brian, Wash
I ington. d. c.; Richard J. Bright, washing
| ton, d. C.; Jacob H. Bromwell Cincinnati;
| l. s. Brown, Southern railroad, Washing
Z. ]. Burkett. representative from Nebras-
ka; Henry F. Cabaud New York; Joseph
G. Cannon. Speaker of the House of Repre-
! sentatiyes; Otto Carmichael, Cincinnati
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