The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-18
,AIENCORNER'S YEARLY FEAST
WITH PLATT, LOW AND MURPHY
RUBBING ELBOWS


phy Between tho Devil and the Deep
r. C-sim Foru's Melancholy Remarks
On the Amended Raines LAw-Job
Hedges and Tim woodruff Glitter Too
The annual jollihcation Of the brethren
Of the Amen Corner. an organization OF
Democrats. Republicans. reformers. pro-
fessional mon, tradesmen and men OF every
shade Of political and religious belief,
took place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last
night, and, like the dinner TO Gov. Odeil
In 1901 and like the dinner to Senator Plats
In 1909. was noisy but entire success.
When the brethren sat down to dinner
at 8 o'clock In response TO the Changing
Of q huge boarding house bell welded
by the sturdy hand Of President Edward
G. Riggs the head table presented
remarkable spectacle. Seated between
United States Senator Thomas c. Plat,
who looked even younger than he did
year ago, when he was the guest OF honor
at the Amen dinner. and Mayor Low sat
Charles F. Murphy. leader OF Tammany
Hall.
ALL HATcHETs BURIED.
Nothing could have emphasized the nom
partisan character Of the Amen Corner
gathering more thoroughly than the ex-
oellent terms upon which these three guests
soon found themselves. When the speech
making began they were cracking jokes
at each other at a lively rate, and no ono
who was at the dinner will think much OF
the campaign bouquets which will begin to
fly very soon now, for three moro amiable.
well-disposed persons 1t would have been
hard to find.
When the brethren OF the Amen Corner
set out to have . good time they are very
apt to have it. They had Il last night by
the usual method Of good music, good
jokes and good speeches.
AMEN ART WORKS.
There was also an exhibition OF fine art
works, portraying some Of the prominent
guests in the pugilistio attitudes in which
the newspaper reading public imagines
them. Huge canvases showed Mayor Low
and Congressman Mcclellan the prospec-
tive Tammany candidate for Mayor. stripped
to the waist and aiming knockout blows at
each others solar plexus; Comptroller
Grout and Fire Commissioner Sturgis,
similarly unattired. but facing the au-
dience rather than each other, and Chair
man Morris Of the Republican County
Committee and Leader Murphy Of Tam
many feeling for sensitive spots upon each
others person.
A fourth canvas showed Attorney Gen
eral Clnneen, sprnkling pail in hand, posing
as the only Attorney General Of the State
ever elected by the Prohibitionists The
pictures made . big hit. and no one was
more amused ct them than the men por-
trayed.
Some Of the prominent Ameners and guests
present last night were Rabbi Joseph
Silverman, ex-Lieut- Gov. Woodruff, John
C. Sheehan. Senator Plat. Job. E. Hedges.
Simeon Ford, Mayor Low. Charles +.
Murphy, Robert G. Morris. Thomas G.
O'Sullivan. Comptroller Grout, Abram,
Chamberlain, the Rev. DR.. David j. Burreli
John G. Davies. Oren Root, Frederick s.
Gibbs, Capt. F. Norton Goddard. Herman
Ridder, G. Tracy Rogers, Fire Commissioners
Sturgis and Lspenard Stewart.
soxos AND sPlnCHBs IN BErwxEN.
Following tho custom at Amen dinners.
whenever anybody had anything to say
worth listening 70 he bolted the dinner
Chairman Riggs thought enough eating
had been done he called halt while some
body sang q song or made a speech.
The first interruption came from Brother
Hawley. who got up and informed the
He then announced that he had Just re-
ceived a nominating certificate for the
next municipal election, but that there
was q blank space in 1t to be filed with the
name Of q candidate for Mayor.
presently he demanded, looking straight
at the Mayor. If there Is let him RISE
Mr.. Murphy and Senator Platt roared
At the Mayor. who took the joke good
naturedly.
Chairman Riggs then proposed the health
drunk an irreverent quartet started up:
IAN Coons Look Alike to Me-
A TOAST TO THE DEPARTED.
After Brother Flanagan had sung the
Amen Corner anthem, Drill, Ye Tarriers,
Drin,. to an accompaniment Of six-shooters
and walters trays, Chairman Riggs called
on everybody to rise and drink the toast
he would propose. He said:
BRETHREN: hope 70 establish Tonight a
tornei. In the whirl Of the world, the kind
t ss' voc the brethre1 Who tonight are
sle sppa;. under newly planted pansies and
ou 20 o1 let us drink to all that was excellent.
able in those who have left US since our last
meeting VIII resd fSsiT 1an s.: John Ioi +
james hsnsenb b. Peter. wniiam J. Glenn. 7 q.
Eimball Daniel p. Pease. Julian Ralph, Wilbur
y Chamberlin. Edward II. Sheehan. Wilbur
II. Weston.
MORE PUN WITH THE MAYOR.
A little further along In the dinner
Brother Hawley handed up this document
10 Mayor Low, which was read amid great
laughter:
STATE OF NEW YORK.
COUNTY OF NEW YoRK.J
Hon. Seth Low. Mayor.
In answer TO the persistent rum rs that
the Amen Corner has In some m ysterious
way raised a fund Of CSC. 900 900 TO promote
your reelection. ]. John Doe. q wen,known
the Corner has not yet raised u for any such
Subscribed and sworn 10 before Fusion
Movement this seventeenth day OF April.
In the second year Of reform.
The first speech Of the evening was made
by Job Hedges, who said In part:
WHAT JOB HEDoEs SAID.
Mr.. President, members Of the Amen Cor:
neT. distinguished guests. guests who would
like TO be distinguished. and who are dis
tineuished by. being here: 4 assume the func,
m sSS a appreciStinS the tendency toward
Innovation We substitute to-nisht a human
toast card for the orthodox printed snnou nee
mept The fact that the role has fallen TO
me need not initiate against the inspiration
OF the change In customary procedure.
There are q few who do not understand
the moving principles OF this organization.
Ancient chroniclers In enumerating the tribes
and peoples Of the earth over;looked the