Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-22
RICH MEMS FARM FEAST
Features of a Rural Dinner at
 Philadelphia.
O0NsOMME CUPS IN HAY WAGONS.

Twenty MiIItonatres Ate Oysters
 With Miniature Pitchforks, Hoed
 Their Terrapin and Raked the
 salad-Roosters Fed Upon Wheat on
 the Floor.
 Twenty millionaires assembled at the Bellevue -Stratford hotel in Phila- delphia the other night for their an nual country dinner, says the New York Herald These plowmen in the field of finance dined upon terrapin, canvasback duck, mushrooms and other viands. The wines were of the finest, but rustic simplicity was sug- gested by big cider press in one cor ner of the room.
 The press was not a mere ornament, but whenever one of the diners felt so inclined he would go to the machine, place basket of apples under the press and with few turns of giant screw supply himself with real home made cider.
 Another evidence of good faith in adopting the role of farmers was given by the millionaires in their method of eating certain courses. For the oyS- ters the banqueters were supplied with miniature pitchforks, while they dissected their salad with toy rakes. Terrapin was conveyed to their mouths with small hoes.
 The consomme cups were brought to the table in toy hay wagons and wheeled to the hand of each guest in little red iron wheelbarrows. The punch was served in cups formed of apples, hollowed out and then frozen solid. A rooster strutted about the room and picked up the crumbs.
 The table was circular, the hollow in the middle being filled with pumpkins, melons, corn, grapes, cabbages, apples, nuts, trailing beans and vegetables of every description. Many of the vegeta- bles had been hollowed out and electric lights inserted. The pumpkins and some of the larger articles had been fantas- tically carved, decorated with moss wigs, and with their electric features they grinned at the farmers
 To reach the room 1t was necessary to find a way through cornfield. The floor was covered with wheat, upon which live roosters crowed to their contentment. A big stuffed bull was at one side of the room his stall being decorated with more wonderfully carv- ed and illuminated vegetables.
 7 Along the opposite side of the room was rail fence separating the guests from pig, calf and three fierce look ing stuffed rams. Farming utensils were scattered about and hung upon pegs in the wall, and all was as ideally bucoltc as the imagination of the mill lionaires could suggest.
 The ices were nodded and tinted to form fruits and vegetables. After the cigars were lighted the farmers tilt ed back their chairs and discussed the weather and crops until after mid-s night Then the hired man hitched up the rigs of the farmers, and they drove to their several remote homesteads with jovfal warnings to be up in time to milk the cows.
 The farmers of the dinner were: E. F. Wilbur, former president of the Lehigh Valley railroad, who acted as host; A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad: George F. Baer, president of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad: E. T. Stotesbury, president of the Union League; R. H. Wilbur, former general manager of J the Lehigh Valley railroad; John Lo- gan Fisher, a director of the Reading railroad; Efingham B. Morris, banker and railroad director; Charles Curtis Harrison, provost of the University of B. F. Wilbur, Jr.; Ru- dolph Ellis, president of the Fidelity Trust company; Colonel A. Louden w. H. McAlpin, a Pittsburg banker; John Drinker, corporation lawyer; Samuel Rea, second vice presi- dent Of the Pennsylvania railroad; John Fritz and Joseph Wharton.
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