Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-15
Three Score Festive Folk
Delightfully."- Entertained
at CaStaneda Last
Night.
C0LORS OF
THE ORDER
Eloquent and Well Considered
TOasts Responded to by Mem
bers Of the Local Lodge.

One of the most elaborate and thor.
oughly enjoyable social affairs given
In the city this long time was the ban.
quet at the Castaneda last night by
Red Cloud Tribe, No 4, Order Of Red
Men.
The banquet itself was sumptuous,
the decorations were striking and eff.
fective and the company was merry
In the extreme and thoroughly congo
nial. The Red Men are to be congrat-
ulated upon the successful manner in
which the annual dinner was conceiv-
ed and carried out in every detail.
Early in the evening the large din
ing room of the Castaneda was turned
over to Decorator-in-C Chief T. G.. Lip
sett and his able coadjutors. The ef-
feet, when little before 10 o'clock
the doors were thrown open to the
banqueters, was thoroughly pleasing.
Four good-sized tepees had been
erected at coigns of vantage, and in
graceful curves, streamers of red and
blue and green and yellow, the sym
bolic colors Of Redmanship, swept
from the ceiling and were festooned
about the chandeliers. In the wealth
of fragrant flowers that graced the
festal board the color scheme was
also carried out The long tables,
themselves with their snowy cover
ings and shining with silver and glass
presented a brilliant sight So
thought the thirty Red Men and their
fair partners who were led in the sup
per march by Dr. VIM. p. Mills and
Miss Tanning.
The service, personally supervised
by Manager Smithers, was admirable
and the ten-course dinner, including
such delicacies as Blue Points, Whit
Fish, Sweet Breads, Roast SQUAD on
Toast, Creme de Menthe Punch, was
one which would have proven de-
light to the veriest epicure.
DR.. Mills effectively presided as
toast master.
At the seemly stage In the informal
but none the less active proceedings,
the toast master called for the sched-
uled toasts. Past Sachem Eugene
McElroy in response to request for
toast on Redmanship, said in part:
1--WE are members of a peculiar or.
ganization, unique and interesting,
which occupies field all its own
among the secret orders of the pres.
ent day. The Improved Order of Red
Men is the Oldest organization of
purely American origin. 1t was born
in patriotism, nurtured In freedom, in
spired in friendship and consecrated
in charity. 1t is the lineal descendant
OF the Sons of Liberty, who for more
than ten years prior TO the Declara-
tion Of independence had by their ac
tive work paved the way for that inn
mortal act 1t is true the existing
societies at that time made no use OF
the name of RED Men" as part Of
the title by which they were known.
In the middle and southern states
they styled themselves the "St. Tam
many Society,"" while the organization
at Boston and elsewhere were known
as the Sons OF Liberty and the well
known fact will be recalled that o.
certain important date party Of men
''disguised as Indians" rushed down to
the wharf by the waterside and pitch
ed into Boston harbOr the tea which
had been imported but which the col
onists refused to receive and pay tax
es on.
1--WE have been criticised in some in
stances because of our title and the
supposed barbarism of our ceremoni-
ais yet we are the acknowledged con
servators of the history, the customs,
the virtues of the original American
people--a people conceded by the ear
liest travellers and writers 10 have
been intelligent, brave and free, loyal
in friendship, generous in hospitallties
and with many traits of character
worthy of emulation by the civilized
race.
"rbe Imnroyed Order of Red Men ad-