The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-08
CITY NEWS
SPRING GAMBOL
WAS A FUNCTION
PRESS CLUB WELCOMES ETHE-
REAL MILDNESS.
Dignitaries Of the State Lampooned In
Vigorous Style at the Smoke Social
Evening Started With Dinner and
Concluded With Midnight Vau-
deville Show of High Merit.


Concluded With Midnight vau-
deville Show of High Merit.
Spring is here. The Spring Gambol
of the Press Club is today a thing of
the past, but it's history will linger. The
official opening of the springtime was
function of the first magnitude.
ries of state and city, with aldermen
and legislators, doctors, lawyers, Indian
chiefs; members of the police, fire and
poor departments and Representatives
of every respectable trade or profession
assisting, the Amalgamated Pencil
Pushers. Of Minneapolis began. the eere-
honest hour Of $3.50 last evening.
Following a successful dinner at
Schrapp's the crowd of gamboling
lambs focked to the club rooms over
the Unique theater, and there the real
ceremonies were pulled off in a brilliant
and dazzling manner. Speeches galore
In addition to being spring gambol, it
was truly hammerfest'' with the
speakers as the victims. Local color in
its brightest and most vivid hues
flashed here and there, and the speaker
with past had troubles a-plenty. They
the introduction Of - gridiron honors"
in the northwest.
Governor johnson was given the
honor of starting the function and did
so in his usual happy manner. Stanley
Washburn was given a fair degree Of
attention and Difference as member
who had distinguished himself, and was
followed by Rev. G. L. Morrill,, who
after some difficulty managed to get
away with his subject. From this
point on the fun waxed furious and
fast. Colonel A. X. Schall, as master
at arms, dragged out the victims while
the crowd did the rest. A. E. Merrill.
called on to speak in defense of that
body, but was hardly successful. Frank
Clague, speaker of the house, was the
wise man, who compared the crowd to
the lower branch Of the legislature, and
was duly. and properly reprimanded. He
squared, himself by saying that the or
der Of the house could not compare with
the order Of his present audience
which was true.
Frank A. Day, Governor johnson s
private secretary, was forced to make a
republican speech which ran as follows:
Delighted An attempt to get by
this word was promptly blocked. and
Other speakers adopted the word and
Expressed themselves as delighted, but
it was noticed that Dick Ferris said
lawfully glad' instead.
u Whatever courage the speakers may
have had. most of them fell far short in
endurance, leaving the palm in that
4 line to Joe Mannix, who stuck until he
had used up his full ten minutes. The
full list of speakers included all the sill
ver-tongues of the town, as will be
;. seen from the list, Mayor Jones, James
Gray, Official photographer .Opsahl, P.
V ~ yf - Dowfling, Judy schmahl
kicked on the electric lights and tried
friend in need,'' Elmer A. Adams, j.
Newton Mind, alias "Mud, - ..Doc.'''
Kicker. John G. Lennon. Sam Langum
A. L. Sorter, Albert Fl: Hall, Matt Gal
laagherr, .,sPudge' Heffelfnger, ". B
. L. Williams. w. I. Nolan, Henri Giert
son, Carl Wallace, who spoke in the
Hindu sign language, W. P. Roberts
"the watch dog of the state treasury
and John G. Lund, who was landed only
after row with the "bouncer land
: others.
Following the symposium the jewellers
adjourned to the theater proper at II
5 o'clock, where they were Joined by
:. other friends of the profession and al
: audience Of 600 was entertained by the
l members of the different theatrica
+ companies now appearing in the city
l E. Antiquarian Bromley, the vet
: eran newspaper man who daily walk:
). the street in search of news that hap
! pened forty years ago, started the show
}: with stereopticon lecture on "Early
/ Minneapolis "Minute James, bet
ter known as "Little Jimmy" Latour
e ellie, as orchestra, stage, manager anc
s company, rendered a touching and pa
! thetic little opera entitled "They Are
| f-
err in which he sang all the parts from
the cigaret soprano to the basso pro
r fundissimo. He made hit, but for
= tunately did not land on ANYBODY
1 James claimed that the words to hi
painful ditty were Italian, but it can
not be proven that such was the case.
= Baby Kiefe of the Fatal We'd
/ Mirandy,'' and danced like fairy
g Frank Monroe, the leading man of tn
II Lyceum stock company, recited, toll
a stories and gave limitations. Conkey
'. the juggler, had a running fire of funn,
s. remarks while he performed his stunts
d Frank Burnham, the veteran actor, CAV
d recitation. The Savoys, James an
'. ing:
s. William Rock of the Tenderfoot com
Y, pany sang, danced and gave imitation
d of costermonger. Miss Cowie France
l. Bower, the California contralto, san
&c two songs which we'll displayed tn
r wonderful range of her voice. Richar
earle Of the Tenderfoot company mad
one of his inimitable speeches, san
T. and told stories. A fashlight pictur
=, of the audience was taken by NJ. Hill
al a. bard, the photographer, and resolution
"a, of thanks to J. E. Rogers and Mat
y. Gallagher of the Unique theater fo
3 5 their hospitality were adopted by
= rising vote.
- Finally the gamboling ceased in spit
a. of the fact that Mayor Jones had pei
d mitted himself to go on record as will
ing to compromise by turning back tn
hands of the city hall clock. Thi
morning a few wanderers were seen o
the streets wearing tags reading as 70
lows: "Spring Gambol of the Pres
Club of Minneapolis. Admit This Buc
es to the Green Pastures, which mean
IS that it is hard to keep strong ma
he within boundS