The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
GRIE7R0N'S
 SEAT DINNER Historic Club Makes
 Merry. BIG GUNS GALORE PRESENT Newspaper Men Did Not Forget De-
 parted Members. Al OrganizatiOn's Most Successful Ban- quet, Roosevelt Rubbed Shoulders With DOckstader and R
 Conner wlth Senator
 AIdrich.

Washington, Dec. S--With the Pres ident of the United states. and the Vice President. with the Ambassadors from Italy. Great Britain. Russia and Japan; with the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Senators and Rep resentatives in Congress. with many of the great captains of industry presest, the twenty-third annual dinner of the Gridiron Club tonight at the New Will lard. marked the high tide of the Clubs prosperity and achievements.
 Throughout the gentle satire, bur Iesque and straight comedy were the dominating notes in the most success full dinner this famous club of Wash iugton correspondents has ever given. There were sharp contrasts, mirth and seriousness chasing one another. The tribute to the dead members of the Club abutted closely upon burles- que Cuban revolution. and an examplt- fcation of what happens in the Lawn Tennis Cabinet" which meets with the President here every day, Sundays ex- cepted, and volieys with him over the nets
 In the Cuban situation. member of the Club impersonated Judge Magoon. now of Cuba, and sitting on a red hot stove, he held down the lid while the Gridiron Club proceeded to select cabinet for the Actag Governor in the Gem of the Antilles. It was cabinet composed of the Tame Ducks" gentle men who failed of election in Novem- Der and club members impersonated William Randolph Hearst, who was nominated for Governor of the Island; Mir. Babcock. MT. Moody, Mfr. Cleary and General Grosvenor, who were giv- en positions along the lines with which they have been identified in public life.
 MT. Moody was selected for the place Of 'eTrust Buster or Trust Mata- dor" The Cuban revolutionists, and they were not g few added greaty to the picture in their burlesque cos- tunes, insisting that Mr. Moody was not Trust Matadors but a sPieador,P 7 the difference being that a matador | kills, while the picador only leases. GrfdirOn simple SpeIIer.
 Probably the strongest feature of the l dinner was the Gridiron Simple Spell ! Ter" and "DlctiOnary,' which was is- sued in the form of booklet of some | forty pages containing quaint spell lings and exceedingly funy cuts, illus l trating the definitions. And there were wise saws and modern maxims accom- | panying the volume which cannot fail 1 to establish the Club as an organiza- ton of gentle satirists of the first wa | ter
 The initiation of two new members | rave an opportunity for quiet dig at | the War Department growing out ot | inc discharge of the three colored | Brownsville, Tex. MT. c. Arthur Will Hams of The Washington Herald, and | MT. Chafles Willis Thompson Of The | New York Times. were the two new members taken into the Club, ths for mer impersonating an officer Of the | 25th Infantry, while the latter was 1 compelled to read from his book 'F arr 1 ty Leaders of the Time, wherein ne | speaks of the President, Vice Presi- 1 dent Fairbanks, Senator Spooner ana Senator Aldrich.
 OF Senator spooner ha said that he was inc leading member of the Wis consin delegation in the Senate. with | the execution of Senator LaFollette Sneaking of Senator Aldrich he said tbat the Senator from Rhode Island l did not care who wrote the messages | inst so he could make the laws
 Throughout the dinner bulletins were raad from the White House by differ emf members of the club, outlining pos sible cabinet changes at the end of which the club members sang to the | tune of He's a Jolly Good Fellow,
 No more cabinet changes, | No more cabinet changes | No more cabinet changes. Till Roosevelt changes his mind. There were songs without number tbe President, Secretary Taft, Score | tary Shaw and Vice-President Fair , banks being introduced with character 1 istic melody which put everybody In | good humor and not excepting the 1 speakers
 Lew DOckstadeF PreseRt. | The whirlwind of fun which extend | ed from to midnight, was accentuateo l by the presence of Lew Dockstader, the famous minstrel, who appeared as a l guest of the club, in his quaint costume i Of which everybody knows.
 Throughout the dinner there were l telephone conversations held with un' known persona in which opportunity | was given to gently broiI the guests In the delicate manner for which the cIuE i is famous.
 Was it a good dinner? Ask the fol l lowing, who were among the guests 1 present:
 Secretaries Hitchcock, Shaw, Taft and Wilson; United states senators | Aldrich, Blackburn, Foraker, kitt' 1 redge, Scott, Spooner and Tillman Representatives Babcock, Dawes, Bsch | Gill, Grosvenor, Lowden, McCleary Parsons, sherman, Sullivan and Weeks l John Barrett, Minister to Colombia; B. Conner, Governor-elect of Alabama Lieutenant General Corbin, Charles c Dawes Chicago; Stuyvesant Fish, New York; David R. Francis, St. Louis James R. Garfield, John W. Gates | New York; Frank N. Barksdale, Penn sylvania Railroad; Perry Belmont, New York; Edward H. Hartman, President of the Union Pacific Railroadi William Loeb, Jr.. Secretary to the President w. E Loves. Baltimore and Ohio Rail
 read; J. H. Maddy, Erie Railroad Paul Morton, New York; Albert Shaw Review of Reviews, New York; Walter Fl. Page. Worlds Work, New York Theodore P. Shonts, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission; Jamei | Speyer, New York; H. St George ! Tucker, President of the Jamestown
 Exposition; Frank A. Vanderlip, New
 York and Timothy L.. Woodruff, New l York.
 
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