The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-08
PRINCETON GRADUATES DINE
FROM ALL THE YEARS THEY
GATHER Ar EAST ORANGE

And sing Ballads Long Forgotten ana
Listen 60 New Dnes From Old Bread.
way Done by the Underyrads Job
Hedges and Others speak nj Reunion.
Travellers who passed through the viii
lage Of East Orange last night were not to
confuse the exploding Of bombs at the sta
ton and the burning Of red FIRE in the streets
with the dOings Of the Princeton Alumni
Association OF the Oranges. The noise
and the red fire on the streets had to do
with a little serenade the citizens were
preparing for MIR. Fort, the Governor
elect; the noise and red fire in the banquet
room Of English's Hall all p~ertained to the
fourth annual dinner OF the Princeton grad
yates and Job Hedges in particular.
That part Of Jersey from the Hackensack
Meadows west To the limit Of committing
belongs to Princeton. Any one doubling
this had but to climb the stairs 20 the
banquetting room last night and gather
in the few remarks of the old grads and
undergrads. There were a hundred Of
them; the glee club from the college being
a privileged body represented the under
grads. For the rest, the class numerals
following the names of those present on
the printed seating arrangement ran rack
to the early seventies. IL was intimsted
that job Hedges's graduation antedated
the earliest known records of man. but
he tried to conceal this fact.
With Francis Spier, Jr.. president of the
association. there sat at the speakers
table Edward Dufield. Prof. H. A. Gar
field Of Princeton, Prof. John q. Hibben.
Albridge Smith, Jr., Clarence b. Mitchell,
Wilson Farrand, job f.. Hedges, w. II.
Edwards, G. G. Kidder OF Harvard and
HendOn Chubb, Yale. Others who sat
dow with the shouters were J. B. Ander-
ArchdeacOn Cameron, H. E. Chapman,
John Farr, Kenneth 4. K~ingsbury. A. III.
Hagemeyer, Robert H. Amin, George N.
McCampbel and W. II. Underhill.
The proximity OF Newark and Hoboken
led the managers Of the dinner TO
ma the evenings proceedings would BE-
a saengerfest. But the Princeton chapel
element prevailed and congregational sing
ing was the order of the evening. There
were football songs between bites of celery
and ditties OF thirty years ago served with
the cranberry sauce. After the old ones
had finished singing their softly sentimental
ballads OF yore the glee club would get
together n tear on something hot from
The melange was perfect and walters in
English's restaurant who had spent many
years in Jersey seclusion confided TO
one another between removing dishes
that after all there was nothing like a col
lege education.
So late we're some of the out of towners
in arriving and so frequent the bursts of
song that held the walters speechless with
the smoking rOasts growing cold in their
hands that those humble outsiders who had
come with lOwly mein to report the iOw OF
humor that was TO follow the emoval OF
the Zoe cream plates fidgeted with 81.
Vitus dance steps as they consulted the
railroad timetables. praying hat the late
trains and the time of going to press would
allow them to garner some Of the thought
harvest. But IL was not to ba. Il can
only be faithfully reported that jon Hedges
did make n speech--at least that he was
down for n and that he was there with
trokeys in his pocket-and that Wilson
FaFrand, C.. c. Cuyler and Joseph Shea
also favora1