Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-27
ABAGADASSET CLUB
Had Annual Spread and Speeches
in Rooms Last Night.

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dasset club was held in their room
in the Mullings building last even
ing. 1t was perhaps the most sue
cessful spread the club has yet given
The club was prettily decorated, pinl
and green being the prevailing colors
The menu was as follows:
Martini.
Oyster Cocktail.
Olives. Radishes. Celery
Sailed Almonds.
Consomme. Prentanier Royal
White Bait, Tartar Sauce.
Boiled New Potatoes. Cucumbers
Sweetbreads en- Caisse.
Duchess Potatoes. French Peas
! Abagadasset Punch. Cigarettes.
Stuffed and Roast Squads.
Sauce Chasseur.
Pomme Chateau. Asparagus au Beurrt
Waldorf Salad.
Camembert Cheese. Crackers
Ice Cream. Cake.
| Coffee. Cigars.
| While the dinner was served music
was furnished by A. T. Sincaster, w
F. Kirschbaum, C. R. Book, A. L.
Kirschbaum, S. O. Klobedanz and L.
G. Hill.
Andrew e. Woodward, president of
the club introduced John w. Reyes
as POSTMASTER. The programme was
as follows:
"The Land of Rest" Wilson H.
Pierce.
IAN American Fallacy," Berlin w.
Tinker.
Civil Service Responsibility"
the Rev Frederick D. Buckley.
POSTMASTER, John w. Reyes.
Attorney Wilson H. Pierce had an
abundance of good stories. He had
his audience in very good humor
when he started in on his subject
proper. His concluding paragraph
follows:
Have vocation and an avocation.
The latter to be something in which
one can be interested and which in
terests. Systematically use part of
each day for reading and thoughtful
ness. Pursue your rest thoroughly.
Master and digest your reading. Keep
at arms length, within reach, few
books, Shakespeare, Emerson's essays,
Dickens Tale of Two Cities, and
Thackeray's The Newcombes.' Take
no thought for the morrow but live
each day fully. Not every man can
be great, but every man can live in
the atmosphere of greatness"
In speaking on IAN American
Fallacy" Superintendent of Schools,
B. w. Tinker said that in Waterbury
only seventy-five per cent of the chill
dren that enter the first grade ever
reach the seventh; only twenty per
cent ever graduate from the ninth
grade or grammar school; while onl'
four per cent finish the high school
course. Yet he said the courses
are all planned principally for
the boys and girls that intend
to go through high school.
He said that fifty per cent of the
children that leave school are of the
brightest scholars. He said that the
child must be given not knowledge,
not a few isolated facts, but some
thing which he can assimilate, alb
sorb and finally put into his daily
life.
After Mr. Tinker's address the
mayor started to leave the hall. but
the guests would not allow him to
depart until he had made few re-
marks.
The Rev Frederick Buckley spoke
on civil Service Responsibility" A
few of the paragraphs follow:
"The cheapest thing on the market
to-day Is muscle. You can buy all
you want on the streets to-day for
$3.50 day. The worst day in the
life of the American youth is that in
which he believes that he can secure
an honest dollar without giving an
honest dollars worth of work for 1t. 4"
Many a young man is running an
when he ought to be
pushing a wheelbarrow and many a
young man is eating planked steak
at The Elton, when he should be eat
ing liver and bacon in a cheaper
restaurant.
THE present business crisis has its
faults. 1t has been inexcusable, in a
sense, but 1t has been necessary to
take the automobiles from many a
man who could not in honesty be
riding in them"
The entertainment committee was
of George e. Camp, chair
man; Frank J. Erbe. John w. Reyes,
Samuel Marvin, Jr, Charles f. Puffer. |
The officers are: President. An
irew Z. Woodward: vice president,
Joseph S. Austin: recording secre-
tary, Milton V. Medling; financial
Arthur +. Ellis; treasurer,
Harley w. Trip: board Of governors,
Frank J. Erbe. Edison w. Hitchcock,
Stanley H. Crater. Charles A. Babin,
Lawrence l.. Lewis, Charles Z. Puffer.