The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-28
MIKE THE WRECK IS BARRED
,,>r EARNEST SOUL MISSED AT
TUE COLLECTIVIST DINNER.
pu, julius Hopp Was There With Views on
The Drama and the Social Uphft
Anna Maiey Also Ready to Talk
,bout Arousins Class Consciousness.

,he rama and the Social Upnft
Anna Maiey Also Ready to Talk
,bout Arousins Class Consciousness.
Douhtless Mike the Wreck thought
chat all the troubles that have come to
sim after a long and trying siege OF the
pnwery were at an and after he had
,istened to the dulcet tones Of Jay Begee
Pinehart of the Bowery and Harvard.
Mike the Wreck lately has listened to
Low Begee's q~uasi-socialistio doctrines
and then went further and outhopped
InIius Hopp himself in socialism. And
~ Nike the Wreck has been busting into
socialistic meetings all v . Rivington
street and places for weeks past. teach
inc the doctrine Of the common good.
B,t last night when the Colleotivist
society met for its fifth and last meeting
and dinner of the season at Kalil's restau-
rant. 10 Park place. to discuss weighty
.ub;ects Mike the Wreck couldn't even
get in to give an account Of his steward
sbip or anything else. A fat waiter
barred him, and Mike the Wreck just
stood out in the night disconsolate. his
heart heavy within him. and for some time
he listened to the rattle Of the dishes and
then he vent away from there. Fol
they would not let him in.
But julius Hopp. the Socialist play
wright, was there early. and Julius passed
the time pleasantly while the oyster COCK
tails were being created by swapping
notes with a playwright friend OF his
who had Just dropped in and who wears
glasses with a string and a practically
invisible mustache and a forid Celtic
face.
How did your show go in Chicago?'
asked julius, for he was on that his old
time friend had tried to get n over.
Rotten" answered Julius's friend.
.orrowfully. sThe gang got on that once
I was a newspaper man and they canned
H." And SO the repartee went on till
regular food was served.
The Collectivist Society had met to dis
cuss the question: Resolved, that the
most urgent measure for the welfare OF
the human race is the %arousing OF class
consciousness in the working classes.
Out in the night Mike the Wreck related
bis views on class consciousness. Mike
the Wreck told an early newspaper arrival
that he has now n mission in hfe-tow wit.
10 ameliorate the human race. But they
threw him out.
Upper class middle class taxicabs were
used by enough OF the Socialists to cause
a thin red line of tsximeters to stand in
front Of the restaurant from $50 in the
afternoon until almost midnight. In
the meantime the prophets Of collectivism
TO the number OF about 125 dined and
drank Croton until it was time to settle
the question of class oonsciousness
Prof. Charles Sprague Smith, fresh
from the heckling belt. presided. Morris
Hillauit, who was down as an affirmative
debater, was unable to be present.
but his place was ably taken by Miss Anna
Maley, the national organizer OF Social
istic women's societies. Also present
looking like Sam Clemens, the writer;
Dramatic Movement; John Martin, whom
Mike the Wreck says is "a celebrated
Fabian Socialist; the Rev. George viii
son, the Socialist minister from New
Jersey; Prof. George, r.. Kirkpatrick.
eocialistic societies; W. j. Client. secre-
tary Of the Rand School Of Social Science;
Miss Pierson of the Peoples Institute;
Helen Marot, secretary OF the Women
Trade Union League, and Mrs Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. .
There seems to stand In the path OF
human progress a boulder called special
privilege" said Miss Maley. and that
theme received much attention from
Miss Maley, who also said that she can
call spirits from the vastly deep-but will
they Gomez" $500.
So far as one could learn they didn't,
which was fortunate; for the entrance
of spirits from the vastly deep. or even
the entrance of the earnest Mike the
Wreck, would have disturbed the flow
of pure reason that went or unimpeded
down the keller Of Kalil's for many. hours,
When all the returns were in it was
learned that class consciousness won as
GOOD Socialists would like to see 1t win.
Good speeches were made by almost
everybody present-exoept Mr.. Mike the
Wreck, who had to stand out in the night
and tell his thoughts to a taxicab chauf-
four named Plus Coggins. Mike the
Wreck said in parting that Of late his
thoughts we're so important that he
could not put them into words. This
was true too Of Julius Hopp and many
others that got inside the restaurant and
unburdened themselves. AS a result
many thoughts that make for ameliora.
ton we're unlimbered last evening and
everybody went home with the justifiable
feeling that after all something had been
done for something-all except Mike the
Wreck, who departed from the curb with
n final remark To Pins that thinQH AZ thew