Evening star., 1909-02-25
YALE MEN TO ASSIST
Decide to Make Taft Inaugu-
ration a Success.
ARRANGE FOR BIG SMOKER
Seventy Classmates of Next Presi-
dent Will Be Here.
ALUMNI ENGAGE QUARTERS
Washington Association Proceeds
With Elaborate Arrange
ARRANGE FOR BIG SMOKER
ALUMNI ENGAGE QUARTERS

Everything that Yale men. graduates
and undergraduates, can do to make the
Inauguration of William Howard Taft
Yale, '7s, a success will be done. OF the
100 living classmates of the President
elect seventy-five have announced their
intention to attend the inauguration
Undergraduates are coming from New
Haven in droves. bringing nearly the
whole glee club with them.
Yale headquarters will be established
by the Washington alumni association for
the comfort and care of the visitors and
a large smoker. which William Howard
Taft is expected to attend, will be held
the eve of inauguration day.
1t is at the smoker that Yale will hold
forth in true style. for to it Yale men
only will be admitted. Fifteen hundred
tickets represent its limitations as far
as numbers are concerned. In other re-
-spects there will be no limitations.
In Charge of Local Alumni.
The whole show is in charge of the
Washington Yale Alumni Association. and
that organization, with deliberation, and
forethought. is making preparations to
insert the major pot into the confines of
the minor one for the occasion. A gigan-
tic musical program is being arranged
by the Yale Alumni Musical Association.
whose president, John O. Heald of New
York has sent to every man who ever
sang on Yale glee club an invitation to
attend.
Washington members of the musical as
sociation are keenly interested in the
affair, and already have engaged the
services of James Mandeville Carlisle and
Ham Baxter of Washington, two lyric
tenors. who. while at Yale. made its glee
club more famous than ever. Each will
sing a sol at the smoker. Mr.. Carlisls
has chosen And When the Leaves Turn
Red and Fall as his piece de resistance.
This Is famous Yale song, but the men,
ton of the color Of the leaves is not in
tended as a slur upon Harvard. Mr..
Baxter will also sing song of vegetation
entitled "My Sweet Magnolia. My South
ern Queen" another aria we'll known to
Yale men, and considered by Mr.. Baxter
as the best suited song for "close, har-
mony' that he has ever heard. Everybody
at the smoker will join in the chorus.
The smoker will be held in the New
Willard Hotel, and will begin early the
evening of March 3. 1t is hoped the pro-
gram will be finished by the time the
parade starts the next afternoon. All
applications for tickets for Yale alumni
living in Washington are made to Fred
erick II. Brooke whose offices are in the
Hibbs building. Applica atiOns from Out-of
town alumni are being received by George
X. McLanahan, in the Union Trust build
ing.
Acceptances by Every Mail.
1.-The indications are that Yale will be
well represented at Judge Taft's Inaugural
ton Mr.. McLanahan today said. Every
mail is bringing in acceptances to the in
vitations to the smoker. Owing to the
that SO many Yale men are coming, we
have been compelled to limit the attend
ance to Yale men only.
I'D rTaP al, thn a1, %
seventy men have accepted invitations.
1.-The undergraduates are sending in
applications every day, and from the
number already received from New
Haven l think the student body will be
we'll represented. The Glee Club Quar-
tet will be on hand, and will be assisted
by most of the members of the Glee
Club. although the club itself will not
come In body.
Il would like 1T made clear to all Yale
men who wish to attend the smoker
that they will have to get their tickets
from the association in advance as no
tickets will be issued at the New Will
lard March 3, the day of the smoker, or
before that time.
Rooms for Headquarters.
I'VE have procured a whole floor of the
Union Trust building for our headquar-
ters. Members of the Washington asso-
citation will be at headquarters all the
time to look after the visitors. The reg
istration books will be kept there and all
information as to quarters for visiting
alumni may be procured at the head
quarters
While no positive word has been re-
ceived from Judge Taft as to his appear
ance at the smoker. the committee in
charge of the arrangements for it are
confident that he will appear, even If for
a few minutes only.
The officers of the Washington Yale
are Truman II. New
berry. president: A. A. Adee, first vice
president; Huntington Wilson, second vice
president; George X. McLanahan, secre-
tary: Frederisk II. Brooke, treasurer;
George Gould Lincoln, historian; executive
committee Electus Pratt John Ball Os-
horne II I. Willard OF the class Of 20.