The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-20
KNOCKERS CLUB
ENTERTAINS TAFT
PREslDENT.ELEcT is GUEST OF
HONOR AT UNIQUE cERE-
MoNY IN CINCINNATI.
is MADE A MEMBER OF CLUB
Messages from Representatives Of 1e
Foreign Nations are Delivered
and Many Amusing Stunts
are Pulled OF.

Cincinnati. Feb. -President.elect
Taft last night was made Knocker
"at sight" His initiation furnished
entertainment for 100 business and
professional men of the city, at the
Knockers annual dinner. Cincinnatis
Knockers organization is an auxiliary
of its Business Mems club. Its par
ticular business is to knock every
thing tending to hinder the material
advancement of the city and to origin
ate enterprises for the city's welfare
II is unique in that Il has no known
organization and no one knows who
are It's members. It makes members
Of whom It pleases and dismisses
them at will
The rooms Of the Business Mems
club were resplendent in draperies OF
flags and decorations of ferns and
flowers. Al each of the 16 tables sat
an appropriately costumed Knocker
to represent one of l6 foreign nations,
and during the evening a message to
the president.to-be was made known
from each
Emperor Williams wireless mes.
sage was announced to Mr. Taft as a
kiss for each cheek and the hope that
the senate would not find It necessary
to reduce the presidential salary be
fore the new president could get in.
Miss Columbia got cNe of the kisses
from the enthusiastic German.
An Irish cook direct from the
palace of King Edward was England's
tribute, but the cook at once began
to make terms. That Little Charlie
must not he boss of the White House
and Charlie p" must not live with
his brother were assured her before
she would remain.
Is offered 81 Varieties Of Wives.
Any one of his 81 varieties of
wives was offered Mr.. Taft by the
| representative of the sultan, but
Uncle Sam would have none of this,
rejecting the offer with the assertion
that zone wife is enough to keep a
man poor"
With hands upon MIR. Taft's
Uranium, Persia's representative told
the assembled Knockers of the
thoughts passing through his brain as
/ follows:
"IIe is just now congratulating him,
self that he was made a Mason at
sight-and so is the goat,
"IIe is now trying to discover some
word to use instead Of 'de-e.lighted.'
"He wishes the cabinet would let
him write part of that message to
congress.
"He wonders whether II the
Filipinos had been cannibals he would
have penetrated their interior.
"He resolves In the tariff war To
lead the charge up to the very can
mons mouth"
A Ceremony In the Dark,
The ceremony of declaring the
guest OF honor a Knocker "at sight
was conducted In total darkness, with
rumblings of thunder and flashes OF
lightning, and concluded the festiv
ties at table. The evolution OF the
Taft smile was afterwards depicted
through moving pictures In the as
sembly hall of the club, through
which the scenes OF Notification
day" were re-enacted.
Attell and DrIseolI Meet In the Ring
New York, Feb. 2O.-Jem Driscoll
the English featherweight champion
and Abe Attell of San Francisco
holder of the worlds championship In
that class, met In a ten-round boui
last night at the National Athletic
club and Driscoll had shade the bet
ter of the contest. No decision waf
given by the referee, as the laws Of
this state do not permit decisions to
be rendered by boxing bouts The
championship title was not involved.