The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-22

Were There.
 There was a non-political asscmbl- age in the Ninth district last night attended by the Republican and Dem ocratic friends of Assistant City Clerk Lawrence J. Gill. The gathering was around the festive board at the home of Herr Krist Kost, the genial boni- face and incidentally burgomeister of the Ninth. 1Oz6 East Main street. Herr Gill confessed last night that one of the reasons his rotund figure extend- ed over the building line was due to his fondness for German dishes.
 Since the meeting of the Common Council on December the assistant city clerk has been weighed down with diamond stud. gold watch and sev- eral other gifts and his friends were of the opinion that his appetite was going back on him. Herr Kost noticed the waning away and said to his wife, 'T guess we will have to feed MT. Gill again"
 A number of the friends of the Assistant City Clerk were invited and he was given a little surprise Two rooms of the Kost home were decorat- ed for the occasion and two tables were filled. On the table was set many steaming vfands but the principal piece de resistance was boiled schwein heckse with sauer kraut and schwein rosten- Talk about your eight course dinners with such a German supper as Mrs. KCsI set before the guests.
 At the post prandial which followed Herr Gill was the toastmaster and as he was among friends he waxed eloquent and displayed none of the bashfulness that was evidenced on the occasion of his speech before the board of aldermen on the evening that he was showered with gifts or at the time he eluogized a well known city offi- cial at the aldermanic clambake last summer.
 Those who spoke were Mavor E. TT. Buckingham. Former President Cliff ford B. Wilson of the Board of Alder men, Patrick w. Murray. a kinsman of l.. J. Gill, Frederick c. Mullins, a relative of Lawrence J. Gill, Peter Me Mahon, a brother-in-law of the toast master and a few other near kinsmen of the former Democratic registrar of the district.
 Almost every one present was ob- liged to respond and among those pres ent were Harry Kramer, former mayor of Hotchkissville; James Hardie, ST.. EmIl Fischer, H. Cooper. Bernard Scully, Walter Fenton F. Steinmetz, A. Howard. Otto Wagner. E. Perschel. G. Perschel, William Boyson. Samuel Stanley, George Weller. Joseph Weller. James Sheehan. the natter, James SnAOBnneSSNs DT- N- of the emergency staff. F. Enders. F. Webster, simon Reynolds. STheodore Goreas, and James P. Hartley. Each of the speakers were introduced as the toastmaster knew them best and there were many disclosures of a humorous nature Between the speech making there were a number of bass solo se- lections rendered by Joseph Weller ac- companied upon the piano by Prof Schlunk-
 A few minutes before the guests de parted the host. Herr Kost announced that 45 years ago in Wurtemberg there was a happening in which he was an important factor. A son was born to his good SchwasbIscher parents and he was the son.
 The announcement was a surprise to the guests and the host was oblig- ed to make a speech and afterwards he received congratulations from all the guests.
 Before leaving the party expressed their thanks to Mrs Kost and those who assisted her. Mrs Wagner. Mrs. Fischer. Mrs. Perschel and the Misses Kost.