The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-18

kept busy tonight serving up wit and
humor at special dinner compliment
tary to the new administration. The
dinner was given in the banquet hall
of the New Willard.
Care was taken that men prominent
In the public eye got all that was com
ing to them in the way of thrusts and
Jibes, and the great assemblage was IN
Il constant uproar.
OF course, President Taft was there,
as were Speaker Cannon, members of
the cabinet and the diplomatic corps,
senators and representatives, men high
in the industrial and financial world
and many others of distinction. In the
absence of President Henry Hall, who
is just recovering from a long illness,
President Scott c.. Bone of the Wash
ington Herald presided.
The onslaught on the banquet room
began when the clubs old-fashioned
dinner bell announced that everything
was ready. AS soon as the diners were
seated, the room was thrown into dark
ness, while a musical welcome was eX-
tended to the distinguished guests, Then
the mammoth electric gridiron flashed
into view, the lights were turned on
throughout the room and the fun com
menced.
Special Minstrel Show.
ALMOST Tue uTSt tnlUS W Slttl INC
guests was haudbill distributed by
some speedy messenger boys apnounc-
ing that there would be great min
strel show by all-star performers, in
cluding vocaliSts, comedians and "cab~
met officers.
This was the hit of the evening
In true minstrel fashion with all
the accomplishments of busters and
more or less discordant band. this
troupe of club talent paraded through
the hall before going on the stage.
The programme of the show was
clever imitation Of the real thing, even
to the naming of the executive staff,
together with special Hnote by the
management, - which called attention
to what was to come and with the in
junction that there should be no flow
ers Eating Through Georgia" was
the opener, and 1t ran like this;
'Sound the good old dinner horn,
we II sing another song
About the trip that Taft once made,
when. with,
Digestion strong,
He ate his share Of everything that they
would
Bring along,
AS we went eating through Georgia.
''Wc tackled the 'possum that they
took care
To bake,
We ate canned watermelon and Il dish
they called
We didn't draw the line at alligator
steak,
AS We went eating through Georgia.
''By southern hospitality our hearts
were surely won,
And we resolved to do the very best
that could be done
For Democrats, and so VIC saved some
pie for
Dickinson,
As we went eating through Georgia. "
"Please Leave the Dear Old Tourists
Alone; They Are Seeing Things at
Night, was the title of song by
James Henry of the Philadelphia Free
Press, 80 the wonderful soft pedal bari
tome in which the trusts informed
Attorney.General Wickersham that they
were tired and sleepy too, and appealed
to him to put them in their little beds.
Secretary MacVeagh was cIassed among
the fifty-seven varieties of Democrats
and reformers. who had great difficulty
In remembering when registration day
came around This discussion was cut
l..
which it was stated was being talked
pro and con, HIudeed.' - remarked tho
"vice president, with evident sur
prise.
eyes replied the end man. E'pro
means for the trusts. Con is what The
consumer gets.
''The White House Cow
The White House COW. now already
famnuc pDse no6a fbp sI y loot IF ,po ~
the best stunts of the evening. Attend
ed by q dairymaid, a splendid imita-
tion of the bovine was led into the room
The president was informed that while
there had been a lot Of loose talk about
the possum being the animal emblem of
the present administration, and that the
Tedy bear was one of 'my policies''
that had been inherited, it was all non
sense.
"The emblem of this administra-
tion. ~ said the animal S keeper, sis the
COW. and this is it -
II was discovered that the milk pail
was minus the tactical fluid, and in its
among which was bottle tagged with
n testimonial from Senator AIdrieh, as
follows
''We used this medicine on the tariff
bill and removed all Payne from it in
stantly.
The pail was being emptied of It's con-
tents when in rushed n member, who
impersonated Castro, and who demanded
place Of refuge. There is nothing
we can do for you, Mr.. Castro, you
must GO. was the answer to his ND
peal, but the excited South American
persisted, and it was decided to let him
take care of the cow,
Another Great Stunt.
y Burlesque on Uncle Tom S Cab
IN was a funny stunt. Eliza was de-
picted as fleeing across the ire holding
10 her arms two children, Maximum and
Minimum, wrapped in the tariff bill
and pursued by the howl of the gray
, wolves Of the senate.
miniature wire basket, which served
as the congressional waste basket, -
was the souvenir of the dinner, and into
II were dropped at intervals various
things which were supposed TO repre-.
"r"t --neTs that srn liable 70 find the;-