Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-18
TAFT At YALE Dinner SPEAK OF NARCOTICS
Sons of Eli to Give Biggest COL Physicians Deliver Addresses
Iege Banquet. on Action of Alcohol.
IGUESTS TO NUMBER $500 DR. vii EY TELLS OF POISON
Singing More Than
the Great Feature. for Study Meet
DECORATIVE SECRET PLAN AUTO TOUR OF THE CITY
Who Be
Nights Affair
i Is to
Sons of Eli to Give Biggest COL
Iege Banquet.
GUESTS TO NUMBER 1900
Singing More Than Speeches to Be
the Great Feature.
DECORATIVE PLAN A SECRET
Surprise Is Promised Those Who At
tend Tomorrow Nights Affair
in New York.

NEW YORK, March 1s.-President Taft
is due for the time Of his life tomorrow
night, when he will be the guest Of honor
at the greatest college dinner and ono Of
the most elaborate public banQuets ever
given. 1t would be the reddest Of red
letter nights in the history of Yale II It
were not that every trace Of crimson will
be barred from decorations which the
committee in charge promises the $500
Yale men in the Waldorf will not soon
| forget. Harvards color hardly would be
fitting at a celebration for . son Of the
Blue.
| 1t will be Yale's greeting TO her first
President Of the United States. In song
and story, in speeches and In the yip-
ping cheer the praises Of Father Eli and
Son Bill will be heard. Most Of all they
will be sung. Massed In the center of the
grand ballroom will be thirty-fv singers
picked from the Yale glee clubs OF the
last twenty years. Frank Simmons.
famous in his day as a glee leader. will
start them in Bright College Years"
''Boula" and the other old songs Mr.. Taft
sang before he left college on the long
road that led him to the presidency.
The singing. far more than the speeches,
viii be the feature of the dinner. al
though Mr.. Taft and President Hadley of
Yale are down for addresses. James r.
Sheffield. president Of the Yale Club. will
preside. and after Eli Hadley has con-
graduated. Eli Taft and ELI Taft has re-
ciprocated there will be impromptu
speeches by a half dozen other prominent
Yale alumni.
Yale's Greatest ''Trophy."
The details of the decorations are being
kept secret by Julian Curtiss and the
other members Of the committee Of ar
rangsments. as they wish to surprise the
diners. but it Is known there will be such
a massing of Yale blue and the Stars
and Stripes as never was seen before.
There will be no athletic trophies. such as
shells and foot balls. for, as one Of the
trophy" and he will shine from the center
of the guest table at Mr.. Shefiields right
hand. with nothing SO comparatively
trivial as the tokens OF a great race or
gridiron victory to dim his luster.
More than 1850 seats have been called
for. and because of that great demand the
capacity Of the Waldorf will be taxed
more than ever before. Tables will be
floor Of the grand ballroom. and the Yale
men will spread into the annex and what
has usually been used as a courtroom.
Mr.. Taft will be greeted by the "Brek-
ters the room. Each course will be spiced
by songs. From the first practically all
formality will be cast aside and Yale men
will turn the Yale spirit" loose with q
Whoop to glorify their presidents and
themselves. 1t will be a purely Yale FAM
lily affair. all such tr1flinE subjects as the
tariff being strictly tabooed.
Arrives This Afternoon.
The President will arrive here this after
noon from Washington, leaving there on
an I'm. train to take part In the Cleve-
land memorial exercises, and tonight he
will go to New Haven to attend . meet
ing tomorrow Of the Yale corporation. of
which he is q member. Questions vitality
affecting the future Of the university will
be settled. In the afternoon he will re-
turn to New York and 60 to the home OF
his brother, Henry w. Taft, to dress.
| He plans to start for Washington to-
morrow at midnight, going direct from the
banquet hall to the station, but the Yale
men in charge hope to keep him until the
last Yale song has been sung. In that
case he will return for the night to his
brothers home and start for Washington
on Saturday morning.