The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-01
Many of His Intimates Civ en a Farewell l at the
 White House Today.
Varied Assortment of Guests Were Invited to
 Be Present.
Secretaries, Ambassadors, Assis tant Secretaries, Plainsmen, Rough Riders, and Scouts Were Among the Elect.
Especial from United Press.)

Washington, March 1. - President
 Roosevelt fed, praised and farewelled
 the ''Tennis Cabinet today. It hap
 pened at a luncheon which began at
 l 80 in the State dining room at the
 White House, and if there was ever
 such an odd assortment of humanity
 lunched together at one time under
 the historic roof before, it has certain
 iy escaped the notice of the newspa-
 pers.
 Tennis Cabinet primarily a few of
 the Presidents other intimates whom
 he wished the members of the Tennis
 Cabinet" to meet, were there as guests.
 The luncheon marked the official fin
 ish of that famous coterie of afternoon
 sportsmen that has been the Power
 Behind the White House" for seven
 years and a half If any of the mem
 bers aspire to similar influence in the Taft administration they will have to reorganize in favor of the ''putter."
 Heading the luncheon list was M
 Jusserand the French Amba sSador, and bringing in the rear was John Abernathy. the famous Oklahoma wolf thunder, "Who Eats Elm Alive" ac- cording to popular belief. Between those two distinguished gentlemen were twenty-seven others of varying styles of culture, from MT. Justice Moody, of the Supreme court, to "BilP' Sewell, the old Maine guide. from Sec retary Bacon of the State Department, to Yellowstone" Kelly, whose real name is Luther S., and with whom the President ranched it out on the Lit tie Missouri many years ago. Then there was Captain Seth Bullock. first sheriff of Deadwood, keen-eyed old plainsman with whom the President hunted and roDed steers and travelled adeck of bucking bronchos back in the There famous college football rusher for whom the President has had an out spoken admiration these many years and who might now be a Civil Service Commissioner or almost any other fat official if he did not prefer to run shoe factory in Minneapolis. There were Commissioners Leupp, Neil, Smith and McIlhcnney, the first men, tioned being the head of the Weather Bureau. the second the chief of the Labor Bureau and the third the chief trust prober of the Department of Commerce. and Labor. and the fourth is millionaire tobasco sauce maker and with whom the President has hunted bear more or less successfully in the South.
 Assistant Secretaries. Assistant Sec retary OLaughlin, Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary Satter- lee, Assistant Attorney General Wood ruff and Assistant Secretary Phillips. MT. Phillips, papers said yesterday, is engaged to Miss Ethel Roosevelt, but Mir. Loeb denied it today.
 Neither were the real secretaries left out in the cold, for there was MT. Loeb, the Presidents right hand man for To come collector of customs at New York to great grief of Collector Fowler who was appointed. last fall to the s12,- )10 berth. Secretary Newberry of the nd fa1~ al nf f11a Interior Department were much in evidence and the latter especially, for when the President came to make his speech of welcome to his guests, he placed "JiIn'' above all the rest.
 Others were:. Comptroller Murray, John c. Rose, Lyman M. Bass, Chief Forester Clifford Pinchott, James Key holds, the investigator of beef and er of Immigration Keefe, Postmaster General Meyer, and Dr. Henry $. Pritchott, the scientist. The real sure enough tennis players in the crowd were: Jusserand, Bacon, Garfield, Meyer, Winthrop, Murray, Smith, Me -lhonney and Pinchott.
 Just before the guests pitched into the good things on the table the Presi- lent made the following remarks:
 "Gentlemen-YOu are here nOminally l IS members or to me as a, membeg, of 1 he Tennis Cabinet. That is, as men with whom at tennis or hunting, or | 'iding. or walking. or boating, I have 1 played, or with whom I have worked | tt the roundup, or in the ranch coun- 1 ny. But really. as you know, you are | lot here for the purpose at all; you | Ire here because you are the men and | because you represent the men with | whom I have worked while have been | President. No administra tion has ever | lad a finer or move loyal service than Tou have given and do not believe | his country has ever had an abler | fad 0f
 "It was through you and those like -ou I have done the major part of what has been accomplished under this | Id administration. Moreover in a vast lumber of cases the doing of the work tself has been your only reward. The redit has come to me. to the Chief of he Administration. For exactly as nen like to symboliZe a battle by the lame of the commander. so they like O symbo1ize an administration by the nan at the head. forgetting that the majority of his acts can be
 lone only through others and that a eaIly successful administration, sue essfuI from the standpoint of ad- -ancinC the purpose and interests of he country. must be managed as ours
 as been. in spirit of the most loyal and partnership.
 t'There are many others like you, 1 1hom l would have given a chance to | ome here to-day; but there simply vas not room enough: and so I have
 fOuSnC you nere DdrtlV TOT your own akes. but principally for reviewing ou men as representing all good, fearless public servants who trive their best to do what the public esireS and who in the last analysis re all on the same level when judged " that Supreme Justice who takes in D chief account the spirit of the ser ice rendered.
 Whether a man is 8 cabinet minis er a bureau manager. a marshal. an ndian agent. a forester, d letter car i; fer a member of life saving service
 clerk in a department or a workman a navy yard. or whether he holds ne of the hundred other positions.