Arizona republican., 1909-02-25
Annual Banquet In School of
 Music Auditorium AN ENJOYABLE FUNCTION
Timely Toasts Appropriately Responded to--Address of Judge R. E. Sloan on the Mechlenburg Declaration of Rights.

The annual banquet of the Arizona Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was held last evening in the Arizona School of Music, and was one of the most pleasing little events that ever occurred in that auditorium. The invited guests included Governor Kibbey and the members of the So- ciety of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the wives of the sons. The auditorium was gorgeously dec orated with the national colors and with portraits of Washington and oth- CT revolutionary fathers. The Besse orchestra furnished the music, and Gass Brothers served the banquet, of which the following was the menu
 Oyster Cocktail a la Paul Revere
 Mock Turtle. Paul Jones Olives Salted Almonds Celery
 Mount Vernon Trout
 Sauce Tartar
 Saratoga Chips Radishes
 Fillet De VeauX Macedoine Cambridge Roast Young Turkey with
 Boston Sage Dressing
 Cranberry Diamonds
 French Peas Asparagus Tips
 Frozen Delaware Punch Liberty Bell Chicken Salad au Mayon-
 naiSe
 Neapolitan Ice Cream, Red. White, and Assorted Cake, Cut with Hatchet
 Nuts Raisins Cheese
 Valley Forge Snow Flakes
 Independence Coffee, 1776.
 E. E. Ellinwood was tOastmaster and filled the office most graciously, intro ducing each speaker with timely re- marks The toast list and responses were as follows:
 The Mechlenberg Declaration of Rights" Richard F. Sloan of Prescott Virginia in the Revolution" G. w. P Hunt of Globe
 "The Domestic Life of Thomas Jef- ferson," Francis E. Shine of Bisbee.
 New York in the Revolution" Geo. D. Christi of Phoenix.
 Harvard in the Revolution" Guy L. Jones of Silver Bell.
 There wds a notable appropriateness in all the speaking assignments. MT. Hunt has the distinction of coming from an old Virginia family; Dr. Shine is a great great great grandson of Thomas Jefferson. and has in his pos session many old family heirlOoms and souvenirs of the great revolutionary statesman; Mir. Christy was well fitted to speak of New York, and MT. Jones as a graduate of Harvard was much at home with his subject. Judge Sloan dealth with a toast that was much in harmony with his life profession as a subject for study, "The Mechlenburg Declaration of Rights" Said he:
 "One of the avowed purposes of our society, as expressed in it's cOnstitu tion, is to keep alive the memory of the men who achieved the indepen- dence of this country. Mir. Ellinwood, two years ago. made the happy sug- gestion that these meetings could be made more interesting and certainly more instructive if the subject for dis cussion should be largely historical. There are many interesting events connected with the revolutionary pe- riod, familiar to our fathers and grandfathers, which, if not altogether forgotten, are dimly remembered by the present generation. It is unfor- tunate that this is so. It will be a distinct loss to America if the fine examples of high thinking. coupled with brave and effective effort, with which the annals of the revolution are so full, should ever cease to engage the interest. excite the admiration, and stimulate the patriotism of our coun- trymen. Tt has been the fashion of late to sheer at the historical novel, and it seems, partially at least, to have suf- fered an eclipse The trouble is, with due apologies to the admirers of MT. Winston Churchill and pr. Weir Mitchell, there has been no really com petent treatment of the subject. The time will come, doubtless. when the romantic side of the revolution will be adequately portrayed in the literature of America. I have recently been reading "LOssing's Field Book of the Revolution, an exceedingly interesting book now nearly forgotten and found only in a few libraries. As I read the many heroic and romantic incidents connected with the partisan warfare