Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-27
HAN AND CHICKEN COOKING
Prior Has a Small Army at Work on
Good Fellowship Dinner.
COURSES IN ALL
Problem Of Serving Large COncOurse
of Members and Friends Being
solved by Commercial
club steward.

Whu cooking Of chickens and hams.
boinuL OF eggs ard steaming Of other in
..uilnts for many dishes TO be served
at the good fellowship dinner OF the Com
mercial club Tuesday evening began In
the club kitchen Saturday evening, both
guest tickets and those for members went
above par and the market closed stiff,
with the guests tickets at a premium.
Seven hundred and six business men al
ready have places Al the tables and all
aceeptsnces OF members must be in By
noon Monday.
What the menu will be Is something Of
a mystery. The committee would not an
nounce Il. and all that is known now is
that these dishes will be served:
Brandeis eggs. alfalfa honey from Kear-
ney and skyrock water from the Rocky
mountains.
But there are ninety-sx other courses
in the gastronomical repertoire which the
club proposes TO serve, besides the speak
Ing and other entertainment which Is be-
Ing planned-is planned but not revealed.
This banquet will be significant Of the
new Commercial club spirit" says G II.
Haverstick, chairman Of the committee,
whose statements are seconded by VIII e.
Reed, acting chairman Of the entertain
ment committee In originality the ban
auet will be a surprise to some Of the old
and stoical members of the club Unique
y no name for IT,"
E. II. Pryor, steward at the Commercial
club. began boiling hams early Saturday
afternoon, and the telephones In the Com
mercial club were kept busy thereafter
The odor Of these South Omaha Premium
hams floated out over the skyscrapers and
81 oh
members They got busy and were too
impatient to wait for the mails to take
heir acceptances.
That chicken salad, chicken spaghetti,
or something with chicken in it, is to be
lerved is now beyond a doubt, as il is said
Z Will require a force OF cooks from Sun
lay morning until Tuesday afternoon to
took the chickens necessary.
1t 10 the first Commercial club function
10 be held outside the Commercial club
looms, but the club is assuming such pro-
portions that the old rooms on the fifth
floor Of the Board Of Trade building are
100 small for such dinners, and the com
mittees say this is not the last dinner this
season, either.
Though tickets are being sold for 81, this
does not represent the price of the dinner.
as it is a home products affair and wagon
loads OF the best things sold By Omaha
houses have been volunteered for the din
ner, These are siyen TO the club and 81
would not buy over four coursss, say
nothing at~ut tile ninety-nine scheduled
or the event
The speaking will be limited In guam
tity, but not in quality The speakers will
not be announced, but will be seated at a
table directly in front of the band stand.
What will be put on in the band stand is
likewise a mystery. II is described as
fully as shocking as some of the Ak-Sar
Bendden performances Some one person
is to be here from the outside. Who It is
5 also unannounceable. 1t is known Ebert
4ubbard is IN vaudeville, Farmer Burns
lives in Omaha, Roosevelt and Pinchot are
meeting somewhere In the east Uncle Joe
cannon is too busy to accept such engage
nents and Richard earle is on the Pacific
.oast.