The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06
SILVER DINNER Of
THE GRIDIRON CLUB
Iwenty-Fifth Anniversary of
the Formation of a Famous
Organization.
GATHERING or N0TABLES
AT SEMI-ANNUAL MEET
President, Cabinet Officers, En-
bassad0rs, Senators, Con
gressmen, Newspapermen.
~ Associated Press.

Il %SsotIGicd TUES
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-The GRID
iron club gives two dinners each ycai
and il fell out that the one given To-
night at the New Willard was the sli
Yer dinner. marking the twenty'hft III
anniversary OF the foundation ol the
club. Whcrefur there was a great gath
cring of notabics-a president, cabln'i
officers. ambassadors, lursts, grave ana
reverend senators, frivolous representa-
tiycs in congress and a number of sim
pie newspaper men gathered from many
states of the union Each and all bore
of a remembrance Of the happy event
in the shape of q souvenir silver ash
receiver, crossed by the mystic Grld-
iron.
The fun started almost as soon MS
the guests were seated. with tanGlc
over the inauguration OF the new presi'
dent Of the club-Scott G. Bone, editor
of the Washington Hcrald-for enter
ing untimelv upon the scene, Then
came FL Presidcntc Ieaya, with his
army, composed of half dozen gen,
erals in Falstafiian uniforms, aud one
lone private Zclaya, looking for q
Job. had picked out the presidency OF
the Gridiron club rs suitable, and was
eJectcd only 10y the threat that Sec
rctary Knox WAS approaching.
Initiated in the Open.
Scarcely had peace and quiet been
restored when another interruption
came. when 10 the strains Of the Mar
scllaise entered the "'Back From
E!ba club. clad in Napoleonic uni
forms. and including pcrsouifications of
public men who have been identified
by common report with the movement
10 return Roosevelt TO the white house.
The "Big Stick figured in this, and
in the fierce glare of the electric light
and in defiance OF all rules Of secret
orders. and in the presence of several
hundred "ouitandcrsH were dragged
forth and duly initiated the two uufor-
tuuate neophytes Of the Gridron club,
George Edmund Miller, resident CORE
spondent of the Detroit News, and John
Tribune. They were made to foreswcar
all Of the policies of their respective
newspapers and TO pledge themselves
10 be on the pier to welcome 1.-The
Only One when he returned from
Africa-all this to the chant of "When
Teddy Comes Sailing Home Again;
llurrah -
Insurgents Were Grilled.
The insurgents got their grilling, too,
when between courses was rendered an
affecting scene from ''Uncle Tom S
Cabin for this occasion described as
Uncle Joc's Cabin, or Life Among
the Insurgents A prcsentament of
Speaker Cannon was the clever lawyer
- Marks -; another of Whip Dwight
was the brutal overseer ''Legree.' and
various prominent insurgents figured
as ''Unclc Tom and his fellow
slaves. and "Little Eva They were
roughly treated, told that they had
been deprived of all patronage, and
their appeals TO the speaker TO ''rc-
sign were met by demands for their
return to the Republican caucus Final
" put upon the block at auction in a
Republicans alike holding of from the
bidding. the sale was stopped by or.
ders from the white house, in the shape
of an emancipation proclamation, in or.
der to secure party harmony.
Trusts Were Roasted
If the insurgents were grilled, the
trusts were fairly roastcd' in an.
other skit portraying the "Infant In