The Washington herald., 1910-12-03

New York, Dec. AT the annual din
ner OF the Indiana Society tonight at
the Waldorf the governor OF the State
that Is the home and inventor of anti
cigarette laws, Tom Marshall sat AZ the
suestztable smoking coffin nail. Some
body said that the chief reason for the
governors visit TO New York was to
light cork tip and get away with it.
Despite tho enforced absence OF George
Ade and Lew Swank. the Indiana So
eiety turned out about 225 strong to listen
10 a lot or speeches about themselves
and then take turns In making them,
While they were working up to oratory
the orchestra played the walters In and
out of the grand ballroom. where the
banquet was held. 20 the strains of ION
the Banks OF the Wabash, Far Away."
Tunes like The Suwanee River" and
My Old Kentucky Home" We're received
with polite attention, but when 1t was
time again for The Wabash"-Ah.
then came back mental visions OF pussy
willows aslant the brook and Booth
harrington and Democratic majorities
and honey things like that
All Had 10 Talk.
Capt James b. Curtis. the president Of
the society. marshaled the literary lights
and other Hoosier geninses In turn and
told them when it was time for them to
get up and tell how great IS Indiana and
everything connected with II. Gov Mar
shall sat at the toastmaster's left as the
guest of honor.
Seated also at the speakers table were
Meredith Nicholson, Horace Hord. Presi-
dent Scott c. Bone. OF the Gridiron Club,
Washington: former Representative I.afe
Pencei president Parsons. OF the Indiana
Normal School; President l.. n. Bethel.
or the New York Telephone COMPANY:
William De Matos Hooper. and Joseph T.
Tanning.
Representative SulZer was at one Of the
tables as a guest Also among the 225
were Capt Jack Thompson, OF Indiap-
apois and Broadway: Carroll C Raw
Angs, and three generations OF Rawlingses,
and all born IN Indiana; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Austin Bates; Mr. and Mrs. Fred
eriek Griswold Bourne, Capt. F. Y. He'd
ley. and DR. and Mrs, Charles O'Donald.
Gov. Marshall had 1t made plain to him
that the greatest State in the Union is
MS own State, the Hoosiers the great
est OF our citizens. and Gov. Mar
shall the greatest Of Hoosers. The gov
ernOr told the diners about 'rhe
HOosiers" also. II any OF the speakers
who had preceded him forgot anything
ce Importance that should be recalled
concerning Indiana the governor remem-
bered and sprung It pleasantly.
Represents 5000 NoveIiSts.
Meredith Nicholson said he had come In
the interest OF 5000 novelists from In
r4rhn
HoOsier farmer and his wife and daugh-
ters have so far forgotten their former
work OF supplying the Hoosier authors
with blue jean and sunbOnnet local color
that now II is troublesome TO find any OF
the old stuff TO write about in the home
State. The hobbie skirt also has reached
Logansport. According to Mr.. Nicholson.
one of the big products OF the State now
IS former statesmen I-afe Pence did not
seem TO feel offended.
Subjects Discussed.
Scott c. Bone spoke or "A Hoosier
from Washington" President Parsons
talked on Educational indiana" Mr..
Bethel on the subject of Where Lincoln
spent his boyhood." and former Repre-
sentative Pence on Virginia at Indiana's
centennial, 1916"
John II. Nolan. who sings for the
Gridironers IN Washington. sang for the
Hoosiers tonight whenever the band
quit THE Wabash" long enough 10 per
init OF a song being sandwiehed in. And
there was time always 20 work In from
various parts OF the hall the thrilling
yells OF Indiana University. Perdue
Wabash, and all the other Indiana seats
of learning that pave the State from
river north to Lake.