Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-06
Notables Cut Capers, Sing Songs and Effervesce
 at New Willard
ZELAYA SHOWS UP
 HUNTING FOR JOB
Newly Elected President Is Seated and Two Noyices
 Take Their Vows

WASHINGTON, D. C., February D. The Gridiron Club gives two dinners each year and it fell out that the one given tonight at the New Willard was the Silver Dinner-marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the foundation Oi the club.
 WherefOr, there was great gather ing of notables-a president, cabinet officers, ambassadors, jurists, grave and reverend senators, frivolous representa- tives in congress, and a number of sim pie newspaper men gathered from many states of the Union. Each and all bore off remembrance of the happy event in the shape of a souvenir silver ash receiver, crossed by the mystic grid iron.
 The fun started almost as soon as the guests were seated, with tangle over the inauguration of the new president of the club, Scott c. Bone, editor of the Washington Herald; for, entering un- timely upon the scene came Fl Presi dente Zelaya, with his army, composed of half dozen generals in Falstaffian uniforms, and one lone private. Zelaya looking for a job, had picked out the presidency of the Gridiron Club as suit able, and was ejected only by the threat that Secretary Knox was ap- preaching.
 Scarcely had peace and quiet been restored when another interruption came, when, to the strains of the Mar. sellaise, entered the "Back from Elba Club,' clad in Napoleonic uniforms and IUrlnHInor G .e who have been identified by common report with the movement to 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 'Ouitlanders" were dragged forth and duly initiated the two unfortunate ne- ophytes of the Gridiron Club, George Edmund Miller, resident correspondent of the Detroit News, and John Callan O'Laughlin of the Chicago Tribune. They were made to f9rswear all of the policies of their respective newspapers and to pledge themselves to be on the pier to welcome "The Only One" when he returned from Africa-all this to the chant of "When Teddy Comes Sail. ing Home Again, Hurrah!"
 The insurgents got their grilling, too, when between courses was rendered an affecting scene from "Uncle Joe $ Cabin, or Life Among the Insurgents. '' A presentament, of Speaker Cannon was the clever lawyer Marks; another of Whip Dwight was the brutal overseer Legree, and various prominent insurg. ents figured as Uncle Tom and his fel- low slaves and Little Eva. They were roughly treated, told that they had been deprived of all patronage, and their appeals to the speaker to Gre sign' were met by demands for their return to the republican caucus, Final, ly put upon the block at auction in n dubious market, the democrats and re. Publieans alike holding off from the bidding, the sale was stopped by orders from the White House in the shane of an emancipation proclamation, in order to secure party harmony.
 If the insurgents were grilled tbo trusts were fairly roasted in anotbar sklt portraying the "Infant Industries ;, the lumber, whiskey, beef, coal and