The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-06
ENACTED AT BIENNIAL DINNER OF GRlDfRoN CLUB WITH
 VARIATIONS.
Ex-President zeiaya With His Army of Generals and One Single Pri- vate Were Present in
 Full Uniform.

@ Washington, D. C., Feb. 5.-Tne
 Gridiron Club gives two dinners each
 year, and it fell out that the one given
 tonight at the New Willard was the
 Silver marking the twenty.
 fifty anniversary of the foundation of
 the club. Wherefor there was a great
 gathering of notables-a President,
 cabinet officers. ambassadors, jurists.
 grave and reverend senators, frivolous # Representatives in congress, and { number of simple newspaper men < gathered from many states of the un- < ion Each and all bore of a remem- br1nce of the happy event in the shape of a souvenir silver ash re-
 ceiver. crossed by the mystic gridiron.
 The fun started almost as soon as
 the guests were seated, with iangle over the inauguration of the new president of the club--Scott C.. Bone,
 editor of the Washington Herald. for
 entering untimely upon the scene,
 came Fl Presidente zelaya. with his
 army, composed of half dozen gen,
 erals in Falstaffian uniforms. and one 3 lone private, Zelaya. looking for job had picked out the presidency of the & Gridiron Club as suitable, and was elected only by the threat that Secre-
 tary Kno~ was approaching Scarcely
 had peace ard quiet been ~es'ored
 when another interruption came, whec
 to the strains of the Marsellaise en-
 tered the Hack From Elha CluA' clad
 II. Napoleonic uniforms, aud inC'i1 2
 personffications of public men who
 have been identified by common re- port 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 or
 ders, and in the presence of several
 hundred "Quitlanders' were dragged
 forth and duly initiated the two un fortunate neophyes of the Gridiron Correspondent of the Detroit News and | Correspondent of the Dtroit News. and
 John Callan O'Laughlin of the Chi Ecago Tribune. They were made to Iloreswear all of the policie4 of their | Perspective newspapers and to pledge lthemselves to be on the pier to wei | come "rhe Only One" when he re- Nturned from Africa.--all 'his 4o -he lEchant of When Teddy Comes Sailing
 Home Again, Hurrah." 4 The insurgents got their griling,
 too; when between courses was rend- ] cred an affecting scene '~~m Uncle Is1om's Cabin, for this occasion de
 scribed as Uncle Joes Cabin. CT 's>
 Among the Insurgents A presenta-
 ment of Speaker Cannon ~os the Clever lawyer Marks: ~--tt~~ Of Whip Dwight was the brutal oversee~ rLegree" and various prominent in. N surgents figured as Uncle Tom and
 his fellow slaves and Little Eva. They were roughly treates toll that they had been deprived of all patron age, and their appeals to the speaker Ito resign were met by demands for 1 tlier return to the republican caucas. Finally put upon the block at auction ir a dubious market. tho '''--~-''afs and republicans alike holding off from the bidding. the sale was stopped by \ 7rders from the White House in the shape of an emancipation proclama- tion, in order to secure party har- ;nony
 If the insurgents were grilled, the 2tfusts were fairly roasted in another zsklt portraying the Infant Indus #tries'--the Lumber. Whiskey. Beef.
 Coal, and Tobacco Trusts--seeking kp, tection from number of ugiy-look- ' g customers identified as The Uuti-
 hfate Consumers" This was verse
 from one of the chants of the trust