Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-08
Comet Party. Without Hamlet,
Held Last Night.
LONGWoRTH RIDDLES SOME
Bartholdt, Who Beats Keys for Him,
Shares Great Hand"
WILEY HAD SOMETHING TO SAY
Su1zer and Adam Bede and Gov.
Peck Also Orators of Great
Occasion.

81 oNOItpu 10 the OFdtOrE OF Adam
Bede and DIR. Harvey ". Wiley and Rep
resentatives Sulzer and Samuel Blythe and
ex-Gov. Peck, the housewarrning at the
National Press Club last night will go
down in history as the occasion when
Representative Nicholas Longworth play-
ed the violin accompanied on the piano
by Representative Richard Bartholdt.
So 1t was a musical evening, in spots.
sam Blythe-he said il was comet
party. and that all members OF the Press
Club who stayed until O'Clock this
morning would be entitled to a free view
OF the comet from the F. street windows
OF the club. But Sam Blythe-he didn't
know 1t was raining and cloudy. Never
theless everybody stayed
What DR.. Wiley Said It Was.
DR.. Wiley told the members OF the club
and the guests that the piece PLAYED by
the great duo, Messrs Longworth and
Bartholdt. was the "inter-met-zo from
Cav-i-leria Rusti-can-o.' He said it Just
like that, and he acknowledged that he
said it because he wanted every one there
to know that he knew classic pieces when
he heard them.
| 1t was a life-sayer to two Or three
younger newspaper men who had to
write pieces for the paper about the
| housewarming, and who could not get
near enough to the music to read the
headlines, and who were too bashful to
| ask any one what was the name OF the
| music. II there is any mistake it is DR..
Wiley's fault. He said it was that Cavi-
| leria thing.
"Great Hand" for Musicians.
In introducing the musical members Of
the club-Messrs. Longworth and Bar
| thodt-Mr. Blythe. he said that now the
| world would know why Nicholas Long
worth (Ohio republican,, had fought for
low tariff on cat gut. To which Mr..
Lonsworth replied that when he had
finished. the club would undoubtedly wish
the tariff had been prohibitive.
But the club didn't wish anything Of
the kind. This duo got what the actors
call great hand" and played a clas-
sic little encore
DIR. Wiley did not announce the name
Of the encore, because he did not know
the name. Consequently, the world
will have to take 1t for granted that il
the number Of chairs between the must
clans and the young reporters the title
could not be read
Adam Bede discoursed eloquently and
out in Wisconsin that the club could hard
~ sit still for laughing. He was ronndly
applauded.
Threatened Again With DR.. Wiley.
About this time Sam Blythe, he began
to intimate that DR.. Wiley would be
making a speech pretty soon, and warned
the doctor not to 30 just yet. The MAJ
tional Press Club sang a couple Of very
pretty ballads.
Then ex-Gov. George Peck, the man
who wrote "Pecks Bad Boy" got up
and talked little while to the crowded
| there. too. being Father Peck's son.
regular associate member OF the club.
Marshal Sam Blythe he again reminded
that club that DR.. Wiley was about to
make a speech.
Huntington May would sing song
first, however.
Representative William Sulzer made
a brief speech. but it had joke in it
that made a hit. Some one said it was
an old, old joke. Maybe it was. but it
certainly was a joke: every one said so.
John Hazard. who rushed around from
one of the theaters to tell some stories.
followed Representative Sulzer Before
he could speak Marshal Sam Blythe
reminded the club that DR.. Wiley would
surely make speech before long, and
would every one please wait.
DR.. Wiley Allowed to Speak.
Then some music-and then! DR.. Har-
vey w. Wiley really made a speech. He
said that he had no intention of going
home without making a speech.
And. oddly enough, he did make men,
ton about food He said that all the
Jokes he had heard ought to have dates
written upon them, as is proposed In the
case Of cold-storage eggs.
And that ended the list of events as
scheduled by Marshall Samuel Blythe
There was a comet party and an inspec-
ton Of the new rooms OF the club.
The additions to the old quarters con-
sist of an enlarged cardroom, a new
writing room, large cloakroom and the
greatest little Old grilroom that ever
made a man late in getting home after
work
And the comet party was still there at
3 am.