The sun., 1910-02-17
COME FROM ENYIRONS TO EAT
GTVERS IN TOWN
FOR A DUTCH TREAT.

Bertiilen Records Taken ef Every Orator
as Hc Orsted-0ne Sorry Soul who
Had Paid but Couldn't Come Took d
out In ISl Word wire. Collect"
Have you ever noticed the odor of moth
balls in Brooklyn trains about 7:30 o'clock
p. M. on opera nights. when all Brooklyn
is coming to town wearing the evening
clothes? Same thing last night when the
members Of the Dutch Treat Club gathered
about 100 strong in the College Room OF
the Hotel Astor to hold its annual dinner;
for the Dutch Treat is a luncheon club
that meets at Keen's every Thursday for
luncheon and onoe a year has dinner.
and a. the members are all geniuses il
goes without saying that most Of them
commute from Flushing or Montclair.
These two suburbs are to our art and
letters what Bayreuth is to music.
A man who has been told about ere
this and who began life by visiting Ellis
Parker Butler, an author, at Mr.. Buffers
| Flushing home end told the literary
artist that he. the caller. was a brother
OF Owen Wister and needed sI.s5 to get
back to Philadelphia is the cause of the
club. Mr.. Butler fell for the story. Where
upon the same gentleman called upon
Orson Lowell, the artist, at the Twenty
third street studio and remarked that
he was brother OF Phil May. And so
| it went. q.
| The Dutch Treat Club is a result, At
fist all these artists and authors spent
their time while the model was resting
or the typewr ritter was out to luncheon
weeping over the fact that all they had
to hand over to the caller who needed
the 81 IS was a twenty or fifty dollar bill
Light dawned at last And so they
banded together for mutual protection
against the man who one day is the guar.
dian OF Gertrude Atherton. the next
day the protege OF Marie CoreIli and
later the first cousin once removed OF
Cupcustard Powers.
Last nights dinner was set down for
7:SO O'Clock. but there was a slight delay
owing to the dificulty experienced by
r. Layton Brewer, dachshund fancier
and author, OF Montciair. who always
makes IL a point OF travensing the streets
accompanied by more dRchshunds than
Kaiser Wilhelm carries with him on morn
ing walks. and who therefore also mad
troubles OF his own getting through the
revolving doors. Mr. Brewer in the midst
Of his troubles with his dachshunds tele-
| phoned downstairs to Proprietor Muschen-
helm that IL Lucas. the captain, oon-
But listen to the partial list Of celebrities
present:
There was Thomas Mason, who is
president OF the club and at times was
permitted to preside: Ellis o. Jones, sam
Laciar and Franklin Benjamin Wiley,
all members OF the Ladies' Rome Journal;
Jessie IBurges) johnson. humorist; Will
lam Inglis Of Horper's Weet!y, Wallace
Irwin, Samuel Merwin. editor OF Success
A. Raymond Brown. art editor OF Erery-
bodu's; j. O'Hara Cosgrave editor Of
EpeTybody's: James Montgomery Flagg
who is an artist; Orson Lowell. who does
free hand drawing; Ellis Parker Butler.
Flushing; Porter Emerson Brown, play
wright, who. safely can be mentioned
because his troupe has left town for good;
+. T. Richards an artist; Rupert Hughes
another playwright, and many many.
many others.
The speakers Of the evening had
troubles. They had to hold one position
while Grating for the reason that as
soon as they were called upon Nc. Flagg
began to draw pictures OF them with
charcoal on sheets tackled TO a drawing
board which were more than generous
when one pauses to think of the present
COST of white paper. Il was evident how
careful last night every one was when q
gray ndiTcu painter rose 70 speak.
Il remember" he began, "a remark
once made by a beautiful young girl
knew when l was young. 'orson, she
said"
-Sssssh!- came from all over the col
lege room. And the ged painter switched
and told another one quite as good but
perhaps gentler.
Writing more plays2- asked Mr.
Brewer OF Jesse Lynch Williams as he
fondled all that part of one of his dachs-
hunds which had entered the room.
Mr.. Brewer was trying 70 Ali m the awk-
ward pause with light conversation.
| And I'm raising chickens too he con-
! tinued, his mind still on the same subject.
"Plays?' answered Jesse, who is the
author Of The Stolen Story''-which is
the title, not reflection. "Playsi MOI
-Oh. keep at 1t. Jesse" encouraged
Mr.. Brewer. One fiiver doesn't neces-
sarily make
And one drink interrupted Jesse.
| doesn't make drunkard Never again
and so they went on and on talking OF
| their art.
There was telegram from Charles
| Battell Loomis collect, numbering lSl
| words, which was sent that way because
Mr.. Loomis had paid for his dinner ticket
| tas he said In his message, with all the
-thes" and -Ands" included); and Bur-
ges johnson and Mr.. Mason and Mr..
Butler and Wallace Irwin and George
Qrantham Balm and many others told OF
their JOYS and troubles.