The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-02-17
THE BANQUET.

At night the delegates crowded The
Halliday dining room to feast and
talk, and a jollier crowd has never
gathered in this spacious hosiery.
Nearly 200 guests were provided for
and the places were all taken. The
guests sat down to a picturesque
spread such as have made The Halli-
day famous. At every plate lay q
souvenir, enclosed in a large Manila
envelope on the front Of which was
printed the menu which consisted of
cocktail, oysters, olives, radishes,
young onions, Ash salad, lamb tongue,
ham, beef, jelly salads, bread. cheese
and crackers, coffee and cigars. Inside
the envelopes were miniature scoops
for the grocers, mahogany pen-holders
for the furniture men, meat blocks
for the butchers, suspenders for the
clothing men, boots and shoes fol
the shoe men, mortars for the drug
gists, hammers for the hardware men
and coal ground to egg shapes and
polished for the coal men. And there
was flower at each plate as special
favor from Manager Parker and AS
sistant Manager Subj ms. Van Os-
tens Orchestra provided music while
the guests Toasted and was frequently
applauded. the pleasure of the guests
being shown by their joining in a
grand, chorus when some popular air
was beng rendered
Secretary Green presided at the
board, and when the cigars were
being passed opened the feast OF
reason" and good feeling with a neat
little talk at which he is an adept.
He likened humanity TO pile OF
kindling in which some stacks were
short, some long, some narrow. some
wide, some straight grained, some
cross grained. Business men were
generally serious and sometimes cross
grained, but ON occasions like this all
had their business masks off, and
showed themselves in their real ma
lures as men. He paid nigh com
pliment to Mayor Parsons whose hos.
pitality he said was genuinely sin.
cere, and the test that could be said
for him was not too good.
Mayor Parsons responded ex.
pressing his thanks for the compli.
ment. saying he had taken great
pleasure in doing his part to make the
visitors feel at home. Speaking par
ticularly of the ladies among the Wis
itors he said Kentucky boosted of her
beautiful women, but Illinois was
able to match any in the United
States He referred briefly to Cairo's
extensive system of improvements
made during the last several years
rs miles Of cement walks, IL miles
of paved streets, 35 miles OF sewers
and half million cubic yards Of fill
ing. all without single protest either
in the city council, in the county
court from the people.
President Joesting replied humor.
ously to Mr., Green's remarks when
calling on him for talk. He said at
some time which he hoped would be
in the distant future, the association
might build a monument to the sec,
rotary and he would suggest that IL
be surmounted by figures represent
ing Solomon, Job and James ]
Jeffries, as thoroughly emblematic Of
the wisdom, patience and physical
proportions Of Mr.. Green.
w, B. Huette was called on for re
marks, and was introduced as the
president Of Cairo's Pure Ballo,
League. Mr.. Huette demonstrated hi.
ability as a talker as he has done OF
other occasions. lie eald he wal
somewhat at a loss to understand VIII,
there were so many gray heads anon,
tine retail merchants; and was In