Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-20

Clerks of the Washington city post
Office and their guests, more than two
hundred in all. gathered about the ban
quet board at the Continental Hotel last
night for their annual dinner. With
songs. speeches and good cheer. the BAN
quet went down into history as one OF
the most enjoyable in the annals of the
local association. Among the honor guests
were DR.. Charles p. Grandfield, first as
sstant postmaster general: Theodore l..
Weed, director of the postal savings sys-
tenn and Norman \. Merritt. postmaster
of Washington. In addition to these, the
speakers were John c. Rooms, chief of
the salaries and allowances division of
the Post Office Department: Louis j.
Robinson. Horace p Springer, William
H. Haycock Granville NJ. Hunt and Hen
ry L.. Johnson.
George L. TAFT president of the aSSo-
citation, presided, and after an address of
welcome introduced thestoastmaster, Roe
F>ulkerSOn.
DR.. Grandfeld IssApplauded.
The policy of the Post Office Depart
ment with reference to the thirty-day an
nual leave, the eight-hour day and COM
pensation for overtime was discussed by
Dr. Grandfield. He was enthusiastically
applauded and at the conclusion of his
speech the clerks sang:
Clark Griffith has his team made up
To play bah all next season,
But why he left one good man ont
l can't see any reason
If he had drawn contract up
And carefully sealed her,
Then sent her TO the =. .. d..
He'd been sure of one Grandheider.
Postmaster Merritt spoke to the clerks
on the advantages to be derived from
getting together" not only to the serv-
ice. but to the individual clerks The
| workings of the postal savings system
were explained by Mr.. Weed.
Granville NJ. Hunt who, besides being
superintendent of the registry DIVISION, is
president of the Washington AID Club,
was greeted with the following song:
to doing sums.
Granny's right there with the bells On at the
beating of the drums;
| He can add up rows of figures and never make
mistakes,
He can do stunts in the adding line that would
give us all the shakes.
| The reason he can add we'll from millions
down to ten
Is because he is the head or all the washington
ad men.
Music by P. o. Orchestra.
The music for the occasion was fur
nished by the Washington City Post Of
flee Orchestra, led by l.. E. Haas. With
the present orchestra as nucleus, an
| effort will be made soon to organize a
brass band, if the plans discussed last
| night materialiZe. While the dinner was
| being served George E. Helmuth, Rich
ard Hart, Loud and Furbershaw and the
Temple Quartet provided entertainment.
Among those present were DR.. Charles
P. Grandfeld, Theodore l.. Weed, John c.
Rooms, Jesse L. Suter, Norman A. Mer-
ritt l.. ]. Robinson w. II. Haycoek, G.
NJ Hunt, II. l.. Johnson, Capt. o. II.
| Smith, F. NJ. Book. Howard Beall, J. w.
Cotter Frederick Sellers. S. G. Brush
LEY, Fred D. Riggles. e. E. Church, j.
Grant, j. w. K. Young, j. B. Corridor,
F. c. Burrows and c. B. Matthews
An attractive menu and program had
| been arranged by the committee in
charge of the banquet. consisting of F.
r. Roberts, chairman; G. l.. Brooks, ID.
H. Brown. J. William Murphy, P. E.
Steuart, c.. B. Matthews, E. E. Church,
| Frank Byram, J. II. Simmons, r. Byron
Bond, William Warren, William T. Sher-
wood and M. w. Stevenson.
The officers of the association. which
| is known as Washington Branch No
Is of the United States Mail Clerks AS
ISOLATION, are: President, George l..
TAFT; vice president. Charles McCaffry;
secretary, Il. L. Vessey; treasurer, Dam
| iel L. Morgan; financial secretary. Will
| liam M. Wagner; chairman membership
committee, Edward w. Turner, and
chairman finance committee. James
Gray.