The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-02
Among Them, Wilson,
Taft, Roosevelt, Bryan
and Rip Van Wrinkle.
NEW PRESIDENT
is INAUGURATED
Rudolph Kaufman Now Is Head
of Famous Gridiron Club.
Graceful Tributes Are Paid
to Taft and Wilson-Na-
tional Figures at Ban
quet Board.

IT
Elect Wilson. President Taft. Theodore
Roosevelt. William Jennings Bryan.
Rip Van Wrinkle and lot of other no.
tables were portrayed to the GTioiron
Club and its guests tonight at the
annual winter dinner. when men OF
national size sat at the banquet board
and saw themselves froiicking about to
their own amusement.
The dinner took the form OF one
graceful tribute to President TAFT and
another TO President Elect Wilson
The club began by having an iEaugu-.
ration of its own president-Rudoiph
Kaufman. of the washington Eve
ming Star His inaugural procession.
which marched into the banquet hall
to the blare OF a band, consisted of
detachment OF the New Jersey National
Guard. a club of Princeton professors,
a contingent of Southern colonies. hur-
raining for the solid South" Places
for Veterans" etc; the 'Wanta Eta
Pie Frat" Of college boys: Tammany's
phalanx: the I'm Bad Club" inciud-
ing George W. Harvey. Henry Wat
terson. August Belmont and Thomas
F. Ryan. and finally squad of suf-
fragettes shrieking Votes for Wo-
men"
When the din had partially sub
sided. II was announced in behalf OF
President Kaufman that he did not
think much OF the parade, as there
were some things missing.
Where" he asked, was the Champ
Clark Houn' Dog club7"
Went broke at Baltimore" was the
explanation
where's the Underwood Protection
Phalanx?"
Pulled of the train by Bill Bryan
and slapped into steel shackels." was
the answer while the Harmon Ohio
Buckeyes" were being entertained at
French Lick Springs at Tom Taggarts
expense.
Such as it was. the new president
was Obliged to be content with hts in
auguratson, and reeeiVeG,..tize sacred
e,nble..- or Office. the golden gridiron.
With the statement that this being an
era of economy and reform. he would
be allowed neither salary nor travel
expenses
-Brother BiIlv and ~Br0ther Teddy
Hardly had the guests turned again
to their terrapin when entrance was
demanded and achieved by the Sigma
Pi-Pi- Sigma Fraternity of the Yale
Law School which insisted on initiat-
ing two new members to the club.
ceremony The neophytes were Mr..
William, of Cincinnati and Mr.. The
odore. Of Oyster Bay to be known
in the order. respectively. as Brother
BIZ and Brother Teddy discord
in the band was explained by the ina
bility of the neophytes to agree on
marching tune. one demanding the
only tune he knew. "a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight and the other
wanting Keller's Hymn of Peace"
The Grand Pan5andrum" explained
that - p +. s. meant -Standpat Pro-
gressive Society" The symbol of the
ballot box. with a coffin and scholars
can below il. meant the ballot box
is the one peaceful biudgeon IN the
hands Of the people He who is strick-
en- by it may either crawl into his po-
litical coffin and die at once, or pro-
long life little by going TO teach
at a university"
A nondescript double-ended animal,
with a moose head at one end and an
elephants at the other. replaced the
time-bonorcd goat, that botn eandi-
dates should be able to ride AT once
when il broke down under their COM
bined weight Theodore dehantiy oe-
cfared that though he couldn't run
the darn thing. by Godfrey. smashed
IL" while William backed himself
against the world for a good loser
In the struggle the wigs and false
mustaches becoming displaced. revealed
the features of the two new canoi-
ds,esSfor admission to the cluo-Jonn
= Monk OF the St Paul Dispatch. ana
Jonn +. Gavit, of the New York Eve
ming Post
Next. Elect Wilson was
discovered conducting his FIRST Can't
net council on the lines of faculty
,,,.etfn-- and calling upon a member
80 his thesis 70 soon appeared
that all the Cabinc; Officers, from the
secretary OF State 20 The Attorney
SeyeraI. bore the features OF William
I srvan. There were nine IN all
around the Cabinet board.
where - my Cabinet" eucr.cd the
President.
~IIc viii soon be here" replied his
secretary.
Hep Yoa mean they For that
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