Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-22

Oh, 1t Was a Big Night.
Anybody could tell, right at the start
of the evening, that it would be a big
night. Guests paraded into the banquet
hall to the weird strains of the fu
neral march. They wondered This
was not what the announcements had
led them to expect. But soon the
meaning of the sadness was revealed.
bier was rolled into the hall, on
which reposed the figure of corpse,
covered with a sheet. Black clad pail
bearers attended it, and behind a group
of sheeted figures. Fred Houser was
chaplain, and read the funeral serv-
ice of Care, Worry and Sorrow" who
was the unfortunate person on the bier
Enough to say that the dead was for
gotten, even before the corpse was
wheeled from the hall. Just to prove it.
the postmaster announced that the
GiVemell quartet would sing. They
did; they sang during the evening, from
soup to nuts-that is, when the eighty
| others We're not singing The Give
, nell quartet was composed of w. j
Hubbard, Leslie Hubbard. j. Q. Pitts
and e. G. Hanson, and the fact that
| they escaped without so much as d
piece of bread being thrown at them
was proof of the excellence of their Of
fering
Several speeches were billed on the
program, and the speakers were intro
duced and arose to do their few lines
But none of them got much nearer than
this to oratory. The guests had ham
mers, and alarm clocks, and gongs. and
lusty lungs, and it was a matter of
pride that nobody should speak. They
were frank to announce that they were
after the speakers goats" and they
got them
Preston S. Arkwright, president OF
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany, was the first one, Mr. "Arclight
somebody called him. They asked him
to tell why electricity was shocking
Mr.. Arkwright succumbed gracefully.
John Sparrow, president of the Bir-
mingham AID club, was not so easily
subdued. Like Regulus among the
Carthaginians. he braved a bowling
mob. such as a Birmingham man might
expect when he talks of Birmingham to
Atantans In the course of his speech
he gave Toastmaster Adams a little
iron bull.
Birmingham hands the bull to At
lanta," he announced.
r. l.. Foreman was billed to speak
about the Associated Charities, and
why Atlanta supports them. He told a
pretty little stale about his visit to
estminster Abbey. which nearly broke
up the assembly.
The House Is Pulled.
There were other speakers, including
Mayor Woodward, who was introduced
as the guy who put the cream in the
crematory, and Chief Beavers. on
whose stalwart figure the spotlight OPP
orator threw a red light The chiefs
ovation was terrific, and travellers on
Decatur street below the banquet hal
stopped and looked in alarm.
Speaking was an incidental feature
however. A policeman who in ordi
nary life is H. T. Brannan, was very
active in the proceedings. When he
arrested Louis Magid on the charge OF
maliCiously attempting to annoy the
innocent little child of the state, the
. Georgia Railway and Power Company
he made the hit of the evening. that
was only eclipsed when he returned
/ Mr.. Magid wearing a striped convict
, coat. Mr. Magid presented the coat tc
Preston Arkwright Another stunt was
an indictment of the town tightwads il
/ a collection for the Associated Chart
ties.
1t was a George Washington dinner
and kilograms were fired in TO George
Washington from various notables o.
the world. One was from Woodrow
Wilson, announcing his cabinet: Sec.
rotary of state Walter Andrews; secre,
tary Of war, James Woodward. secre,
tary OF agriculture, n. O. Hastings
secretary OF the interior, J. ]. Eagan
secretary of the navy. Hooper AleXan,
der. secretary OF the treasury Franz
/ l.. stanton, secretary OF commerce an,
/ labor, r. l., Crew, postmaster genera
/ Lee Barnes, chief OF the department o
personal publicity, St Elmo Massen
gale.
II an ended with the house beinl
pulled, as the "gridiron groan" proph
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