The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-28


 further that no more charming decoration of a dinner hall had ever been seen in | Birmingham. When the guests were grouped about the tables and had been given an opportunity 10 take in the whole there were gasps of surprise and delight. They marvelled.
 Place Cards and Menu 1 The programme of the dinner was a | distinct feature. It was contained in a booklet of embossed leaves. The frontis- piece was a photograph of the guest | of honor with the announcement of the dinner, it's purpose and date. Within, a | page was dedicated to the story of the | life of William Proctor Gould Harding | Another page was given over to the mu- 1 sical programme. Still another page con | tained the announcement that Mir Bar | rett was toastmaster, and the list of speakers. Another page was dedicated to the menu, and another still to the list of guests. The last page or the back page of the booklet contained Il photograph of the Jefferson County Bank building, with the announcement that the home of the Birmingham Newspaper club was on the top-the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and ltwenty-fifth floors.
 | The menu page of the booklet pro- gramme follows:
 1 Canape Newspaper Club | Stuffed Michigan Celery Ripe Olives Perfect Cocktails
 Salted Almonds Cheese Sticks
 Vino de Paste Cream of Chicken Alabama | Chilled Pompano, Anchovy Butter l Burbriant Potatoes Haut Sauterne
 Diamond Back Terrapin Maryland cluh | Roast Stuffed Royal Squab | Pontet Canet
 1 Haricots Verts Aux Fins 1 Parisenne Potatoes
 French Nut Salad l Louis Roderer Gran Win Sec
 Sweet Berkeley Crackers l Vanilla Ice Cream in Baskets with
 Strawberries
 Silver Cake Chartreuse
 Philadelphia Cream Cheese
 Toasted Bent Wates Crackers
 Pail Mall Cigarettes. Coffee
 St. Clair and Appollinaris Waters
 La Corona Torona Cigars
 Those Present
 l The page which contained the list of participants follows:
 Morris Adler. Private John Allen. T. H. Aldrich, w. Jack Adams, Louis c. Adelson, H. L. Badham, Colman Blach, J. H. Barr, F. W. Barrett, Augustus Ben ners. R. D. Burnett Lee c. Bradley, F. l.. Brown, Murray Brown, R. A. Brown, E. w. Brownell, Edwin Ball. s. S. Broad us. Thomas Bowron, l.. V Clark, J. B. Cobbs, Harry W. Coffin, John N. Coffin, George Gordon Crawford. Leo H. John- son, John l.. Kaul, James Keeling, w. H. Kettig. George R. Knox, Jr.. Thomas E. f<flby. Sidney F. Lazarus, w. B. Leedy, Joseph Loveman, W. s. Lowell, w. E. Leake. T. w. Martin, Otto Marx. A. W. l Miller, N. L. Miller, J. D. Moore, B. F. Moore, w. N. Malone, c. B. Mccormack, J. D. McNeal, J. w. Mcqueen, William H McKleroy, John L. McRea, Frank Nell son, Jr., w. D. Nesbitt, Zach l.. Majors | W. w. Crawford Frank H. Crockard, lJ. l.. Cross, Clyde w. Ennis, Eugene F. Enslen, Robert w. Ewing. Culpepper Exum, c. T. Fairbourne. Eugene Fies, lG. Brooks Forbes. A. H. Ford, A. R. Fowlkes. F. B. Fowlkes, J. K. Flem- ing, F. g. Foster. Henry B. Gray, Bell ton Gilreath. Jr., Dent F. Green, A. A. Gambill. J. E. Ozburn. John l. Parker, l W d1kcE cTcyt l<Sioy SASSs A1t Shluc Ramsay, Hugh w. Roberts George M. I Reynolds of Chicago. M. L. Roberson. William Ryan, H. c. Ryding, Dan Ru- bin, Louis Saks. Herman Saks, l.. Sew Her, P. c. Shook, Leo K. Steiner, M. s. Sterne. J. J. Smith, c. M. Stanley, w. c. Hamilton, John c. Henley, Jr. Thomas Hopkins, H. R. Howze, w. H l Iassinger, William Proctor Gould Hard. ing H. IT. K. Jefferson. Robert Jemison, ST., Robert Jemison, Jr., Crawford John- son. Harry Jones, M. w. Joseph. William ] H. H. ,Judson. Forney Johnston, A. w. B. Johnson J. T.. Stokely, H. Upson Sims. Jonas Schwab. A. B. Tanner, McLane Triton, Jr, Maj. E. M. Tutwiler. Oscar c. Turner, Robert Thach, J. O. Thompson George B. Ward, James Weatherly, Will liam C. Weston, F. F. whitehead, Stan. ley Woodward. Sterling A. Wood.
 Fun Making Begins
 When the nut course was in order, th( ! fun of the evening was turned on. | Toastmaster Barrett presented Stuart 1 Barnes. the well known satirical monol- l oguist. as distinguished guest from New | York. The man who has entertained ] from one section of the country to the l other was in fine form. He began by | lcongratulating himself that the President l of the United States had seen proper ln l the exercise of his wisdom to draw on rI.r v,o fIpo1v06 xuyhnv~>