The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-24
PAGAN BANQUETS
,-,,v, Work. SPENDS SS,OOO,OOO AT
ITCULLAN FEASTS THAT
BORE THE GUESTS.
PAYS TEN DOLLARS A PLATE

while in Another Street the Breao
limo Is Forming. The Same Old
poras in the Same Old Dress Suits.
Are Always on Hand.
MD YOU ever go to formal ban
.,,ot in one of the New York hotelsH
We'll if you've ever been to one you
snow what they are, for they are al
,1u-e It's queer how much New
vorI, Days to be bored by these u.s..
loo. functions. 1t is estimated that II
oosre SS.OOO,O00 year, besides thu
mines. to say nothing of the smaller
irformal eats that don't qualiy
under the title banquet.
tn be a banquet it must have d
roal menu, palms, a room by itself
and must cost not less than Sc to So
Mate. Not Lucullus, in all his
snleDdor, had the banquet habit half
og had as the New Yorker of today.
Won New Yorker doesn't know why
bo GOES: he doesn't enjoy it; he can't
oa+ the contraptions they set before
Kim. he can't drink the stuff they
Dour in his half dozen glasses with
oYt having a headache the next day;
he doesn't care for the folks with
whom he dimes; the speeches bore
him dreadfully-in short, there is no
reason in the world why he goes, ex-
rent that it's the thing to do. He
NAV get in the paper the next morn
ing among those present. Really
il tickles his vanity.
did YOU ever go to enc? You get
an invitation to spend your $40 for
ticket. The eVentful night comes;
YOU fear you will be too early and
thus betray your anxiety. You never
want to be on time for a New York
hanouet: always be late; then they'll
think business detained you and lit
tIA thing like a $40 banquet is to you
a trivial incident At last you reach
the Waldorf or the Aston or what
ever hotel it is-they all look alike
and their food all tastes alike. You
try to saunter in casually and appear
at home among the folks who are
promenading up and down Peack Al
lev. Nobody seems to care whether
Won are there or not. You ask the
gentlemanly usher where the banquet
of the Society for the Propagation OF
Whiskers is being held. He looks at
YOU in a bored way and says there are
so many banquets every night he can
not keep track. ''Why don't you in
quire at the desk?" The clerk, after
while, looks your way and hunts
Il, II, F%>,, |, I h. q
banquet you refer to is taking place
on tn eseyenteeth floor in the Myrtle
room. He assigns bell-hop to guide
you on your way.
Shooting up past floors and mez-
zanines in the gilded elevator, work
ed by youth in white cotton gloves,
you reach the seventeenth floor.
Roaming up one corridor and down
another, passing banquet hall after
banquet hall whence sounds of rev.
elry are beginning to emanate at last
you reach the place where your bunch
is corraled. A boy checks your coat
and hat and, after you fix your collar
and prink up your tie little, you
wait for them to fall over themselves
to slap you on the back. Nobody falls;
i they never do in New York; it ism in
keeping with the blase manner. The
same old bores you met at the last
annual banquet are there in the same
4 old dress suits. The chairman of the
4 committee, when he comes for your
$40 note, offers flabby paw, and alb
d Sently says he's glad you got
around" looking in the meantime in
another direction. Having separated
you from your X he leaves you Sc
Verely alone.
A major domo, with a chain around
MS neck, announces YEARLY, Dinner
Is served and you flock in with the
u SQ0unQ AuOc V .pLau aQl 10 ls9I