Arizona republican., 1914-11-12
FOURTH ESTATE
DINNER GUESTS
The Board of Trade Gave
Delightful Banquet at the
Country Club in Honor Of
Visiting Members of the
Fraternity

The Fourth Estate dined last night at
the expense of the board of trade. The
dinner had been arranged in honor of
visiting newspaper men at the Country
club where with representatives of the
local papers they were welcomed by
President a. L. Moore of the board,
Colonel McClintock, E. A. Marshall,
Roy Murray, E. P. Conway, H. NJ. Fen
nemore, Gus Noll, Clay Parker and H.
X. Behn
The only out of town newspaper men
were Major George Kelley of the Doug
las International, James Logic of the
Douglas Dispatch, S. A. Myers of the
Chandler Arizanan, Wilbur Hall of Los
Angeles who did not come especially
for the dinner but as the Cassandra of
the Los Angeles Phoenix automobile
race, to prophesy to children and dogs
the disaster that would overtake them
if they did not keep out of the way of
the racing machines.
Another guest and a distinguished
one was Captain Allen Kelly, an old
time neWspaperman whose servitude
has carried him from coast to coast but
who for more than a score of years has
enjoyed a high place in journalism on
the Pacific coast
AT the conclusion of the dinner when
the coffee had ceased to flow and the
percolator had reached the right tenn
perature for the flow of soul, President
Moore resigned his place to Colonel
| McClintock. himself a neWspaperman
once of honorable standing, but later.
sadly fallen from grace to the depths of
federal office holding of which by the
way he has repented
Colonel McClintock called upon
Charles H. Akers, who introduced Ma
jor Kelly. The major remembered
when he came to Phoenix and having
described its appearance then and COM
pared it with the Phoenix of today, the
talk naturally drifted toward political
matters. But it is recognized as good
for by those who report exclusive news
paper gatherings to refrain from saying
| what the speaker might not care to see
in print.
On the suppOsition that he might
have something to say by the way OF
| rejoinder or explanation to the remarks
Of Major Kelly, the POSTMASTER afford
ed Dwight b. Heard opportunity OF
which he availed himself but his re-
| marks fall under the same veil of sill
| encc.
! Captain Allen Kelly to whom the
| POSTMASTER paid a tribute, alluded t.
the lately enacted popular Legislation
which reminded him of some of the
earlier legislation of the frontier states
especially the Sunday closing law OF
| Nevada which excluded the saloons ant
| faro banks from it's operation. Other
speakers were: Mr.. Myers of tn,
! Chandler Arizonan who rather resent
ed the suggestion of the toastmastel
that Chandler was suburb of Phoe
nix, not that he had anything agains
| Phoenix, but Chandler was able t,
/ stand alone.
4 Mr. Wilbur Hall exhausted a consid
cradle part of the time allowed him il
long distance after dinner speaker o
the Pacific coast, bar none and he lie
it go at that Other orators of the oc
casion were Chaplin Hall, Mr.. Femme
more and Power Conway
Members of the local press wer
! Dwight B. Heard, Chaplin Hall, Chas
A. Stauffer, c. H. Akers. A. G. Dul
mage, and j. W. Spear, NJ. II. McHin
nick