Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-03
NOTWITHSTANDING
D|CTAGRAPH EXPOSE
''Records" of U. S. Marshal
SpIain and Postmaster
Praeger Barred.
ARE GUESTS OF RECENT
-CONFERES AT A SUPPER
Correspondents Honor President
Appointees to High Federal Of
fees in National Capital.

/ VI course every one knows that the
United States Senate several days ago
confirmed Maurice Splar as United
States marshal for the District OF CO.
lunbia and Otto PraeSer as postmaster
for the city, but the real stamp of ap-
pToval was damned on. the appointment
of these two famous former journalists
last night at the Shoreham when more
! than sixty of their recent confreres of the
Washington corps of correspondents
were hosts at a supper in honor of the
Presidents recent appointees to high
| federal offices in the National Capital.
There were no reporters present (ell
being journalists for the EVENING". and it
! may be that the accounts of the pro-
ceedings were twisted slightly after the
supper broke up-some time this morning.
! However, it is alleged that before dawn
| today one well known Journalist was seen
| conversing with another well known
| ditto while waiting for the water to
| how back into the Eastern Branch and
| thus start the Mount Pleasant car service,
and one said to the other:
| Say, that supper was some supper
You're right. You've got to, give
Maurice and Otto credit for one thing.
They certainly can take joke
Vacant Spaces in Menu Filled.
Maurice Splain sat on the right hand
Of ToastnIaster. Henry Hall, and Otto
| PraeSer sat on the left, and down the
| long expanse of table they could see
| their friends with whom they have lived
| and worked and laughed for years. d.
rectly in a plumb line down the table sat
Assistant Stage Manager Arthur B.
krock, who helped Toas:mast er Hall in
| the adept handling of the several stunts
| which turned the supper into political
cabaret show. The early morning re-
mark of the journalist, therefore, must be
construed meaning that the ordinarily
vacant spaces in the menu were filed
with wit and burlesque.
Hardly had the guests and hosts taken
| their places, when the dining room was
| disturbed y terrific racket at one end.
Toastrnaster Hall, panied and surprised,
| asked for order. but a rough voice demand
| ed to be admitted After a short con-
suitation between the aforementioned AS
sistant Stage Manager Krock and IA man
| from famous detective agency. it was
agreed by Messrs Hall and krock that
the disclosures of the detective should
be turned loose upon the assemblasc.
The detective had dcta graph record.
taken at the National Press Club on the
| day that the President appointed Mr..
! Splain to the office of United States mar
| shall. It's a good thing there were no
reporters present at the supper, because
what the detective agency gathered in
the way Of remarks by the new United
States marshal about the Senate, the
United States courts and the marshall
Ship if printed in the ordinary manner
of present-day journalism. would make
the Benton case seem like something
stale and cast off from the Daily House
keepers Hints. Even Joe TumuIty (who
| is Joseph Tumulty: secretary to the
President when on duty, looked aghast
when he heard the dictagraph record of
Maurice Splain saying:
THE only use ] ever saw for a mar
shall was to ride at the head of a parade
on spawned horse"
Only the Soup Was Strained.
! There might have been strained rela-
| tons right there, had not a corps of
handy walters turned it into strained
| gurnbo. And then, too, at this juncture.
Maj. a. J. Stofer sang THE Bully Song -
and if it isn't better song than some of
these "Oh. You Kid songs that are float
| ing around noW-then sixty-hve neWspa-
per men are mistaken.
The same detective caught Otto Praegcr
| mapping and sprang dictagraph CONVEX
Sation which he had held with some one;
and If Albert BurleSon ever hears it
| goodbye Otto. Harry Stevens, whose
voice has been heard by Wash1ngtonians
at big dinners and other functions time
and time again, sang song especially
Burleson' 1t was called, and was a PARODY
| on THE Heart of Maryland:
got to the heart of Burleson
And he got a Job for me.
POSTMASTER Hall started to eulogiZe
Maurice Splain with rare praise and a
wonderful selection Of English but he
was roughly and rudely interrupted in
the middle of a sentence by Thomas F..
Logan who demanded that he should read
| a real euIogy. He insisted and was al
! lowed to proceed, reading paean of
praise for Mr.. Splain and another for Mr..
| Praeger. It's too bad there were re-
| porters present, for the eulogies purport-
| ed to be written by two unsuccessful
aspirants for the marshalship and post
masters Office.
Burlesque on Civil Service.
! Herndon Morsel turned the tide of
| sentiment from laughter to apprecia-
| ton of melody in an old song. Gene
We've and following that Frank B.
Lord. ]. Fred Essary and Earl Goodwin
| of the press gallery presented bur-
| lesque civil service examination for the
| offices of assistant postmaster and
| deputy United States marshal. por
| ton of it being:
Define the relationship between a
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