Arizona republican., 1914-05-04
Fifty Employes of The Ari- zona Republican Enjoy Hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight B. Heard at Banquet
DELIGHTFUL MENU
 BRILLIANT TALKS
True Spirit of Good Fellow ship Prevails and Regret is Expressed That Once a Year Does Not Come Oftener

Unanimously fifty employees of the : Arizona Republican agreed that the second annual fellowship dinner given ! by MT and Mrs. Dwight B. Heard, f president and treasurer, respectively, was enjoyable to superlative degree. l Unanimously fifty young men and young women, representing the brains and brawn that go to make of The Re- publican. Arizona's greatest newspaper wished that once a year came oftener. 1 The discussion of a menu that would 1 satisfy royalty, did not dull the senses or retard oratory. It seemed rather to sharpen the wits and loose the tongues 1 of those who usually occupy at such i functions the position of innocent by islanders" The occasion was fraught
 with surprises, developing from unsus- pected sources latent eloquence and ln- 1 born story telling ability.
 : More important than all else, the gathering at Donofrios yesterday
 afternoon of the greater part of those
 who are devoting the best that is With 1 in them to the advancement of The Re- publican more nearly to the high plane Of the ideal newspaper was an exen1- plification of the true spirit of cooper ation that pervades the columns of the paper and the walls of the building in which it is written and published. In l the responses it was as if a pledge of i fealty to each other and to The Repub- ! lican was being renewed and lasting l brotherhood established
 Like all gatherings of the sort there
 were tinges of sadness. due in some i instances to the inability of some of
 the most popular attaches of the paper to be present and in others to the ab-
 sence of those who in the year that had | interyened since the first fellowship dinner was given, severed their con- nections with The Republican. Of this latter class however, there were re- markedly few, many less, perhaps, than it might be expected would occur in
 family the size of The Republicans.
 In fact the dinner of yesterday, in the
 point of those attending, might have been almost a replica of that of a year ago. Dan Huntington, who for nearly
 a score of years has been continuously
 employed as pressman, and who is now
 absent in California, and Eugene Pier
 son, cashier and bookkeeper, who by
 reason of a serious eccident few days
 ago, is at St. Joseph's hospital mending
 broken bones and recovering from
 shock, were of those absent, most in mind and were the inspiration for
 delicate toast, given while standing.
 And to Pierson's bedside. at the con
 clusion of the dinner, were sent the table decorations, sweet peas grown by
 Mrs Heard and picked by her in the early Sunday morning hours while the dew still rested upon their vari- -colored
 petals.
 A cathedral chime intoned the hour
 of one as the guests ascended the broad
 staircase to the banquet room on the mezzanine floor Donofrio had become imbued with the spirit of the occasion : and contributed to the decorations of l the approach to the tables wealth of carnations and yellow lillies. These
 served to prepare the banqueters for the vision of loveliness presented when < the tables the preparation of which . had been accomplished under the l supervision of Mrs. Heard, came into ? view With gentle care and the taste of an artist. the hostess had grouped 5 the sweet-scented, sun kissed. rainbow f hued stems in their own classes and mingling them with maiden-hair ferns assigned them to places not too prom
 inent but completely pleasing to the
 ieye.
 r One table had been placed lengthwise down the banquet roomwhile another '. presenting three sides of a square gave
 room for the covers laid and brought all
 within the realm of the toastmaster.
 There was studied carelessness in
 the arrangement of the name cards, a
 i member of the mechanical department = being placed between a man from the = 1 local force and q boOkkeeper from the . ! business department. pressman al the :, side of an editorial writer, the hostess
 at the left of the telegraph editor upon :, | whose right was a happy girl from the U bindery while the foreman of the N mechanical department occupied a post
 of honor at the left of the toastmaster upon whose right was member of the U linotype force.
 !, Little time was lost in getting down U to the real business in hand. Mrs. I. E. u Shaw. proprietor of the cafe, herself a
 caterer with a reputation in New York and New Jersey. had personally at
 tended to the baking of delicacies ana | the preparation of the host of other