The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-03
DINNER TO RINGING
USURPED BY BRADY
Diamond Ones Guests Fill
Line After Line and Ia
Bile After Table.
WHOLE DIRECTORY THERE

Among those present Uhe Friars
Club dinner to John Ringing. owner
OF all the circuses as 10, at the Hotsl
Astor last night is now under discus
sion) were. besides others listed on the
printed seating list, the following:
Table 12--James Buchanan Brady.
guest of James Il. Brady, guest of James
r. Brady. guest OF James b. Brady.
guest of James Il. Brady. guest Of
James b. Brady. guest OF James Il.
Brady. guest OF James Il. Brady. guest
of James r. Brady. guest Of James Il.
Brady. guest OF James Il. Brady. guest
OF James r. Brady. guest OF James b.
Brady, guest OF James Is. Brady, guest
of James b. Brady, guest Of James b.
Brady.
New paragraph-Guest Of James b.
BRADY. Guest of James r. Brady now
is the time for all good men to come
to the aid of the party. Now Is the
time for all good men To-.
The above was a slip. Writing out
the list of Mr.. Brady's guests on the
typewriter suggested typewriter prac-
tice. Pardon is begged.
Boss Muschenhein spoiled a perfectly
good carpet in the cocktail room by
sprinkling sawdust over II before the
dinner began at all. Above was stretched
/ n CANVAS Top which EOOktu as II "
really had seen service. And at a safe
distance from the cocktail tables were
ranged n string OF circus side show
freaks on a plstform--Jim Tarver the
Cowboy Giant OF the Barnum show
owned by John Ringing and his brothers
Miss Cleve Gill. the Woolworth of
lady giants: Franklin Lentini. the three
legged boy Mr.. and Mrs. Tryon, tho
tattooed couple; Tommy Coy. the arm
lasS nd l.n srfe taI
many. many more.
Freaks and Cocktails.
Harry Morris. freak hall lecturer,
! made a speech about his pets, while
cocktails were being inserted. "Laa-
deez and gentul-mennnen," SC. &C.
Then trumpeters blew their blasts
| and everybody began to march toward
the grub and swagger drinkables. The
/ Friar Abbot OF the Friars. George NJ
/ Cohan the's young actor. an ambi-
tious young fellow. who tries to get
along with everybody. and is sure to
make his mark some day.. led the way
with young John Ringing, the cause
: OF the hullabaloo. on his arm. Behind
Old George and Young John marched
folks from-to take up Broadway from
the beginning to the end-the swagger
lawyer belt. which means from the Bat
terry to City Hall the City Hall and
Municipal Building push. merchants
from Chambers street north to Greeley
Square: all Broadway, from the Square
to the Circle. and everybody else, from
the Circle north TO where folks begin
to own their own homes. at Park Hill
Yonkers.
Sam Harris took seat No I at the
table OF honor. Running south toward
the Atlantic Ocean from Sans seat one
noted in turn Georre c. Tyler. Sam A.
ScYibner. who IL not the magazine man
Nat c. Goodwin. the popular husband .
! young Dan Frohman, Ike Macosson,
Raucous Raymond Hitchcock, Fire
Commissioner Adamson. the gentle
spoken Rennold Wolf. T.. F. Albee, she
guest OF the night John. of the three
| Ringlings Toastmaster Young Conan,
De WoH Hopper. the we'll known parent
| Percy q. Willums. William CHATS the
! way the seating list printed his name
Lackaye, Borough President Marcus
Markets Marks. \ Paul Keith a Proc
tor. Brother All r. Ringing. who has
shaken more newspaper mems hands
that anybody in the show business
Looie Cooke, Charlie Burnham. mere
boy: c. +, DAILY, \. n. Smith. +. ID
Underwood and Belvidere Brooks, In
whose honor the stone tower at the
foot of the Central Park reservoir was
named.