El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-24

sixth infantry. donated with the COM
pliments Of Col E. V. Smith The Mu-
steal union. through J. H Miller, presi-
dent. and Miss Julia Mallow, secretary.
kindly gave its consent TO allow the
Entertainment Begins.
After the dinner. with a bottle of
Made in FL Paso" beer as a chaser,
and boxes of Made in El Paso' cigars
to smoke. the entertainment program
was started a Z. Rowlands. president
of the club. mad a brief talk and then
turned the meeting over TO h enter
tainment committee with C. A Martin
acting as master OF ceremonies
The first stunt was a telephone tax
between Mr.. Martin and J. K SeSalL-
They had a telephone at each side OF the
big tent and carried on a ~cleveriy WOrded
conversation to bring out a maximum
Of laugh service with a mInlm OF
time lost. Connections were ske and
given with well known ROtarians and
business men and the result was a
series Of quick laughing connections
As an example: After Segall had
failed TO get a connection he wanted
and had grown indignant about II, he
shouted into the receiver
say. what is this. a telephone or a
Burroughs adding machine2 / can't get
anything right on it
This is a telephone, Mr.. Segall."
What is a telephone
"a telephone Is a means OF collecting
81 cents for a long distance call for the
privilege Of being u off in the middle
Of a conversation"
What is a subscriber
"A subscriber is a person who pays
about $3.50 a month and expects $4,000
worth OF service
What does a subscriber Eete7
"a subscriber gets a bill every
month"
.Rotb very much more So
Personal Conversations.
Then the conversation got to be
personal instead of general Follow
ing are some Of the questions and
Segail-Suppose a party asks for
Mai. McMaster's number?
Martin-Refer him TO information or
10 most any Of the girls. Every girl
in town has his number.
Segan-When Ray McClintOck calls
for Miss Jones what does the tele-
phone girl dO2
Martin-Switches him on to his wife's
telephone.
Segall-Is that all?
Martin-Isn't that enough
Segall-When Col. Taylor calls up
a friend in town, what does Central
NIartin-Stuffs cotton in her ears.
Segall-Whau is a party line2
Martin-It is one you pay for and
the other family uses.
Segall-If I Wanted q street liked
who would 7 call upF
Martin-Nobody-
SegaU-If I wanted Bert Orndorff2
Martin-The Sheldon Buffet
SegaU-If one good looking man
wanted 10 talk TO another, and / was
IN end of the wire, who would
call2
Martin-Capt Watts or Capt Barn
hardt.
SegalI-If I wanted a policeman,
who would I Call2
Martin-Its no use TO call
Segall-Is John Fisher here2
Martin-Wait a minute III listen
Segau-Why does Henry Welsch
swear so much2 He knows an awful
lot of cuss words
Martin-He just picked them mp
listening 10 his customers talk
A Regular Minstrel show.
After the telephone stunt Norman
Walker, VIII r Winch F. l. W Polk
and cliff Friend gave an impromptu
minstrel first part" with chairman
Martin acting as interlocutOr, ana
more ROtarians n their friends We're
scored in a good humored
Mr. Walker wanted to know II they
had heard about Fuzzy" Rogers at the
wedding. He said a number Of guests
had been kissing the bride Some
one asked Rogers II he had kissed her.
Rogers replied: ~No-not recently"
VIII Winch said a L. Ryan was
waiting on a customer, who had bought
some pills. Shall I wrap them up
Mr.. Ryan asked. sure. did You think
] was going to Toll them homeg' the
customer answered
A number of other local people were
taken Off with this gridironing
stunt
BasSett and McCracken.
Then Newton c Bassett. an FL Paso
entertainer. gave a number of high
class songs, Rotations n sketches
Mr.. Bassett's work is so high class
h. hoe haa- aH@m-nI "a nn--hL- -
vaudeville engagements and he is one
OF the most popular entertainers in FL
Paso- He had 10 respond TO a number
Of encores. He was assisted in his
sketches by William b McCracken,
who played his accomplishments and
added much to the success OF these
singing numbers
Cliff Friend. announced as 1.-THE
man who sings to peat the band" did
that and more He is a new singer in
FL PasO and he surprised everyone by
his singing with the Sixth infantry
band and his peppery presentation of
negro and English song sketches. He
was forced TO sing again and again
and finally closed his act with a piano
monolog-
Drum and Piano Duet.
W. 3. McCracken and Norman Walk
er did a piano and drum duet and the
Sixth infantry band played military
music from a little canvas alcOye in
the tent and was cheered as loudly as
III AZ LaAAAEAE
AS a serious touch TO the program
Robert Krakauer. a director OF the RO-
tary club. gave a brief talk on the OBJ
ject Of the club and told how the mem
bers were exemplifying the motto OF
the club. which is He profits most
who serves best" Mr.. Krakauer said
that this was the real object of Rotary
as il was the real object of all honest
endeavor and he said the club was
working for a better understanding OF
this principal.
A =. ROwlands told some clever Eng
fish stories, 20 the delight Of the crowd
especially Col. g ". Taylor and the
army Officers. and then Col. Tay-
Tor was introduced as The Big Chief
He told the crowd some stories and
thanked the club for inviting him Il
the dinner.
The Colonel and the Lieutenant
In introducing Col. W. y. Allaire, the
POSTMASTER said before presenting the
new colonel of the Sixth infantry. he
wanted Capt A P Watts to tell a story
that seemed appropriate. Capt Watts
said
In a regiment stationed at an inte-
riOr post was a second lieutenant who
had a mania for gambling. His strong
est point was to make a bet on any
and every subject After having en-.
ticed one of his brother officers into a
net he Would circulate around nmnul