Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-27
WINTER DINNER Of
CR|D|RON MEMBERS
President Wilson and Prominent
Statesmen were among
those present
MAKE BELIEVE RAILROAD
A FEATURE OF EVENING
Fun and Amusement galore Great.
ed by Arrival Of the Various
Passengers

washington, FeD. 26.-Tne GrldlrOn
club tonight, at its second dinner OF
the winter projected itself into the
convention activities OF next June
and helped a distinguished party Of
presidential makers and candidates
board trains for Chicago and Sa. Lou
is, to meet the fateS awaiting them
there. In a make-believe railway sta
ton the actor members of the club
satirized the foibles of some Of their
guests and some well known men
who were not present. a
President Wilson was among those
who looked on and he may have re.
ceived an intimation of the opposi.
ton he will meet later in the year.
Vice President Marshall, the secre.
|staries Of state, navy and interior, the
Brazilian ambassador the Chinese
and Bolivian ministers, several mem
bers OF the senate and house, officers
of the army and navy, and a number
OF the most notable figures in the
nations financial and industrial life
were present.
The most ambitious of several
sketches presented by the club was
the political one. Scrambles to make
trains, strange travelling companions,
and ticket complexities that confound-
ed the railway gatemen offered extra
ordinary opportunities for fun-making.
Passing through the Chicago gate
were regular and progressive repub'
licans, characters representing for
Droci1nnt Eoir irhav1lYo Con,
ators Sherman, BOrah, Cummins,
Weeks, and Penrose; Representative
Cannon, former President Roosevelt,
William Barnes and George w. Per.
kins of New York. Through the St.
Louis gate passed Secretary McAdoo,
Postmaster General BurlesOn, Charles
+. Murphy Of New York and William
Jennings Bryan.
I Nervous and Fused.
The first passenger to reach the
Chicago train was recognized by one
of the two gatemen as Senator Bur
ton. Nervous and fused, he inquired
if he were too late and appeared
greatly relieved when told that he
was leading the parade"
"You won't be too late till you get
to Chicago" he was informed as the
gateman punched his ticket.
Next came a passenger for St. LOU
is, who was hailed as Secretary Nc
Adoo. He produced weird looking
ticket, finally recognized as mileage,
which the gateman examined labori-
ously. Muttering that it seemed "as
complicated as the shipping bill,' the
gateman asked if mistake hadn't
been made. Its intricacies were ex-
planned by methods Of addition and
subtraction, and the passenger pass.
ed through, grinning. The gateman,
recovering, remarked to his pal:
THAT wasn't no railroad ticket; that
was todays treasury statement
Among the next batch of passen.
gers was tall, heavy-set man, car.
rying broken plank under his arm,
who tried to crowd through the st.
Louis gateway.
Hey, Mr.. Speaker" expostulated
the gateman, "this ticket amt no
good. 1t reads for Baltimore And
it's four years old"
Ticket No Good.
l kucW IL. SuOuIcu Cuc pdSsCu'
ger, who resembled Champ Clark.
"Bill Hearst told me to try to work
it off, but the darn ticket never was
any good"
The speaker finally got through on
Missouri mileage but the plank be-
came wedged in the gateway. AS he
tried to disengage it he explained that
1t came out of the Baltimore cy-I
clone," and wa sthe last surviving |
bit of the one-term plank. They ask
ed him what good it was, and he re.
piled that he was merely following |
T. RS advice-Learn to swim, but al |
ways carry life-preserver.'
Vice President Marshall, extremely |
nervous, was closely followed by Sen.
ator Lewis of Illinois.
81 ought to be nervous" he ex.
planned. ''He follows me all the |
time. He followed me up to the ros
trum in the senate today and almost |
sat in the chair
Former Vice President Fairbanks,
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