The sun., 1916-12-29
JEWELLERS BLOW
PROFITS AT DINNER
"First Annual" Affair at Ig.
natz's Proves Ono Long to
Be Remembered.
TLIvvERS AS SOUVENIRS
Diamond Jim's Absence Not
Noted In Radiance Of
the Pearl King.

Everybody except the general con.
> sumner has got the notion recently that
the last year has been a big one. Hut
10 realize how big II wal commercially
one should have been down In Isnatz's
last night.
All the manufacturing jewellers Of the
/ Maiden lane district. who dined last
Night at ~Ignats's. have been making
such . soshawful amount Of money
during tho last year. especially during
tho Christmas holidays. that they de.
cidsd . few days ago 10 blow the SUR
plus In . first snnua dinner--,ho "arst
annual part OF the programme being
thrown In In tho hope that prosperity
would so continue that there necessarily
would be q second, third. fourth. hfth,
twenty eighth. and so on. annual cele.
bration Of the money making which the
manufacturing jewellers celebrated last
night.
And II the sentence above doesn't read
straight don't blame the honest re-
porter. lie got there early and he
trisd his best. And II the reporter
doesn't give the details Of the dinner
here in The calm. objective way In which
n yVOTtcT SuOutu TttilI rNVU nNpptTlUkS
Il 10 not His fault. A youth may resist
from 6:30 o'clock r. NJ. until 9:20
O'Clock. but finally comes a time when
even the press table succumbs to temp
tat5sn.
Too Fat to Hop Abo1t.
When II hrst flashed upon the
jewellers Of Maiden lane that they had
!, made 30 much money they ought to
blow themselves for a dinner-a inner
the like OF which never had been seen
before In the known world-up rose
Mfg. Jeweller Frank Schaller and pro-
posed the following prosrame:
h manufacturing Jewellers. he suG-
sested. ought to assemble at the Ritz
for cocktails, then limousine southwark
TO the Waldorf for dinner and take their
coffee at the Plaza. The Plaza was
selected for the coffee because II was
near the Century Theatre, Frank Schai-
ier's idea heing to tuy the Century
Theatre. gather in Miss Elsie Janis.
Frank Tinney. Sam Bernard. Harry
Kelly. Johnny slavin and The rest of
the stars Of THE Century Girl to give
a cabaret performance and then return
the Century and the stars to the Messrs.
Ziegfeld and Dillingham; after the Jewell
lsn were through with them.
Out r0uN CStdtiSt iot8ot OiIe iilVoIt-
ant item. One cannot take part In the
extraordinary prosperity of tho jcwelry
trade Of the last year M still remain
30 physically active a. to hop about
from the Rits to the waldorf to the
Plaza.
TO be brutal. their prosperity had
made them too fat to wander far from
Maiden lane. 20 after thinking things
over. the frightfully wealthy jewellers
first gathered In william and Johns
Cafe. two doors below John street in
Nassau. and talked things over across
the cocktail glasses with William and
John for some moments and then de-
clded TO hold their first dinner across the
corner in . ~hbrtheasterly direction.
'1Gnats Gets Concession.
Ienatz Neumayer. assisted by Waiter
Fritz. therefore got the dinner conces-
sion from the Maiden lane jewellers who
had made 80 much money they wished
to blow II lavisnly. lgnats owns an UNI
foreground restaurant which can. under
pressure. turn out ever French wines.
For days Manufacturing Jewelkr
Smaller had been planning to get DiA
mond Jim Brady to come down 10 the
dinner and stand around quietly az the
centreniece OF the table. Diamond Jim
had to send his regrets. but did his All
sence dampen the occasion? II did not.
For Edward Joseph Maloney. the pearl
king, was there. and 10 wero Bird Il.
t"Birdle," naturally Moore. Conrad
Phoel and his brother Philip. who In
the greatest diamond setter In the
world; and Adolph Hentschel. the
jewelry designer-to mention the dia
mond districts greatest celebrities only
Ira Cadmus, George r. Morris, the
lawyer who represents all manufacturing