The sun., 1918-12-20
EVE SERVES FEAST
TO DRY BONIFACES
Prospective Loss of Rum in
Part Compensated by Ad-
vent of GarcOnette.
STILL HOTEL MEN MOURN
E. NJ. Tierney Leads Lamenta-
ton on the Soon to Be =
Drinkless Inn.

Waitress! Attended, vous. Hey.
Myrtle, Maggie. sophronisba, RACHEL"
The speaker, minutes out of his
turn. was Dave Fitzgerald, the John
Nee. Bowman Of the Adirondacks, and
his voice, excelling that Of the COW
moose at eventide. drowned the COM
bined voices OF the 700 members Of
the State Hotel Association at dinner
in the waldorf-Astoria last night.
And when one recalls that the TOO
were discussing prohibition. the fact
may be obvious that the Hon d. J.
! Fitzgerald, Jr., of Glens Falls and
points north uses considerable voice.
~ would merely like to remark"
continued Mr.. Fitzgerald. having OBJ
! tanned the exclusive attention Of Mag
gle Grabenheimer, one of the light
running domestics that Oscar has in
stalled at the Waldorf to make strikes
unpopular, II would merely like to
state that am being served portions
/ Of food that are much too large. 1t is
a fault that we hotel men have-big
portions and silly little prices. would
also"
The rest OF course was lost in laugh
ter. 1t possibly was not important.
! The point Is that Dawes opening re-
marks serve to call attention to the
fact that the hotel men, the profess
sionals. were fed at a banquet in this
city. for the first time OF the history
of their lively association, by persons
OF the superior sex
DumpkOfs for Generations.
What's more they liked it. They
agreed with Oscar that hotel men have
been dumpkofs for generations for
failing to grasp the idea that a room
full OF quick moving, light handed.
agreeable. silent women is far more
efficient tNan a similar collection of
insufflciently gifted male immigrants
from the smaller nations. That din
ner at the Waldorf last night, where
the 700 bsnqueters were as hard to
please as the Death Watch at a the
atre opening, most OF them oldtimers
with mixed concrete notions about
things continuing as they always had
been. got up on their legs and yelled
appreciation OF the women tray
bearers. II trat is of any interest to
the striking unions they are as well
come as Christmas.
The feast OF the innkeepers was n
jolly party with. indeed. only one
skeleton dangling from the chandelier,
the grisly threat OF Prohibition and
ruined business. All conversation
turned around that horrid menace,
Even the announcement that Gus Sill
! Of Fourteenth street, who Is known as
game fellow. was to give a supper
party at the Park Avenue Hotel be-
s'nring at II P NJ. and lasting until
the milk cans began to jangle. could
not altogether keep spirits uplifted.
Overlooked in the Armistice.
The main speech Of the banquet,
which exploded from between the
clinched teeth of Edward NJ. Tlerney
OF the Hotel Ansonia, ran along the
general lines that the armistice ought
never to have been signed without all
pruhibltionists having been made to
lay down their arms and their legs as
we'll. Tierney made them sit up when
he got going. For, said he:
Are we free men in the sense that
our forefathers construed our free
dom? For myself I defantly say no.
II was never intended in this free
country to have a handful Of paid
h!relings and fanatics control and
shape the laws of our land in such
manner as TO destroy vested property
and business interests without reason
able and Just compensation under due
process OF law.
I'm the light Of passing events Il
might not be amiss to hold the hand
OF assertion Up 10 inquiry and ask
whittier are We, as nation of boosted
liberty loving people, drifting? Isn't
IL about time that men stood up 10 he
counted unafraid of carping neighbors
whose chief purpose In life seems TO
be TO go through their daily routine
with the torch OF destruction afiame?
When certain churches preach the
gospel of salvation and bless them
selves with tho cross of righteousness
instead OF assuming the role Of So
Ciety's destroyers. ard who stop at
= nothing TO take from you and me the
property we have accumulated after
n life's work OF honest toll and thrift.
.hen may We expect to witness the
resumption OF reason on her throne.
In the Nave of SecIusion.
II know fun we'll that there are
those that Will condemn this plain but
truthful arraignment of men who
stand in the limelight OF pubic at
tention, but I care naught for the
malicious mind or the scurrilous
tongue. This seems TO be the policy
OF many cheap politicians and blatant
money grabhers and Scotch whskcy
drinkers who go up and down our land
with mouths wide open and hands up
. lifted in holy horror OF you and me
who are compelled to pay the fiddler
while they go secretly to their nave
Of seClusion and have an eye opener
; and another and another, regardless
of all law or moral restraint"
There We're other speakers. includ-
ing Assistant District Attorney Alex
ander Rorke, who had few words 70
say about the way Bolshevism ought
to be treated and will he treated IL II
lifts its head in New York, but the
! lad that made them forget even the
; terror of prohibition was Lieut.. Col. II
c. Crawford. Lad is right. Col. Craw-
: ford was graduated from West Point
; in, 1914, and is only 81 years old. He
wears three gold stripes upon his left
sleeve and saw some Of the hardest