The Washington times., 1919-05-25
Milk Show Was Invited to Banquet
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as Guest of III

busy Fifth avenue stopped short at Thirty
fourth street. With leisurely stride and
great dignity a thoroughbred Jersey bull
strobe along into the avenue.
He stopped for a moment, looked up the
great avenue toward the Public Library,
and then turned his head and looked down
toward the Victory Arch. A gentleman
said a word or two in the animals ear
and he then continued on across the street
to the sidewalk in front of the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel.
As the splendid animal approached the
entrance half a dozen uniformed hotel at
tendants and dozen men in dress suits
stepped forth to greet the bull. CHANGING
I'D the steps the animal saw that plank
runway had been laid with a carpet on it.
JJp this gentle carpeted incline the bull
proceeded with majestic tread and dis
appeared into the main hall of this busy
hotel.
He was the famous two year old
tboroughbred Jersey bull whose name is
Financial Sensation" He has a market
value of 100000 and is the highest priced
bull in America.
He was the centre of interest at the
recent Milk Show in New York, and so
much attention was given to him that 1t
was decided to give dinner in his honor
at the Waldorf-Astoria. No less than i've
hundred guests assembled at this banquet
to do honor to the bull. 1t was the first
time that an animal had ever been the
guest of honor at the Waldorf, and appro-
pirate preparations were made for the
comfort Of this distinguished PueSt
Approaching the great compliment, the
owners of the bull took 5pecial pains to
have the animal exquisitely groomed for
the occasion.
The banquet was on April 25, and two
days in advance of the dinner the bull was
covered with blankets and rubbed down
twice day with crude oil to get his din
ner coat in sleek and shiny perfection. He
also received haircut with fine hair clip
pers to eliminate any vagrant whiskers
that might have previously eluded his
grooms.
The bulls horns received especial at
tention. The horns were polished and
scrubbed and powdered and oiled and re-
polished again and again. First they were
rubbed down with fine emery paper and
then briskly polished with puI4ice stone.
Having attained the highest possible de-
gree Of smoothness a bit of crude oil was
again. When this foundation coat of crude
oil thoroughly dried a light coat Of olive
oil was applied and rubbed down. A final
application of cold cream was then made
and this was polished with chamois skin.
A bull has no finger nails for a manicure
to give attention to, but he has four hoofed .
feet, which are a more difficult task to put
into prime condition specialist on
bovine pedicuring worked portion of two
days on the bulls hoofs, pairing them and
trimming them and filing them and sand
papering them and oiling them and polish
ing them and re-oiling them and re-polish-
ing them, and just before the animal start
ed out for the dinner a final polishing was
given the four precious hoofs.
Unlike a lady dressing for a formal af-
fair, the well-bred bull gives little atten-
ton to the couture. The bulls hirsute
asset is his tail. This must be marceled
as scrupulously as any lady's hair. For
two days previous TO the banquet it was
braided together with a kind of pliable
weed and kept tied so as to form innumer-
able little wavelets. When the weed is
finally taken out and the tail combed and
brushed it acquires fluffy and wavy ap-
pearance which is quite fascinating.
When the time came for the bull to
leave his apartments at the Milk Show,
few blocks away, he did not take a taXicab.
but walked to the Waldorf AS he entered
the hotel corridor the owner put his arm
affectionately on his head and walked be-
side him through the hotel office to the
elevator Up the elevator to the third
floor the party went, and there, passing
through the hall. entered the banquet
room. The assembled guests all stood as
the bull entered the hail. and in a process
sion they escorted their hOnOred guest to
his special table. This table was fully ap-
pointed with napery, silver and glassware,
and in addition to the bulls two personal
Wallets were assigned two of the Waldorf
walters.
AS the bull took his position at his table
OF honor cocktails were served, and each
of the five hundred guests raised his glass
For the bull there had been provided a
generous sweetened oatmeal cocktail.
which was served in a silver champagne
bucket. As this mammoth cocktail was
raised to the bulls lips by the two walters
the guest Of honor slipped it with some
elaboration, then raised his head as if
to bow an acknowledgment to his five
hundred hosts
As the champagne bucket was removed
one Of the bulls personal attendants wiped
his lips with a napkin while the other at
tendant slipped a tablecloth around the
bulls neck and chest and tied it behind
his ears as a sort of giant napkin to pre-
vent any drops of food from staining the
marvellous shine of the guests chest or his
brilliantly polished fOrehoofs.
Following the cocktail the largest Shelf
field silver platter in the Waldorf was
brought in by four attendants heaped with
bran and ground oats mixed with a special
relish which Oscar, the famous maitre
G'hotel, insisted on cOncocting saying that
he knew just what sort of relish would
tickle the palate Of this DISTINGUISHED