Show GOLD GRIDIRON GRIDRON BESTOWED UPON PRESIDENT TAFT Washington Correspondents Given Token of Friendship to Retiring Executive Feb 1 L I. t elect eJect Wilson WHon President Taft Tar Theodore Roosevelt Roose el William Jennings Bryan Brynn Rip flip Van Winkle and ant a lot of ot other er notables were portra portrayed cd to th the Gridiron club and its Is guests tonight at th annual winter dinner when men of ot national size sat Fat at tho the banquet board board and sa saw themselves frolicking about to their own amusement Incident to the drinking of ot the tho single toast of oC the annual dinner er of ot the tho GridIron Gridiron Grid Grid- iron club tonight tonight the the President of ot the United States Was States was the boit bes' bestowal wal wal upon President nt Taft Toft of the large gold goki gridiron gridiron grid grid- iron bearing this thie inscription To William Howard Taft Tar President of the tho United Unite States as a token of friendship from the Gridiron club of Washington February 1 1 1913 The dinner took the form torm of ot ono graceful tribute to President Taft Tart and another to President elect elect Wilson lson The club began b by having an Inauguration of ot its Hs own president Rudolph Kauffman Kauff- Kauff man mn of the Washington Evening Star StAr His inaugural procession which marched into tho banquet hall hail hal to the tho bare blare of ot a. a s band consisted of a a detach detach- of the New ew Jers Jersey National GUArd Guard a S club of ot Princeton professors a contingent contingent con con- of southern colonels cOlonel hurrahIng hurrah- hurrah InK Ing for tor the solid sold south places for tor veterans etc the Wanta Yanta Eta Pie Pic Pe frat of college boys bOs Tammany's phalanx phalanx phalanx pha pha- the tho In Bad club cub including G George orge Har e Harvey Harve Henr Henry Watterson Waterson August Angust Au An- gust Belmont and Thomas F F. Ryan and finally a squad of shrieking Votes for tor women omen When hen the din had partially subsided It i t was was announced In behalf behal of of President Kauffman Kautman that he did not think much of of the parade as there were some things missing naming the Champ Clark Cark Houn Dawg club and the tho Underwood Underwood Un derwood derood Protection phalanx R Receives che Soc d Emblem Such as ns It I was the new president was obliged to be he content with wih his in inauguration inauguration In in- and received the sacred emblem emblem em em- blem of office the golden gridiron with the statement that this being an era of of economy and reform he would KA hA hI nl t AY a- a Hard Hardly had the guests turned again to their terrapin when entrance was demanded and achieved b by the Sigma Sigma- Sigma Pl fraternity of ot the Talc Yale La Law school which insisted on Initiating two new members to the club The dinner was suspended for tor th the ceremony The neophytes were vere Mr William of of Cincinnat Cincinnati Cin Cm- and Mr r Theodore of oC Oyster Oster flay Bay DI to tu be he known in the order re respectively respectively re- re as Brother Bill Bi and Brother Broth Broth- Both er cr Teddy A A. discord In the hand band was explained b by the inability of f the neophytes neophytes neo noo- to agree agee on a marching tune one demanding the only tune he knew A A Hot Time Timo In the tho Old Town Tonight Tonight and the other wanting Keller's Kellers Hymn of of Peace A nondescript nondescript double ended double ended animal with a a moose head at one end and an elephant elephant at the thc thc other th the time honored goat that both candidates should be he able to ride at once When hen It Jt broke roke dawn under their combined weight defiantly declared that though he run this darn tarn thing b by Godfrey Godfre I smashed It I while William backed himself himself against the world for a good loser In the struggle gb gle tle the wigs and ant false mustaches be bec becoming becoming be- be c coming displaced re e revealed led the features t of ot th the two new candidates for admission admission adrais- adrais sion aba to the club John E. E Monk of ot the SL St St Paul Dispatch and ad John P. P Gavit of or orthe the New w York York Evening Post POt n. on n Pint First Cabinet t Counci Council Next Pr President elect Wilson was die die- co covered co red conducting his first c cabinet council counci on the lines of ot a faculty meet meet- In and calling upon a member for his thesis It I soon appeared that all the tho th cabinet officers from the secretary of st state te to th the attorney general generl bore the features ff of ot William J J. J Bryan ran There were nine In all al around und the tho cabinet board board Whore Where Is 13 tO my cabinet queried the President C I He will wil soon be bp here replied his bis secretary He He You mean they For tat er error error er- er of ot grammar you ou will nl translate ta fl Its extra pages of Homer retorted Mr r. r WI Wilson leon Reminded that he lie had nev never r before attended a cabinet meeting Secretary Secretory of State Bryan admitted d that he hadnot hadnot had bad not but added d I have made throe three throe at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts at tt t It Secretary of State n It h hA 1 Tnt int CL 1 u 1 u nan h idea idee iI 1896 Secretary of f War Var Bryan declared l that he was not l in Mr Wilsons Wilson's c cabinet cabinet- but was hl his cabinet ca S Secretary pt of of- the Navy a Bryan r n favored fa no battleships until Lincoln Neb Nob b became came a s seaport apor Attorney General len Gen cn- cn eral Dr Bryan an r residuary legatee of In- In completed complete trust prosecutions declared his trust policy to be bust hust those we cant can't trust and trust trust- those we cant can't bu bust t and explained that when a trust was reorganized the small ma stockholders quicker ers lose theirs Brynn r-nn r Inke Trouble The real trouble truble be began an when President President President dent Wilson undertook to frame frame his message as the Bryan Bran c cabinet Insisted on relieving him Many good topics were declared to be reserved ed for for four years ear such as ns Philippine independence government ownership of telegraphs penny penn postage et etc et But the cabinet agreed that for tor present consideration It might take un tho the protection of the fur tUl seal the abolition of ot the turkey trot Irot at Inaugural halls bun civic service trot r reform torm and the rule of ot the people And as the cabinet meeting broke up each member left heft let In the Presidents President's hand a little memorandum to this cf- cf c- c ct t feet ert The thing to bear down on hard 1 is isone If one Ine four year four four a term for the President of ut the United States Miss Js Democracy came to the dinner in search of at a m mascot which afforded the musical members member of the Gridiron club an opportunity to revive rEI e the tho comic vehicle for tor a opera of or that name as a parody on the political situation as Jeffersons Jefferson's ons shade rhade returning returninG to earth to lo ascertain how hov the partY pirty great which he fathered had improved undertook undertook under under- took to assist the maid mai in her search eatch and the result resul was was was' wasn n a flood of ot mascots Ditty by Ml Tariff Reform First came Miss 19 Tariff Reform with witha Firs described by Jefferson as a n toY to sheep heel Jeterson 1 Schedule K K which thou h Just no now nowa a n lamb soon would be made a goat Sung unS Miss Tariff Reform I feel fed quite hUite aule apprehensive That 1 bet before re Im I'm Im I'm Im red reduced Someone with wih taste expensive Xen e d Will 11 mark me for a n boost Other mascots came in J order Miss Misi Filipino Independence Miss In Investigation who h believed the nation naton needed watching Initiative and MIs Iss RUt who thought things right s side Ide up at present should be turned up tip present Last and most Im impressive e was Professor ProCessor HIS Higher Education on a tricycle who with wih Miss Democracy sang the famous Gobble Dust the refrain running running Office office office Bah Bab etc An entertaining feature of or the tho dinner dinner din din- ner ncr was a reproduction of statuary hall ball hll which disclosed through the tho agency of ot a n loud voiced lecturer such plastic treasures treasure's as former Senator I BaIe Bailey Representative tatie Ollie Olle Jamea Jame William J J. J Bryan Brn and others I |