Show GRIDIRON DINNER BRILLIANT AFFAIR Scott Bone Inaugurated President President President dent of the Famous Wash Washington Washington Washington ington Club VARIOUS AMUSING STUNTS PRESIDENT TAFT AND MANY HIGH OFFICIALS PRESENT Washington Feb reb 6 The Gridiron club gives two dinners each year and it fell out that the one given tonight at atthe atthe atthe the New Willard was the sliver silver dinner marking the anniversary of the foundation of the club Where there for there was a great gathering of nota notables bles blesa a President cabinet officers am ambassadors ambassadors ambassadors jurists grave and reverend senators frivolous representatives in Congress and a number of simple news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper men gathered from many states of the Union Each and all bore off orr a remembrance of the happy event In the shape of a souvenir silver ash receiver crossed by the mystic Gridiron The he fun started almost as soon as the guests were seated with a tangle over the inauguration of the new president of the club Scott C Bone editor of the Washington Herald for entering un upon the scene came El EI Presidente dente Zelaya Zela a with his army composed of half a dozen generals in uniforms and one lone private Zelaya looking for a job had picked out the presidency of the Gridiron club as suit sult suitable able ubI and was ejected only by the threat that Secretary Knox was approaching Back From Elba Club Scarcely had peace and quiet been re ro restored restored stored when another interruption came when to the strains of the Marsel laise entered the Back From Elba club clad in Napoleonic uniforms and including personifications of public men who have been identified by com corn common common cornmon mon report with the movement to re return return return turn Roosevelt to the White House The big bg stick figured in this and in the fierce glare of the electric light and in of all rules of secret orders and In the presence of several hundred were dragged forth and duly dul initiated the two unfortunate neo flee of the Gridiron club George Ed Miller resident correspondent of ot the Detroit News and John Callan of the Chicago Tribune They were made to foreswear all aU of the policies of their respective newspapers and to pledge themselves to be on the pier per to welcome The Only One when he returned from Africa all this to the chant of When Teddy Freddy Comes Sailing H Hume rne Again Hurrah Insurgents Grilled The insurgents got their grilling too when between courses was rendered an affecting scene from Uncle UnIe Un le Toms Cabin for this occasion described as Uncle Henele Joes Toes Cabin or Life Among the Insurgents A presentiment of Speak Speaker er Cannon annon was the clever lawyer law er Marks another of Whip Dwight was the tie brutal overseer Legree and vari van vanous arl arlous ous prominent insurgents figured as Uncle Tom and his fellow slaves and Little Eva Th They y were roughly treated told that they had been n de of or all patronage and their ap apI I 1 als 15 to the speaker to resign were n r t by hy demands for their return to the Ivr publican caucus Finally put upon the block at auction in a dubious mar mark mark k t the Democrats and Republicans a ake ke holding off from the bidding the therle f lG was stopped by orders from the Wt House in the shape of an rat I at n proclamation in order to secure securer arty party r harmony harmon Trusts Were Nere Roasted If ir the insurgents Insurgent were grilled the tr H were tally faily roasted in another skit pi TI r ing the Infant Industries f U t lumber whisky beef coal and to tol toLlI tot l t i r U trusts seeking protection from a ar ar amer r imer mer of ot customers iden ident t tf f ol I as The Ultimate Consumers Ti I rM s 1 was as a verse from one of the chants c the trust magnates to the air of a aI I pular song Oh On the ultimate consumer always has to tocoma roma coma to us Cause Cau h hunt any other place to go goHe goRe goHe He Re will rise In Indignation he will make an awful fuss Can Caus Cause he haSIt any other place to go goV Why V by are art all our guests assembled her tonight in gla array Why W hy do congressmen keep coming to our city day by day Why did Roosevelt Roo grab a gun and beat it clear to Cause he any other place to go Crack at Knox The new order of things in the state department was disclosed in a skit 11 U lu of a gathering of Secretary Knox and his faithful assistants and bureau chiefs of recent creation There was vas an undersecretary under secretary and a secre secret secretary t tary ry of nearsighted affairs and one cf Gf farsighted affairs and there was wasa a wonderful exhibition of shirtsleeve diplomacy resulting in the summary of the Nicaraguan question and the Chinese railroad imbroglio and other matters that have engaged the at attention attEntion attention of the diplomatic branch of the government for the past few months Among the guests were President Taft Vice President Sherman the Chi nr sc minister Senators Bourne of Ore Oregon Oregon gon Carter Cart r of Montana Guggenheim of of f Colorado lorado Representatives Clark of Missouri Bucker of Colorado J A ADre of Cheyenne Wyo yo L R of Portland Ore William Wllliam Gug Guggenheim genheim gerhelm of New York Tork Admiral J T N Assistant Secretary HUes Hiles Brigadier General Humphrey C N Jameson Jamon of Pekin China and W R B Wheeler of San Francisco |