Show BRO BoE lER o Of GRIDIRON CLUB Kept Busy Serving Up P Wit It t and Humor timer to toe New Ad Administration AdI Administration ministration I Washington AP April 17 r The Tho broiler bronc of the Gridiron club that famous or organization organization of newspaper newspaper men was kept busy bus tonight serving up wit and humor hu humor mor at al n a dinner tonight complimentary to limb new administration Tho The dinner was given In the banquet hall of the tho New Willard Caro was taken that men prominent In the public eye oyo got all that was com coming comIn coming ing In to them In lu the time way of thrusts and Jibes es and und the great Teat assemblages assemblage was val In Inu Ina n na a u constant uproar Of course President Taft was there thereas as were Speaker Cannon members of the Ule cabinet and the diplomatic corps senators and representatives men high In the tho industrial and amid financial world and fwd many others of or distinction In It Inthe Inthe the absence of President Henry Henr Hall HuH who is just recovering from fromm a long Ions illness ill III illness ness President Scott C Bone Bono of tho taw Washington Herald presided The onslaught on time the banquet room began when the clubs old fashioned dinner bell announced that everything was wag ready read As soon as the diners wore seated the tho room was thrown into dark darkness d darkness ness while a u musical welcome was ex extended extended tended to the distinguished guests Then the mammoth electric gridiron flashed Into view the lights were wore turn turned turned turned ed on throughout tho the room and anti the theun fun tun un commenced Almost the lust Hist thing ling to greet tho the guest blIest was ryas a hand bill hili distributed by br some speedy speed messenger boys announcing In ing that there thore would be bo a u great min minstrel minstrel minstrel show by b bv all star performers in including vocalists comedians and cab cabinet cabInet inet officers This Thi was the time hit of or the evening In true fashion with all nil Ute the of dusters duston anti and ani I amore or Jess lel 6 discordant troupe of If club talent paraded through the hull hall before going buln to the stage The program of tho the show was wag a clover clever Imitation of the real ral tiling thing evento even een evento to I the hy naming of the time executive staff starr together with a special note cote by b the mho management which culled called attention to whit what was to conic como and with the In Injunction injunction junction that there be bo no how lIoW howors ors Eating through Georgia was the and it ran like this Sound the tho good old dinner horn well sing another song son About Abort Al out tho trip that Taft once made mado when with Digestion DI strong Ho lie ate ale his share of everything that that they thc would Bring along alone As we wont went eating through Georgia We tackled the opossum that they thor took look such care To bake Wo ate canned watermelon and a adish adish dish they tho called Hoecake We oven oen draw the tho line at al alligator ligator steak As we wo wont want eating ealing through Georgia By D hospitality our hearts were surely won And we resolved to do the very best that could be he Bono dono I For Democrats Domo and amid so 50 we saved sawed some seine pic pie for Dickinson As we wont eating through Georgia And the tho chorus Well It would grate grato on the nerves of a n hungry y man If he ho heard these words word Hurrah hurrah we sound tho jubilee Hurrah hurrah something flue fine fineto to see We ro put away three meals a day And sometimes three times three As we went eating through Georgia Then there thero ensued some lively con conversation between Jet tho the middle men who aImo posed as the vice Ice president age and and the tho speaker of the house honse and tho cabinet officers who composed tho tau balance of the troup troop After a good deal of oC span sparing ing over what was the meaning of den deal and arid whether hether It referred to or Az Aztec Aztec tec tee tho the end cn men lOon declared it to be tho the presidents message Say Sn Mr Ir Vice President a n mem member member ber her of tho the cabinet Inquired Do Dc you Oll remember the morning when al all those thORO boilers boller blow up and scared scare a lot lol lotof lotof of people Oh yes es T I remember It perfectly but Dul I do not see seo why wh It should have havo scared anybody an bod It was merely morel a big bi noise Yes Yos that was ins It Everybody thought Mr Ir Roosevelt had come came back Please leave tho the dear old tourist alone alono they ther arc are seeing fleeing things at al night was the title of or a n song sons by try l r James Jamos S Henry of ot the Philadelphia Free Pree Press Pross The Tho wonderful soft sort toned baritone In which the tho trusts Informed Attorney General Vickers Wickers Wickersham ham that they tho wore tired and sleepy too and anti appealed to him to put them In fn In their little beds Secretary Mac MacVeagh MacVeagh was classed among the fifty seven varieties of or Democrats and and reformers who had great greut difficulty difficult In iii registering when registration day canto camo around This Thia was WM va cut short by br some somo references to tho the tariff which It was wn stated was being talked pro and con Indeed remark remarked ed the vice president with evident surprise Yes replied the tho end man pro means for fOl tho ho trusts Con Is what tho the thoC consumer C gets got Tho Tiro White kite House cow now already famous was made the subject sul of one of tho the best stunts of the evening At Attended Attended Attended I tended by b a dairy maid a splendid Imitation or of the bovine was led Into tilt tic room Time The president ont was informed inform informed ed cd that while there had been a lot of loose talk about tho the possum being tho the animal emblem of the tho present admin administration and that lint the Uw Teddy Tedd Bear Dear was one onto of my m our policies that hud laud been inherited it VHS all nonsense Tho Tiro emblem of this administration tion said the tho animals keeper Is tho cow and this Is It Il It was discovered that the milk pall Anil was minus the lacteal fluid and ani In Its stead t wore were found numerous articles among which was wan a bottle bottlo tagged ta geLl with witha a testimonial tC from Senator Aldrich as follows We re used this on the ilie tariff hill bill and und removed all Payne Parne from it in instantly n Time The pall pail was being emptied of Its ILs contents when in ha rushed u a member who impersonated Castro who ho de tie demanded mauled a place of Q refuse refuge There is nothing we wc can ean do for you youIr 31 Nr Ir r Castro you ou must go 0 was the an answer anwer saver to his ills appeal but the time excited South American persisted and It was decided to let him take care of the cow A burlesque on Uncle Toms Cab CabIn CabIn In Iii was a funny funn stunt Eliza Ellza was depicted de Je depleted as IlS fleeing across the ice Ico hold holdIng holdIn holdIng Ing In In her hOI arms two children Maxi Maximum 01 ax 1 mum an Minimum wrapped in the tho tariff bill and amid pursued by b the tho howl of or orthe the tho gray gra wolves of the Uw senate A miniature wire basket which sen served sene served ed e as the congressional waste wa te basket baskets was vas s the Uie souvenir of the dinner and Into Inlo it il were sere dropped at war var lous loos things which were supposed to represent papers that are aro liable to find their thelt way war Into such a A cold storage receipt of u local company had this written on It Received from Frank Hitchcock eighteen crates and five Ilo barrels con containing cont t T 7 1 R policies Storage prepaid pre prepaid paid for eighteen years from date Value asked but Jut indignantly refused roused Marked lurked slightly damaged Jama With Willi all the formality of ot an executive the thc session of or the senate genato the nomina nomination tion of Thomas C Noyes Noes of the Wash Washington WashIngton ington Star and au Oscar K IC Davis of tho tiro U New Kew York Times for membership In Im tho ho club were received and confirmed but not until the tho two scared candidates had been subjected subject tl to a rigid cross examination us as to their opinions of those present and matters in general President ent Taft enjoyed to the limit the tho darts dart directed at nt him and his cab Inot moot members Indeed there were few If any M who did not get set placed on the gridiron The speakers were President Taft Secretary Dickinson Speaker S ak l Cannon Senators Taylor of Tennessee and Chamberlain of Oregon and Governor Marshall of Indiana Among the Uw guests were w re The president dent of tho the United States the British ambassador llor the Swiss minister Sen Senators Senators Senators Aldrich Bet Borah Car Carter Carter Carter ter Chamberlain Elkins Guggenheim Kenn Kean Oliver Scott Smoot Suther Sutherland Sutherland land Taylor Warren Secretaries Bal BalI Ballinger I linger Dickinson Nagel Wilson Post Postmaster Postmaster master General Hitchcock Attorney General ham Baron L Am Alden Aldan J Seattle Times Joseph Car Carlos Carlos los Journal of Commerce Dlo De Janeiro Charles H 11 Boynton Bo New York John Barrett director bureau bu bureau reau American Annem Ican republics Morgan Jr Rodolphe post postmaster postmaster master general of Canada L 11 H Nut Nutting ting dug Southern Pacific railroad Roar Rear Admiral Sperry Fred VV W r Carpenter secretary to tho president |