Excerpt from Gridiron Nights: Humorous and Satirical Views of Politics and Statesmen as Presented by the Famous Dining Club At its dinners where the most notable men of the world are guests. The Club has no fixed purpose save to entertain the friends of its members in a unique manner and to banish the boresome features of dining. In doing so it has written into the records of the years something of satire, something of senti ment, all with the View of showing that it is a pretty good old world in which we live. It is the purpose of this volume to tell how a number of men of the same profession became associated in 'an organization to promote good fellowship, and how there developed the most famous dining organization in the world. Men of prominence and events of importance figure in Gridiron history. And while neither have been spared if suitable for ridicule or burlesque, the Club has never laid a hand upon a patriotic impulse or wounded the sensibilities of those in dis tress. There has been so much in official life that could be burlesqued, so many men in high station whose acts could be ridiculed, that the Club has never wanted for material. There is an amusing side to national life. Men are never so great that they do not make mistakes, and in politics there is often humbug and pretense. All that is adaptable has been used by the Gridiron Club, and in its own way it has interpreted the acts of public men and depicted events which made the history of the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.