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THE CASUAL CLUB

Tammany and Its Missing Funds--Mr. Nixon and his Failure--Mr. Carroll's Troubles with Mr. Croker--The Latter Gone for Good

POETRY

AS YOU LIKE IT Fielders

Who Loves a Lord?--Killing for Futurity--Mistake in Vocation--Foreign Devils Again--Heaven or Hell--Adam a Myth--Hurrah for Noah--Callow Judgment--Champagne and "Champagne"

THE PLAY Jaques

LADY BETTY'S COMMENT Betty Stair

DRIFT OF THE DAY Skirving

Copyrighted by The Observer Publishing Co., 1902

The Observer Publishing Company Mercantile Library Building Astor Place, New York City

Vol. I MAY 28, 1902 Part 2

On last Thursday evening the Casual Club was gathered about a corner table in Sherry's. The great room was beautiful, the music brilliant, the setting and table appointments magnificent, and the dinner all that might be asked. There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of our members--the service was slip-shod, inattentive, vile. One wonders that so splendid an arrangement should be left unguarded in the most important particular of service; that Sherry, when he has done so much, should permit himself to be foiled of a last result by an idle carelessness of waiters, who if they do not forget one's orders outright, execute them with all imaginable sloth. They attend on guests as though the latter were pensioners, and are listless in everything save a collection of the gratuity, personal to themselves, which their avarice and a public's weakness have educated them to expect.

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