Echoes Of The Dreyfus Dinner

               (Given March 26, 1908, by Carl Dreyfus)

     Ode To Smith & Flagg

O, for some far, sequestered spot,

   Some infinitely higher land,

Some border of myth,

With no Flagg and no Smith,

   And no war between England and Ireland.

      Ode To The Transcript

The funniest thing that I ever see,

The funniest thing it seemed to me –

To recall one funnier I am not able –

Was to see O’Brian go under the table.

       Ode To Dr. Bolles

Here’s to our good friend Doctor Bolles,

The sturdiest of sturdy souls;

The only man, praise God for that,

Who never stops to pummel “Nat”.

       Ode To Carl Dreyfus

I could stand the burden of being rich,

   And live in a Commonwealth Ave. block,

If, like friend Carl, I could daily swim

   In a tank of such wonderful bock.

c. March 26, 1908

Carl Dreyfus was the publisher of Boston American and chairman of the board of Boston City Hospital. His wife, Sylvia Goulston Dreyfus, was a sculptor, journalist, and trustee of arts and social service organizations.

Dr William Palmer Bolles MD was a practitioner of Roxbury Boston for forty years. He was born in London Conn June 14, 1845 and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1871, serving as a house officer at the Boston Hospital until he retired at the age limit 1908. He was professor emeritus surgeon of botany in materia medica and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy from 1884 and therapeutics and materia medica instructor in Harvard Medical School in the 1880 to 1884. He joined the Medical Society in 1871 was a councilor from 1890 to 1893 until he retired in 1913. He was a member of the American Medical Association of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement of the Dorchester Medical Club of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society and a life member of the Boston Medical Library He married Martha B Sumner of Boston.

Robert Lincoln O'Brien was the editor of the Boston Transcript from April 1, 1906. He was born in Abington Mass on September 14, 1865 and married Emily A. Young of Lisbon NH on February 19, 1895. He was Personal Sec Grover Cleveland from his nomination in 1892 until November, 1895, and then the Washington Correspondent for the Transcript from 1896 to 1906 and became President and editor of the Boston Herald on November 1, 1910.

Flagg may have been James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960), an American artist and illustrator. Flagg was born in Pelham Manor, New York. He had illustrations accepted by national magazines by the age of 12 years and by 14 was a contributing artist for Life magazine. The following year he was on the staff of another magazine, Judge. Among his creations was a comic strip that appeared regularly in Judge from 1903 until 1907, about a tramp character titled Nervy Nat.