About midnight
A lot of them brought their wives and babies . One father was playing Romeo in Newark , his wife was playing Little Eva in Harlem , and their daughter was playing Camille on Broadway . You should of seen them rejoicing round the Kansas tree ! About midnight the big refreshment hall was opened and everybody that could squeeze in set down to long tables where I had supper served . I had some of the best after-dinner speakers in town come in , and you should of heard some of the funny stories -- it would of brought back dear old childhood memories . Mayor McClellan gave us all a welcome , and then there was Chauncey Depew , of course , and Simeon Ford , and Augustus Thomas , and Wilton Lackaye , and Job Hedges , and Lemuel Ely Quigg , and General Horace Porter , and a passel of others . They all made the most surprising allusions to your poor old husband .