Identifier: intmtrcllc00jeff (find matches)
Title: Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Jefferson, Eugâenie Paul
Subjects: Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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flagon, let us now, beneath his por-trait, and on the anniversaries of this occupation,drink To the Players Perpetual Prosperity!The club became Mr. Booths home. Nextto his family, it claimed his greatest interest andgave him his greatest pleasure. It stands as hismonument. It will always be remembered bythose present on that sad night in June, thatas he passed away every light in the clubsuddenly went out at the same time its founderdied. Mr. Jefferson was elected to succeed EdwinBooth as president of the Players, December30, 1893. He held the office for twelve years,being re-elected at every succeeding annualmeeting. His portrait, by Sargent, hung uponthe wall of the club-house, a gift from EdwinBooth, who commissioned the artist to paint thepicture especially for the club. Mr. Jefferson presided at the Booth me-morial meeting, November 13th, 1893, at trieMadison Square Concert Hall in New York,commemorating Edwin Booths sixtieth birth-day, upon which occasion he delivered an affec-
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Photo by J. Notman EDWIN BOOTH JOSEPH JEFFERSON 225 donate eulogy of the founder of the club, intro-ducing the speakers of that occasion, Mr. ParkeGoodwin, Thomas Salvini, and the poet, GeorgeE. Woodbury. Although not always present with the mem-bers of the club on Founders Night, the presi-dent, either by letter or telegram, expressed hissympathy and interest with the occasion. Awire from Palm Beach, December 31st, 1899,read: To My Brother Players: I join with you in this, the departing hour of the oldcentury, in keeping green the memory of our belovedfounder, Edwin Booth, and I wish you all a happy NewYear. Joseph Jefferson. In 1903, the president composed a poem ofgreeting to the club, which was read by Mr.William Bispham: NEW YEARS GREETING TO THE PLAYERS CLUB BY JOSEPH JEFFERSON All hail! brother players, I greet you to-nightOn the eve of another New Year. May your spirits be cheerful, convivial, bright,May your smiles chase away every tear. 226 INTIMATE RECOLLECTIONS OF A motley

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