GOVERNOR HUGHES COCKTAIL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 956, 2 July 1908, Page 23

GOVERNOR HUGHES COCKTAIL.

With characteristic recklessness, Governor Hughes, of New York, has defined the sinister results of the Fairbanks cocktail. At the recent executive reception in Albany there were two punch bowls in full and unashamed display. One of them contained the flatulent lemonade that neither cheers nor inebriates, but the contents of the others were “ wropped in mystery,” like Jeames Yellowplush’s pedigree. As to its genoral nature, its basic principle, so to speak, there was no doubt whatever but its precise composition defied oven the skilled examination that was brought to bear upon it. News of the invention spread rapidly throughout the rooms, and many who had never before been balked in such a matter, whose experience was unrivalled, and whose judgment indisputable, now admitted that they had met their Waterloo. Not readily did they confess defeat, not until no further experiment was possible, and the angel’s face beamed with heavenly smiles from the bottom of the bowl. They did their best and failed ingloriously, but the ultimate analysis and classification of the “ Hughes Hummer ” continues to be one of those things that “ no fellow can find out.” The Governor risked a great deal, and can hardly escape by an ingenious anonymity. But at least his guests cannot say, as Secretary Evarts said after a White House dinner under the Hayes regime: “ Water flowed like champagne.”