Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-10
Local News.
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The Fat Men.

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 The Annual Clan-Bake at GregOry's
 Pofnt-What Was Done and How Ezl-
 jOyed.
 The annual meeting and clam-bake of the Fat Mems Association took place yesterday at Gregory's Point. The wet weather and gen. eral dreariness of the day seemed to have no effect on the jolly fat fellows present. They were unconquerable, though the attendance was small compared with former occasions, on account of the aforesaid weather. Nothing unusual occurred except the sudden appear ance of MT Naples, of the Norwalk Hour, in the business meeting of the men of great avoirdupois, with the announcement that he was under arrest. It wasn't evidently joke, as Mir. Naples looked as if he meant it, but 9 whole chorus of fat men asked, ''What for r Mir. Naples said it was for an alleged libel and he supposed he should have to go along with the deputy sheriff. At this about a hundred pairs of eyes were bent upon the deputy, who also paused and looked askanoe at the heavy weights. Then the view was expressed that it was little singular to take away their secretary before he had his din ner and break into the proceedings in such an unseemly fashion. MT. Naples supposed it was put-up job. This started the fat men, and one rousing fellow proposed to get right up and sit down on this deputy sheriff The deputy turned pale, color forsook his face, and he made for the door and said with trepidation, ''Ohl don't do it." The fat men laughed, and the upshot was the sheriff stood guard and did not read bis warrant until the meeting was over, when it appeared that the arrest was for an alleged criminal libel on Daniel C. Birdsall, of Vest port, and the warrant cited divers and sundry hard names which it was alleged Mir. Naples had called MT. Birdsan in his paper and dama- ges were laid at $1O, GOO. The defendant was cited to appear and answer at Westport be- fore Justice B. NJ. Lee. Now the fat men were nothing 10th to sit down to dinner when dinner was announced, and the dinner was on scale coordinate with the size of the eaters. The strains of music from the Ives Cornet band of Bristol did much to drive derived by the leaden cast of the sky and in fuse good spirits all around. The bake had in it 1000 bounds of fish, 5000 ears of corn, GO bushels of clans and oysters, 600 chick ems, 800 Holsters, bushels of sweet potatoes and bushels of white potatoes. All this food was placed in crates in assortments, one crate being intended for each man. There were 25O crates, and consequently the tables were set for that many persons. The tables were spread under the pavilion in front o1 the Gregory Point House, A. P. Dorlon pro prietor who catered for the association. The bake was opened at o'clock, and the mem bers and their friends were the only ones tc partake of it, and they numbered less than 15O persons the guests being far more nu. merous than the fat men.
 The bake was enjoyed in comparative pri vacy this year. The attendance in past years had been much larger. Last year there were 10, ,O0O people present, but there were some noisy, obstreperous persons present, who's attendance again was not desired, hence the new arrangement. But many of the fat mel thought that the old way brought enougl more enjoyment to compensate for the troubI some of the visitors created, who came o1 excursion boats from New York. Excursio n were also run from Bridgeport last year. N excursions were run this year, and this witl the weather made slim attendance of out siders. The New York fat men were not o1 hand having other attractions, and as the. also like to have the crowd along rather thal have quiet time. The business meetin was presided over by Willard F. PerkinsJo Waterbury, B. w. Naples of Westport sec | retary. J. H. Sessions, jr., of Bristol, wa \ admitted to the fold He weighs BIO.
 The following named were elected off ! cers of the association for the ensuinl | year President, Willard F. Perkins, Q Waterbury, weight 4O2 pounds. Vice presi l dents, c. W. Bradley of New Haven, 321 A. W. Wallace of Bridgeport, 215
 L. R. Kerr, Putnam House, New York
 222; P. Murphy of Westport, 3O1 J. H
 Sessions, jr, of Bristol, BIO pounds; An
 drew Hall of Danbury, 224 pounds; Joh1 1 E. Wheeler of Saugatuck, 2sO pounds T. J Coe, Revere House, New York, 300 pounds 1 Theodore M. Amsdell of Albany, N. Y., 22t pounds James M. Heatherton of New York 255 pounds; A. Hawkins, United States Ho 1 tel, New York, 246 pounds; w. H. Risley O 1 Berlin, 21O pounds; Secretary B. w. Maple of Westport, 234 pounds; Treasures P. Mur phy of Westport, 301 pounds,
 Milford and Orange Fair.