The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-07
THE VENERABLE GUNNER CLUB
Celebration OF Their 44th AnnIver-
sary Yesterday.
List of Officers Elected for the
Ensuing Year.
How the Day Was Spent by the jolly
Party.

The NEIL bers Of this old and wide awake
organization are well established in their
quarters and have named their camp Stephen
ID. Tarbell in honor of one of their honorary
members. who richly deserves the honor.
They arrived upon the scene of their annual
outing Monday evening, August 9TH, and, at
once, proceeded to business(?) Upon retiring
for the night the indefatigable cOmmissary
had his hands full to provide accommoda-
tions for the sleepers ~ and to preserving
order that was out of the question. Every
identical member of this club becomes young
at these festive reunions. All care is laid
aside and the seniors recall their first meet
ing when they rode to the Cape in an open
cart and under the canopy of heaven those
Jolly good fellows passed their first gather
ing the forerunner of what we trust will
number thousands Had those founders
Clipped ten dollars each they could have
purchased tract of land which today is of
great value, but they thought naught of real
estate, it was cunners they were after. They
returned to town that night with the tradi-
tional luck of fishermen, wet clothes and
empty stomach" Today this club meet in
quarters good enough, with splendid sur
roundings, with G. ID. Robinson for caterer,
and John L. Shaw as epicure. What more
could one desire than to be under a roof
with such surroundings? The singing of
Shaw, Thurston, Colby, Rumery, whose
name is Jerome ct ais. of itself, sufficient to
make man forget his troubles and fill his
soul with good fellowship. But our hope is
that whoever reads this will pardon our
verbosity and we will cut it short in the
future.
Tuesday, the 9Th, the camp was early
astir. John Miller making his presence
known, that ''sawney" is as powerful of
lung as ever, and those who commence their
siumbers at the. ''wee sma' hours ayant the
twal" no chance t. snore after a. m sharp,
for Miller is on duty at tina. hour greatly to
the discontinue of Lewis and John, who
love to lay wheel, but also for the lame and
lazy; no refuge for them is found at camp
Stephen FL. Tarbell. After partaking of one
of Robinson's breakfasts all felt good
natured and the boys went for cunners
and cCd. William Ross caught whopper
and wished he could send him to friend at
Quaker City, but the cod made chowder
for the hungry crowd which gathered at the
dinner hour. The truth Is the air of Casco
| Bay is conducive to over eating-so says the
City MeSsenger-and he knows. Lewis, the
| dyspeptlc, always seems to have repaired his
organs OF digestion upon these occasions
which leads me to conclude that there is q
deal in mind cure after all.
AT II a. M, the members were called to
order by Commissary Staples, and the fol-
| lowing business was transacted. First,
reading Of the records by G. o. Leach, the
| popular secretary. These records abounded
| in hits that brought down the house, for
Con" is hustler at record writing. The
treasurer made his report, showing a salts
tory exhibit of the clubs finances.
Tarbell. presented to the club a beautiful
| silver water pitcher with goblets, an elegant
| gift. Mr.. Lewis b. Smith responded to the
presentation in fitting speech. The club
will never forget this princely act of this
honorary member. Mr.. Smith then moved
the thanks Of the club to Mr.. Tarbell, and
the camp on his motion was named Stephen
Fl. Tarbell.
A committee consisting of Lewis B. Smith,
Charles Cook and VIM. Ross was appointed
TO nominate officers for the ensuing year.
The committee reported:
Commssary-Clinton L. Tewksbury.
Vice Commissary--Wm. W. Colby.
Treasury-Samuel Thurston.
Secretay-C. .. Leach.
Foreign Correspondents Ross.
TWs osaro a. a: Kinney, Harvey Murray
observation-disclosures COOK, Lewis b. Smith.
Potato Slicer-J. A. Merrill.
These were elected unanimously.
Charles c. T0lman, on behalf Of I'll. Il.
Lowell of Boston-an active member-se-
cured fine engravings which win adorn the
walls OF their cottage and are appreciated by
the members as valuable souvenirs.
An adjournment until after dinner fol-
lowed when Mr.. Rose presented his report
on foreign correspondence. which was voted
to be printed, and each one present are to be
furnished with copy of the same. Then
followed jolly good time on the part of all
present p-r f-'ils4i u
The club was visited by Hon. S. ]. Ander-
son, Charles B. Varney, E. b. Cook and E.
b. Winslow as guests, while the venerable
George. A. Thomas walked three miles to
reach the scene of festivities and was as
young as any present Tonight matters
will be festive enough for any one. The
mirth and fun will be past and previous and
your readers will hear about tomorrow.
Dr,r.D