The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-24
AT the Club House or ehe Lake View
Shooting and Fishing Articulation.

be has caught in days outing, nor in
the birds he has bagged, but in the lati-
tude he is permitted IN telling Of his
conquests. This permission, always con-
ceded to the lover Of the gun and rod,
in any other would be ciassed as a
prerequisite TO a mem bership in the ST.
AnanIas club.
IN addition to this one great com pen
satiOn which the fisher and huuIer can
always draw upon with free aud uu
limited coinage Of sixteen in the bush or
bottom of the depths to one in the bag or
basket, occasionally there is De red let
Ter night of delight with the feast and
freedom Of q sportsman BANG et: with
its game to season the palate and the
tOasts 10 flavor the souls Of the kindred
present
One Of these gala occasions was the
event of last evening. the reception and
entertainment given by the hiLy Law
renee members Of the Lake View club
10 the half hundred members from To-
peka and invited guests
In the history Of the Lake View Fish
ing and Shooting associations nothing Of
its kind up 10 date ranks with the sue
cess attending this banquet
sixty ICpekans left at six o'clock on
the Santa Re and we're soon some twenty
miles away at Club House station The
rece option cOmmitte8 from the Anthems
of Kansas seemed to extend from the
q
self. st the meeting place the welcome
resembled the recent Republican ratih-
cation in JOY and noise and sincerity.
The lower floor Of the home Of the
club was bower Of beauty in decOra
tions. A blaze of col0red lights greeted
the guests. A canvas of bunting SUR
rounded the spacious porehes which
formed an outer circle to the hall with
ia. Three large tables provided covers
for six score The entertainers imme-
diately took the breath-Of surprise-Of
the entertain ed. Above the laden board
was the ceiling grIdironed with fishing
poles and sus pending festOOns Of ever
green and bittersweet inter-
laced with ribbons and embellished
with lanterns and flags. From the walls
prosruded the well mounted heads Of
moose, elk. deer and Rocky Mountain
sheep, whose eyes seemed 10 ref ct the
surprise Of the animated spectators vino
gazsd ia woaderInent at what the Law
renee people-including Dyche-had
done in an es.hetic way TO aid the diges-
ton Of the more substantial feast 10 fol-
low
At the tables alsernated guest with
a host. The service and cuisine we're in
harmony with the elaborate event A
course Of oysters and celery was followed
by quail on toast, with green peas and
potatoes 81 ed turkey, ''red hot bis
cults preceded fruits and cigars. COT
fee and cream were among the liquids
which flowed freely.
The choice cigars were manufactured
for the guests by George Leonard Of
Lawrence, and were branded Lake
View Special" As the coffee cups were
showed aside aud the Havannas lighted.
TOastmaster BOWersOck passed lghtly
in review OF now long forgotten bur
gOo,' said to have been given by some
unknown club member in former times
at some unknown period, at some I'M
known place=evIdently at any rate,
leagues distant in the memory of all
Topeka's who heard Dir. BOwersock's
welcome.
President W asson respon ded feelingly,
warmly. sportively ~ not forgetting Il
story of Goldfish aristOcracy, based on an
outing of Daniel Webster and Lafayette.
Prof D. H. Robinson. Of the chair Of
ancient languages, Of the Kansas Uni
versity told Of The Ancient Sport" and
proved that Pliny and the Greeks ands
Rom ans Of old caught "a large fish in
their day as the biggest which ever got
away from the BAN boo rod and line Of
the present day amateur. He antici-
Dated the tales of Prof. Dyche who re-
lated a Whaling Story" which detailed
the wreck Of the miranda" by a nor
whale biting into the ships hull with a
tooth twenty feet long. This made
DR.. WATSON say IN an undertone. "llOw
l would like to gold-hu that ivory
cavity"
PICK Smith was asked TO speak of the
"Great American Came lie was
primed on draws, fulls, bushes and pairs
when the toast master paralyzed him by
adding TO the toast the word foot ball
Dir. Smith gazed abstractedly at Prof.
Cowan, the handsome champion Of the
grid-iron. seated near him, and imme-
diately collapsed and disappeared from
the table.
Hon. Tom McNeal wrapped himself il
missile proof glory in his scientific and
learned dissertation on the "Drv Land
was not a model place for raising fish by
growth and a hook and line unkindIy
adding that the site apparently present
ed every facility except water. He had
not heard evidently Of the 1900 canal
recently successfully built as a feeder to
the lake. The lake indeed presented a
large bs.dy Of water. and it was unfortu-
naie that the night was too dark for the
bard from Barbour TO explore its sur
face and depths. Mr. Men cal
assured the members that his expert
ence in the southwest led him 10 say
advisedIy that a species Of channel cat
could be cultivated to require watering
but once week. lie spoke handsomely
Of the architects who had constructed the .
beautiful club house giving the hsh
every opportunity fer coming ia out Of
the rains and storms.
Eugene Ware was one OF the many
whole s0uled fellows in the crowd and
made things pleasant for all around him,
but he resented, for this once, au effort
10 class as a poet one whom we all know
as a foremost lawyer of the country. He /
talked practical prose. however, and
brought applause for a story of the field