The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-22
WHAT Is A "BURGOO?"
The Members Of the Lake View
Club Found Out


everybody I00k a big 41ncup ana q
spoon and Prof Dyche Told or HIs
Adventures.
When the east bound passenger train
pulled into the Santa Fe depot at 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon it found a
jolly lot of men waiting for it with tin
cups and spoons in their hands.
They were on the way TO the Lake
View club house to see what the Law
renee member Of the Lake View Shoot
ing and Fishing association meant by the
invitation recently issued by them to the
Topeka members to attend a "Burgoo"
at that place on that day.
There was an empty day coach on the
rear of the train and into this the twenty
five or thirty told boys tumbled.
The party consisted of Frank Willard,
Robert Pierce. DR.. j.. @. WATSON, presi-
dent Of the club; w. B. Jansen, IL K
RowIey, Thad Hopkins, J. B. Hayden, J.
w Mowers, Ed Henderson, 9. c. Baker,
w. A. 5. Bird, Frank Foster, G. r O'Don-
aid, j. G. Buhre, w. f. Rigntmire, II. III.
Gage, +. K. Nipps, p. j. Hindman, j. S.
Warner, Ed G.. macLennan, H e. BlOunt,
J. r Fay and ". A. Smith. John SchilI-
ing, jr., had been down there for days
shooting, and Eugene Ware and Tom
Mcneil were taken along to keep things
sort o. stirred up
The invitation read: 81. v. S. and f.
A You are most cordially invited to
partake of a Burgoo at Lake View Club
House Saturday afternoon, October Goth.
1894, at o'clock sharp. If you do not
know what BurgoO is, bring a large tin
cup and a spoon and find Out-Ihe Law
renee Members
Noise was essential, of course. and on
the train Frank Willard passed the
''kazoOs," which you play on like you
used to on a comb when you were
younger.
There was mysterious package on the
train and just before the party reached
the club house there was a gathering in
the woods and in a very neat speech
Eugene Ware presented President w as-
son with a lineup fully as large as a big
washtub and a spoon that must have
been three feet long. knowing your
capacity" said Mr.. Ware, s'the club pre-
sents you this Il shall always try to
keep It empty said the president On
the cup was the inscription: IL O.
WATSON. His cup. just my size"
At the club house the Lawrence con-
tingent to the extent Of about twenty
five we're in waiting and out under a tree
near the long tables the "burgoo" was
sputterlng and boiling in sixty gallon
kettle. 1t was being stirred with all Of a
fence board and had been on the ire for
eleven hours
After the members had roamed about
to their hearts content over the three
ing ground the club has leased for twenty
years and several had inspected the new
drain from the creek a quarter Of a mile
away that Just cost two thousand dollars
and is expected to fill the rather depleted
lake at the first rain, ''burgoo" was an
'sBurgoo" looks like a hash that might
have been made of the star spangIed
banner. Among the many thousand arti-
cles that went to complete its organiza-
ton were twenty-five pounds Of beef,
twenty-five pounds of pork. twenty tive
mallard ducks, two dozen prairie chick
ems, one dozen squirrels, two dozen
chickens, two hams, three bushels of
tomatoes, two bushels of carrots, two
bushels of potatoes, a small tub full of
six turkeys ten pounds Of salt,
three pounds of pepper, five pounds of
garlic, two bushels Of onions and three
bounds of caraway seed. etc.
President WATSON stood up to his cup.
He had to.
After the fifty had consumed all the
'sburgoon and other things they had room
for and had left almost as much in the
dish as there had been before the dinner.
Prof. Dyche, of Lawrence, was called
upon to tell something about his recent
Iy finished trip to the Arctic regions.
Prof. Dyche's talk was necessarily r
little disconnected, owing TO the frequent I
facetiOus and otherwise.
81 secured may valuable specimens,
useful in my collections, on my trip"
said the professor; among other things /
secured the skeleton Of a seal. AT one
time, while we were lOafng along the |
coast of Labrador and had gone ashore,
| found an old Eskimo who had a very
fine specimen of seal and I made up
my mind that / wanted the skeleton or
that seal"
Professor interrupted Mr.. Ware.
twas the Eskimo that had that seal a
notary publicG''
Il had a great deal of difficulty con-
.inued the professor, looking rather hurt, /
lin making the fellow understand what (
I wanted. but I finally got him to, with
.er, aud brought the skeleton home with
me.
IF you were never in an Eskimo hut /
you have never quite realized how near /
10 perfumery the Kansas City packing |
houses really are. The huts are built /
much in the same manner as the sod /
houses of the west are, excepting that +
here is a layer of rock and then one of /
moss. The roof is supported by tim bers
hat Loaf around from Denmark or
whales jaw bones. There is little or no
ventilation in the huts, and when you |
get shut up in one with ten or fifteen !
greasy Eskimo. rotting blubber and cod
fish. there is likely to be revolt on the /
part OF even a sburgoo' stomach"
At about this interesting point the rain
began to fall and there was a hustling to
get into the house dry Once in, the
cigars were passed, and after the guests
we're all seated the professor started out
again.
ssOur expedition was headed BY Fred
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