The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-02
DINED AT POOLER
BARBECUE THERE IN HONOR OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
LOUISVILLE ROAD PAVED.
ITS COMPLETION TO POOLER THE
OCCASION OF THE CUE.

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The Viands n Triumph of the Gull
inery Art of Mr.. w. w. Stnrr-Vis-
itors Received "A MetricaI We'll
come and Were Treated With
Every COurtesy-Gang of COnvicts
DevOured the Remnants of the
Feast.
Yesterday afternoon the County Com
misisoners were the guests of honor at
a barbecue rendered them by the people
of Pooler. There were a score or more of
other guests from the city and a larger
number of people of PooIer and vicinity
who took part in the festivities.
Things were in regulation barbecue
style. There was an abundance that
cheered the very soul of the hungry Wis
itor from the city and an appetizing odor
proceeding from the fieshpots that made
a man forget they are tabooed. There was
speaking. without frils or ornaments
and from the heart; there was laughter
and some good jokes, hospitality every
where; the tie that binds city and country
was drawn into a tighter knot. There was
genuine, old fashioned good time.
their specially invited guests, with two or
three of the county officers, left the Court
House in a blackboard at l o'clock. Inc
party included Chairman J. j. Dale, Vice
Chairman A, b. Moore and Commission
ers A Vetsburg and Jacob Paulsen. Com
missioner Frank l.. Lathrop, the only
member of the board who did not make
the trip, was detained at his home by
illness. Besides the commissioners there
were in this party Mayor Herman Myers
| and Alderman James M. Dixon, County
Attorney George T. Cam, Superintendent
of Public Works w. f. Chaplin and Mr..
G. Reuben Butler, clerk of the board.
Mr.. j. r. Sheldon, foreman of the grand
| jury, and Capt u. II. McLaws drove out
together. Through the courtesy of Mr., r.
V. Connerat, a locomolJle carried him
and the representative of the Morning
News to the festive scene.
1t was to celebrate the completion of
the paving of the Louisville road to
Pooler that the barbecue was given. AS
a matter of stern fact, this is just a lit
| tie premature, as the delay i'm receiving
| gravel has impeded the work and there
| is half mile of road between the city
| and Pooler that is yet unpaved. It's going
| to be paved, however, and the Poolerites
were willing to take something on faith.
To those who made the ten-mile trip
over the road the occasion of the Pooler-
ties jubilation was not far to seek If
man had memory and could bring back
! the times when his horse ploughed
| through mud or dust in making the trip
| and contrasted these experiences with the
smooth and hard roadway which now con-
meets the city with Pooler, he would I'M
derstand why the residents of that section
of the country wanted the commissioners
| TO partake of their best.
| The locomobile in which the Morning
News man made the trip SKINNED the
hard roadway with exhilarating speed
! There was a necessary slow-up at the
point where the road had not been paved
but this served only to increase the pleas
ure of the remainder of the trip and ex-
plain the delight of the people that the
road, hard and straight and smooth,
| reached with one short interruption from
| their doors to the gates of the city
When the party reached the town and
the scene of the barbecue, the savory
| meats were already, as they had been
| for some hours, simmering over the Goals
! Mr.. w. w. Starr was in charge as com
mander-in-chief. with Mr.. George C.
Schwarz as chief of staff. Around the
fires lowered and turned and basted a
! dozen or more sable assistants Great
! joints of beef, halves of sheep and lambs
and whole pigs were broilng on the
! CRATES. There was a great big pot Of
soup and, thanking 1t, a pot of rice of
| equal size. Mr.. Dan Newton with a
corps of assistants, was frying the tlsh,
freshwater trout and Dream, that later
were to become part of the feast.
Ihe committee of citizens of Pooler
| l,oxr h. I.
| of Messrs. j. B. Newton, b. Boutwell,
and L. j. Bourne. They had able assist
ants in Messrs. Lamar Keller, William
| Freeman, George Miller Henry Ease.
Rev. Mr.. Mcconnell and a number of
others, not forgetting the ladies, who
decorated the long table at which the
dinner was served. and who gladdened
with their presence the rest of the after
noon.
Arriving on the dinner train from the
! city and driving out In buggies and other
vehicles. came a. number of other Savan-
nahians. These included Messrs. p. A.
| Stoval, ]. w. Conner, j. G. Keller, coro-
ner of the county Marcus S. Baker tax
receiver; Thomas f. Thomson, tax colec-
tor; Waring Russell Jr., and j. J. Hor-
rigan, respectively clerk and sheriff of the
City Court County Engineer WE Brown.
| J. w. Mcintyre, John II. Fox, j. b. Ches-
mutt. Fred NJ. Hull, Henry Ganahl, and
others.
The commissioners and the visitors gem
orally were welcomed to Pooler by Capt
! U. Fl. McLaws, who in the absence Of
Judge Paul L. Seabrook. performed this
pleasant duty on behalf of the citizens of
Pooler and the vicinity. Capt McLaws
congratulated the commissioners on the
zeal with which they had labored to adj
vance the public welfare and the success
with which it had been crowned Nothing
indicated this success more thoroughly.
he said, than the completion of broad and
straight and well paved public roads, con-
Meeting city and country.
The dinner was served beneath a syl-
van arbor under the shade of the pines
The meats and fish were done to a turn
and seasoned with mathematical and gas
tronomic precision; there were other
things 10 satisfy the cravings of the in
ner man and something wherewithal to
quench the thirst that hlghly-seasoued
food is wont to produce Nothing had
been omitted.
Full Justice done to the tempting
viands, Chairman Dale cleared his throat
and asked County Attorney Cam to read
a metrical welcome written by Mrs
James Simmons. Col. Cam read as fol-
| lows:
I'VE Pooler people unite TO say
We are glad to see YOU all to-day,
And hope that you'll enjoy the treat
| And eat a goodiy share OF meat