The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-20
DRUMMERS "WROOp IT up"
TWENTY 70 URTH ANNUAL GATHER
ING AT1HESEA SIDE.

Lively Day at the Branford Point
House Everybody Had Good Time
But the Band, Which Was Consider
| ably Overworked.
annie Laurie found herself in con-
fusing company yesterday, for the
drummers of Connecticut, in state as
| ISOLATION assembled, met at the Bran
| ford Point House and toasted her, and
sung her praises, and raised chorus
| for an encore, which made annie
Laurie" the belle of the ball and the
only young lady on the face of the
earth. 1t began at 10 a. M, when the
crowd met at the green, bound for
Branford and good time, and 1t did
not stop until the last car had found
its resting place. annie Laurie" con-
tinued to be the only favorite and she
was played continuously.
| The occasion was the twenty fourth
| annual meeting Of the Connecticut
| Commercial Travellers association, a
midsummer outing planned just for the
| fun there is in it, and holding no re-
sponsibilty in the way of election Of
| officers and all that sort of thing.
| These state drummers simply take
| day off and charge it up to the
! firm" So far, nobody has been known
to register a kick. Cars left the green
! yesterday forenoon between 10 and IL
1 o'clock, carrying the party Of one hun
dred or more commercalmen, accom-
panied by the American band, of Water
bury, 25 pieces, under the leadership
Of j. M. Fulton, who understands his
business, by the way.
On arrival at the Branford Point
house Landlord Sanford welcomed the
guests and handed over the keys. The
band played and the walters made
great hustle for the clam chowder,
which was served for luncheon. 1t was
very satisfying. everybody said. Be
fore dinner at p. m. some athletic
events were run off. Fortunately there
were no timekeepers, and no score was
recorded. Undoubtedly this was a
good thing for all concerned. But here
are the events and winners, and the
prizes consisted OF all sorts Of good
things, including stems with pictures
on them, tho nothing in them, cigar
cases, also empty, and generous dis
tribution Of "needfuls":
Swimming race. Frederick Burr,
Thomaston; 100 yards dash, Samuel
Weiss, New Haven: three-legged race,
Bronson and Trott, of Waterbury; run
ming jump, Samuel Weiss, New Ha-
ven; fat mans race, Jim" Trott, Wa
terbury; cake walk, Tobin and Gardi
ner of New Haven; boat race Freder
lex NJ Hotchkiss, of Waterbury, who
is president Of the Connecticut division
of the Travellers Protective associa
ton of America. He weighs about 300
In his shirt waist and came near
swapping his craft by perspiration.
When he landed the band played and
the life saving corps went home If
he could float that settled 1t. President
Hotchkiss came in second on the COM
petition for the loudest necktie, Ma
ior" Cow1es, OF Hartford, wore a tie
that made an ordinary sunset dim, and
they gave him the refrigerator. Out
side of this there was ball game. The
umpire was Bob" Veit, of Meriden,
and he was helped along in his deci-
eions by Pop Tobin, of New Haven.
Five innings were played and they
were quite enough. The score at that
interesting point was Z to 7. The
ringing of the dinner bell closed the
game The captains were Chapman, of
Hartford and Pratt, of Waterbury.
After dinner, which included every
thing good to eat, the musicians In the
party raided the band and formed an
exclusive organization of their own, as
follows: Drum major, w. l.. Thomp- |
son, Waterbury; band leader R, J. Veit, |
Merden: bass drum, s. NJ Kahn, New |
Haven; helper on big drum, M E. Nor |
ton, Winsted; alto horn, Pop" Tobin, |
New Haven; first cornet, carrying the |
air, and also the breeze), Paul Bron- |
son, Waterbury; another alto horn, j. |
V. Burnes Hartford; cymbals, (vigor-
ous), Walter Lally Bridgeport bass
horn Edward Perry, New Haven; |
snare drum, A. s. Chamberlain, Hart
ford trombone, G. M. Pilot, New Ha-
ven. This aggregation Of melody went
the rounds, in front and behind the
hotel. and wound up by being photo
graphed by Leopold, of this city, who
has had six years experience in focus
ing the crowd and making everybody |
look pleasant. Yesterdays results are
vet to be developed. The band played
during the afternoon and the party
came to this city on special trolley cars
about o'clock, blowing off, every
body en- route and with "Annie Laurie !
still the favorite at 10 to |.
The arrangements for the meeting
were in charge Of the executive COM
mittee consisting of l.. M. Dyer OF /
Hartford r. j. Welt, Of Meriden, Noah
Rogers ir, of Bridgeport, George Gill
bert, of Hartford r. G. Mcfarland of
New Haven, and L. P. We'll, Of New
Haven.