The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-05
MODERN WOODMEN SMOKE
AN ENJOYABLE ENTERTAINMENT AT
TOMLINsON HALL.
Eight Hundred Members of the Order
I'm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Have
a Smoker.

y An informal smoker by the Modern
Woodmen of America was attended by 500
members of the order in Tomlinson Hall
last night. The smoker was an all-night
affair, and for the visitors corncob pipes,
smoking tobaccos of brands varying from
the kind ordinarily burned in rooms to pre-
vent yellow fever contagion to fancy blends
of perique and Cuban tobaccos were sup
piled to the smokers. Pipes, cigarettes and
an enormous quantity of campaign cigars
given the Woodmen by the candidates in
person, who were there in groups, raised a
blue smoke that waited to the ceiling of the
hall.
Cyrus ]. Clark, Republican candidate for
auditor. opened the smoker with short
talk. welcoming the visitors to the hall and
congratulating his brother Woodmen on the
successful way in which they have in
creased the membership of the order to the
number of 1900 in this city. Mayor Charles
A. Bookwalter, a Woodman of Marion
Camp was to have made the address of the
evening. but his late return to the city from
Chicago prevented his attendance.
Exhibition drills by the Indiana polls Zou-
ave Cadets. commanded by Captain Jacob
| Fox, and the Marion Camp drill team Sc
cured the applause of the crowd in the hall.
! The zouaves, who are boys, none of them
more than sixteen years OF age, gave drill
in the zouave cadence, and the rapid and
intricate maneuvering caused the crowd
to insist on them drilling until the boys
were thoi oughly tired and glad when their
captain permitted them to fall out" The
Marion Camp drill team gave an exhibition
| or their prOweSS with their arms, broad
axes, and from the manner in which they
| mashed the shining ak helves through the
| air 1t was clearly defined that the Wood
| men are not woodmen in name only, but
| could, If necessary, fell trees until called
| upon to stay their axes.
| Professor Daggy, a hypnotist, put two
| young men into hypnotic sleep, and after
| making them do everything from fishing tC
| eating strawberries awakened them and
| permitted them to rub their eyes in Devil
derment and wonder what they had done
| under his spell. Ben Simms, a buck and
| wing dancer. danced until he was ex
hausted by his efforts and the crowd sore
| from laughing.
Sam Demerly, black face and got UP in g
| costume that would have taken a prize
in any competition. did his turn at the en-
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Treeter gave an ex
hlDltlon OF bag punching and heavyweight
lifting with one and two hundred-pounC
dumb bells. Jack Cullen and Jack Ryan
| two local lightweights, fought an exhibit
| ton bout of three rounds at the close O.
! the vaudeville entertainment, and after
ten-minute rest gave reproduction of thu
| McGovern-Erne fight, in which Cullen inn
| personated Erne and Ryan initiated Nc
| Governs style of fighting.
The entertainment was managed by A. /
Wright, the venerable consul of Marion
| Camp, Modern Woodmen of America an,
Deputy c. A. Osborn, who was the directo
of the entertainment. The committee II
charge of the hall and reception of tn
Cavity, William Mackay, Henry Ritter, c
n. Osborn and G. H. Enners