Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
SHAD BAKE A SUCCESS
EXCURSION OF LOCAL UNDER
WRITERS TO MARSHALL HALL.
Program Of Events Included Tug Of
War, Potato Race and Sack
Race.

The excursion of the local underwriters
to Marshall Hall Saturday. an account Of
which appeared in The Sunday Star, Is still
the talk of those who participated in IT..
That the outing was thoroughly enjoyable
one is conceded to have been largely due
to the efforts of the amusement committee,
composed of Leroy Mark, chairman: David
Moore, Paul F. Grove, U. H. Ridenour and
Harry w. Ellis which furnished pro-
gram that was voted by everybody to
have been the most successful of any prev
ious efforts of the Underwriters Associa-
ton. The numbers the program incIud-
ed potato race, participated in by F. A.
Jones' winner; c. A. Steers. second; j. u.
Burkett. third: Clarence Barnard and Wal
ter Ryan; egg race, contestants, w. N.
Sweeney, winner; w. L. Miller, second, and
c. Bergen, c. M. Berckhead and l.. e..
Ostermeyer. The sack race, which was ex-
tremely funny and carried the crowd by
storm, had four entries, as follows: q. e..
Brown J. w. Browner, ]. Solomon and w.
E. Hilton. Browner won the race in about
twenty jumps. with Hilton close second.
Brown and Solomon bit the dust before
they had jumped ten feet.
The program of the days events was:
First event, tug of war between the
shorts and longs; second event, potato
race; third event, three-legged race; fourth
event, egg race; fifth event, sack race. A
of each event.
Ralph w. Lee was referee; judges, Lem
Towers, Henry Wells and w. H. West; Lc-
roy Mark, clerk of course; U. H. Ridenour,
starter: A. X. Phillips timer; Paul r.
Grove, keeper of the prizes.
The Committees.
General committee on shad bake-Walter
A Brown, Philip F. Larner, Ralph w. Lee,
H. X. Simpson, w. H. West, Lem Towers,
jr., and Leroy Mark.
Committee on dinner-H. K Simpson,
chairman; H. H. Gergmann. A. K. Phillips,
E. Nee Jones and T. Janney Brown.
Menu-Clam chowder, shad roe. planked
shad, cold ham, radishes, (onions0 lettuce,
mashed potatoes, crackers cheese, coffee,
tea, California wine, Sauterne
Committee on program-W. H. West,
chairman; W. Riley Decide, Philip F. Lar
ner Harry Birge and Ralph w. Lee.
Committee on reception-Henry Wells,
chairman; w. P. Young. Meyer Cohen. C.
w. Howard, Richard K. Tyler, H K. Simp-
son and Walter A. Brown.
Committee on tickets-Lem Towers, jr.,
chairman.
Advisory committee-Walter A. Brown,
chairman; r. w. Lee, A. X. Phillips, c. w.
Howard, H. X. Simpson, Meyer Cohen, R.
K. Tyler, H. H. Bergman and Henry
Wells.
The Guests.
Among those present were:
]. ]. Appich. L. L. Apple. G. Y. Atlee,
Milton E Allies, J. Wallace Allen and
Charles G. Allen.
John w. Brawner. Clarence Barnard, Cliff
ford A. Borden, Thomas H. Banes, H. A.
Bontz, George G. Brown, S. Thomas Brown,
Charles R. Brown, Henry H. Bergman,
Charles Bauman. H. L.. Boteler, W. 7.
Birch. Thomas Bradley, P. M. Becker,
George w. Brown. Louis Behrens. Walter
A Brown, Major John Biddle, Joseph u.
Burket, Charles s. Bradley. William Buck
ingham, Charles Burkhead, Charles j. But
Ter. r. c. Browning.
Samuel W. Curriden, W. H. A. Church,
w. Hayden Collins, ]. Ross Colhoun,
Charles F. GRANGE. A. T. Coumbe, Sam
Cross, r. A. Chester, d. H. Collinson. DR..
Daniel B. Clarke.
John B. Daish, w J. Donnelly, Ernest
H. Droop, E. F. DroOp, P. V. De Graw, w.
Riley Decide. Thomas E. Drake, William
Wallace Deane, Edw. Derrick. Carl A.
Droop.
Burr N. Edwards, F. B. Eichelberger,
Fred Espey, William K. Ellis, F. j. Ellers,
G. M. Limerick. w. D. Elicit, w. c. Eng
lish, John C. Ergood. John Joy Edison, jr.,
Harry M. Ellis, Henry Evans.
William ]. Father, Theo. Friebus, A.
Feldross, Charles w. Fairfax, A. F. Fox,
Edward K Fox
James NJ. Green. A. w. Grafton. H. J.
Gross, Charles Graft, Charles Gersdorf r.
II,
William A. Gordon. Paul II. Grove, A. v.
Grimes. William T. Galleher.
Frank A Harrison. Charles E. Howe
William H. Harrison, John P. Haas. jr,
Fred P; HinRel. W. w: Hopkins; James
F. J. Heiberger. c. w. Howard Frank
Hume, w. NJ Hoffman. H. P. Howard,
William H. Hoeke, George C. Henning.
Hopkins. William s. Hoge. John p. Hinkel
Hugh Howard. Walter E. Hilton. V. B.
Holman. A. N. Hamilton, John Henderson.
jr.. John M Henderson, William snedd
Holton.
Frank A. Jones, E Nee Jones' Harry T.
Jones, Guy II. Johnson, R. H. Johnson.
]. L. Kolb. Hugo Kuerschner.
John A. Lutz. Andreas Loffier, William L,
Lackey. John Leetch, Frank P. Leetch. Lee
d. Latmer, Clarence E. Latimer. F. j,
Lewis Joseph ]. hampton, Ralph w. Lee
]. Ed. Lewis. George w. Linkins. William
H. Linkins. Charles Linkins, P. F. Larner
Leroy Mark. H. G. Meem. w. A. Nc
Glannan, A. NJ. McLachlen, L. HI. Meyers,
Henry F. Miller A. F. Marsh, William r.
McClosky, William S. Mccarthy, A. p.
Morse. =. O. Michaeis, George W Moss: G.
Percy McGIue. David Moore. H. ]. Mat
term Owen McCabe, Charles Mades, r. w.
Mcmahon. Brice j. Moses. II. B. +. Mac
farland. William L. Miller.
Charles F. Nesbit, William P. Normoyle,
P w. Nicholson.
Robert l.. o Brien. James, F. Oyster, Maui
rice Otterbach. Henry Orth, George H.
O'Connor, Louis Ostermayer, Frank E.
O'Brien.
John Poole. Judge George G. Perkins.
Louis R. Peak Harry NJ. Packard, Charles
B. Pearson, d. s. Porter, A. K. Philips,
Walter S. Pratt, Arthur Porter
w. D. Quinter John Quinn.
Charles H. Roesch, F. N. Ruth. E. f.
Ramey, Percy H. Russell Edward F.
Riggs F. II. Ridgway, F. p Reside, y. II.
Ridenour. jr.; George Ryneal, jr., and f.
Walter Ryan.
w. N. Sweeney. Joseph Solomon, William