The Washington times., 1906-05-11
LAWYERS SHAD-BAKE
At MARSHALL HALL
All Legal Business Suspend
ed for Annual Event.
BIG CONCERT is ARRANGED
Songs Written by Local Members of
the Bar Will Be Sung En- Route TO
Scene of Days Festivities.
BIG CONCERT is ARRANGED
Tomorrow is shad-bake Day.

Tomorrow is Shad-balse Day.
1t is the annual holiday Of the men,
bers of the local bar Incidentally II
is a legal holiday. though unofficially
so. because IL is the one day OF the
year on which legal business is sus-
pended in the local courts.
feature Of the day viii be concerts
by the members OF the bar, given on
the steamer going 20 ana returning
from Marshall Hall. and also IN the
afternoon on the lawn in front of the
old Marshall house. The selections
which will be sung Will be culled from
a collection Of popular songs and paro-
dies. compiled for the occasion. and a
number of original songs set to popu-
lar airs by Attorney Alexander II. Bell
the poet of the Washington Bar Asso-
citation. The collection is gotten up in
pamphlet form, on ,he front cover OF
which are the following lines:
Should we in Jest to you allude.
Pray bear IL with all fOrtltude.
For this is Shad-bake Day.
The Opening Chourus.
The opening chorus Of the first con-
cert, which will begin as soon as the
steamer leaves the Seventh street
wharf. viii be Good Old Shad-bake
T me-" which viii be sung TO the tune
o. Good Old Summer Time" The
lines are;
There's a time in each year that We
lawyers hold dear.
Good old shad-bake time;
With the singing. the joking, the drink
ing. and smoking,
Good old shad-bake time
10 thinking. no working. but fun never
Sinking.
The day is one beautiful rhyme;
oh Sc
This good old shad-baEe time.
CHORUS.
This good ole shad-bake time.
This good old shad-balNe time.
The judges are all boys again, and every
one feels fine.
No motions verrulinE now, and that's
n very good sign
That we'll regret the ending OF
This good old shad-bake time.
The Century Building Song.
The next will be THAT Century
Building
Air-'HThere Is a Tavern"
There is building in our town. in our
The wonder is it don't fall down. don't
For of people mixed that there you'll see
There's none can beat the Century.
Air-"The Dutch Company"
There's Irish. more Irish. and plenty Of
Dutch.
Gentle and Jew and Pagan and such:
few names mentioned Will sure proof
be
That some of these days much trouble
wen see
Air-''Solomon Levi
To blend O'Shea, O'Donoghue. Colbert,
Quinn. and Keane.
With Maedel. Schmidt. and Hulse, the
Dutch
Would be act in vain:
But If you should succeed in this,
There's something else to do:
On Murphy. the Turk. you'd have to
work.
And reskin a Jew or two
Guests of the Day.
The occasion is the nineteenth annual
shad-bako dinner Of the bar of the Dis
triCt- The committee in charge has
made elaborate arrangements for the
entertainment Of'the guests and a most
delightful cay is anticipated by those
who go Among the specially invited
guests are the members Of the bench of
The United States Supreme Court the
District Court Of Appeals, the Supreme
Court of the District. the Court Of
Claims, the Police Court judges, and
the local justices OF the peace and the
District Commissioners.
Second to the concerts in point OF in
SeTsst and entertainment will be a game
OF baseball between two teams COM
posed Of members of the bar.