Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-19
ANNUAL OUTING OF
BOARD OF TRADE
Three Hundred Members and
Guests at Shad Bake.
GATHERING AT RIVER VIEW
Industrial Development Of Washing
ton Theme of Addresses.
WELCOME BY GEN. WILSON
Congress, Arbitration and the Inter
ests and Needs of the District
Discussed

The fourteenth annual shad bake of the
| Washington Board of Trade was held at
River View yesterday, and if ever there
was more successful affair of its kind it
| is not of record in the annals of the board
or in the recolections of its members. More
than 800 members and guests journeyed
down the river on the two trips of the big
steamer ST. Johns, and returned at 8
o'clock last evening, each filled to repletion
| with Potomac shad and pleasing recollec-
| tions.
| In the first place, there never was more
perfect day. The cautious ones who,
| warned by the freaky weather of the past
! few weeks, carried overcoats over their
| arms when they boarded the steamer for
the down trip, checked the very unneces-
| sary wraps early in the game. 1t was just
| warm enough to make the all too short
| river sail thing of joy, and not too hot
| to affect the appetite to reduce below
| the normal the boards consumption of shad
and roe, and con bread and the other de-
| lights OF it's annual outing day.
Then, too, the speeches which followed
the feast were of more than ordinary in
| terest and significance Brig Gen. John M
Wilson, president of the board; President
Macfarland of TIE board of District Com
missioners, Second Assistant Postmaster
General McCleary and Commissioner West
were the only speakers, but they made up
8
| in numerical strength. Mr.. West, in a
| plain, straightforward business talk, urged
| the members of the board to do all in their
power TO advance the industrial develop
| ment of Washington by eliminating the
| liindrance of strikes and labor difficulties of
| all kinds, and suggested plan whereby he
! thought this could be done. Mr.. McCleary,
| who recently concluded fourteen years of
| service in the House of Representative,
| prophesied the -creation of the United States
| o. Europe, and later of the United States
! of the world. The other talks were equally
/ interesting.
| And the shad-plank itself-it really isn't
| right to call 1t bake-was all that could
| be desired. Incidentally, when a shad is
/ baked its interior mechanism is removed
i and he is stuffed full of breadcrumbs and
showed in an oven, heated TO 4 briStling
/ temperature with coal or coke any old
/ thing But, when plankedi That's an en-
| tirely different matter Mr.. Shad is cut
| open, washed in cold spring water and
| fastened TO a hard oak plank. And then
| that plank is stuck UP on edge feminist q
| fire of oak logs and toasted and roasted and
| basted and treated tenderly in every way
! until done to a turn. And then-well, then
/ there's nothing in the same class in the
| way of human food. Not 4 thing!
Some of the three hundred odd went a
sailing down the river on the morning trip
| leaving the 7th street wharf at 10:45, but
most of the members and guests took the
| 1:45 boat and got to River View in plenty
of time for the shad-fest. Dinner was
served at T. and the hour'or so that cnsued
between the landing of the boat and the
sounding of William F., GUIDES vocal gong
drifted by in no time at all. A hundred
or more of the party spent all of that time
standing behind the long line of oak planks
watching the big fish slowly cook. Others
wandered about the grounds sat on
benches around the little chute-th e-chute
| lake and just naturally loafed. The dinner