Douglas Island news., 1908-08-19
TREADWELL TOPICS.

NIT. W. n. mCDidlu Ol Gne LEedu"eL' i Club iO taking much needed vaca tion at the Hot Springs.
 Mir. R. G. Way lanu and party re' turned to Treadwell last Saturday night after week hard tussel with mosquitoes at Taku.
 l The Ashcroft Moving Picture Show at the Club on Friday night was a much better performance than the one given the week prior. On Saturday night an entire new program will be rendered.
 The Alki arrived Monday with large consignment of freight.
 Mir. F. w. Bradley after having com pleted his annual examination of the Treadwell properties was a south bound passenger on the City of Seattle sailing early Tuesday morning.
 The Misses Keensn, who have been visiting Supt. and Mrs. Kinzie, return, ed to their home in SGu Francisco on the City of Seattle.
 MT. w. L. Brown made trip to Tako Inlet yesterday on the launch Pacific of Juneau and brought home load of pebbles to be used in the experimental plant now under construction.
 The fourth annual bail given by the Treadwell Fire Department on last Monday evening at the Treadwell club was a perfect success in every way, each little detail having been carefully planned and carried out. To the deco rating committee much praise is due for the beautiful and artistic appear ance of the hall, which when animated by the dancers and strains of most pleasing music, made the on-looker think he was having peep into fairy land. At midnight it was announced that refreshments were ready and the guests cue and all were piloted to the largest dining room on the Paclhc Coast Cthe Treadwell boarding house) measuring forty by one hundred and sixty feet without pillar or post to ob- struct the view. And behold, the most beautiful, entraucing sight; cell ing and sides festooued with bunting, and red firemen's rosettes scattered promiscuously among the Stars aud Stripes under the subdued glare ofred electric globes; here was banquet, a spread for fully five hundred people at one sitting. The guests were ushered to their seats by a detailed squad of uniformed flremen, where as might have been expected from our caterer, Mir. T. A. Tubbs, greater surprise was in store for them. Mir. Tubbs never does things by halves but always seems to make the present better than any thing preceding. There was center piece on every table, consisting of the regulation miners gold pan, filled with fruits of all descriptions, watermelon set on end in the bottom of the pan topped off with pineapple and sur rounded by oranges, apples, bananas aud other fruits too numerous to men tion, among which was interwoyen Alaska ferns and berries. The picked meat of five hundred and fifty pounds of chicken was converted into one of the most palatsble salads ever set be- fore man. There were also potato sal ad, Alaska grown lettuce selad, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and other relishes, sliced ham, ohipped potatoes, hot buscuits, pumpernickle, cheese, cakes, doughnuts, coffee, tea and ice cream. During the entire banquet strains of beautiful waitzes and other selections were heard After refresh ments were had, the party reNssembled at the club and danced out the remain ing numbers of the program. The ! dance broke up ct 2 a. m. everyone having had a most pleasant and en- joyable evening.