Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30
BUTCHERS TO BREAK LOOSE
BIG BARBECUE AND BLOWOUT
AT BENNING WEDNESDAY.
There IL Be Free Food, Races. Games
and All Kinds of Fun for
Young and Old.

Do not blame the butcher next Wednes-
day if anything goes wrong with the
chops or steaks or If you get wiener
Wurst when you really asked for tripe
for the clerk will not be altogether to
blame. The master butchers will all be
out at Benning and they will be having
so good time that the clerks will simply
De green with envy, as they cannot get
off until after hours
1t is going to be barbecue the like of
which has not been seen around these
parts for many years-perhaps never.
Every year the Master Butchers AS
ISOLATION runs off day of glorious de-
hght. in which tournaments. roast oxen,
fat mems races. pretty girls. base ball
games. dancing and everything else to
delight the heart Of man are but Incl
dentals. Every year since the first one of
these great feasts the committee has
heightened its badges and strengthened
it's success simultaneously. Every year
more and more people have come, until
IT. seems that all the executive committee
mas to do is to mount the turretS and
say Come and from the markets and
farms and slaughter houses from across
the river. from Prince George county,
from all the counties. in fact. come the
butchers and their friends.
Stunts ALI Day Long.
1t takes all day to get through with the
things they do. AT noon the gates open
and the fitting starts at . o'clock. The
best riders of Virginia. Maryland, West
Virginia and the District always partici-
pate. The prizes amount to 500 in gold
and this is written in big black letters
on the hand bills. The successful knight
gets $40 and the three nearest have to
divide up the other $50 between them.
This year there is an added zest to the
feats in the lists. for the gaflants who
have won queens crowns this year will
havesa championship tournament all to
themselves and the winner will receive
a gold medal on which his name may be
engraved.
But that is not all. There are ten sleek
around here and Wednesday they will be
killed and roasted and the crowd will feed
free. Free! And tickets only a quarter.
Butchers to Play Ball.
Just to make 1t interesting a team of
butchers from the Center market will
play a team picked from all the other
markets. If there are any fleet-footed
young Dianas in the crowd they may get
into the fifty-yard race for girls under
fourteen and win the $3.50 first prize or
prize. The boys under fourteen will have
to run twice far for the same money.
According to the program there is to be
a potato race, but unless they close the
barrel there will be no race. The pro-
gram says First prize barrel of potatoes
open to all"
OF course the fat men will get theirs.
Fat men always do at these barbecues.
There is s. bill hung up for the first
fat man to cross the line in the 15-yard
race.
The Master Butchers Association Off
GERS are: R. F. Stencil president; J. A.
Reynolds. vice president: f. Howard. sec
ond vice president George M. Hunt, re-
cording and financial secretary: J. u.
Donovan corresponding secretary: ]. E.
Donovan. treasurer; c. w. Norton, inside
guard: E. l.. Woody, outside guard: c.
Krogmann. F. Scheele and II. Open
heimer, financial committee. Executive
committee-E. l.. Woody. chairman: j. E.
Donovan. J. A. Lynch. j. A Reynolds. j.
d. Donovan: George NJ. Hunt, secretary.