Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-09-13
SONS OF H|PPOCRATES
Gather AT Crab Feast And Enjoy
Oyster ROast-With Trim
ings
CAST DIGESTION TO WINDS
The Medical And ChirurgicaI Faculty
The Guests OF Chamber OF Com.
merce A Delightful Feast

Hippocrotes was the Father of
| Medicine" and although he was born
so long ago as the fifth century be-
fore Christ, he must have felt proud
4 of his sons of the twentieth century
who gathered here last night to make
merry at -the-Spa.
Hippocrates came of a family of
priest-physicians, through them in
| heriting all its traditions and preju-
dices, and yet, we are told, he was
the first to cast superstition aside and
to base the practice of medicine on
the principles of inductive philosophy.
However, his sons at the crab
feast and oyster roast last night,
threw traditions to the wind and en-
tered into the affair with heart and
soul
Throwing digestion to the winds it
was merry crowd that gathered at
Boucher's Casino across Spa creek
last night for the oyster roast and
crab feast rendered by the Chamber
of Commerce in honor of the visiting
Doctors. And to say everyone enjoy
ed it would be putting it mildly.
Though the majority of the Doctors
who had contemplated being here for
the opening session of the meeting
yesterday, did not arrive, being de-
layed through one cause or another,
not one of those who were here, did
not make the trip across the Creek,
and the members of the Chamber of
Commerce, who turned out in full
force, received bouquets from all sides
for the generous hand in which they
dispensed hospitality.
There were crabs and oysters in
profusion, with crackers, petzels,
pickles, ETC., as side issues, not to
mention liquid refreshments that was
enjoyed fresh from the wood. Harvey,
of Carvel Hall, was the caterer, and
he had prepared plentiful dish Of
delicious crab salad for those who
did not care to mess themselves i'm
pickingithe boiled ones. The entire
menu served by Harvey, the we'll
known Carvel Hall caterer. was as fol-
lows:
Oysters on Half Shell
Gherkins Chow Chow
Roasted Oysters
Waterthin Crackers Oyterettes
Steamed Hard Grabs
Finger Rolls Maryland Biscuits
Crab Salad. Mayonnaise Dressing
Cheese Cigars Refreshments.
1t was a beautiful moonlight n light,
cool, and lLeverything combined to
make it most pleasant. A string
srchestra of the Academy band, un-
der Professor Schryer, was on hand
and discoursed music during the even.
ing. and when pantries had been
filled, some dozen or more of the
younger blood Of the Chamber of
Commerce entertained the Doctors
with a number of popular and South
ern melodies 70 the accompaniment Of
the orchestra.
Prior 20 the feast the Doctors and
others were gathered in the Casino,
where several happy and witty
speeches were made. "CorOral jim"
Owens was on hand in all his glory.
He was the principal speaker, and
later on IN the evening he amused the
party BY dancing the "Virginny
hoe-down. Mr.. William II. Moss
presided over the assembly. and brief
addresses were delivered BY Mr.. Will
lam +. Feldmeyer, president of the
Chamber. and Dr. Franklin b. Smith,
president Of the Medical and Chirur-
\ rical Faculty.
After the speech-making was all
over. Mr. Moss told the Doctors that
I by repairing to the outside they
would see why Annapolis had been
\ dubbed "Crabtown, in an effusion
/ of verse, for the first thing that
met their gaze out in the grove was
a huge pile of fresh boiled crabs.
All hands pitched in to partake of
the feast. The crab, oyster and
salad table, each had its quota feed
ing sharpened appetite, and not a
few stood by to prevent the kegs
rolling from their stays.
The Chamber of Commerce certain
Iy did itself proud for furnishing
this social outing for the entertain
ment of the medical men, and the ar
rangement for the feast reflects
great credit upon the committee,
which was composed as follows:
William E. Feldmeyer, James F..
Strange, Frank A. Munroe, c. w.
Gould, w. Hallam Claude, Malcolm
Hunter, DR.. j. Oliver Purvis, William
M. Abbott, Hugh r. Riley, William
B. Gardiner, Jr, Ennalls Waggaman,
w. c. Moss, Walter Clark, Richard
j. Duvall, Daniel r. Randall, George
c. Barton
James w. Owens, a leading member
of the Annapolis bar, was the chief
speaker at the reception at Boucher s
last night, Mr.. Owens said be could
not be expected to make a scientific
speech, as his knowledge of medicine
was limited to the effects of quinine,
spiritus frumenti and other such we'll
known drugs, but that he could tell
something of medical profession from
the standpoint of Iayman. He told
many good stories at the expense OF
the medicos and they were received
in the best spirit by those present.
This evening DR.. Louis B. Henkel
will entertain the members of the
| State Board of Medical Examiners,
and few others at dinner at his
hama AT Murray Hill