The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-03-01
CHEMICALIANS
CELEBRATE
The Washington Birthday CeIe-
bration Gives Opportunity
for Merrimaking.
A GREAT INVENTION THRILLS

gave its usual Washington birthday
celebration. AS it is an annual re-
union of the company many of the for
mer members were present and during
the social hour that preceded the more
serious part Of the exercises there was
an opportunity for renewing OF old ac-
quaintances and general handshaking.
The collation. was by Day and was
both excellent and ample. After this
! important feature of the celebration
Eugene Carroll called the assem- blage
to order and with the fantacies of
bad pipe dream introduced as the
toastmaster the old veteran of many
/ like occasions George c. Smith, and
the audience felt that If dreams are to
be taken by contraries Mr.. Smith was
certainly good fellow. After some
felicitous remarks by the chairman,
Rev. VIM. r. Bennett, the chaplain of
the company was introduced and after
a pleasing and witty prelude set the
keynote of the evening as loyalty to
duty. He spoke feelingly Of the two
shut-in members of the company, A.
G. Phillips and ]. B. Ayers, and voiced
the feelings of all in so doing
Rev. DR.. Urmy, as chaplain of the
Resolute truck company brought the
greetings of thai company, and in a
humorous vein gave appropriate SEN
timents for the day and occasion.
DR.. Pierson, the next speaker, after
speaking OF the innate love every man
has for tighter, gave thrilling and
pathetic war reminiseence setting
forth how Captain Wheeler with his
battery saved The day in fierce con
flict, but when the day was saved the
captain lay dead beside his gun. He
asked did it pay and showed that it
most certainly did.
just at this stage the cloud of mys-
terry that had hung over the meeting
was dispelled when Mr.. Smith said
that D. Farrand Sturgis, who had de-
voted much time and thought to the
perfecting of wonderful apparatus
would now demonstrate it. Before re-
lieving the expectations of the audi
ence Mr.. Sturgis demonstrated him
self as a post pranidal speaker of rare
humor and ability, in fact a personffi-
cation of Momus. and if he was taken
seriously would have rendered him
liable for an action at law. But like
his colleagues pipe dream it was taken
/ by contraries and added to the halos
that encircle the heads of some men,
bers OF the company.
The wonderful Invention consisted
Of a stereopticon entertainment run
off by Town Electrician Pierson and
Floyd B. Hoffman starting, after some
| humorous skits, in honor of the chap
lain, with a picture Of Webb Memorial
chapel and picture Of the reverend
gentleman himself. Then followed a
picture of Hayward G. Emmel, the
! surviving charter member of the com
pany, with a number of other old
veterans in the service. The pictures
were interSpersed with striking car
, toons of local interest, after the style
of Davenport "a long way. Eugene
, Carrell and Fl. B. Hoffman posed in a
, series that demonstrated the differ
ence between their confagratory and
gastronomical duties. The result ia
J the first case being nil and in the
second the heaying emotions of the
morning after, under the ministra-
uions of DR.. Lewis. Another picture
z that aroused ungratified curiosity was
that Of Ben. VanCleve trying to get
satisfaction from George Melick for a
pair of bum shoes he was stuck with.
The riddle of whether he did or not
remains unsolyed. Two companion
pictures was the mayor and the mare,
both of whom had rendered honorable
! service. The POSTMASTER was the lee
! turer for this unique entertainment
and his comment served to enliven
the show very materially
Rev. MesSrs. MacColl and Sturges
spoke briefly in humorous vein, Rev
VIM. w. Barker spoke of Washington
from the standpoint of an adopted
citizen, and called attention to some
Of the special advantages of this coun-
try. superintendent Ira w. Trayell,
of the public school, made his initia-
, tory address to an audience OF this
character in Morristown and was well
received. The speech making closed
with bright talk by Judge a. E.
Mills, and the audience dispersed
about midnight with high apprecia-
tion of the chemicalians as entertain
ers.
Among the out-of-town visitors were
George w. Muchmore and ]. w.
Cliff, of Summit John S. McMaster,
of Jersey City; Horace Ayers, OF New
York Perry Skellinger, of Plainfield
The town officials generally were pres
ent and prominent citizens were in
evidence.
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