The Ocala banner., 1913-02-07
FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1913
CoMMODORE'S RECEPTION FOR
LAKE WEIR YACHT CLUB

One of the most brilliant social
gatherings in the history of Lake
Weir signalized the opening of the
winter season of the Lake Weir Yacht
Club last Wednesday night, at the
club house at Eastlake. Since the or
ganiZation of the club Commodore
Goodwin of Chicago, and his wife
have given a reception to members
and their families as the initial num-
Der of the winter program. Nearly
125 people responded to the commo-
dore's invitation this year, coming
from all sides of the lake in launches
and autos, with about twenty-five of
the Ocala members of the club in at
tendance by train and motor car. The
lake had been lashed to unusual
roughness for two days, holding near
" ali launches to their moorings, but
yacht club weather luck prevailed on
Wednesday, and some of the launches
carried other craft i'll tow over a calm
sea.
Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin were assist
cd in receiving by Mr.. and Mrs. John
Putnam Of Quincy, ILL.,, parents of
Mrs. Goodwin, and Miss Alice Ballou
OF Naperville, ILL.,, and Mr.. Malcolm
Williams of OcaIa. The club house.
and its piazzas, dock and pier were
brilliantly lighted, and the scene as
the launches approached was very
beautiful. Many Of the members had
not seen the club house lighted and
decorated for a party, and all were
delighted with the beauty, the COM
fort and the convenience of the house
and its furnishings.
Tie card tables We're occupied all
evening, while the perfect dancing
door OF the assembly room was filled
with happy couples in the waltz, two
step ard the beautifully quad
rifle, as danced around the lake.
Gowns that would have claimed the
appreciative attention of the society
reporter at the opera We're in plentiful
evidence, and the mems garb ranged
from the yachting costume of the
commodore to Tuxedos and claw
hammers. Nearly a dozen different
states were represented, and with the
total absence of formality. which char
acterizes the commod0re's receptions,
Old and young experienced rare So
cial enjoyment.
Just before refreshments were serv-
ed Mr.. J. w. Chapman of Boston, the
treasurer of the club, called the COM
modore and his wife to the floor, and
after briefly reviewing the Organiza-
ton of the Lake Weir Yacht Club, and
the doubt which attended the plan
when first proposed by Mr.. Goodwin
three wears ago, which doubt finds an
swer in the 130 club members today,
continued thus:
Commodore, the members wish to
thank you for the interest you have al
ways taken in the club, and more es-
pecially for your successful efforts IL
The raising of money that has made
pc ssible this fine buildILg and fur1 5 4.
ings, and the pier We think AMI we
believe that no Other man in Marion
county could have accomplished what
you have done for the lake during the
past three years. Your generosity in
supplying the complete gas plant to
the building is known 30 us all. but
your many other gifts, beth to The
club and to the association, are known
to but few. At this time we desire to
express ourselves in more substan-
tial way than with thanks, so in be-
half of members of the club it gives
me much pleasure to present to you
this loving cup as an expression of the
feeling of the club towards you. We
ask you to accept it, and with it the
ber."
The loving cup is a large gold-lined,
artistic conception of a famous New
York silversmith, ornamented with
the club pennant in enameled colors
of orange and black, and the commo-
dore's three-starred blue flag sur
mounting the handsomely engraved
inscription, together with the engrav-
ed outlines of the club house and the
commodore's launch. Standing on its
ebony pedestal it is an impressive il
lustration of the silversmith's art, de-
parting from the conventional in de-
sign, and in especial consonance with
the sentiment it typifies.
Commodore Goodwin was caught
off his guard. When he found words
he declared that this was a commo-
dore's reception and not surprise
party, and that such an event was not