The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-09
Gunmen Christen
New RathSkeIIar
Of F. ]. FreyIer
On the Word of the Farmers
Expert 1t Is Declared to Have
Been 'Some Christening Too"
Therefore We Commend to All
DOnbting Thomases the Lines
Which Will be Found Here
unto Appended

Two hundred and fifty statesmen and
foremen of the Remington Arms I'm
ion Metallic Cartridge Company christ
ened FreyIer's new rathsllellar last
evening And it was some christening
too. The occasion was smoker
given by the road men to the factory
foremen and, as forecasted in these
columns, IAN enjoya BILE time was had
by ALL
awful hard to do justice to such a
party so shortly after being pres
ent.)
Thanks. little one like that does
help early in the morning, so to con-
tinue: From the time that Tom Mar
shall poked his head in the doorway
of the new rathskellar at o'clock un-
til ssTexas Tick Berry took his red
and yellow tie home for the night, or
morning, it was one round OF enter
tainment after another. Some say the
entertainment went % rounds; others
say it was finish fight
Everybody of Importance in the r.
A-U NJ. c. outfit was present Mefn
Host FreyIer served a Dutch supper
in Bridgeport wares scored another
conquest. A cabaret show added to
the n1erriment.
H T. GIitchy Koo) Warren. of the
New York office, thought he was back
at Reisenweber's and trotted occasion
ally Folks who saw him going
through what Bill Smith calls the
Poultry of notion did not wonder
any more where he got his name and
why the big boss gasped in wonder
ment one night.
Tom Marshall made speech every
little while He had lots of steam at
the start-off but towards the fag end
of the evening his control was poor
But he certainly did put over the
Elks IL p m. toast in fine fashion.
Some big Elk, too, is Tom.
''Bill'' Hall of Nashville, Tenn, was
there. ''BiI' is the fellow who can
toss a green pea in the air and make
rifle before it hits the ground. He
has been known to shoot the head off
a. pin at 20 yards. In fact, he can
hit nothing. or almost nothing at 200
yards s3fIF' made several btlllseyes
last night.
J. G.. Heath, leading the Frisco out
fit got up every little while and gave
three or four cheers for the 1915 expo
sition. The coast fellows had yell
just like a college and pulled it every
time a single yard was gained through
taTexas Tick Berry, who has been
mentioned in the foregoing, was much
in the shade last night, despite his
ayoirdupoiS. The reason was the tie
that he sported. It was red and yell
low with a few other colorS thrown
in for luck Before Tick took the
tie to the garage where it is kept;
317 distinct coIors in it.
Ed Cox wrote a lot of parodies about
the heads of various departments and
the village choir sang them with much
vim and quite a. dash of gusto.
The cabaret show was good. Three
dusky young men played double-bar-
relied banjos and guitars and sang
and danced. Bert Forest told some
stories and a young man named O'Don-
nell told of his troubles at Jewish
Wedding A knock-about dance act
met with favor.
There were no speeches, except those
made by Tom Marshall. That is, no
set speeches. True, every other oc-
casionalIy someone would feel himself
called upon to deliver address
which he usually did without bother
ing anyone.
tsTorn' Briggs, in charge of the pub
Iicity end of the convent ton, was
among those present.