The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-08-26
]. N. CAMDEN'S
HOSPITALIT
ENJOYED BY TWENTY THOUSAND
FARMERS AND POLL
TIcIANS.
NOTED KENTUCKIANS PRESENT
Biggest Thing in the Way of Party
That Has Ever Been Held in Ken
tucky-State Officials Present.


That Has Ever Been Held in Ken
tucky-State Officials Present.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Lexington, Ky.-Johnson N. Cam
den,s farmers barbecue" at Spring
Hill farm, near Versailles, was big
success. 1t was quite the biggest thing
in the way of a party ever given by
any one man in the Blue Grass region,
In not in all of Kentucky. The, day
was ideal for an ent-of-door entertain
ment, and there were present fully TO-
600 persons, according to the computa-
ton made by Will Dudley, Carlisle to-
bacco expert, who has had wide ex-
perience in arranging barbecues and
who served as the general supervisor;
by Sam Nuckols, the Woodford county
real estate man, who had charge of the
serving tents; by Gus Jaubert, veteran
Lexington burgoo maker, and by N. D.
Lawrence, Of Lexington, who had
charge of the roasted mutton and beef.
All of these said they believed there
were more than 10000 visitors Pro
vision for feeding that number of per
sons had been made.
State officials Present
It was a most representative gather
ing of the solid people of the common
wealth. Governor James B. Nc
Creary and Lieutenant Governor Ed
ward J. McDermott were there, as
were State Auditor Henry NJ Bos-
worth, State Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, ]. w. Newman and virtually all
Of the heads of departments in the
official family at Frankfort. The city
of Versailles, under a proclamation
by Mayor Harry C. Taylor, was "closed
up tight from 10 a. m. until a p. M.
and everybody in compliment to Mr..
Camden attended the barbecue.
The crowd journeyed to and from
Spring Hill Farm in automobiles, in
horse-drawn vehicles and by trolly
cars, which ran from Versailles to the
gate of the great woodland facing the
Camden residence, which occupies the
center of the $500 acres of excellent
land embraced in. the magnificent
Spring Hill farm. There were packed
on the crest of hill at the left OF
the roadway, which runs through the
woodland pastures, 1900 automobiles
/, and in space beyond the automobiles
were hitched in the shade of magnifi
cent trees upward of 500 horses, some
of which had been ridden, but the ma
jority of which had drawn vehicles OF
various types.
To the north of these speaking
places was the feeding ground" I'm
der one huge circular tent were 10C
large tables laden with barbecued NUT
ton and beef and other edibles In
another circular tent few feet to the
north was the tasty burgoo.e The
beverage of the day was iced spring
water.
Mr.. Camden opened the speeches
with the following, speaking first from
the south stand and then from the
north stand:
My friends, I give you one and al
a most hearty welcome. am truly de
lighted to have you here. I hope you
will ALLOW me to tell you briefly what
was in my mind when 1 decided tt
have this barbecue.
Always, in thinking of Kentucky,
have great, spring vision. l have
been in most of the states of the
Union, and have travelled in many
lands, but l have never beheld state
or empire that has such material pos
sibilifies, variety of soil, diversity o
products and other blessings as on
own beloved state-Oid Kentucky.
-"WilI Lead in Ten Years"
I'm ten years. time she will leaf
every state in the Union in the produe
ti0nsof coal, and, What is more, as tim,
goes ON she will increase the lead ant
hold it, for she has a greater deposi
Of high-grade coal than either Penn
sy1vania or West Virginia
TT can also be truly said of Ken
tucky, as of almost no other country
that if eve were absolutely isolated
from the rest of the world, we havs
within ourselves everything necessar;
for the development of a most ad
Vaneed and prosperous civilization
We have IN abundance the raw ma
terials, iron. cooking coal, timber, fT'
and porcelain .clags, phosphate de
posts, oil, gas and an endless variet-
of mineral wealth, most varied soi'
grazing lands and beneficent climate
What I wish to draw attention t
and to emphasize is the well recos
nized fact that in mining and MANI
featuring and all productive enter
prises the basic form of wealth is i
itself only about SO per cent the prof.
lem solved The other so per cent /
in organization, which really mean
cooperation. Granting that cur sol
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