Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
NAVY YARD.

At the March meeting of the Lamb
skin Club of the naval gun factory
the following officers We're elected for
the ensuing year: President, John w
Dick; vice president. E c. Ford: secre-
tary. Walter c. Hamilton: treasurer,
r. c. Henry; marshal. H. Ellis: sentinel.
l.. Scott: advisory board, John w. Dick.
f. c. Ford and W. ID. Cullen: board of
trustees. B. e. Ladd. Robert White and
William Hebbard
w II. Blankship. leading man of the
forge shop. has returned from trip
to Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pa
where he visited the Bethlehem steel
works, the Midvale steel works and the
League Island navy yard.
Y. C. Young, apprentice of the breech
mechanism shop. who has been i'll for
the past five weeks with an attack of
pneumonia. has recovered and returned
to work Monday
The many friends of Emmett |.
Adams. a former machinist of the mis-
ceilaneous shop, are pleased to learn
oil ms appointment as statiStician in
the Department of Commerce He will
nave charge of the gathering of com
nercial statistics in Virginia, with
headquarters at Richmond
William II. Smoof. ~>,nachinist of the
erecting shop. spent Sunday in Balti-
more with Mrs. Smoot who is in a
sanatorium. where she underwent q
serious operation
L. l.. Walker. machinist of the
cartridge case shop. has returned to
work after an absence of two weeks.
A y,
gun carriage shop. has moved his fam
lily to Baltimore. where Mrs. Brannon
is caring for her mother. who is Sc
riously Ill Mr.. Brannon will travel
from Baltimore to Washington daily
George Dennis. leading man oe the
west gun carriage shop. is spending
weeks leave at Colonial Beach Va
Harold ComforG, machinist of the
breech mechanism shop left Friday for
Norfolk, to assist in bringing the Y. S S
Sylvia TO Washington. She has been
anchored at the Norfolk navy yard for
repairs for the past three weeks.
Carlton Fry, machinist al The 1901
shop. and Mrs. Fry entertained Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Dunn and Mr.. and Mrs.
Karl krumke at their home Friday
evening.
Henry Duering. inachinist of the west
gun carriage shop. has gone to George
town University Hospital to undergo
an operation Tor injuries received in
the shop.
Harry Kelley. i former machiuist Of
the Crown. Cork and Seal Manufactur-
ing Company of Baltimore, has been
hired in the miscellaneous shop.
Workmen have completed the removal
of the torpedo-teSt house to the north
side of the yard. where large addi-
ton is being built
Frank GalatZo. machnist of The west
gun carriage shop. is absent owing to
illness in his family.
L. NJ. Artley, machinist OF the breech
shop, has resigned and will
devote his time to workin% his farm,
i'll Pennsylvania.
Earl Mcdonald, machinist of the west
gun carriage shop. has been absent for
several days on account of the death
of his sister. who was accidentally
killed ny n fall from a window last
Tuesday.
c. Melcher. apprentice of the breech
mechanism shop. is suffering from
severe attack of pneumonia.
The Potomac Base Ball League, of
which the machinist team of the navy
yard is a member. held a meeting last
evening, at which rules and a
schedule We're adopted. The season will
open May 3 and close August II.
Thomas II. Spurrier. former ma
chniSt of the miscellaneous shop, is
TO be i'll at his home, on 18th
street southeast.
+. }. Berger. former machinist of
the west gun carriage shop, has been
re employed in the secondary mount
shop in similar capacity during thel
past week.
n T.. De Groot. machinist of the west
gun carriage shop, is reported TO be i'll
at his home. AT cherrydalc. Va.
George Conrad, black smith. who has
been confined in the hospital for the
past four weeks. where he underwent
an operation for blood poison in hisl