Evening star., 1915-02-28
NAVY YARD.

| NAVY YARD.
| The Naval Gun Factory Band gave
| it's last grand ball Of the season last
| Tuesday evening at the navy yard
| ballroom. Six hundred persons attended
| The committees having the affair in
| charge consisted of the following:
! General arrangement-Stuart G. Nc
Alister, 4. Cello. Edwin c. Glascock, J.
O. Montague and c. w. Ruhl; floor COM
mittee-Lawrence NJ. Hurdle, chair
man; Esterbrook Frazier. NJ. j. Connor.
C. y Bopp, J. F. Sheehan and J. Nirn-
stein; reception-Joseph y. Dodge. j.
| u. Grove, W. l.. Redfield, NJ. B. Granger,
G.. a. Ca1lan and George a. Cohil1. This
closes the public features until the
! coming summer, when it will again
give it's Friday evening concerts at the
! navy yard. The success of the band is
| largely due to the efficiency of the Of
ficers, who are as follows: Stuart e.
McAlister, president and manager: j.
o. Montague, secretary; Edwin Gias-
cock, treasurer; Peter Fox, librarian;
4. Cello. musical director; Lawrence NJ.
Hurdle, assistant musical director.
| John Bradburn. machinist of the
| breech mechanism shop. was promoted
, from machinist at 1916 to $4.06 per
diem this week.
Earl McDanald. apprentice of the
west gun carriage shop. has been pro-
| NOTED during the past week from ap-
prentice sos. to machinist, at $3.2S per
diem.
J. d. Young of Lincoln. Neb., ma
chinist, has been called to work in
the miscellaneous shop.
| Archie Cummings. machinist of the
miscellaneous shop, was transferred to
the planning board during the past
week.
J. u. Null. machinist of the toolshop,
made a trip to Philadelphia Saturday
to visit his family. He is making prep
arations to move them to Washington
soon.
George Dick. 1nachinist of the west
gun carriage shop, is absent on
several days leave.
| c. Wrighter, apprentice Of the breech
mechanism shop, returned to work
Tuesday. He had been absent on ac-
count of illness.
! Easterbrook Fracier of the .miscella
neous shop was promoted from ma
tchinist at 1916 to machinist at s4.os
| per diem, this week.
| Columbia Lodge, No. ia, Interna-
| tional Association of Machinists, will
give a theater party at Polls Monday
! evening, April 5. for the benefit OF the
machinist base ball team. The commit
| tee having the affair in charge Is H. T.
! LaClare. chairman; s. J. Martin, John
| Sheehan, Joseph Brannon. L. Warner.
John H. Fritz and Charles Deaken.
William W. shipley. machinist who
| was recently transferred to the tool
shop from the sight shop, has again
returned to his former shop.
William Chase. quarterman Of the
seaman gunners shop, was taken to
Sibley Hospital last Monday, where he
| is under special treatment for an in
| jured leg.
| Walter F. McCaffery OF the west gun
| carriage shop supervisory force is re-
ported i'll at his home in Alexandria,
Va.
w L. Barry, machinist of the mis-
! cellaneous shop is at the Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital, undergoing an opera
| tion.
/; w. C Young. apprentice Of the breech
! mechanism shop. has been absent for
| several days and Is reported to be ill
with pneumonia.
| Herman Rosenbaum, machinist of the
west gun carriage shop, who has been
/ sojourning at Philadelphia, Pa, during
| the past week, has returned to work.
| j. F. Mcclure. machinist Of the tool
| shop also member of the legislative
committee of Columbia Lodge. No. ia,
! /. A. of NJ, has been absent a couple
of days during the past week on i'm
| portant business for his committee.
| Albert Kuhl of the cartridge case
| shop, who has been suffering from a
| severe illness for the past six weeks.
has recovered sufficiently to return to
| work.
| L. F. Callen, machinist Of the breech
mechanism shop, who has been suffer-
| ing from a severe attack of rheumatism
| for the past month, has returned to
work
! Charles Engle Of the cartridge case
shop is preparing to go to the Naval
| Hospital, where he will undergo seri-
| GUS operation.
John Roth of the west gun carriage
! shop is absent on several days leave.
He is spending a great part of the time
| motoring in his car, which has been
recently remodeled.
Philip Miller. machinist OF the mis-
cellaneous shop. is absent on account
of illness.
| e. V. Bl:,kney. inachinist of the
breech mechanism shop, who has been So
/ journing in Florida for the past five
weeks in the interest OF his health,
has returned. He is very much i'm
proved in his health.
b. F.. Linsay of the cartridge case
shop has returned from ten days
trip to his former home at Petersburg,
Va.
Malcolm Horton, machinist Of the tool