Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20
MUSIC, SONG AND STORY
AT ANNUAL BANQUET
Employees Of U. s. Army Engineers
Office Meet at Social
Function.

With music. song and story and bit
Of speechmaking, the employees Of the
Office Of the chief of engineers Of the
United States Army held their annual
banquet last night at the Continental Ho-
of the Engineer Department Banquet AS
ISOLATION. and the reason for the absence
Of oratory was explained when F. H. Hol-
Tiger, the historian of the association, who
has been able SO far to write only four
chapters Of the narrative, gave four years
Of the organization history. He told OF
the great displays of this art in the early
banquets, when the men spoke only IN
words of four syllables or more and kept
the floor until the sun was rising on
new day over the Eastern branch" This,
he said, determined those in charge Of the
banQuets to turn to other forms OF amuse-
ment and entertainment
President Richard Muller of the asso-
citation told Of the purpose of the or
ganization. He said it was very good
thing for the civil employees OF the gov,
eminent to gather once year around
the banquet board, where they could
forget the heavy subjects of the office.
He explained that such meetings pro-
NOTED good fellowship of the kind that
was helpful to all.
The purpose of the newly formed
State. War and Navy Social Club. COM
posed of the civil employees Of these de-
partments, and founded on the idea Of
the Home Club Of employees Of the In
terror Department. was explained by
w. r. Storm, secretary of the new or
sanization He urged that every en-
ploye in each of the departments men
toned should join the organization, and
urged every one to be present at the
meeting to be held in the Richmond
Hotel, 18th and H streets northwest. at
s:38 o'clock the evening of March Z.
H. L. Davis. auditor for the District
Supreme Court and former member
of the engineers office force. told his
hosts that he longed for the old stamp
ing ground He said he had missed
the good-fellowship there ever since
he had left.
Fellowship and Loyalty.
c. NJ. Irlan spoke of the good-fellow-
ship and loyalty found in the office of
the chief of engineers.
J. r. Ollie gave violin solo. and
vocal solos were contributed by Frank
Van Blake, John T. Eiker. L. o: Crymes
and Billy" Morseli. There also were
monologues by Victor V. Martin, A. B.
Pierce and e. r. Piper. Byron Blodgett
was accompanist. Richard Muller, the
president, acted as POSTMASTER.
List of the Guests.
Among those present were
Richard Muller. president: Fred j.
Rose. secretary; Harry l.. Freer, treas
urer.
Executive committee. Samuel Thomp-
son Hind. chairman; William T George.
W. A. Morsell. Frank S. Holliger. Gus
tave Bender, Chester l.. Benson. Victor
V. Martin, Charlie w. Alderman, Ar
thur F. johnson. o. F. James. c. Vance
Rice. Lowell Q. Rousseau, W. H. Wat
son. and the following: H. M. Adams. w.
H. Baden. s. H. Beck. II. L. Buell., f.
6. Burch, K. A. Camp. o. p. Camp. T.
F. Campbell. P. J. Caulfield. r: M; Cham
berlin, C. D. Choate. T. S. Clark. L. Q.
Crymes, H. l.. Davis. P. J. Dempsey. j.
r. Ollie. j. F. Donaldson. A. R. Edwin.
J. T. Eiker. Charles English, Frederic
Ferguson. F. D. Fletcher, John Gaub,
H. c. Gould. T. H. Griswold. W. S. Ham,
mers. John Hamilton. c. NJ. Irelan, G. J.
Keenan,, J. w. Kimbel, L. N. Kimbel. G.
w. Koonce, c. l.. Rooms, NJ. w. Lewis.
S. A. Mccarthy. w. c. MCGOWAN. Oswin
w. Menk, e. E. Nussbaum. J. c. Parker,
E. ]. Pearson, r. G. Phelps. E. r. Piper.
H. S. Pitts, D. NJ. Rogers, c. E. Sanford,
w. NJ. Smith, W. r. Storm, j. H. Stur
geon, Fritz Theune and Frank Van
Brake.