Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-31
Wind Up OF BAZAAR
ABIC SUCCESS
Helpers--Women and Men Deserve
Much Credit
ALL WORKED HARD
Women's implements Of War" Among
Unique Attractions Of Bazaar
For Company's Fund

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Johns gym on Wednesday evening by
the Machine Gun Company. fared ur
brilliantly last evening and finally
fiickered and died out at midnight
leaving over seven hundred dollars to
be raked from the ashes.
1t is doubtful if ever before in the
history of money-making schemes at
tempted in Annapolis, one of any kind,
was inaugurated and carried through
| in so short a time. Last Saturday s
Capital printed the name of about Is
women who had promised TO help the
Machine Gun Company in their under
taking (the men had no time to call
on more), and at the same time in
vited all women and girls interested
| in helping to raise a company fund
for the Machine Gun Company to at
tend meeting at Mcdowell Hall at
$50 on Monday. In three days enough
had been collected and sold to create
company fund of over 500. Which
goes TO show how eager the people OF
Annapolis and of Anne Arundel
county were to contribute to the com
fort and welfare of their beloved sol
'dier boys when the way was pointed
out to them, and to prove how easy it
is for those who help themselves to
enlist the help and cooperation of
others.
The plans as thought out and exc
cuted by the men of the Company
were made known to the women, who
helped them, and their hard work en-
titles them to every dollar they took
in.
The names of the committee of
women helping was given in Tues
day paper, and their booths and the
receipts therefrom did them credit.
The soft drinks, soda water, lemon
ade and fruit served by Mrs. Strahorn
and her assistants were enjoyed by
the warm, thirsty throngs in attend
ance, and the flower booth, presided
over by Mrs. Garrison and her COM
mittee, was another refreshing as
well as a beauty spot in the room.
The general store" which was con-
Quoted by Miss Jennie Mullen and a
corps of able assistants, contained
every kind of thing which could be
thought of, and the stock went so
quickly and advantageously that the
receipts surprised the most sanguine.
The large number of cakes and the
hundreds of donations of candy re-
ceived, kept the ladies who had con-
sented to receive and distribute them
in a continual state of surprise, and
Mrs. Nicholas Green and Mrs. Dennis
Claude, the chairmen of these booths
could scarcely dispose of their huge
stock The candy committee solved
their problem by voting nearly one
hundred pounds of fudge to Company
NJ and the Machine Gun Company
The ice cream parlor was declared to
be the prettiest and most restful one
ever run in Annapolis, and will be long
remembered by those who saw 1t.
Mrs. White and her assistants did a
great business both nights.
The dancing was enjoyed by large
number of young folks to the strains
of perfect dance music by a part OF
the Naval Academy Orchestra and the
Eukulele Club.
One of the most interesting features
of the bazaar was the war exhibit in
small room off the main floor In
| this room the full equipment of the
Machine Gun Company was displayed
The belongings of each man. which
he is obliged to carry himself, and the
equipment, consisting of the machine
gun and ammunition carried on a
mule. This was labeled Mans Imple-
ments of War;" and was most inter
estingly explained by Sergeant Tur-
ner. of the company. In the same
| room was a large cabinet labled
"women's Implement of War" and
contaiing articles, samples of work
done by the local Mothers Circle
canning and preserving), the Navy
League (knittingl. Red Cross (hospital
| garments). and Surgical Dressing
Committee, the number of things pre-
pared by them for suffering humanity
+; Women from each of these groups
were in attendance to explain theil
work