The Washington herald., 1920-05-23
TRADE BOARD
HASBIG DAY
Frolic at Chesapeake Beach
Voted Success by Tired
Picnickers.
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amusement for the tooters on the
side liens. The Roe team, q, r.
Schultz, caytain, pulled their op-
ponants across the line after hard
tugging. The others on the team
were w. ]. Lewis. A. o. Machler, z.
Baumbarten, w. z .Yost, J. L. Nc
Donald and n. s. Atkinson.
After the games all hands were
ready to answer the mess call, and
the inner man was tempted with a
baked shad dinner such as only a
Board of Trade dinner committee
could arrange. And just to make
the rich dinner the more difiicult 10
carry on the stroIls of the board
walk, the members were loaded
down with souvenirs from the many
firms OF Washington represented in
the boards membership. A shaking
down stroll on the boardwalk.
catching the strong breezes from
the bay. put the early arrivals in
ne state to receive the afternoon
train which brought down among
others Capt James +. Oyster, pres
ident of the Organization. Cant
Oyster commanded the second de-
tachment on the boardwalk march
to dinner which was waiting for
them on the pavilion.
Entertainment Galore.
DR.. Frank z. Gibson, chairman Of
the entertainment committee, came
to the fore and called the members
to the dancing pavilion, where the
members were treated to a vaude-
Vile entertainment starting with a
brief concert by the Boy Scout Band
Charles D. Shackelford entertained
with popular songs, followd by Mylo
b. Atkinson. jr., of St. Johns Church
quoir, with a soprano solo. NJ. B. At
kinson kept the audience in a con-
stant state of laughter with his dia-
lect stories, and S. Percy Oliver with
a series Of juggling stunts. DR.. Glib
son then brought on a surprise in tn
person Of Edward Fitzgerald. the
dancing and singing mechanical
doll.
Herbert Swift, the minstrel kept
the audience amused with his plan
tation songs and negro dialect
stories. followed by selections from
a quartet composed OF James X.
Young, Edward L. Hutchinson.
Newton Hammer and Ambrose Dur
kin. accompanied by Byron Blodg-
ett. Joe Grant, the local detective
sergeant, and Jim Grant. his
brother. wrestled for fifteen
minutes without either securing a
down. apt. c. E. Z. Flather. of the
local police force. was referee. Fred
l. Pratt entertained with a number
of character songs.
Start Home After Luncheon.
After a luncheon served on the
boardwalk. the bugler sounded as
sembly and the participants board
ed the specialf which was given the
right OF way. and sped to Wash
ington.
She shad bake committee which
had charge of the outing follows:
Murray L Clifford. chairman;
George H. Mcdonald. vice Chairman:
Samuel NJ. Darragh. secretary: Har-
ry Almond. l.. Pierce Boteler.
homas Bradley. l. Lee Combs. John
r. Casper. Richard l. Conner,
Charles F. Crane. Arthur Carr. WILL
lam Clabaugh. John NJ. berry. War
rem Cochran, W. Porter Cox. J. Har-
ry Cunningham, J. MaXson Cunning
ham. George NJ. Fisher. George b.
Farquhar. DR.. Frank E. Gibson, Ed
win c. Graham, Capt. Colin L. E.
Flather. Ernest J. Leesnitzer. Capt.
James F. Oyster, Walter H. Elopfer.
Charles w. Morris, Edward J. Muir
ply. George Pitt, Charles W. Pim-
per, Samuel J. Prescott. George Mil
Ter. E. E. Ramey, Odell S. Smith.
Joseph P. Stephenson, Charles J.
Waters, Fred J. White.