Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-09

Of st. Charles Church. or the Neck
Church" The parish priest was
Father McAtee. The knights were
William Miles. George Willis. F.: H.
Marcellus Cox. Bernard Miles and
Albert Wade and youth named Mat.
tingly, who rode under the title. OF
the knight of La Plata. There was
a knight of CORVALLIS (for Glymont
is on Corvallis Neck). Knight of
knight of st: Thomas. Knight Of
Ashland. knight of Potomac and
knight Of Glymont. One Of the con-
testants rode under the title OF the
knight of Hard Times. The chief
marshal was John Davis and an
East Washington girl-Miss Meilna la
and Beauty. Her maids Of honor
were Misses Maggie Miles. Cissie r.
Miles and Lon" Dement, OF Charles
county.
One of the Washington newspa-
pers-the Washington Chronicle
gave a free excursion for children to
Glymont one day in July, 1873. Ana
for this commendable charity the
newspaper took unto itself all the
advertising it could get. E reas
many prominent men were enlisted
by the Chronicle in getting up ana
bringing off this excursion for chill,
dren and some of those who helped
to make the event pleasure ana a
success were A. S. Solomons, ). b
Thompson, Arthur Shepherd, J. a. Ell
linger. James Hudson. Matthew Trim
bic. Frederick Aiken. Joshua K.
Rodgers, Ambrose Aman. Mark Bar
ton. Sergt. Seibold. ]. N. HUBBARD
NJ p. Goldberg, George Bancroft. n.
A. Dobson. ]. NJ. Embrey, Miss M: p.
Chamberlain, Miss Hattie French'
Miss L. Ellwell. Miss Manene Gsd mss'
The Rambler is going to step asloe
for moment from steamboats, ana
river resorts to put into the record q
list Of steamboat captains ana eng
neers. The list OF captains was OBJ
tanned from Lieut.. Russell Dean. In
charge Of the harbor police. and the
engineer list was given the Rambler
by John A. Watts, for long time en-
gineer OF the George Leary and later
chief engineer of the Treasury De-
partment. The list of captains Is con-
tanned in an old record DOCK OF the
ton OF Masters and Pilots. Harbor. No:
81. Harbor No 81 has passed out OF
existence and most of the present
masters and pilots on the Potomac
river are affiliated with the Baltimore
branch Of the Masters ana Pi LOIS AS as
names to the Rambler he announced
whether the captain was living or
dead. Here is the list. which the
Rambler knows contains many tamil.
lar names and which he believes WILL
recall many pleasant memories:
BelI sr. dead; james T. Barker. liv-
ing: John A. Beacham, living: William
E. Bell. jr.. living; John F. Bailey
living; L. L. Blake. dead: George W.
Bell, dead: Louis Ballenger. dead: D.
w. Carpenter. whereabouts unknown
and believed to be living: John E. Car
penter. living: Ephraim Chesser. dead
James II. Cathell. dead: George Cook,
dead: Russell Dean. living: A. y. Da-
Wis, dead: S. B. Davis. dead; Ernest
Davis. living: Austin coleman, dead;
John B. Eskridge. dead: r. T. Foulkes'
in the Potomac f1otilla during the civil
war. dead; James T. Jones: living;
Chris Jansen. dead: A. r. Jorss,
whereabouts unknown and believed to
be living; James T. Kendrick. living;
Theodore G. keene, living; Matthew
tomac tugboat captain and of the
longest service on the river. living in
Alexandria; Henry H. Kendrick. liv-
ing; William H. Kendrick. living;
William T. Luckett. for many years a
captain in the Norfolk and Washing
ton line and no" plot on .he Fresi-
dents yacht Mayfiower: Thomas NJ.
Milstead, dead; James N. Marmaduke.
living; James Z. McCracKen. dead;
William D. NOVEL;. dead: William E.
Novel;. his son, now in the light
house service on one of its boats; B..
E. Owens. formerly a captain of the
Wakefield, now running a tug on the
York river: Lewis d. Petrie. living:
John B. Phelps. dead: Adam Posey,
frederick Posey (Chap Posey). now
a captain in the Norfolk and Wash
ington line: John F. Posey. living:
Jerry A. Posey. living: Frank NJ. Phil
lips. living: Marion Phillippi, formerly
owner and captain of the Potomac
tup Ella Pierce. went into steamboat