The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
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BECKON OWNERS
BACK TONATURE
Boom of Memorial Day
Gun Starts Exodus
From Capital.
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Non aoE o-~Hs
one may fnd the Rock Haven club.
a crew of nine fellows who surely
have fine place. and use it for the
benefit of all.
During the past few days they
have been sad, for their tenth mem
her. Jack Pigeon" died wednes-
day. With the help OF Colonial, ap-
were made, the pet pigeon was
given a sailors burial, and hags
few at half mast.
Yesterday they wern a hit more
CHEEKY. for they still had Rock and
Haven, the black kitten twins, in
distinguishable were it not for the
tlue and orange ribbons that be-
deck their kittenish coal-black
heads. The colors. by the way.
form the Official banner of the club.
ATTY" Buford Atterbury has made
In his spare moments few
sketches Of the twins.
Grand Opening Day.
Standing by the keyword of the
river folks. everyone is always well
come. This was evidenced last
Sunday when Miss 'Taggert. oficiai
recorder, registered 244 visitors. II
was grand opening day and formal
Invitations had been sent to nearly
200 friends. A regatta was held
in which Colonials, Bonzai, Key
Canoe, haywood A. c., and the
Harps clubs participated.
Following the athletic events. In
cluding the canoe races. there was
a al hf ~
one. There was an orchestra, dane
ing and other sports the remainder
Of the evening. Paul Kendall. Wis
itor from New York city. left Sun
day, Among the visitors were
Misses Genevieve Taggert. Florence
Underwood, Lilly Wendall. Ethel
White. Vera Sprankle. Ruth David
son. Gladys Ludlow. Roby Wheeler.
Margaret Bunting. Frances Lofink,
La veta Taylor. Mrs. Margaret Fer
ris and Arthur (Pinkey) Brock. :
Members OF the camp consist Of
Buford Atterbury. Morris Allen,
Sherry Sherwood, Louis Stehr. Max
RosedaIe. Martin Marx, J. Franklin
Little. Frank Taylor and Karl
Stehr.
Real Bohemia Here.
Among Manhattan's odd corners
there is place called Greenwich
Village-in gay Paris one may find
a similar quarter and in each far
fetched attempts TO initiate So
called Bohemia In its modern an
terpretation are made. Likewise in
London and other cities throughout
the universe futile trials have been
and are continuing to be made to
bring to the many the hazy and
romantic atmosphere which a few
artists sometimes effect.
Now, can washingtonians imagine
the materialization Of these efforts
a stones throw from the heart of
the city? Bonzai has found it-and
with II almost De Icons fountain
of youth.
Members OF Bonzai are artists.
and student artists, some afiiliated
with the local Corcoran Art gallery
and others with similar galleries of
the capital For the third season
they have hied themselves to the
found the sheltered hooks that
novelists have told OF in their
imaginative narratives OF gypsy
Int real OoHttllldH lllc. All IIt CIV
ments Of Bohemia are to be found
at Bonzai-at least, the high ideals
combining the artistic and back-tc
nature effects.
"a. NJ. l." Are Here.
Still. the factors of the camp life
have been modernized so that few
conveniences are lacking, Gen" Al
bert Albright, Chief Rees. Judge"
l. D. Conway and ''Cupie" Moore
are the prime leaders of their move
ment They started to work on the
location Easter Sunday. moved up a
few weeks later. and now present
to river traffic as clean and clever
a site as could be desired. The over
the-end- d-of-the-week crowd, they
said, was generally about IS, but
sometimes spurts to 40. The mem
bers consist of the roster OF two
academic fraternities, Alpha Sigma
lambda and Epsilon Phi. The com
mittee forming a joint ruling body
are chairmaned by Albright and
"Skeets" Goebel. Fats" Paul Briggs.
Conway. "Cupie" Moore and BY
laws" Langley make up the rest OF
the committed
Ambition" the mascot. is the
fastest moving turtle in the south,
they claim, and ''Cupie" remarked
that with a little more coaching,
they intended to start him in the
international turtle swimming races
Bonzai, a Japanese word meaning
welcome" is vanished on Am
bition's" back. One of the interest
ing events of the week at Ronzai
was a canoe race between Bonzai
and Rock Haven, won by the latter.
and the zee was set up by the