Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-27
With HARDING
FORD ! OR D EDISON Ed {, q n
PARTY IN CAMP
FAMOUS Folks ENJOYING
Outdoor L.ifes With
Some Frivolities

IN CAMP, LICKING CREEK
PARKBANK, Md, July 27.-"Hey
folks" yelled Henry Ford, "come
and eat"
That's not the way to say it,
corrected Mrs. Thomas A. Edison
''You should yell; Come and get 1t.
That's the way dinner was an
nounced to Americas most celebrat-
ed camping party. Two white-cap'
ned chefs cooked the dinner oyel
wood fires and portable gasoline
stove on the bank of the croek~
A Jap butler, IN white Jacket
served it under a big green tent, emo
the campers sat at great round taole
"a collapsible table than can be tax
en- apart in three minutes.
Nm The center was second table
several inches above the man boafe,
that revolved. So when President
Harding asked H. S. Firestone, the
host, to pass she salt, Firestono Just
reached out and gave the inner table
a whirl and it spun around gently
and deposited the salt and pepper and
chill sauce in front of the presidential
plate.
That's the sort of all-the-comforts-
of-home type of camp this Is. There
never was a camp just like it nor a
distinguished company to compare
There were present at dinner Pres
ident Harding and Mrs. Harding, MIR.
and Mrs. Frrestone, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. Edison, Bishop
w. S. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Firestone Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Edsel Ford, George Crlstlan,
Jr., and Russell Firestone.
1t was the first dinner served on
the annual rd-Edison-Fireatonc
camping trip-with the president
taking the place of John Burroughs,
This is the first time women have
accompanied the famous campers.
A caravan of automobiles and
motor trucks brought the campers to
the camping grounds, a spot ~
miles west of HagerstOwn. In the
caravan were more than 40 persons
Locomobiles and Packards brought
the campers. There were several
Fords, too. Two specially bulit
trncks carry the kitchen ana tood.
One truckload of food was brought
from the Firestone farm III Ohlo'
The truck contained two retrlgera-
TORS with several hundred pounds OF
meat, butter, eggs, milk and melons,
and 100 dressed chickens.
Another truck is "kltcaen cabl-
net" on wheels. 1t contains every
thing housewife has in her kitchen.
The rear folds down into q t&ble. One
side drops down and deposits a gaso'
line range on the footboard.
The caravan carries 20 tents, 5O
cots and scores of blankets. Every
tents has canvas floor. The entire
canp which is moving from place tc
place, can be packed in 30 minutes.
Food? Here's the dinne" menu
Broiled lamb chops, gru'ed nam
boiled potatoes, corn on the coo' ho'
biscuits, watermelons and coffee.
Ford declined to let the chefs anI
assistants to everything. He grabbed
an ak and split up firewood. Ht
also unpacked the knives and FORKS
Edison tried out his agility by SWING
ing himself from a low aanginl
branch of a tree. Then he took
wash basin and went out and plcSet
a basinful of mint.
"Now that I've got the mint, whs'
am | going to do with it?" he de
manded
A big camp fire was built betweef
the dining tent and the "con'pan!
street" of small green tents, set VI
as living quarters for the guests.
Ford prepared charcoal smudges t.
1 drive away mosquitoes. Camp help
/ ers wear regulation camp dress :
flannel shirts, army breeches, heav'
shoes and puttees. Not the CUES
campers, though. The women of th.
1 party, who are attended by a maid
/ were dressed in dainty frocks, sill
| stockings and high-heeled shoes
Copyright, 1929