Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-04-28
a coUKrRY JAuNT.

Thirty-one carloads of e4curs!onists, sixty
to thu car, 1,S60 in all, went out to Leet's
Grove yesterday on picnic given under the
auspices of the city Lodges Of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows. Il was we'll
ordered and entirely successful excursion.
| Many we're present from Placer county towns,
and many drove up from Sacramento. In
all probably 9, 300 people were present. a
more delightful spot for picnic could not,
probably, be selected in all the State high
! rolling grounds, dry, gravelly, wellgrassed
soil, surface admirably timbered and cut by
ravines through which run streams on whose
banks ferns, oaks and everhanging shrubs
| grow, hundreds of broad acres carpeted with
wild flowers in endless variety, all combined
to make spot especially suitable for picnics.
The new arrangement for transporting
the excursionists added hundred.
fold to their comfort and pleasure and
decreased the risk to the minimum.
Instead OF the Odd Fellows paying go much
per car, and crowding it over-full and using
as few cars as possible, theY bsrgsined with
the railroad company to carry the people at
30 much per head and furnish cars sufficient
for all. BY this means 40 more were in a
car than could be seated, and there was no
more crowding than on an ordinary passeE-
ger train. This result was attained by the
new regulation limiting the number of excur-
sionists to car, that the railroad company
enforces, and by the desire of the Odd Eel.
lows committee to make the picnic a com.
plete success. The trains carrying the peo.
pie arrived at the grounds, which are one and
half miles beyond Roseville, about 10 A M
and on return reached the city little after
P. NJ, by which the picnickers were enabled
fo ho ath homo lcnr fnFnra 1arG
points future picnic committees will do we'll to
consider. The Odd Fellows picnic was
complete success and the committees of
management are entitled to due credit.
There was an attempt, early in the day, to
overcharge at one of the refreshment stands,
but il was promptly crushed by the commit
tees, and aside from this there was not the
slightest rifle upon the surface of the general
enjoyment. The day was mildly warm and
delightfully."- pleasant. A better pleased lot
of picnickers probably never returned to the
city Games for contests were provided in
plenty. In archery, James Pearson, lad,
contesting with skilled adults, walked away
with the first prize, a fire bow; Mrs. Fl.
M. Rogers won the first prize for ladies,
fine bow James Wyckoff won the second
prize for men, set of heavy srrows Mrs.
Van Nance wor the second prize for women.
set of light arrows. In the senior base ball
matcn the pest score was mace Dy the u mons,
Z, to the Elites 3. In the junior base ball
match the result of the contest was draw
between the Young Mechanics and the
Liberty" club, and the cash prize was di.
Vided. The prize for the highest number of
credits obtained in the public schools by q
girl between the ages Of and II, from jan
uarY 1st to April 24th, Was awarded to Ella
Sherburn.
Compositions by children, for prizes, were
submitted by Lilly Robins, Libbie Smith,
Katie Wadsworth, Alice Hilbert, Emma
Hilbert. Alice Murray. Maggie Swintop,
Annie Ainsworth, Alvin Figg, Newton Py-
burn, Charles F. Consaul, Charles A. Will
Jams. The awards will be made hereafter by
Professor o. M. Adams, Mrs. Hermon Perry
and Professor J. W. johnson.
Prizes were awarded for various races by
boys, girls and women. There were prizes
offered for drawings and sketches by children,
and these will be awarded hereafter by Mrs
W. F. Jackson. Mrs. Geo. W. Chesley and
A. A. Cook.
The music for the dancers at the picnic
was furnished by the Artillery band, with
Church as caller.