The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-07-06
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There were very few Wheelipgites who
did not in some manner celebrate on Sat.
ufday, the one hundred and ninth ami.
yetsaty of American independence. For.
o wonder, 1t did not rain, and thereby
break mp the innumerable celebrations
that were held! Il was an ideal Fourth
hot, Just secsching and dusty as the great
Sahara. The, day was ushered in at mid
night Friday by adesultory firing Of Jack.
like q picket lines fire until the day had
All this In tile face Of the Mayors procla-
nation. But as no one was seriously hurt
Or other damage done, It made but little
difference II the orders were disobeyed.
The sole order OF the day apparently
was to picnic. There was picnic galore;
big and small, public and private. The
largest one was that onithe Fair Grounds
under the auspices OF the MRnnerchor'
Beethoven and Mozart Singing Societies.
1t was notable for the enormous amount
Of beer consumed, the number Of lively
fights and pickpo cketing. 1T Is TO be said
however that the disagreeable events Of
the. day were, caused not by the members
Of the societies, but by o gang Of toushs
who are always on hand at o big public
picnic, and in whose train loose woman
are usuallyto be found, as they were on
this occasion. The managers did the their
best, assisted by The police, tojpreserge
order. s n. -
4 One Of the pleasant and enjoyable fea.
lures Of the picnic was the horse racing.
For the trot, mile, heats, beat three in Eve,
there were three entries, Louis Fs John;
sons Doc. Mcfarland and Swearingen's
Uncle Ned. Louis Il. Won In three
;lstraieht heats, Nc arland second. No
time taken. The prizes were $40 10 the
4 firstand $50 TO the second. The pacing
4 trace, best two in three, mile heats, had
also three starters, Leighton's Hoosiel
Boy, Anderson's Bay Harry and Swear,
Iingen's Julia s. Bay Harry won, with
Julia s. second. Time, 2:4SS 2:4ll,
Prizes, set Of harness 10 first and saddle
and bride TO second.
4 Another very enjoyable feature was the
.lshooting contest, conducted by Mr.. Otto
4 Jaeger, Of the Wheeling Rife Club There
4 were i2i entries forythel Ave prizes, mem
beers OF the Wheeling Rifle Club beinr
entered as follows: WIN. Cox, O. =
Dwight and Otto Jaeger, four times each
i The. highest score. of each was Al by Cox
j IS by Dwight and 40 by Jaeger. Mr.
Jaeger carried off the first prize, @ gold
badge Of beautiful design. The Other
prizssswere taken as follows: Second by
George Former, who bad seven entries
4 highest score II; third by Robert W,
Dabney, eleven entries, highest score 43
fourth and fifth prizes tie on %. between
Henry Blumenberg, nine entries, and
I Charles Ulfig, three entries. The, tie will
4 be decided at afuture time. ~ {
The Elm Grove railroad did land
office business in taking people out to the
Park and to seiberts Garden. The road
was taxed 10. It's utmost in getting the peo'
| pie out and back. Over 2, 500 people visit.
| ed the Park and Seiberts was crowded al
the time from, before dinner until II
O'clock atnight. 4
4 There were two or three successful pic
mics down the Ohio River road and over 9
score OF private affairs in and around the
city. By1P.M. the streets were deserted
IL seemed las though every one had de
parted. Shortly after 8 o'clock the people
'Icommenced returning By O'clock the
streets were crowded with tired-ont, dusty
dirty, but in nearly all cases happy PEG
pie, proud of, tho fact that they had once
more made the proud bird Of Freedom
scream. 5{I {iiysg.a ,s
There wereiI addition, the psaalnambel
who celebrated by getting either silly,
stupid or roarin', stinkin' blind drunk. a
number were arrested, anda much larger
number felt yesterday as though they had
been or had gone through some worse ex
perience. X.