The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-07-07

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carry the staff and banner, - the 6ass'
appearing club back with them to Joliet.
The race, delayed little perhaps, imms'
distely after the Joliet club came down, and
Was the feature Of the day. The crowd. no"
grown to many thousands, lined the hall
mile course for seven blocks, and was With
difficulty kept out Of the twenty. foot course.
There were half dozen starters, and when
the word was given, the cycles began to
revolve, and cries Of here they come
repeated aud caught up by Thousands Of
throsts, and the race was finished amid wild
cheers, and waving Of handkerchief. J. J.
Kluge, Of Chicago, won, with H. W. Foltz,
Of Aurora, second. Mr.. Klugc, winning
the cyclomster and Mr.. Foltz the League Of
American Wheelman Pin.
DRILLS AND HOSE CONTESTS.
After the conclusion Of the race. the
Morris and Ottawa Fire Departments gave
an exhibition on Court street. These de-
partments and visiting fremsn from other
cities marched from the engine house with
the hosa carts and took their positions at
the north end Of the street.
The coupling contest was won by the
Morris department, Ottawa being the only
contestant, as no other department, except
ing Morris, came in a body. They were
given the three prizes, amounting to $50.
The ladder contest was also awarded to
the Morris department, prize $50.
The Hose cart contest, which was quite
spirited, was given to Morris. they taking
fret money, S25.
Partly to accommodate the vast throng Of
people, who could not all have seen the
drills and contests, and partly on account Of
the lateness of the hour, the Zooave drill and
the drill by Co. D were held at the same
time as the Fire department coatests. The
Zooave's drill took place on La Sale St.,
between Madison and Jefferson SITS, and it
is not bestowing unmerited praise to say
that it was the fines, drill ever given in
Ottawa. The Zooave drill is peculiar to itself
and the movements and positions are both
graceful and attractive, and it was with a
wonderful accuracy that their trained hands
and feet moved TO obey the numerous COM
mands, as they marched and counter march
ed, wheeled in and out, formed inner and
outer circles, and hollow squares, kneeled,
formed a continuous chair, went through the
manual Of arms, and a half hundred other
things, nameless to the uninitiated. Their
evolutions were frequently greeted with
applause, and met with high praise from
every lip.
Co. d went through their drill on Main St.,
surrounded by an admiring throng, They
were under the command of Lieuts. Hook
and Formulas, who put them through the
regular army drill in a very creditable
manner. 1t is the only military company
in the state that can drill by the bugle, a
feat generally left to the regular army. Their
exhibition on this occasion was fully up to-
if not above the standard of their general
excellence, and the applause which often
greeted their efforts fully attested the ap.
probation of their audience.
OUT AND CUTTERS.
The Out and Cutters emerged from the
Armory Rink at five O'clock and made q
brief tour Of the city They were attired
without exception, as clowns, and many
were mounted on mules. Altogether they
created no end of fun and were the objects
of much good natured bantering, there
might have been little greater variation Of
costumes which would have added much to
their appearance.