The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-13
THE TRIP TO CHIPPEWA.
An Eventual Day. Amusing "spOcd" Event

An EvOntful ID ny..Amuslng "spOcd" Events.
FakIrs.
The INTELLIdESCER "war correspond
emit returned from Lake Chippewa 80
late yesterday morning that an account
Of tho races at Lake Chippewa on the
occasion OF the glassworkers' visit had
to be deferred. The first event was the
most amusing skiGr race ever witnessed,
the entries being President Smith,
Charles Bridgehorn, james Burke, John
Martin, Tom NIarrot, Patrick Dougherty,
William Carton, James Curran, Tom
Powers, Charles Murray, Louis Strlckel,
John Bareline, William Campbell and
William Mclaughlin. Wally Campbell,
OF Bellaire, was ruled out on the grounds
that he had been training for two weeks,
and Joha Strobe on the grounds that lie
wa a 'protessional" oarsman. James
Curran won first money, 81, and VII.
liam Carton second, $9, President
Smith deliberately rowed into one OF the
oarsmen, and then made lots Of fHn by
insisting on q claim Of foul, though 1t
was suspected he had rowed ashore, car
ried his boat along the beach and put it
in the water at tho finish.
In the fat mems race james MCMullen
got first money, Tom Conroy second,
City Marshal William Darby, OF Bellaire,
got third, and M J. Finley, OF Wheel
Ing, got left,
The most amusing OF the races WA a
potato race. The, entries were Victor
Roth, Harry Williams, James Curran,
Louis StieglitS, Tom Kerns and Charles
DietE. gtieglitZw won first money, s., and
KeFns second, -.
The weather was perfect. 1t ralned
on the road to tho lake Just enough to
cool the air. The railroad company,
though it met several unavoidable OBJ
stacles, did everything to make the trip
pleasant. Very FIST running was done,
and In spite OF every drawback, the trip
was q molt enjoyable one.
The dinner, like the railroad trip, was
"set up by the Bellaire glasgworkers'
committee. The hotel people had hard
work to supply the keen appetites OF
the big crowd,
There was notably good order all day,
Everybody was reasonably sober aud be.
hayed himself, rejecting much credit
upon their committee, themselves and
their guild. There was Just one thing
the 6oys wished Understood: nobody
was allowed to 20 to sleep on the return
trid, and with the full equipment OF al
brass band Of their disposal to enforce
this rule, nobody forgot 1t.
Among those on the train were Presi.
don't Smith, Secretary Dillon, President
A. 8. Smith, Of the Bellaire Bottle
Works, Managers Michael Owens OF the
Libby Glass Works, Toledo, and Jones,
OF the Lantern Globe Company, Bel.
laire, John Jennings, OF Wellsville,
Slayor Brown, OF Bellaire, NJ. L. Black.
burn, tie Bellalre druggist, and others.
Among the Wheeling people along were
John Corcoran, N. J. HndleS Robert
Pecari, James and John Mlnkemeier and
one or two others. On the return home
A bountiiul lunch was devourCd at
Uhhchsylllp, with some liquid refresh.
tic GoWRlttgs had %proyldOntly
reserved.
The number OF iakirs and gamblers
with skin games was q feature. The
and railroad company did not
want them on the grounds, and tele.
rraphed to Medina, Ohio, the county
seat Of Medina county, In which Lake
Chippewa li0p, Tor the Sheriff 10 be on
the grounds. lie was there with a
Had lie had ten or twelve
deputies he could have baRgel as many
prisoners. As II was, he only caught
1ne youth OF nineteen or twenty known
d Tthe kid.N lie Is q sleek slellgame
operator. He was at work, with three
1r four "cappers' In the crowd, when
lie Sheriff arrived. Near him was a
DoCk.marked man called Pat, also work.
.ng tue ahelLgaine, and lie had lust
$50 Of a young glass workers
He also had three or four Cap.
lers. Not far of a Wheeling man
vas running "ChuCk.luck," with honest
lice and without Cappen. Not far of d
chap had d wheel Of fortune /
With a bright boy Of 10 or 30 and two
,thers IS CappOru, There were marble
,atnes, jewelfy faCkets and every other
kin game known 10 'the proiesh, 1" In a {
pace Of about 100 feet, on the beach, A
ieShy dude called "Eat AL" was disln. I
erestedly flirting With the girl behind /
soda fountain near, when the Sheriff I
.ppeared on top OF the blu[T. "4CootW
'clled AL, but Just then some sucker ,
pBt his money and the crowd Z
q up a loud laugh which drowned tho /
~. The Sheriff heard II and made for
lie kid, who was nearest. "Scoot, kidd"
elled al, and thOn seeing the deputy
for him, the lookout disappear.
4, The kid ran up a steep bank /
q garden, and the Sheriff after Q
i'm, though l0 had 10 pass a dozen h
thetS "a bad. Such a Wfiltled" crowd
not often seen. LayoutH were forgot.
N, boards, tripods, shells and balls left II
nd ihe men ran III all directions, and q
ON then I'LL tho train left were as rer a
1us as people ever got, Tho kid was
Oh 10 Medina, lahdcaaOd, In q