Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-26
LAWYERS AT LIBERTY.
Allegheny 'County's Bar Association
Gives Its Clients Rest.
ECHOES AWAKENED AT ELLWoOD.
Mr.. Dickey Distinguishes Himself in a
Swimming Contest.
,GLARING FRAUDS AT THE BALL GAME

For the fifth time in it's history the AIle-
gheny County Bar Association adjourned
yesterday to the woods and fields to drink
in nature and things. For the day the new
town of Ellwood was the home of the pic
nickers, and amid all the comforts and mag
nificence of a city hostelry they were enter
tanned at the Hotel Oliver. The party num-
bered about 175, and included Judges White,
Ewing, Over, Kennedy, McClung and Porter
and ex-Chief Justice Agnew, of Beaver.
Recorder Won Bonnhorst was there Also to-
gether with Clerk of Courts McGonnigle and
Law Librarian Percy Digby. The party left
Pittsburg at $40 and arrived at Ellwood at
ll:30. Then the fun commenced, but in the
drinking in process nature received many
Sights, and strange to relate, one of the
judges was the first man to locate
that particular spot where nature
best could be overlooked. Football
took up the remainder of the time
before dinner, which was one of the best
that could be had in the State. President
Hartman, of the Ellwood Short Line and the
Ellwood and Beaver Railroads, together with
Merritt Greene, General Manager of the
Ellwood and Beaver Railroad, and John
Lee gave their personal attention to the
entertainments of the guests, and not one es-
sential feature of success was wanting.
Attractions of the Swimming Contest.
The afternoon was given over to sports
The greatest feature was the swimming con-
test, and but for the efforts of C. C. Dickey it
would have been failure. The inclination
to swim was not at all strong. Mr.. Dickey
played cautiously. By easy stages he be-.
guiled three score of able lawyers and men,
bers of the judiciary to that rarest of natures
poems, Glenn Park. There under the giant
trees and in the shade ofrocks that lowered 40
feet above the multitude he began his work 1
w (Nr1or 1ad 0l,n1 orn6 ft.nvr1
selves about 100 feet above the scene. They
were clfnging to the bare sides of the i'm
mense boulders while theirlong roots nugged
the walls of stone and buried themselves
like snakes in the ground. Everyone
noticed and commented on this and hence
no particular person imagined he was seeing
str strange sights The sandy loan beneath
kind, fit only for raising garden sass" ferns
and poetry. Mr.. Dickey, failing in all other
methods, finally gathered a bunch of the |
latter and appliedit to his hearers. They
instant they were chasing the flakes of foam
on the beautiful Connoquenessing. Finally
a swimming contest was arranged. The
and Mr.. Fulmer. As Judges White and |
Ewing were regarded as experts on
cold water movements they were made |
Judges of the contest. At the start Mr. |
board side grounded on rock. Haymaker |
and Fulmer passed him easily, the former |
the race by Is yards while Mr. |
Dickey was distanced. The distance was 40 |
yards and Mr.. Won BohnhorsL had measured |
it with his eye. Mr.. Dickey raised the point |
that Mr.. Won Bonnhorst was nearsighted, /
which leSSened the actual space to be COW
cred. He said with his heavy tonnage he |
could not get under way in so short dis
tance. Judge White, however, awarded the |
race to Mr.. Haymaker.
A Decision That Was Not Reversed.
Mr.. Dickey appealed to Judge Agnew, but
that gentleman, being member of the old |
school of the Supreme Court judiciary, did |
not reverse the lower court. The time was
not taken, because William Bremen, to
whom belonged that duty, was one of
the bathers, and had no convenient pocket |
In which to file the records.
A number of the gentlemen also visited |
the famous cold cave in Glenn Park. s. U.
4 cooler shade
In the ball game Percy Digby and Will
Schoyer led rival mines, which were but
little worse than Pittsburg's famous pen
nant losers. There was crooked work on
both sides. AT the fifth inning the score |
was tie at Is. Digby's team was at the bat,
but the opposing club conveniently lost the
oall and stopped the game.
At quoit pitching James II. Young carried |
of the honors- and prizes. On the largest
by one point and captured the prize, plug
)f chewing tobacco.
At the clay pigeon shoot Marshall John
'ton was the winner. On the first test at 20
Yards he and W. F. Wise and A. c. Spindler
scored Ii out of u possible IL. At target
practice Marshall johnson won again at so
eet, but at the target at 70 yards Magnus
pfiaum was an easy winner. At tennis Willis
7. McCook and +. Y Barr carried off all the
lonors.