Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19
JOY AND SORROW MINGLE.
Pleasure-Seekers Picnic in Pictur-
esque Suburban Shades.
HEAT CLAIMS SEVERAL VICTIMS.
Fathers Find Death Lurking in the Cool
Waters of the River.
SUMNER TRAVEL BEGINNING EARLY

chronlcling of yesterdays happenings A
record of smiles and tears, of joys and sor-
rows, of holidays for pleasure and of holi-
days for weeping, a record that recites the
causes for mirth and the causes for sadness
it tells of gaiety and it tells of death. 1t
was memorable day for all yesterday, and
the local histories are supplied with another
page.
Merriment reigns in this strange old vale,
and the daily touches of pathos but add
gems of truth to the dladem.
Nature was JOYOUS yesterday and reveled
in the strange caprices of the atmosphere as
the clouds battled with the sunlight and
shadowed the earth one moment and battled
it in brightness the next And in jolly &C.
cord with the pleasures of the flowers, the
trees and the birds were man and woman
kind in and about the city. The parks,
the streets and the lawns, the
woods, the lakes and the retreats were
decked with a sweltering, though laughing,
throng, bevy or couple. The breeze was
pleasant and just kind enough to make a
hurried little rush now and then as some
poor perspiring individual who was too
ponderous 10 enjoy the warmth was upon
the point of bowling his head and embracing
the gloom of suffocation.
Picnic Weather for City Folks.
There were picnics where the city man
enjoyed the day in the woods by carrying
water numerous hot, dusty furlongs and
swinging hammocks and brushing off un-
kind mosquitoes and bluebottle flies, and
engaging in countless other little
diversions that so to make a man
wish he had been born a little
gazelle-eyed calf which would never be
called upon to 60 picnicking and where the
enchanting female ruins her dainty tennis
suit and her usually pacific temper by
falling into brooklets and spilling SKINNED
milk into her lap and having
some delirious small brother drip un-
ripe jelly into her golden tresses
and all that sort of thing. Then there were
boating parties where the gay, frivolous
boys wore blisters on their hands, and
yachting caps that gave the sun chance
TO get in some fine tanning work upon their
heads. And tennis games when the boys
became he and dusty and the girls became
dusty and hot.
They came from all stations in. life from
the clerks who were enjoying the beginning
Of the half holiday season to the youths and
maidens who don't have to work and
couldn't if they did. 1t would be hard
to tell which predominated, as in the
lsrksome summer months all throughts run
in the self-same grooves and the mind of
man runneth to charming females and shady
hooks, and the mind of maidens to shady |
hooks and charming males
knights of Fythias Have a Good Time
The knights of Pythias from Western
and Eastern Ohio had
3 nice, large time at Beaver Falls in getting
hot, shaking hands with each other and dis
cussing maltese crosses, symbols and jolly
gambols and other entertaining things.
There were several thousand of these and
theirs, and the day was pronounced worth
at least until the stiffness of
Joints was forgotten.
Five hundred odd, merry cavorting |
youngsters from st. Peters Protestant |
Episcopal Sunday school put themselves
and their great enduring chaperons in a |
peck or so of trouble down at Idfewild and |
ate the contents Of many large hampers of !
picnic dainties
The railroads had good time, too That
Is, the managers did, from a financial /
as for the actual trainmen it was
for all of the trains were crowded |
A crowd of politicians and others started 1
tor Chicago. Another crowd, not quite 50
large, started for Aliquippa to attend
the Carleton Club picnic. Another series
edged of towards New Wilmington, where
divers youthful beings ranted over yaledict-
prizes and salutatories, and orations and |
wonderful ESSAYS and all of that |
kind of business that goes to give graduate
! large eminence over their unfortunate
brethren and sisters who have not, or will |
graduate. Another little batch of
drifted down to Shehola Glen
where the Knights of the Golden Eagle
-uralized Some more to Grove Station to
snioy the day with the Iron City Coun-
I'll No. III, Jr. o. q. A. NJ. of the South
,ide.
Giving the Little Ones Fresh Air.
The fresh air work under the auspices of
he Society for the Improvement of the
Poor Will be taken up tomorrow much
earlier than usual, and the little children
lail with delight the pleasant prospect of
7isiting the country. On Monday 40 chill
iren viii be sent to Oakmont, where the
place of Mr.. j. B. ID. Mead will be at their
|
hen return and another set will take their
olace and turn, so alternating until Septem-
yer.
The trains bore besides the excursionist
md picnicker many persons of prominence
Fho are Fastening Old Time trife by
leeing to the seashores and mountains ere
he commencement day season is fairly
,ver. The heat is powerful factor and
eisure bows its head and journeys
And the shades
The river, whose yawning, Unsuitable gulf
las cut off the life of % beings since the
month of June came in with her smiles and
Ter roses, beginning with boy who was
ramped while bathing, and ending with
he painful tragedy of Friday, when
i've merry little ones were carried
way to Charvbdis' boat in one brief mo-
nent, yesterday gave up another victim.
4 body, that of one of the children who |
we're doomed near Neville Island, was re-
Overed and removed to the home of the
rievlng parents
Victim of Summer Bathing.
Yesterday afternoon Edward HaIler, 12
ears old, was drowned in the Allegheny |
liver at the foot of Seventeenth street. The
10Y was IN bathing with a number of COM
'anions, and getting beyond his depth was
rOwned before assistance could reach him. |
he body was recovered short time later
nd taken to the home of his parents, at
339 Penn avenue.
Not alone did death claim its victims by
be water, for in the Dense close spots lives
-ent out from the very intensity of the
un's r2ss. Andrew Benedict, steel
-orker af Braddock, died from the effects of
1nstroke. Stephen Schurin, a workman
Byers' mills, succumbed to the effect of
le heat al, his home on Mexican street
he Coroner was notified last night of the