The Portland daily press., 1893-09-02
LABOR DAY PROGRAMME.
Immense Crowds Are Coming to Portland
e. Next Monday.

The question now which is troubling
the minds of the Union men of Portland
is, will Monday be fair day? If SO
Monday morning trains will bring into
this city the largest gathering Of labor
ing people and their friends ever gather
ed together on any other occasion in the
State of Maine. The chief marshal, Mr..
G. N. E. Kimball, has issued his orders
for the parade, appointing Thomas Arm
strong. chief of staff, in command OF the
second division. and Fl. Gatimer and
Samuel Barberick aids. The parade will
move at $50 in the following order:
FIRST D VISION.
Chief Marshal and Aids.
Platoon of Police.
Chambers Band.
Portland Typographical Union.
Daily Argus Display
Bricklayers' Union.
Bricklayers' Trades Display.
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joiners.
brotherhood OF Carpenters and Joners Ifaoes
Painters and Decorators Union.
Trades Display.
Atlantic Coast Seamen's Union.
SdulhClo
SECOND DIVISION.
Chief of Staff and Aids.
American Cadet Band.
Lasters' Protective Union.
Trades Display of Lasters and Boot and Shoe
Workers.
Boot and Shoe Workers Union.
Lady Shoe Filters OF Portland.
Cigar Makers Union.
Cigar Makers Union Trades Display.
M3chinstS' Union,
Machinists' Union Trades Display.
Portland Federal Labor Union.
Westbrook Federal Labor Union.
THIRD DIVISION.
Chief Marshal of Lewiston and Aids.
Lewiston Brigade Band.
Lewiston and Auburn Central Labor Unions.
Lewiston Fife and Drum Corps.
Seventeen Affiliated Bodies, consisting OF Boot
aud Shoe Workers, LasterS', SpinnerS', Car
penters and Joiners Unions, Metal, Machin-
lists, Pipers' aud Bricklayers' Unions, Cigar
Makers Union.
= FOURTH DIVISION.
Division Marshal and Aids.
Tony Clark's Band of Westbrook.
Redstone Granite Cutters, of Redstone. N! H.
Maine and New Hampshire Granite Company.
The display will move over the follow
ing route: Middle to India, to Congress,
passing in review by the Governor and
invited guests from the stand erected in
Longfellow square, thence to Union
Station.
Immediately upon arrival at Sebago
Lake the game of ball between the union
men of Lew iston and Auburn and Port
land will be called on the grounds next
to the dancing pavilion. The five mile 60
as-you-please race, one mile go-as-you-
please race, 100 yards dash and so yards
dash for ladies will take place on the
large field directly to the left of the
depot. The judges for the one mile
amateur scull race will be Mr.. Matthew
O'Brion. of this city. The tug-of-war be-
tween the Central Labor Union of Lew
ison and Auburn and the Central Labor
Union of Portland will take place on
the ball grounds after the game is
finished. In addition to the prize of a
box of cigars for this race, Mr.. Isaac G..
Atkinson of The Atkinson Co., has made
the generous offer of King Oscar
Range, with all the ware, pipe and zinc.
Mr.D. W. Schartz, the halter, of this
city, has given the committee hand
some silk umbrella, to be given as second
prize in the ladies' so yards dash.
The Labor Day grafton will be de-
liyered in the grove back of the pavilion
by Hugh Mckay of Boston, member f
the executive board of the Carpenters and
Joiners' International Union. The
meeting will be presided over by W. H.
Lyseth, president of the Portland Central
Labor Union.
The ball team that is to represent Port
land at the Lake will play a practice
noon at $50 with a picked nine. A
small admission fee will be charged, the
receipts to go to the players to aid them
in getting uniforms for Labor Day.