The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-23

fhrk rliieu py Hungry Ihrong-The
 Prizes.
 Yesterday the Retail Butchers Pro-
 tective association held its annual pa-
 rade and barbecue, and to those who
 did not previously realize the number
 of butchers in the city the revelation of
 the fact was a surprise. The first
 thing on the order of exercises of the
 celebration was the parade, which was
 pronounced the largest and best ever
 held by the association. The procession
 began at 10:30 to form in Temple street
 on the green, and consisted chiefly of
 gaily decorated butchers wagons, occu-
 pied by white capped and white apron ed wielders of the cleaver. At about Il o'clock the parade started and was headed by three mounted policemen,
 who cleared the way. Following these
 came platoon of psuedo cowboys, un-
 der command of George Scheussler, the
 rest being William Harigan, Charles Pellert, H. Howard Holt, Andy For
 wikle, Henry Kline, John Mcclure, Joseph Horton, Thomas Warner and John Richards.
 Following the cowboys was the Sec ond Regiment band and then came
 Chief Marshal Christopher Richards
 and his aid, John T. Pohlman, William Steits, D. M. Davis, George Rotman and
 Oscar Boettcher.
 The retail butchers on horseback fol- lowed dressed in clean white aprons and caps. Among them were Robert Schroder, Frank O'Connell, Harry Daley, William F. Hasse, J. w. Coogan,
 Everett Bradley, Harry Hurd, Henry
 Sternschuss and Edwin Richards. Several carriages, in which were the invited guests, including Mayor Hen drick and the officers of the associa- tion were next in line, followed by some of the wholesale butchers. The Foot Guard band was next and head ed the long line of wagons decorated floats, etc, that formed line nearly. mile in length.
 Strong, Barnes, Hart & Go. had a good representation. In a carriage at the head were F. H. Hart, Edward H. Barnes, George F. Burgess and Edward Mansfield. They had eight wagons and their horses in line, each wagon In charge of a driver in neat uniform Two of their drivers, August Schroder and Charles Wippersall, entered the butchering contest at Schuetzen park A pony cart containing the butchers boys ended their line.
 Lee & Hoyt followed with a large representation. MT. Lee and MT. Hoyt had obtained Smedley's Tallyho, and rode in it, together with Thomas Coll yer, N. B. sHoyt, Jacob Broschart, F. S. Judd, Richard Lee, Harry Lee, George Beardsley, Fred Buckley and Edward Witterwell. Following them were ten
 decorated wagons.
 S E. Merwin & Son was represented | by Andrew M. Grove. who rode a white charger.
 The schwarzchild & sulzberger Beef company had three wagons in line, and were followed by the Booth Meat com pany's employees in a carriage drawn by l four black horses. The following en- ployes were in carriages: John l.. | Judd, Archie McKinnell, William F.. Hubbard and George Wienhausen. Hemingway's Willow Farm had four floats, on the first being the MontoWese ! Independent band.
 Bryan. Miner & Read were we'll rep resented The members of the firm rode l in carriages and four gaily decorated | wagons followed. Henry w. Maggs' wagon was tastefully decorated. Schor- | CT & Co. also had neatly adorned wagon.
 | William Beck of Carmel street had his l wagon exceptionally well decorated, | and it attracted much attention as did also that of Adam Sattig. Stoddard, Kimberly & Co had five | wagons in the procession, and Mayling- CT & Hugo were represented by three | teams.
 Among the other wagons in the line 1 were those of Graf & Mckay, Fred
 Reiser, C. Hertler, Schadee & Pohlman,
 F. s. Bradley, Reader & Stock, Fred W. Lutz, A. Endriss, J. H. Hellwig. l The procession ended with A. N. Farnham's display from Crescent Farm 1 in Westville. There were eleven floats containing vegetables of all descriptions | artistically arranged. The display was l grand.
 | The line of march was out of the north gate of the green, up Elm to l Broadway, to Howe, to Elm, to York, to Davenport avenue, to Howard ave- nue, to Congress avenue, to Church to | Chapel, to Hamilton, to State, to East, where the parade disbanded. l At about 1 o'clock the Scheutzen park cars began to be crowded with butch | CTS, their families and friends, going to | the barbecue, and by o'clock there were fully 5000 people on the ground. | The chief center of attraction seemed | to be the tables around the carvers' | stand, from which roast beel and roast lamb sandwiches were dispensed | to the hungry throng. Over the large | pit with a charcoal fire at the bottom
 were placed on iron spits whole lambs | and huge pieces of beef. In all 2,0OC pounds of beef were used and 1000 pounds | of lamb, while bread was consumed by | hundreds of loaves.
 | Brother Bills of Bridgeport had charge of the cooking, and John T. l Pohlman of this city superintended the | carving. Music was furnished by the
 Second regiment band and Governor s
 Foot Guard band
 In the prize sheep butchering contest
 the prizes were $10, sS and s for the
 best three. First prize was won by