The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-07-05
THE SEBAGO LAKE CELEBRATION.
A Great Crowd and a Good Time Where
Portland Gets Her Water Supply.
ESPECIAL TO THE pREss.1

Sebago Lake, July 4.-There was a very
large attendance today at the picnic
given here by the Pastime Club of Port
land Trains were run from Portland SO
as to accommodate those who might de-
sire to attend the Westbrook celebration
before coming here
The picnic was in charge of special
committee of arrangements consisting of
Viii liam FL. O'Brion, John E. Loring, c.
N. Trefethen, VIM. H. Dugan, Richard K.
Norton, George P. Dewey, Daniel E.
Bowen, John F. Green, Edward D. Walsh.
Thomas W. Donahue and Capt. ME-.
Conley.
The first feature of special interest was
the drill given by the Sheridan Rifles,
Co. l., First Regiment, National Guards
of Maine. The drill was very fine, and
Capt. Conley was warmly congratulated
at the close
The boat race was of special interest.
The race was for two miles with three
turns. The water was somewhat rough,
there was an exciting race.
There were three entries for this race,
as follows:
O'Day's crew = j. E. O'Day, Peter
o'Neill, Charles Merrill, Charles Fair
Prinn' 's.clew-Thomas ]. Prinn, T. H.
Tourney, John H. Dugan, Patrick j.
Foley.
Deehan's crew-William Deehan, J..
Patrick MoDonough, Edward Feeney,
Patrick Curran.
The men all took water we'll together,
but Prinn's crew gained and for the first
half mile seemed likely to have the race
without much difficulty. Then the 9TH
ers closed in, and there was very pretty
struggle for first place until the last mile
when Deehan's crew fell back, and there
was spirited fight in rough water be-
tween the two leading crews for first
place. By that time the positions of the
crews had changed, and O'Day's crew
had the lead. They were not allowed to
| keep first place without hard fight, and
the race was very exciting at the close.
O'Day's crew first, prize, silver watches
Prinns crew second, prize gold rings.
The prizes were at once given the men
who were loudly cheered by their friends
who had watched the race. with eager
interest Vim. H. Dugan had charge OF
the boating events.
| The 100-yards dash was won by Peter
Kinds of the Sheridan Rifles, the sack
race was won by Joe Glynn, and the tub
race by ''Gus" Frates, all of Portland
Inefe was game OIL DtSe Dali between
the South Portlands and the Our Boys Of
Portland for $25. The Our Boys won,
the score standing 13 to g. Music was
furnished by Garrity's orchestra, and
there was dancing all day in the Pavil-
| ion
Captain NJ E. Conley had charge of the
Pavilion during the day.
Great interest was manifested in all the
events of the day, and it was announced
one of the best picnics ever held here
The crowd was large, but the best oil
order was maintained, the members of the
committee of arrangements giving theil
personal attention to all details from the
time the trains left Portland until theil
return. Hundreds came in from the
towns in this vicinity, and the events
especially the boat races and the game
of ball proved exciting and full of inter
est
Professor Thomas Rickett gave very
fine slack and tight rope performance
some of the feats being original will
| himself
There was rapid succession of event.
from the time the first train from Port
land reached here until late in the after
noon.