The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-18
BY THE SOUNDING SEA,
The Blossoming of the Girl
With the White Dude Hat
and Shirt Waist.
San Jose and San Francisco Benevolent
Societies Have Highly Successful
Outing at Germania Park.

All hail the girl with the white dude hat
and the masculine shirt waist. Hail, too
the youth with the broad brimmed straw
and the yellow shoes. He may not be as
pleasant to look upon, but he has come
and we might just as well hail him. For
the picnic season is with Us.
At Harbor View yesterday there were
scores of picnickers. The breeze blew in
strong from the ocean, but the girl with the
Julyd ress only tossed back her crimps and
clutched at her skirts while her escort got
death grip on his new dollar hat. A
breeze by the ocean side on sunny day is
not altogether disagreeable. 1t is so sug-
gestive of health and vigor and of the
beautiful broad expanse of endless blue
beyond the Gate that the young man who
slaves in the fetid atmosphere of shop
store or Office all the week feels his chest
expanding as he breathes In the rare
elixir. And his fair companion knows
that the Zephyrs apply u daintier rouge
than can be purchased OF the apothecary.
Out on the bay little white yacht scuds
along the white spotless water
The French branch of the Labor Social
lists Society held forth at Harbor View
Park yesterday. They are jolly crowd of
French men and women, though Jolly, of
course, is not Just the word in the latter
case. The men somehow look as if they
would only be in their element with their
feet ensconced under festive board lade m
with good things, including plenty of dark
bottles, and with napkins tucked under
their chins And that means that they
look like a crowd of jolly good fellows who
enjoy the good things OF life. They were
not a hilarious crowd, however. The ma
jority OF their gathering of 500 or 600 was
composed of family groups, who strolled
about the grounds or stood down by the
beach and watched the ships and the
pleasure craft on the bay.
At Germania PARK there was gathering
of about 15O0-about all the grounds could
well accommodate. The Austrian be-
nevolent societies of San Francisco and
Jose were having reunion. The San Jose
society is very strong numerically, and in
the history OF the order not member has
ever missed a picnic without q better ex-
cuse than would be required to relieve him
of Jury DUTY About 600 came up from
San Jose yesterday, and that included
every man whose name ends with Itch"
within a radius of fifteen miles of the
Garden City.
One of the attractive features of the Aus
tran outing was the tombola drawing
Over $50 prizes had been donated by
friends of the society, and these were dis
tributed.by rattle. A. Scanatich, the ioviaI
president of the San francisco society. raf-
fed off the tombola tickets. He enticed
his Slovenian brethren into taking their
chances with the ivory with the sang froid
of born spieler.
The affair was decidedly successful. AS
at Harbor View Park, there was all absence
of rowdyism, which reflected great credit
upon those managing the affair. The
committee In charge consisted OF e. L.
Lindwall (chairman. George Capriviza,
Anton Cunicich, L. J. Radovich, A. Fran
covich. August Kiselich and P. A. Co
II. c. ~
1chairman), Vlaho zicovich and A. An
ticevich of San Jose.
There were few private picnics in the
vicinity. Among Others number of
Norwegians enjoyed trips to the Ocean
side as fitting hnaie of their celebration
of the eightieth anniversary of Norwegian
independence. The main celebration was
held at Saratoga Hall Saturday night and
yesterday morning. The programme con-
sisted of farce, under the direction of
Halfdan Groe tschier. This was followed
by banquet. with appropriate toasts.