The San Francisco call., 1896-10-19
GENEROUS CELTS
At HARDOR VIEW
The A. O. II. Board of Erin
Had an Outing Yes
terday.
A Picnic For the Benefit of the
Pennsylvania Mine Suf.
iererS.
WINNERS OF PRIZE CONTESTS.
Hon Thomas B O'BrieD, Candidate
For Congress, the Favorite of
the Occasion.

A reunion and picnic of the A. o. 81.
Board of Erin was held at Harbor View
Park yesterday for the benefit OF the Penn
sylvania mine sufferers. 1t was good
old-fashioned meeting among the people
who can never forget their native emerald
isle. They brought their families and en-
joyed themselves to the fullest extent.
Young men and women danced the after
noon away in the pavilion, while the old
folks sat in the arbors and talked. In one
part of the grounds fiddler, the successor
of the wandering minstrel of olden days,
played iigs and hornpipes, while lively
heeled dancers kept time TO the sprlghtly
melody.
There were races in which the very ANA
teur sprinters sprinted around the track
for the small prizes and principally for
glory. The first contest was for boys be-
tween the ages of 10 and II and five youn :
sters speeded for the lead. Johnnie Blen-
erhassett won the first prize and Milton
Hoffman the sec nd. The second contest
for little girls was Won by Louise Miller,
whose prize was silver pick le-dish, and
Maggie Conroy, who carried away an order
for tive-pound box of tea.
The third race was run by six young men
for prizes of keg of lager and a box of
cigars. The contest was amusing and in
teresting from the fact that all of the en-
trants put in the time during their run in
pulling each other back.
Peter Conroy managed to exsricate him
self from the hurly- burlv to get in first.
James Calvin succeeded IN following him.
Antoine Livery, in the struggle, fell on the
track and the other two rolled over him.
He entered protest. but was bought off
with minor prize. The fourth race was
won by Dan Sweeney, with Thomas Ward
second.
In the starting of the fifth race there
was real contest 1t was for young la
dies, but Mrs Mary Kearny, jolly old
lady, insisted on taking part. She was
younger than any girl on the ground, she
said, and stood on her rights. she was
finally permitted TO take part in race by
herself against time for a paper Of tea.
The young ladies' race was won by Mrs
Joseph Robinson and Mrs. Nora Callahan.
The last race. for men, was won by Willis
Treadwell and Frank Markev.
Several of the candidates were in atten-
dance, notably Thomas B. O'Brien, Re-
publican nominee for Congress. When
he entered the pavilion dancing stopped
and all united in cheering the popular
candidate.
81 am seeking your suffrage" said Mr..
O'Brien when called upon for speech,
upon business principles. My opponent
is soliciting your votes upon theory and
the un-American principles of free trade
which he so admirably represents. During
his term of Office we have lost 10000 men
and women, ali of whom have been
turned into idlers by reason of Demo-
cratic doctrines. We have also lost in our
annual output of products $79,000,000 per
annum. He has given to US a sand lot at
Seventh and Mission filled with Mcguire
au er holes, no postoffice and no employ
ment for labor"
About 1900 tickets to the picnic were
sold and ood sum netted foz the chari-
ia BILE cause