The San Francisco call., 1896-06-24
Company G Has a Merry and
Memorable Day in Schuet.
zen Park.
IN AID OF THE NEW CHURCH.
There Were G mes and Dancing With
out Any Intemperance-A Model
Gathering.

From morning until evening yesterday
at Schuetzen Park, picturesquely located
in the hills of Marin County there was a
scene of youthful merriment. 1t was a
sociable gathering of Company G, League
of the Cross Cadets, and large crowd was
in attendance.
The boats of the Tiburon ferry leaving
San Francisco at and II A. NJ. and 1885
and $3.50 P NJ. were crowded with the
cadets and their invited guests. The hours
of the morning and the afternoon we're
passed pleasantly and all too quickly in
the athletic anles and dances usual with
such gatherings, and it was 30 P. NJ.
before the last of the merry company took
the special train and journeyed back to
the City.
The League of the Cross, as is well
known, is a total abstinence society under
the auspices of the Roman Catholic
church. All young men between the ages
of 16 and q years are eligi BILE to member
ship in the cadets. Company G was or
ganzed In St. Brgids parish in May,
1894, and mustered into the First Regi-
ment of the League of the Cross Cadets in
the following month with fifty members
enrolled. 1t is now commanded by K. j.
Power, captain; Owen Mcmahon, first
lieutenant; James J. Scanlan, second lieu
tenant. Following IS the list of the non
commissioned officers: First sergeant,
William Madden; second sergeant, Robert
Powers; third sergeant, James Toohy ;
fourth sergeant, William Hennessy; fifth
sergeant, Joseph Maloney; first corporal,
d. ]. Earle; second corporal, II. Gritfiths ::
third corporal, F. Colligan; fourth corpo-
raj, William Curry; fifth corporal, Thomas
Crowley; quartermaster-sergea William
Dixon.
Company G has record to be coveted.
Its percentage at recent. inspection was
SO. and its labors in the grand mpetitive
military drill of last year We're so noticea-
BILE that il was awarded $25 prize. Ser
geant William Dixon, one of its non-com-
missioned officers, bore away from $50
competitors the Ryland trophy, and Cap
tain Powers wears upon his breast the
Montgomery medal, the osject of each
mpany's am bition. 1t is almost super
tiuous to say that all of the cadets carry
sa bers, are handsomely uniformed in blue
and well drilled.
At Schuetzen Park yesterday the young
folks talked and lunched under the shady
trees and strolled around the grounds and
danced in the pavilion.
There were suitabl athletic games for
girls. Young ladies; married ladies', fat
women, members of the Immaculate Con-
ception Sodality, boys. altar boys and
members of st. Aloysius Sodality. There
were also races for the cadets, the married
men and the fat men, the winners of
which were awarded suitable prizes.
OLD st. Brigid's Church, at the corner of
Van Ness avenue and Broadway, was
built in September, 1864, by Arch bishop
Alemauy. z new and handsome modern
structure is now III course of erection upon
the site OF the old church, the Rev j. E.
Cottle pastor, and it was to aid IN defray-
ing the expenses of the building and to be
commemorated in one of it's stained glass
windows, when completed, that the cadets
held their picnic at Shuetzen. Under
these circumstances it was sure to be sue
cessful and enjoyable.
4Following is the list of the committees
having its details in charge:
General ommittee-Captain E. J. Powe r
chairman, Lieutenant and Quartermaster II.
f. Sullivan, Lieutenant James Scanlan Ser
geant William Madden, Sergeant William Hen
messy, Private John A. Duffy. Private Al Muir.
ply.
Floor manager-Private John P. Duffy.
Assistant floor manager-Corporal David j.
Earle.
Floor committee-Lieutenant O. Mcmahon,