The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-09-10

closed and shut down excepting the
mill.
At 10 o'clock the members of the
Miners Union met at the school house
and in regalia and headed by the band
discoursing some of their fine music,
wended their way to the picnic ground,
on Pole Creek, where fine dancing
pavilion, 30x50, had been erected and
where ample provisions had been mode
to supply the wants of the hungry and
thirsty multitude that thronged the
grounds all day and far into the night.
DeLamar being an exclusively min
ing town, the whole proceedings were
under the auspices Of the Miners
Union, but hearty welcome was eX-
tended to all.
Upon arriving at the grounds, Hon.
]. j. Bennett, Orator of the Day, favor
ed the people with one Of his happy eff
forts and as usual elected rounds of ap
plause Mr.. Bennett was also Orator of
the Day in Silver City, speaking in
that town in the afternoon, and con-
sequently was deprived of the pleasure
of participating further in the Della
mar festivities having to leave for Sill
yer at the close of his speech.
The day was an ideal one for the oc-
casion, clear and cool, and with bright
sky above them and with floor smooth
as glass beneath them no wonder the
dancers tripped tie light fantastic I'M
til the "wee sma' hours"
The only drawback to the othervise
perfect enjoyment of the occasion was
the proximity of the -go-round,
which was all right of itself and fur
nished lots of amusement 10 the little
folks, but when the music of the organ
of that institution would get to mixing
with the music of the orchestra, each
in different key, one playing waltz
and the other hornpipe, the effect, to
say the least, was not heavenly.
AT this time, and in connection with
Labor Day, few words in regard to
the good work done by the Miners
Union in DeLamar will not be out of
place.
The DeLamar Miners Union has
been in existence since the first of
April, 1896, aud since that time it has
expended in sick benefits, nurse hire,
and benevolent purposes generally, in
the neighborhood of 5000 that is as
an organization, besides perhaps half
as much more in individual contribu-
tions, for no class of men are more
ready to respond to the cry of distress
eit.,ef in or out Of the Union, than our
hardy miners. And there are men liv-
ing in this camp to-day that would
have been III their graves had it not
been for the care and attention which
they received from the Miner Union.
There are numbers of widows and
fatherless children in camp, who owe
their comfort to this same Miners
Union-in a word, they have fed the
hungry ahd clothed the naked, and
ministered to those who were sick and
and in distres, and it is of such as
these that the lowly Nazarene spoke,
when he says, Come ye blessed of my
Father"
The popular idea of one our miners
in the minds Of the people of the efete
East, is about as follows
He is an anarchist, of huge stature
and forbidding countenance and to
this countenance, aforesaid, he never
under any circumstance applies soap
and water. Ills hair and whiskers are
allowed to grow long and are entire
strangers to brush and comb, and his
whole aim in life is to do some injury,
personal or to property to the man
or men who employs him.
If those people who have such low
opinion of our miners could know
them as they are, and could they have
seen them on Labor Day, how quickly
they would have changed their opinion,
for we can truly say that it would have
been difficult to find a finer body of
men anywhere than the 80 miners who
took part in the parade on that day.
AT SILVER CITY
The miners made great day of it.
A platform and seats for several hun
dred people were arranged, and after a
parade in which $50 miners were in
line, almost everybody in town assem-
bled at the grounds and were enter
tanned by several short addresses, after
which followed some very amusing
sports, an obstacle race being the prin-
cipal one. At night ball was given
and largely attended. One feature ac- !