The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-13
BUTCHERS AT SAVIN ROCK
ANNUAL .BARBECUE ATTENDED BY
 AZ LEAST 15,OOO PERSONS.


 Other Sports-No End of Fun and Gem eral Good Time Prevailed.
 yesterday at Savin Rock was a great success. At least 15,000 people were carried out by the trolley cars up to o'clock last night and every succeed ing car for an hour thereafter carried a goodly number. A clear sky and balmy air added their influence to the anticipation of a feast and a merrier crowd of merry makers the Rock has not seen this season. They came in family groups, by couples and singly, but one and all came to have a good time. The parade of the morning had been fine one and everybody took it as a good augury for a successful bar becue.
 The parade formed on the Green at 9 o'clock. There were several hundred wagons, representing the local butch CTS and wholesale and retail grocers, accompanied by the Second Regiment and A. o. U. w. bands, horsemen and decorated bicycles. The Green was crowded with spectators, and as the dlydecorated teams arrived, there was a scene of hustling and confusion.
 Grand Marshal William Stietz and his aids hurried around on horseback and classified the teams as they ar rived.
 A dozen grocery and butchers clerks made up as cowboys, headed the line. They were all mounted on small horses and many small boy In the crowd really believed that they were the gen. uine COW punchers. Though they call cd themselves Deadwood Pete Bill Gulch, etc, their real names are: A. w. Schade, William Cannon, E. Schwaner, E.. G. Smith, E. w. Elkins Charles Roop, George Basserman, Fred Sinkel, Thomas H. McClure, William Kelly, John Sturtevant and W. H Gould.
 The Second Regiment band followed the cowboys and immediately behind | the band were the butchers and theil clerks mounted. Following the mount. 1 ed butchers were the boss butchers and | officers of the associat ton in carriages After the carriages came the teams and displays assigned to the first di- | vision.
 | Resin & Brownstein, the George 1 street fruit merchants, sent out sever mounted teams driven by William Lt Grant, Israel Coscoe, Jacob Cutler Joseph Fleischner, James Carter, A. $ | Brownstein and Alfred Smith. | The P. w. c. Metal company of this city had a very handsome display ot | their different kinds of metals. Very l handsome souvenirs were promiscuous | ly distributed along the route of the parade.
 | The New Haven Baking company had in line four double and five single teams very tastefully and handsomely decorated, and each one being loaded l in different styles with packages of tht | different products in the biscuit line | On another wagon was the famous Yellow Kid" impersonated by MT | George K. Jewell, who added much tt the mirth and enjoyment of all Tn | drivers of the wagons were: MT George K. Jewell, John R. Coles George E. Heiser, Edward Granniss Edward Bowditch, George E. Pardee r. R. Fisher, Thomas Price, M. J. Kel ly. The copper who rode the horse at tached to the wagon occupied by tn Yellow Kid' was MT P. Kelly.
 The Merwin Provision company hat a dressed pork display.
 SchwarZchild & Sulzberger, beef deal CTS, displayed four fine wagons. Henry w. Magg had lonely, whit pig in a wagon, which was arranged Il an imitation pig sty
 familiar globe-wagon distributes Soapine to the unwasfed crowds alon the streets.
 Charles Hurtler displayed two nicel decorated wagons.
 The City Market had several wagon out and made an artistic display 0 vegetables
 The Booth Meat Market displayed it Soodlooking clerks in a carriage, a dressed in white.
 ; Jaeger, the baker, tied fancy roll and bread with ribbons and decorate
 the outside of his wagon. His was on of the neatest displays in the proces
 sion.
 Frederick Brothers, meat dealer
 had one of the most novel features (
 the parade-Litttle Boy Blue, blowin
 his horn in haystack, with seVerf live lambs in his care.
 Stoddard, Gilbert & Go. displayed si
 of their large double teams and ever one of them was crowded with boy picked up along the line of march The
 were a merry crowd and made thing
 howl with their songs
 J. F. Ward, grocer, entered hand
 some decorated buggy.
 The Shelton Avenue Cash Store CT tered a team displaying a brood ( Plymouth Rocks in a large cage, whic , attracted considerable attention.
 Bryan, Miner & Read, wholesaler , turned out six wagons headed by
 commercial traveller in a decorate buggy.
 The firm of Lee & Hoyt had nine de
 orated wagons headed by an open ca , riage in which rode J. H. Lee and fol of his bookkeepers, F. s. Judd, E. Wi
 terWell, H. H. Lee and N. B. Hoyt. l Strong, Barnes. Hart & Co. contril
 uted eight richly decorated wagons J. D. Dewell &c Go. furnished six; , c. Bushnell had a like number. l D. M. Davis of Shelton avenue W; , represented by team which attractt