The herald., 1897-08-26
DOWN AT TERMINAL ISLAND
FULLY THREE THOUSAND PEO.
PIE ON THE BEACH
Literary and Athletic Exercises-Bas-
ket Luncheons-Dancing-Baby
Contest-No Accidents

i pleQ yesterday on the peach at Terminal
island for the annual basket picnic and
reunion Of the Catholics of Los Angeles
and vicinity and their friends" Pater-
familias, materfamilias and little
familiases of various ages and
of both sexes by the hundreds;
young men and old men; young women
and others not so young; and babies by
the score, all gathered by the sea for
long day of recreation and pleasure to
enjoy as their age, sex, or individual
taste should prompt them, the varied
pleasures held out on the program.
By the early morning train they start
ed, and at 1886 ten cars, packed, drew out
of the Terminal depot on the other side
of the river; at 9:45 another train of
fifteen cars, also loaded, pulled out; and
shortly after noon eight more cars car
ried the rest of the pleasure seekers to
the picnic beach. The vast throng was
returned to the city in the late after
noon, and so admirably did the Terminal
people handle the crowds that not one
accident or casualty occurred. 1t was
feat especially to be commended, since
such a large percentage of the excur-
sionists were children.
Quite in harmony with their people,
apparently, and with affable beneficence
entering into the spirit of the occasion,
were the Right Reverend George Mont
gomery, bishop. and the Reverend
Fathers Aloysius j. Meyer, Michael Nc
Auliffe, Patrick Harnett, Regan, Hea-
ley, Molony, ., 'Reiiley, Victor, Phil-
bert and Fisher of Pomona.
Arend's orchestra was in attendance
all day, and Mr. Bierlch, having desert
ed his beloved cello for the time being,
manipulated the trombone with telling
effect. The orchestra opened the liter
ary exercises in the morning, cheered
the multitude while they lunched ana
lured the merry maids and men to the
shrine of Terpsichore in the afternoon.
Promptly at II o'clock, Chairman of
Arrangements M. T. Collins. opened the
program of the day with few apt re-
marks and introduced Mr.. James NJ
Ward, who sang two rollicking Irish
songs that were received with tumultu-
Gus applause. Bishop Montgomery fol-
lowed with short address, in which he
spoke of the insufficient recreation that
the Americans, as a nation, give them
selves; of his belief in the necessity for
recreation and his entire endorsement Of
the annual picnic and reunion, always
providing it were conducted in an order
ly, temperate and respectable manner.
Last years reunion was cited as having
given entire satisfaction in this respect
and the belief was expressed s1at this
ho ci, l,r in oh,
And it was. Never were three thou
sand people congregated anywhere for
pleasuring purposes that were more or
derby, goodnatured and uniformly
well-behaved than were the participants
in yesterdays picnic, and only praise
may be spoken or felt for the manner in
which the various committees dis
charged their obligations, and the mer
women and children conducted them
selves
Following Bishop Montgomerys ad-
dress was song by Miss Lillian Scan
Ian and humorous selection by L.
Stephenson closed the formal morn
ing's program.
The next hour was given over to sup
plying the wants of the inner man
Grouped about baskets on the beach,
under awnings or umbrellas, in the pa
vlion, or at the Tavern. in varying num-
bers, sat the picnickers, whom the brac-
ing salt air had by this time made des-
perately hungry.
After lunch the first diversion on the
program was the "Baby Contest" which
meant that the five babies under one
year of age who We're pronounced by the
judges to be handsome enough, should
be awarded prize each; and further,
five babies over one year ofHssf and un-
der two. who should be deemed by the
same judges to possess the same qualifi-
cations should be rewarded in the same
manner.
The small scraps and morsels Of hui
manity who were to be entered in the
lists, having been first fed, mapped,
brushed, beribboned and be-jeweled un-
til they were in their most choice moods
within, and literally scintillated with
out, were next tenderly carried by their
respective mammas or papas, or maids
to the verandah of Terminal tavern.
There, in the presence of as many as
could crowd within reach they gooed and
pa tty- -caked, clutched. at the flowers
on the nearest hat, and were handled
up and down by the anxious parent or
care-taker while Mines. Scholl, J. j.
McGear, Frank Lindenfeld and Messrs.
J. ]. OBrien and McElheney cast criti-
cal eye upon them one after another
Then came the crucial moment-the
judges had seen and would now in a
decisive word prove them selves in the
mind Of each parent discerning and in
telligent, or suffering from hopeless
alteration, just in accordance as his or
her particular infant was judged The
die was cast, and the result, painful or
otherwise, as the case may be, was as
follows:
Glass A, under one year of age-First,
Thomas Edward Murphy. son Of Mrs.
J. D. Murphy, five months; second,
Aloysius Mesmer, son of Joseph Mesmer,
three months: third, Mary Schallmo,
daughter of William Schallmo, five
months; fourth. Phyllis Marie Erie,
daughter of J. Philip Erie. nine months;
fifth, Pearl Marie Cunningham, daugh-
ter of John Cunningham, eleven months.
Glass B, over one year, under two
years First, Genevieve Schallmo,
daughter of William Schallmo, twenty
three months; second, Mary Ellen Far
rell, twenty-three months, daugh-
ter of ]. H. Farrell third, Fran
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