The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-31
BUTTE News.
FIRST ANNUAL PICNIC
Employees of the B. q M. and B.
d B. at Short Line Park.
FOUR SPECIAL TRAINS
Nearly Three Thousand People Had q
Good Time on the Big Hole-An
Interesting Programme OF
Sports Carried Out.

The employees Of the Boston & Mon
tam and Butte & Boston mining COM
panies held their first annual picnic yes
terday at the Short Line park. on the
Big Hole river. and had a great and
enjoyable time. There were nearly 5000
people at the park from Butte. or. to be
accurate. the number vas 2,s24. About
100 came down from Great Falls and
Joined the picnickers at Butte, and
many others were at the park from Dill
lon and Lima. The big crowd was
handled with great ease by the Short
Line and there were no complaints from
n one on that score. III. r. Dunn, the
Short Lines popular travelling passen-
ger agent. was on the ground and per-
sonally saw to II that everything moved
along smoothly. Four special trains
were run each way between Butte and
the park, and all started from and re-
turned TO Meaderville, where many of
the employees of the two mining compa-
MES reside. The first train to leave for
the park was at s o'clock in the morn
ing and the last to leave in returning
was at 10 o'clock at night.
There were ample accommodations at
the park for the crowd and the people
enjoyed themselves in various ways.
Many went fishing and a number of big
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interesting programme of sports had
been arranged and the contests were
spirited and exciting. The list included
a baseball game between the Boston &
Montana and Butte & Boston; a Jug
of-war between teams from the same
companies; a 100-yard foot race a fat
mems race of 100 yards, 120-yard hur-
die race, 5o-yard sack race. 5O-yard
backward race, 50-yard ladies' race,
throwing a 16-pound hammer, putting a
16-poupd shot, running high jump,
standing jump, running hop, step
jump; climbing creased pole, half-mile
bicycle handicap and a quartette sing
ing contest. The Boston e. Montana
band was out In full and gave one of its
splendid concerts during the day.
The dancing pavilion was also well
patroniZed, the music for the dancing
being furnished by Hamann's lady or
chestra.
The baseball game was won by the
Boston & Montana nine by a score of IL
to IL. The tug-of-war. IL men to a
side. was won by the Butte 81 Boston
team by two feet in five minutes. The
100-yard foot race was won by F. l..
Bean. with w. b. Lasswell second. The
100-yard foot race for men Weighing 200
pounds and over was won by Robert
Perham, with Jack PARROT second. The
120-yard hurdle race over three hurdles
60 ~ ~ S.aA W. - -
Kenney second. The 50-yard sack race
was won by David Williams. with Da-
vid Evans second. The 50-yard back
ward race was won by +. l.. Bean, with
David Williams second. The 50-yard
foot race for ladies' was won by Mrs. |
Pearce. with Mrs. Joseph Morris sec
ond. Throwing the 16-pound hammer
was won by w. A. Mcleod. Ga feet; |
with A. B. Jones second, 81 feet. Put
ting the l6-pound shot was won by Rob-
ert Perham. 33 feet 7 inches; A. b.
Jones second, SO feet 4 inches. The
running high jump was won by A. A.
Abbott, 4 feet s inches; w. II. Caine
second, 4 feet 8 inches. The standing
broad jump was won by w. H. Game, |
8 feet liz inches; ID. O'Donnell second,
s feet Z inches. The running hop, step
and jump was won by w. II. Game, 81
feet IL inches; w. S. Lewis second, 33
feet AZ inches
The officers and the committees hav-
ing the picnic and the different events
at the park in charge were as follows:
Master of ceremonies, Frank Klepetko;
aides, George A. Chase and Carl 3. Da-
Wis; starter, Andrew II. Taylor; time
keepers. w. f. Kane and c. r. Cos
man; baseball umpires, Robert Perham
and r. p. Wedekind; tapemen, s. r..
White and Bert Hawley; tug-of-war
umpire. B. H. Bunshee; recorder, r. T.
Mason: general committee, B. H. Bum
shee, John II. Miles, r. w. Dave, r.
T. White, John Heron, Ben Sampson,
ID. w. Raymond, W. A. Bowman, ]. II.
Vivian, s. r.. White, M. 8. Burns. A. A.
Abbott, John Carkek, w. c. Thomas, w.
w. Wrath, A. H. Taylor, Malcolm Gil
lis, F. c. Townsend and c. s. Batter
man.