The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-09
OUTING ON THE RIVER
employees OF FIELD. SCHLICK &,
IF. g, co. HAVE A JOYOUS Is. g.;
BOAT RfDE
WENT WAY UP MINNESOTA
Music and Dancing Added to the
Pleasure of the OccasiOn-FOrty
Small Cash Boys Have Their
Share of Fun-COmHlittee Had
Carefully Arranged All the De-
tails for the Excursion.

O1 Fuh-OOnlE11IUee H1lO
Carefully Arranged All the De-
tails for the Excursion.
Six little naked boys are summing them
selves on the river bank The steamer
Flora Clark comes in sight loaded with
excursionists who all crowd to the side
to watch the youthful ApoIlos. "Avast
there" shouts Capt. Libby in stentorian
tones, and simultaneous with the echo
there are six plurges and a moment
later six small heads. bob up serenely
in the muddy Mississippi to blink with
wondering watery eyes at the boat.
1t was an incident Of the eighth annual
outing of the employees of Field, Schlick
d Co., which was enjoyed yesterday by
over 200 of the employees and their
friends. The firm gives It's employees
the Saturday half-hofidays during thu
summer and vest ert1ay iinaLgGrated the
series for 1899. The Flora Clark and It's
barge were specially lifted for the occa-
sion and shone like one of capt. Lihhy's
expansive sruiles when the excul siopIsts
went on board at D. NJ The small
cash boys, forty III number, were Iinod
up by the landing, and when Mr.. John
Field walked down the gang plank they
gave three rousing cheers under the lead
ership of Adolph Fetsch to testify their
appreciation of the outing.
1t was an ideal day for the excur-
sionists. The girls all looked sweet and
happy in puffy stirtwaists and fluffy
dresses and there was just enough breeze
to keep everybody cool and good ma
tGred. The arrangements for the out
ing, which were in charge of commfttee1
composed Of Messrs. Greaza, Soaring.
ferguson, CroWtne~s, Tetsch, WhiteW ell,
Brown, Smith and Rannochie Mrs. Bar
ron, Mrs. Hurley, Miss Huntress, Miss
OConner, Miss TschiTely, Miss Hilbert.
Miss Roth, Miss Wiles, Miss ValIee. Miss
Redmond and Miss Wiemann, had been
elaborate and complete.
The boat went twenty-five miles up the
Minnesota river with a short stop on
the way out at a place about ten miles
above Fort Smelling, where there was
an abundance of la.i5e white flowers that
everybody climbed out and gathered. It
was an excellent oppoI tdnity. besides.
for the kodak people who were on hand
in force and took snap shots at every
thing and everybody.
All the way up the river there was
dancing and music with ain admirably
arranged programme. lIfilyard's orches-
PAeSJ ON tAAO etoIiCS HlQStN diiO7 NdLIeU
with good old songs from "My CARS
Eigh-Born Lady tod the Kentucky
Home. w. Crowthers sang "The
Crow" with Mrs. Crowthers as accom-
ponist. Miss Jennie Thompson gave
mandolin and violin solos, &C. Stevenson
gave flute solo, and Miss May Traverse
sang 1.-THE Lily and the Nightingale in
clear, sweet soprano voice with
Gypsy Love Song" n3response to the
encore. Miss Burnett sang, THE Valley
of the Sea" and Kathleen Mavourneen."
Little Miss Lillian Crewthers sang
Wont You Play House, very accepta>
bly,.
The hits of the day were the Highland
Fling by Mr.. Bannochie and the cake
walk that everybody took part in on the
way home Mr.. John Field had been
billed for a farewell speech, hut with
modesty he carefully evaded the task.
The girl with the pink shirtwaist en-
5oyed herself to the utmost. There
We're several of her, and she danced, ate
popcorn and peanuts and drank pop and
lemonade to the utmost capacity of the
liberality of her escort. She was fore
most at the luncheon, served when the