The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-05
Resorts Were Thronged BY Big
Holiday Crowds. S
GARFIELD's CLOSING DAY
A. o. o. W. EXCURSION WAS
WELL ATTENDED.
Twenty-Five Hundred People Wit
messed the Prize Contests-Four
Thousand People Visited saltair,
Which Will Close foday-Federa-
ton of Labor-Crowd at Ca1der's.

Yesterday closed most successful
season at the popular Garfield beach
resort, and fully $500 people took adj
| vantage of the day Several extra
trains were run, and the management
handled the big crowd in fine style. AT
| least 1000 people went in the lake, and
regular bathers declared the water had
not been at nicer temperature during
the whole season.
The A. o. u. w. and D. of H. lodges
of this city held their annual picnic at
the resort had grand time. Foot
racing, boat racing, dancing and cake
walking were all INDUCED in for prizes,
and people from the southern towns,
Eureka. Tooele and elsewhere. fiocked
to the place to help the Workmen and
their ladies of the Degree of Honor
celebrate.
The committee in charge did SPLEEN
didly and much of the success of the
days sports and pleasures is directly
traceable to them. Those composing
the committee were:
John Harrington, j. S. Darke, L. III.
| Gray, L. w. Petersen, A. w. GALLAGHER,
A H. De Gray, r. Papworth, C. "A.
sic Lambert, Mrs. Elizabeth Walsh and
Miss Julia Barrows.>
Prize Contests. ~
The prize contests and the winners
were as follows: ,s
Foot race, 100 yards, five starters, won
by A. ]. Bruno, county clerk Tooele
county.
Fat mems race, 100 yards, won by D.
T. Powell of Lake Point.
Florence Carlson won the little girls
race.
The race for older girls was won by
Ethel Harrington.
The ladies' race was won by Mrs.
Joseph Bingstrom against three COM
petitors.
The boat race had three entries, and
was won by William w. Brown. Prize,
fine club bag. 81
Dances and Cakewalks.
At 7:3O p. m. the dancing pavilion
floor was cleared and a great throng
witnessed the Waiting contest and the
cakewalks. The children's cakewalk
was the feature of the evening, and
tumultuous applause greeted the grace
full movements OF the little tots. The
contest for adults brought out four
young ladies only, and the gentlemen's
prizes, therefore, went to those who
were taking the part Of gentlemen.
II. "A. McDanlel, y. II. AnSell ana w
M. Waddell were the judges. and they
decided the several events as follows:
Cakewalk for children under IL years:
Violet Craig first, Master John c. B.
Sloan second; Eleanor Bond Cannon
first, Allie Dittman second.
Two little tots Agnes and Leopa An
derson, were given special prize for
their clever work.
The adults .cakewalk was decided as
follows: Gents first. Miss Lucy Lane
second, Miss Ruby Donelson. Ladies'
first, Miss Annie Robertson; second,
Miss Ethel Moss
Miss Alice Horseley captured ladies'
first prize in the Waiting contest, Miss
Polly Southern second.
t. G. DoXey was the best gent Walter
on the floor and he secured years
subscription to The Herald. Thomas
Lawson won second prize.
Other Prizes Given.
The Oldest married cople discovered
at the resort were Mr.. and Mrs. George
Briscoe, who had fought life's. battles
together for fifty-seven years
The youngest married couple-seven
months wed-Ar. and Mrs. r. CRANES
The largest family prize-a years
subscription to the News-was divided,
between S. G. Spencer and L. Wolsten-
holme, both of Ritter postoffice, and
each with eleven members of family.