The Globe-republican., 1900-10-04
THE A. o. U. w. PICNIC.
An Enjoyable DaV Was Spent Tues
day at the City Park.


half past nine O'Clock, however, it looked
though the crowd would be rather
slim. but when the Dodge City Band
made it's appearance on the street at ten
O'Clock. that musical organization, which
has made itself famous for drawing
crowds, stirred the denizensa from out
every nook and corner. and when the
parade started for the picnic grounds at
the City Park, the band had quite fol-
lowing.
After reaching the park the the pro-
gram, which had been previously ar
ranged, was carried ont. Tile days ex-
ercises were begun by the band. The
Ladies' Quartette, which composed
of Mesdames Arment. Du Bois, Swine
hart and Hubbard, with Mrs Potter at
the organ, sang the beautiful and we'll
known Scottish air, blue Bells of Scot
Iand''. in a very creditable manner, and
which won them applause that did
not cease until the ladies appeared again
and repeated the soul inspiring strains
DIR. Crumbine then delivered the open
sng address and made neat speech. lie
spoke Of the intention of the lodge in
giving the picnic and of the greatness of
the order to which he belonged. and, as
the average American citizen was Stfrom
Missouri when it came to business
proposition, he would introduce Grand
Master Workman John II. Crider, who
would proceed to ''show them"
Mr. Crider, in mighty voice, began
his discourse by f1inging humorous stories
at his bearers, who never failed to ap-
plaud him. He pointed out the good
qualities of his lodge and endeavored to
impress on the minds of his hearers the
importance of providing for the family
that would be left some day without a
husband and father one thousand
dollar check or a two thousand dollar
check, he said, would come in mighty
handy to the wife and children after the
wage-earner's demise, and often would
keep the wolf from the door He then
attacked long columns of figures, and was
listened to with marked attention He
spoke of the greatness of the A. o. u w
41O, 900 strong, and 81 900 of its mem-
bers lived in Kansas, the banner juris-
diction and the land of sunfIowers, big
corn crops ana pretty girls. Mr.. Cridel
talked for almost on hour, but the time
spent in listening to him seemed short
Miss Grace Hale. member of the De-
gree of Honor. next favored the audience
with an address which was well received
The Ladies Chorus then sang the BLUE
and Gray, and won merited applause
The band played selection and The
morning session adjourned at II 80.
Dinner was then spread under th'
trees and the hungry were fed.
At ? 100 O'Clock the Dodge City Ban6
opened the afternoons exercises, which
was followed by the singing of America
by the entire audience, (which was ac
companied by the band.
Judge B. F. Milton, in absence o
Toastmaster f. J. Oyler, took the stumI
and made short address.
Mrs. j. c. Baird responded to the toas
ssDegree of HONOR in a short but beau
tiful talk.
l.. G.. Grobety responded to ssFratern
ity'', and pointed out the good points o
that part of the workings of the lodge
Harry Taylor next responded to tn,
toast, NProtection,'' and it was so wei
rendered that he was applauded heartily
The crowd was then startled by the APP
pearance of a fine looking gentleman VIII,
was introduced to the audience as Rev
f. 5. Nusbaum, Methodist minister
who discovered in the crowd by
scout of the A. O. U. w, who was try
to make strangers feel at home. Rev
Nusbaum. it seems, was back-slider il
the lodge, but, he said. that it cam
natural for Methodist TO back-slide bu
that he hoped some day to be under tn,
protection of the order and in good stand
ing. His wife, he said, was member o
the Degree of Honor and always haC
been in good standing. She was not .
back-slider. He then proceeded to play
a practical joke upon the assembly
which, in a measure, succeeded admira
bly,. He posed as Mr.. Bryan, the Demo-
cratic candidate for the Presidency, and
by the aid of clear, strong, ringing
voice, natural flow of language fine de.
livery, and striking personal resemblance.
to that of Mr.. Bryan, made it quite easJ
for him to mislead his hearers. He in
troduced enough politics into this part o
his talk to make the audience open theil
eyes and when he made the startling
statement that he was looking for votes
and that he hoped to be the next Presi.
dent of the United States, they pinchet
themselves to make sure that they were
not dreaming. Then Rev. Nusbaun
smiled and the audience was ssnext''. Mr.
Nusbaum closed his discourse with word:
OF praise for the good and glorious worl