The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-09
WENT TO DOUBLE BEACH
ENJOYABLE EXCURSION BIZ THE CI1Y MISSIONS YESTERDAY.

CI1Y MISSIONS YESTERDAY.
 1t Was In Charge of Judge CIeaveland Who Saw to It That All Had a Good Time-The List of Those Winning | Athletic Events.
 | Between two and three hundred peo- | pie heartily enjoyed this weeks City
 Mission excursion to Double Beach. | Trolley cars were run from in front of | English hall where at 9 o'clock a. m. | were gathered the members of the Sum I day school in charge of Judge Cleave- | land, the superintendent, the children's l Sunshine Band" with the City Mission l circle of Kings Daughters, and others who had been invited on the Fresh Air | fund. Rev MT. Mossman and Miss
 Hume accompanied the excursion, as | usual, and under care of Mr. Graham | of the Fair aven and Westville Rail | road company. all were safely landed | at the shore at about 10 o'clock. D. P. ! Candee janitor of the Mission hall, was in charge of transportation of | freight.
 | The contents of the numerous lunch
 baskets were soon spread upon the | tables and every one had plenty of time | to enjoy the pleasant surroundings at this beautiful beach, with wading, l., sound. Henry Clark not only made
 no charge for the use of his grounds, | with tables. seats. etc., but provided
 ice water in abundance and free to all throughout the day.
 From 1 to o'clock cake and ice
 cream were served to all. The Sun
 day school table was in charge of Miss
 Hume, Miss Hewitt, Miss 1stas, and
 Miss Smith. The general table was
 cared for by the Kings Daughters, in-
 cluding Mrs. Fenwick. Mrs Horton,
 Mrs. Robbins, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. My
 rick, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Griffin, Mrs An drews, Mrs Perkins, and Mrs Perry,
 with Messrs Horton and Candee to
 serve the cream. Seventeen gallons of
 ice cream were taken with forty-eight loaves of cake. The ice cream was in part donated by Hauff Brothers and Henry Hilman, and eighteen loaves of cake by the Kings Daughters. The Sunday school expenses for the trip was provided for by Superintendent Cleaveland with subscriptions from friends of the schools. Some who went paid their own expenses. and all other expenses were met by Mr. Mossman from the Fresh Air fund, MT Hoff- meister, who is cornetist at the Mission hall, for the Sunday school in the morn ing and for the Peoples service on Sunday evening was with the excursion party ard gave the bugle calls for lunch, ice cream, etc, during the day.
 The committee on athletic events and prizes were Ward Church, Frank c. Young and Frank Miller and the prizes and winners were as follows:
 75 yards dash, boys over 12-First, Thomas Hope, best baseball; second, Fred Rogers, baseball.
 75 yards dash boys under 12-First, Albert Brown, belt; second, John Jones, bathing tights.
 Potato' race, large girls-First Char lotte Coyne bracelet second. Asma Sadaka, box of paper.
 Potato race, small girls-First, Bessie Brown, dressed doll.
 75 yards dash, girls-First. May Vols Yale pin; second Cora Edwards, box of paper.
 Foot race, girls-First Mabel Robin son, pin second, Marion Pugh, pin.
 Three-legged race, boys First, George Bailey and Samuel Nixon, base ball bat (each) second, Samuel Rogers and Willie Currie, baseball (each).
 Three-legged race, girls-First. Mabel Robinson and Sadie Knickerbocker, doll (each) second May Vols and Amy Brown, pin (each).
 Sack race, large boys-First, Joshua Rogers, harmonica; second, Jacob Don ner, cast of lion.
 Sack race, small boys-First, Samuel Rogers, necl1tie; second, Joseph Dan bury, ball.
 Sack race, girls-F'irst, Charlotte Coyne, doll; second, Edna Adams, pin.
 The return to the city was made be- tween and 6 o'clock p. m. The mis- sion excursion next week will be on Tuesday, July Is, to Mansfield's Grove for the children's sewing school, and their home friends, with others to whom tickets will be given during the week on the Fresh Air Fund. subscrip- tions for which are desired of either large or small amounts.
 A pleasant feature of the excursion yesterday was that one of the trolley cars was provided by Miss Sarah G. Hotchkiss, of this city who sent from East Gloucester, Mass, the amount needed for this purpose, as stated by Rev MT. Mossman in the New Haven papers a few days previous.