The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-23
RAILROAD NEWS.
1000 Attended the Santa Fe
Picnic at AtchisOn.
Boilermakers Beat Maehinists
at Baseball Game.
ATCHISON HOSPITALITY
Did Its Part to Give TOpekans
Good Time.
Results in the Programme Of
Contests.
ATCHISON HOSPITALITY

Within the bounds of. beautiful Forest
mark. Atchison. Two thousand or more
Topeka people on Saturday enjoyed the
picnic dav which the Santa. t'e grants
Its employees here every summer. me
day was spent watching the oaSeDali
game. Witnessing the sporting contests
eating picnic dinner under the oaks OF
that lovely spot and listening TO the
music discoursed by MarshaliS pand-
They forgot for a time at least the
grind of daily labor and enjoyed the
hospitality of Atchison-
The pleasure was not alone with the
Topeka crowd either, for in the after
noon when bIarshalls musicians gave
their programme and in the eYenin9
particularly there were scores OF the
Atchison people who were present. me
night entertainment was especially
largely attended. thousands OF people
from that city hearing the band which
always is popular there.
There was some disappointment now
ever, in the number OF eXcurslOnlsts
who went from Topeka. It was planned
that four sections would have to be run
in order to handle those who would go.
but Saturday morning after the colo
rain Of Friday, and night which all
but brought frost, the attendance was
considerably reduced But 1t was not
such a bad picnic day after all, Tor IN
the afternoon the sun had warmed the
air sufficiently for the light wraps
which the people took along and usec
in the n orning, to be discarded
The first section of the excursion train
pulled out of Topeka shortly after six
O'Clock in the morning, the second and
last following a little more than an
hour later. The usual number or be
lated picnickers caught the regular St
Joseph passenger about an hour after
the last excursion train.
The first event of the day after arriv-
ing at the park in Atchison was the
baseball game played by mines from the
ma al z falaf1r CHI n a
test in which the interest was intense.
the boilermakers won by score OF IL
TO 8. 1t was watched by an especially
large crowd the grand stand being filled
with spectators and the sides of the
ground being also lined with people
cheering their respective favOrites. The
remark regarding the attendance applies
TO all the sports of the day. the crowds
throughout being large and exhibiting
enthusiasm in all George Real, Of the
boiler shop who won a 81 baseball mitt
by making the highest number Oftallies.
three, was likewise the only player to
pound out a home run. There We're a
number of good plays throughout, along
with the awkward ones. phenomenal
one being in the latter part of the game
when Third Baseman Fry went after a
pop-up fly with open extended hands;
the ball dropped into the desired place,
but quickly bounced out and was nab
bed by ShortstOp Halterman who hap
pened to be standing nearby. The bat
terles We're boiler shop, Stanfield and
McKiernan, and Waldmau. machine
shop. Sheetz and Billings. The complete
line up- Boiler shop, H Henry Clar-
ence Waldman. James NIeKiernan, Geo.
Real, j. Stanfeld, J. Smith, j. Butler.
Ben Dustin and Ernest Porter. machine
shop. George Sheetz, Earl Petrie. Chas.
r. Billings. Charles Gerberick Clarence
Halterman. H. Henry, Richard Stell-
horn, jr.. Chal Wallace and William
Fry Engineer William Sherman of To-
Deka was umpire The boiler shop boys
receive SO for winning i'm the ball game.
After a long dinner hour the follow
field in the presence of an interested
crowd; nail driving contest for women.
prize of a 81 china plate won by Mrs.
Irene Franklin of 416 Ash street
Egg race for ladies', "a china plate,
Miss Mamie Mcclure. 329 Lake street.
Saving contest, bopz Mrs j. W.
Miller, 1929 North Quincy street
At the little lake on the grounds, c.