Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-08
VICTUALERS HAVE A PICNIC
eroo'rs and Butohsu Abandon Business fsr
One Days Outing.
HERRY TNOusANOs 60 wrTH 1aLM
nigseFt EAcursion that Evsr LETT
Union station YVES that which
Made the rrtp TO Mis-
seer Valley Yesterday.

- u th8 retail 1roceru' association
and Butchers union who attended the an
nuel picnic Of the associations at Missouri
valley yesterday arrived at the union sta
ton upon tie return shortly before 8 o'clock
last night. It's advent into the city was
announced By the blowing Of horns. the
burating Of balloons and the straining Of
the vocal chords OF over 1000 excursion
ista.
An hour later the Seccnd section, with
every car rowded to the utmost, dupIl-
Gated the nrst section. At 10 O'Clock the,
last section arrived and on this was ire
hand and officers Of The two associations.
who made just a little more noise than the
Other two II was the largest excursion
that ever left the union station ana Il
started out In q blaze Of glory and ended
the same way. with not = mishap to mar
tte pleasure Of the day.
II teok four special trains 10 carry the
sxcursionIsts to Missouri Valley, the first
section Of which lett Omaha at Z o'clock.
When the train arrived Al the Iowa town.
4 was to ma every business house closed
ard every business man and his clerk and
family assembled At the station 10 form an
escort 70 the fair E%rouhds, where the pie
Mo was held.
II had been announced that prominent
speakers would crate TO the edihcation Of
the multitude. but they didn't. David II.
Mercer was on hand, loaded to tho uppers,
but the committee failed to call upon him,
az the contests. n which an were inter-
sisted. took up too much timo and the peo-
pie wers too busy enjoying themselves to
iisten TO speakers. nd .. Cornish and
Mayor James OF Missouri valley were also
there. hut neither spoke.
winners OF the sports.
The contests were spirited and full Of
ginger. No winner had a walkover unless
It was George Munro. who beat Robert
Smith IN a horse race. because the latter
knows not the ways OF the jockey, An in
teresting game Of ball was played betsseen
the grocers and a team from Modaio, IN
which the Omaha boys knocked out she
game By q score Of 5 to g. Following h q
list of.the winners:
Watermelon contests. quantity eaten. and
not time considered. J.. d. Behrens winner,
Harry Elliott. second. Physicians believe
both will recover; travelling meas race. l.
J. Roden; who went the entire 100 yards;
married women's race. Mrs. A. c. Dace;
unmarried women's race. Miss l. %. Alien;
wheelbarrow race, o.. G. Brown; roadster
race. Mayor y. D. james Of Missouri Val
ley; running horse race. o. d. Wilson, nrst.
George Beagle. second; grocery meas horse
race was won BY George Munro Of Omaha,
with Robert Smith Of Omaha q close second.
saa1sEu11iiv Euu~ wus won Dy n. m. Oramer.
with William Newhne, second. The best
gentleman walter ga the ground was w.
Ech and the best woman waltser. Mas Bes-
sic WinebeFg. The prize for the p~rcttiest
baby was won BY Arthur Rudd. son Of Mrs.
H. A. Rudd. A SO gold headed cane was
presented 20 Peter Moat Of Missouri Val
ley because he was 81 years Of age. and
nc ans on the gEagnd was any older Mrs.
HI ~. Bell, aga n years. swas presented
withgA sthebpirg beg for being the oidedt
woman on the ground. One OF the most
amusing contests % the entire dag waS4
the slow mule race. II was 40 allow that
sc was Impossible TO keep the time. After
It had been forgotten that the start had
been made, T. Erwin Rstride q beautiful
bay. cropt under the wire. = winner.
over -four Thonsana There.
It IL estimated that ovsr 1000 people at
teuded the picnic and Of this number over
3.6oo went from Omaha. At 2 o'clock yei-
terdey morning Ahbotfs Musical union band
assembled At Sixteenth and Farnam streets
and soon thereafter clerks and business
men with their families began TO drop from
every Incoming street ear. Soon after
3 o'clock 4 parade was formed. with Pa
troimsn NJ. Mccarthy. Russell ana Good
rich and tho twenty-six musicians In the
lead. In the lire we're 1856 members Of the
two associations, who marched TO the sta
ticns arriving At s;25. Two sseticns had
already gone and the marchers piled Into
the third. With them piled IN several hum
dFed other people and the train pulled out
Al $40. With the i've cars loaded % the
kuard8.
During the afternoon 0meer Mccarthy.
the special body guard Of the picnickers.
discovered bertha Llebke. better known as
Painting Bertha meandeFihg through the
crowd. Notwithstanding BerthA's protests
and her threats TO create q scene BY faint
ing. she was removed from the grounds and
turned over to the Missouri Valley ~ohAeers.
who knew her not.
These men had the arrangements Of the
picnic IN charge and are largely responsible
loF It's suceess> Joseph Ernst. Henry Hof-
mann. John Reznlcheck. Henry schnauber.
JustuG Peterson. Louis Hermann. v. +.
Kunci. George =. Munro. Harry Mitchell.
". J.. Hahtef. H Fischer. +. Buffet. d.
Gross. p .. Evans. G. l. Porter, J. Barta.
5ehn Fettfso4.
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