The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-22
1T WAS BARBECUE DAY
AND THOUSANDS WERE AT
 SCHUETZEN PARK.


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 The seventh annual barbecue of the New Haven Retail Butchers and Gro- cers' association, held yesterday, was a great success, and great praise is due President Frederick and his able corps of assistants for their unwearying and able work in making it so. The only drawback was St. Swithin, who with marvellous persistency in his wayward- ness this summer, let fall copious and vigorous shower of rain at the very mo- ment that the serving of the feast at schuetzen Park began, just as this aforesaid saint has done some half dozen times this summer just in time to cause the numerous post ponements of the Coliseum races. A throng of seve- ral thousand people was already assem-
 
 CT began, but fortunately the ladies or most of them found shelter in the dan- | cing pavilion and other covered build | ings in the park. Fortunately, also, the shower was of short duration, but as it | occurred at most inopportune time, it no doubt deterred hundreds from going | embarking on the trolley cars for the seat of the festivities. However after 1 roll or two of thunder and few min | utes of accelerated down-pour the rain ceased and thereafter, although the | skies were lowering, the afternoon was devoid of further rain, and all the stream of trolley cars brought hundreds more people to the park. Hundreds in the crowds paid little attention to the | shower, not n1inding it apparently. The roast was prepared in trenches in a big fenced enclosure adjoining the building where President Frederick and his staff | Of committeeman were busy attending | to the multitudinous details of the occa- sion. Over the trenches lay meat, shoulders of beef and lamb, the fire at the bottom of the trenches gradually and slowly but surely bringing the re- quired perfection to the roast. At two o'clock the lamb roast was all ready, and at all fourteen little openings in the fence were crowds of people ready to l pass in their ticket coupons and receive | in return such a wooden plate full of roast meat and fresh bread which the 1 hurrying walters brought. At a fifty foot long bench the carvers were at work, a dozen or more cutting the meat into suitable pieces for serving on the plates. Here among the carvers were Julius Gollery and Ollie Woods, of the 1 Henry Frederick store on Edwards street, Antoine Reinwalter, Martin | Gruener, Thomas Tolben, Charlie Potts, MT Hasse, John Reaumur, Henry Voelkner, D. Former, Conrad Rausch, Anthony Turnand, Charles Pfaff, Adam | Sattig, eX-president of the association, | all busily engaged in cutting nup the | roast. Over at the trenches in charge of the roasting was George H. Pitt, rep resenting Bonner & Biltz, of Bridge port, and a corps of helpers turning the big masses of meat at proper intervals and replenishing the fire with coke as 1 fast as required. All fourteen aper- lures at the board fence, after the rain l ceased were besieged for hours with 1 applicants for share of the feast, and it was a case of constant hustling with | the carvers and walters to keep the crowd supplied. Good nature charac- terized the hungry things despite the dampness of the day, and the roast was declared very toothsome and appetizing. Over in the dance pavilion scores upon scores of young people and some older, too, tripped the light fant tastic toe to the merry music of the orchestra, and here and there were stands where jolly fa- kirs were raking In the shekels in re- turn for what they had to offer to the | throngs that surrounded their stands. At another point hot coffee and frank forters were sold, and the dealer was kept busy and of course King Gambri- nus votaries found ample opportunity to quench their thirst with foaming lager.
 The commercial day with the mem- bers of the New Haven Retail Grocers' and Butchers association began at nine o'clock, when all stores closed and the clerks and proprietors prepared for the parade, which is always feature of the day The parade started at eleven o'clock and was headed by a company of rough riders, who showed plenty of skill in horseback riding. Behind them came platoon of police and the Old Guard band leading seventeen mounted aids, attired in dark clothes and wear ing sashes of the natonal colors. Six carriages containing the mayor and other city officials followed, and the pa- rade proper came along behind.
 The Booth Meat company was first with tallyho and three four-horse teams containing employees.
 The Coat and Apron Supply company wagons came next, for what reason was not apparent, but the display was pleasing in that the harnesses of the horses were gilded and the wagons bright in green and gold.
 The Fleischman Yeast company had five wagons in line and was followed by Hugo with five trucks with decora- ted horses. Ploehn had two trucks in line and led the display of Miner, Read & Garrett with seven trucks. F. C. Bushnell &c Co., had three trucks and J D. Dewell & Co. had seven big trucks each drawn by three horses. LeBrun, a Congress avenue merchant, had deliv- cry wagon in line following the whole sale grocers, and riding on the divers seat was Cornetist Heyer, playing in 1 trio JnI-