The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-14
A DAY Of SUNDAY
SCHOOL P|CN|CS
Children Of Two Churches on.
Their Annual
Outings.


Episcopal and Centinary Methodist
Churches give their annual picnics to-
day, carrying out of the city over LOCO
persons on special trains to Ocean view
and West Point. The Monumental Schooi
will leave on a chartered train over the
chesapeake and Ohio from the Main
Street station at $50 o'clock for Ocean
View, where for several years the chill
dren have spent their picnic days. Be
sides the school children. great many
persons take this trip, as it is known as
one Of the most delightful of the sea-
son.
A special train leaving the Fourteenth
Street station of the Southern Railway
at $50 O'Clock this morning will carry
ten carloads of children and lunch
baskets, making up the Centenary
Methodist Church picnic party off for
West Point to spend the day. These
excursions are among the first of the
great Sunday school outings scheduled
for the season, which promises to be
record breaker.
These are two excursions booked for
the month of June which will be the
greatest events of the character ever
sent out of Richmond.
These are the Roya; Pan-Baptist
excursion to Virginia Beach, via the Nor
folk and Western, on June 25th. There
will be over 5000 persons on this trip,
representing every Baptist church iii the
city. The great topper of the summer
outings will be the great excursion OF
the employees of the Richmond Locomo-
tive Works, via the Chesapeake and Ohio
to Buckroe Beach on Saturday, June d.
This will BIS a holiday at tho works
which every man with his family and
friends will spend at the beach.
The Presbyterian Sunday-school Union
has chartered forty coaches to carry its
excursion over the Chesapeake and Ohio
to Buckoe Beach on June 18th This
union includes the Presbyterian Church
nually one of the greatest outings of the
season.
The following schedule will give some
idea Of the excursion business booked by
the several railrads:
Chesapeake and Ohio: Monumental
Church Sunday-school. Ocean View,
June 14th: to Buckroe Beach. Broad
Street Methodist Church, Monday. June
10th: United Cristian Churches, June
18th; venable-Street Baptist, June 18th;
Presbyterian Sunday-school Union, June
18th; Grace-Street Baptist Church, June
Goth: Richmond Locomotive Works, June
Dist; Clay-Street Methodist. June 23d;
ST. Johns, June oath; Union Station
Methodist Church. June 18th: Christ S
Church, June Goth; Leigh-Street Baptist
Church, June 9th.
Southern Railway: To West Point. Cen
tenary Methodist Church. June 18th; St.
Johns German Church. June 18th; Park
Place Methodist Church. June 18th; Lau-
rel-Street Methodist Church. June 10Th;
Second Baptist Church June Goth; ALI
Saints, June 21st; Fulton Baptist. June
Odd: Trinity MethodistI June oath: Sa-
cred Heart, June 26th; ST Johns Metho-
dist Church. June 9th.
Norfolk and Western :Asbury Methodist,
to Virginia Beach, June nth; Royal Pan
Baptist, Virginia. Beach, June Goth.
The Seaboard Air Line has booked sew
eral excursions to De Witt during the
month, the first being Fairmount-Avenue
Baptist Church, on Tuesday. June 18th
This season, according to passenger
agents. promises to be the greatest for
excursion business ever known. The
month of July is booked straight through
with excursions every day.