The San Francisco call., 1904-10-08
DAY OF MIkTH
DESPITE RAIN
Scholars, Teachers and Their
Friends Visit the ChuteS
and Are Well Rewarded
GOODIIY SUM REALIZED
Annuity Fund Substantially
Aided by Those Who Ap-
preciate Work of Tutors

Although the weather was unpropi-
tious at least six thousand persons Wis
tied the Chutes yesterday afternoon
and did their share to swell the Teach
ers' Annuity and Benefit Fund. Leaden
skies presaged rain and at the hour
when afternoon pleasure-seekers usual
ly leave their houses a light rain was
falling. This did not deter the friends
of the teachers from journeying to the
Chutes and those who did not fear the
wrath of Jupiter Pluvius were we'll re-
warded by the excellent entertainment
in the theater and the pavilion.
The chief attraction was the minstrel
show by the Columbia Park Boys Club,
the clever youngsters giving an en-
tertainment which would do credit to
professionals. In the pavilion an ex-
cellent programme of songs and dances
was rendered. Special mention is due
Misses Mabel Ordway and Cecile
Cowles, who have acted as accompan-
lists at the pavilion during the week.
Their services, gratuitously rendered,
were highly appreciated by all.
The entertainment, which has been in
progress for five days, will net a hand
some sum for a worthy cause. The
grounds were thronged daily, but there
was no solicitation. Visitors came and
went. If they chose to spend money
they received their moneys worth in
return. If they did not care to loosen
their purse strings there was no COM
plant. On the whole the benefit has
been conducted in manner most cred
table to the teachers of the public
schools Of the city and the committees
selected from their number who worked
hard and long to make 1t a success.
The programme in the theater yester-
day was as follows:
Appleton and Eugene Richards; interlocutor.
Sidney s. Peixotto; tambourines-Harry O'Day
Ethiopian serenaders' Choruses, Columbia
Park Boys Club Minstrels; comic song, Old
Zip Coon." Harry O'Day; ballad, Poor Old
Slave" Charles Norton; ballad, "Old Dog
Tray" Joseph Bernard; comic song, Walk.
Jaw Bone, Walk" George Hammer; ballad
duet ''OId Cabin Home Bert Talbot and
Adolf Muheim: comic song, s'Willie's Wishes .
Eugene Richards; comic song, Keep in the
Middle Of the Road" Abe Appleton; conclud-
Vaudeville second part-Song and dance act,
Bert Talbot; 1.-The Dude Coons" Lavell and
Appleton The roaring farce Mush." with the
following cast of characters: The Boss, Eugene
Richards: the boy Harry O'Day; the ghost.
Charles Norton; boy bootblack, introducing
beautiful harmonica solos, Ed Burke.
The roaring original farce, "Skinners Hotel,
Tallapoosa, Florida: a night station on the
Chattahoochee, Tallahassee and Pensacola Rail-
road Cast of characters: Josiah Skin
ner, the proprietor, en- route to bed,
Sidney S. Peixotto; Heinrich Schweizenbauer,
a brewery agent, route to Dutch Guiana,
Eugene Richards; Isaac p. W. Nee. O'Rourke,
a drummer route to Hades. Abe Appleton;
Irving Terry, actor, en- route to new en-
gagement, James Rogers; Jehosaphat Snod-
a route to sell his OF
hogs Harry O'Day; Lord Herbert Chauncy-
boy anarchist. route to the Florida
water baths. Charles Norton; Johnny, bell
boy en- route to a new job George Hammer;
John, another bell boy, en- route to another
job Gus Conlan; suddenly awakened guests,
by the rest of the company.