The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05

SON Smith, P. J. Metzdorf, Louis Betz,
W. Nj. Carson. F. g.. Bradbury, DR..
erS.
The line of march was WabaSha
STREET.-THE Sixth street, Sixth to Robert,
Robert to Seventh, Seventh to Waba-
sha, and Wabasha to the bridge;
thence across the Mississippi, west
along the river bank and the new park
approach, to the Harriet island bridge,
and over that bridge to the island
So great was the concourse of merry,
f1ag-waving children that the rear of
the parade was still crossing Third
street at Wabasha when the van was
pouring out upon the island. And the
paraders moved twenty Or twenty five
abreast At the entrance to the island
a-fnan counted 5000" children passing
by before he became too tired to con-
tinue. He could have counted 10000.
Among the hypnotiZed followers of
Mayor Smith, this new Piper of Hame-
lin, the few separate organizations in
-cluded 100 children from the Settle
ment house on the West side, and the
Sunbeam band, headed by Mrs. Arthur
E. Clarke.
Children Get Firecrackers
Hardly had the first thousand in
vaderS shouted terror into the hearts of
the black bears in the island zoo, when
DR.. j. B. Darling, and City Comptroller
Louis BetZ began to distribute, west of
the zoo, 5000 packages of firecrackers.
Good crackers were these, and big
crackers, but not too big; reliable
crackers, not slow to make up their
| minds; crackers that. did not need too
| much investigation, gust to see if they
was lighted"
DR.. Darling and Mr. fBetz were still
struggling for a touchdown when the
7, Fort Smelling band began, at the band
stand, a popular and patriotic concert
| that lasted all day long.
1t was 10. o'clock, perhaps, when a
small maid whose collar bone was al
ready sunburned beneath her ''peek-a-
boo" waist, jumped down from the Obi
cycle merry go-round,' and informed a
chum who hoped off too: why.
Name, your hairs all tousled an I'm
most starved to death, amt you?"
Name agreed that a crisis was at
hand. She was SO hungry, indeed, that
as she said, she could eat feathers"
Relief, however, was at hand. Lun-
cheon supplied by the Commercial club
began at noon precisely and luncheon
| lasted until o'clock. 1t was a light
luncheon, yet a satisfactory smack"
| for growing children.
Had Light Luncheon
1t was composed. in part, of 1900
loaves of bread. $50 pounds of ham,
| 1000 dozen sandwiches, 1900 dozen
doughnuts, 1000 dozen sugar buns, and
10000 bananas. More &han 1000 lem
/ ons permitted the making of several
glasses of lemonade. And all for the
| asking, to-wit,- the grabbing.
Lieut.. Sexton is a large policeman,
Sergeants Rose and Mccarthy are no
! inNalids. and Sergeant Andy Mccall
| has been a broth of by in dealing
with mere pugilists.g But when this
| distribution of bananas was begun in
earnest, and the police attempted to
protect the distributor, Lieut.. Sexton
was obliged to signal for assistance.
| The sergeantS reinforced him. Yet the
| banana citadel would have been car
! ried and the distributor made prisoner
| had not a strategic diversion been
| brought about by the explosion of q
mandarin firecracker close by Then
| the assaulting forces hesitated.
Bananas are "great eatin." But
Gee, did you never see a man'drin
| cracker? Y'ought tub hear one g'off
| jes' oncet; yuh won't forgit, l don't
tink.'
| This explanation was hardly needed :;
| the mandarin cracker explained itself.
| Seven feet long, and containing 1,000
| ordinary crackers, the mandarin soon
| demonstrated its power of expression
1 to the content of the children and the
! relief of the banana distributor There
| were other mandarinS exploded during
the day, but none with happier effect
Bathing rejoiced man boys and girls
| on the island. Others found diversion
| IN the ample apparatus of the boys
| outdoor gymnasium. A lively shower
at, 3 o'clock served only to accent the
charming weather of the day and make
| the crowd feel altogether "picnic-y."
Athletic Events Next
But the regular events" after the
| luncheon and the crackers. were the
athletic contests for fat men, boys and
| girls. These trials We're held within
! the limits of the boys gymnasium.
1 The referee was Prof Carl j. Herr
man, superintendent of the public
baths; the timer Prof Carl F. Roth
1 fuss, superintendent of athletics at the
| baths; the starter, Frederick Kuett-
ner; the clerk of the course and secre-
1 tary of the meet, Arthur Leland, super
| intendent of the Como avenue play
! grounds; assistant clerk of the course
| II. G. Bradbury; track inspectors. DR..
j. B. Darling and William nj. Carson:
| track judges, Prof. Denny and Guy
| Ruff; field inspectors, Henry J. Haas:
| marshal, b. II. Schriber: aides. the
! Commercial club Fourth of July COM
| mittee.
Secretary c. P. Slime, of the Com
| mercial club, and City Comptroller
| Betz distributed the prizes provided by
the club. Most of the first prizes We're
| certificates for gold medals, and most
| of the second prizes certificates for sill
yer medals. Each medal will bear n
lone star, symbolic of the state, and a
winged foot of Mercury, suggesting
/ both commerce and foot races. The
letters on the medal, C. C. P. A. u, viii
mean Commercial Club Playground
4 Athletic Union.' Many third prizes
viii be ribbons. Other prizes dis
1 tributedNyesterday included bats balls,
| catchers' gloves, tennis rackets. cups
| and saucers, and fans. "Teotsie.'' for
! example, gotta fan. She didn't know