Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-01
THOUSANDS ATTEND
RAILWAY MEMS EXCURSION 10
RIVER VIEW A SUCCESS.

Thousands of people packed the excursion
steamers to River View yesterday
| to participate in the exercises OF
] the Washington Railway Employees Relief
| Association The steamers Pocahontas, Ar
rowsmith, Harry Randall, Wakefield, River
| Queen and General Dumont passed to and
| fro throughout the day after IL O'Clock In
! the morning, when the first trip to the re-
| sort was made. On each trip the vessels
| were packed with crowds, all OF whom
seemed to enjoy every moment OF the time
| spent upon the Potomac. More than DOOO
| tickets were sold. and at least 10000 people
| visited River View before the close of the
| day.
Many of the excursionists were much in
tereSted IN the Italian man-owar which
| lay in the lower harbor below Alexandria,
and many compliments were pad the
jackies' from sunny Italy upon the fine
appearance of the ship.
There was an elaborate program, which
consisted of races and athletics sports, all
of which attracted much attention, and
later in the evening dancing was INDUCED
in by large crowd of young folks in the
pavilion. The committee n charge of the
affair consisted of f. J. Mersheimer. chair
man; w. n. De Neale, vice chairman j. Z.
Moifett, treasurer; Geo. G. Whitney, sec
rotary; r. Rose, sergeant alarms; VIM. N.
DeNeale, Chairman amusement committee;
w. S. Ballinger, chairman boat committee;
e. S. NARROW, chairman printing commit
tee; George G.. Whitney, chairman dancing
committee.
The members of the committee were given
great praise for the clever way in which
they handled the immense throng and upon
their skill in carrying the day to such a
successful conclusion. Mr.. Mersheimer, the
chairman, seemed to be everywhere upon
the grounds throughout the day, and at all
times was the center of groups of anxious
tnQuirers.
Several Accidents.
The committee had provided the services
of physicians upon the grounds, and the
precaution was shown to have been a wise
one, for some minor accidents occurred
which called for their attention. The ply
sicans who were in attendance were Doc
tors Stone, Morehart, Weaver and Jones'
Some who suffered accidents during the
DAY We're Howard Beavers of 1881 Ben
nings road. who had his thumb torn off;
Mrs. Schultz of 1OO7 d street northeast,
who suffered a fracture of her left arm in
two places; William Starting, who res des
in Tenleytown, who had his arm badly
burned by an electric wire, and s. L. Toll
son of the postal service who fell in the
fat mems race and slightly injured his
knee. Major Sylvester had three of the
local detectives at the grounds in Messrs.
Flather, Tiser and Weldon, hut they found
little to do as the crowd WAS remarkably
well behaved
ceptions, went off as scheduled, and the
most interesting proved to be the base ball
game between the Columbia team and the
team from the mechanical department,
which was won by the latter by score of
II to 0. The music of the day was furnished
by the band of the association, which occu-
pied seats upon the lawn just above the
landing. The judges of the different events
were Gen. George II. Harries, E. S. NARROW,
H. w. Fuller, ]. B. Lackey, L. E. Sinclair,
w. F. Ham.
Results On Athletic Field
The tug of won by the track and
roadway teams. The heavyweight wrestling
bout won by d. B. Swingle, while the
honors in the lightweight contest went to
Frank Curry. The winners in the races
were follows:
Children's race-First, Clarence Hill; sec
ond, Rudolph Lipphard; third. Robert
Boyle; fourth, Gilbert Simond; fifth, Will
liam Palmer.
Girls race-First, Marie Herrity; second,
Clara White: third Janette Downey;
fourth, Lillian shenland; fifth, Agnes
Meagher.
Ladies' race-First, Miss Mary Hillman;
second, Miss A. E. Pessitt; third Miss
Grace Young; fourth, Miss Maud Butler;
fifth. Miss Ethel Chapel.
Mems race-Frst, Clarence Weigman;
second, ]. II. Pierce; third, Arthur w. Clair;
fourth, Joseph Fowler.
Fat mems race-First, w. r. James; sec
ond, P. T. Halter; third. s.. I. Folsom.
Obstacle race-First, E. Gibbons; second
A. G. Mann; third, G. F. Pennington;
fourth, II. E. Nicholson
In the trap shooting the following scores
were made out of a possible twenty-fve:
S. Stalking, 20; John Donenburg, 10; c.
Bashford, IS; j. T Moffitt, IA; s. A. Moss,
ia; j. L. Leight -, and Daniel Neal, 10.
Clarence Hill and Mamie Twiford won the
children's cake walk.