The San Francisco call., 1905-06-28
HIBERNIAN FESTIVAL WILL
PROVE A GRAND AFFAIR
Fourth of July Event Is Sure to At
tract a Large Crowd to
Schuetzen Park.

All the preparatory work for the
Fourth of July festival of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians at Schuetzen Park,
San Rafael, has been finished and the
order is well satisfied with the arrange
ments made.
So much interest has been excited by
the energetic men in charge that 1t is
expected the festival will be very much
larger than ever before Last evening
the committee of the whole met FOR
final reports and it was late hour
before adjournment. Rev. Father
Caraher, the chaplain, was present and
congratulated the society on the zeal
shown. The Fourth of July was the
most fitting time, he said. for great
patriotic demonstration and he felt
from the reports that the order would
have a celebration that would be most
creditable and successful
The committee on prizes reported
that prizes fourfold those OF any pre-
vious year have been sent in and the
official programmes would be twice the
size Of last year. The committee on
games reported great satisfaction
among athletes with the programme
and that the tug of war for The Call
trophy was exciting great interest
among all the societies. Final reports
were received from reception, floor,
badge. music, law and order and all
committees as to the preparatory work.
The finished general programme con-
sists of dancing all day in the pavilion.
with music by Tully's full military
band; Jig and reel and hornpipe dane
ing all day on special platform, with
cash prizes for all winners; music by
Professor Mcmahon and Irish pipers.
The games will open in the afternoon
at o'clock, with the exciting tug of
war contests for the beautiful Call
10 fo xxybf hot "a
great John L. Sullivan may be on one
Of the teams. Then will follow great
variety of races and afterward special
athletic contests in jumping, ball kick
ing, pole vaulting, etc; then profess
sional races, open to all, and finally the
weight and hammer throwing contests.
Following Is the full list of the COM
mittees:
President of the executive committee, NJ.
Donohoe; observation-disclosures Doyle, E. P.
Hogan; executive committee-the county
boards, men and women; games S.,l,s l. Barry; p
Daniel Daniel Harnedy. David Barry. judges at An,
Eugene D. Sullivan. marshal: p, Brien, M.
]. Kilgallon. 7. J. Norton. j. T. Lynch, j.
p Hogan official announcer; D. T. Buckley.
secretary; talent-Rev. Father Caraher. NJ.
DonohOe p B. Mahoney; % s,is pri1es-1oh1 DSno- ono
Carthy; programme-Wiliam Boyle. Jerome
Brosnan. Thomas Regan, Miss Mary Finn.
Miss Mary OConnor. Miss S. McFadden;
music-D. E. Collins, d. Fitzpatrick. j. J.
Creedon, r. j. Curtin. ]. F. Renault; law
and order, NJ. j. Pierce. T. McDermott, Martin
Lacey James o 'Donnell, j. Daily, NJ. Des-
fnond, j. Neely, Hugh O'Hara. ]. Dunleavy,
Thomas Regan, j. H. Maginnis, M K. Casey,
j. Sullivan, Roger Mccarthy, p. j. Sullivan;
ffnances-Jerome Keohane. Michael Dolan. NJ.
H. McCanerty. DR.. M. Walsh. p. w. Neylan,
p. j. Curley, J. j. Donovan. Con Herlihy,
j. II. Dolan, J. ". Rooney. Patrick o O'Brien.
r. S. Shepston. Joseph Nicely; Jig and reel
James Smith, B. ]. Sylver and judges Gaelic
dancing school: badges. Kavanaugh. j.
Neely, j. B. Hasgerty. d. Barry: DOOR man
ager J.. p. Degnan: assistants-B. j. Syiver.
Agnes Tierny; floor committee-M. j. Nc
Dermott Charles Gorrell. j. w. O'Connor. J.
T. Lynch, John Cronin. Edw. Fitzgerald. Con
Herlihy John Mcvey, ]. Mahoney, Thomas
Mofftt, DIR. c. J. Mccarthy, Edw. Roonan.
r. E. Dunning, Peter McGlinchey. Mary
Cloherty, Nellie Malioy. Elizabeth Flynn. Kate
Egan, Mea Finn, Kate Doyle, Molly OCon-
nor Frances Minihin, Kfttie OConnor. Nellie
Calvin, Della Collins, Bertha Mccarthy;
press-R. j. Curtin E. P. Hogan; reception
James Burns, Rev. Father Caraher. Jerome
Keohane T. C. Conroy, M. j. Kilgallon M
Sweeny T. p. O'Dowd, Thomas Regan. J. T.
Lynch, NJ. D. Coleman, E. Gilligan. W. p.
Tyrrell L. Barry, j. Meehan. Edw. Roo
nan, Thomas Welsh, Miss Bessie Egan. Miss
Anna Grant. Miss Kate O'Connor. Mrs. T.
Huling. Mrs. William Malloy, Miss Kate
Flynn.