The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Herein is chronicled the days doings of the Mayer and various city omclais and employees of the government of the City of Montgomery on tneir annual outing at Jackson's Lake yesterday | How did they get out there? Acting Mayor Mcintyre would not allow the | use of the patrol wagon, so they rode | on n train until the conductor said get off"
 When the yhad needed the command of the conductor. the one hundred ana fifty aldermen. city offciais, employes' aIdermen-elect. would-be- aldermen, would be- -officials and invited guests, looked foolish until A. G. Forbes sus- gested that they go to look at the water | in the lake.
 "Guess you'd better look at the wa. | ter" said John Kohn, with patentSo sheer seldom used except on the noor or the Council Chamber, You oon kho" anything about IL This thrust at the chairman or the Water Committee aroused his Scotcn Ire | and he was about to avenge 1t py max ing a speech explaining his position when he discovered that the other All dermen had run away and left him. All of the Aldermen went to the lake l save Jimmy Sullivan who said he didnt want to know anything about water. McDuff Cain, one of the most eager to learn something of water, suggested that they go wading, but John FarleV declared that wading was unsanitary and after taking a solemn faced look at Pat Ryan the wading proposition was laid on the table.
 Tn inc meantime Labe Strauss was watching the dinner come up under the | head of unfinished business as 1t cooked and Charlie Ruth fell asleep Tn the shade.
 Herein is chronicled the doings of the day, according to instructions received l by the poor scribe.
 Chronicle No. i. Johnny Ryan wanted to play police and robber but Kirk Jackson wouldn't l be the police He said he'd be a rooper or anything else. but he would not pc a policeman. Kirk did agree, after much urging to roll Pat Mcintyre aro4nd in a wheelbarrow. Laoe strauss said he would be the police and then sajd he wouldn't and Jimmy Sullivan said that Labe didn't know what ne | wanted to be. After everybody sald | they wouldn't be police. the aldermen made little Robby Sands take the 1op and Robby arrested Charlie Faper' the first one. After they got tired playing police, they all ran to drink some rem, aIA onade. except Jimmy Maddox, who sald he wouldn't drink anything so strong ChrOnicle No. 2. l lack Cook wanted to play horses put Elliott Hannon said he didn't know anything about any kind of horses. Gaston Gunter said somebody might get hurt and there was no veterinarian to | a,,ra them "Cvclone" Cox and Jimmy | Hartley said they could run like race | horses' but A. c. Forbes expressed doubts as to his ability along that line When they started playing horses, klrk Jackson said he was better horso that | Iabe Strauss and that he would cite Labe at 9 o'clock today et the capl'ot, n lLabe said he would cite AirA AS | o'clock at his office.
 | Chronicle No. 8.
 lust then they. all saw bad Nathan | INobman smoking & cigar. shame on l you! yelled Billy Teague and Cnarhe
 Coins.
 Jimmy Sullivan wanted to play
 store. He and Adolph Roemer were
 going to te partners They put pot
 tle of red soda water on a plank and
 Billy Teague said they ought to be
 closed up because the soda water was
 red and neither Adolph nor Jimmy
 could prove good characters. Jimmy
 wanted to go down on record that he
 had a good character but they all
 laughed at him and Adolph cried
 Chronicle No. 4.
 Dave Ford was chunking pebbles at
 a freight train. "F'ie, he. bad boy
 shouted Adolph after Dave had thrown
 three little rocks. Don't you know
 YOU have chunked away gravel pit?
 Dave looked shame-faced and said
 he'd forgotten that three pebbles made
 gravel pit.
 SWelI, I haven't" said Adoiph, "and whats more I ain't going to-" Then all the Aldermen got mad and every body thought there was going to be hrht but the scribe. who had seen tho same thing in the Council Chamber too , often.