Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-16
TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Star Carriers SWoop Down in
Force on Luna Park.
WENT, SAW AND CONQUERED
Morning Of Continuous Fun and
Frolic for Every One.
NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR THEM
Hundreds Of Boys Guests Of The Star
at Resort-Return to City Tired,
But Happy.
NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR THEM

| next train"
| Jaw, git onto the pants on Bill" .
! The route boys of The Evening Star had
| a picnic at Luna Park today, and the limi-
| tations of the English language make 1t
impossible to accurately describe the time
they had. All of them were the guests of
The Evening Star, and the street in front
| Of The Star Office at 18th and Pennsylva-
MIA avenue at $50 o. clock this morning was
the meeting place appointed Upward of
four hundred young Americans Joined in
the excursion. and from the time of depart
ure of the first special train from the sta
| ton of the Washington, Alexandria and
I Mount Vernon railway until the last tired
| boy dragged himself aboard the rear step
| Of the very last train leaving the park This
| afternoon pleasure was paramount.
Rounding Them Up
OF course, it may be that the anxious
subscriber will not receive his paper until
after the appointed hour this afternoon,
| but If such is the case he may properly
| ascribe the cause to the picnic and to the
! probable after effects incident to more or
| less disturbed assimilation of huge guam
| titles of ice cream and lemonade in the
| juvenile alimentary canal. Approximately
| ffte.-l out of the total of twenty-five man
| ayers or the city routes of The Star held
a council OF war shortly before the hour
scheduled for the boys to return to the
| city to deliver their papers this afternoon
ana ways and means were suggested OF
collecting their widely scattered charges
The result of the conference will not be
known until later this afternoon, when
the delivery of the paper is commenced.
The whole affair was under the personal
direction of Mr. Fleming NeWh0ld
ton manager of The Star and he had a
bunch of willing workers from the various
departments of the paper as able assistants.
| AS soon as the boys reached the park they
were headed in the general direction of the
athletic field just above the basin of Four
Mile run, but on the way each individual
boy seemed to spy something that needed
close personal inspection, and until the ath-
| letic events We're actually started the route
agents had more than their share of trou-
bles in keeping their charges in tow. Smith
| Hempstone, of recent fame as slab artist
| for The Evening Stars Bachelors Base Ball
Team, figured as the bright particular lum-
! nary of tibet athletic field. AS his guests
! Lieut. ]. w. Crawford and DR.. Dick"
| Dear acted as officials of the race track.
DR.. Dear, the former crack sprinter Of the
| University of Pennsylvania, was starter and
Lieut. Crawford and Carl Stodder, cashier
| Of The Star, were judges at the finish line.
| custodian of prizes. c. e. Beckett of the
Y. NJ. c. A. was clerk Of the course.
On the Athletic Field
| The first event was the so yard dash, and
| there were so many entries that fourteen
| qualifying heats were run. The heat win
| ners were: First Lawrence Roberts; sec
| ond. William Flynn; third. David Newport;
| fourth, Nat Jennings; fifth, Archie Webb;
| sixth. w. Pollard; seventh. Leo Auth;
| eighth, John Sobotka: ninth, Tom Heany
| and Gerald Ryan; tenth, William Leshear;
| eleventh. c. Smith; twelfth, Albert Fink;
| thirteenth A. Wisner; fourteenth, c. Bah
cock. In the three semi-fnals Flynn
Webb, Auth. Smith. Leishear and Heavy
qualified. The final run was in the excel
lent time of % seconds, and Leishear
won Auth was second and Ryan third.
In the 1OO-yard dash Emore Mckay won
the first heat. Leishear the second, K. My
ers the third and Elmer Diggs the fourth.
Leishear won the final. with Mckay sec
ond
A new star appeared in the 22o-yard dash,
when Harold Long demonstrated that a
pair of base bail shoes with spikes were
conducive to much speed the slippery
turf. He won by fourteen or more lengths
Alden Barry second. Time, 80 seconds
fiat.
R. R. Roderick distanced all competitors
in the fifty-yard dash for route agents.
Leishear. winner of two other events, Sc
cured second in the three broad jumps
by covering % feet IL inches. Mckay. who
was second in the 10O-yard dash, won the
jumps. with record of "a feet inches.
Collins Also Ran.
The track was full of entries for an
extra event for men, 300 yard dash. Will
liam Schell made the pace for the greater
part of the distance but R. R. Roderick,
hero of the fifty-yard DASH won out in the
last few yards Guy Collins, the mega
phone expert from The Star business office,
also ran. In fact he brought up the rear
OF the procession in most graceful style,
, and it was afterward emphatically denied
that Mr.. Collins walked the last half of the
distance.
Fully a dozen teams of newsboys were
entered in the three-legged race, and most
of them fell down once or twice in their
endeavors to negotiate the fifty yards dis
lance. John Lannon and James Chamber
lain won, with Theodore Moore and Charles
Tompkins second. Prizes in the shape of
base ball bats. gloves, base balls, etc, were
distributed to the boys who finished within
the money in each race. r. Roderick, as
the victor in both races for men, was
unanimously voted one glass of lemonade.
Assault on the Lunch.
After the races a general assault was led
upon the generously bulging lunch ham
pers and the volunteer sandwich servers had
the time of their lives in trying to keep four
hundred boys supplied with edbles. John
Baum of The Star press room force was in
his element all morning pressing the Juice
from lemons, ana ne naQ tuDfulS or the
cooling beverage ready when the contest
ants from the athletic field arrived on the
scene.
Anybody want ice cream?" queried Mr..
Newbold when the sandwiches had disap
peared. and the question was answered by |
a series of ear-splitting whoops. Four hum
bred boys were lined up along the fence |
and possible paternal injunctions regarding |
second and third helpings were most con- |
veniently forgotten.
When the only remaining vestige of lunch |
con was a muddled mass of wooden plates |
and a few l.ubbins of SCI viches, the route |
agents W {, again az - led and to each |
was n;l ,".icieit amber of tickets to |
enttt a. = ~ :. - to rides on the to- |
hossans h.Uo- b ~, roller coaster, circle |
Swin. atG 49,. n III every amusement |
device IL. Il. l.srk. 1T was a tired but |
happy tn 40 ~'-.h assembled at the gate
way of the park at O'Clock to return tn |
Washington in time for the regular after
noon work distributing papers.
Woman injured by Fall.
Miss Mary G. Clempsey, who ha. been
employed IN the agricultural Department
for a number of years. is patient at the |