Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-09
GROCERIMEN
HAVE PICNIC
FOUR THOUSAND MAKE MERRY
AT PLAYA DEL REY
SPORTS AND CONTESTS MAKE
DAY LIVELY
Treasury Rakes in Many Quarters
from 'rize Drawings Of Articles
Donated by Los Angeles
Business Men
special TO The Herald.

special TO lle I1SIdlu'
PLAYA DEL REY, Aug. S.-Almost
1000 picnickers took advantage of the gro
GERS sixth annual picnic at this place
today.
The merrymakers included representa-
tives of practically every first-class gro
Gerry in Los Angeles.
They began arriving on the early morn
ing cars and were coming when the even
ing's program of dancing was well under
way.
With the-vanguard of the grocers there
was deposited a carload of prize Offer
ings from the various Los Angeles whole
sale grocers and provision dealers. The
assortment consisted of goods valued at
close to $1,000 and in the lot was pretty
much everything that The housewife has
call for.
Outside donations were in evidence from
the leading Los Angeles department
stores mems furnishing goods establish
ments hardware dealers and from other
business concerns that had shown a dis
position to do something toward the sue
cess of the affair
Early in the day it became apparent
that some means would have to be de-
vised to make an equitable and quick dis
tribution of the articles, with the result
that a ticket game was established at
which for twenty-five cents person was
given an opportunity to win most any
thing from bundle of hairpins to bar
rel of flour.
Side Issue Busy
While the latter arrangement for trim
ming down the contributions was furnish
ing oodles of fun and quarters to the gro
GERS and their association treasury, a side
issue that did good work toward dimin-
ishing the supplies was holding the at
tention of the athletic portion of the
crowd at the front of the auditorium,
where the program of games was opened.
Owing to the utter inability of the
committees in charge to maintain clear
course for the participants in any of the
contests it was only after long delays
and under adverse conditions that the
program was in part carried out. Many
of the events We're eliminated from the
program.
The events and winning contestants
were as follows: Race for boys under 10,
Marion Forden, 2N Avenue 65; mems race,
G. F. Cotton, 21S Simpson building;
young mems race. Oliver Starr, 511 Echan-
dia street; young women's race, Miss
Stella Gonzales. 545 North Main street;
married women's race, Mrs. Mary Bolton,
11O9 East Eighth street; fat women's race,
Mrs. Mary Bolton, winner of previous
contest; fat men race, H. p. Kiger, 1903
South Grand avenue; race for girls under
15, Annie Laurie Mcdonald, 527 West
Sixth street; little girls race, Anna Boil
ton, 1109 East Eighth street.
Health Food Sox
| A funny feature of the days fun was
the attempts made by scores of persons
to identify the representative of health
| food firm who was said to have the
name of the firms product embroidered
on the tops of his socks. Twenty-Five
dollars was to be given to the person
! finding the man, but Notwithstanding
that most everybody appeared to be
after the $25 he had not at late hour
been discovered.
The outing was in the hands of the
following committees: Games, w. C..
Longstreth; country store, Mr.. Thomas,
VIM. Nicholson, Dr. G. De Merce, j. e.
Spaulding, C. G. Hedenberg, ]. w. Shee-
| ley and C. B. Holmes. The general COM
mittees for the day consisted of w. c.
Longstreth, J. A. Fazenda and 1. Fink
enstein; the floor committee of A. l..
| Colby ~. o. Richardson and A. Finken-
stein; the committee on boats of l. Fink
enstein, S. A. Barbour, F. B. Nellums
and H. Lampe; that on games of w. G.
Longstreth, w. G. Smith and c. B. Fos-
ter; those for refreshments of ]. A.
Fazenda, w. H. Saxman, N. E. Wilson,
| c. S. Life, c. H. Polkinghorn and W. J..
Sutton, L. c. Meyer, o. A. Lauer, w. H.
Halsey R. D. Meyer, R. Marsden, A.
Stirling and L. Humphrey; that on candy
and cigars W. D. Buck, w. e. Boldly,
F. C. Heard and A. Russell; that on
bathing of L. o. Peers, E. D. Potter, A.
| c. Olson; that on tickets of ]. f. Pauld-
| ing. c. G. Heidelberg. B. Berress and
William Hoover. A grand reception and
ball brought the days festivities to a
happy close