New-York tribune., 1908-07-30
JAILS SANS W4RDENS.
They Ill Spent the Day at Ihe"
Boss's District Outing.

Most of the jaiis as well as the workhcuse OF
Manhattan. were without wardens yesterday anu anu
IL any of the inmates had known whefe lieS W. W.
it certainly would have a1ded envy 10 tue pse
OF Imprisonment. For John V. Cogsey' e'eihiii'
sioner Of Correction was giving his annual OUTING
for the 18th Assembly District. OF which ne - is
leader, and while about sixteen hundred IoiioWe's
from his bawick went out 10 Witzei rom. VIC"
Grove on the Sound the subordinates OF ms aepai
ment Geek with other TamnahS men VI
all degrees. -,
1t started early and ended late. having peguli
the march from the Wyandot Club at NO. z0z I1d'l
5Sth street about s o'clock in the morning. 'ihOo
there were to be games the days programme d
detonr was made that the marchers, with ie''iNe
reealfa of brown felt hats and bamboo canes iii'
pass the Irsh-American Athletic Clubs mousse III
Goth street between Third and Lexington avenues
Here each SQUAD cheered for the Olympic victors
and then swung back into First avenue, to march
I'm to the pier at 10th street and the East River Inc
sidewalks and windows were filed Win Woiheh
and children. and once in a while Inah was seeh
hurrying along, but one Wyandot pfave re-
marked: Hes only somebody from the Ivy Cluo.
This is the Republican organization OF the dlsuicl
when the Sirius of the Iron Steamboat Compah!
unloaded 'he crowd at the point they were 'oio
that a breakfast luncheon or just 1eeo was
ready for them. 1t might be remarked rsht mere
that Pete Malon. warden of the district prisons
was chairman of the outing committee ana trat
his co-workers all men familiar with the
clocklike accuracy of meal time and iights out III
nenal institutions Therefore, though there was
nothing primitive about yesterdays AFFAIRS they
were right on schedule time. As the host poured
into the big dining pavilion they were greeted oy
little William StaInm, the head waiter, VINO has
heen AT Witzel's for fifteen years and KNOWS more
Tarnmany men than anybody else of his size I'm
New York-he is perhaps five feet tall
When the steak and the beer and the chops ana
the heer and the eels and the beer and some more
of the same had disappeared, al Hart secretary
nf the committee began TO pull off, the games
The married men played ball with the bachelors
and the result was a ciHCh,' the benedicts winning
hv I3 to 4 There was some talk of protesting the
decision on the ground unfairness because there
was keg of beer just back of the home plate. and
the bachelors said this stimulated some of the
married men to think they dodging out TO
the corner place for ''QUick one.
When the fat mems called 1t looked as
if there wouIdn be room in the oval for the con-
tastants The minimum weight was Do pounds, ana
the applicants showed that the game of politics had
no more ernaciating effect than pinochle. They
were handled three time because of the width
Of the track and down hill trail was provided
After half a dozen heats to the cries OF Come on
you Taft kd' and raps from the canes of by
standers the winner was declared to be ''Al' Ker-
win an inspector in the Bureau of Buildings.
There many other contests. and in the half
mile for Wyandotes only the diamond pin offered
nv DIR IoseDh Kuhn by Milton Adams,
fireman. The tug-of-war was bipartisan affair
won by the Ivy Club team. the Republicans who had
come out to show they had a pull in their own
way. But Pete MaIlon and Silas Strauss, who is
cashier in the Dock Department, said the Ivy club
men had been in training for months, and that,
any way, the Republicans anchor was Charles
Bothner, ex-champion broad swOrdsman. and
brother of George Bothner. the wrestler