New-York tribune., 1909-09-05
LABOR DAY PLEASURES
SPORTS IND PAR4DES.
{. f. L. Erpects to Haze $4,000
an Line" Minute Mem" Serious.

Most of the people left in town will try to get
into the country tomorrow to spend Labor Day.
Those who do not engage in various kinds of ath-
letic exercises sports will be witnessing them
or obtaining recreation en- the water or IN the
field.
In addition to the great labor parade In the
morning the principal feature of the day will be
the sporting The lover of sports will have
large variety of affairs from which to choose.
Dr. Mabon. superintendent of the Manhattan State
Hospital has arranged programme of sports on
Wards Island for the patients. who cannot, of
course join In the other recreatons of the city.
The boys in the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training
School will also enjoy a special programme of
sports arranged for their benefit.
The only persons who will be at all serious on
Labor Day. apparently, the Minute Men, a
body of socialists. who much wrought up over
the coming municipal campaign. They have an
nounced a mass meeting from to p. m. in Union
square when they are going to try to drive or
ganized labor to put a ticket in the field
The veterans of the 18th Regiment Brooklyn, Will
have field day at Belle Harbo-. while the L. NJ.
Ha1nllton Post 152. G. A r.. and the John Eiseman
Camp, 19. S. of v, will have a campfire picnic and
summernght festival at Hotzs Lohman Park. in
East New York
The John F. Ahearn Association. at head of
which IS the Borough President of Manhattan. will
have its annual outing.
Final preparations were made Yesterday by tho
unions in New York and other cities for the due
observance Of the day. In New York and vicinity
the principal event is the parade OF the Central
federated Union. which. according TO the Labor
Day committee, Will eclipse all previous parades
OF the Kind. Sixty unions Will be represented
1t was stipulated when the committee the
parade was first appointed that everything should
be union in the parade There TO be union
horsesAoes, union uniforms, union music and union
badges. and the Metal Polishers and Buffers Union
stipulated that the brass instruments in the bands
should be union made.
Inc parade will be in eight divisions. and will
start at 10 a. from 5Sth street and Fifth avenue
the line of march being down Fifth avenue to
washington Square, where the parade will dis
band. The grand marshal will be Thomas j. Cur
us, Of the Rock Drilers' Union former president
OF the Central Federated Union. His aids will be
William \. COakley and James Stuart McCiuinness
Inc assistant grand marshals and aids will be
Arnold Il. MacStay, James Hatch. John G HIS
dorf, Matthew McConville School Commissioner
James +. Holland ana Edward Hanna. The COM
ittee estimates that the number in line will ap-
prox!nate forty-Gye thousand
one or the features OF the parade VIII be the
Noman's Trade Union League the members of
winch viii ride In automobiles Miss Leonora
Reilly. vcepresident Of the New York branch
OF the league said yesterday that the league would
nave eight floats, in which women, appropriately
dressed would represent the solidarity of labor
and other subjects The striking hat trlmmers
VIII have a group OF their own
I4e housesmiths, who always make a good show
ing, VIII wear their customary uniform OF gray.
felt hats, red blouses and white duck trousers
typographical Union 40. VIII parade in six
battalions. each battalion with n band The pro-
bd'loHary members, apprentices and boys en-
poFed II the union printing Offices Will be In line
with Big Six The seventh division Will be COM
posed altogether o: teamsters. OF which trade
twenty unions VIII be IN line
special Labor Day service VIII be held this
evening at the Church OF the Ascension Fifth
avenue and 10th street. under the auspices OF thu
'aooF unions ana committee OF the Central Fed
Grated Union. The Rev. Andrew H. Undcrhiu v.lu
preach on "to-operation." Many of the unions
VIII also celebrate the day by plcnics or indoor
mass meetings.