The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-06
WORKING PEOPLE
HAVE GREAT DAY
FifteenThousand affair
Grounds for Labor
Celebrate on.
FEW w HIPPED BY
TERRIBLE HEAT
Sham Battle Real Thriller, but
Balloon Ascension Was Low
and Tame-Hard Problem
to Bestow Prizes-sport-
ing Features in Con-
tinuous Form.


Blithely and with no thought for the
morrow and It's return to work, all
men, with few exceptions, OF Rich
mona yesterday enjoyed and partici-
pated in the celebration of Labor Day.
an occasion set apart for the honor
and glory OF those whose manual labor
contributes more than anything else
TO the upbuilding of great country.
| Between $4,000 and $4,000 people--men.
women and children--took car, drove
or walked to the State Fair Grounds,
where for 10 cents man could get moro
| real enjoyment and see more sights.
] thrilling and amusing, than he could
see for quarter at Coney Island The
committee in charge mapped out a
program which would please ALL the
quiet and sedate and the most jovial,
nervous old women and gigly young
ones, boys and old men,
| Many Sporting Events.
There We're amateur motorcycle
races-everything was more or less
amateur-horse races, running and
| harness baby show at which proud
young mothers with their first born
presided; married woman's race. in
which the winner had to waddle down
the stretch at the rate of a yard a
!
race, and so forth and so on, world
without end, until dark. and then, fin
ally. balloon ascension and para
, chute drop, which. after all is said and
done, was not worth waiting for.
| The great and renowned professor
| went up only about 200 feet instead OF
| 1000, as had been promised in the
program, and he came very gently
down in a clump of trees little to
| the northeast of the grounds No
one thrilled. and then, while the bal
| loon still dangled in the air, as II un-
certain whether to come down or con-
tinue its aerial flight into the un-
/ known void. the people stra ggled from
/ the park, and came back to town and
/ the circus.
Great Day for Everybody.
But 1t was a great day for him of
| the horny hand, furrowed brow and
4 big biceps. 1t was great occasion
for the man in the overalls. and he did
| not fail to feel and show his import
ance. He knew without him 1T would
| be a sorry world, more like none at
| all. He knew that IL 1t Were not for
him there would be no capital, SO, full
| of the knowledge of his standing and
| influence in empire and world build
| ing, he set out to enjoy the day as
| child sets out. on his trip TO the swim
ming pool. full of anticipation and
| hope OF pleasure.
Street cars We're started early in
the morning. and by noon, after they
had watched the parade and seen the
putting UP of the white city of tents
and all the showing panorama of the
| circus, the crowd in the Fair Grounds
| had run up to 1000 or more, and at 6
| o'clock there We're between $4,000 and
! $4,000 people scattered all over the
| grounds. from the grandstand to the
far northside. where the minor shows,
| free to all who cared to look, We're go
ing on. There was not minute when
isomething was not going on, and men,
| bers of the committee in charge, with
perspiration rolling down their faces
! and coats hanging en- their arms, were
running h!ther and yon. shouting ran
/ cously TO the competitors to keep
a-moving. and hurrying up everything
SO that nothing might be missed or
left undone.
Nothing was left undone, and when
the quarter moon came out red and
\ glimmering over the southwestern
/ treetops, everything which had been
/ planned had been done. and Labor Day
had been set down in the annals OF
workaday people as huge success
! and an earnest of more successes
ally conceded to have been the best.
4 greatest and most earnest celebration
1 ever seen in Richmond.
But Little Disorder.
1 There was little disorder. though a
4 few-there are always few to do
i such th!ngs-who had taken occasion
1 to All their skins with the red wine OF
4 trouble fought among themselves. and
1.-Two young men-T. J .Alsron and r.
M. Riddell-who assalled each other
with bottles, were arrested by Mount
"a cnicer Jordan and turned over to
i the county police, who carted them off
Ito the Henrico County Jail on felony
warrants. Both mon were severely cut
q about the head and face. and DR..
i Harshbarger, who was stationed at the
Fair Grounds all day with the city
annbulance, sewed them. up. Neither
was dangerously injured, though, for
the moment. there was much excite
ment. It did not develop. however.
I, that they had been drinking. crowd
4 of roughs set upon one of the gate
II lxeepers because he refused to admit
A |.then without proper passports, but ha
managed to take care of himself. and
4 tore a shirt from the haAS of one
/ They got away before the arrival Of
the % police but arrests are probable.
Baby Show the Thing.
Nothing in point Of interest sur
passed the baby show, at which there
were seyenty-tive delighted and de-
.|lighttM M-youngst primped. pressed
and petted, exhibited by fond and par
tial maternity. All We're healthy.
i good sized youngsters, with powerful
capacity in their lungs, and the COM
mittee-Justice Crutchfeld., who some-
\ times has babies in his court, though
for different purpose; Mlnitree
Mr.. Sydnor, had some difficulty In se-
llecting choice, But. finally, after
much picking and choosing. they select
ed bouncing Infant and to the fond
4 admiring mother delivered a gocart
This was for the prettiest baby be-
y tween the ages of six months ana a
,year. and a pair Of shoes was given