Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
PACIFIC ELECTRIC
employees PICNIC
Shops of Company Close for Day
and $500 People Have Out
ing at Long Beach
FAMILY OF II WINS PRIZE
Electricians Defeat Machinists
in Ball Game; Sports Pro-
gram Attractive
FAMILY OF II WINS PRIZE

LONG BEACH, Aug. 25.-For the sec
ond time the Pacific Electric company
closed its shops today and allowed all
its mechanics and electricians, save
few emergency men, to enjoy day
picnicking. Special cars and free trans
portatlon were provided. AS was done
last year, Long Beach had been de-
cided upon this year as the proper
place for the picnic, and at o'clock
this morning the special trains began
running from the Huntington building.
There were 2500 men and women In
the picnic crowd from Los Angeles, and
several hundred more from Pasadena
and Long Beach Joined the crowd. A
f1fteen-piece band, made up of en-
ployes of the company and led by pl,
rector Shaw, came with the crowd ana
played throughout the day.
At $3.50 this morning a baseball game
between the electricians and the ma
chinlsts was played at the high school
grounds. The former team won by a
score of 9 to 6, and retrieved honors lost
last year. The lineups of the teams
included:
Machinists-A. ]. Munich, second
base: w. l.. Kent, center field; M.
Palmer, first base; George Lucas.
catcher; Fred Hanson, pitchers; q.
Stoddard, third base; o. Krautz' snort
stop; Hubert Ferry, left field; 0. j.
Goodman, right field.
Electricians-F. Woolsey. left field;
@. Noland, first base: E. Leahy, catch
er; r. Luy, right field; ]. Allera, sec
ond base; e. Eichstred, short stop;
Peters, third base; c. Larsen and Cobb
pitchers,
One of the interesting events of the
day, of course. was the picnic dinner.
A Los Angeles coffee house furnlshed
free coffee and man to make IL.
Numerous gallons of lemonade had
been provided by the committee in
charge The band played during the
luncheon hour.
Immediately after this part of the
program it was announced that prizes
would be awarded to the biggest faml-
lies then at the auditorium. j. S'
fuckers family, consisting OF eleven
won the first prize. willow chair,
"hands down" The fuckers live at
1892 West Twenty-eighth street, Los
Angeles. There were present Mr.. ana
Mrs. Tucker and their children-lVa
Irene, Jessie Dee, Ody Donovan. EN-
NETT Marcus, Ethel E., Clay Jasper
otto. gfJannie May and Hazel T. Tuck
er. The families OF L. NJ. Coughlin ana
l.. Opsomer, with eight each present
tied for second, but by guessing at the
date on a coin Coughlin won the point
and received SO worth of ham sausage
offered as the second prize. Next after
these contestants was the famliy OF H.
r Dalton, with seven present.
WINNERS IN SPORTS
The results of the other contests and
sports held were as follows:
Babv acknowledgement Curry hrst ID. E. NC
". NAV third
twenty -nve-yard dash-Earl Chambers first
Douglas Satcher second. Raymond Epsun
tlird Wesley workman fourth.
Tgs,v,verd race-Carl Mauch first, John Mer-
riaeid second, Ralph Mccall third; George
Martin fourth. - a. -
Clement Workman first, Dewey Mccall sec
seventy-ave yard race-C1yde Freeman hrst'
Earl Bacon second, John Merryteld third.
Hundred yard race-C. McGraw hrst' RAY
mond Hickman second u. A Giiks thlrd.
Twenty-fve yard race for girls under years
Amelia Mccall first. Gladys Richardson sec
ond Blanche Wilson third, Anne De marco
r1 twenty-five yard dash for girls over years
katy sharkey first, Kate Watson second
Frances Grove third, Rosy March fourth
Fiftv-vard race for girls 10 TO i2 years
Annie Sharkey nrst, Sybil Fries second.
seventy-hve yard race for girls IL to IA
years-Lizze RaVera hrsl' SFace "i0N@'' N
seventy-hve yard race for girls from Il to IS
years-Elizabeth IeaNitt urSl' I1eioh ANON''iSONA
second Blanche Opseman third.
YOUNG LADIES' RACE
sevety-hve yard race for single ladies over
1e years-Jenne Orsman first, Ethel Stapiey
second. . Nt- II
H. Werner first, Elizabeth shannon seeoho' Nn'
II Ammore third. =.
Egg race for ladies-Mrs. Minnie Breer nrst,
Mrs w. e. Davis second, Mrs. W. l. brown
third w. A.. ,,a,
Hudson second, H. Tyler third.
rhree-legged race-Parish and Butner first
Mccall and Pilop second, Ogden ana single
Bail throwing contest for ladies only-CecI
Richardson first, Jennie opseman second j.
w McKeown third. So
Thirty yard sack race-SlnBletoh hIe'' swan
son second, Estell third. ,,,A,
Vat nen's race seventy-ive yards-Melbin
1irst, Satten second BlaSeley third'
Fat women's race, forty yards-Mrs. D. T.
rrown arst. W. T. Brown second w. II. Am
mond third N,avcb
orst' MeCtraw second, Harold Wilson third.
Rroad lump for men--Roy Langsted hrst'
Cummings second, Greenfield third.
Broad Jump for boys-Gilkie hrst, ChaHpers
SeTUpu T,@ of waroWon by A. Haskins tanchorg. II.
A. steinberg, o. ]. Bundy, T. F. Cox. {; j.
Peters, r. NJ Cob NJ L. Moore, f. V. Mar
tin T. w. Elliott and r. ]. Oltmark'
The following committees were in
charge of the highly successful picnic:
Executive committee-M. r. Tyler,
president; A. Foster, vice president. A.
p Nolan, treasurer; ]. A. Youngquist'
secretary.
General committee--J. A. McGraw'
Geo Rice. e. A. Lockett, e. Fl. Helm
ecke 7. f. Heinecke e. H. Oefnger, G.
D. Manning, S. Van Amburg, w; E.
Davis, George Bacon, George Downing
n L. Bates, Gus Schalk, e. III. Pierce
p. II. Miller, Ed Leahy w. Elliott, &.
H. Hendricks.
SCENTED A BARGAIN
worker in the Salvation army tells
the following story;
"a down-and-out beggar came along
an untown street the other day where