The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-04
MERCHANTS DAY
A GRAND SUCCESS
HOneSdaIe and CarbOndale
Business Men Enjoy
Themselves
OVER 5000 PEOPLE ON THE
GROUNDS AT LAKE LODORE.

We had the biggest crowd there
this summer. We ought to be salts
fed. 3,776 people were counted on
the grounds before the last special
from Carbondale came in
So said John Erik, chairman of the
excursion committee of the Busi-
ness Mems Association of Honesdale,
to a Citizen man Thursday, in speak
ing of the successful joint picnic
conducted at Lake Lodore, Wednes-
day, under the auspices of the Busi-
ness Mems Associations of Carbon
dale and Honesdale.
A conservative estimate places the
number of people on the grounds at
5000. Fully 5000 people came by
rail from Carbondale, the first ex-
cursion train alone carrying over l.
400 people. 895 tickets were sold at
iHonesdale, 7S3 of which were pur-
chased by adults. Probably thous-
and more motored or drove to the
lake.
The weather conditions were ideal.
Old Sol was out in all his glory, and
shone all day long on the jolly holi-
day crowd. Not cloud dimmed
the horizon. Not single raindrop
fell. 1t was a great day.
Two specials were run from
Honesdale to the Lake, one train
leaving at 9:15 a. m. and the second
at l p. m. Both were comfortably
filled and consisted of ten coaches
each.
Wayne county cleaned up a good
proportion of the athletic prizes,
considering that they were outnum-
bered four to one by the Pioneer
City delegation.
The base ball game in the after
noon between the business men of
| Carbondale and Honesdale was a
screaming farce. One of the local
celebrities, who covered 1--WE shan't
say which position) sprained his an
kle badly. Uhe six-innings played
| resembled a comedy of errors, and
the most consoling feature of the
| game was the fact that we won, IL
to 6.
Nick Spencer was selected to
detect" we mean umpire" the
i balls and strikes Just which one OF
| the ex-leaguers who figured in the
game made the most errors, 1t is
hard to say.
This was the Honesdale lineup:
George Deitzer, pitcher; William
Welch, catcher; Frank Schuerholz
first base; H. Theobald, second base;
4 John Rickert, third base; R. M
Salmon, shortstop; Robert Murray
right field; Fred Marsh, left field;
Thomas Charlesworth, center field.
Honesdale looked like a deserted
village Wednesday. No one was left
to take care of the vacant places, no
not even the policemen. Practically
every business place in town was
! closed in honor of the event. There
are those who go SO far to say tha
the two horses that departed this life
in the Maple City, that day, dice
from sheer loneliness. Not lea
stirred, not blade stirred, not ever
shooner sailed across the bar unit
late in the evening.
1t was a regular field day TO
Wayne county politicians. 1t tool
man just ninety minutes to ruI
the gauntlet of Republican, Demo
, cratic, Keystone and Independent
: candidates who lined the walk nea
the pavilion at Lake Lodore. Neve
. in the history of Wayne county wer
, there so many candidates gathere
) together in such small space. MI
X. was there. And they do say tha
the ease and ability with which h
picked up babies and kissed then
was surprising. This feature o
campaigning has been overlooked il
Wayne county for 10, these man
years, but Mr.. X. revived it and kiss
ed his way through small regimen
of infants.
And Mr.. Y. was there too. H
was there eighteen ways. He didn
kiss any babies, it is declared, bu
made up for it in greeting the breth
rem from the Central Methodist an
St. Mary's with a warmth and carr
estness only equaled by the vim an
vigor with which he greeted the oil
sinner whose breath smelled strong
ly of 40-rod whisky.
Candidates for, commissioner
Good Heavens, there were a doZe
of them, at least. Each had a coupl
of lieutenants at hand and thes
reached out into the passing thron
and grabbed voters and made then
selves acquainted. Then the vote
received a warm handclasp and
candidates card.
"How many cards did you ge
Bill?" asked a fellow from Whit
Mills.
"I got 10 commissioner cand
dates and two prothonater cand
dates" was the response.
Huh, that's nothing. 1 got yo
beat a mile. l got eleven care
from candidates for commissions
two register and recorder cards, OF
county treasurer and two prothon
ters. You better get busy"
1t can easily be seen that tn
was indeed an exciting little gan
and after a time wicked men begs
betting on their success in gettir
cards. The winner of them a
=; when the thing was over, had a fl
!. assortment Of 23 cards of cand
!, dates of all shapes, sizes and cond
Il tions of servitude.
1t was picnic for the candidat