Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-05
CONCERT ENDS BIG
1874 ROMPER DAY
Long Coats Worn; Conductors
Program Selection Pleases
the Big Crowd

Not so very long after yesterdays
sun set upon an idear Romper Day
the full moon slipped over the trees
of Cherry Hill, Reservoir Park and
promptly took over the lighting up
of the park for the band concert. Cool
| breezes made long coats very, very
comfortable and that effective Fall
Icombination of cape coat, light gown.
pysche and pumps helped out egec-
lively in the decorative and color
cbeme.
The band played, too. The Com
monwealth was at it's best with pro-
| gram that Conductor Weber couldn't
have chosen better. There was va
riety of new and old classics and rag
time that pleased immensely. The
way the band, for instance, played
Adele recalled the kind of music
that featured the summer Reservoir
concert evenings of some years ago.
Ally in all, the moon and the band
contributed more than an ordinarily
large share to the success of Romper
Day of 1914.
! City Park Department estimates
place the attendance at close to 1000,
several hundreds of which were
igrown-ups. The supply of sandwiches
was exhausted early in the meal and
more had to he prepared.
Prize Winners
| Following are the individuals and
teams winning honors at yesterdays
big field day exercises of Romper Day,
Reservoir Park, the official closing of
the city playground season for 1914:
May pole dance-Pink and blue
girls of Maple Hill.
Efficiency cup, sewing and rafia, and
ihonors in volley, long and center ball
Penn girls.
Track athletics-Sycamore hoys
Bows basketball cham pionship-
X . RnaG. 4
to 2.
Junior boys quot tournament,
lsingles-Won by Charles KEYS,
Twelfth; doubles, Connor and Fisher,
Sycamore; senior singles. Elmer Herr
ling. Boas doubles, Israel and Lloyd
Cole, Reservoir: senior tether ball
championships, Rogers, Sycamore;
Junior. Blair Fasick, Maple Hill; win
ners in girys' team centerball cham
pionship. Maple Hill over Hamilton;
Penn over Boas: Sycamore over
Twelfth. Nolley ball, boys Island won
over Boas; longball. Reservoir defeat
ed Maple Hill and Sycamore defeated
Boas.
Kite contest-Best kite. first Julius
Fluss. Sycamore; second. tied. Fred
Hoffman. Kelker, and Sharp Master
SON Kelker: kite race, Floyd Cole,
Reservoir. and Harry Conner Reser-
voir; Archery, first, John Mcann,
| BOaS' second, Hugn w all, Maple f1lll'
third. Wilher Neck. Boas fourth,
; Groos, Maple Hill; fifth. Olphin, Is
land
Ribbons for hest work in raf1a. sew
ing and cooking work were awarded
by a committee of Miss Annie McCor-
mick, Mrs. Homer Black, Mrs Charles
IS Bell and Mrs w. +, Seal. The
awards follow
, STANDARDIZATION Hartwick, of Har-
ris; Ella Sngiser, Reservoir; Gladys
Augstadt, Sycamore; Esther Mohn,
Twcl"th; Sadie Burrows Calder; Re
becca Manning, Mable Hill Ruth
iStauffer, Hamilton; Marion Johnson,
fourth; Mary Briscoe, Twelfth; col
Iored class. Irene Lehman, Boas; Violet
Mitchell. Penn.
) Ratfia-Katherin Machaney, Penn;
Frances Nissley, first class, Twelfth
street; Helen Duffan, second class,
Twelfth street. May Yoder, Maple
: Hin:; Mildred Yeates, Hamilton: Mary
) Blai', Fourth street; Marian Lesher,
Boas; Mary Williams, Calder; Erma
. Baker, Harris Park; Elva Smith,
Reservoir and Christiana Smith, Syca-
5 more.
First honor girls in the cooking
! school. one from each of the thirteen
classes are: Third year class, Sara
Cation; second year classes, Marie
Karle, Talitha Shope and Mildred VIII
liams; first year classes. Helen Bohn
= Ruth Macey, Elizabeth Dyson, Adalene
5 Klnedinst, Beulah Warfeld Cora
, Grove. Lucille Beard, Florence Brooke
land Pauline Boyd.