Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-14
PRU AND K. OF c.
EXCURSIONS To
INVADE ASBURY
Four Thousand Are Expected to
Make Journey TO the
Shore.

Two OF the largest excursions 10 tue
shore of the present summer will
leave Newark tomorrow morning for
| Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. when
1000 employees of the home office of
the Prudential Insurance Company,
and like number of members of the
Knights of Columbus will make the
trip to the seashore.
The excursions are separate affairs.
that of the Prudential being under
the direction of the athletic associa-
ton of the company. while the diff
ferent knights of Columbus councils
have Joined in the other.
Elaborate plans have been made for
the Prudential employees outing and
the big office buildings will be closed
at IL O'Clock, in order TO give every
employee chance togo on the outing.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
will bear the excursionists to the
shore. The first trainjs due to leave
at 11:10 o'clock followed at short in
tervals by two other trains, with a
fourth train In reserve, for use if nee
essary.
In order to accommodate the fam
lilies of Prudential employees who may
reach the station earlier than ITO
o'clock, the leaving time of the first
train. the committee ip charge of the
excursion has arranged to have trains
ready as early as 10:45 in order to
prevent rushing and confusion at the
last moment.
At Asbury Park the excursionists
will have a plethora of places to en-
joy themselves, but if the present
weather holds, probably bathing will
come in for the greatest attention.
arrangements have been made for
the reservation of 500 rooms at the
bathing pavilion at the foot of Fourth
avenue.
At five o'clock there will be series
of swimming races in the North End
pool for which twenty-five entries
have been received to date, several
of them being from women SWIM
mers who will contest IN a special
event. Prizes of scarf pins will be
awarded the victors in the mems
contest while the lucky women con-
testants will receive gold brooches,
there being three prizes awarded in
each of the following events:
~100-yard handicap for men: b0-yard
swim for boys under eighteen years
of age; 25-yard swim for women and
fancy diving contests.
The entries follow: Fancy dive
Three trials, own selection, L. NJ.
Brown, c. r. Mum, champion diver
of the association; Alfred Walther,
Prudential all-round athletic cham
pion: A. Chappell. L. r. Wanser, e.
D. Wilt. r. DeJonge. c. r. Wander
hoff and H. Saynor.
Ladies-Florence NJ Carver, Chris
tine Steel, Catherine Walsh and Will
ma c. OFT, an all-round athlete. who
was trained in the Newark Turn
Verein.
-hundred-yard handicap-J. A.
Smith. L. M. Brown, G. ]. Coburn,
/ c. r. Num-. champion swimmer Of
the Prudential Athletic Association,
f. G. White, r. f. Hudson, r. &
Campbell, ID. P. Bishop, l.. r. Wan
ser, w. Al. Gfbben. r. DeJonge. C. r.
IaNanderhoff and II. Saynor.
Boys so yard--Age limit eighteen
years-G. L. Horvath. c. f. Bremen,
F. A. Duelly A. Chappell, F. X.
Sheppard, N Getchius.
Arrangements have been made for
the entertainment of the excursionists
on the trains by a corps of singers,
while the athletic association has
established headquarters at Asbury
Park in the Hotel Brunswick, Fourth
avenue and Kingsley street, where a
physician and trained nurse will be
| in attendance, should their services
be needed.
| Returning the excursionists will
4 leave Asbury Park at 1880, $3.50 and
i9:25 o. M The committee in charge
of the outing consists of Louis 9.
Tinker, chairman; George w. Will
Jams, Evander J. MacIver and George
H. Bostock.
! The knights of Columbus outing
will be even larger in point of num-
bers than the Prudential, as the
present outlook is that from $500 to
5000 people will go TO Asbury Park
ON the three special trains arranged
for by the committee. The first OF
these trains will leave the Central
Railroad station at $3.50, the second at
$3.50 and the third at 155 O'Clock. and
1t is expected that every one Of the
three trains will be loaded to the
doors.
The committee, of which w. H. Nc
Enhill is chairman, Martin I. Tuohey
treasurer and James A. fully secre-
tary, has made arrangements to take
400 poor children on the outing. and
have appointed special committees to
look after the welfare of the young
sters. At Asbury Park the Lyceum
has been obtained as headquarters for
the ''llddies," and there they will re-
ceive their dinner and supper.
The children are not inmates of any
local institutions. but are deserving
poor children who otherwise would
not have any opportunity to have any
outing this summer.
Returning the excursionists will
entrain at Asbury Park for this city
at $40, 1880 and $3.50 O'Clock.