Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-08
MORE THAN 5000
ON LABOR'S OUTING
Smaller Crowds in Attendance
at Other Celebrations of
the Holiday.

More than. 5000 excursionists bartici-
pated in organized labor's big outing at
Chesapeake Beach yesterday. this num-
Der being the District of Columbfa's con-
tribution to the crowd at the resort
The program of the days events In
Guided speeches by a number Of labor
leaders and members of Congress, the
latter including Representatives Nolan Of
California. Heating of Colorado. Bu-
chanan Of Illinois and Casey of Penn
sylvania.
Athletic Event Winners.
Following were the winners In the ath-
letic events:
Shoe race; boys under fifteen years;
prize, s1-Won by NJ Mccormick.
10o-yard race: boys over fifteen years:
prize. s1-Won by Roy Belnap.
5o-yard race: women; prize, $1-Won by
Miss Lilly Dowrick.
1o0-yard race: men; prize, s1-Won by
J. p Dowrick.
Tug of war; prize, boxes Of cigars to
members Of winning team-Won by
''Irish.' c. H. West, w. Spinks Carl
Heinzman and Wilson Morse. The Ger
man team was composed of H Ward,
.. T. Lowman, Ernest Woodward and
T. Levy.
Three-legged race; SO yards; prize, So
Won by c. Mckay and ]. p. Dow
rick.
A dearth of entrants in the "corpulent
ladies' race caused officials of the
course to let others in. Miss Lilly Dow
rick Won the prize of 81.
w. d. Clark was referee of the games,
Luke Ludlow was clerk of the course,
Bob Jones was starter. Harry Oehler was
announcer and Newt. James was
awarder
500 at Children's Picnic.
The picnic given for the children of
the German Orphans Asylum, under
the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society
of the orphanage, was attended by
more than 500 persons. A concert by
section of the Marine Band, an ath-
letic drill by the girls, a dumbbell drill
by the boys and other amusements
made up the days program. Everything
for the picnic was donated by local
merchants, many Of whom also made
substantial contributions to the asy-
Ium.
Rev. Father Egan. pastor of St. Ig-
natius' Church, Anacostia. was master
of ceremonies at the annual tourna-
ment given for the benefit Of the
church yesterday at Oxon Hill. Sew
eral hundred persons attended the
lowed at 1880 o'clock last night.
The Irish won the base ball game
played by Irish and German mines yes
terday morning at the picnic of the
fer's Inn, Bladensburg road. Winner
OF the tournament in the afternoon was
the mysterious knight" who gave the
name of L. c. Loft and who rode un-
der the standard of the knight of
MARYLAND" Seven knights contested
in the tournament.
Celebration at Hyattsville.
Representative Frank o. Smith was
the orator at the Labor day celebration
at Hyattsville held under the auspices
of the fire department of that place. A
base ball team representing the Hyatts-
willie Advocate defeated the St. Jeromes
team in the game played in the MORN
ing. the score being 4 to 1. The athletic
contests resulted as follows:
Boys under siNteen-John Ballard.
first. and Willard Charlton. second; girls
under twelve years-B1anche Kelly, first
and Elizabeth Br1scoe, second; 10O-yard
dash open to all, l.. knight. first and
Charles Fenwick. second; married ladies'
race. Mrs. NJ. NJ. Clark. first. and Mrs.
W. w. Price, second: for boys and girls
under ten years. Ray Irwin. first, and
Maud Little. second; shoe race Archie
keegin, first; Vincent Sheefy, second;
waite. first. and Dorothy Deggs, second:
bicycle race. Henry Hiser. first. and
Charles Darnell, second. q
River Front Deserted.
Labor day was generally observed by
business houses along the river front and
all day long Water street was as deserted
as 1t is on cold Sunday in winter. All
the lumber firms and most of the wood
and tie handling firms did not open at
ALL and those that did remained open but
for few hours to look after necessary
business. At the fish and melon wharf,
foot Of 18th street southwest. the fish
houses were opened in the morning, but
most of them closed before noon and
gave the clerks the half holiday
At the steamboat wharves the clerks
were given holiday. except the few neces-
sary for the handling of freight from the
incoming steamers and sending it aboard
those leaving yesterday afternoon, and
the boatyards were closed all day Many
of the big fleet of pleasure craft which
left here Saturday afternoon and Sunday
returned yesterday afternoon and all last
night they were coming in and tieing I'D
At noon today there were still a number
Of boats missing from their moorings and
their owners are said to be making ex-
tended frfuS on them