The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-08-19
SILVER HUNT PROVES BIG HIT
Athletic Events Have Many Entries
and Retailers and Their Friends Find
Afternoon Just Loaded Full of Fun
for Everybody.


annual outing Of the Kenosha Retail
er's Association given at Central Park
on Thursday afternoon was one of the
biggest events Of the kind ever held in
Southern Wisconsin. Had the skies
been little clearer it is possible that
there might have been few more peo-
| pie out to the park, but at that there
were thousands. Secretary Theleen
places the number at five thousand
during the afternoon and evening. The
afternoon crowd could have been a lit
tie. larger but had the people turned
out any more enthusiastically at night
the park would have been too small.
There was fun galore. The commit
tee In charge Of the big event had left
no stone unturned and it was real
picnic program from the time the
starter Is revolver rang out for the
start Of the road race at Market
Square until the tired musicians began
the familiar strains of Home Sweet
Home somewhere around midnight in
the evening. Nearly every retailer in
the city was out at the picnic some
time during the day and most Of them
took with them the members of their
families or the members of some other
fellows family. Two thousand people
We're out at the park during the after
noon and it was a mighty sociable
crowd. On account of the threatening
weather the crowd came a little slowly
IN the early hours of the picnic, but
when the sun came out from behind the
clouds the street cars and jitney buses
were loaded to their capacity. BY
four O'Clock the fun was at it's height.
Every one found something to do
The dancing started early and the
athletic sports under the direction of
d. FogWell went off like clock work. A
big crowd had gone to the park early
in the afternoon and when John Lev
anduski, the winner Of the road race.
reached the park he was given great
ovation The coming of the winner Of
the handsome silver trophy was the
signal for the starting of the set pro-
gram and from then on things happen
ed and happened fast.
Over in the pavilion there was a
dancing contest, all over the grounds
there We're people seeking for buried
silver. There were silver dollars and
silver dimes and silver quarters hidden
about the park and most Of them were
uncovered by the searchers during the
afternoon This proved a great stunt
and the spades and shovels were kept
busy just as in the Days of $40. -
Every piece of silver hidden by the
committee was found by some one be-
fore the afternoon was over and until
dusk some one was busy digging, hop
ing to find more. Another stunt that
the committee arranged for was the
release of whole coop full of spring
chickens with the understanding that
they were to become the property of
the people who caught them. Both
men and women joined in this chase
and it furnished a lot Of sport.
Mrs. Herzig, Alvin Hansen and Ed
ward Kolpin, selected as judges for
the dancing contest, had about the big
gest job given out by the committee.
The pavilion was packed to suffocation
during the contest and there We're
twelve couples entered. There were a
lot Of fancy steps and a lot of the old
time steps pulled in the contest much
to the delight Of the big crowd.
The automobile proved a popular
way to the park and it is declared that
during the afternoon more than five
hundred automobiles were parked. The
transportation arrangements for the
picnic were excellent, There was an
abundance Of cars on the interurban
line and the jitney drivers reaped a
harvest. All other routes were aban-
doned for the busy route to Central
Park and the jingle of the dimes into
the Golfers of the jitney drivers was
continuous one from early afternoon
until morning.
There was no disorder of any kind
at the park. Sheriff Stahl had big
bunch Of deputies on the job and they
kept things in great shape. Not a sim
gle accident was reported on the
grounds.
1t was decidedly satisfactory
picnic, y said Secretary Theleen this
morning. 1--WE were proud of the way
the retailers and their families turned
out and everything went off without
hitch. = The following is the list of
the winners in the various contests ar
ranged for the afternoon and evening:
Event No. /, Indoor Outdoor Ball
Game, Butchers VS.. Grocers-W Winners,
Grocers; losers, Butchers.
Event No. Road Race, Keno
sha to Central Park, four miles
John Levanduski, No IL, first; Will
Mayer, No. 8, second; James Mar
tia No. 5, third; Elmer LUCAS, No. !,