Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-04
BUSINESS MEMS OUTING
PROVES SUCCESSFUL
Annual Affair Held Yesterday
Was Attended by 10000
Persons

The annual outing Of the Central Ger
| mRntown Avenue Business Association
was held yesterday afternoon in Hunting
| Park 1t proved to be the largest AFFAIR
| IN the history of the Association, and was
participated in by 10000 men, women and
children, principally the latter A feature
| OF this years outing was the distributing
| OF Prices, which included rocking chairs.
MOTIFS chairs straw hats. suits Of clothing
ana ana numerous other articles useful or orna-
mental THESE were contributed by store
keepers along Germantown avenue The
people began to gather in the park at noon.
ana the outing continued till after sun
set There was n band OF music to enliven
the occasion and series of sports for
boys and girls, which included potato, sack
and other races.
The committee provided 10000 bricks Of
Ice cream and n large quantity OF peanuts
ana pretzels, which were distributed TO the
chlldren free of cost In these annual out
ings the association does not permit any
thing TO be sold in the park, all provisions
oeing free. The prizes were given to per-
sons holding tickets obtained at the stores
which were presented to the committee
In the park
The officers Of the association. who as
sisted at the outing, we're Mr.. William ].
Nash, president; Mr.. Gregor Drummond
vice president: Mr.. James w. Gleason, sec
retary; Mr.. Otto Schiefski. treasurer; Mr.
George klauder. financial secretary The
outing was In charge of a largo committee
OF which Mr. Joseph B. Depper was CHAIR
man and Mr.. Stuart S. Graves director
lawn fete will be given for St An
drew's Parish, at Drexel Hill of which the
Rev Joseph NJ. McShain, formerly OF the
Cathedral. is pastor. The affair will be held
on the lawn of Mr.. Harry Hipple's country
nome at Aronimlnk, tomorrow, from until
IL in the evening.
There Will be dancing and other amuse-
ments, with refreshments
Germantown is gay with carnivals this
week. The one which opened Tuesday at
Chelten avenue and Anderson street is
under the auspices of the Energetic I'm
provement Association and will last two
weeks. 1t is headed by Mr. James w.
Tracey, Jr,, and his committees. Today an
other carnival was opened, on East Bring
hurst street, for the Boys Club on West
Penn street, with Mrs William Logue and
Mrs. Joseph Burgess in charge. This has
such features a Dutch kitchen, cake and
candy table and fancy goods. Automobile
rides delight the hearts of the young people
The proceeds are to be used to send girls
who are connected with the club and who
are members of the daily vacation Bible
school to Ocean City on August II.
surprise linen shower was given to
Miss Clara Malish by her sister. Miss
Pauline Malish. last Sunday evening at
her home, GOAL Pine street. The house and
lawn were decorated with lanterns. Musi-
cal selections were given by Miss Cherry
and Mr.. Joseph Herstein. There were solo
selections by Mr.. A. Joseph, Miss Bessie
Mallsh, Miss Eva Cherry and Mr.. ]. Her
stein, Miss Anna Malish playing the ac-
compartments Among those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon, Mr.. and Mrs. Lip
shutz, Mrs. B. Kaufman. Mrs. C. Lehman,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Levtsky, Mrs. Rosenbleeth,
Miss Sara Cohen. Miss Reba Cooper. Miss
Rose Levtsky, Miss Evelyn Camis Miss
Sue Levitsky, Miss Helena Rosenbleeth,
Miss Anna Rosenbleeth Miss Sadye Levin,
Miss Elsie Cherry, Miss Eva Cherry. Miss
Florence Lehman, Miss Lena Lehman Miss
Anna Malish, Miss Bessie MalIsh. Miss
Anna S. Solomon. Mr.. ]. Rosenbeeth, Mr.
]. Herstein. Mr.. S. Iskan, Mr.. Frank Wen
ger, Mr.. Edward Fielding, Mr.. Albert Jo-
seph, Mr.. Arthur Joseph, Mr.. A. Glassburg
Mr., Albert kaufman. Mr.. Samuel Lipshutz
The Free Sons of Israel will give a boat
ride tonight to Augustine Pier, on the Della
ware. A portion of the proceeds will be
given to the citizens relief fund.