Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-21
2OMPER DAY DRAWS
THOUSANDS TO PARK
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like indoor baseball with only one
base; rather resembling the old
game of "scrubby." The players
certainly put the old pep" into their
playing and had it not been for the
restraining and guiding hand of Of
dcial Meek, several beautiful young
women would probably have hurled
themselves PROSTATE on the ground
in their earnest endeavors to throw
somebody out. Anyway. they all en-
joyed it and Hamilton bore away the
bacon" in the first contest by the
tremendous score of 81 to AS.
Nolleyball had its devotees also.
The game which so charmed the
mayor of a little Cumberland VAL
ley town that he invited several
teams over just to play it for him,
seemed to have the same pull upon
the audience to-day. In fact, they
got so close to the lines that they
would have interfered with the Hc-
ton had not the strong arm of the
law pushed them back. 1t was a
perspiration producing game and
anyone would get hot from merely
observing il.
And the Merry -Go-Round
one of the funniest sights of the
whole day was the merry-go-round.
which did not cease to revolve the
entire morning. Grouped about the
middle of the revolving apparatus
We're rows of little girls sitting like
birds on a perch, and gazing down
with pride and affection upon their
willing cohorts of the male sex, who
ceaselessly revolved about the lower
portion of the affair faithfully
pushing and pushing until they We're
nearly exhausted. A few bigger boys
rode around without working, until
shamed into industrious efforts by
the rebukiHg looks and still more
rebuking voices of the feminine con-
tinSent sitting on high.
Eats Guards" Very Busy
The guards had a terrible time
keeping the crowd back from the
tables, which were being set this
morning with all the good things
which usually go with a big picnic.
This was free lunch, provided for by
trust fund which the late Samuel
kunkel left. And from the looks of
the long tables, which did their
proverbial groaning under the
weight of many good things. there
are going TO be many profiteering
'tummieS" tonight. With eager
and impatient looks the little fellows
crowded against the ropes, waiting
anNiously for the word which would
admit them to their portion of the
feast. Each playground had a big
sign up for its section of the tables.
The menu was to consist of thou
sands upon thousands of beef sand
w'ches, bananas, sweet cakes,
pickles, and the like. The ice cream
was the gift of Eli Hershey, who
gave each kiddie a big plate with a
heaping portion of cream on it, The
remarks flew fast and furious as the
hungry crowd with difficulty held
itself in.
You Say It!
Hi. Chimmie, lookut at the
buncha bananas. bet I ken eat
more'n YOU
"Aw betcha can't. Gee. looku
thuh pickles. I'll tell the woild I'm
gonna get outside of some of them"
My gooness, Gertie, didja ever
see so much ice cream all to onst in
your life. I'm all for il, amt you?"
You said IT,"
And when the youngsters finally
were admitted and fell upon the
food there was the sound of a
mighty ocean as glass after glass of
lemonade found its resting place
in many an eager-to -be-filled stom-
ach. No cases of acute indigestion
have been reported yet but the
druggists are stocking UP on soda
mint and castor oil in preparation.
The food for the lunch began to ar
rive early and was source of eager
interest on the part of the boys and
girls who fingered around the delivery
trucks as they hove into the park The
lunch materials included $500 beef
sandwiches, 3,700 pickles, 1000 ba-
nanas. 10000 cakes, 1900 lemons. 900
pounds Of sugar, 800 pounds of ice,
for the making OF 225 gallons of lem
onade, and last. but by no means least
$500 ten-cent bricks OF Hershey's ice
cream. The cream was the gift of
Eli y. Hershey. former president of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and head
of the Hershey Creamery Company.
who sent detail of men to the park
to see that it was properly served.
Needle Work Splendid
The exhibition of sewing. knit
Ing. and crocheting was really very
fine. All the girls of the play
grounds who have taken an inter-
est in this work under the supervis-
ion of Miss Caroline Hatton survey
ed their efforts with great pride to-
day as they listened to the admiring
comments that were passed by
everyone who wandered into the
pavilion to look them over. They
are surely a credit to the instruc-
tor.
After they could be pried away
from the tables and the last NOR
sci of food had disappeared. the
crowd assembled at the play festi-
val grounds, north of the band
stand. There the junior boys inter-
playground contests were held, in
Guiding potato relay races, leap
frog contests, rescue races, and 9TH
ers of like sort.
Folk Dancing Pretty
At o'clock began the folk dance
festival, in which several hundred
girls took part. Everything from an
Irish Tilt to q Kamarinskaia, what
ever that is, was danced and danced
gracefully. The folk dancing has
always been one of the m ost popu-
lar and by all odds the most pic
turesque of the entire program The
crowd showed its appreciation bv
cheering wildly after each number
and numerous encores were in or
der.
Then came the children's singing
games which were very entertain.
ing, and included the good old IA
miliar tunes of The Farmer in the
Dell" LOBBY Loo" and Here We
Go Round the Mulberry Bush, -
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